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Home Front: Culture Wars
Getting Serious About Terrorism
2017-05-28
h/t Instapundit
This has been a bad week for, well, anyone who wants to go about their daily business -- say by watching an Ariana Grande concert -- without getting shot or stabbed or run over or blown up. You all know what I'm talking about, I'm not going to go over the list again -- and besides, by the time this is published, the list might well be out of date.

Now, what I would hope is that the combination of President Trump's meeting with 50-odd Sunni nations in Saudi Arabia, and their possibly-even-real commitment to act against Radical Islamist Terrorism (RIT for short), and the Manchester bombing's attack against grade school girls, would finally serve to focus some minds throughout the West that have so far been pretty fuzzy.
The problem, IMO, is that to deal with Islamic terrorism seriously, western societies will have to change their cherished world views.
(a) Islam is not a religion as the concept understood in the West. It is an ideology (like Nazism or Communism) seeking world dominance. And appealing to people's worst instincts: "take the property of unbelievers" etc...
(b) There may be (I'm pretty sure but nobody investigated it yet) real differences in genes determining emotional phenotype between Muslims and that we consider normal. In practical terms, there are bound to be a lot of similarities between a psychological profile of an average Muslim and an average sociopath.
(c) Western ruling/intellectual classes created a world view/ economic system package (richly rewarding: both psychologically and economically for themselves) in which, "Muslim victimhood" is an integral part. Moreover, in their eyes, giving up a part of the package is tantamount to giving up all of it. And, most of them realize, but will never admit, it's only the package what enables them to hold positions orders of magnitude above their actual abilities. Thus, the "elites" will defend their world view to the death - ours preferably.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#7   I'm talking about the fact that Arabs at least, never managed to switch from kin selection based tribal society to reciprocal cooperation society.

S'what happens when a group never goes through a diaspora.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-05-28 23:04  

#6  I'm not talking about common lethal recessives, BB. I'm talking about the fact that Arabs at least, never managed to switch from kin selection based tribal society to reciprocal cooperation society.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-05-28 16:56  

#5  I can understand cutting off their logistics. But I still think getting them outta here and keeping them outta here is even better.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-05-28 14:19  

#4  ...There may be (I'm pretty sure but nobody investigated it yet) real differences in genes determining emotional phenotype between Muslims and that we consider normal.

14 centuries of inbreeding will do that. Seriously - there was a study that shows the measurable retardation and significant infant mortality of Arab/Muslim populations.

http://10news.dk/muslim-inbreeding-impacts-on-intelligence-sanity-health-and-society/
Posted by: Bangkok Billy   2017-05-28 13:34  

#3  The four rules will force us to up our game against the jihadis. It will force us to have far better intelligence than we have had. It will also require that we shit can PC, the tactic of the leftists. Trump will also have to "drain the swamp" in earnest. The "bravo sierra" games must stop by the 5th column operating in this country. The MSM has to be realized for what it is--basically, the winner of the Dr. Joseph Goebbels award every year for a long time. The "rat bastards", as Sheriff David Clark refers to them, are gnawing away at the country.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-05-28 10:07  

#2  What could have possibly gone wrong?

Ask Edward Gibbon, not me.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-05-28 09:57  

#1   And, most of them realize but will never admit, it's only the package what enables them to hold positions orders of magnitude above their actual abilities.

Works so well with other entitlement groups. What could have possibly gone wrong ?

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-05-28 09:25  

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