Rhetorical Outbursts

Speaking of breathtaking moral confusion, the leftist mayor of London has written a ridiculous piece in The Guardian. Just weeks after innocent citizens in his city were murdered by Muslim fanatics, Ken Livingstone is advocating for the right of a “moderate” Muslim cleric to visit Britain, even though the cleric, Yusuf al Qaradawi, advocates suicide bombings in Iraq and Israel:

But if supporters of the Palestinians should be banned on the grounds that Palestinians kill civilians, then consistency would require banning Israeli leaders, who have been responsible for killing several times more Palestinian civilians. Someone advocating that both Sharon and Qaradawi be banned would be wrong, but at least they would be consistent.

Talk about a foolish consistency being the hobgoblin of little minds.

One of my law school professors once explained the concept of mens rae by pointing out that even a dog knows the difference between getting kicked and being tripped over. Intent makes all the difference in the world. Failure to acknowledge that demonstrates either intellectual dishonesty or sheer stupidity. Israelis do not regularly and intentionally murder Palestinian civilians, nor do they advocate such murder. Islamofascists, on the other hand, do regularly and intentionally murder innocent civilians, whether Israeli or Iraqi or American or British or Jewish or Christian or Muslim. Moreover, even so-called “moderate” Muslims like Qaradawi justify and excuse murdering innocent women and children.

If a dog can understand the difference between an accident and an attack, why can’t Ken Livingstone?