Western Leftists Have Lost the Plot

the Islamic State also declared that all the Muslims killed by the French air force were martyrs who now enjoyed eternal bliss in heaven. Something here doesn’t make sense. If the martyrs killed by the French air force are indeed now in heaven, why should anyone seek revenge for their deaths? Revenge for what, exactly? For sending people to heaven?

Understanding this dynamic, some Palestinians “almost welcomed the Israeli attacks,” according to the New York Times.21 It was part of their strategy to regain international support.

As one person put it, “Which murderous ideology should I be worried about: the one that won or the one that lost?”

there is something terribly wrong with group identifications that produce excuses for this distorted thinking and deadly brutality.

But instead of responding to Muslim violence by cracking down on its perpetrators, the British punished its victims by giving the mufti exactly what he was seeking: a reduction in Jewish immigration and a statement by the British high commissioner that the Balfour Declaration was a “colossal blunder.”