Crusader War College

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2438570,00.html

A brilliant observation. A simply brilliant observation.

THE Church of England’s only Asian bishop, whose father converted from Islam, has criticised many Muslims for their “dual psychology”, in which they desire both “victimhood and domination”.

In the most outspoken critique of Muslims by a church leader, Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, said that because of this view it would never be possible to satisfy all their demands.

“Their complaint often boils down to the position that it is always right to intervene when Muslims are victims, as in Bosnia or Kosovo, and always wrong when the Muslims are the oppressors or terrorists, as with the Taliban or in Iraq,” said Nazir-Ali.

“Given the world view that has given rise to such grievances, there can never be sufficient appeasement and new demands will continue to be made.”

I am not being sarcastic: there has always been, at the core of my thinking about Muslim outrage, a sense of something being contradictory. Of wanting the cake and eating it too. One normally thinks of people having "one" psychology/personality, with those having more than one personality being labeled "schizophrenic". However, the phrase "dual psychology" expresses the same thing without pretense of being clinical.

Hattip a comment by Zenster posted at Belmont Club. The article to which he was commenting, by the way, reports the inevitable demand that the child who sees that the Emperor has no clothes be punished.

A very nice comment by Peter at the above post:

There is a wonderful set of ironies at play. Nietzsche and Marx paved the way for the postmodernists by killing God (and the rule set for how different people can live together) so that little bands of uneducated barbarians can twist into knots the epistemology of the new self-appointed gods, the university educated elites, by simply claiming that since no culture is better than any other that the elites have to live the way the barbarians tell them to.

EXACTLY. The rule set for how Christians live in the society has been changed.