How Political Correctness Blinds Us to the Evil of Islamic Terrorism
After listening to a lot of Rush, he has enlightened me on a rather interesting trait in the reporting and portrayal of our enemies in the War on Terror.
If there is one label that can almost instantly destroy a person's reputation in today's culture, it has to be either "racist", "bigot", or the dreadful "intolerant". If a person in the public eye is called one of these names, without extensive proof against the claim, the person's reputation will be assassinated, in effect.
We live in a culture in total fear of offending anybody, ruled by political correctness. The minorities are treated as a china tea cup even if doing so throws the majority around like a rag doll. The rules that we are told to live by are quite obvious even if not stated.
1. Your faith is your faith, and nothing more. The truth you hold doesn't extend past your nose.
2. Since there is only a bunch of individual truths, every person should treat the other person's view as no more or no less true than there own.
These are the rules, and people are told. A small hint of a belief that there is only one true faith, and there's gonna be some gnashing of teeth.
So how does all this tie into my title? The way this war is viewed by many people in the media and politics is different from any other war America has fought. In wars past, the line between the good guys and the bad guys was distinct. America is good, Nazi Germany is bad. America is good, the USSR is bad. One of the reasons of America's success was the undivided support by Americans for their troops and country. However, in the War in Iraq, we aren't fighting an enemy state, we are fighting an enemy that is motivated by its faith. Referring back to "Rule 1" above, this is where the problem arises.
All the Islamic Terrorists fighting us right now, whether Al Qaeda or other group, are really just fascists, that is, they seek to eventually establish a world governed by Islam. They are Islamofascists. But because of the secular humanists' emphasis on tolerance of all faiths and relative truth of all faiths (political correctness), these terrorists get to hide behind the cloak of religion and therefore get all the benefits of tolerance.
Because of this, the portrayal of these terrorists is totally warped. Rather than evil, murderous human beings motivated by radical extremist ideals, they are presented as "gun men" simply upset at all the travesties America has committed. They can decapitate American citizens on camera and use children as human bombs, and the media still won't call them what they are. Why? Again, because the terrorists are represented by another religion and many media people and politicians have adopted an agenda of relativism that refuses to distinguish between good and evil. Take that back, they do sometimes make this distinction, its just that America is always the one in the wrong.
If political correctness was nothing more than being respectful of other people, it would be not only good, but honorable. However, in its fight to be totally tolerant, totally unoffensive, it will intentionally blind itself if evil bares its ugly face.
If there is one label that can almost instantly destroy a person's reputation in today's culture, it has to be either "racist", "bigot", or the dreadful "intolerant". If a person in the public eye is called one of these names, without extensive proof against the claim, the person's reputation will be assassinated, in effect.
We live in a culture in total fear of offending anybody, ruled by political correctness. The minorities are treated as a china tea cup even if doing so throws the majority around like a rag doll. The rules that we are told to live by are quite obvious even if not stated.
1. Your faith is your faith, and nothing more. The truth you hold doesn't extend past your nose.
2. Since there is only a bunch of individual truths, every person should treat the other person's view as no more or no less true than there own.
These are the rules, and people are told. A small hint of a belief that there is only one true faith, and there's gonna be some gnashing of teeth.
So how does all this tie into my title? The way this war is viewed by many people in the media and politics is different from any other war America has fought. In wars past, the line between the good guys and the bad guys was distinct. America is good, Nazi Germany is bad. America is good, the USSR is bad. One of the reasons of America's success was the undivided support by Americans for their troops and country. However, in the War in Iraq, we aren't fighting an enemy state, we are fighting an enemy that is motivated by its faith. Referring back to "Rule 1" above, this is where the problem arises.
All the Islamic Terrorists fighting us right now, whether Al Qaeda or other group, are really just fascists, that is, they seek to eventually establish a world governed by Islam. They are Islamofascists. But because of the secular humanists' emphasis on tolerance of all faiths and relative truth of all faiths (political correctness), these terrorists get to hide behind the cloak of religion and therefore get all the benefits of tolerance.
Because of this, the portrayal of these terrorists is totally warped. Rather than evil, murderous human beings motivated by radical extremist ideals, they are presented as "gun men" simply upset at all the travesties America has committed. They can decapitate American citizens on camera and use children as human bombs, and the media still won't call them what they are. Why? Again, because the terrorists are represented by another religion and many media people and politicians have adopted an agenda of relativism that refuses to distinguish between good and evil. Take that back, they do sometimes make this distinction, its just that America is always the one in the wrong.
If political correctness was nothing more than being respectful of other people, it would be not only good, but honorable. However, in its fight to be totally tolerant, totally unoffensive, it will intentionally blind itself if evil bares its ugly face.
posted by Caleb Roberts at 3:25 PM
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