{"id":1219,"date":"2009-06-05T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T21:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2009-06-05T16:41:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T20:41:28","slug":"perspective-proportion-abortion-islam-and-radical-leftists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=1219","title":{"rendered":"Perspective &#038; Proportion: Abortion, Islam and Radical Leftists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, for too long in recent days the Liberal Left has been crying about how we need to be kinder to Islam and harder on the U.S. for its past foreign policies. Islam is a &#8220;peaceful religion&#8221; and its those extremists that are not true Muslims&#8230; Right? Don&#8217;t think about it&#8230; just say, &#8220;yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, after 10 years and no abortion doctors being murdered&#8230; An abortion doctor is murdered at his church and now the Liberal Left are screaming that all anti-abortionists are extremists and spreading hatred with their speech!<\/p>\n<p>OH! Pardon me&#8230; I didn&#8217;t realize that a small number of extremists meant that all anti-abortionists were extremists! (Let&#8217;s play the &#8220;double standard&#8221; card. That will make us feel better and help us force more people under our thumbs.)<\/p>\n<p>Well, now that I&#8217;ve had my say&#8230; I mainly wanted to point you over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/sntjohnny.com\" target=\"_blank\">St. Johnny blog<\/a> to encourage you to read an article on the recent Tiller murder. <a href=\"http:\/\/sntjohnny.com\/front\/about-me\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Horvath<\/a> has some great insights into what is taking place in the political sphere regarding the Liberal Left and their extreme hypocrisy and fear mongering.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from his article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I indicated that the reason why proportion and a sense of perspective were necessary regarding the Tiller killing was because in the liberal mind, referring to abortion as murder, etc, is inflammatory language that really is \u2018hate speech.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The current hate speech legislation coming through Congress (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matthew_Shepard_Act\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Shepherd Act<\/a>) aims to draw exactly this kind of connection, though of course this legislation is related more to homosexuality.\u00a0 The idea is the same, though:\u00a0 if anyone person commits a crime and it can be tracked back to someone who can be perceived to have \u2018instigated it\u2019 the person who did the \u2018instigation\u2019 is equally guilty and consequently should be punished under the law.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s perusal of the web I found more evidence of this attempt to condemn the entire pro-life movement because of this single event.\u00a0 The irony is that the day after Tiller was killed, an American soldier was gunned down at a recruitment center by someone we now know was acting on Islamicist principles.<\/p>\n<p>Besides there being little media attention about that, it should be noted that the Left does not apparently have an interest to condemn all Muslims because of this single event.\u00a0\u00a0 There is clearly a lack of perspective here:\u00a0 in ten years one abortionist was killed but in that same ten years thousands of Americans died at the hands of Islamicists and numerous attacks have been thwarted.\u00a0 But let\u2019s not make any unwarranted generalizations, shall we?\u00a0 Unless it\u2019s pro-lifers.<\/p>\n<p>But about that evidence I was referencing.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/insidecover\/us_tv_tiller_oreilly\/2009\/06\/02\/220776.html\" target=\"_blank\">This article on Newsmax<\/a> describes how the Left is attempting to link the Tiller killing to Bill O\u2019Reilly and the rest of the pro-life movement.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/ldn\/2009\/jun\/090601.html#3\" target=\"_blank\">This article on LifeSiteNews<\/a> illustrates some of the same.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/sntjohnny.com\/front\/all-pro-lifers-culpable-for-tiller-killing\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, for too long in recent days the Liberal Left has been crying about how we need to be kinder to Islam and harder on the U.S. for its past foreign policies. Islam is a &#8220;peaceful religion&#8221; and its those extremists that are not true Muslims&#8230; Right? Don&#8217;t think about it&#8230; just say, &#8220;yes!&#8221; Well, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=1219\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perspective &#038; Proportion: Abortion, Islam and Radical Leftists<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,84,4,20,78,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-culture","category-current-events","category-debate","category-law-and-faith","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}