The extraordinary double standard at work between the West and the Muslim world is one of the most troubling elements in the ongoing clash of cultures. 

Because the West is reluctant to admit it is even engaged in such a war, it is unable or unwilling to effectively prosecute many of the battles that arise. 

Taken singly, skirmishes like the one reported recently in the Associated Press – about the disparity of the sides’ reaction to religious proselytizing – don’t amount to much. But taken together, they seem to me to paint an alarming portrait. 

A.P reported last week that the U.S. ambassador to Morocco was “dismayed” over “the expulsion of Americans accused of trying to convert Moroccans to Christianity in the North African kingdom.”

This just so happened to have occurred around the same time that Americans learned that Islamic Jihadists are actively recruiting converts in the United States – and are specifically targeting non-Arabs and vulnerable, lonely women in particular. The danger here, obviously, is that knowing this, the reasonable practice of profiling males from Muslim countries at places like airports, ceases to make as much sense, enormously complicating the fight to protect the traveling public. 

The story says the episode threatened “to overshadow U.S. praise on Friday for Morocco’s recent steps to improve human rights, women’s rights and democracy.”

Isn’t that nice? They’re improving their treatment of their own women and other people. Noble. 

Anyway, 16 members of a charity group that operates an orphanage in Morocco were ordered to leave last week, according to the story. 

A.P reports that Islam is Morocco’s official religion, Christian evangelism is banned, and there have been periodic expulsions for it before. 

There are several dozen countries in which Islam is the official religion, and which actively ban the practice of any other faith, but for some reason the world is not protesting these nations’ racist nature. They prefer instead to blast Israel as racist – despite its being a democratic nation in which members of any and all religions are allowed to and in fact, do, worship freely. 

Israel is labeled an “apartheid state,” which is almost laughable. But I guess you can’t be an apartheid state if you just prohibit certain ethnic groups from settin foot in your country at all the way Saudi Arabia bans Jews. Juden-frei — better than apartheid state, I guess..

There’s that pesky double standard again. 

It seems to me that our ambassador to Morocco had every right to be displeased with the expulsions themselves, but he wasn’t, the story notes. It’s the way it was done without allowing a hearing, likely so the Christians could plead their innocence to the charges of trying to spread a religion other than Islam, that bugged him. 

It seems to me that seeking converts – whether by guile on the Internet or in prisons or by threat of beheading or some other unpleasant form of death in developing countries – is radical Islam’s second favorite pastime right after blowing people up. 

Why isn’t what’s good for the goose good for the gander with these people? And when is the West going to wake up to the fact that it’s not?

We are not operating on a level playing field and not only are our opponents not seeking to level the field; they are feverishly working to slant it ever more sharply in their favor. 

This latest display of disdain for even the concept of the “tolerance” or political correctness which threatens to bring down Western Civilization should be a wake-up call. But it won’t be. 

Members of the expelled group say they “always sought to abide” by the law, and require everyone at the center, which was founded by two American women, to sign a declaration promising not to talk about Christianity. 

We in the West go out of our way not to interfere with attempts to spread Islam wherever it seeks to go. 

Just another example of how the Islamists have no qualms about accepting and even demanding our largess while simultaneously using our freedoms to defeat us. 

Maybe we’re as stupid as they think we are. 

 

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