Honor killings, where a young woman is murdered by her family in order to restore the family's Honor is much in the news these days. The New York Times has finally recognized the trend and has a two page article on its front page describing an Honor killing in India:
In India, Castes, Honor and Killings Intertwine
When Nirupama Pathak left this remote mining region for graduate school in New Delhi, she seemed to be leaving the old India for the new. Her parents paid her tuition and did not resist when she wanted to choose her own career. But choosing a husband was another matter.
Her family was Brahmin, the highest Hindu caste, and when Ms. Pathak, 22, announced she was secretly engaged to a young man from a caste lower than hers, her family began pressing her to change her mind. They warned of social ostracism and accused her of defiling their religion.
Oh, so it is the Hindu caste system that is implicated in Honor killings? If you read the NY Times for news, you will look in vain for articles about Honor killings in the Muslim world or in the Muslim immigrant communities in the West. If you get your news from the blogosphere, you will find countless links to articles about the epidemic of Honor killings in Islam.
Western media and too many of the western leaders, are cowards who are desperate to remain unaware of their cowardice. They know that to criticize Indian Brahmins (or their perennial favorite targets, the Israelis) is to pontificate without risk. They might elicit a cross word and a strongly worded letter to the editor, which may or may not be printed. They also know, but do not admit, that the very same article written about Muslim Honor killings leads to Fatwas and credible death threats. In this way, day by day, political Islam strengthens, and Western Civilization weakens.
Richard Landes has an excellent piece at Pajamas Media descrinign the cost such surrender takes upon our Civilization:
The Hidden Costs of Jew-Baiting in England
Daniel Eilon, an English barrister, explained to me one of the mechanisms. It isn’t real anti-Semitism. In fact, most of the stuff that comes out against Israel is intellectually hopeless — phony narratives based on fantasy “facts.” This is really just good old-fashioned Jew-baiting. It’s saying things in all righteous innocence that you know will hurt the Jews to whom you address the criticism. The problem for the Brits (and the Europeans in general), he pointed out, is that historically, there’s never been a particularly high price to pay for Jew-baiting. Now there is.
What my friend referred to with this last remark is lucidly analyzed by Robin Shepherd in his recent book, A State Beyond the Pale: Europe’s Problem with Israel. The elephant in the room, of course, is radical Islam — the people who interpret being “chosen” by Allah as a charter to dominate the world and submit everyone, willingly or not, to Islam. They’re the people no one dares bait; and they’re the folks who take full advantage of every deference to press for more. Daily aggressions from violent gangs constantly expand the territories where the Queen’s writ does not run. In tempo with the retreat of British law and enforcement, Sharia advances from internal community affairs (explicitly on the model of Jewish religious courts) towards the policing of community boundaries and claims on the state for special treatment. The British — like so many other Western nations –mainstream the extremists and marginalize the moderates. As Nick Cohen put it: “The world faces a psychotic movement and won’t admit it to themselves.”
And if you don't think it is happening here, think again. We see the exact same structure, of surrender to thugs while pretending to a courageous "taking it to the man" in our own DoJ's corruption of the rule of law.
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