Charlottesville vs. Barcelona

Our friends on the left are up in arms to fight against Nazis. They should also recall that when Nazis were taking over Germany our great liberal president Roosevelt mostly sat on his hands. Eventually, FDR got on board, but his failure to face the danger at its inception contributed to a war that cost tens of millions of lives. 

And, let’s not forget that for the better part of the Nazi era, when European Jews were being persecuted and massacred, FDR did everything in his power to ensure that European Jews could not come to the United States. Apparently, labor union leaders did not want to see any more Jews, and FDR happily complied… until very late in the game.

Of course, the war against Neo-nazis is a screen for the cowardice the left has shown in the fight against Islamist terror. Our last president, a coward-in-chief, set the example. His followers have formed small cults to perpetuate his legacy.

Those who are the most mentally challenged have even claimed that the Barcelona terrorists were merely imitating the Charlottesville white supremacists. Anyone who is that ignorant ought not to publicize it.

Today, Roger Simon explains the difference between what happened in Charlottesville and what happened in Barcelona. Since he wrote those words there has been another Islamist terrorist attack, with knives, in Turku,Finland.

Simon writes:

And one delusional white supremacist dope -- in an act that does not seem to have been premeditated, but entirely out of blind rage -- drove into the crowd of counter-protestors, killing a young woman.  A tragedy...

... but nothing at all like what went on in Barcelona. Or in Nice. Or in Paris. Or in London. Or in Manchester. Or in Berlin. Or in Brussels. Or in Stockholm. Or in Orlando.  Or in San Bernardino.... Obviously, I could go on.  These were all -- to one degree or another -- planned acts of radical Islamic terrorism, designed to frighten the world into submission, not random explosions of reprehensible racist hotheads exacerbated by extremely poor crowd control.

How much of a threat are the Neo-Nazis compared with Islamist terrorists? Simon writes:

It is also a yearning for a time when the source of evil was not so treacherous and complicated.  No one knows how many Islamic radicals there are or where they are, although there are apparently a lot of them, probably vastly more than there ever were Nazis, possibly in the hundreds of millions if you add up the results of this Pew poll of eleven Muslim countries. (It may even be understated, given the reluctance to answer such incriminating questions.)

Some on the left are simply afraid to confront Islamists. Others sympathize with anyone who is leading the fight against Western civilization and Israel:

Not only that, a significant percentage of the left evinces sympathy for Islamic radicals, identifying with them and justifying their cause, despite the obvious misogyny and homophobia, through such latter-day crypto-fascist inventions as "intersectionality."  The Antifa movement, in the forefront of that nauseating sympathy for Islamism, is far more prevalent and dangerous in U.S. society than those few pathetic remaining losers in the KKK and similar neo-Nazi groups.  The Antifa thugs are seemingly everywhere, smashing windows and making life Hell for weak-willed university administrators across the country.

Simon concludes by listing the way that Islamist terrorism has changed the way we live our everyday lives:

… dealing with what happened in Barcelona is surpassingly difficult.  It isn't because of neo-Nazis or the KKK that it's been decades since any of us has walked onto an airplane or entered a concert or museum without being examined or x-rayed, that our daily lives have not been the same.  A vicious ideological war is obviously being waged against the West and its liberties with its end nowhere near in sight.  As ISIS wrote of the Spanish terror, "We will recover our land from the invaders." Like the Nazis of old, they mean it.

But, don’t worry, famed Nazi hunter Jon Stewart is on the case. He is impassioned about it all. He is defending people against a threat that pales when placed next to another threat that his favorite president could not bring himself to name.

The chase after white supremacists seems more like a snipe hunt than a profile in courage.