Bruce Bawer has a troubling piece today in Pajamas on the increasing amount gay bashing in Europe. One guess as to the religious background of the bashers.
As Bruce writes:
To suggest that the culprits, far from being fragile, sensitive flowers who’ve been pushed over the line by something we did, are in fact bullies driven by an overweening sense of superiority and a deep-seated malice – both of which they’ve been carefully taught at home, at school, and, yes, in the mosque – is verboten.
In Amsterdam, where gays could once walk freely, even holding hands, “The number of reported gay-bashings in Amsterdam now climbs steadily year by year.“And the culprit:
Europe is on its way down the road of Islamization, and it’s reached a point along that road at which gay people’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is being directly challenged, both by knife-wielding bullies on the street and by taxpayer-funded thugs whose organizations already enjoy quasi-governmental authority.
As with anything by Bruce Bawer, just read the whole thing. And while you’re at it, get Bruce’s book, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within, on the increasing Islamic bigotry in Europe–and not just against gays.
Both the article and the book should make it clear that the enemies of the West hold a particular animosity toward gay people. And the more you understand the nature of this enemy, the more you’ll understand why gay people should champion our side in this long struggle.
Yet, we in the G/L community are faced with the apparent paradox that the vast bulk of the G/L community allies itself with the Left, which is the very enabler of multiculturalism and the apologists for the supporters of Sharia in Europe, Canada, and a few East Coast American cities.
Hello, …wake up and smell the roasting flesh, gang!
“Accomodation” just unilaterally grants our true enemies maneuvering-room for fututre assualts on our liberties and freedoms….and our very existance. This year it’s honor-killings; “…well, ok. As long as it’s your daughters.” Next year will it be; “…as long as you kill just the gays”?
This is another glimse of the idiocy that results when gays remain in thrall to Leftist politics
http://covenantzone.blogspot.com/2007/11/islamophobic-dutch-gays-swing-to-right.html
When you read that , note how the gay people who run the community organization do everything they can to downplay the Muslims’ role in comitting violence against gays.. it’s almost like they defend the Muslims.
It’s quite sick.
NOT Christians – “right wing” or otherwise.
Not Jews, Hindus, atheists, wiccans / animists, agnostics, Confucians, Taoists, Shinoists or Buddhists either. Hmm, that leaves…. ?
Once Gays were welcome and accepted in Europe (and America?) and then the evil Muslims came and ruined everyone’s party.
Blame the Left for all future attacks on Homosexuals as they are, obviously, in bed with violent Muslims.
…or if you are,say, a Christian chatting on Right Wing blogs and forums such as the Sean Hannity forum, you can blame leftists and socialists for “perverting family values” and “indoctrinating children with pro-Gay propaganda.”
See, you can have your cake and eat it.
Dean Morris,
You are a first class idiotarian.
Did you bother to read GPW’s piece? He clearly stated that “In Amsterdam, where gays could once walk freely, even holding hands, “The number of reported gay-bashings in Amsterdam now climbs steadily year by year.“ Complaining about the homophobic history of Europe and the US doesn’t change the fact that the safety of gay people is increasingly at risk in Europe because of hateful muslims.
Dan is correct that gay people (and anyone who cares about gay people) should champion the fight against militant Islam. Vince P and Charging Rhino are correct that it is the Left that has a problem with standing up to the Islamicists.
Wow. I think Dean Morris just broke Ian’s record. He has managed to complain about allegations that the left is “in bed with” the Islamists and then immediately (and predictably) blames the rhetoric of conservatives for Muslims attacking gays within just a few sentences. He’s got to be the most efficient and speedy Islamo-apologist we’ve ever seen on this site. Well done!
He’s just trying to change the subject, again. The Left hates Americans far more than they could ever hate America’s enemies. Its just a matter of priorities. We have to be destroyed first. The Left will deal with the Islamists later (in theory). Its much easier to call us racists – we won’t kill them or sue them for saying it and they get to still feel all radical and revolutionary. Dealing with Islamic hate requires actual work and actual answers and they are incapable of either. Its 1968 – 1972 forever and they will go to their graves believing it.
Canadian liberals keep trying to find a way to open their English common law system to include a dash of Sharia. Why liberals can not understand the basic difference between Sharia mumbo-jumbo and the Western legal tradition is beyond my comprehension.
Holland has prided itself on being “tolerant.” Well, tolerance is a neutral word: it is neither good nor bad. Some can tolerate chains and whips while others can tolerate working to improve the lives of reprobates. Others can tolerate all manner of things so long as they can choose to avoid them.
The Dutch are being bitten for extending the hand of “tolerance” to people who are bent on changing the society and enforcing Sharia. Now the pendulum has swung to the right and the Dutch are beginning to emphasize what they will not tolerate.
It was ever thus. Let’s hope their epiphany has not come too late.
The reason gay liberals like Dean and their European counterparts do what they do in regard to militant Islam is the same reason that the parents of spoiled brats will blame everyone else for their children’s behavior.
God forbid they admit that THEY screwed up.
Speaking of Ian and His Travelling Locust of Sockpuppets… (gil, keogh, KYKid, etc., etc., etc.)… Are they really gone for good?