Double standards in the Western world

Everyone, except for a few fanatics, has condemned the terrorist attack in France. They have cried out loudly that they stand alongside people's right to live, freedom of thought, and freedom of speech.

Calls have been made to the entire Islamic world, advising it distance itself from the jihadist violence. We have questioned the atmosphere of violence dominating the Islamic world and said it would be the Muslims themselves who solve it.

A large proportion of commentators have stayed away from possible justifications for terror by saying "but," and also condemned those who have done so.

My views are the same. I have been saying this before the last terrorist attack and also now.

However, the "but" still stands right at the center. With your permission, I want to use the right to use it.

This "but" is not one that would find excuses or load a meaning onto the acts of terrorists. Simply, we have a right to voice a "but" concerning the double standards dominating the Western world.

As in anywhere else in the world, there are also racists in the democratic West, and the people to whom they can expose their hate the most today are Muslims.

Actually, racists hate black people and Jews just as much as they hate Muslims, but it is not possible for them to reveal this hatred in public.

For example, racists in the U.S. cannot make half of the jokes they make about Muslims about people of African origin. If they did, they would be humiliated and excluded from society.

Of course, freedom of thought and freedom of expression are valid for everybody, but there are generally accepted boundaries now for them and nobody says these boundaries damage freedom of thought.

The boundaries are...