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Why can't we admit we're scared of Islamism?
The (London) Spectator (hat tip-NRO) ^ | 11-9-13 | Nick Cohen

Posted on 11/10/2013 2:01:25 PM PST by jocon307

The annual [Passion for Freedom] exhibition is as close as London gets to underground art. That claim may surprise you. If you listen to artists, writers, academics and journalists, you would think that thousands of them operate in a radical underground. They say the right things. They ‘speak truth to power’, ‘transgress boundaries’, and all the rest of it. But you will have noticed that they are careful only to challenge religions that won’t hurt them (Christianity) and governments that won’t arrest them (democracies). The London-based Polish intellectuals who organise this artistic protest against abuses of human rights are braver. Passion for Freedom is not devoted to anti-Islamist art. But its curators are not frightened to show it either.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: arts; jihad
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An important piece I think. Read the whole thing as they say. Mark Steyn says the author is a leftie, but he's got a regular gig at The Spectator which is definitely on our side.

So much the better if he is a leftie, those are the folks who need to WAKE UP.

1 posted on 11/10/2013 2:01:25 PM PST by jocon307
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To: jocon307

Yeah, even the pythons refuse to insult the muslims. On the other hand, Mr. Bean refuses to bend.

Shows you something.


2 posted on 11/10/2013 2:08:03 PM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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To: jocon307

Send them home and you won’t have to worry about them or pay for them.


3 posted on 11/10/2013 2:08:26 PM PST by struggle
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To: jocon307

I’m not afraid of Islam. I’m afraid of being prevented from supporting and protecting our nation from it.


4 posted on 11/10/2013 2:09:56 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, the Democrat Party, the Left in the U. S., have essentially become the 4th Reich.)
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To: jocon307

I’m not afraid of mooslums. I haven’t forgiven them for 9/11 and I despise them.


5 posted on 11/10/2013 2:15:22 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: jocon307

To understand Muslims and the threat they pose to Western Civilization, one must know what’s in the Koran, and this book will provide that knowledge:

The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran

An audio copy can be found at:

http://www.tantor.com/home-consumer.asp


6 posted on 11/10/2013 2:16:13 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: DoughtyOne

7 posted on 11/10/2013 2:16:40 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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When you get right down to it, only fearful cowards do things like that.

So why doesn't the media ask the question, "Why is Islam shaking in it's boots just thinking about the U. S.?"

Brave men stand up and duke it out. If you're tough you stand up and fight for what's right.

Islam is represented by a bunch of cowards who know damn well their arguments can't sustain under the light of day. Okay, back to stoning women, performing clitorectomies, and executing rape victims. Yep, Christianity is so vile... /s

8 posted on 11/10/2013 2:21:05 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, the Democrat Party, the Left in the U. S., have essentially become the 4th Reich.)
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To: jocon307

I’m not scared of cockroaches either. Revulsion perhaps, fear -NEVER.


9 posted on 11/10/2013 2:22:37 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Excellence

srbfl


10 posted on 11/10/2013 2:29:44 PM PST by Excellence (All your database are belong to us.)
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To: DoughtyOne

“Islam is represented by a bunch of cowards who know damn well their arguments can’t sustain under the light of day.”

Agreed!!! Punks waving their AK-47’s while wearing stocking masks or scarves to hide their faces.


11 posted on 11/10/2013 2:32:07 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: jocon307

I don’t think the US public cares anymore at this point about Islam taking over the US...they didn’t care to stand together and make sure some freak of nature didn’t get elected into office - not once, but twice....they don’t care about their educational standards that have fallen so low in public schools, the manners taught to young people, self-responsibility, this society - by and large - doesn’t care...sure, there are families that strive to become better - that have manners - responsibility for ones actions...but those are the minority and slowly they are being enveloped or finding other places to live and raise their families...the US is not what it used to be...and if 2014 doesn’t turn things around...there be no turning - but a straight dead on run to oblivion!


12 posted on 11/10/2013 2:39:40 PM PST by BCW (Salva reipublicae)
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Islam is a political system wrapped in religious robes. It uses terror as the main recruiting tool and has since its inception. What’s there to be afraid of? This reminds me of the Planet of the Apes where you find intelligent beings hiding underground from the barbarians roaming the earth. The solution is simple. Grow a pair. Recognize that all cultures are not created equal and that a civilized man is not required to lower himself to keep from hurting the feelings of savages.


13 posted on 11/10/2013 2:42:34 PM PST by CelesteChristi
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Islamists want to kill you because you’re not an Islamist. Although there is such a thing as irational fear, this is not one. Fear is a positive emotion when it leads you away from danger.


14 posted on 11/10/2013 2:43:17 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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“Islamists want to kill you because you’re not an Islamist. Although there is such a thing as irrational fear, this is not one. Fear is a positive emotion when it leads you away from danger.”

Right.


15 posted on 11/10/2013 2:46:03 PM PST by CelesteChristi
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To: Frank_2001

YOU ARE AFRAID OF US AMERICA! DON'T YOU FORGET IT!

No, you are afraid of us. We don't cover our faces.
We don't have to carry AK-47s and RPG Launchers to make a statement.

OH YOU ARE TOO AFRAID. WE ARE NOT. WE ARE FREEDOM FIGHTERS!

What freedom would that be? The freedom to slaughter innocents?
The freedom to kill your own people at will?
The freedom to set off car bombs in the middle of market crowds?
The freedom to rape your women and stone them for it?
The freedom to mutilate your women's genitles?
The freedom to stone women who drive or go to school?

THAT IS SO UNFAIR, A SACRILIDGE AGAINST ISLAM!

Ah put a sock in it, pussies!

I KNOW YOU ARE, BUT WHAT AM I?

Self Revealing...

16 posted on 11/10/2013 2:51:08 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, the Democrat Party, the Left in the U. S., have essentially become the 4th Reich.)
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To: CelesteChristi

There is no Islam-ist. There is only Islam. Otherwise, the ‘moderates’ would decry them, which doesn’t happen.


17 posted on 11/10/2013 2:51:26 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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The ones about whom Mr. Cohen writes are afraid of Islamic radicalism because they cannot fight back. They have placed the right to employ physical force in the hands of the state and trust the state to protect them. It will not.

And worse, for a citizen to use physical violence in self-protection is actively suppressed by the state lest the state lose its monopoly on force. The citizen ends up fighting Islamic terror and his own state simultaneously. That's a losing battle and everyone knows it. Better simply to ignore or deny it and hope that it goes away.

I'm not afraid of Islamic terror in the least. I have a gun. And they know it.

18 posted on 11/10/2013 2:53:46 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Agreed!!! Punks waving their AK-47’s while wearing stocking masks or scarves to hide their faces

Reminds one of the KKK.

19 posted on 11/10/2013 2:56:18 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: combat_boots

You’re right. The term Islamist was used by the fellow I was responding to.

Islam is not worth close scrutiny. It’s not worth parsing. It is a cancer, and cancer’s only purpose is to consume the host. The only correct response to cancer is to remove it - cut it out.


20 posted on 11/10/2013 3:00:40 PM PST by CelesteChristi
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