Posted on 12/16/2014 12:18:00 PM PST by naturalman1975
ONE of our greatest handicaps in overcoming the pernicious threat of Islamic extremism is the emergence of Islamist denialism — a stubborn refusal to confront the reality of our dilemma.
Even in the wake of this week’s death and trauma, there are deliberate attempts in public debate to ignore the jihadist flag, terrorist modus operandi, video demands on behalf of Islamic State and anti-West grievances.
The ABC managed to run an online profile piece entitled “Who was Man Haron Monis, the man behind the Sydney siege?” without including the words Muslim or Islam and mentioning terrorism only in a quote from Monis’s lawyer stressing the gunman had no links to organised groups.
On Twitter, ABC host Rebecca Huntley and former ABC host Monica Attard were eschewing the terrorist descriptor and focusing on mental health issues.
Others on television were looking for legal, domestic and mental health explanations — anything but jihad.
Former ASIO chief David Irvine warned about the risk of homegrown “lone wolf” attacks as far back as 2012.
“That is the issue that I think keeps both me and my international colleagues awake at night,” he said.
While 17 blameless citizens endured hours of unspeakable terror that the nation hoped — en masse and in vain — would be resolved safely, a misguided social media campaign highlighted our national incomprehension of Islamist terror.
It proclaimed solidarity with Muslims who might feel uneasy travelling on public transport, through a Twitter hashtag of #Iwillridewithyou. Nice thought. Except it was an empty response to an imaginary problem.
And in the real world, at that time, innocent lives were in the balance.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
It was literally only hours after the terrorist was killed that the Muslims in Australia were claiming to be victims of a backlash against Muslims.
“It was literally only hours after the terrorist was killed that the Muslims in Australia were claiming to be victims of a backlash against Muslims.”
If it’s okay to attack Christians, than it is okay to let every Muslim know just how disgusting their “religion” is.
It was before he was killed, while there were still innocent lives under threat.
I don’t want to see violence against those who aren’t doing anything wrong - but talking about Muslims as if they are the victims in this is simply misleading and stupid. And some people are doing that.
This hyper-reactionary behavior when caught is common amongst liberals, communists, muslims, and ill-behaved children.
The hostages were still being held when the liberals in Australia raised voices of concern for poor muslims with their dumb hashtag! I was following it in real time on some Australian news sites.
It was one of the most bizarre media campaigns I've ever seen. It was like the fates of those people who actually had guns to their heads at that moment were irrelevant. The only thing that concerned the leftist waterboys was the imaginary future thought crimes of uncaring non-muslims.
There really is no reason that ANY Taliban, Aqua or Isis members should be allowed to breathe.
I still rank the response of that American General (I think he was even a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) after the Fort Hood murders - as tops on the Bizarro World List. Here was a Commanding General who basically said that it was 'worth it' for his men to get murdered in order to protect 'diversity'. Not worried about the welfare of the men and women under his command. Nor the protection of his Country. But top on his list was to protect this notion of 'diversity'.
Wolves running loose amongst the sheep be damned...
Okay, I will finally reveal my ignorance and ask the question. What the he11 is a “Hashtag” and what does it do? Will someone please tell me?
I’m serious. I know it has something to do with twitter, but since I do not use twitter and have never been near a tweet or a twit or whatever they are called, I honestly do not know what “Hashtag” means. Is it some method of organizing or categorizing tweets/twits?
On Twitter, if a phrase is preceded by a # it becomes an easy way of searching for other ‘tweets’ that contain the same phrase.
So, as an example, people will put #Olympics into a tweet to it can be easily found by other people who are tweeting about the Olympics.
Similar to a topic or keyword here at Freerepublic.
# is called the hash symbol (among other names) so these are referred to as hashtags.
Thanks.
There was a great line in Olympus Has Fallen where he hero’s punching in a password and the person reading it off says hashtag for the # sign. He yells “What the hell is a hashtag?” Someone else jumps in and says “SHIFT THREE!!”
Here, in Canada, after the whack-job Islamists killed a soldier guarding the national war memorial, and attacked Parliament; a mosque was defaced by some graffiti. By that act (which I strongly suspect was a false-flag operation), Muslims were made the "victim". A false-equivalence was drawn between a bit of spray paint in the wrong place; and murder and an attack on the main institution representing our democracy.
You can’t fix what you won’t acknowledge. —Dr. Phila
Here is mine.
I’llridewithyoutothegatesofhell#
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