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The Standard Reaction to London’s Mass Murder
Get ready. Here are the steps:
- This has nothing to do with Islam and he does not represent Islam.
- Claim it to be the religion of peace.
- It’s blowback for the west being in the Middle East.
- The guy was mentally ill.
- It is “lone wolf attack.”
- It’s just part of living in a big city.
- Claim Christians do these things too.
- Those who object are racist bigots.
- Change Facebook profile to flag of inflicted country.
- Light some candles, hold a vigil and go on a peace march.
- Some lad will sing “Imagine.”
- Forget the dead.
- Have articles banging on about how we have to protect Muslims.
- Ignore the attacker’s religion, motivations, or ideology.
- Claim Muslims are the real victims.
- Wait for the next Islamic terrorist attack to happen.
Courtesy of Facebook.
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17. I forgot to add politicians and media talk about not giving in to violence and protecting our values.
Which is meaningless. What are the West’s values today? Really ask a politician a writer or a celebrity who is informed. They will blather words. Meaningless words.
Thats why in long term these extremists will win without God’s intervention. And we deserve to be defeated.
I think it is probably time to start arming more London police officers.
I was there two years ago last summer. I liked some of the cops I talked to outside Downing Street. But the place isnt an English city anymore. Its like a a ghetto of another country in Asia and Africa sadly. I saw more foreigners than English. It was an eye opener.
The legacy of globalist secular liberalism. Death.
Why do you say its like another ghetto? How is not like an English city anymore? I was thinking that when I herd his on the radio. I am wondering when in history has such a massive migration all of a sudden happened? What happens when the majority becomes the minority?
Is Islam a faith or an ideology that controls all aspects of life, therefore not compatible with the West? People should be able to come and go and live where they want, but respect the country and its laws that they are in. Is this terror going to stop and how?
Eeekkk, I just heard a commentator (on a news panel here in the U.S.) call this kind of attack “normal”! Huh?
[Edit for clarity.]
It sounds a lot like PJ O’Rourke’s The Piece of Ireland that Passeth all Understanding from “Give War a Chance,” when the British sergeant he was talking to said, regarding the deaths in Northern Ireland (then about three a day), “This is an acceptable level of violence.”
Yes.
You also forgot to add:
18. The media breathlessly reporting, when some poor Sikh store clerk gets punched by some idiot redneck, how the innocents of the Religion Of Peace™ are under attack™ by the blind intolerance™ of people on the Right.
We can arm all the cops we want. It’s not going to improve till we stop allowing the Barbarians inside the gates.
You also forgot the “I stand with London” ribbons for people to wear when they’re away, in some safe location.
I just heard some idiot say that this sort thing is “part and parcel of living in a big city”. Then I found out that the idiot is the Muslim mayor of London. Well ain’t that special.
When I was at that very spot in London last summer there was a big impromptu floral memorial to Jo Cox, the MP who had been stabbed by a Brexit supporter. Or so the narrative went. Those barmy nationalists, you know: that’s the real threat.
It begins: “Five Dead, Around 40 Injured In UK Parliament ‘Terrorist’ Attack” says OANN headline.
Why the quote marks? Aargh!
Mohammed can get stuffed right along with all the other followers of his unholy, barbaric creed.
You ever notice there seems to be a lot of these Muslim lone wolf attack people. You would almost think they were part of a bigger pack that the government will not recognize.
Yep. It’s willful ignorance due to political correctness.
A few more possible steps:
Establish possible native birth, even if to immigrants with deep terrorist background. “Home-grown” is the adjective to establish.
Establish sexual identity confusion which can relate the act to homophobia
Establish background of workplace or school discrimination or bullying so act can be seen as responsive to prevailing pathologies
Recite fun facts like actuarial data comparing deaths per annum from similar attacks to deaths from falls off furniture or deaths due to malfunctioning sex toys.
American progressivism continues to implode, right before our eyes. What an awesome sight.
Maybe the cops should carry guns?
All of the items you cite, Paddy, refer to people trying to do or say something meaningful … only now we’re at the point where we’ve heard them so often, and we’ve seen how they really don’t have any effect … that these empty phrases instead boomerang on the speakers to highlight just how meaningless they are. Virtue signaling is now, ironically, proof that you don’t have any real virtue.
The Russkies hacked the Brexit vote causing, wait for it…Brexit to become a major recruiting tool for Al Qaeda, ISIS and some of the more radical wicket-keepers of the Leicestershire County Cricket Club.
“But Timothy McVeigh…!”
In time to save us from speculating in darkness:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/mar/23/attack-on-westminster-how-the-papers-reported-a-deadly-day
17. Something about Jews.
My fave is “We are Not Afraid”. Really? Then you’re delusional.
I’m reminded of Yoda’s reply to Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back: “You will be. You will be.”
I was talking to a Prog about Omar Mateen. He looked at me with a pitying stare and said, “You know he was gay, right?”
The more I think about that……uh, what?
He was gay so he killed a bunch of gay people because of self-hatred?
He was gay so anything he did could be explained in terms of the hatred “we” direct toward gays in general?
He was gay and that’s so much the core of his identity that his declared religious motive (he couldn’t have been clearer about it) HAS to b just a transparent, pitiable attempt to cover for the helpless rage he felt about his sexual preference?
No, I guess it’s more like :He was gay, so shut up! because how dare you presume to judge his mass-murdering actions when you can’t possibly imagine what it’s like to be gay?
Rereading this, I think you could almost substitute “Muslim” for ” gay” above…..I guess this is what they call “intersectionality”.
What Islam Isn’t…Dr. Peter Hammond
Highly encourage that you pick up (and maybe even read) The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam.
Islam expert Robert Spencer reveals Islam’s ongoing, unshakable quest for global conquest and why the West today faces the same threat as the Crusaders did–and what we can learn from their experience.
Hardcover, 270 pages
Published July 13th 2005 by Regnery Publishing Inc (first published January 1st 2001)
Original Title: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)