The ongoing Burkini scandal

The ongoing Burkini scandal August 31, 2016

Is looked at here.  I haven’t put much thought into the goings on in France.  Like most European countries, France is secular, liberal and generally free.  But like most European countries, that sense of freedom is a little different than the open ended, anything and everything freedom that the U.S. possesses.  Even when people talk about doing something like this in America, it’s outrage from shore to shore.  It actually happened in France.  Of course they backed off, because the French are coming to realize that Muslims  are not going to compromise their faith to fit into French secular culture the way Christians have compromised.

Western liberalism hasn’t really come to terms yet with Islam.  Right now, it’s more concerned with maintaining its basic mantra that the Christian West is the primary source of evil and oppression in the world.  That puts liberalism in the spot of being here to save the day and put those Western Christians in their place.  The rest of the world is made up of those sad oppressed minorities just itching to be delivered and, in turn, embrace the ideals of Western liberalism.

Since 9/11, maintaining that narrative in the face of endless developments across the Islamic world hasn’t been easy.  At times, it’s verged on the ludicrous.  But perhaps nothing else more than this story shows that while most Muslims don’t want terrorism and carnage, that doesn’t mean they want secularized, Western liberalism either.  Sooner or later, our progressive brothers and sisters are going to have to admit to that fact.


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