Self-inflicted, willful ignorance on the Left

On Little Green Footballs, there’s a link to a Daily Kos diary entry (you’ll have to go to LGF to see the article – I don’t want those peawits over here) that seeks to defend the way women are treated in the Islamic world by essentially claiming they have it the same under all religions;

…there’s little support for the notion that women living in “traditional” Islamic cultures enjoy a lower social status than those in orthodox Christian, Jewish or Hindu communities, to name a few examples. Think of the perfectly backwards Eastern Orthodox Church, the largest Christian communion in the world. Or consider the country where women may be brutalized more terribly than in any other, the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is 70 percent Christian and 10 percent Muslim. Or go to Utah, where tens of thousands of Mormon fundamentalists believe that women are literally the property of their fathers or husbands.

Well, when I read that, it made me fairly angry that someone could be so ignorant as to disregard everything we’ve learned over the past few years – learned because the scales fell from our eyes.

I read this on Invincible Armor (in reference to this CNN article);

Crimes against women in Iraq’s south have included killings and amputations.

Police chief: “Two women were killed in front of their kids”.

Not wearing headscarves, other violations of “Islamic teachings” bring crimes.

Woman tells CNN “fear is always there,” but “we don’t know who to be afraid of”.

Yeah, I’ve heard the same complaints from Mormon women (insert eye roll here).

How about these honor killing victims – women and teenage girls – from Atlas Shrugs. When was the last time a father and brother killed teenage daughters and sisters for breaking the tenets of Christianity?

Does anyone think these missing/murdered models (link to Fausta’s Blog) were kidnapped by Buddhist extremists? Are there Eastern Orthodox Christians publicly stoning their women and hanging homosexuals from construction cranes?

How willingly ignorant can these people be to blame these atrocities on a few “extremists” and equate the barbarity inflicted on Islamic women with the treatment of women in more civil and modern cultures? It’s this blatant, self-inflicted ignorance that has gotten us to this place in time.

All of the statistical analysis mumbo-jumbo like “I’ve seen no empirical data to suggest that an Islamic majority itself correlates with the subordination of women better than other co-variables like…blah, blah, blah…” is boob bait for the bubbas (to borrow a phrase from Pat Moynihan). In the comment section of the Kos piece, all of the mental midgets fall in line with the typical “separation of church and state”, “all extremists are dangerous” blather often reserved for their empty-head, rattle-nodding to make each other feel smarter than they could ever hope.

These same Leftists who excuse the inexcusable in Islam in this day and age, are the same people who judge our own history outside of the context of it’s own time. There’s no other phrase for it than self-inflicted, willful ignorance.

Category: Foreign Policy, Society, Terror War