“Good Old-Fashioned Censorship”

At least the SOB calls it what it is–and without shame…which is really shameful. Marc Charisse, editor of the Evening Sun of Hanover, has dropped Diana West’s column from his paper, citing her “hatred” of Muslims. His article is here.

I am, however, getting ready to pull the plug on Diana West, whose column often appears on Saturdays in The Evening Sun.

In an October 2007 column written when we had to replace some of our other columnists, I said West “never met a Muslim she didn’t hate.”

This election, though, has added sharp new subtext to the subject of Muslims and a couple of readers – one caller and one letter writer – have argued West’s column is increasingly confrontational, inappropriate and out of place. I have to agree, and unless there’s a chorus of reasoned argument on her behalf, she’ll soon be replaced.

You can read Diana’s rebuttal here. I really encourage everyone to take some time to read it.

There is no more apt word than “grotesque” to describe such an irresponsible and flippant mischaracterization of my weekly column, which very often grapples with the terrible, largely unspoken reality that Western liberties—freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, equality before the law, including women’s rights and the rights of non-Muslims—are increasingly threatened by a growing deference to the laws of Islam. To underscore my point, I don’t write about “Muslims.” I write about Islam, the supremacist ideology constructed on laws (sharia) that justify censorship, repression, violence, inequality, and even maiming and murder of those whom the sharia leaves voiceless and powerless: dissenters, Muslim apostates, non-Muslims and women. I write about its agents—violent jihadists as well as soft jihadists, all of whom are working to extend the rule of this law across the non-Muslim world.

America gets sadder every day.

Tags: Creeping Sharia, Diana West, islam, Life, Media, News, Politics, Random, Religion