Posted on 03/20/2019 1:41:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has unleashed a barrage of openly anti-Semitic commentary. She suggested that Israel had "hypnotized the world." She recently suggested that Jewish money lay behind American support for Israel. Finally, she suggested that American Israel supporters are representatives of dual loyalty. Her fellow Democrats shielded her from blowback by subsuming a resolution that condemns her anti-Semitism within a broader resolution that condemns intolerance of all types. Many of them suggested that labeling Omar's anti-Semitism actually represents a type of censorship -- an attempt to quash debate about Israel, though none of Omar's comments even critiqued the Israeli government, and though many on the left have made anti-Israel arguments without invoking anti-Semitism.
Now Omar's defenders have come out of the woodwork to suggest that criticism of her anti-Semitism was somehow responsible for the white supremacist shooting of 50 innocent people in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Two protesters, New York University students and best friends Leen Dweik and Rose Asaf, confronted Chelsea Clinton, who had gently chided Omar for her Jew hatred. "After all that you have done, all the Islamophobia that you have stoked," Dweik screamed, "this, right here, is the result of a massacre stoked by people like you and the words you put out in the world. ... Forty-nine people died because of the rhetoric you put out there." Dweik, it should be noted, has called for the complete elimination of Israel.
Her message was parroted by terror supporter Linda Sarsour, who tweeted: "I am triggered by those who piled on Representative Ilhan Omar and incited a hate mob against her until she got assassination threats now giving condolences to our community. What we need you to do is reflect on how you contribute to islamophobia and stop doing that."
Meanwhile, mainstream commentators attempted to use the New Zealand anti-Muslim terror attack to blame critics of radical Islam. Omer Aziz, writing for The New York Times, slammed Jordan Peterson for calling Islamophobia "a word created by fascists" and Sam Harris for calling it "intellectual blood libel." Bill Maher has come in for similar criticism; so have I, mostly for a video I cut in 2014 in which I read off poll statistics from various Muslim countries on a variety of topics, concluding that a huge percentage of Muslims believed radical things.
Here's the truth: Radical Islam is dangerous. The Islamic world has a serious problem with radical Islam. And large swaths of the Muslim world are, in fact, hostile to Western views on matters ranging from freedom of speech to women's rights. To conflate that obvious truth with the desire to murder innocents in Christchurch is intellectual dishonesty of the highest sort. If we want more Muslims living in liberty and freedom, we must certainly demolish white supremacism -- and we must also demolish radical Islam, devotees of which were responsible for an estimated 84,000 deaths in 2017 alone, most of those victims Muslim
And here's another truth: Anti-Semitism is ugly, whether it's coming from white supremacists or Ilhan Omar. Making that point has nothing to do with the killing of Muslims in Christchurch.
So long as the media continue to push the narrative that criticism of Islam is tantamount to incitement of murder, radical Islam will continue to flourish. So long as the media continue to cover for the dishonest argument that criticism of anti-Semitism forwards the goals of white supremacists, anti-Semitism will continue to flourish. Honest discussion about hard issues isn't incitement.
Muslims have become experts at manipulating the media for their own benefit. Go backwards in time and pick a random act of terror perpetrated by Islamic extremists. For every article on the actual horrific act you will find another one about the fear in the Muslim community from the backlash against the innocents, backlash that never happens but causes stress, fear and apprehension anyway.
Here’s the truth: Radical Islam is dangerous.
Here’s the truth: There is no such thing as radical Islam. There is only Islam. Dividing Islam into “philosophical” branches only obscures the truth.
Little Ben took some time from deriding Trump and on occasion my ancestry to act conservative over Israel
He’s a new age righty
I’ll pass
I’d like to see him debate a true Jewish conservative like Stephen Miller
Talking fast doesn’t make one smarter
I do listen to his show but admittedly I turn it off frequently
He’s just too effing PC on anything race in particular
And today he basically said Christians like Jews are defined by good works or living as God wished by doing good things
Nope....that’s the kryptonite killing todays churches actually Ben
I mean he tries.....God love him
When he let FRUITCAKE TUR threaten him on national TV....I was like damn man slap that psychotic manbitch
Don’t let that freak intimidate you...somebody will get him/her off of you quickly and your point will have been demonstrated markedly
That guy ain’t no woman..lol
Koran = Terror Manifesto
just when you think the eco-fascists can’t go any lower...
19 Mar: Guardian: Why climate action is the antithesis of white supremacy
Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation
by Rebecca Solnit
(Rebecca Solnit is a board member of Oil Change International as well as a Guardian columnist. Her latest book is Call them by their true names)
As the news of the Christchurch mosque massacre broke and I scoured the news, I came across a map showing that the Friday morning climate strike in Christchurch was close to the bloodbath. I felt terrible for the young people who showed up with hope and idealism, wondered whether the killer or killers chose this particular day to undermine the impact of this global climate action...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/19/why-youll-never-meet-a-white-supremacist-who-cares-about-climate-change
Oil Change International is a “renewable”/unreliable energy advocacy NGO.
Why? Who or what is he referring to?
The New Zealand murderer described himself as an “eco-fascist,” and he also expressed his admiration for the Chinese Communist dictatorship.
exactly. There is only one Islam that is the Dawah (the life of Muhammad)
It seems the spirit force behind, below, and undergirding Islam is an expert trickster. Wonder who that could be?;-)
Better to listen than to exclude comments like this because you don't always approve of the speaker.
Yes, but I DON'T want more Muslims living in liberty and freedom, in fact, I don't want any.
I want all Muslims to live where they are free and at liberty to practice their religion, which, since its practice is incompatible with our civilization, entails them living elsewhere.
This article is typical Ben Shapiro affirming the consequent. "If" we want X, "then" we must do Y.
Anybody who thinks about it for a minute realizes that only globalist nutballs organize their thinking around allowing "more Muslims living in liberty and freedom (i.e. over here).
Since people are grasping the fact that "racist" has no fixed meaning, the anti-white movement is trying to switch to "white supremacy/supremacist" as a more focused slur.
Of course, this risks the obvious response: "Go to Oslo, then go to Kinshasa, and get back to me", but the anti-whites, despite their recent victories, are beginning to face a bit of pushback for which they were not really prepared.
"Freedom" is simply the system under which you can do as you wish, as is "liberty" for the individual.
IF one is "free" to do as one wishes, and is at "liberty" to carry out ones wishes, THEN you have female circumcision at hospitals in Dearborn.
The problem with the Sunni Muslim world isn't that they don't have enough "freedom", it's that they have too much.
I don’t think that genie can be put back in the bottle.
I also don’t think freedom and modernity has done much to help impose the strictures and constraints of Christian beliefs on the Western world.
It’s hard for me to see how the much tighter strictures of Islam will fare any better under the freedom and scrutiny they will receive as they become more visible in western culture.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the devil is in the details.
> can’t we also use that same logic to say that Omar’s antisemitism caused the Pali missile attack on Israel last week?
Why stop there? Ilhan Omar’s antisemitism caused 9/11.
“Little Ben took some time from deriding Trump and on occasion my ancestry to act conservative over Israel”
I’m with you. It is SICKENING to hear him pound Trump, as if there’s some Republican superman willing to battle Democrats just waiting in the wings.
I’ve told our local radio station to dump him, considering his Trump bashing DESPITE Trump having 93% approval by Republicans.
He can go on CNN if he wants, for all I care.
because the author is Ben Shapiro, who rarely misses the opportunity to suck up to the Politically Correct.
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