A hero is person who risks his life for a noble cause. There are plenty of heros, but as a rule heros are ignored by the media, save when they feel the need to disparge one, as with the libel [1] of Colonel George E. “Bud” Day.
Heros come in all shapes, sizes and forms. Colonel Day is a hero, and Betsy Newmark, Betsy’s Page, [2] blogs about another hero, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Few people have ever spoken so much truth to power and alienated so many. This woman has had the audacity, to both challenge the beliefs and practices of Islam and the smug moral blindness of liberal culture. .
When heros speak truth to power, small people get offended. One such small person is Lorraine Ali of Newsweek, who wrote [3]:
But Hirsi Ali’s memoir is as much about her political agenda as it is her life, andin between tales of her youth she wedges harsh and uncompromising declarations: “True Islam,” she writes at one point, “leads to cruelty.” If her coming-of-age story—and the saga of her nomadic family, who moved from prewar Somalia to Saudi Arabia, then Ethiopia and finally Kenya—were allowed to breathe on its own, “Infidel” would prove an eye-opening look into the plight of African Muslim women. But throughout the book, you can’t help but feel manipulated, rather than moved. In describing the 9/11 hijackers, she comes up with an inflammatory conclusion tailor-made for her right-wing constituency: “It was not a lunatic fringe who felt this way about America and the West. I knew that a vast majority of Muslims would see the attacks as justified retaliation against the infidel enemies of Islam.”
Lorraine Ali, the Dutch and much of the West have adopted the morally blind, and I say stupid, belief in moral relativism, the beliefe that all cultures, or religions, are equal. The idea is of course absurd. Ayaan Hirsi Ali has survived Islamic terror, her genital multilation and the murder of her friend. She has seen the tenets of Islam up close and persnnal, and she has rejected them.Lorraine Ali, the Dutch liberals, and the West, must either repudiate Hirsi Ali or admit that their moral relativism is a false belief. Moral relativism is smug belief because it is easy to pretend that all cultures are somehow equal. Yet to accept moral relativism means to turn a blind eye to people such as Ali,and to millon of women who shared her plight.. In the end, turning a blind eye to evil is the much greater sin.
Civilization was built by being judgemental. We must either be judgemental or perish as a civilized people. Do you judge me wrong?