Malia Bouattia, recently elected president of Britain’s National Union of Students (NUS), gave a speech in 2014 endorsing Palestinian terror in no uncertain terms and condemning those who would denounce it. Also on her résumé are a successful move to prevent the NUS from condemning Islamic State and a blog post in which she complained about the “large Jewish society” at Birmingham University. Maajid Nawaz laments the sorry state of British public discourse that allows such views to get a pass:
To those whom I call Europe’s regressive left, . . . jihadist terrorism has come to resemble an authentic expression of Muslim rage at Western colonial hegemony.
For—don’t you know?—we Muslims are angry. We are so angry, in fact, that we wish to enslave indigenous Yazidi women for sex [and] bury adulterers neck-deep in the ground and stone them to death, while throwing gays off tall buildings and burning our enemies alive. All because of . . . Israel.
For this regressive left—which has now penetrated U.S. circles, too—we Muslims are not expected to be civilized. And Muslim upstarts who dare to challenge this theocratic and far-left fascism are deemed nothing but an inconvenience to the pre-Nazi-like populism that screams simplistically, “It is all the West’s fault!”
It is my fellow Muslims who suffer most from such bad leadership.
Read more on The Jewish Chronicle: http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/157134/malia-bouattia-symbolic-poison-regressive-left