Posted on 05/05/2015 12:56:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
Here's how it stands with Western civilization -- what's left of it, I mean -- insofar as various Westerners are concerned.
You keep your lip buttoned whenever foes, internal as well as external, jump up and down on you, kick you around, make known their fondest wish is to do you in, ideals and all. You hope for the best while doing nothing.
You follow, that is to say, the counsel of "Jacques," who posted Monday on the New York Times' website, disburdening himself as follows concerning the Sunday shootings at the Mohammed poster contest in Garland, Texas:
"The Far Right is using 'freedom' as a stick to beat and provoke Muslims. Cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed do not advance the cause of freedom one iota. It is provocation pure and simple."
Maybe not so "pure," maybe not so "simple," Jacques. The Jacques line of thought is heavily represented in commentary on the shootings of the two men whose apparent goal was to disrupt, with hot lead, a lightly attended event of which I had been previously unaware: just 19 miles from my home.
The American Freedom Defense Initiative, New York-based organizer of the event, is under verbal assault for stirring up the animals (H. L. Mencken's delicious phrase). Why, if the AFDI folk hadn't invited ridicule of the Prophet, all would have been peachy!
I would venture that depends on your definition of peachy. If you mean quiet -- well, yeah. Why quiet, nevertheless? Out of general agreement on first principles? Or out of intimidation: the self-suppression of viewpoints, honestly arrived at but depicted as rotten and shameful by "opinion-makers."
A shameful viewpoint, in these times of religious flux, is the unassailability of Islam, the religion that millions of migrants are bringing to the capitals of the nominally Christian West and insisting on practicing their own way, without reference to local norms. For instance, the opinion-makers consider it rude and boorish today to insist on the preponderant truth of Christianity, as narrated in the Creeds. Say all that stuff in church, if you must, but don't press your case outside, lest the sensibilities of "others" be offended.
When radical Muslim preachers, nevertheless, stir up jihad against the decadent, febrile West, we're counseled not to take with any great alarm the growing presence of such preachers -- and the growing fervor of their followers. We're progressive Westerners; we believe in outreach and understanding.
For genuine progressives, such sentiments come naturally. Supernatural religion, contrasted with the religions of this world (e.g., private jets and sex-any-way-you-want-it) doesn't much interest today's elites. They can take it or, better yet, leave it. Can't we all just knock off this truth-claims stuff? Not really, inasmuch as "Truth," by definition, rises superior to competing claims. You see anyway why our progressive elites see no point in disputing or "insulting" Islamic truth claims. Who cares, you know?
Certainly, the elite assure us, no one should "insult" the Prophet (though insulting Jesus, the Second Person of the Trinity, and therefore superior to all prophets, seems no big deal to our taste-makers). Insult the Prophet and, hey, followers of his, the likes of the Garland Two, got guns! You wouldn't want to see them use those guns, would you? So -- keep it down.
That the Garland Two wound up unnecessarily dead -- victims of their own mental torments -- is unfortunate, as I trust anyone would acknowledge. That the American Freedom Defense Initiative pulled the triggers in question is nonsense.
Who got to this new land first, Christians or radical jihadists? Who built the churches and democratic institutions and sunk deep the foundations of Western civilization -- of all civilizations the freest and most generous? Who established here the freest, most democratic government in history, for all its latterday mishaps and misjudgments?
It is sad that two who enjoyed the undoubted blessings of a civilization not their own recoiled violently against that civilization. It is sadder yet to see this tale of malice and moral confusion play out 19 miles from the place I call home.
The sad thing is that roughly half of the country believes that the shooting, if not “justified”, was provoked and incited behavior, that the drawing convention was “more wrong” than the attempted murder.
And that percentage grows with every graduating class.
Most of the political class on all sides is half-secretly against us Americans arming up to defend ourselves.
How many of those who say the “Draw Mohammad” event should not have been held because it would offend Muslims also said Christians should not have been offended by Andres Seranno’s “Piss Christ”?
“The sad thing is that roughly half of the country believes that the shooting, if not “justified”, was provoked and incited behavior>>>”
No, they don’t. Only a tiny percentage of bed-wetting, hand-wringing wimps believe what you stated.
No, “half” believe no such thing. Don’t buy the media bull sh!t.
I used to think that most Americans felt the same as you and I, and that the “silent majority” were still level-headed and would steer the nation away from the dangerous carnival of the twisted few.
I believed that the Electoral College was the ultimate defense against those shenanigans.
I no longer believe this.
Liberals have proven themselves suicidal cowards time and again.
A liberal is a morally collapsed human being. Jihaddis and Leftists are higher than liberals - at least they have the courage of their convictions, no matter how insane and murderous.
But liberals? Their cowardice reeks like the stench of the blood of the murdered millions they refuse to acknowledge.
They are disgrace incarnate.
The goal of the propagandist is to make you believe that your views and beliefs are in the minority, when , in fact, the opinions of the propagandist are in the minority.
You can count on one hand the number of insane, leftist media nuts who believe that the attackers were justified and that the mohamed cartoon participants were the instigators of the violence.
“Liberals have proven themselves suicidal cowards time and again.”
Indeed. My theory is that liberals want to play footsie with jihadists in order to use them to attack conservatives and patriots because they don’t have the guts to do it themselves.
The typical liberal hates guns and has been castrated by femi-Nazis and is incapable of engaging in a physical fight. They’re all whimpering, bed-wetting wimps.
SHAMEFUL ATTACKS BY THE DHIMMIT MEDIA TO PAMELA GELLER AND GERT WILDERS
The American “Dhimmitude” media, cowed by Islamic violence, has accepted total submission to the mandates of the Islamic terrorists.
Pamela Geller, Gert Wilders, and Bosch Fawstin (the winner of the contest) are real heroes that have not accepted to be intimidated by Islamic terrorists. It is denigrating for the American media to see their pundits attacking the freedom of expression of those opposed to the Islamization of U.S.
On January 17,2015 and in the same public school center, there was a “Stand with the Prophet” rally by Muslims, a provocative pro-Shariah law event, by supporters of Al-Qaida and Isis organized by one of the terrorists implicated in the bombing of the garage of the NY World Trade Center in 1993.
I wonder if those who try to blame the organizers of the “First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest,” for the Muslim terrorist attack would have justified if a patriotic American had irrupted in the Muslim rally on January and made a massacre of Islamic terrorists. After all, Americans are profoundly offended by their provocation and the abuse of our freedoms by those who made the Muslim rally in support of the savages that decapitate, crucify and burned Christians alive.
The “Dhimmitude” media, scared by Islamic violence, auto-censors itself and tries to justify the terrorist attack in Texas because the Mohamed cartoons contest offended the sensibility of Islamic terrorists.
On January 2015, radical Islamists desecrated the holy soil of Texas. Do not mess with Texas!!!
ISIS Comes To Texas – This Is War
Noisy Room ^ | May 4 2015 | Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3286035/posts?page=2
In Switzerland everybody is drafted and they keep their arms in home in case they need to defend their country. It is imperative that all American arm themselves, the savages can attack our churches, malls, theaters and slaughtering innocents men women and children as they are massacring Christians in Africa and the Middle East.
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