On the Moral Retardation and the Islamophobic Backlash

Earlier in this space we were visited by two anti-Christian anti-civilization bigots and morally retarded persons who used the opportunity of the mass murders of French satirists by Jihadists to express their delight and love for all things anti-Christian and barbaric.

I use the phrase ‘morally retarded’ extensively here, so allow me to explain what is meant. We speak of a man being ‘mentally retarded’ when he is unable to perform commonplace or elementary mental functions as heeding, comprehending, processing, deducing, judging and expressing himself on matter requiring abstract or concrete mental skills. It is different from being illiterate in that the ability is to perform the skill is missing, not just practice in the skill.

Likewise, here, MORALLY retarded is when a man is unable to perform elementary moral functions, as comprehending or processing, deducing or judging any matter requiring abstract moral judgment or concrete moral conscience. It is different from being an innocent savage because the ability to make elementary moral judgments is absent.

For example, a morally retarded person might be able to function anywhere in society, or even in academia, in terms of the ability to grasp abstract concepts and read and write and deduce a logical conclusion from a syllogism. But he is unable to make the moral distinctions and judgments of probity or relevance that even a child or a savage could make, or, indeed, not even these.

For example, a normal grammar mavin might from time to time be annoyed at seeing an ungrammatical term or expression in causal conversation, and, when it was appropriate to do so, correct another person’s grammar and generally be a jackass about it, much to the annoyance of all concerned. But the annoyance is tolerable, and the jackass is tolerated, because the matter is insignificant.

However, a morally retarded person will select a day on which innocent people have been slaughtered by blood sopped troglodytes from hell in the name of Islam, as part of a millennial-long war between Christendom and Dar-al-Islam, to make his grammar corrections, sniffing imperiously and adjusting his horned rimmed glasses to tell all and sundry that, in theory, there are somewhere moderate Muslims who do not support Jihad, so that calling the terrorists ‘Muslims’ is as technically inaccurate as calling a whale a fish. Whales are mammals.

This is not because the person is a jackass. A normal grammar mavin is a jackass. This is because the person is a moral retard. He actually cannot tell the difference between the moral gravity and significance of the mass murder of twelve innocent civilians by a sneak attack and the the moral gravity and significance of using an imprecise term in a conversation. To him, indeed, the grammar error if MORE SIGNIFICANT than the mass murder.

Now, keep in mind that moral retardation is not caused by a brain defect nor by a childhood trauma. It is something as deliberately induced and embraced and self inflicted as the blindness of Oedipus. In this case, it is not the alleged grammatical imprecision of using the word ‘Muslim’ to mean those who follow the teachings of Muslimism, including the doctrine commanding Jihad, nor the alleged grammatical imprecision of using the word ‘Mohammedan’ to refer to those who follow the heretical teachings of the heretic Mohammed which provokes the ire of the morally retarded jackass.

No, the jackass is afraid of a backlash.

He is afraid of me, an overweight, overage and undercoiffured science fiction writer.

He is afraid that if I say the magic word ‘Muslim’ to refer to those who (as all orthodox Muslims do) support the Mohammedan teaching of Jihad, that holy war against the infidel is not just allowed but mandatory, that I and the other Christian peasants, because we are a vile, stupid, violent and bigoted lot of neanderthal-jawed knuckle-dragging yokels, will form a lynch mob and immediate attack the nearest Mosque, where frail Muslim grandmothers and innocent big-eyed waifs huddled cowering and trembling while we Christians prance our savage war dance about the pile of burning Korans, brandishing our torches and pitchforks.

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