Posted on 03/23/2016 5:52:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
While homicidal, suicidal and genocidal jihadists are busy plotting the next soft-target terror attacks on the West, docile Westerners are busy shedding cartoon tears and doodling broken hearts on social media.
European artists rushed to fill Twitter and Instagram with images of Belgian comic book character Tintin weeping after vengeful Muslim terrorists left the Brussels airport and subway system buried in rubble and dead bodies.
Residents of the besieged city -- which recklessly opened its doors to mass Muslim immigration and criminalized the vocal dissent of those who've objected over past decade -- meekly protested the Quran-inspired violence by leaving pastel-colored chalk messages pleading for "peace no war."
Echoing the "Je Suis Charlie" and "Je Suis Paris" rallying cries that followed the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo jihad attack and the November 2015 jihad massacres in Paris and Saint-Denis, tens of thousands of people spread the "JeSuisBruxelles" message with their thoughts, prayers and memes.
And, of course, there will be flags lowered and monuments lit up all over the world this week in the national colors of Belgium to show "solidarity" with Tuesday's victims of The Perpetrators Whose Religion Shall Not Be Named.
To borrow a useful phrase coined by British journalist James Bartholomew last year, we have reached the oversaturation point of post-terrorism "virtue signaling:" Hashtags, avatars and animated GIFs ad nauseam. These are the easy advertisements and maudlin displays of one's resolute opposition to an unidentified something that must be stopped somehow by unspoken means.
Virtue signals are "camouflage," Bartholomew explained. They are sincere-seeming shows of collective unity that disguise the millennial-age indulgence of publicly patting one's own back for supposed moral courage. "No one actually has to do anything," he opined. Virtue now "comes from mere words or even from silently held beliefs."
Pre-Twitter, outraged Americans all donned "Never forget" magnets and ribbons on our cars and lapels after 9/11. I was one of them. But after 15 years of hapless homeland security theater and bipartisan pandering to terror-coddling "Islamophobia" shriekers, I'm so, so sick of noble gesture paraphernalia.
I'm sick of preening celebrities who tell me to "PrayForTheWorld" and celebrate diversity while indiscriminate floods of Muslim refugees across Europe and America corrode the pillars of peace and freedom.
I'm sick of Silicon Valley moguls who pretend to champion free speech while muzzling the speech of those who use the Internet to criticize the very open door immigration policies that fertilized European and American soil for jihadists.
I'm sick of all the same old emasculated politicians who declare that "justice will be served," "this must end" and "we stand against terror," while refusing to take even the smallest baby steps to register and track Muslim refugees already here, stop new ones from coming in and tying up our overwhelmed immigration bureaucracy, and drain the jihad swamps inside our own borders.
We've had enough piles of memorial flowers. We've heard enough hollow lip service paid to resolve. Where is the world's active resistance to the sharia-imposing soldiers of Allah?
We need Tintin to wipe his nose, man up and remember Belgium's once proud history. When German invaders attempted what they thought would be an easy romp through the tiny neutral country in 1914 on their way to Paris, resistance fighters who were outnumbered 14 to 1 took a brave stand in defense of their sovereignty. Bracing for an onslaught, King Albert addressed his people:
"One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. In these solemn circumstances two virtues are indispensable: a calm but unshaken courage, and the close union of all Belgians. ... It is the moment for action. ... [A] country which is defending itself conquers the respect of all; such a country does not perish!"
How far the West has fallen. Farewell, steeled wills. You've been replaced by an army of sad-faced emojis.
#WesternCivilizationRIP
Very good article.
It’s about time that this article was written. Brava, Michelle!
A minute of silence and a candle.
Quietly loading mags by candle light.
Is it just me or does it seem to others that we're lowering the flag an awful lot these days. I don't remember "half masting" nearly so often when I was growing up. Somehow it seems defeatist to me.
Europeans: a better idea would be to have Tintin and the other characters don some armor, grab a sword, and slice the subhuman savages to bits of worm food. That would show the towelheads that you have some courage, and that you’re not a bunch of crybabies who can’t stand up to the reptile brain barbarians.
Enough emojis.
We need an immigration ban.
I wish Malkin and Steyn had a show. No guests, just the two of them. No one says it better than those two.
Yeah, me too!
Tintin used to go out and defeat the bad guys. Now he cries about them.
Leaving a pile of flowers at the carnage sites only encourages the Muslim Barbarians to do more killings.
However, I hate the term “virtue signaling”. It is too technocratic sounding and, thus, devoid of the opprobrium such behaviour should elicit. A better term from the good old days would be “sanctimonious moral preening”.
It feels more and more like a white flag.
While homicidal, suicidal and genocidal jihadists are busy plotting the next soft-target terror attacks on the West, docile Westerners are busy shedding cartoon tears and doodling broken hearts on social media.
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Typical Malkin brilliance.
But, Michelle, it makes them feel better, and that’s what’s important, you meanie.
Thanks for posting this. She is so right.
Interesting experience here. After reading this article, I was inspired to search an describing the Knights Templar just so I could post an image of one of the knights to my Facebook page, along with the comment, “Needed now more than ever”.
I found a site that was not and all political— just some nerd excited about a History Channel series on the Knights Templar. The image at the beginning of the piece was of the Templars’ cross, but when I posted the link, the image box remained blank. FB is anti-Christian, anti-West.
A retweet on Twitter or a share of Facebook...this is their prayer.
Being first among your friend list to do it...is their righteousness.
Yes, it’s all that shallow.
Vengeful? Getting revenge against a country which allowed you to immigrate to their borders, leaving the insecurity of your homelands, and which gives you money to live? Vengeful, no. The true face of Islam, yes.
What is Titter? I got trapped on Facebook several years ago,
couldn’t escape; but finally they provided a visible
option - so I clicked it & have been free for a long time
now. - Friend’s DIL would put up photos of all her re-
decorating projects. . status every time they went on a
vacation or weekend trip. Then one weekend, they got
cleaned out in a home break-in. - Don’t know is she’s still
posting photos of her replacement stuff or not.
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