{"id":7161,"date":"2015-05-14T11:01:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T11:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/14\/civil-courage\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T11:01:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T11:01:37","slug":"civil-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/14\/civil-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reader sent me  a batch of critical comments prefaced as follows. "I\u2019ve been enjoying your work, and I have great admiration for your guts. Hopefully no members of the \u201creligion of peace\u201d will put your bravery to the test."  In this connection one ought to wonder about the lack of civil courage of liberals and leftists who work so hard to build a secular society only to go soft on the greatest threat to such a society.  It is understandable, of course.  People are afraid, journalists especially.  But by allowing themselves to be intimidated, they encourage more of the same from the malefactors.  Lack of civil courage encourages the anti-civilization jihadis.
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The issue here is whether enough of us can muster the civil courage necessary to oppose the enemies of civilization who, at this historical juncture, are not National Socialists or Fascists or Communists, but Muslim fanatics and their leftist enablers.  I say that those who can't muster it are not deserving of its fruits.  Is every Mulsim a fanatic?  Of course not. (Don't be stupid.)
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As for the quantity and quality of my 'guts,' they are nothing as compared to those of so many others, including Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and the fiery Judge Jeannine Pirro. Watch this video<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n

What is civil courage?  The phrase translates  the German Zivilcourage<\/em>, a word first used by Otto von Bismarck in 1864 to refer to the courage displayed in civilian life as opposed to the military valor displayed on the battlefield.  According to Bismarck, there is more of the latter than of the former, an observation that holds true today.  (One example: there is no coward like a university administrator, as Dennis Prager likes to point out.) Civil courage itself no doubt antedates by centuries the phrase.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A reader sent me  a batch of critical comments prefaced as follows. "I\u2019ve been enjoying your work, and I have great admiration for your guts. Hopefully no members of the \u201creligion of peace\u201d will put your bravery to the test."  In this connection one ought to wonder about the lack of civil courage of liberals … Continue reading “Civil Courage”<\/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":[119,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161","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=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}