According to iCasualities.org, at least 425 contractors from a diverse array of nations have been killed in Iraq.  These are men and women who were working in Iraq to support their families and to better their lives.  They were murdered, often after being tortured.

 

Where are all the human rights “activists” now?

 

After Abu Ghraib, every leftist pacifist human rights group in the world was all over the so-called torture committed by American soldiers.  I have waited for over a month to hear the same condemnation for those who brutally murdered 425 contractors…and yet, hardly a murmur. 

 

Why is that?

 

Well, let’s put all this in perspective.  I have used the term “liberal fascist” in previous commentaries.  The term was coined by Jonah Goldberg, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.  His book, Liberal Fascism, traces the history of fascism from Mussolini to current day leftists in America.  The similarities are glaring.

 

Goldberg (Doubleday, 2007) notes that Nazis:

 

·        were socialists (i.e., The National Socialist Party)

·        believed in free health care

·        believed in guaranteed jobs

·        confiscated inherited wealth (think about estate taxes in America)

·        spent large amounts of money on public education

·        purged the church from public policy

·        promoted pagan spirituality (think about radical environmentalism in America)

·        used the authority of government to take away personal freedoms

·        worked to ban smoking in most places

·        supported abortion

·        supported euthanasia

·        supported gun control

·        limited the free market

·        maintained a strict racial quota system in higher education

·        maintained campus speech codes

·        led the word in organic farming

·        promoted vegetarianism

·        promoted animal rights

·        led the world in alternative medicine

 

Now doesn’t that sound familiar.  Ask any liberal whether they support the items on this list.  Don’t mention where the list comes from.  Most will agree with at least 90% of the list.

 

So back to the question:  Why is it that leftists ignore atrocities by Islamic fascists and condemn relatively minor infractions by America’s military?

 

The answer now becomes quite clear.  The American “left” shares ideology with islamofascists.  BOTH ARE FASCISTS!  Both want to take away the personal freedoms of those they pretend to represent. 

 

Here is one dramatic example of this fact.

 

Keith Ellison (R-Minn) is a Muslim.  On May 6 of this year, he spoke via video conference with a group of Egyptian journalists and academicians.  The goal, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune (5/7/08) was to bridge “gaps in cultural understanding”.  He spoke in Arab on occasion during the presentation.  The message was that “political life for U.S. Muslims is better than many might suppose in the Arab world”.  Questions from the Arab audience centered around whether American society accepts Muslims.  Ellison stated: America is getting better, is getting more tolerant and inclusive of all people”.

 

One letter writer to the Minneapolis Star Tribune (Brad Johnson, 5/10/08) hit the nail on the head.  “How crazy that Ellison felt he had to assure these folks that ‘America is getting better’.  Our country’s diverse population, its modern track record of inclusiveness and scrupulous protection of individual rights speak for themselves.  I wish Ellison could have turned the mike and camera around and asked the…Arab-Muslim Egyptians—whose country has driven out or subjugated every other kind of people—if they even understand what ‘tolerant and inclusive’ means.”

 

The observation is interesting and spot-on.  Of course Ellison won’t ask that question of Muslim-Arabs.  No more than he will ask himself why he and his leftist friends want to control the lives of the rest of us…why they want to take away my constitutional rights…why they want to control healthcare, gun ownership, the right to smoke, the right to control property…why they want to control the right of Christians to exercise their religion…the list is unending.

 

Keith Ellison and the rest of the far left don’t ask those questions because that would give them away for what they are…Liberal Fascists.