EDITORIAL • When a group of youths with Nazi sympathies attacked people in the city, our political leaders were quick to emphasize the Nazis’ political alignment. All well and good. But when Muslims murder Jews in Sydney, neither Islam nor Muslims are mentioned at all.
Many have reacted to the discrepancy in how Sweden’s party leaders expressed themselves after a Nazi gang attacked people in Stockholm. On social media, they were careful to point out the perpetrators’ ideology.
This is of course not a problem—on the contrary. The problem emerges instead when you see the difference in the same party leaders’ behavior, in this case exemplified by the massacre in Sydney, carried out by two Muslim Arabs, targeting Jews celebrating Hanukkah, the Jewish equivalent of Christmas (roughly speaking).
Then, it sounded like this instead:
Surgical Precision
With surgical precision, neither Islam nor Muslims are mentioned in their statements. Even the Australian Prime Minister used euphemistic language when he acknowledged that they were motivated by an “extremist ideology,” without mentioning Islam or Muslims.
Why do they do this? The answer is, as always, obvious. They are afraid of not being politically correct. Afraid of being criticized for criticizing Islam, Muslims, or by extension, Muslim immigration.
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But Islam is the problem. The Muslim world is the problem. Their religion, culture, opinions, values—it’s all connected, and for thousands of years we have had the answer right in front of us—yet the Western world has chosen not to see it.
In the end, there is only one way forward if we are to survive as a society: to reverse 50 years of misguided policy. Ignore practices, conventions, or what the left considers immoral. In the long run, it matters less if we take tough action today—because if we succeed, future generations will thank us for eternity.