Friday, June 5, 2009
Of course they can. Words and over the top rhetoric have power, and they're the common thread in any number of domestic terrorist attacks over the years that the government and press have repeatedly assured us as being nothing more than the acts of distraught individuals acting along ("sudden Jihad syndrome"). But some on the left show their priorities, because when it comes to abortion, suddenly there's a dangerous conspiracy out there. Michael Graham on Ellen Goodman's Boston Globe piece: Ellen Goodman Does NOT Practice Moral Equivalence
...She goes on to blame, among others, Bill O'Reilly for Tiller's murder, based on her theory that accurately reporting the facts of late-term abortions is a form of violence-inspiring hate crime. Still, I saw a glimmer of hope.Surely if Ms. Goodman is going to hold the more than 50% of Americans who consider themselves pro-life responsible for a half-dozen murders over 20 years, then surely she's written some article since 9/11 linking the current state of Islam to the thousands of terror attacks over that same period--right? Why, less than 24 hours after Tiller's murder, an American soldier was gunned by a fellow American in the name of Islam. I jumped on Google to pull up just one of the dozen columns Ellen must have written about the Muslim world's "murderous cast of lone actors." And...Nothing. I couldn't find one. I may have missed it, but I searched extensively. What I found instead were Goodman's thoughts on how Palestinian "desperation" caused terrorism, not religion, politics, or anti-Semitism. I found numerous Goodman columns claiming that evangelical Christians were morally equivalent to the Taliban (which executes homosexuals and beats disobedient women) for opposing gay rights. And just a week after the 9/11 attacks, Goodman's suspicions had already turned from Islam and toward her fellow Americans...
