An article in the Brussels Journal concerning the definition of “human rights” as recently defined by 54 Muslim countries.  According to this piece, Islamic “human rights” are quite different from western ideas of Universal “human rights”:

“The Cairo Declaration allows stoning as punishment, prohibits Muslims from changing their religion, prohibits usury, does not give women equal rights and divides the world between Muslims and infidels. It makes it clear that Muslims are the ‘best nation’ whose duty it is to make you become like them.”

One of the reasons why the Islamist threat has gotten much more powerful in the last 10 to 20 years is their clever and deceitful appropriation of the language of the western Left, even though fundamentalist Islam is somewhere to the Right of even the most backwoods Baptist preacher in the US.

Calling this Sharia-based document “human rights” is a slap in the face to western ideals of human rights.  Will the Left not point out that cloaking Sharia law under the guise of legitimate human rights language is wrong?  Allowing this double standard for what constitutes human rights dilutes the meaning of the fight for human rights.

The writer of this Brussels Journal article makes the great point that human rights violations under sharia law is one of the things that western human rights organizations should be fighting to stop.  But non-judgementalism in the west has softened our elites to the point that they cannot even point out these logical inconsistencies and fight for their ideals.

The quote that floored me was this quote from a Norwegian blogger, an alleged ‘right-winger’ in the Scandinavian political spectrum.  He claims that terrorism will only cease when Muslims tire of it:

“Brave is sitting down calmly on a plane behind a row of suspicious-looking Arabs, ignoring your own fears, because you know those fears are irrational, and because even if there’s a chance that they are terrorists, it is more important to you to preserve an open and tolerant society than to survive this trip. Brave is insisting that Arabs not be searched more carefully in airport security than anyone else, because you believe that it is more important not to discriminate against people based on their race than to keep the occasional terrorist from getting on a plane.”

What?!?

I don’t call it brave, I call it Meek.  These actions may seem noble in the abstract, but in the real world it’s called cowardice.  Why don’t you leave the house unlocked so a burglar can take whatever they want, and hopefully leave you and the missus alone.  Now that’s brave! 

He is perfectly OK with his own DEATH just to avoid hurting the feelings of a Muslims in Norway.  Do Muslims appreciate his sacrifice?

I agree with his first sentiment.  It is not irrational to get suspicious when you see a group of young Arab men acting strange on a plan.  But unless they start acting really suspicious, like the Imams on the USAir flight acted before they were escorted off the plane, we all rationalize away our fears and carry on under the assumption that most Muslims are just like us.  

This assumption could be deadly.  However, there hasn’t been a backlash against Muslims in the west, despite the best efforts of the extremist Muslims to provoke one.  It is entirely rational for normal people to be suspicious of young Arab men, even though the vast majority of them are not radicals, given the history of terrorist attacks against soft, civilian targets.    

They have decided that we are all enemy combatants.  To a terrorist, every playground, shopping mall, synagogue, subway terminal, strip mall, school, etc. is a potential target.  It is because that they have declared war on all of us, that we view all of them with suspicion.  Who the enemy combatants are isn’t clear, by their design.  We would gladly consider Muslims as peace loving as Scandinavians if they were able to police their own crazies and ensure that they do not continue killing us, or at least make the terrorists among them wear uniforms for identification.

That we don’t want to be targets doesn’t matter to them, they want to bully us into bowing to their demand through fear and intimidation.  You can choose to ignore it and it might go away;  I think we need to stand up to them until they stop killing us.