
Who would have guessed that the most important victory in the culture wars against the hard left this year would be won by a former radical Islamist?
British Muslim Maajid Nawaz – once arrested and imprisoned in Egypt for five years for his membership of the proscribed Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir; now a campaigner against radical Islam – is probably far from most conservatives’ idea of a natural hero.
But the $3.4 million settlement Nawaz has just won in a defamation action against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a victory for us all.
And I really don’t just mean people who identify as conservative.
I mean the broad coalition that embraces moderate Muslims, Brexiteers, Trump voters, internet shitposters, Breitbart readers and writers, libertarian bloggers, European populists, Nigel Farage, Lionel Shriver, Paul Joseph Watson, Sargon of Akkad, Count Dankula, Morrissey, Thomas Sowell, Douglas Murray, Kanye West, Ann Coulter, the Imam of Peace, Andrew Bolt, Andrew Neil, Eric Weinstein, Joe Rogan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Jordan Peterson, Christina Hoff Sommers – anyone, in fact, whether they’re on the left or the right, who has been called a “Nazi” or “far right” or an “extremist” or a “fascist” or an “Uncle Tom” or similarly vile, reductive, hysterical, hate-filled, sometimes even life-threatening epithets by the increasingly aggressive forces of the radical left.
Read the rest at Breitbart.
I wonder how many of your ‘gay’ friends actually appreciate being called ‘unnatural’ or ‘abnormal’ which is essentially the point you are making…
When reading an article like this I always find it helps if you replace ‘gay’ with ‘black’ or ‘Irish’ or ‘Woman’. This seems like just another excuse from a right-wing bigot as to why we should accept your repulsive views…
Please respond.
With the greatest of respect, for some one who descibes themselves as “not a whining victim” your post gives an excellent imitation of one.
Homosexual activity can be part genetic and part experience/cultural programming. The Ancient Greeks and Romans would be puzzled by the concept of homosexuals being defined as a separate group. In Sparta homosexual activity was compulsory for men and probably socially the norm for women. In Athens it was considered socially de rigeur for aristocratic men. In all these societies the man/woman family was considered “normal” for rearing children, but homosexual activity was considered no different from heterosexual activity (although certain sexual practices were considered “shameful” regardless of whether it was a same or different gender encounter).
Gay people now have legal rights in this country to effectively marry, bring up children and not be disciminated against. That has effectively “normalised” things, but does everybody want to be classified as “normal”. What is “normal” depends on the culture in which you are brought up, but being called “abnormal” should not be considered a negative mark. I would be insulted if anyone called me “normal” – why should I wish to be categorised as a boring member of the herd? We need to reclaim our individuality and stop categorising ourselves by outmoded concepts like sexuality.
I’m not gay, but I’m proud to be abnormal!
Journalists are supposed to be critical thinkers and sharp minded. How did you manage to slip through that net?