Posted on 07/16/2016 8:49:23 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
No more flags of foreign countries posted on Facebook in a spirit of solidarity. No more empathic Twitter hashtags. No more empty statements by heads of government declaring that “the terrorists have failed in their effort to turn us against one another.” No more equally empty statements by other heads of government expressing their own country’s support for “our ally in its time of grief.” No more calls for love in the face of hate, or candlelight processions as a response to murder. No more clicking of tongues and shaking of heads over the horrible loss of life—as if people had died in a one-off natural disaster, a hurricane or tornado or tsunami—followed, after a few days, by a return to normal. Until the next time, of course.
No more attempts to psychologically analyze every new jihadist—to probe his troubled family or professional life in an attempt to figure out what “turned him to violence and extremism.” No more reflexive reassurances that “this has nothing to do with Islam,” that a handful of bad guys have “hijacked” a “peaceful” faith, and that “the great majority of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims are, of course, peace-loving people who utterly reject this kind of action.” No more slick pivoting to the subject of gun control, or American homophobia, or whatever other diversion seems useful under the specific circumstances. No more blaming of Europeans’ supposed failure to accept or embrace or integrate or employ Muslims, or of Muslims’ alleged poverty or hopelessness or frustration or alienation.
No more hand-wringing by journalists, as they stand mere yards from the bodies of the dead, about the possible “backlash” against Muslims (which never really materializes). No more declarations by U.S. officials that the mere mention of Islam in connection with Islamic terrorism is “dangerous” and “counterproductive” because it “alienates” the Muslim allies and Muslim communities whose help we need in fighting this problem that we dare not properly name. No more respectful TV interviews with representatives of “Muslim civil-rights organizations” that have been proven over and over again to be fronts for terrorism.
No more outrageous lies by government and media that, almost fifteen years after 9/11, keep so many Americans so outrageously in the dark about the world in which we live now. No more of the despicable day-to-day efforts by the same actors to keep those Americans who do get it in line, to instill in them an unholy fear that, if they dare to address the problem honestly, they’ll be thrust forever out into the dark—beyond the realm of decent society, unacceptable, unemployable, unfriendable. No more societal tyranny by those who (because they’re cowardly, or feel powerless, or have no sense of responsibility to preserve the precious gift of freedom that their own forebears fought and died for and have bequeathed them, or are, inconceivably, unconcerned about the world their own children and grandchildren will inhabit) treat as enemies not those who seek to destroy them but those who dare to speak the truth about it.
No more ignorance. A couple of weeks ago, Adam Carolla recorded his podcast—one of the most popular on the Internet—before an Amsterdam audience. Carolla, an Angeleno, asked locals about life in the Netherlands. They painted a thoroughly rosy picture. He asked about religion. They depicted a near-utopian secular country free of reactionary faith. Poof! Down the memory hole went Pim Fortuyn, Theo Van Gogh, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Geert Wilders. And Carolla didn’t challenge any of it. Then, just the other day, in an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast (which is even bigger than Carolla’s), gay conservative Milo Yiannopoulos served up some basic facts that everybody in the U.S. would know by now if the mainstream media were doing its job—facts about the levels of Muslim rape in Sweden, about the scale of antigay animus in Muslim communities, and about the systematic efforts by European governments to obscure these and other ticklish matters. Rogan, who is no fool, and who has interviewed hundreds of people in an effort to educate himself about the world, was shocked by all of it. (“Wow! Wow! Wow!”)
In the years after 9/11, major acts of Islamic terrorism in the West seemed to come along every year or so, leaving plenty of time in between to go back to pretending that everything was fine and to resume mouthing benign platitudes. Now they’re happening so often, one right on top of the other, that we can hardly keep track of them. The only upside is that it’s getting harder and harder to maintain that pretense.
The time for shock is over. The time for heaping up flowers and candles and stuffed animals at the sites of atrocities is over. The lies and ignorance and cravenness must end, and the simple facts must be faced. The free, civilized West has, for years now, been the target of a war of conquest—a war waged in many forms (of which terrorism is only one) by adherents of a religion that preaches submission, intolerance, and brutality, and our leaders and media, with few exceptions, continue to play a game whose fatuity, fecklessness, and pusillanimity have become increasingly clear. After Nice, no more.
But wait, can we have just one more stuffed animal at the scene of carnage? Just one more. . . . Oh, and maybe a little note about how Mommy is so happy to be in Heaven now . . . waiting for the rest of us . . FUBO
Wow. Great piece, thanks.
“The world is so paralyzed by terror it can’t even raise a hand in its own defense.”
And the companion cultural neurotoxin is political correctness.
I sure hope you’re right. Ryan needs to go. Maybe he will meet Manafort in a dark alley. :-)
Islam is a war plan.
The crusaders had the will, we have the wherewithal.
How about No More, politicians doing a press conference introducing other politicians, thanking and congratulating each other for the amazing job they have done. Then to make it worse they announce to everyone that the terrorists didn’t win, to cover for their own negligence .........(tell that to surviving families looking at their dead children in the street, treated like roadkill, that in some twisted way, they won)
All the military might and technology in the world is meaningless without the will to use it.
Not paralyzed, but indifferent. Very much like the fictional Eloi, in my mind, notwithstanding the very different circumstances of today's globally connected society, compared with the superficially Edenic existence of the Eloi.
Thanks for posting this. Shared it on FB and I NEVER do politics there. But people need to read this. Our gentle author is a gay as you please btw, but he seems to be on of the few gays who GET IT, that the jihadis want to kill him. Along with the non-gay ten years old, of course.
Yes.
Quite a bit late to the party though.
Muslim enclaves and mosques are like brush piles. If you have rats running in and out of them to hide the only right answer is to burn the brush pile.
I bet muslim terrorists will hijack trains, especially fuel laden ones, or an ultra large vessel such as a natural gas ship, and detonate it in New Yorks harbor.
Or just continue with trucks, i’d be on the lookout for any new activity of big rig wrecks that seem suspicious or are hushed up.
Don’t want to wake the sleeping giant so to say.
Feds are in overtime sprinkling sleeping powder on the social media sites.
“The moderate Muslims need our help, not our pity.”
Several months ago there was a piece on FR by a guy who had spent time talking to representatives of each of the groups in Syria. I’m paraphrasing. “The problem the west has is that although some of these groups are milder than the others they all want the same thing. They want to be the only group in control. They believe in the tenants of Islam, which include slavery, beatings, and Sharia law. If any of these groups win there will be a genocide. The only difference is over who gets killed. Anybody who isn’t Muslim will either be killed, enslaved, or reduced to a second class citizen. The victory by any one of these groups, even the so-called “moderates” will be horrendous.”
The problem is they are all Islamic. Islam is a mashup of everything evil in the world. Do we believe that a victory by the Iranian “moderates” would be any different? The reason Iran is now a leading power is not a tribute to Islam. It is a tribute to the truly moderate, secular Shah who educated the entire country and then was betrayed by Jimmy Carter. As for the Syrians, the secular role of the Assad’s was a godsend. True, he had a secret police and they killed people. How else could you control and modernize a country full of people who want to kill everybody else?
bkmk
Precisely.
The Facebook flag thing drives me NUTS !
One of the strangest gimmicks ever.
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Me too. Just do-gooders trying to demonstrate how compassionate they are. Makes my eyelids twitch. Like Michelle Obama and her ‘bring back our girls’ hashtag.
Good observations. A complete end to Moslem immigration tomorrow would not do a thing about the 2nd- and 3rd-generation jihadists found both in the U.S. and in Europe.
After all that, the point required was not made....... the killing must begin.
The enemy must be sought out and slain in massive quantaties
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