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.
Enough maudlin stoicism crappola.
This guy is RIGHT on target.
Just keep the f*ckers out..!
JAPAN YOU ARE DOING IT RIGHT..!
The U.S. needs to secure the borders and reform this reckless dangerous chain immigration being forced upon America!
No more wringing of hands over how Sweet Li’l Mohammed was RADICALIZED.... as if he caught the flu or a 24-hr bug. Yes, golly gee, if not for that unavoidable “radicalization”, Good Ole Mo would still be one of those “peaceful Muz.”
The Facebook flag thing drives me NUTS !
One of the strangest gimmicks ever.
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It's not a religion, damnit! Get it straight! Until you get that right, we'll never win!
Rest In Peace, little one . . .
...and Hilda wants to X5 the numbers of Syrians.
They aren’t being radicalized. They’re being activated. That’s my slogan now. In fact...
The moderate Muslims need our help, not our pity. They rose up in Iran and Obama refused to help. Obama and the Progresso’s are destroying moderate muslims all over the world. If we won’t even call out the radical muslims, what hope do the moderates have ?
Ain't going to happen as long as McCain and Ryan are around:
NO MORE NICE
The Beast should name Paul Ryan as her VP.
Moderate Muslims have come to the US from many bad situations 30 years ago and more—Muslims fleeing the Ayatollas in Iran, Muslims fleeing Saddam Hussein and his vicious sons; Muslims fleeing Wahabism in Saudi Arabia, Muslims fleeing warfare in North Africa, and on and on.
Now their children are growing up and discovering they are not as happy as they think they should be in the US or Europe. Not very many of them, but enough to be very dangerous. Often the parents are shocked and frightened.
As Enola Gay on Target as it gets. This guy is right. No more men acting like the metrosexuals and faggots the government paid the MSM to portray to the masses. No more emasculation. It’s time for real men to pull up their bootstraps, pull out the guns and start sending the 7th century goat humpers to meet their 72 Phyllis Dilleresqus virgins. Enough of this $hip.
The world is so paralyzed by terror it can’t even raise a hand in its own defense. This will be the second holocaust and the first one will pale by comparison. Winston Churchill drew a line in the sand in September, 1939. Will we before it’s too late?
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