WaPo Cancels Article for Being 'Too Critical' of Islam...

But bashing the shit out of Christianity is A-OK.....

Left-leaning journalists don't just pull their punches when it comes to criticizing liberal politicians, they also seem paradoxically inclined to do so when it comes to discussing radical Islam. This curious phenomenon (curious in that modern liberalism is highly secular and radical Islam decidedly is not) has repeated itself many times over the years and is really one of the most bizarre behaviors I've seen in politics.

As strange and morally obtuse that we on the center-right believe the western liberal press to be on this issue, surely the more frustrated people have got to be clear-thinking liberals like Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens who face the task of trying to get their ideological compatriots to stand up for rationality and civil society. It's a difficult task made even more frustrating by the high degree of self-censorship among liberal media elites. Writing earlier this week at the Huffington Post, Harris (an equal opportunity critic of all religion) recounts how the Washington Post refused to run an article he wrote on the "Fitna" movie that the paper deemed "too critical" of Islam.

Such behavior originates in not just the usual double-standard westernized religion faces but in a very real fear among left elites that criticizing Islam is a physically dangerous endeavor. Unfortunately, as Harris writes, this behavior just exacerbates the problem:

.....In a thrillingly ironic turn of events, a shorter version of the very essay you are now reading was originally commissioned by the opinion page of Washington Post and then rejected because it was deemed too critical of Islam. Please note, this essay was destined for the opinion page of the paper, which had solicited my response to the controversy over [Geert] Wilders's film. The irony of its rejection seemed entirely lost on the Post, which responded to my subsequent expression of amazement by offering to pay me a "kill fee." I declined.

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Comments

[Elric66]

I would just like the MSM to explain this double standard. If Islam ispeaceful as they say, why the fear?

[JDAM]

What a disgrace, I wish I could say I'm shocked.

[Elric66]

"This curious phenomenon (curious in that modern liberalism is highly secular and radical Islam decidedly is not) has repeated itself many times over the years and is really one of the most bizarre behaviors I've seen in politics."

I have wondered the same thing. Why the alliance, they have nothing in common but the desire to see the West destroyed. I guess thats enough.

[Proud Infidel]

It's important to remember that in Liberal / MSM "speak" the term "too critical of Islam" is their way of saying "it says the truth about Islam."

It's like I tell my firends, liberals are the Achilles Heel of Western Civilization in the fight to survive Islam's war on us.