Anxiety Disorder?

by Sam Huntington

CNN recently reported that British authorities have made a tenth arrest in last weeks murder and decapitation of an off-duty soldier. The suspect was taken into custody on the basis of a suspicion of a conspiracy to commit murder … which is not exactly the same thing as being arrested for daring to have an opinion in England these days, but very close.

What struck me as interesting, however, was how the news media today do not simply confine themselves to reporting the news, but they must also help us to define it, in our own minds, as if we aren’t capable of connecting the dots without outside assistance. For example, CNN reported, in part, “As concerns about rising Islamophobia in Britain grew amid anti-Muslim protests and attacks targeting mosques …”

Islamophobia? Really?

Islamophobia is an irrational fear of things Moslem. What is irrational about fearing people who, in a single instant, could shove a knife into your chest, and then, as you fall to the ground, slice off your head? Off-hand, given recent news stories involving the Moslem community in Britain, it would seem quite rational to give wide birth to any Moslem observed on the street.

It isn’t as if the British people weren’t warned about rivers of blood, is it? And of course, this makes the denial of a citizens’ right of self-defense all the more extraordinary. Maybe there would not be such “irrational fears” if the people were entitled to protect themselves, and their property.