The Western Taliban

Local Ministries for the Promotion of Virtue and Suppression of Vice are hard at work. They have 2,000 years of rubbish to cleanse from society.
Constance Kong
Sunday, 6 March 2011

Make no bones about it: the West – Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand – is ruled by the Taliban. True: they are not the same Taliban that ruled Afghanistan and beat people for listening to music or dancing, or who stoned people to death for committing adultery. The West’s Taliban’s style is different – they stone you psychologically by marginalising you for your beliefs. But in substance they are the same as Afghanistan’s Taliban – their specialty is intolerance.

The West’s Taliban are the secularists who will persecute anyone with a religious perspective on philosophical or moral issues, or any matter of public discourse for that matter. And we all live in fear of them just as the men, women and children of Afghanistan fear their Taliban. We go quietly about our business to avoid their persecution. We keep our own counsel and do not talk about our religious faith or the value Judaeo-Christian principles have provided Western Civilisation for fear of being psychologically beaten and stoned.

Indeed, I am writing this article anonymously for fear of what it could do to my career or the persecution it might bring my children studying at schools and universities where the Secular Taliban rule. the rest

In one class debate a fellow student went so far as to say that a law was needed to ban anyone of any religious faith from holding public office. No one challenged this view. Not even the professor!