In our essay here,
(which we commend to your attention) we skewered that
politically-correct mindset that combines self-lacerating liberalism with
exaltation of the primitive, as showcased in the New York Times. Here is the latest incident for contemplation, this one from
Zanzibar:
The teenagers, who were on a
month-long break volunteering for a
charity when two men on a moped threw acid over them, suffered injuries to
their faces, hands, legs, backs, necks and chests.
That was their reward, for their selfless devotion to
strangers.
A Christian of my acquaintance, while a girl growing up in
Palestine, was threatened with acid unless she dressed in the Salafist
fashion. She eventually
emigrated.
And for you sentimentalists who imagine that Palestinians
show cross-confessional solidarity in the face of the Israeli occupier -- think
again.
Nor do their Arab brethren, whatever their confession, have
any tender concern for refugee Palestinians, despite loud proclamations in the
press. The refugees were
kicked out of Jordan (granted, they had behaved badly); in Lebanon, they still live in what are
essentially concentration camps, decades
after they were forced to flee Palestine.
The point is simply this: The humanitarian goals and ideals, of which we fall short,
and beat ourselves up for doing
so, barely even exist in most of the rest of the world.
[Update 14 August 2013] It is not that uncommon for those who selflessly devote
their time and expertise in tending to the needs of total strangers halfway
around the globe, to be targeted by the very populations they have humbled
themselves to serve (especially in Muslim countries). The latest development comes this very day: The seriously ballsy group Médecins sans Frontières has finally called it quits in that
self-created hellhole known as Somalia:
Sixteen MSF staff members have been
killed, and the organization has experienced dozens of attacks on its staff,
ambulances and medical facilities since 1991, the group reported. Two MSF
employees were shot and killed in Mogadishu in December 2011, and their
convicted killer was given an early release from prison.
The necessity for humanitarians in such circumstances to get the heck out of Dodge, does not
relate only to their own safety, but that of all of us: For those who are not killed
outright, are sometimes kidnapped;
and European governments (while denying it publically) regularly pay
millions (as much as ten million Euros for a single hostage, in one recent case
in Arabia Felix) to get their citizens back -- thus putting a fat price upon
the head of every Westerner.
In the present case:
En octobre 2011, deux employées
espagnoles de MSF avaient été enlevées dans les camps de réfugiés somaliens de
Dadaab, dans le nord-est du Kenya, avant d'être emmenées en Somalie où elles
ont été retenues 21 mois. Elles ont été libérées le mois dernier, dans des
circonstances non dévoilées.
http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/somalie-medecins-sans-frontieres-quitte-le-pays-14-08-2013-1714076_24.php
“Des circonstances non dévoilées.” Those who follow international events, know quite well what that means.
[Update 10 September 2013] “1 in 4 men surveyed in Asia-Pacific say they committed rape”
One in four actually admit
to it.
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