Muslim Wakeup makes two true points: the first is that we should respect Hamas’ right to rule Palestine just like we do in Iran; the second is that the Middle East is stuck in the middle ages.

Fatah treating the people like a feudal lord and Hamas invoking a medieval past

Ann Coulter sums it up properly:

Muslims immediately engage in acts of mob violence when things don’t go their way. That is de rigueur for the Religion of Peace. Their immediate response to all bad news is mass violence.

This should be no news.

Mass riots over inoffensive cartoons continue in the Middle East. It is vitally important that we recognize that the Middle East wants draconian, illiberal, medieval governance. Time and again democracy pits (purely relatively) secular, libertarian candidates against authoritarian Islamists and every single time the Islamists win clear, popular majorities.

I have no doubt that on an individual level there are thousands (if not millions) of wonderful, decent, tolerant, respectful, multicultural Muslims. They probably all live in the United States too. Unfortunately collectively they are not these things. Collectively they are incapable of demanding their individuals to act as decent humans. When atrocities happen, Muslims turn the blind eye to their terrorist peers, saying asinine things such as “while I personally condemn the [insert terrorist incident here], I empathize with their feelings”. Whereas the West shuns its extremist peers, the Middle East either elects them into power (in the case of Palestine and Iran) or patronizes their feelings.

Collectively the Muslim community condones terrorism, racism and religious hatred and intolerance.

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