Who Is Really “Being Stupid”: Jeff Goldblum or Islam’s Apologists?

Jeff Goldblum &Jackie Cox, a “drag queen” of Iranian background

Irrationalism—particularly in the guise of emotionalism and relativism—has become the greatest defender and chief apologist for Islam in the West.

Or so Jeff Goldblum is learning. Last Friday, April 24, 2020, the 67-year-old actor was a judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race.   One of the contestants, Jackie Cox, a “drag queen” of Iranian background, appeared in a star-spangled hijab: “This outfit,” Cox said, “really represents the importance that visibility for people of religious minorities need to have in this country.”

Apparently seeing the irony and/or contradiction in all this, Goldblum inquired: “Is there something in this religion [Islam] that is anti-homosexuality and anti-woman? Does that complicate the issue? I’m just raising it and thinking out loud and maybe”—this last bit came as he looked around and realized that no one was about to agree with him—“being stupid.” What followed might have been expected—not least considering that the venue where Goldblum’s utterance was made is the epitome of irrationalism, emotionalism, and relativism.

It began with a teary-eyed Jackie Cox: “When the Muslim ban happened,” he said haltingly and chokingly while sobbing, “it really destroyed a lot of my faith in this country, and really hurt my family.  And that’s so wrong to me.” So instead of using the opportunity afforded by Goldblum to shed light on the abysmal treatment that women and homosexuals such as himself experience under Islam, Cox twisted the matter to bash America and Trump.

Incidentally, and for the record, the so-called “Muslim ban” is a reference to travel restrictions placed on nations known to sponsor terrorism and pose a security threat to the U.S.  Although not all are Muslim—North Korea for example—most are Muslim-majority nations.  This and other unflattering facts—the persecution of Christian minorities, for example, occurs primarily in Muslim nations—are less a reflection of “Islamophobia” and more a reflection of why fear of Islam exists in the first place.

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