Harassment of women in Egypt is common. Many Egyptians blame…

Harassment of women in Egypt is common. Many Egyptians blame the women themselves for provoking the assault by dressing immodestly. “If you want to be safe,” they say, “don’t show your hair to those beastly men!” That’s blaming the victim. It is cowardly and immoral.

Now many in the Middle East blame the slain French teacher for provoking the crime by offending the sensibilities of religious Immigrants. Again they are blaming the victim for the dastardly deed of savages whose minds were corrupted in the name of religion. This is just as cowardly and immoral and perhaps more so. The man was exercising his civic rights as codified by the laws of his country and enshrined in its constitution. No one should be cowed into abrogating his rights to appease some savages, especially ones who came from the outside uninvited.

I understand that there is a risk associated with everything, including with the legal exercise of free speech. But that risk is in essence a failure of the State. The State takes my tax money in exchange for providing me with a risk-free environment for exercising all my legal rights – from walking on the streets to expressing my views within the law. It is the responsibility of the State to identify any individuals and, more importantly, organizations, who endanger those freedoms and remove them from society. Every time they fail to do so, it is a failure of the State. The French State failed Mr. Patty when it allowed religious extremism to migrate into the country and thrive unchecked on nourishment from the toxic Middle East.

Finally, even if you try not to offend their sensibilities, where do you draw the line? How about the Christians, the Jews, the Hindus, the Tibetans, the Shinto, the Mormons, the Rastafarians, the Rajneeshis, the Scientologists, the Branch-Davidians, etc … (it is an endless list)? Of course there will be those who say: “Feel free to disrespect all those! They are false religions. Only MY religion is Right, and you must respect it or else …” But l will not bother to address that.

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