Are We Fighting the Trees Instead of the Forest?

by Lorna Salzman (June 2014)

That may be a strange distortion of the old slogan but it certainly applies to essentially all the ideological and intellectual battles going on today in the world. As I see it, these are Islamism, climate change denial, creationism/ID, technocracy, Political Correctness, and the neo-fascist left.

Now Muslims entrust the fight to install the caliphate to fiery imams and to front groups in the West to resist assimilation and inculcate Muslim fanaticism and privilege using the media, the right of free speech, domestic leftist anti-Americanism, the legal system and liberal guilt and sympathy.

The origins of both Political Correctness and cultural relativism stem not from any respect for foreign cultural practices but from the belief that Western “imperialist” concern for human rights violations is merely a cover for foreign intervention and exploitation, hence the left’s charge that Islamic terrorism is not religion-based but a backlash against the West’s attempts to impose its own values on other countries.

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