Thursday, December 11, 2008

Blaming the victims: Mumbai and radical multiculturalism


The jihadist-multicultural alliance -Caroline Glick [at right]

In the aftermath of the Mumbai massacres, it is hard to imagine that there is anything as pernicious as the jihadists who sought out and murdered non-Muslims with such cruelty. But there is: their multicultural apologists, who enable them are just as evil.

The jihadists in Mumbai have been defended, and their acts and motivations have been explained away, by their allies and loyal apologists: Western multiculturalists. Multiculturalism is a quasi-religion predicated on both moral relativism and a basic belief in the inherent avarice of the West - particularly of the US and Israel.

Multiculturalists assert that Westerners - or, in the case of India, Hindus - are to blame for all acts of violence carried out against them. In the case of the Mumbai massacres, the jihadists' defenders began justifying their actions while they were still in the midst of their torture and murder spree. In Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria hinted that Indian Hindus had it coming.

"One of the untold stories of India," he explained, "is that the Muslim population has not shared in the boom the country has enjoyed over the last 10 years. There is still a lot of institutional discrimination, and many remain persecuted."

Emblematic of the Western media's attempts to play down the story was The New York Times. Two days into the hostage drama, the Times opined, "It is not known if the Jewish center was strategically chosen, or if it was an accidental hostage scene."

The Los Angeles Times published an op-ed by University of Chicago law professor Martha Nussbaum attacking Indian Hindus. Nussbaum cast the jihadists as nothing more than victims of a Hindu terror state which has been victimizing Muslims for no reason since the 1930s. She apparantly forgot about the thousands of Indian Hindus who have been murdered by jihadists.
[Jerusalem Post]

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