Author Bruce Bawer had the following to say in a recent interview:
This business of labels is maddening. In Stealing Jesus I criticized Christian fundamentalism and liberals loved it; in While Europe Slept, I criticize Islamic fundamentalism, which is by any measure a lot worse than Christian fundamentalism, and some of the same people who loved Stealing Jesus are appalled and think I’ve totally changed my politics, when in fact I’m being totally consistent.
Mon semblable, mon frère.
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1. mythusmage:Some people are not interested in being morally consistent, they are interested in being ideologically consistent. If the party being critisied supports the enemy, then the criticism is valid. If the party being critisied opposes the enemy, that the criticism is wrong.
May 23, 2006 - 10:40 pm 2. Snippet:The Left and Liberalism are two different things.
The Left is, after all has been said and done, anti-American, because it is anti-Capitalist.
Liberalsim is the the advocacy of as much political, economic, and social freedom as society can handle.
Capitalism is the greatest scourge of humanity for The Left.
For some reason, which I’m not enough of a historian to understand, The Left and liberals formed an alliance for a time.
I think some liberals, like Bawber, are realizing it’s time for a separation.
The Left likes Christian-bashing because of the perception that in so doing you are ridiculing/punsihing/embarassing America, particularly the (ahem) paler (ahem) portions of America, not because they necessarily have a problem with primitive, repressive and misogynistic belief systems, but because those white American christians (and Jews – don’t forget the Jews!) are running the whole evil world economy.
Since Islamism is the biggest contemporary threat to Capitalism it becomes for The Left, a powerful ally, the ideological disagreements which which can be dealt with after the victory over Capitalism.
May 24, 2006 - 5:28 am