Michael Devolin
Soap and Education
By Michael Devolin
Jun 3, 2007 - 10:36:36 AM

One of my Jewish friends warns me continually that political correctness is going to kill us all. The West, that is. There is no such thing as political correctness in the Middle East. If you hate Jews, you kill Jews. Like the Jews of Sderot, Israel. The Palestinian Muslims hate Jews, as do most Muslims, whether secretly or otherwise, and so, without a word, they fire Kassam rockets into the tops of Jewish houses and schools in Sderot. But that's ok. They're Muslims, and Muslims of this world are not required to be politically correct. All the West requires of these religiously inspired murderers is that they inform the media of exactly what militant group was responsible for this or that atrocity.

Like when Benjamin Netanyahu visited Concordia University in Montreal, Muslim students and their noetic friends smashed windows and shouted obscenities at him, not because he's Israeli, but, more precisely, because he's Jewish. Like when Daniel Pearl visited that blood-lusting country Pakistan, they cut his head off, not because he was a Western journalist, but, more precisely, because he was (past tense) Jewish. But that's ok, Daniel Pearl was Jewish and his murderers (lo and behold) Muslim. And as much as we we're shocked at the death of Daniel Pearl, we were not so shocked by the fact that his murderers were Muslim. It's to be expected.

Muslims killing non-Muslims or publicly venting hatred and issuing fatwas against non-Muslims is deemed politically correct, according to the standards imposed upon us by Western academics and journalists. Non-Muslims critiquing Islam because of its attendant violence is estimated by these same academics as politically incorrect. Hatim Zaghoul, Chairman of the Muslim Council of Calgary, can write in his book ‘The Past, the Present, and the Future as Seen by a Moderate Muslim,' "To have someone inflict pain on the United States, was a welcome sight" and that's ok. But let the "infidel" relish publicly about how Muslims of one particular sect have been murdering fellow Muslims of another particular sect in Iraq, and you will have initiated a tidal wave of denunciations issuing forth from every pluralist and Leftist inhabiting the planet Earth. Islam's apologists and the Western academia inform us that such violence is tangential of Islam, not organic of Islam, and so we, the people, must buckle down and do our best to believe them.

Mark Twain wrote, "Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run." I believe my Jewish friend, that political correctness is going to kill us all, or, at the very least and prior to that disaster, transmogrify our North American, Judeo-Christian identity into the Islamist-dominated, multicultural carcinogen now ravaging countries like England, the Netherlands, and France. This intellectual virus, perpetuated and disseminated by Western academics, many of whom, like Daniel Pipes, have become Islam's apologists, is foisted on us in such a way that we are given no other option but to accept it, digest it, like it or not.

Those who are brave enough to oppose this virulent madness, like the American activist Dr. Paul Williams, who is being sued by McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario for the mere sin of questioning the level of security maintained at their nuclear reactor facility located on campus, are tracked down and their apprehensions publicly mauled in a court of law by those of our academia who seem to have a knack for locating the funds to carry on such expensive legal action.

Although I cannot claim to be a victim of such callous censorship on the part of McMaster University's commanding elite, I was subject to a very angry glare given me by a Mr. Abdul Alwani, the senior Project Officer for the Processing and Research Division at McMaster University's Nuclear Reactor site. I had just finished giving my oral presentation at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Hearing regarding McMaster University's license renewal to operate a nuclear reactor. In my oral presentation I stated that I felt extremely anxious about the real possibility of many of the Muslim students and faculty involved with McMaster's nuclear research harbouring extremist views or objectives. As an average Canadian citizen, I thought this fear very rational, considering that the West is actually fighting a war against Muslim terrorists. But Mr. Alwani, apparently, did not. His steady and malevolent stare I averted only by my turning my face toward the police officer sitting at the back of the room. Only then, before I could motion to the police officer that I felt threatened by Mr. Alwani's common example of Islam, did Mr. Alwani desist. The bad news for Mr. Alwani is that this whole episode was witnessed by others who might have hoped prior to this incident that educated and cultured Muslims are not given to savage impulses. So much for soap and education.

Written by Michael Devolin