Anjem Choudary was right: People should know the consequences

And you know what? I’m starting to think there’s an element of truth in Choudary’s position. People should know the consequences. Maybe he’s right about that. Actions do have consequences, and people should be responsible for them.

Except that I interpret this a little differently than he does.

For example, when you shoot a bunch of magazine editors and cartoonists, we will hunt you down and shoot you, too, as the French just did with the Kouachi brothers. So people should know the consequences.

If Muslims in the West don’t make sure to educate their children to respect freedom of expression, and if they don’t rigorously police the radicals among them, they have to expect that they are going to experience a backlash, that they are all going to find themselves objects of suspicion, even hatred, that they are going to be blamed for the attacks mounted by their neighbors and fellow Muslims. That’s tough for them, but people should know the consequences.

If those who seek to indoctrinate Islamic fanatics, excuse their crimes, and incite them to murder—people like Anjem Choudary—find themselves shunned, hounded, imprisoned, or deported, they will now be really clear on the consequences, won’t they?