Thursday - December 06, 2007

Unreconcilable

Now that the dust has settled in the “Let’s give a name to this Teddy Bear, shall we class?” affair, maybe it’s time to sit back and reflect upon some of the reactions to it.  Not so much from the blog-o-sphere, but from some of the “organizations” we’ve grown to know and love over the years…

NOW - “In the U.S., a spokeswoman for the National Organization for Women said the situation is definitely on the radar, and N.O.W. is not ignoring it.  But she added that the U.S.-based organization is not putting out a statement or taking a position.” (Fox News)

CAIR - Nothing.  (via search for “Teddy Bear” at cair.com)

Amnesty International - Nothing (via search for “Teddy Bear” at amnesty.org)

Human Rights Watch - Nothing (via search for “Teddy Bear” at hrw.org)

Well, you get the idea.

I don’t think for a minute that there wasn’t discussion at any of these organizations about this, but the public response speaks volumes.  With the exception of CAIR, whose motives have been well-explained elsewhere, none of the above can reconcile what’s happened in the Sudan with the kind of moral equivalence that gets preached in our direction on a regular basis. 

The editorialists at USA Today, with whom I normally disagree, got this one right: “If any value is to come from this sorry episode, it is to put moderate Muslims on notice: If you do not stand up, forcefully, and in a sustained way, the religion you claim is peaceful will be defined by intolerant extremists and manipulated by cynical politicians such as al-Bashir. And that, in turn, makes Western hatred of Islam, and a clash of civilizations, more likely.” (Read the whole editorial at http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/12/message-from-a.html)

But back to those stalwards of Human Rights - NOW, AI, and HRW: I will maintain that it’s their inability to reconcile world events with their so-flawed dogma that has rendered them silent.  And I’ve got news for them: there is no moral equivalence between decent human beings and those vermin that slithered through the streets of Khartoum calling for the execution of this woman.

Shame on them.  Shame on them all.

Posted by Somnambulist57     on 12/06/2007 at 04:40 PM   
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