The left has a few mantras in their repertoire, and they’re not afraid to use them, repeatedly, to chastise others for behavior they find un-leftlike. When it comes to themselves, however, none of their mantras apply, and you are to automatically take them at their word.

For example, recently Pat Robertson, the left’s favorite whipping post, made some comments. In talking about muslims who were rampaging in the street and firebombing buildings, he said that the incident:

“just shows the kind of people we’re dealing with. These people are crazed fanatics, and I want to say it now: I believe it’s motivated by demonic power. It is satanic, and it’s time we recognize what we’re dealing with.”

And he also said that the goal of the radical Islamists was world domination. Pretty straightforward stuff. Radical Islamists do want to take over the world, do want to kill everyone who’s not a believer, do want to recreate the Caliphate, and are crazed fanatics. Of course, this brings the left unglued immediately, with everyone calling Pat Robertson a bigot, racist, kook, and whatever else they could bring forth from their tolerant lips.

It strikes me, however, that in all their outrage, they’re applying his comments that were specifically aimed at radical Islam to all of Islam; something the right is often criticized for doing even when they’re not doing it. The left seems up in arms and wants to portray Robertson’s comments as being aimed at all muslims even though it isn’t. He was specific in his criticisms and clear in his explanation of them afterward.

If we’re to believe that we aren’t supposed to criticize all muslims based on the radicals, why is criticism toward the radicals applied to all muslims? Because it makes for good posts, slams, debates, and hell, it’s Pat Robertson, and he’s far worse than people who blow up discos anyway.

The left’s attacks on Robertson for his remarks smack of disingenuousness, but are typical of their disdain for him. When it suits their needs, they take a specific criticism and apply it to an entire religion, then accuse him of lumping all of them in together. It’s a great scheme if you can get people to buy into it.

I’m no big fan of Robertson, but from time to time, he hits the nail on the head, as he did here, and if you think people who bomb buildings with weddings going on, shoot people at a Passover seder, fly planes into buildings, or burn down an embassy because of a cartoon are anything less than Satanic, you might have to redefine your views of evil in this world.

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