Bizarre stuff from Taiwan’s China Post:
“Persisting with selective memory, fuzzy logic and contrived debates is what sustains global terrorism.”
Really? Now, I would have guessed that al-Baghdadi and al-Zawahiri are motivated less by “selective memory, fuzzy logic and contrived debates” and more by Islamic Supremacist ideology. But what Mr. Amin says must be true, since it was published in a KMT funny paper.
Adnan R. Amin, words cannot express the anguish I feel over my PC WrongThink. Rest assured I shall spend the next several months wracked with grief, spending long sleepless nights tossing and turning in nightmares of guilt.
How dare I condemn as “terrorists” men who send death squads into nightclubs to gun down scores of civilians? Should men who rape infidel women purchased in slave markets really be considered “terrorists”?
Well, I used to think so. But thanks to Adnan R. Amin, I have come to see the error of my ways. Praise be to Adnan R. Amin!
And so I do make this solemn vow: Never again shall this lowly First Worlder hurt the all-important feelings of men I once referred to as terrorists by calling them “terrorists”.
Nope. From now on I shall only use the Obama-approved term for brave warriors of the Religion Of Peace™: namely, “widows-and-orphans”.
(Mommy, why did the nice bearded “widow-and-orphan” otherize those men on the fence spikes?)
UPDATE: Well, looky here. ISIS itself refers to its people as “Soldiers Of Terror”.
So at this point, I’m kinda thinkin’ that if ISIS calls its own footsoldiers “terrorists”, then it’s probably OK for everyone else, too.
And I’m also kinda thinkin’…that Adnan R. Amin is terrorist apologist who’s full of shit.
UPDATE (November 22, 2015): I was awfully harsh on Adnan R. Amin in writing this post last night. But I think my reaction was entirely justified.
What Adnan R. Amin is attempting to do is destroy the very valuable civilizational norm that prohibits sending death squads to massacre civilians. That’s not really terrorism, says Adnan R. Amin, it’s…well, he doesn’t say. Legitimate resistance, perhaps?
But once people begin excusing Muslims deliberately targeting and massacring Infidel civilians, others will follow their lead and excuse terrorist massacres of Muslim civilians.
And we’ll wind up with more Anders Breiviks.
UPDATE (November 23, 2015): The mind boggles:
All we hear of ISIS is puritanical & punitive; is there nothing celebratory & joyous? Or is query naive?
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) November 22, 2015
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