TIFFANY GABBAY: ENOUGH WITH THE HYPOCRISY AND MORAL EQUIVALENCE OVER CHARLIE HEDBO ALREADY……..

Who now even remembers what Michele Obama even hashtagged about?

Being in solidarity with the slain staff of the Charlie Hedbo staff is all about the enlightenment, about the future of our western civilization as we know it. The chattering classes of mediocrity haven’t a clue about any of this, they’re much to busy being the first on twitter to come up with a clever (sophomoric) hashtag in order to capitalize on the gross outrage in France that unfolded before our very eyes.

Almost immediately following the butchery at Charlie Hebdo, the “Je Suis Charlie” sentiment rang out. And while lovely, will those who tweet in solidarity under its hashtag, or attend candlelight vigils, take it a step further and do what is truly necessary to honor those fallen?

Moral Equivalence Cannot Live Side by Side With ‘Charlie’

by Tiffany Gabbay

My father was a wise man. Of all his pearls of wisdom, there is one in particular I’ve taken to heart perhaps more than any other: “Don’t offer your opinion on topics which you know nothing about.” It is a philosophy that I have strived to live by. And it is why I am so often and deeply troubled by the parade of self-appointed “experts” speaking with an air of authority on Islam, what it means, and how the West should feel about it in the wake of terrorism.

The world watched in horror as the Charlie Hebdo massacre unfolded. Like all people of goodwill, I am incensed by this tragic loss of life. By the fact that this scenario keeps repeating itself. But I am incensed even more by the equally tragic, indeed reckless responses from too many of our opinion-makers.

I could provide names of specific authors and pundits from various outlets who’ve come out to declare themselves “#JeSuisCharlie” while simultaneously peddling “thoughtful” and “important” commentary on why Islam is not to blame for the massacre at Charlie Hebdo and why Christian and Jewish “extremists” are equally repugnant, but the list is long and their sophomoric platitudes (I’m looking at you, Kristof) so predictably identical that their transgressions may as well be tackled as one collective landfill of intellectual dishonesty.

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By Raymond Jan 12, 2015

Yes. I pondered the very same thing.

Straight after this shocking criminal act of bastardry we are all Charlie.

But what about the day before – were we all Charlie then? No we were not!

Had we been all Charlie before this, Charlie’s journalists would still be alive today.
1. By KGS Jan 12, 2015
  
  The problem as I see it Raymond, we are living in an age of post-Enlightenment, our political leaders for the most part have turned their backs on it, in favor of Plato’s republic. It’s not illogical from their POV to behave in the way they are behaving. It’s sad, frustrating, but that’s the case as I see it.

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There’s No Common Cultural Legacy For The Alt-Right

Still, is there something to it? Is there a common heritage that will cover El Greco and Hume and Dostoyevsky? Is there one that can include the Jacobites and the Jacobins? There is, but it is not racial, and white supremacists reject it because it rejects them. The unifying heritage of Europe is religious and philosophical. It is Jerusalem and Athens, in one famous formulation. Christian religion and Greek philosophy, filtered through Roman law and culture, are the foundation of European culture. The tensions, agreements, developments and settlements between these have shaped the Western world, and these roots of Western civilization are not congenial to white supremacy.

Christianity is universal in its message and Jewish in its origins. For centuries after its founding, Christianity’s center was the Mediterranean world, including Asia Minor and North Africa. Christianity has never been defined by race, and locally-grown racist heresies are only sustainable among those ignorant of Christianity’s teachings, origins and history.

Greek philosophy is likewise ill-suited to serve as a basis for white identity. It is either too universal (addressing the human condition in general) or too local—none of us live as citizens of an ancient Greek polis. Later philosophical developments in Europe, such as the philosophies of the Enlightenment, likewise tend to be too universal for white supremacists seeking a tribal identity. As for the scientific revolution that developed within Western culture (albeit with much borrowed from outside Europe), math doesn’t care what color someone is.

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War is being waged against Western culture from within which is in essence a war against Christianity and its moral origins in the Hebrew Bible. By attacking these Biblical foundations in the name of reason and human rights, the culture warriors of secularism are sawing off the branch on which they sit. The only way to defend Western civilisation is to reaffirm and restore its Biblical foundations. My argument is a development of ideas I first explored in my 2012 book The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power.

We are living in an era which extols reason, science and human rights. These are said to be essential for progress, a civilised society and the betterment of humanity. Religion is said to be their antithesis, the source instead of superstitious mumbo-jumbo, oppression and backward-thinking.

Some of this hostility is being driven by the perceived threat from Islamic terrorism and the Islamisation of Western culture. However, this animus against religion has far deeper roots and can be traced back to what is considered the birthplace of Western reason, the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Actually, it goes back specifically to the French Enlightenment. In England and Scotland, the Enlightenment developed reason and political liberty within the framework of Biblical belief. In France, by contrast, anti-clericalism morphed into fundamental hostility to Christianity and to religion itself.

“Ecrasez l’infame,” said Voltaire (crush infamy) — the infamy to which he referred being not just the Church but Christianity, which he wanted to replace with the religion of reason, virtue and liberty, “drawn from the bosom of nature”.

Perfecting society

But this Enlightenment did not remove religion so much as pervert it. It took millenarian fantasies, the idea that the perfection of the world was at hand, and it secularised them. Instead of God producing heaven on earth, it would be mankind which would bring that about. Reason would create the perfect society and “progress” was the process by which utopia would be attained.

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“I think that we should correct the vocabulary that we use, and call a spade a spade. It is all about Jihad, the Islamic effort to spread Islam globally”:

Terrorist attack – should be called Military Jihad.

Incitement – Media Jihad.

Al-Jazeera – Media Jihad Channel.

Imposing Sharia law – Judicial Jihad or Legislative Jihad.

Boycotting Israel (BDS) – Economic Jihad.

Emigration to EU and US – Emigration Jihad / Hijra Jihad.

Building mosques, Islamic education institutions – Cultural Jihad.

Halal food – Dietary Jihad.

Hijab or Niqab – Clothing Jihad.

Activity of MSA – Academic Jihad.

Activity of CAIR – Political Jihad / Public Jihad.

Collecting money for Islamic “charities” – Financial Jihad.

Political correctness – Submission to Jihad.

J Street, Peace Now, JVP and their likes – Jewish Useful Idiots who Serve Jihad.

Iran deal – Western Support for Nuclear Jihad.

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