Whatever turns out to be the real story of the shootings at the Islamic Center of San Diego, one thing is certain: the leftist media and advocacy groups such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will invoke it incessantly in order to try to silence those of us who oppose the violence, intolerance, aggression, and supremacism that Islam sanctions and sanctifies.
For years, the left and Islamic groups have used violence against innocent Muslims, real and imagined, to claim that honest discussion of the motivating ideology behind jihad terror was what led to such violence. The left’s false claim that speech it opposes leads inexorably to violence has been weaponized to prevent the truth about the violent and oppressive aspects of Islam from reaching the public. Over the years, the establishment media has internalized the idea that one of its most important jobs is to ensure that no one thinks ill of Islam. This was clear anew in a story about the Taliban’s new law allowing child marriage.
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