Posted on 06/04/2014 11:16:33 AM PDT by NCjim
Milos Zeman, the President of the Czech Republic courageously condemned the culture of Islamic anti-Semitism behind the Brussels attack as well as commenting in an informed fashion on the larger trend of Islamic Supremacist violence.
“The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel,” Zeman said.
“There are other nations with whom we share the same values, whether it’s free elections or a free market economy, but no one is threatening to delete those states from the map. No one shoots at their border towns and no one wants to see the citizens of those nations driven out of their country.”
“There is a term called political correctness and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice. So I refuse to be cowardly.”
“It is necesarry to name the enemy of human civilization and this enemy is international terrorism associated with religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance. This fanatical creed does not only attack a single nation, as we saw after September 11. Muslim fanatics in Nigeria recently captured 200 young Christian girls. And in the flower at the heart of Europe, an abominable killing took place at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.”
“I am not reassured by the claims that this is the work of only a small fringe group. Quite the contrary. I believe that xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism stems from the essential ideology that these fanatical groups are based on.”
“And let me provide a proof of this assertion in a quote from one of its sacred texts. ‘The Jews will hide behind stones and trees. Then the tree will call out, ‘A Jew hides behind me, come and kill him.’ The stone will call out, ‘A Jew hides behind me, come and kill him.’
“I criticized those who call for the killing of the Arabs, but I don’t know of about any mass movement that calls for the mass murder of Arabs. I do however know of an anti-civilizational movement which calls for the mass murder of the Jews.”
“One of the articles in the Hamas Charter calls for killing Jews.”
“Do we really want to pretend that this is only a small group of extremists. Can we really be politically correct and insist that they are all good and that only a tiny number of the extremists and fundamentalists are committing these crimes?”
“One of my favourite essayists, Michel de Montaigne once wrote: “Good does not necessarily succeed evil; another evil may succeed, and a worse evil.”
“We began the Arab Spring, which became the Arab Winter, and the fight against the secular dictatorships has become a battle run by Al-Qaida.”
“Let’s throw out political correctness and call a spade, a spade.
“Yes we have friends in the world to whom we express our solidarity, but this solidarity costs us nothing because these folks are never threatened.”
“A true sense of solidarity is solidarity with a friend who is in distress and in danger, and so here I am.”
The Czech Republic seems to get brilliant leaders. Forged in the fire, I guess.
Can I move there?
> “There is a term called political correctness and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice. So I refuse to be cowardly.”
Worth repeating. Remember it, embrace it, and scream it at every liberal who goes into his regular PC spiel of faux outrage when it one’s up...
bkmk
Brussels attack? What Brussels attack? Did I miss something?
Yes, you did miss something if you have not heard of the Brussels attack. Better find a better news source!
Here is a summary from BBC; http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27676576
Bravo to the president of the Czech Republic, a brave and honest man!
A couple miles away was the Western Electric Company Hawthorne Works, founded in 1905....manufacturers of both early and late telephones.
In both plants were many Czech workers. They had been recruited by Hawthorne to immigrate to Cicero at the turn of the century because they were smart, dependable, precise, hard-working...and specifically, they were adept at tool and die making, and other machinery skills.
They were provided housing, and a whole Czech colony started in Cicero and nearby Berwyn....and many descendents still live there today.
I worked in the office at the stainless steel sink fabrication plant...and again, I interacted with Czechs both in the office and the plant in the rear. The Czechs had a great work ethic, neat, tidy absolutely friendly folks.
I was fascinated that they raised dinner-pigeons (LOL) in their attics...looking up, I'd see the birds on my way home on perches in open, attic-floor dormer windows in the second-floor stories of many of the brick "Bohemian bungalows" ....pecking busily away at some tidbit or other. Little did they know their ultimate squabby fate!
I admire the Czechs...and the great Bohemian hoskas and kolaches at their bakeries make them all the more to love!
Their leaders in the European "old country" are common-sense and sharp as tacks, also.
Leni
Squab. It’s considered a delicacy.
“In culinary terminology, squab is a young domestic pigeon or its meat. The meat is widely described as tasting like dark chicken. The term is probably of Scandinavian origin; the Swedish word skvabb means “loose, fat flesh”.[1] It formerly applied to all dove and pigeon species, such as the Wood Pigeon, the Mourning Dove, and the now-extinct Passenger Pigeon,[2][3] and their meat. More recently, squab meat comes almost entirely from domesticated pigeons. The meat of dove and pigeon gamebirds hunted primarily for sport is rarely called squab.[2]
The practice of domesticating pigeon as livestock may have come from the Middle East; historically, squabs or pigeons have been consumed in many civilizations, including Ancient Egypt, Rome and Medieval Europe. Although squab has been consumed throughout much of recorded history, it is generally regarded as exotic, not as a contemporary staple food; there are more records of its preparation for the wealthy than for the poor.
The modern squab industry uses utility pigeons. Squabs are raised until they are roughly a month old, when they reach adult size but have not yet flown, before being slaughtered.”
Source: Wikipedia
This is part of the reason why the Europeans are waking up to Islamic radicalism and the socialism that’s been dominant on their continent for over a century.
Wow. Thank you for the link!
Are those Koka kolaches? ;-D
Did you get an e-mail from me on June 1, subject: ‘A chicken in every pot’?
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