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Salon Says We Should Blame Ourselves, Not Islam, For Paris

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Salon‘s Ben Norton displayed in full colors the Left’s despicable, self-despising, and ultimately deadly worldview. In an op-ed titled “Our Terrorism Double-Standard: After Paris Let’s Stop Blaming Muslims and Take a Hard Look at Ourselves,” Norton does what the Left always does: blames the West, and particularly America, for the evil of others.

“Any time there is an attack on civilians in the post-9/11 West, demagogues immediately blame it on Muslims. They frequently lack evidence, but depend on the blunt force of anti-Muslim bigotry to bolster their accusations,” writes Norton just days after jihadists slaughtered 129 innocent people and pounded their chests afterward for the victory for the “caliphate” against a “capital of prostitution and obscenity.”

Claiming that the majority of recent terrorist attacks were not religiously inspired, Norton rips the “many layers of hypocrisy” in the public reaction to the atrocities. His first “layer” is that conservatives “exploit” the tragedies (caused by Islamic terrorists) to “distract from and even deny domestic problems,” a sad reference to those Black Lives Matter activists who bemoaned online that the Paris attacks were stealing their spotlight, many even creating the contemptible hashtag “#F***Paris” in response.

In a disgrace to the victims, a shout chorus of reactionary demagogues exploited the horrific attacks to distract from and even deny domestic problems. They flatly told Black Lives Matter activists fighting for basic civil and human rights, fast-food workers seeking liveable wages and union rights, and students challenging crippling debts that their problems are insignificant because they are not being held hostage at gunpoint.

Acknowleding that the Islamic terror group ISIS in fact was responsible, Norton describes the Right’s “insidious” reaction as supposedly blaming all of Islam for the attacks. After decrying the need for the Muslim population to “collectively apologize” for the actions of its radical members, Norton predictably calls for the West to continue to take in unprecedented numbers of Muslims for the war-torn, terror-plagued Middle East.

As part of his argument, Norton declares that European conservatives and murderous Islamic extremists “share a congruence of interests,” namely that Muslims should leave Europe, which, he argued would, ultimately only serve the interests of the radicals.

Norton unsurprisingly drags out the Left’s threadbare excuse for the evil of radical Islamists: America’s response to 9/11, which he cites as an example of how “right wing and Islamic extremist logic intersect”:

Demonstrating how right-wing and Islamic extremist logic intersect, ISIS actually favorably cited the black-and-white worldview shared ironically by both former President George W. Bush and his intractable foe, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. ISIS wrote: “As Shaykh Usamah Ibn Ladin said, ‘The world today is divided into two camps. Bush spoke the truth when he said, “Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.” Meaning, either you are with the crusade or you are with Islam.’”

By making ISIS go viral, we are only helping them accomplish their sadistic goals.

After arguing that the West supposedly ignores massacres when the victims are Muslims, Norton decries the “knee-jerk Islamophobia” that followed the Islamic terrorists massacre of the Charlie Hebdo journalists, blaming the murders on Iraq, Abu Ghraib, and French colonialism rather than radical Islamic religious tenets.

In the end, Norton concludes that West is the truly culpable party and is only “dislocating the blame”:

When the U.S. and its allies bomb weddings and hospitals in Yemen and Afghanistan, killing hundreds of civilians, “Americans” doesn’t trend globally on Twitter. Yet when Parisians are allegedly killed by Islamic extremists, “Muslims” does.

The imperialist West always try to dislocate the blame. It’s always the foreigner’s, the non-Westerner’s, the Other’s fault; it’s never the fault of the enlightened West.

Islam is the new scapegoat. Western imperial policies of ravaging entire nations, propping up repressive dictators, and supporting extremist groups are conveniently forgotten.

The West is incapable of addressing its own imperial violence. Instead, it points its blood-stained finger accusingly at the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims and tells them they are the inherently violent ones.

Thanks, Salon, for making it so clear who your real enemy is: the “blood-stained” West and all those who would defend its people from the actions of murderous extremists.

Image (via AP): “Stephane Fosik, from left, Cedrine Plongeur and Cloe Tinchant light candles in the shape of a peace symbol in LOVE Park, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, during a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of the attacks in Paris.”

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