Hard to Believe

http://jewishworldreview.com/0706/west071006.php3

This article by Diane West says a great deal. One of the things she mentions is that at a recent "rally" in London by Islamic militants, the 9/11 and the 7/7 murderers were praised as martyrs. She said demonstrators carried signs saying: "Behead Those Who Insult Islam," said one placard. "Slay Those Who Insult Islam," said another. "Kill Those Who Insult Islam," and (for variety) "Butcher Those Who Mock Islam". She went on to tell about a news piece about the demonstration. A van driver stopped and criticized the protestors. The interchange went :
"Listen to me, listen to me," said the policeman, shaking his finger at the van driver. "They have a right to protest. You let them do it. You say things like that you'll get them riled and I end up in (trouble). You say one more thing like that, mate, and you'll get yourself nicked (arrested) and I am not kidding you, d'you understand me?"
Van driver: "They can do whatever they want and I can't?"
Policeman: "They've got their way of doing it. The way you did it was wrong. You've got one second to get back in your van and get out of here."
Van driver: (bitter) "Freedom of speech."
This vignette wasn't law and order in action. It was desperate, craven appeasement. As the bobby put it, "You say things like that, you'll get them riled." And we mustn't get them riled. Let Choudary and his band of thugs praise mass killings, threaten more attacks and advocate murder by beheading on London streets in broad daylight — but don't get them riled. " ( D. West)

This isn't just happening in London folks, this attitude is common everywhere in the West. Once again, we pride ourselves on our "tolerance" and "diversity" towards it though. This isn't a polite difference of opinion over whether liberals are soft on criminals, or conservatives hard hearted toward the poor, over whether certain parts of society should be able to marry or not, or how to deal with illegal immigration. We are tolerating, no, encouraging, people who are praising and encouraging mass murder. And threatening to arrest those who find that talk offensive. It IS appeasement, whatever else you want to call it. No matter how many "sensitivity" courses we are forced to sit through, the fact remains that there is no give and take, we are told we must be "sensitive" to their cultural mores, but not them to the countries which have taken them in. We continue to tolerate this type of behavior, and they perceive us as weak, which encourages more of it. Just as we can't call " Fire!!" in a crowded theater, incitement to violence in this manner should not be tolerated. I am certain that if a group of marchers had been carrying signs saying "Death to Those Who Insult Christianity", " Butcher Those Who Mock Christ" and "Behead Those who Insult Christianity" and praising people who murdered in the name of Christianity, the response by authorities would be very different.