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05 May 2008 03:30 pm
Caving In To Islamist Threats
Sam Harris has a piece about the repression of "Fitna", a 15-minute film, linking passages of the Koran to violence. It's a depressing story of self-censorship:
The point is not (and will never be) that some free person spoke, or
wrote, or illustrated in such a manner as to inflame the Muslim
community. The point is that only the Muslim community is combustible
in this way. The controversy over Fitna, like all such
controversies, renders one fact about our world especially salient:
Muslims appear to be far more concerned about perceived slights to
their religion than about the atrocities committed daily in its name.
Our accommodation of this psychopathic skewing of priorities has, more
and more, taken the form of craven and blinkered acquiescence.
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