By Selwyn Duke

The scene was terrible, so much so that were the victim and victimizers reversed, the incident would’ve been front-page news. Instead, it was “Nothing to see here; move along.”

“It’s just another ‘infidel’ being forced to kiss some Muslims’ feet and then beaten.”

There’s truth to the above statement, too: The violence and humiliation, visited recently on a frightened, young Belgian boy and caught on video, was just one of many incidents involving an age-old Islamic method for asserting dominance and control.

In fact, points out Arab commentator Raymond Ibrahim, forcing non-Muslims to kiss Muslims’ feet is a practice seen across time and space — the only thing that’s different, now, is how the West responds.

This difference exists, too, because of what the West has become. In fact, in poetic irony, the incident involving the young boy….

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