Posted on 08/02/2016 8:34:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
The media and effete powers-that-be have been twisting themselves into Halal pretzels Islamsplainin’, rationalizing how a given Muslim terrorist attack isn’t really “Islamic” or isn’t significant. These contortions can become quite ridiculous, such as suggesting that recent Allahu Akbar-shouting Munich shooter Ali Sonboly might somehow have had “right-wing” motives because, among his violent passions, was an interest in Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik.
A more common (un)intellectual contortion is the minimizing tactic of claiming, as is politically correct authorities’ wont, that a given jihadist attacker “has no ties to IS” (the Islamic State), as if there’s nothing to see here if a man doesn’t provide notarized evidence of allegiance to the boogeyman du jour. Yet this is much as if we’d claimed during the Cold War that a Marxist terrorist attack wasn’t really a Marxist™ terrorist attack because we couldn’t find a connection to the Soviet Union. The issue and problem wasn’t primarily the Soviet Union but communism (Marxism birthed the USSR, not the other way around), an evil ideology that wreaks havoc wherever it takes hold. Likewise, the IS didn’t birth Islam; Islam birthed the IS.
Nonetheless, moderns will often use the misdirection of focusing inordinately on national or group associations when discussing terrorism. This is a dodge, one designed to help us avoid uncomfortable truths, and which relegates us to playing an eternal game of whack-a-mole. The USSR is gone but communism is still a problem (witness North Korea and Cuba), and insofar as it’s less of a threat, it’s largely because its ideas have been discredited. Bad ideas’ standard bearers will change. But as long as the bad ideas remain tolerated and credible, they’ll always win converts.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Islam funds reelection campaigns.
Politicians ignore terror threat.
This is not difficult.
“Why the Establishment Can’t Grasp the Nature of Islam”
They fully grasp it. Radical Islam is the militant wing of the Globalists. What they don’t grasp is there will come a time when they will have to face off against Islam and there will be no one to fight for them except gays, communists and criminals.
They are trying to do the same thing the Soviets did with the Palestinians back in the early 70’s. Use proxies to defeat the enemy while using the political process to protect those proxies.
excellent, insightful article
I think the deep elites fully understand it; you are surely quite correct in that. But I think most of the elites go along with it for the reasons cited in this article. The average professor or newscaster doesn’t, I think, want to be part of a ruling Islamic elite. I just think they are brain dead librals.
Nor can they grasp the nature of liberty, rugged individualism, conservatism, responsibility, true Christianity, discipline, human nature, and on and on and on...
They only understand their personal self-interest. Period.
“. I just think they are brain dead librals.”
Useful idiots of the monied elite. They are like familiars from the Blade movies.
Bergoglio is doing his part to keep the West asleep. His stupidity and intellectual dishonesty grow more and more sinister. His knee-jerk anti-Westernism wasn’t disturbed in the slightest even by a priest’s getting hid head sawed off.
Saying the IS is not part of Islam is like saying an arm is not part of the body.
Ping for later.
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Yep.
Also from the article;
A comprehensive German study of 45,000 immigrant youths, reported in 2010, found that while increasing religiosity among the Christian youths made them less violent, increasing religiosity among the Muslim youths actually made them more violent. Not more violent “if they join Islamic State” — but more violent, period.
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It is clear to me that while Islam may be better than the Aztec and some other pagan religions, it nonetheless does a relatively poor job taming the beast. In fact, it apparently gives great license to our sinful nature. Considering greed, lust and sloth, why is it that many Muslims believe it’s licit to rob, rape and leech off kuffars (non-Muslims)? Does Islam do much to temper the envy and pridefulness inspiring so much anti-Western hatred? What of the officially approved bearing of false witness called taqiyya? Then there’s that father of violence, wrath. Danish psychologist Dr. Nicolai Sennels, who worked for years with incarcerated Muslim youth, points out that anger is highly accepted in Muslim cultures; moreover, the ability to intimidate, he writes, “is seen as strength and source of social status.” He concludes, “Islam and Muslim culture have certain psychological mechanisms that harm people’s development and increase criminal behaviour.”
If you replaced "Islam and Muslim" with "Progressives and Democrats", it explains why Liberals excuse Islamic violence etc..
They share many of the very same qualities.
This reminds me of a Chinese phrase about riding the tiger. Risky business for them... and for us.
bttt
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