Harvard Prof Claims Islamic Terror Threat is ‘Exaggerated’
One has to wonder if the families of victims agree with this notion.
The Daily Caller reports.
Harvard Professor: Don’t You Worry, Radical Muslim Terror Threats Are Totally ‘Exaggerated’
Harvard psychology professor — and celebrated pop shrink — Steven Pinker has advised the Western world not to worry about the ever-increasing number of deadly acts of terrorism committed by radical Muslims.
Terror threats are “exaggerated,” Pinker said. “Due to the publicity that terrorist attacks generate, it seems like a completely rational fear to be afraid of a terrorist attack when, in reality, it should not be. It is a mistake to allow terrorism to dominate foreign policy on a global agenda.”
Pinker originally made his comments in June in an interview with The European — which bills itself as “the debate magazine.”
The Huffington Post chose to reprint the interview this week — which is weird because, in the period since Pinker promised that terror fears are overblown, Muslim terrorists have slaughtered some 160 people in the United States and Western Europe.
Harvard Professor: Don’t You Worry, Radical Muslim Terror Threats Are Totally ‘Exaggerated’ (The Daily Caller)
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If we are simply counting bodies, Islamic terror is nothing compared to the threat of obesity related diabetes. But it is the tip of the iceberg. Islam is incompatible with our way of life and as it spreads we will see increasing violence directed towards other religious communities and people living in ways that Islam condemns. We will see sharia imposed first on Muslims and ultimately on everyone else. Islam fosters intercommunal violence, contempt for other groups and intense feelings of victimization among Muslims. If we accommodate Islam, denying reality and suppressing people who speak the truth, trying to buy off the Muslim community, and becoming hypersensitive to the feelings of Muslims, our way of life is doomed.
Now, nobody that I know of has an irrational fear of Muslim terror. I go about my business and so do others realizing that a Muslim could slit my throat or I might get struck by a meteor out of the blue or choke on a fishbone. There is a civilizational threat however and it is rational to fear that liberal guilt will prevent us from taking steps to protect ourselves from that threat.
Your scholarship is excellent! That is 100% accurate, which means you can expect condemnation from the Loony Left as soon as they notice.