Adding Insult to Injury

That's not making it any better

Last week the Obama Administration turned its back on France and the rest of the world.  Sure, it was just a photo op; a phony display of unity and resolve in response to Islamist terror.  The US should have been represented.  But we weren't.  Even though the French haven't always been strong supporters in our war against Islamist terror organizations, we should have made some gesture of support.  Any gesture.

Well, any gesture except a creepy, transparent attempt at damage control.  A week late and several million dollars short.  If this is the attempt to apologize then the Administration shouldn't have bothered.  More detached ineptitude would have been preferable to this goat rope.

If we appeared to turn our back on our allies before, this was turning our back, taking a squat and dropping a deuce on them.  This was embarrassing for the United States and insulting to France and the rest of Europe.  Good luck getting any cooperation from them for the next two years.

Freedom of Speech? Meh

The mainstream news media chooses capitulation

The mainstream news media has collectively decided that freedom of speech is only important when reporting on conservatives or Christians.  They feel perfectly safe in attacking the Catholic Church or Mormons, but seem to lose their backbone when it comes to Muslims.  It is time to accept the fact that they are nothing more than craven partisan hacks with no morals or integrity.  All that happy horse crap they are always spouting about being a vital part of any functioning democracy is a lie.  A news media that collectively lies and creates false realities is as much a danger to democracy as is a lack of a free media.

Next up will be the political 'leaders' tucking tail and rolling over into their submissive positions.

Photo ops don't impress the jihadis.  And when you invite a terrorist to the photo op it kind of nullifies whatever message you were trying to send.  Islamists will only be deterred by force; massive, overwhelming, disproportionate force.

This is How Islam is Spread

Boko Haram slaughters an estimated 2,000 civilians in captured town.

This is how Islam spreads. Not with polite young men wearing name tags and ties knocking on your door, but with intimidation, rape and murder. The Koran is not so much a religious document as it is a guide for conquest.

This is not isolated to Nigeria. The same thing is happening right now to non-Muslims throughout all of northern Africa, all the Arab nations, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, China and the Philippines. And it is spreading to the rest of the world along with Muslim immigration.

France has been experiencing Islamist violence for years. There are Muslim ghettos where civil authority has been ceded to the Muslim immigrants. De facto sharia law is in place in these ghettos. Hundreds of cars are burned in frequent protests. Women are victimized by Muslims. Jews are routinely attacked. The Muslim immigrants use violence and intimidation to cow the native population into concessions. They also use the legal rights afforded them by their adopted country to shield themselves from any criticism. And the self-loathing liberal media, government and education institutions are bending over backwards to help them with their conquest. The liberals like to think they are being generous and open-minded. What they are really doing is just finding excuses to avoid having to fight for the freedoms they enjoy.

It's not just France that is facing this threat. Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Ireland and the UK are already on this path of eventual surrender to Islamists. So is Canada. The United States will also face this threat. We have recently taken in large numbers of Muslim immigrants from Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Nigeria and other Muslim nations. Our Constitution inoculates us to a degree from some of the problems, but not completely. As long as we have liberal multiculturalists who prevent immigrants from assimilating into American culture and apologists who seek to shield Islamists from criticism at all costs, we will be at risk.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words.....or Photo Ops

Socialist French president tried to keep Netanyahu from participating in Paris anti-terror march.

 

If you know anything about Leftists, this shouldn't surprise you. And this should also tell you that this event was nothing more than a photo op. None those Euro leaders will do what must be done to protect their people and their culture. The presence of Mahmoud Abbas is ample proof of that. They will continue the appeasement of Islamists and, eventually, Western Europe will be part of the Caliphate and two thousand years of civilization and progress will be lost. Native Europeans will enjoy the lives now experienced by Coptic Christians in Egypt; second class humans whose existence only continues at the will of the Muslims.

The Frankfurt School of Marxist ideology brought us cultural Marxism. Traditional Marxism envisioned that class warfare would bring down the existing order and allow society to be rebuilt into the worker's paradise. In practice, that never materialized except in a few isolated instances. Cultural Marxism pits the various demographic groups within society against the existing social order. The goal is still the same; tear down existing power structures and the establishment of an Earthly Utopia. This ideology is no different than other Utopian fantasies.....except for the violent destruction of existing norms at the start. All Utopian fantasies share one fundamental flaw; that man is somehow perfectible. Man is fundamentally flawed, so any political/cultural ideology that relies on the absolute altruism of man is doomed to failure. If this were just some hippies who want to build a commune out in the woods and pretend that they have created Utopia, it wouldn't be much of a problem. But none of the ideologies derived from Marxism are willing to take like-minded people and go off to create a new society. All Marxist-inspired ideologies want to change the entire society, regardless of the wishes of individuals. This is why there is always a loss of liberty and frequently the loss of life that goes along with the rise of Leftist power. They think they are doing what is best for all of society and whoever refuses to go along with the plan is a threat. So, I guess you could say that Marxism and Islam have that in common.

 

Justification of Cowardice

Mark Steyn's latest piece on the Islamist terror attacks and the response by the politicians and newsmedia is an absolute must read.

That line he quotes from Barbara Amiel's column; "They convert the base notion of being scared into a noble weapon of seeing someone else's point of view." really got me thinking. This behavior of claiming the moral high ground as a justification for appeasement and surrender is nothing new to the Left. They have done this from the end of World War II all the way to the present. The American Left sought to appease the Soviet Union at every turn. Part of this was due to their shared ideology. Both were working for the same goal; just with different tactics. But the Soviets were much more willing to use force to achieve their goal. This scared the American Leftists. They knew that to oppose Soviet expansionism involved danger. Rather than accept that danger as the price of freedom, the American Left came up with any number of justifications for why we should not oppose the Soviets.

This cowardice raised it ugly head again in the Vietnam War. Throughout their entire lives, the baby boomers had enjoyed a standard of living never before seen by any nation on Earth. Their parents struggled through the Great Depression and sacrificed mightily to win World War II. They passed on to to their children world leadership, safety and prosperity. And like spoiled children, the baby boomers ignored the lessons of their parent's sacrifices and thought only of themselves. When came their time to defend freedom and our interests around the world, the baby boomers refused. Evidently their precious asses were more important than the needs of the nation. Oh, they came up with all sorts of moral objections to the war. I guess that's just easier than admitting that you are afraid to fight for your country. So we got lots of books, scholarly papers, movies, poems and songs about the immorality of war and the injustices of fighting non-Caucasians. Anything to justify not having to put themselves in danger.

The Reagan era brought about new heights in rationalizing why we shouldn't confront the Soviet expansionism. Throughout the 70's the Leftists around the free world made all sorts of excuses as to why we should not fight for our freedom. They created all new narratives to support their position; alternate histories, really. Anything to provide some sort of rational for doing nothing to preserve our way of life. As the excuses piled up, so did the nations falling to the scourge of communism. Millions of people around the world had lost their freedom. But the Western youth stayed safe and sound once they retreated up to the moral high ground. Reagan terrified them, because he wasn't willing to appease the Soviets. He knew the dangers of communism and was willing to fight to prevent its spread. The Western Leftists were so invested in their justifications for appeasement, they came to view Reagan as more of a threat than the Soviets. As it turns out, Reagan was right. He challenged the Soviets, using the strength of free markets and free peoples. The communists were unable to match our power and the Soviet empire fell apart.

When it was necessary for us to restore freedom to Kuwait, the American Leftists again came up with rationalizations against military action. New excuses were trotted out. "No blood for oil" was a common refrain. Somehow, the leftists came to the conclusion that fighting for economic necessity was not morally defensible. All industrialized societies are dependent on cheap energy and petrochemicals. That is a fact of life. You can bitch about materialism and consumerism all you want, but it doesn't change the basic facts of life. All the enviro-socialist wet dreams about renewable energy don't help us maintain a modern industrial society. We are dependent on cheap oil. That is a fact. We have to make our energy, national security and foreign policy decisions based on facts; not wishes, hopes and fears.

The rise of the Islamist threat is being met with the same fear and appeasement as the earlier threats of communism. When it comes right down to it, the Left would rather surrender or acquiesce to any foreign threat than have to stand up and fight. Better red than dead was their earlier mantra. Now it appears that they would be willing to pay the Jizziya tax, condemn women to the status of chattel and accept Muslim subjugation to fighting for our freedom. If these craven appeasers remain in power you better learn the shahada. Or maybe we just learn to ignore them and stand up and fight for freedom ourselves.

Hiding the Threat

The mainstream media will lie, misrepresent and omit information in order to craft a narrative that meets their world view. The New York Times is desperately trying to prevent its readers from drawing any association between Islam and the acts of terrorism committed by Islamists. They don't want to acknowledge that these terrorists are motivated by their religion. They don't want you to know the truth. Why would you ever trust the New York Times or any other mainstream media outlet? You have to look at multiple sources and exercise critical thinking skills to really know what is happening.

Why does the New York Times feel it is necessary to hide this very important fact about the Charlie Hebdo terror attack? Well, they are progressives and leftists. These people are driven by their ideology. The problem is that their ideology is more of a cult-like religious belief than an organized system of ideas that is informed by facts and logic. These leftists have certain beliefs that they follow unquestioningly. They don't allow little distractions like facts and history to sway them from their beliefs. They are more than willing to lie and obfuscate in order to further their beliefs. They will advance their ideology by any means necessary.

The leftists have an established belief that western civilization and Christianity are fundamentally bad and that they are responsible for all the ills that are suffered by the rest of the world. Muslims are considered to be victims of Christianity and western imperialism. Because of this narrative, leftists feel they must protect Muslims. Leftists are arrogant elitists with a completely undeserved sense of intellectual and moral superiority. They feel that they are the only ones who can help and protect these 'victims'. And they will do whatever is necessary to protect this 'victim' culture. If that means lying to the readers of their newspaper, then so be it. These leftists don't care about reality; only the narrative they have created. They don't care if their lies put the lives of westerners in danger. The leftist easily justify that because they think that westerners are responsible for all the bad in the world.

UPDATE

Vox tries to tell us it’s not about Islam

Vox's Ezra Klein, progressive media wunderkind, does some of that newsplaining about the Charlie Hebdo terror attack. It seems it wasn't terrorism and it had nothing to do with Islam*. Just a random murder by a sick mind. Actually it wasn't random. Police and experts are saying it showed a degree of planning. Oh yeah, and it wasn't just some crazy nut. It was three crazy nuts working concert; premeditated and executing a plan and screaming Allahu akbar. But other than that it was just a random act of violence. You know; like that random workplace violence at Ft. Hood.

And remember, it’s a tragedy and a crime; not a statement or a controversy.

Let me explain this to you, Ezra. Every time an Islamist recites the Takbir as he saws off a head, rapes a prisoner, pulls a trigger or detonates a bomb, he is saying that his god is greatest.  That is a statement of supremacy. There is a reason why Islamists say this as they are subjugating, brutalizing and killing their enemies. They are kafir-infidels. Kafir don't have rights under sharia. Kafir must be subjugated, forced to convert or killed. That was the word of the prophet.

Thank God we have really smart journalists who can explain the news to us rubes who are too stupid to figure things out for ourselves.

*Oddly enough, the article that explained so well that this had nothing to do with Islam was tagged: RELIGION