An anti-Semitic woman has claimed that killing Jews is, at most, an “animal rights” issue. From the BPR story:
“The people who say that these stabbings are haram are trying to give the impression that they are sensitive, delicate people, and to create a [singer] Tamer Hosny-style, human-rights atmosphere,” Allan said. “Let me tell you that at best, you are representing animal rights – not human rights, but at best, animal rights.
Let me tell you, even animals would not object to this if they could talk.”
I won’t get into the blatant and shameful bigotry of the statement because it goes without saying.
Why without saying? Because rational people know that the intrinsic worth of any human being should never be compared to that of any animal.
Thus, the statement was not only anti-Semitic in the extreme, but anti-human.
And that demonstrates the sheer absurdity of animal rights, an ideology–distinguished from animal welfare–that creates an explicit moral equality between humans and animals because both can feel pain.
Or, as Ingrid Newkirk, PETA’s alpha wolf, infamously stated: “A rat, is a pig, is a dog, is a boy.”
No, a boy, girl, man, and woman, are not a pig, or a rat, or a dog. Unlike animals, we are exceptional.