This morning's
Times carries a superb leader on the situation of the Left and Islamism. Essentially it is a broadside at the likes of Livingstone, the London Mayor, who refuses to acknowledge the contradiction between his supposedly Left-wing beliefs and his support for people who are the antithesis of what he sees as core issues of tolerance. It argues the discovery that the failed bombers were doctors destorys the assertion
that Islamist extremism is the result of poverty, deprivation, injustice or the Wests pursuit of policies in Iraq, the Palestinian territories and the wider Muslim world that are somehow inimical to Islam. This is patently not so.
It then, quite rightly, takes Livingstone's recent comments over the weekend to task saying
What is clear, however, is that this perversion of Islam cannot be written off simply as Wahhabi fanaticism or a Muslim equivalent of liberation theology... Older, wiser Muslims understand this dangerous dynamic, but have been too cowed or cowardly to stand up to zealots posing as would-be martyrs. It is perverse of left-wing politicians such as Ken Livingstone to equate the Islamists with social justice and national liberation: they believe in neither. To excuse or even tolerate the intolerant is a denial of all the values that the Left purports to embrace. If Muslims are to denounce the roots of fanaticism, so too must those who would embrace them as neighbours and fellow citizens.
The full leader can be read
here.
3 comments:
Ken doesn't believe in anything except his own self-aggrandizement. From his perspective it makes perfect sense to pander to the Muhammadans as they are the largest 'block vote' in his constiuency. I don't think his Jew-baiting has lost him any votes down the East End mosques.
It seems a little perverse to conclude from the fact that an educated Iraqi tried to kill us, that the attack is "patently not" anything to do with the West's policies in Iraq.
(I don't mean that he was justified, or anything other than an evil b*****d. But it's bonkers to use him as evidence that our presence in Iraq has absolutely nothing to do with Islamist terrorism...)
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"t seems a little perverse to conclude from the fact that an educated Iraqi tried to kill us, that the attack is "patently not" anything to do with the West's policies in Iraq."
That's not what the article is saying: "It is perverse of left-wing politicians such as Ken Livingstone to equate the Islamists with social justice.."
The fact that these suspects are well-educated doctors blows out of the water the usual left-wing cant about 'disadvantage' and 'lack of opportunity', etc.
Of course, you'd think a quick look at the backgrounds of the 9/11 terrorists would have blown that one out of the water long ago....
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