This and That #13

Do not ever, ever, believe a word of mainstream reporting about President Trump or the state of the Right in American politics.

The goal of every article on either subject is to persuade us that we will lose every election always so why bother being active in politics or voting. They are determined to demoralize us.

They are desperate for us to stand down. Do not believe a word they say. Not Ever.

Follow this link and scroll down a bit for a fabulous clip of highlights from last Saturday's Tulsa event.

Three more thoughts on this subject.

You have read, no doubt, about the less than predicted turn out for that rally. You may not have read that it was viewed by 11.77 million people on three cable networks.

A lot of us have been complaining about the "dirty trick" played on the campaign by lefties reserving tickets with no intention of showing up. We shouldn't be. It was during either the 2008 or 2016 Presidential campaign that Rush Limbaugh urged us to vote in the Dem primaries to prolong their agony. We thought it hilarious. We ought not to be hypocrites. That is what they do.

I am sure you have seen stories about the President, Ivanka and Jared Kushner being furious about the event. The reason is that these people, unlike so many of us in and out of government, strive for success. Failure is met with fury, denunciation and often, replacement. That is how success is built.

Failing upward has become all too common. The Trumps will have none of it. Thank Goodness.

UPDATE

As if we needed more reason to believe that mainstream outlets are just lying sacks of crap, Yahoo's home page is now leading with this headline:

"Biden to Land Endorsement from Key GOP Group"

Really? It seemed an odd construction to me and I wondered what "Key Group" this might be. It is a "Key Group" that does not exist.

"Dozens of Republican former U.S. national security officials are forming a group that will back Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, people familiar with the effort said, in a further sign that President Donald Trump has alienated some members of his own party." (Emphasis added)

Do not believe a word, not a word they say. Volunteer, donate and vote!

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Who the racists really are.

 

"The district: Georgia's 3rd Congressional district stretches from Columbus to Atlanta and has a sizable Black population. According to FiveThirtyEight, the district has a 97.3 percent chance of being represented by a Republican."

Oh My Gawd!

So, Republicans can only represent white people. Who Knew. Tim Scott might have a different take on the matter.

 All On The Line is an organization created with the blessing and support of Obama and Eric Holder. Two disgraceful race baiting hustlers without an ounce of integrity between them (I know. I should tell you what I really think.). I have been on their mailing list for some time.

The organization is dedicated to the proposition that gerrymandering is an anti-democratic racist plague. They are correct. They should know. It has existed in this country since the early 1800's but became an epidemic in the attempt to create black majority congressional districts in the last 50 years.

Things didn't work out for the racists. They discovered gerrymandering worked in both directions, so now they lay it at our feet and pretend to have clean hands.

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 I have written before about Islam, The Religion of Pieces. That is, after all, how its victims end up.

There was another murderous stabbing spree by one of its adherents recently. Not news, not surprising.

Unfortunately another part of the story is also not news and not surprising.

"The suspect is also believed to have come to the attention of MI5 last year, after they suspected he was planning on travelling (sic) to Syria. However, an investigation revealed no risk or threat and he was not under surveillance at the time of yesterday's rampage."

Western cultural suicide abets another murder spree.

We should all be prepared to defend ourselves. The "authorities" are no longer willing to do so.

The Religion of Peace, Again. Again

Well, another week, another massacre in England thanks to our Islamic friends.

I wrote on May 23, after the Manchester attack,

"So where are all these moderate Muslims and why are they not speaking up?

I think, faced with this obvious paradox, we must conclude that we non-Muslims have invented a species of Muslim whose collective silence argues against their existence."

The silence of the "moderate" Muslims was broken, finally.

Well, kind of. This piece is written by a person I assume is a "moderate" Muslim. It is well worth the read. Here is a taste.

"While living safely under Britain’s rule of law, they nonetheless view British society as beneath contempt. They don’t want to be part of it, and they teach people like Salman Abedi that it’s a mortal sin for them to want to be part of it. Anything that happens to a Muslim anywhere in the world, once passed through the Islamist victimhood filter, becomes an anti-Muslim act for which the guilty must be punished. And so it seems that Abedi’s actions were the result of this solipsistic staple of Islamist indoctrination. In a country, and a city, where young men run the risk of falling prey to knife crime, Abedi interpreted the stabbing of a friend as an anti-Muslim ‘hate crime’, and swore revenge on the society around him.'"

The author certainly sounds like what we conjure up as a "moderate" Muslim.

Trouble is, he is so certain of the grateful support he will receive from the other 1.2 billion or so "moderate" Muslims worldwide for speaking out that he has to use a pseudonym. No doubt they will kill him when they find him.

Back here in the USA I see that "moderate" Muslims are indeed capable of public demonstrations.





New York – Muslims continued on with their civilization Jihad as they took over the street in front of Trump Tower during ‘Iftar’ or ‘breaking their Ramadan fast’.

Just not public demonstrations condemning their murderous coreligionists. The real problem for them, as usual, is us and our bigoted President.

The reason for the lack of public repudiation of the Jihadis is easily explained. While they probably wouldn't pull the trigger or slash a throat themselves, "moderate" Muslims are quite content with it being done. Islam is a triumphalist religion/ideology which robustly declares that the one true god is Allah, his prophet is Mohamed and, if you are not a Muslim you are a second class person. They obviously believe this and are content to pursue both violent and demographic means to bury western civilization.

I think I have linked to and written about Roger L. Simon before. He is a big talent. A successful Hollywood screenwriter, blogger and former liberal. He published the linked article today. We all make mistakes. His prescription for the reform of Islam is, in my view, misguided and useless. The reason it is useless is this;

"To be clear, this is not about bad people (many Muslims are fine human beings), but about a malignant ideology from the seventh century that must be expunged for the survival of all."

They are not fine human beings. If they were they would have risen up against this appalling creed long ago.

I am sure they love their children. Oh, wait, they happily send them out in suicide attacks, so maybe they have a different definition of parental love than we do. After all, they will enter paradise immediately. That is not love. It is depravity. A depravity being condoned by silence.

As the saying goes, freedom is not free. We cannot talk these people into "moderation". The practice of their religion, whether jihadist or "moderate", must be stopped in the west.
There is no "until" in my formulation.

Let them stay in all those countries of the world where they already dominate. Given the superiority of their religion and culture, why should they want to leave? Let them kill each other, Sunni and Shiite alike, to their hearts' content.

Keep in mind how we got here. We turned the Saudis into mega billionaires. They used many of those billions to export their particularly vicious  version of  Islam, Wahhabism, all over the world.

We had to have their oil so we turned a blind eye. Deal with the devil and all that. The devil is now taking his repayment in the form of dismembered, by various means, men, women and children. We no longer need their oil. We no longer need them. We no longer have to put up with their murderous barbarism.

Mr. Simon suggests that we gather all their leaders together in a huge conclave and insist that they "reform" their religion. Mr. Simon, with respect, that is a fools errand. Your suggestion that there be economic penalties for not applying themselves to this task is a pipe dream.

There are no metrics by which to appropriately place blame. The complexity of the problem combined with, except for Donald Trump, spineless western leadership would drown any such program before it could produce a single desirable result.

This is not a fight in which we prevail by trying, for the millionth time, to get these people to behave by applying western tactics of persuasion. Coercion is required, as un-American, illiberal and uncomfortable as it is for us.

My suggestion is for all of us to stop pretending Muslims are just another group of immigrants anxious to become Americans. We must confront them at every opportunity and demand that they denounce their coreligionists, if not their religion, as the purveyors of murder and triumphalism that they are.

The Religion of Peace Lashes Out Again

In the wake of the latest Muslim outrage, the Manchester bombing, it is very reassuring to see millions of peaceful Muslims in the streets chanting "Not In MY Name" and taking to their pulpits, the airwaves, internet and press to denounce yet another in an apparently never ending series of vicious, brutal, attacks...

Oh, right. Silence. Again.

WTC 1993, silence.
9/11, silence.
Madrid 2004, silence.
London 2007, silence.
Fort Hood 2009, silence.
Boston 2013, silence.
San Bernadino 2015, silence.
Orlando 2016, silence.
Paris, Brussels, London again. On and on it goes. Silence.
Hundreds of other attacks worldwide, silence.

Silence.

Can you imagine any huge group of people, (more than 1.6 billion in this case) adherents to a supposedly sacred text, watching in silence as their sacred text is allegedly warped into a murderous creed? It is behavior completely at odds with ordinary human conduct.

So where are all these moderate Muslims and why are they not speaking up?

I think, faced with this obvious paradox, we must conclude that we non-Muslims have invented a species of Muslim whose collective silence argues against their existence.

Perhaps Indonesians are the moderate Muslims we hope exist. Well, maybe.

"Jakarta’s Christian governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as Ahok, was found guilty of blasphemy and has been sentenced to two years in prison in Indonesia on Tuesday."

His crime?

" Ahok was the first ethnic Chinese Christian to run the nation’s capital, and was accused of insulting Islam by referring to a verse in the Koran during a campaign speech, which was met with strong disapproval by religious hardliners."

A non-Muslim dared to interpret a verse of the Koran in a manner that "hardliners" disapproved and is going to jail. For 2 years! At least they didn't kill him. Their restraint is most admirable. Moderate Muslims at work.

I believe moderate Muslims exist in about the same numbers as unicorns.

Western governments are operating under a deadly delusion and putting ordinary citizens at risk every day. Muslim immigration to the West should be stopped, in total, now.

What makes all this so much more infuriating is that the people we employ to protect us from them can't or won't. Early reports suggest that the Manchester bomber was "known" to authorities.

The Boston bombers, Fort Hood shooter, San Bernadino shooters and Orlando shooter were all "known" to authorities.

It is obviously beyond the abilities of western law enforcement agencies, playing by western rules of police engagement, to deal with this army of in place terrorists. No more kids should be murdered in the name of political correctness or moderate Muslims.

Islam, again

I have linked to Andrew McCarthy of NRO before. He  recently wrote about Islam and why our policies with respect to identifying the problems it has and dealing with them have been such a failure.

He has more than a passing familiarity with Islam and its practitioners having been the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York when the "Blind Sheik" tried to take down the World Trade Center in 1993 . The "Sheik" and his minions remain in jail.

In his recent article he makes a distinction that I think is very important and had not previously occurred to me.

"...it should by now be perfectly obvious that that there is no “Islam,” at least not if we are talking about a monolithic belief system. There are sects of Islam, all vying for supremacy in what is, in the main, a conquest ideology — with the various splinters having very different ideas about what conquest entails, and with no papal analogue to impose order by decreeing orthodoxy and condemning heterodoxy."

His context for this assertion is the vacuousness of our current administration and its unwillingness to identify the problem. Some major Islamic factions are our enemies and ought to be identified as such. Claiming, as Mrs. Clinton did in the immediate aftermath of the Nice massacre: "Let’s be clear: Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism." is just wrong.

 

Major factions of Islam are our adversary and we would do well to understand this as clearly as Mr. McCarthy does.