Western Resistance

Was American Journalist Steve Vincent killed in Basra as part of an honor killing? He was romantically involved with his Iraqi interpreter, who was shot 4 times. If her clan thought she was shaming them by appearing to be having an affair outside wedlock with an American male, they might well have decided to end it. In Mediterranean culture, a man's honor tends to be wrought up with his ability to protect his womenfolk from seduction by strange men. Where a woman of the family sleeps around, it brings enormous shame on her father, brothers and cousins, and it is not unknown for them to kill her. These sentiments and this sort of behavior tend to be rural and to hold among the uneducated, but are not unknown in urban areas. Vincent did not know anything serious about Middle Eastern culture and was aggressive about criticizing what he could see of it on the surface, and if he was behaving in the way the Telegraph article describes, he was acting in an extremely dangerous manner.

Manny commenters have notice the sly phrase "in mediterranean cultures...", as if Mr. Vincent would have been murdered in Spain or Greece, and not in Muslim Iraq. But that's only secondary. What is truly breathtaking is that Mr. Cole would "explain", as way of justification, that "a man's honor tend to be wrought up with his ability to protect his womenfolk from seduction...." Now, Mr. Cole is an American leftist. This suppossedly makes him a defender of "women's right". So, what could make him turn "women's rights" aside, when it comes to Iraqi women?

Well, simple; Multiculturalism. Multiculturalism is the belief that all cultures are equally wonderful, expect for Western Cultures, which are equally vicious. This doctrine must be maintained at all costs, and if murder and mysoginy must be accepted, well, so be it. Multiculturalism is the doctrine of fanatics, who want nothing more than destroying Western Civilization, so that their dreamland utopias would flourish. This explains the alleged paradox of the Unholly alliance between Western Leftists and Muslims: their proximate objective is the same, the destruction of our Civilization. We must not let them succeed.