Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Thought of the Day
Geller, the narrative goes, should never have encouraged people to draw Muhammad because it was "provocative." To which the answer should be: So what? Women attending school in Afghanistan "provokes" radical Muslims into throwing acid on their faces, but that does not mean that women should not go to school in Afghanistan or be condemned for doing so.
Geller, the narrative goes, made Americans less safe by provoking radical Muslims, as though Muslims have no responsibility to act like decent human beings -- as though, faced with the prospect of a cartoon of their prophet, Muslims have no choice but to grab guns and go a-huntin'. But that's nonsense. What truly spurs radical Muslims into violence is the well-evidenced belief that if they kill enough Muhammad cartoonists, soon people will stop drawing cartoons of Muhammad.
Ben Shapiro
And I'll add that the Muslims seem to be winning on this as proved by the ill-thought-out statements of too many Americans on the left and right who criticize Geller for exercising her God given right to express herself but say nothing about the murderous Jihadis.
Geller, the narrative goes, made Americans less safe by provoking radical Muslims, as though Muslims have no responsibility to act like decent human beings -- as though, faced with the prospect of a cartoon of their prophet, Muslims have no choice but to grab guns and go a-huntin'. But that's nonsense. What truly spurs radical Muslims into violence is the well-evidenced belief that if they kill enough Muhammad cartoonists, soon people will stop drawing cartoons of Muhammad.
Ben Shapiro
And I'll add that the Muslims seem to be winning on this as proved by the ill-thought-out statements of too many Americans on the left and right who criticize Geller for exercising her God given right to express herself but say nothing about the murderous Jihadis.
Labels: Ben Shapiro quote; Pamela Geller
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:14 AM 
