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发帖数: 29846 | 1 The Left engages in as much deception regarding the Islamic world as it does
about conservatives.
By Dennis Prager
Have you noticed that the Left regularly condemns alleged conservative “
hate speech” but is almost completely silent on the most pervasive hate
speech in the world?
Take New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, for example.
On January 8, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz., Jared Loughner murdered six people and
gravely wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords. That very day (in a
column published the next day), based on nothing, Paul Krugman wrote that
the murders were a result of hate-filled rhetoric that saturates
conservative and Republican life:
When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely
surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this
atrocity to happen?
Put me in the latter category. . . .
It’s true that the shooter in Arizona appears to have been mentally
troubled. But that doesn’t mean that his act can or should be treated as an
isolated event. . . .
There isn’t any place for eliminationist rhetoric, for suggestions that
those on the other side of a debate must be removed from that debate by
whatever means necessary.
And it’s the saturation of our political discourse — and especially
our airwaves — with eliminationist rhetoric that lies behind the rising
tide of violence.
Where’s that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let’s not make a false
pretense of balance: it’s coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. . . .
So will the Arizona massacre make our discourse less toxic? It’s really
up to G.O.P. leaders. Will they accept the reality of what’s happening to
America, and take a stand against eliminationist rhetoric? Or will they try
to dismiss the massacre as the mere act of a deranged individual, and go on
as before?
Most of the American Left echoed Krugman’s libel.
So, then, here’s the question: With an American ambassador and three other
Americans murdered by Muslim mobs in Libya, and with tens of thousands of
Muslims violently demonstrating around the world against a video on the
Internet that virtually no one on earth had seen or even heard of, will
anyone on the left write the truth about the greatest hate-filled rhetoric
in the world — Islamic rhetoric?
Or, as I suggest, does the Left engage in as much deception regarding the
Islamic world as it does about conservatives?
The answer can be readily ascertained by taking the Krugman column and
simply substituting some words. Then the morally upside-down world of Mr.
Krugman and the Left becomes immediately apparent.
“When you heard the terrible news from Arizona [Libya, Egypt, and elsewhere
in the Muslim world], were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some
level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen?”
“There isn’t any place for [the] eliminationist rhetoric [emanating from
the Muslim world].”
“Where’s that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let’s not make a false pretense
of balance: it’s coming, overwhelmingly, from the right [Muslim world].”
“So will the Arizona massacre [Libya massacre, and the massacres of
Christians in Nigeria, Egypt, and Iraq] make our discourse less toxic? It’s
really up to G.O.P. [Muslim] leaders. Will they accept the reality of what
’s happening toAmerica [the Muslim world], and take a stand against
eliminationist rhetoric? Or will they try to dismiss the massacre [all these
massacres] as the mere act[s] of a deranged individual [tiny,
unrepresentative, radical fringe group of Muslims] and go on as before?”
What I wrote in brackets is what is true. What Krugman wrote is not true.
Krugman deceives about the Right, and the Left deceives concerning the
Islamic world.
There is a world replete with hate and with what Krugman calls “
eliminationist” talk. It is not the world of American conservatives and
Republicans. It is the Islamic world. Of course, not all Muslims, religious
or otherwise, are haters. But in the world today, by far the most gratuitous
and most lethal hate emanates from the Muslim world.
Why, then, do Paul Krugman and the Left identify American conservatives and
Republicans with hate and eliminationist rhetoric? And why does the Left
smear anyone who identifies the real producers of eliminationist rhetoric as
bigoted and “Islamophobic”?
The explanation is this: Those who do not hate evil hate those who do hate
evil.
This was the record of the Left during much of the Cold War. Instead of
hating the Communists, the Left hated the anti-Communists.
To paraphrase the Talmud, those who treat the cruel with kindness will treat
the kind with cruelty.
Given their silence regarding Islamic hate and their preoccupation with
alleged conservative hate, Mr. Krugman and his ideological allies might
adopt the Talmudic insight as their working motto.
— Dennis Prager, a nationally syndicated columnist and radio talk-show host
, is author of Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to
Triumph. He may be contacted through his website, dennisprager.com. |
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