Why don’t Islamic leaders and local Muslims condemn jihadist terrorism, extreme rhetoric and the archaic treatment of women in most middle eastern countries? This is a challenge we hear often, especially from the Republican right, but which rings true with most people.
If Erasmus were alive today he might say, “He who allows terrorism shares in the crime.”
Why don’t we hear Republican leadership and mainstream Republicans condemn the racist, ignorant, homophobic and misogynistic ravings of more than a few current office holders and most conservative political commentators? Can we conclude that these mute Republicans encourage, embrace and endorse the beliefs of this substantial element of the party? It would seem that the “Moral Majority” has become the “Silent Majority” when it comes to the injudiciousness of their own.
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To condemn one indifference and not the other is double standard reasoning at its worst.
