“Muslims” and “Islam” liberated from PC shackles!

While Captain Ed Morrissey bravely flouts the taboo on the “I” word and dares to criticize … Islamists, other conservatives seem to have had it with that particular piece of polite indirection. Thus David Horowitz, who in his blog has frequently spoken of “Islamists” himself (see google search results), now writes the following:

The Muslim riots in France, orchestrated by cell phones and a political directorate that has spread the violence not only across France but across Europe, is an obvious escalation of the Islamic jihad that seeks to conquer the infidel world for the Muslim faith. It would be unkind to say that the French deserve it, but they do. This is the country that has done more to sabotage the war on Islamic terror and Muslim imperialism than any other. It has relentlessly preached appeasement of the enemy and condemnation of us, as the chief obstacle to Islamic despotism. It was the French who sabotaged the efforts to contain Saddam peacefully and prevent him from developing a weapons laboratory for his terrorist allies. The left is still propagating the deadly lies that Saddam was 1) a secularist who did not support al-Qaeda, 2) who had no role in the Islamic attacks on the United States that began with the blowing up of the World Trade Center in 1993, 3) who did not provide Iraqi soil and protection to Islamic terrorists like Zarqawi, and 4) whose plans to build a weapons of mass destruction arsenal to use against the United States and its allies were not thrwarted by the war of March 2003. All of these lies of the left have been thoroughly refuted, yet they go on.

Where are the apologies by all those liberals and leftists who pointed fingers at the Spanish and British saying, “If you had not supported the United States’ war in Iraq you would not be under attack now? The French were Saddam’s and Islam’s closest allies in the West. Yet France is now the target of an Islamic jihad that is destroying the fabric of French society. The lesson for slow-witted liberals is this: The Islamic imperialists don’t give a fig for what you do or what you say or what you believe in their behalf. They are holy warriors. You are infidels. You will convert or die.

That an establishment conservative writer and editor such as Horowitz is now speaking about Islam, instead of the phony fictional notion of “Islamism,” represents real progress. It is, in a word, liberating … as truth always is.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 10, 2005 06:29 PM | Send