{"id":1215,"date":"2015-01-09T10:59:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T15:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2015-01-09T10:59:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T15:59:33","slug":"more-american-and-conservative-hypocrisy-on-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2015\/01\/more-american-and-conservative-hypocrisy-on-france.html","title":{"rendered":"More American, and &#8220;Conservative,&#8221; Hypocrisy on France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor\u2019s eye\u201d (Mt. 7:5).<\/p>\n<p>Listening to the American media coverage\u2014particularly the coverage of those in the \u201calternative media\u201d\u2014of the latest outburst of Islamic mass violence in France, I can\u2019t help but to recall the words of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>First, the French have, <em>rightly<\/em>, been taken to task for both their all too Islamic-friendly immigration policies and for acquiescing in the creation of intensely hostile Islamic enclaves\u2014\u201cNo Go\u201d zones.\u00a0 But it is sheer hypocrisy for such critics to castigate the French on these scores when America has been guilty of promoting its own version of Racially Correct-induced suicide over the span of the last nearly 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>And the critics here are not innocent in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Since the mid-sixties, and <em>by<\/em> <em>design<\/em>, millions upon millions of mostly Third World Hispanics have been pouring into the United States.\u00a0 Republican politicians and their propagandists in the media labor inexhaustibly to convince the public that these immigrants are embodiments of \u201cAmerican conservative values\u201d who, given enough time, will be ripe pickings for GOP votes.\u00a0 In reality, by every social indicia\u2014rates of illegitimacy, high school graduation, domestic abuse, drunken driving, <em>violent crime<\/em>, <em>gang-affiliation<\/em>, etc.\u2014Hispanics fare substantially worse than whites and, in some areas, even slightly worse than blacks.<\/p>\n<p>In some cities, like Los Angeles, Hispanics are <em>more likely <\/em>than blacks to belong to gangs.<\/p>\n<p>Neither must we neglect to note that there is a not insignificant number of Hispanics residing in the states of the American Southwest who wish to reclaim them for Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Neighborhoods and entire cities in America have become \u201cbarrios\u201d courtesy of the very same immigration policies that \u201cconservative\u201d critics of France\u2019s immigration policies, through a combination of ideological fantasizing and racial pandering, have only encouraged.\u00a0 While these barrios may not literally be the \u201cNo Go\u201d zones of the Parisian suburbs, they <em>are<\/em> bastions of criminality and violence.<\/p>\n<p>And they seem just as foreign to the rest of the country as the Muslim communities of France seem foreign to the rest of France: They are countries within countries.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, it\u2019s true that America, unlike France (and most of Europe), doesn\u2019t have an Islamic <em>immigration <\/em>problem.\u00a0 But there most definitely <em>is <\/em>an ever growing phenomenon of Islamic militancy in America, and it is occurring primarily among <em>black <\/em>Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the prison population in France consists of Muslims, and the prisons, in turn, serve as recruitment centers for Islamic jihadists.\u00a0 This, some commentators have remarked, poses big problems for France.\u00a0 However, <em>America\u2019s <\/em>prison population consists of large numbers of Muslims as well.\u00a0 The difference, though, is that in America, Islamic convicts tend to be black and native to the country. But we rarely hear our \u201cconservative\u201d critics (much less anyone else) spending anytime talking about the problem that this poses to <em>our country.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yet a problem it is, for as recently as over the last few months, black American Muslims have murdered whites in the name of their religion.\u00a0 Right before Christmas, a black American Muslim gunned down two NYPD officers as they sat harmlessly in their patrol car.<\/p>\n<p>Thirdly, the Islamic element aside, in America, no more than <em>three percent <\/em>of the population\u2014(mostly) young, black males\u2014are responsible for nearly <em>50 percent<\/em> of all crime and <em>40 percent<\/em> of all violent crime. \u00a0Black neighborhoods and cities around the country are veritable war zones and economic wastelands.\u00a0 These black \u201cghettos\u201d resemble in many ways the \u201cghettos\u201d of France and other European lands.\u00a0 They may not literally be \u201cNo Go\u201d zones for police, but over the last half of a year since Ferguson (and, actually, long before that), we\u2019ve seen the brutal treatment to which police, and sometimes fire fighters, are subjected upon entering our <em>de facto<\/em> No Go zones.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>black<\/em> writer, Walter E. Williams, once said: \u201cIf we ignored inner-city violent crime, mostly committed by blacks and Hispanics, America would be a fairly civilized place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Where\u2019s the outrage?\u00a0 Too many \u201cconservative\u201d media spokespersons, along with their leftist counterparts, at least implicitly accept the narrative of White Oppression and Black Victimhood.\u00a0 In the words of the black scholar, Shelby Steele, they suffer from \u201cwhite guilt,\u201d an aching, perpetually present desire to \u201cdissociate\u201d themselves from their \u201cracist\u201d ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>In truth, the brute and ugly fact of the matter is that for all their hollering about the need for courage in dealing with the threat of <em>Islam<\/em> (what they not so courageously insist upon calling \u201c<em>Islamism<\/em>,\u201d <em>\u201cRadical Islam,\u201d \u201cIslamo-Fascism,\u201d <\/em>and other misleading terms), our so-called \u201cconservative\u201d media personalities are just <em>afraid\u2014<\/em>so terribly afraid\u2014to apply the same standards of morality to racial minorities as they apply to whites.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that we should be <em>taking, <\/em>not <em>giving, <\/em>lessons in courage and political <em>in<\/em>correctness from the French.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s really saying something.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor\u2019s eye\u201d (Mt. 7:5). 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