A man who worships at a mosque, and also refuses to allow his children to be taught that abortion is sometimes necessary and that six-year-olds can choose their own genders, is a friend, not an enemy.
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Libby
Emmons of The Federalist recently published a story entitled: “Feminists
Couldn’t Get Trans Ideology Out Of UK Public Schools, But Muslims Did.” She
briefly described the tepid opposition which a new program to teach leftist
gender theory to five and six-year-olds received from British conservatives and
old-fashioned feminists – that is to say, feminists who reject the idea that anyone can be a woman. But these people
didn’t make any headway, and they just ended up being labelled as bigots and
ridiculed by the ruling class.

“Then,”
Emmons says, “religious Muslims got wind of the LGBT+ indoctrination of their
primary school students, and freaked out. According to these parents, who
staged protests outside of the schools in their districts… homosexuality is not
sanctioned by their religion, and they don’t want their children taught that
it’s acceptable. The parents’ protests included pulling more than 600 Muslim
children from school, and were incredibly effective. The lessons have stopped.”
At this
point, a decently written story would have commended these Muslim parents for
their forcible, and ultimately successful, resistance. Any true lover of
liberty will make common cause with anyone, of whatever race or religion, who
defends his or her children from indoctrination into such an ideology.
But
Emmons seems to draw all the wrong lessons from these events. The next section
of her story is subtitled “Moral Relativism Meets Privilege Theory,” and from
there it all devolves into a lamentation of how the nonsensical ideology of the
Left requires that the views of certain repressed groups – Muslims included –
be given privileged status.
After spending quite a while
critiquing the Left’s way of thinking, Emmons concludes by stating that “to
hold the dominant Western culture to one set of standards, but to hold a
culture that opposes the grounding views of Western culture to a different set
of standards is to have no basis upon which to hold fast the standards that are
essential for free life in a democracy. The West must hold fast to the
standards of individual freedom, not group identity, as a driving factor for
law making and social interaction.”
All of
this leaves me with the odd impression that Emmons wishes that, for the sake of
equality, the Muslim’s efforts to keep their children free of LGBT
indoctrination had failed. What began as a story of people who successfully
fought back against what ought to be every conservative parent’s nightmare has now
wandered off into the weeds of criticizing Muslims for opposing Western
culture. In other words, Emmons has let her ill feelings toward Islam eclipse
her desire to protect the innocence of children.
And it is
very strange for anyone to describe the Muslims in this situation as “a culture
that opposes the grounding views of Western culture.” For nearly the entire
existence of Western civilization, it has gone without question that children
cannot choose their own gender. But nowadays, the people who most vehemently
defend that principle are shunned by many conservatives because they follow an
unpopular religion.
This is
the sort of infighting among the opponents of tyranny that will guarantee the
triumph of the Left. If you cannot see that the real enemy, in this situation, is
the person who will talk a child into getting himself castrated if he feels like
he was born as the wrong sex, then you are – in the British parlance – a bloody
idiot.
When
conservative white people read a story like this, the correct emotional response
is not envy for Muslims’ place in the
victim hierarchy, but shame that so
few members of their own race are willing to fight just as hard to protect
their own children. If white Tories, who make up about half the British population,
had pulled their children from the schools en
masse, they would have had an even easier time getting their way than the
Muslims did.
And as for
us Americans, we ought to always remember that the Founders shared a strong
belief in religious pluralism among the defenders of liberty. And they left no
doubt that Muslims are included in that pluralism. Consider, for instance, the
passage in Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography where he describes a time when
several eminent men contributed money to finance the construction of an edifice
“expressly for the use of any preacher of any religious persuasion who might
desire to say something to the people at Philadelphia; the design in building
not being to accommodate any particular sect, but the inhabitants in general;
so that even if the Mufti of Constantinople were to send a missionary to preach
Mohammedanism to us, he would find a pulpit at his service.”
Religious
conservatives in modern America are fighting a mostly losing battle, not
against Islam, but against secular hedonism, an ideology which really is inimical
to the ancient principles of Western civilization. And yet,
when confronted with schools where the curriculum includes Planned Parenthood
pep talks, white privilege bracelets, and Genderbread Man, most so-called
conservatives will shrug their shoulders and send their children anyway.
When a
Muslim refuses to do so, we are wrong to regard him as an enemy because he is a
Muslim. We ought to see him simply as a man who is willing to defend his
family.

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