January 15,
2013
Bill Donohue comments on a perverse article by Ian Buruma:
Buruma begins by recounting the brutal rape of a young woman
by six men on a New Delhi bus last month. His quick segue to Pope Benedict XVI’s
speech on gay marriage, which was given a few days before Christmas, was not
only awkward, it was a dead give-away: the pope was responsible for the gang
rape.
Buruma admits that the pope does not advocate violence against
homosexuals, but in the end it doesn’t matter. “I would argue that his speech
[the pope’s] actually encourages the kind of sexual aggression that can result
in the savagery that took place in New Delhi.”
Now if this were just the scribbling of another wingnut, it would matter little. But Buruma teaches at Bard College and has won several awards
from prestigious institutions in the U.S. and Europe.
Curiously, he is the Henry R. Luce Professor of
Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard. What is curious about his post
is that he is a strong opponent of human rights. To be specific, though he has
written at length about Tariq Ramadan, he cannot bring himself to denounce the
Muslim philosopher for refusing to condemn the Muslim practice of stoning
adulterous women to death. Even more perverse, Buruma
has trashed one of the most courageous defenders of human rights in the world,
ex-Muslim and feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
In other words, Buruma is a
fraud. He cares not a whit about human rights, and is so in bed with the gay
rights movement that he is utterly incapable of making critical distinctions.
Moreover, his idea of cause and effect is so debased that it would allow his
critics to accuse him of driving Christian persecution in Muslim-run nations.
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