56fi rst stage in the empowerment of any minority
community is the liberation of reformist voices
within that community so that its members can
take responsibility for themselves and overcome
the fi rst hurdle to genuine empowerment: the
victimhood mentality. This is what the American
civil rights movement achieved, by shifting the
debate. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders
took responsibility for their own communities
and acted in a positive and empowering way, in-
stead of constantly playing the victim card or ri-
oting in the streets. Perpetuating this groupthink
mind- set is both extremely dangerous and in fact
disempowering.Harris Yes, and the irony is that these liberals don’t see
that they’ve abandoned women, gays, freethinkers,
public intellectuals, and other powerless people
in the Muslim world to a cauldron of vio lence and
intolerance. Rather than support the rights of
women and girls to not live as slaves, for instance,
Western liberals support the right of theocrats
to treat their wives and daughters however they
want— and to be spared offensive cartoons in the
meantime.
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