Such ideas and political movements need to be condemned en masse by civilized nation's around the world. We can expect such ideologies to attract Iran, North Korea, Venezuela (new to the group), and on occasion Russia, China and their ilk.
But when the free world begins to cave to and condone such nonsense, even going so far as to adopting surreal and insane legal codes in parallel with their own, civilization itself is jeopardized. They skylark about like life's a t-ball game. "We're all winners!" cries Stuart Smalley. "Don't you feel just swell about yourself?" Folks just don't understand the reality that the kids are keeping score.
In America Alone, Mark Steyn relates the story of British General Sir Charles Napier (back when Great Britain still had some cajones). When confronted by the Indian practice of "suttee" where a woman would be burned upon the funeral pyre of her deceased husband, he didn't bat a British eyelash.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows," he acknowledged. "Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre, beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And we will then follow ours."India no longer practices suttee.
Israel & Hamas are not equivalent. We don't need to equivocate about our support for the only nation in that gnarly nook of the planet that enjoys any semblence of societal freedom and civilization. I came across a couple of political cartoons this season that depict the difference and the world's um-well-gosh opinion of the situation.
by Glen McCoy
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