If you want to understand why the useful idiots in the West support Islam, watch this scene from an HBO series.

A young woman, vacationing in Hawaii as the guest of a wealthy white family, watches native Hawaiians perform a traditional dance for tourists at the resort.

She is visibly uncomfortable, not because the tourists have mistreated anyone, but because she believes she is witnessing an imbalance of historical power.

In an effort to “make things right,” she encourages one of the Hawaiian men to steal a $75,000 bracelet from a white guest.

He refuses, explaining that he is not a thief. But she persists: “They stole Hawaii from you.”

In this moral framework, right and wrong are no longer determined by what a person does. They are determined by which group the person belongs to and which group has been assigned the role of historical victim.

This is precisely the lens through which Islam is now viewed by the left.

It is not that the useful idiots have never heard of jihad, apostasy laws, blasphemy laws, religious supremacy, or the subordination of women.

It is that these facts are morally irrelevant.

Islam has been assigned the role of the wounded, colonized, non-Western religion.

Christianity, Judaism, and the West have been assigned the role of the powerful.

Islam is no longer judged by the same moral standards applied to everyone else.

Practices that would be condemned instantly if defended by a Christian church, a Western government, or a conservative political movement are rationalized when they appear under the banner of Islam.

Criticism becomes “Islamophobia.” Examination becomes “bigotry.” The ideology is protected because its adherents have been placed within a favored political category.

The Hawaiian man in the HBO scene, the man who refuses to steal, is the person holding the moral high ground. He refuses to let historical grievance excuse personal wrongdoing.

But under the new moral code, his integrity becomes a problem.

He refuses to perform the role assigned to him. He rejects the idea that victimhood gives him permission to violate another person.

That is why the useful idiots hate Israel, Jews who refused to remain victims, and hate the UAE, Muslims who rejected the false narratives of victimhood.