Ben Shapiro
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has
unleashed a barrage of openly anti-Semitic commentary. She suggested that
Israel had "hypnotized the world." She recently suggested that Jewish
money lay behind American support for Israel. Finally, she suggested that
American Israel supporters are representatives of dual loyalty. Her fellow
Democrats shielded her from blowback by subsuming a resolution that condemns
her anti-Semitism within a broader resolution that condemns intolerance of all
types. Many of them suggested that labeling Omar's anti-Semitism actually
represents a type of censorship — an attempt to quash debate about Israel,
though none of Omar's comments even critiqued the Israeli government, and though
many on the left have made anti-Israel arguments without invoking
anti-Semitism.
Now Omar's defenders have come
out of the woodwork to suggest that criticism of her anti-Semitism was somehow
responsible for the white supremacist shooting of 50 innocent people in two
mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Two protesters, New York University
students and best friends Leen Dweik and Rose Asaf, confronted Chelsea Clinton
[photo], who had gently chided Omar for her Jew hatred. "After all that
you have done, all the Islamophobia that you have stoked," Dweik screamed,
"this, right here, is the result of a massacre stoked by people like you
and the words you put out in the world. ... Forty-nine people died because of
the rhetoric you put out there." Dweik, it should be noted, has called for
the complete elimination of Israel.
Her message was parroted by
terror supporter Linda Sarsour, who tweeted: "I am triggered by those who
piled on Representative Ilhan Omar and incited a hate mob against her until she
got assassination threats now giving condolences to our community. What we need
you to do is reflect on how you contribute to islamophobia and stop doing
that."
Meanwhile, mainstream
commentators attempted to use the New Zealand anti-Muslim terror attack to
blame critics of radical Islam. Omer Aziz, writing for The New York Times,
slammed Jordan Peterson for calling Islamophobia "a word created by
fascists" and Sam Harris for calling it "intellectual blood libel."
Bill Maher has come in for similar criticism; so have I, mostly for a video I
cut in 2014 in which I read off poll statistics from various Muslim countries
on a variety of topics, concluding that a huge percentage of Muslims believed
radical things.
Here's the truth: Radical
Islam is dangerous. The Islamic world has a serious problem with radical Islam.
And large swaths of the Muslim world are, in fact, hostile to Western views on
matters ranging from freedom of speech to women's rights. To conflate that
obvious truth with the desire to murder innocents in Christchurch is
intellectual dishonesty of the highest sort. If we want more Muslims living in
liberty and freedom, we must certainly demolish white supremacism — and we must
also demolish radical Islam, devotees of which were responsible for an
estimated 84,000 deaths in 2017 alone, most of those victims Muslim.
And here's another truth:
Anti-Semitism is ugly, whether it's coming from white supremacists or Ilhan
Omar. Making that point has nothing to do with the killing of Muslims in
Christchurch.
So long as the media continue
to push the narrative that criticism of Islam is tantamount to incitement of
murder, radical Islam will continue to flourish. So long as the media continue
to cover for the dishonest argument that criticism of anti-Semitism forwards
the goals of white supremacists, anti-Semitism will continue to flourish.
Honest discussion about hard issues isn't incitement.
Ben Shapiro, The Daily Wire, 20-3-2019
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