A recent article in the Daily Review involved the sharing of opinions about Islam from young “Gen Z” students, one of which remarked:
“Theoretically, if you disagree with the teachings of Christ, you can live in the United States and still abide by our laws and respect each other, but in a theocracy like what is under — the Middle East and Islam — you can’t… If you criticize Mohammed, you could genuinely put your life at risk. And we don’t have that in the United States, and I don’t think that we should.”
In the editorial, “An Autopsy of a Fading Civilization Afraid to Name Its Enemies“, the author comments on observations from Victor Davis Hanson:
Whenever a radical Islamist strikes, the political apparatus performs a linguistic sleight of hand, widening the lens until the specific threat disappears into a foggy generality of “all extremism.”…
[Hanson] posits that the West is “slouching” toward its own end not because it lacks the technology to win, but because it lacks the “confidence” to exist. The cancelation of Christmas in Paris is his “smoking gun.” To Hanson, when a majority population of 65 million people cancels its own sacred traditions to avoid offending a radicalized 10%, it is not practicing “tolerance” – it is practicing “pre-emptive surrender.” He views this as a “pathology of the elite,” who would rather see their culture erased than be accused of an “-ism” or a “-phobia.”
I would suggest that this slouching toward our own end was not actually initiated by the Left. In fact, it was after 9/11/2001 when George W. Bush proclaimed that the US was combatting “Global Terrorism” instead of fighting radical Islamists.