‘Islamophobia’ is a red herring, the Oct. 7 litmus – Latest News
Conservative: ‘Islamophobia’ = Red Herring
While the UK’s “spineless, clueless” Labour authorities hammered out its “new definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility,’ ” thunders Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill, “supporters” of the “brutish” “death cult that rules Iran” have been “polluting our nation with the anti-Semitic” chants and rhetoric of Tehran’s rulers. While “Islamism continues to ail our nation, Downing Street proposes the protection of Islam’s followers from scurrilous commentary.” They deploy “one of the slipperiest terms of modern times,” Islamophobia, “to ringfence one religion’s followers from mockery.” Fretting over “some muppet on the internet making a joke about the burqa” whereas Islamists overtly “pray for the defeat of America and destruction of Israel” leaves Britain “incapable of standing up for its own values.”
Culture critic: The Oct. 7 Litmus Test
“How should we act” asks Commentary’s Seth Mandel, when people don’t undergo publicly for cheering for the atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023? Simply put: “Use October 7 as a barometer for political, ideological and moral hypocrisy. Not because we’re looking for ‘gotcha’ moments, but because it is impractical to remain unaware of who can be trusted in public life.” E.g., “The war began with Hamas carrying out the largest massacre at a music festival in recorded history. Musicians and artists who ignore this and instead parrot the propaganda of those who carried out the massacre do not believe in artistic expression; they only believe in dogmatic political expression. Indeed, they support regimes that would abolish the arts entirely.” In all: “People on the wrong side of October 7 are expecting to benefit from some sort of statute of limitations — or the limitations of human memory. Instead, let’s help them remember.”
Libertarian: Health-Care Fraud Is Everywhere
“Fraud,” notes Reason’s Peter Suderman, “is an all-too-common feature of the U.S. health care system.” For all the position of “Somali immigrants” in Minnesota, a key prosecutor warned the downside “is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It’s staggering, industrial-scale fraud.” Indeed, Suderman factors to GAO stories relationship back a long time exposing “loose, bordering on nonexistent, spending controls on federal health care programs” that end in tens of billions of {dollars} a yr in “improper” and “erroneous” funds. Systemic fraud stems from “poorly designed, poorly run, bloated government health care programs,” not immigration.
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Opera veteran: Chalamet’s Obviously Right
Actor Timothée Chalamet sparked “outrage” and a “transatlantic opera chorus of indignation” for observing that opera and ballet are “kept alive” though “no one cares” about it anymore; former singer Billy Binion observes at The Free Press that Chalamet’s declare that opera “has plummeted in mass appeal” is “intuitive and unimpeachable.” Less than 1% of US adults “attended a live performance of an opera in 2022”; the artwork kind “is kept on life support by wealthy — and often very old — donors.” By all means, save the opera, however everybody “furious at Chalamet’s comments” ought to spend much less time “criticizing an actor” and more time making an attempt to “figure out why he’s right.”
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From the proper: Dems’ Oil-Reserve Deceptions
The Wall Street Journal’s editors call out the cynical deceptions of “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and others” who at the moment are (*7*) This overlooks “that Joe Biden’s enormous drawdown from the reserve” to ease “backlash over inflation has made this harder to do.” Over a long time, “the reserve had been tapped during three oil shocks” for a complete of 58 million barrels; Biden’s “unprecedented,” speedy release of 284 million barrels really broken the “geologic sites around the Gulf Coast where the oil is stored”; they now need “extensive repairs” and “another rapid drawdown risks more damage.” Plus, by the time oil from the reserve can “enter the US market,” “traffic that has ground to a halt in the Strait of Hormuz — the cause of surging oil prices —” ought to be restored.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
