Discriminate No More.

President Obama authored a piece in the LA Times today which demonstrates the theme I've been blogging about for the past week or so - the need for liberals to practice indiscriminateness, and in fact to raise up bad over good, while denouncing what is right. The Unified Field Theory of Liberalism, as Evan Sayet calls it.

This theory holds the the underlying theme of liberal thought about conflict is that it stems from this belief that some ideas are right, and some are wrong.  That some are good, or bad.  That we must not discriminate (because discrimination is bad).  So, its necessary to tear down the good and raise up the bad until we reach a point where there is no right or wrong, and therefore no reason for disagreement, anger, warfare.

Which is almost exactly what Mr. Obama did in his editorial.  I'll give him props for laying out many of the terrorist threats around the world, and for the first time I know of he hinted the attack at Ft. Hood was terrorism.  Still, he can't bring himself to say this is Islamic terrorism:

"Efforts to counter violent extremism [terrorism] will only succeed if citizens can address legitimate grievances through the democratic process and express themselves through strong civil societies..." [my emphasis]

"Groups like al Qaeda and ISIL promote a twisted interpretation of religion that is rejected by the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims. The world must continue to lift up the voices of Muslim clerics and scholars who teach the true peaceful nature of Islam."

A "twisted interpretation of religion." Note how he can't bring himself to state what religion in this context. I agree we should hear more from mainstream Muslim clerics who denounce terrorism, but part of the reason we don't is the fact that ISIS is in fact following the teachings of the Koran and the actions of Mohammed, and any cleric who denies that faces being called an apostate (a traitor to Islam) - a crime punishable by death under Sharia law.

Now, Mr. Obama goes on to the second part of the Unified Theory - - tearing down the good.

[America] has at times been threatened by hateful ideologies and individuals from various religions. We've seen tragic killings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012 and at a Jewish community center in Kansas last year.

We do not yet know why three young people, who were Muslim Americans, were brutally killed in Chapel Hill, N.C. But we know that many Muslim Americans across our country are worried and afraid. Americans of all faiths and backgrounds must continue to stand united with a community in mourning and insist that no one should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship."

See, all of the problems in the world that Mr. Obama outlined in the first part of his piece are not really all that different from the 'backlash' against Muslims he struggles to find. Even in the midst of this effort he practices indiscriminatness, for when he says "We do not yet know why three young people, who were Muslim Americans, were brutally killed," we do in fact know that the killer was a progressive atheist, who hated people in general, including people from all religions.

If Mr. Obama wishes to imagine a reality where there's no right or wrong ideas, where we all "just get along," more power to him.  But when that fantasy world view affects his policy and actions, then we're in trouble.