{"id":6311,"date":"2016-06-30T15:04:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T15:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/30\/liberals-check-your-double-standards\/"},"modified":"2016-06-30T15:04:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T15:04:55","slug":"liberals-check-your-double-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/30\/liberals-check-your-double-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeasement and a Double Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as we ought not tolerate intolerance, especially the murderous intolerance of radical Muslims, we ought not try to appease the intolerant. Appeasement is never the way to genuine peace. The New York Time's call<\/a> for Benedict XVI to apologize for quoting the remarks of a Byzantine emperor is <\/span>a particularly abject example of appeasement.  This was some time ago, but it is important not to forget the past in the manner of a tweeting twit whose brain is fit only to flit.<\/span><\/p>\n

One should not miss the double-standard in play. The Pope is held to a very high standard: he must not employ any words, not even in oratio obliqua<\/em>, that could be perceived as offensive by any Muslim who might be hanging around a theology conference in Germany, words uttered in a talk that is only tangentially about Islam, but Muslims can say anything they want about Jews and Christians no matter how vile. The tolerant must tiptoe around the rabidly intolerant lest they give offense.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the root of appeasement and the tip-toe of the soon-to-be dhimmi<\/em>: fear.  <\/span><\/p>\n

My analysis of Pope Benedict's Regensburg speech is here<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Just as we ought not tolerate intolerance, especially the murderous intolerance of radical Muslims, we ought not try to appease the intolerant. Appeasement is never the way to genuine peace. The New York Time's call for Benedict XVI to apologize for quoting the remarks of a Byzantine emperor is a particularly abject example of appeasement.  This … Continue reading “Appeasement and a Double Standard”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[488,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-double-standards","category-islamism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}