Securlarist Bush....

Interesting piece on the rotting core of the American left and GWBush's advancement of secularism.

So here is what I want to say on the absolutely crucial matter of secularism. Only one faction in American politics has found itself able to make excuses for the kind of religious fanaticism that immediately menaces us in the here and now. And that faction, I am sorry and furious to say, is the left. From the first day of the immolation of the World Trade Center, right down to the present moment, a gallery of pseudointellectuals has been willing to represent the worst face of Islam as the voice of the oppressed. How can these people bear to reread their own propaganda? Suicide murderers in Palestine-disowned and denounced by the new leader of the PLO-described as the victims of "despair." The forces of al-Qaida and the Taliban represented as misguided spokespeople for antiglobalization. The blood-maddened thugs in Iraq, who would rather bring down the roof on a suffering people than allow them to vote, pictured prettily as "insurgents" or even, by Michael Moore, as the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers. If this is liberal secularism, I'll take a modest, God-fearing, deer-hunting Baptist from Kentucky every time, as long as he didn't want to impose his principles on me (which our Constitution forbids him to do).

The whole piece by Christopher Hitchen's can be read here. The rot at the core of the American liberal left flows from the inability to hold people accountable for their own actions. Poor people in the USA get a pass since they grew up in poverty. Murderous thugs in the Middle-East get a pass since they grew up in poverty or just didn't know better. Jeesh.

The terrible thing about this attitude is that it disenfranchises the moderates in these communities and disables these communities from improvement by pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. The age old building a better life for our children get annihilated in the upside-down moral relativist liberal left world.