I never meant to limit my above comments to just the Coptic Christians and the Jews. Many other peoples and religions have been set upon by these jackals. Zoroastrians, Hindus, Buddhists, and African animists have been savagely attacked by the minions of Allah. The larger point I want to make is that this game of politically-correct victim labeling is stupid. It fails to recognize rational and universal ethics and duties, and I find myself solidly within the Catholic tradition of Thomistic appropriation of Aristotle.

I realize that perhaps Wretchard would like to see the pc, mutli-culti deconstruction of our civilization collapse in on its own internal contradictions. Perhaps it should and maybe it will, but that would require minds attuned to contradictions. But what do we do if this crowd does not have contradiction in its mental universe or lexicon?

I believe the Copts represent something larger than their ethnic or religious identity. It stands squarely against their persecutors – who are people melded into a totalitarian alliance that seeks only control and domination. This alliance is against human freedom and progress. If we do not name them right at the outset for who and what they are, we allow them to control the universe of discourse – and that Babel of confusion and obfuscation quite deliberately serves their purposes to divide us.