Here vs There
Ten years ago if you had told me that in a decade’s time a state would arise in the Middle East that would make Saudi Arabia look as liberal as San Francisco by comparison I’d have thought you were high. Back then the Sunni tribes had gotten fed up with Abu Masab al-Zarqawi and joined forces with the US to kick al-Qaeda out of Anbar province. Today we have a community organizer in the White House, and ISIS controls large swaths of Iraq and Syria (including all of Anbar province), and sub-Saharan Africa is becoming one giant caliphate stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Tigris-Euphrates valley. What the hell happened?
Over here a woman drags her 50 lb mattress to her college graduation to protest the man she accused of rape being cleared by campus authorities and local police. Over there hundreds of school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram a year ago in Nigeria are still missing and presumed sold into sexual slavery. Over here a former Olympian gets the best plastic surgery only his millions can buy, transforming himself from a youthful male athlete on a Wheaties box into a geriatric pinup model on the cover of Vanity Fair. Meanwhile over there homosexuals are thrown head-first off tall buildings. Point out the fact over here that under Islam women are mere property and LGBT are KIA will get you called “islamophobe,” but saying the same thing over there won’t arise any attention at all for stating the obvious.
I cannot help but wonder how History will judge us and our time as we ignore the flowering of institutionalized evil once more on our planet while obsessing over comparative trifles in our own country. I expect it to judge us as harshly as those today judge our predecessors for being “racist”, “sexist” and the newly-minted epithet “transphobic.”
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