. . . The Associated Press, one of the Big Two news sources for the professional media, has apparently become the mechanized mouthpiece for Islamic terrorist propagandists. Well surprise surprise surprise. Our enemies lie and our Betters In the Media find the lies more attractive than the truth, and as well they prefer the glamorous, exotic liars to their dull, stodgy, and familiar countrymen (excepting everyone in their own close circle of ones who know). Just read Witness and know this isnt the first time this sort of thing has gone down.
But there is just one thing I dont understand
Whats the attraction this time?
I can get the attraction to Communism and its adherents it was ostensibly all about the brotherhood of man, and raising the worker from oppression, and freedom from the shackles of conformity and poverty, and so on and so forth. In other words, it talked a great game about giving people more freedom, more progress into a better life in the here and now. Sure, it turned out to be a pack of lies, but they were such pretty lies.
But I dont get for one minute what is the impetus behind the slavish adoration the liberal intelligentsia in the West has decided to give the Muslim terrorist groups. It is beyond me. I can just barely get the attraction to old-style desert-life Arabs, with their flowing robes and pretty writing and the vision of a long train of camels with their riders fading into the distant past all the Lawrence of Arabia bullshit. But the crass, crude, barbaric reality of the members of these modern terrorist groups smashes those pretty and wispy dreams to pieces. Were talking urban men, men who wouldnt know what to do with a camel if it spit on them, men who shave their crotches before going off to fly planes into buildings, men who are so anally retentive that they freak out if their coworker has a ceramic pig figurine on her (her! the infidel whore! she should be home serving her man!) desk, men who in a final destruction of the vision of a Saracen in his gleaming cuirass wielding a scimitar that shines like the moon and can slice a hair up the middle murder their captives by sawing at their necks with butcher knives. These are not your glamorous, exotic Arabs of yore. These are the drooling, six-fingered, rusty-pitchfork-carrying rednecks of every progressive liberals nightmares, only with brown skin, dark eyes, and Middle Eastern accents.
And I say men advisedly. Despite the Muslim women the press has been careful to seek out and give equal voice to is anyone really fooled about the actual worth a womans word is given in current Muslim culture? This is a religion where it takes what two women, is it, for their word to mean as much as one mans? Yet liberal women spend most of their breath screeching about how awful the Republican rightwinger Christians are.
Speaking of religion these people even embody every liberal progressive activists idea of anathema: they are religious fanatics who insist that not only is the Sky Ghost they worship real, but that everyone in the world must worship this Sky Ghost in the same exact fashion that they do, or be killed! This is a bit harsher than having to endure your Pentecostal aunts disapproval of your lesbian lifestyle, but again, guess what is considered much more heinous in the eyes of Western libtards: people who refuse to back gay marriage are worse than people who kill gays buy pushing stone walls on top of them. (Not even the irony of the stone wall being used as a method of execution for homosexuals pierces their carapace. Well over here, honey, I noticed for you.)
So I have been trying to figure out why the news media seems to have decided to back the enemy horse. Mere hatred of the current American president really doesnt seem to completely fill the bill. Bushs term will be up soon, and he cant run again. They wont have him to kick around much longer, but the Muslims have promised us that jihad is forever. Maybe thats it maybe the progressive, liberal, leftleaning contingent is so tired of all their flimsy ideals being shot to pieces by reality and their equally flimsy relationships with each other falling to bits that theyve finally found something they can count on not to leave them.
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The US destroyed the Left's dream, which was communism. For that it must pay. Whoever resists the US, no matter how loathsome they might be, is their hero. Standing up to the country that defeated the holy grail of the Left washes away all possible sins. Even when the jihadis have burnt their homes and bent them over in order to cut their throats like a hog to the slaughter the Left will heap praise on them, because they were the ones who exacted the final revenge. Never destroy an intellectual's dream: he'll never, ever forgive you for it.
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Modern Leftists recognize Western civilization, with its industrialization, consumerism, alienation, racism and inequality as a sort of original sin. By romanticizing non-Western cultures, the Left fantisizes of a world of "sustainable" interconnectedness where all haved their needs met and no one is sad or lonely. They rarely ask themselves why millions from the more "authentic" places risk so much to go westward while so few Westerners go the other way.
The utopian impulse obscures the reality that if you allow people freedom you might not like all the results. Therefore, freedom is less important than achieving an idyllic neverland of universal well being. The Left conceives of every culture outside the West as tending toward such lofty goals if only the old imperialism would get out of the way.
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A good reference of what muslim leaders are actually saying without the soft filter of the western press.
The following words and pictures prove that radical Muslims have long dreamed, plotted, and demonstrated in favor of the annihilation of Israel and all the Jews in the world. Unfortunately, words and demonstrations are not where they are willing to stop. -- The Editors
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I was reading all of this, as I had my radio tuned to the classical station... which was playing Barber's "Adagio for Strings".
I can't tell you how dreadful that made me feel, the music and the words together.
I have the feeling sometimes, that we are a knife-edge, and something is about to happen. I wonder if 1914 felt like this, with everyone enjoying a beautul summer day, and all the while the world around them was sleep-walking into hell.
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The requisite hatred and barbarity to make such a "Plan" have been there since Day One. The missing ingredients have always been sufficiently large-scale lethality supported by adequate wealth, both of which are now available. The convergence is nearly complete, so the "Plan" has become viable...
But new realities have been taken into account and this is not the whole picture, anymore... think "Grand Plan" - certainly the primary focus is still intact, 14 centuries have aged and sharpened the hatred and shame, but it merely starts with the Jooos...
The Caliphatist thingy practices the "think globally, act locally" strategy to perfection.
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I have the feeling sometimes, that we are a knife-edge, and something is about to happen.
Yes, this is my definite feeling too; I know it might be because I dwell on my obessions... but I really, really feel we're in the beginning of a new century, with the future open, and large, dark stormy clouds coming at us over the horizon. I never had such an acute sense of "doom", something terrible lurking in front of us. A sense of "History", for lack of a better word. And I'm pessimistic. Trends are NOT good for us.
The Caliphatist thingy practices the "think globally, act locally" strategy to perfection.
French pundits have written than the globalization was an allan-given gift to the "third jihad" muslims : while our Nation-States based system is being dissolved, on purpose (tranzis), the transnational oummah and the local clans/families/mosques are prefectly adapted to the new globalized conditions.
Islam couldn't compete with our Nation-States, as its societies were dysfunctional... but the new system is taylor-made for it.
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Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President of Iran
* "The use of a nuclear bomb in Israel will leave nothing on the ground, whereas it will only damage the world of Islam."
Allah is my lord
Quran is my guide
Sunah is my practice
Jihad is my spirit
Righteoudness is my character
And paradise is my goal
For I command what is right
And forbid what is wrong
I will fight against oppression
And will die to establish Islam
Uh-oh . . .
What are we gonna do, and where are we gonna go? Before WWII people fled to the US. Now, where is there any safety?
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The above pledge is on a t-shirt worn by a protester. I think it about sums it up.
anon, could you please unpack: "Islam couldn't compete with our Nation-States, as its societies were dysfunctional... but the new system is taylor-made for it." THANKS
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I have the feeling sometimes, that we are a knife-edge, and something is about to happen.
We are not on any sort of knife edge. That would imply an impending tipping point and, unfortunately, due to Political Correctness and governmental dithering we are far from that. We sit astride a saw blade. The MME (Muslim Middle East) and our own liberal traitors at home heft each end of it back and forth to slowly sever our nation's backbone for actual war.
Islam weaponizes our culture's best attributes and turns them against us. This is not weakness upon our part. It is an honorable reluctance to foresake hard won civility over which far too much blood has already been shed. As mentioned in Fjordman's (as always) excellent essay "Suggestions For Solutions":
Writer Raymond Kraft explains Western softness very well: The Islamic movement has turned the civility of the United States and Europe into a weapon and turned it against us. It has weaponized niceness, it has weaponized compassion, it has weaponized the fundamental decency of Western Civilization. We have become too civilized to defeat our enemies, perhaps too civilized to survive.
It is not a matter of having become "too civilized to survive", but that the public's mind has been poisoned with liberal notions of moral equivalency and relativism to such an extent whereby the fear of succumbing to our enemy's own mindset (i.e., "Fighting the terrorists on their level will make us terrorists."), has been allowed to outweigh the strength of our well-deserved moral authority.
We sit not upon the razor's edge. That would make all decisions far much easier. The tipping point would manifest itself quite readily. Instead, we straddle not even a whipsaw but the dull yet rasping teeth of something more like a hacksaw that inexorably chews its way through our national will.
By legal and military force we must dislodge Islam's grip upon one end of this bucksaw. Afterwards we may then address those within our borders who have traitorously grasped the opposing handle. First and foremost though, the crippling of Islam's stranglehold upon both their own people's minds and that of our media must somehow be accomplished.
Without these incremental measures being taken, any agony of the whipsaw will quickly be replaced with a decision that will teeter upon the razor's edge of annihilation. Unabated or unreformed, Islam's obsession with genocide will come to fruition. The only surprise will be when the entire MME (Muslim Middle East) discovers, much to its final dismay, that the holocaust is their's alone and not the Jew's. Few on earth so richly deserve such a horrendous fate as the Muslims and, should they refuse all reformation, it is up to us to ensure their desire for genocide is forthwith granted.
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