Posted on 07/03/2025 5:05:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
As a child of the Cold War with the Soviets as America’s enemy, when the wall came down and the threat of Communism faded, I was under the illusion that the world had inexorably turned a corner and that history was on the march to bring freedom, capitalism, and prosperity to the whole world...
The events of September 11 exposed that illusion for what it really was: a delusion. There were actually people out there who wanted to start a war with the United States.
With 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Islam went from an almost nonexistent issue for most Americans to front and center. Suddenly, Islam and Muslims are in the news on a daily basis, doing unspeakable things to one another and others.
Knowing nothing of this threat and wanting to know more, I picked up books like Dore Gold’s Hatred’s Kingdom and Benny Morris’ Righteous Victims, and even a copy of the Koran, which, honestly, I couldn’t get through. And I read a lot more online from guys like Steve Emerson, Robert Spencer, and David Horowitz.
Over the following years, you had everything from the Shoe Bomber to the Ft. Hood shooter to the San Bernardino attack and countless others. And elsewhere in the West, you had everything from the murder of Theo Van Gogh to the London 7/7 attacks, the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and others. It seemed like Islam was at war against the entire world.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the news, despite everything we were seeing with our own eyes, the blood, the carnage, the innocent victims, we were told that Islam wasn’t the problem. Instead, the problem was the individual terrorists who just happened to be Muslim. “Islam isn’t violent,” we were told, despite
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Will people in NYC vote to demonstrate their lack if “Islamophobia”? I think they will, but I hope I am wrong.
all the nyc voters are thinking about is
all the free govt cheese
The amazing thing is that this guys is going to get elected with Jewish backing and Jewish votes.
I doubt he’ll be worse than DeBlasio. Maybe as bad, but not worse.
I doubt he’ll be worse than DeBlasio. Maybe as bad, but not worse.
lol. It’s going to be much much worse. The financial district will move to Florida, and that will start a collapse that NYC will never recover from.
The Mooselimb mayor will burn the city to the ground. And all those self-loathing Jews will gladly dig their own graves before they are beheaded. The frog and the scorpion comes to Gotham.
It’s hard to imagine “much much worse” than DeBlasio.
And it’s Gotham’s own fault.
Most likely.
And when Zohran ruins New York City, will the Jewish voters still regret choosing him?!
The Left never regrets anything.
One doesn't think of NYC as a major manufacturing center, but all those sweet little loft apartments in SoHo were all factory lofts at one time. That is walking distance to Wall Street.
And the waterfront below Brooklyn Heights was a working waterfront with adjacent industry, not an upscale neighborhood with great views. Brooklyn Heights is walking distance to Wall Street over the Brooklyn Bridge.
When the NYSE and "Wall Street" move out, that is when you'll know NYC is done.
Wait. I forgot United Nations HQ, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Federal Reserve Bank branch with all the gold. Do those institutions even need a working city around them in order to function?
The city may yet survive if the other side can unify around a single candidate, most likely Adams, and he can raise the funds that he needs to run scary ads.
If something they do is stupid or ruinous, they will actually double down on it.
The Left never regrets anything.
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And they NEVER admit they were//are wrong.
The Issue is never The Issue, the Issue is always The Revolution.
And they NEVER admit they were//are wrong.
Trump is the only Republican I know that also never admits he’s wrong.
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