Pussyfooting on Islam has emboldened radicals and created a world for monsters
ANOTHER month, another atrocity.
This time the targets were Saturday-night revellers in London Bridge and Borough. Mown and stabbed for the crime of having fun. Killed for being free.
And almost instantly, even before we knew how many souls had perished, we saw the same craven response that follows every act of Islamist terror.
“Watch out for an Islamophobic backlash”, aloof observers and leftists said.
Once again, their minds were agitated more by the thought of stupid white people saying something rude about Islam than by an act of Islamist mass murder.
Their greatest fear is always what us ill-read plebs, as they see us, will say and do after a terror attack.
Even as the details of the latest outrage are unfolding on the rolling news they’re taking to Twitter and the media to lecture the throng.
“Don’t be mean about Islam”, they snootily warn. Not only is this a deeply patronising response that treats ordinary people as a greater threat to social stability than gangs of theocratic murderers — it’s also an incredibly dangerous one.
It is becoming increasingly clear that our unwillingness to criticise Islam, to throw it open to the same scepticism and mockery that every other religion and ideology faces, plays into the terrorists’ hands.
It emboldens their belief that Islam is perfect and beyond rebuke, and that anyone who says otherwise deserves punishment.