SOURCE: https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/08/hamas-vs-western-civ/
Students were demanding a curriculum based on “multiculturalism,” the assertion that all civilizations are equal – with one less equal than others.
That would, of course, be the civilization that gave the world such revolutionary ideas as human rights, individual freedoms, representative democracy, and the self-determination of nations.
It’s also the civilization that first came to regard slavery and racism as evils and took steps to combat them.
Ignorant of that – or perhaps just ignoring it – champions of “social justice” soon declared Western civilization itself so malevolent that it, too, “has to go.”
And that, in brief, is how the illiberal left that now dominates on American campuses became an ally of anti-Western tyrants abroad.
Among them: Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose ambition is to establish an Islamic empire to rival the great caliphates of the past and to defeat Western civilization.
A central tenet of his theology is that America, the West’s leader, is the “Great Satan,” and Israel, the lone outpost of Western values in the Middle East, is the “Little Satan.”
