It's OK, I'm an American multiculturalist

“Last week, while out photographing the demonstrations in Egypt, a Jewish American college student, Andrew Pochter was stabbed to death.

“… Pochter bore all of the hopes and delusions that the American educational system had taught him. According to his mother, he had become a true believing multiculturalist.

“Pochter had set out to save the world. He did it by learning Arabic and by absorbing everything there was to know about Egyptian culture. He had already lived in Morocco and had thrilled when the Arab Spring arrived in that nation. Now, he had decided to move to Egypt and to teach Egyptian schoolchildren.

“Pochter was doing as he had been taught to do. He was reaching out to people who had a slightly different culture, offering love and empathy, caring and concern. He must have believed that increased understanding could solve the world’s problems and that a compassionate American Jew could show Egypt how to overcome its Islamist hatred.

“But Pochter was not a warrior, either. Having been trained in American multiculturalism he was surely taught to disparage military virtues in favor of soft values, like caring for children.

“In fact, multicultural Americans do not even believe that there is a war going on. The president said that the War on Terror is over. Who are we to think otherwise?”

‘Andrew Pochter: Murdered in Cairo’

http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2013/07/andrew-pochter-murdered-in-cairo.html

(And before we start congratulating the new Egyptian demonstrators, we must not overlook the Western women journalists who have been raped by the new heroes.)

At www.maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com