Coddling Islamic Radicals Who Murder Innocents

If you need further proof of the aburd alliance between progressive social policy and radical Islam, here it is. Nutty Florida Pastor Terry Jones made good on his plan to burn the Koran. Mullahs in Afghanistan fired up their followers over the incident, prompting an attack in which twelve United nations workers were murdered. The consensus among progressives is the murders are the fault of Jones, not the Muslims who committed them. Because no one who is offended based on race, gender or any religion other than Christianity has to take has to take responsibility for his actions.

I do not support Jones’ burning of the Koran, but lay blame where the blame should be laid. If one is so screwed up by radical Islamic culture that the burning of the Koran by strangers on another continent leads one to murder a dozen people who are there to help, then the Koran burning is not the issue we need to be worrying about. It is the cultural rot that creates the mindset. It does not help that our own progressive cultural rot makes it politically incorrect to note this.

It sounds astoundingly logical to me: it is far worse to murder a dozen people because some marginal people who do not believe in your holy book in the first place burn it in protest. There cannot be a sensible debate over the issue. Murdering people is worse than burning books. The mindset that allows one to kill over perceived blasphemy is worse than burning a book to condemn its ideas. The unfortunately ironic part is that Jones has inadvertently--and tragically--confirmed the problem he has with radical Islam.

We could debate the merits of Islam, scant though they may be, but that is not the real issue here. This incident should be a wake up call to what progressive apologists are willing to excuse in the name of their social agenda. The death threats that came after the Mohammed cartoon’s publication should have proven to the world the insane rage of radical Islamists. Progressive Van Jones leading cheers for the 9/11 attackers the day after should have proven the left is ready, willing, and able to excuse any Muslim behavior perceived to be a lashing out over their ’oppression.” The murder of the Un workers over an obscure pastor’s unwise actions and the subsequent excusing of said murders because of the pastor’s actions ought to be enough to prove we are not being reasonable in placing responsibility for evil acts or even weighing them correctly when determining their morality.