Why would a young man with a good education, a decent job, his own accommodations and driving a BMW, turn his back on the life he had built, including his family, to become a mass-murdering terrorist?
Winston Churchill was very familiar with Muslims. This is what he said: How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
DC? Couldn’t care less. nothing of value there.
Oh. I thought this was about the entire DC Gay Pride crowd going into hysterical panic at the report of a gun five blocks away and a couple of firecrackers.
Theyre still on the local DC news telling everyone how they all live in fear every time they go out of their homes. Listening to people with mental illness is fun for about three minutes, and then it just gets boring and pitiful.
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property either as a child, a wife, or a concubine must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
Winston Churchill, 1899: The River War
Good thing they were able to prevent it.
But it is terrible that the news media doesn’t report this, but it reports totally trivial unimportant things.
Beautifully described. Yet we chose to go the Neville Chamberlain route and meet them with red carpet and welcome baskets.
The media would report a muzz attack on its offices as a right wing attack inspired by Trump.