by Datechguy | December 29th, 2011
Hazel: Is cowslip coming? Maybe he knows.
Fiver: He wouldn’t come. He told me to stop talking about it
Watership Down 1978 Richard Adams
Yesterday on twitter a group of people were busy calling my friend Pan Geller a hate monger. a lot of people go after her for forthrightly saying aloud the truth about Radical Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood and things like honor killings.
Although not Christian she has also been tireless in highlighting the murder of Christians in Egypt and elsewhere.
For some reason these folks on twitter have a lot of hate to spare for Pam, but not for the things she objects to
Over the past two days, we have been schooled, fooled, admonished and deceived by a media hell-bent on instituting the Sharia. There was mass slaughter of Christians on Christmas Day, with churches burned by Muslims in Nigeria. Obama called it “senseless” and the media completely ignored the motive, the reason for the jihad. Across the world very active jihads are ignored, underreported or worse — completely obfuscated, with the ideology again ignored and the jihadis termed “militants,” “insurgents” or “youths.”
One would think that it would acceptable to “hate” the bombing of Christians in Nigeria, to “hate” the Honor Killing of young women in Texas and elsewhere, to “hate” the burning of churches in Egypt and to “hate” calls for the extermination of Jews. Yet it is not these hateful things, but the hatred of these things that draws the outrage of our friends on the left.
I’ve maintained in the past that this is because, in their minds the enemy will always be conservatives in general and Christians in particular:
I suspect that as long as those being murdered are those oppressive and judgmental Christians, our friends in the tolerant left will …tolerate it
Perhaps however there is an alternate explanation that might be as equally valid.
In the Book Watership down the Rabbits in Cowslip’s warren are comfortable, well fed and secure. When Bigwig gets caught in a snare at the warren Fiver runs to Cowslip for help, but he will not acknowledge the danger and in fact tells Fiver to keep quiet. He does this because he must. If the illusion of the warren’s comfort is shattered, the horrible price paid for it must be faced and he can’t bear it. As Fiver puts it in the book:
You pay for it! The food, the warren… but no one must ever ask where anyone was or speak of the wires! The whole place is snared! Everywhere, every day!
And that is the issue in a nutshell. Pam and those who warn of Radical Islam are Fiver calling for help for those caught in a snare. Her detractors are Cowslip he head of the snared warren. To oppose radical Islam requires a courage they don’t have and to appease is acknowledges a cowardice they can’t bear. Much easier like to not talk about it and preserve their illusion of dignity.
Pam and those like her bring up uncomfortable truths and for that they will be forever hated.
Update: Welcome Atlas readers, odds are she is going to be on top of anything on Radical Islam that I talk about but check out this post on the Muslim Brotherhood and on the censorship at BNI
No difference between this and the establican bloggers like Rick Moran and Patterico who deride Jeff Goldstein as “unhelpful” and “hateful” when he points out the flaws of the RINOs and Obama in “intemperate” language. No one wants to admit there’s a problem because if the problem is acknowledged it must be solved.