Deep Thoughts from Pakistan
Charles Johnson
Fri Feb 3, 2006 at 5:56 pm PST • Views: 260
Here’s a revealing comment in a story about the dread cartoons of blasphemy at the Washington Post, from an editor of a Pakistani newspaper: Tension Rises Over Cartoons of Muhammad.
But critics argued that publishers should be more discerning in the battles they choose over freedom of expression. “This is the sort of thing that will feed into al Qaeda, alienating and angering a lot of educated young people,” Najam Sethi, editor of Pakistan’s Daily Times and Friday Times, said in a telephone interview from Lahore.
Sethi and others see a double standard at work. “People who question some of the facts of the Holocaust are ostracized; most publishers are so sensitive they won’t even get into the argument,” Sethi said. “A degree of censorship is imposed that is not articulated in this case.”
It’s an interesting glimpse of a completely non-rational mindset, that can equate Holocaust denial with political cartoons. It isn’t surprising at all to see this kind of mental dysfunction combined with Jew-hatred.
And notice that immediately before his antisemitism bubbled up, Sethi was talking about how this sort of thing breeds terrorists, by alienating young, otherwise innocent people—in other words, sounding just like a Western leftist.
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