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The Standard Reaction to London’s Mass Murder
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- 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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I have a picture of my wife to be in 1976, and again in 2015 standing on that spot with Big Ben in the background.
Little did I know I was putting her at risk, it seemed such a quintessential “English” spot.
Perhaps that’s why the terrorist chose it.
No problem if you don’t want to answer, but i thought I would ask so I know who to avoid in the future as I am new here. Who was the Commentator?
Apparently, the attacker was UK-born. The trend of western-born Muslim supremacists terrorizing their home countries is disturbing. It suggests that immigration ‘bans’ will only combat a shrinking subset of terrorism.
This may seem like a stretch, but it brings to mind the IRS scandal, in which the permanent bureaucracy was found to have abused its power for political reasons. That sort of behavior might be expected once in a while from political appointees, but once it spreads to the bureaucracy as a whole, it is a dire sign. In the same way, foreigners committing terrorist acts is one thing; a country’s own citizens doing so, using low-tech methods such as vehicles and knives, is a similarly dire sign.
Yep…Ouch, for sure; oh, and: Whose ‘diversity’ are we talking about here? So many flavors…Sad that we in the West don’t know/care who we were anymore; or who we *need* to be right now.
[Edit for relevance and clarity.]
The trouble is, home-grown or not, they still get the same kind of brainwashing from their foreign-born Islamic radical Parents!
Someone on Special Report’s panel, not a regular…Will double-check and update. (Not someone on Ricochet.)
Thank You
One of the all-time greats; Mr. Spencer is tireless in his mission to educate…
American progressivism may be imploding, but the British/Continental version seems to be taking up the slack, unfortunately.
18. It’s the fault of the NRA. Even though no firearms were involved. Because of the culture of violence they promote… or something.
No. In the long run it will at least reduce the exposure. We don’t need anymore potential terrorists, either those who immigrate or their spawn.
Rule #1 Stop the bleeding.
The answer is, “Yes”.
Watch, or listen to, Hillsdale colleges’s course on Athens and Sparta. I think it in the second lecture that the professor discusses why the east and west were at odds and incompatible 2000 years ago. The things he talks about are still true today. One society believes that religion is the law and you are not free to think or do anything outside of the religious rules. The other society believes if individual freedoms. The two societies are not compatible.
That doesn’t mean that people from one society can’t blend in and function in the other society, but it does require they blend in. They cannot continue to live in the other society if they behave the same way they did before. This is one reason immigration needs to be limited. When a relatively small group of people enter a new society they tend to blend in and live by that society’s rules and values. If an extremely large group of immigrants enter a society at the same time they tend to stay together as a group and to do blend in. If their basic values are not the same, there will be conflict.
I can’t find the exact source so I could quote him exactly, wish I could, but before he was Sec’y of Defense Mattis said that the seeds of ISIS are inherent in Islam. We can defeat ISIS now but we will have to keep on doing so regularly, as has been happening since 600 AD.
I’d also include Robert Reilly’s: https://smile.amazon.com/Closing-Muslim-Mind-Intellectual-Islamist-ebook/dp/B00JBRUKZS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1490287944&sr=8-1&keywords=the+closing+of+the+muslim+mind
I should have written, “It suggests that immigration ‘bans’ will only combat a shrinking subset of terrorism” (corrected).
I should also add that I think the administration should effect whatever “bans” it deems necessary, within the law and reason, if they are expected to reduce terrorism.
Has it even been 24 hours?
Madness, utter madness yet across the Western world governments are visiting this upon their own citizens.
Don’t just take it from Boss Mongo (though the Boss seems a fine source )
Take it from one of the foremost Western scholars of all things Islam, Bernard Lewis…
…here is an extract from Bernard Lewis, The Political Language of Islam (University of Chicago Press, 1988), pp. 2-3:
“When we in the Western world, nurtured in the Western tradition, use the words “Islam” and “Islamic”, we tend to make a natural error and assume that religion means the same for Muslims as it has meant in the Western world, even in medieval times; that is to say, a section or compartment of life reserved for certain matters, and separate, or at least separable, from other compartments of life designed to hold other matters. That is not so in the Islamic world. It was never so in the past, and the attempt in modern times to make it so may perhaps be seen, in the longer perspective of history, as an unnatural aberration which in Iran has ended and in some other Islamic countries may also be nearing its end. “
If it’s just a separate compartment of life than it’s not really religion.
Not to get off into the theological weeds … But I’d argue that “Give to Caesar that which is Caesar’s. Give to God that which is God’s” implies that there are separations. Indeed separation of church and state requires it.
I suggested this to my sister, yesterday.
Her response was, “but most of them don’t want to carry guns.”
She worked as an independent contractor for the West Midlands Police for decades, and knows quite a few, so I’m sure she’s reporting their thoughts accurately.
My response to her response was, “well, maybe after a few more days like today, they’ll change their minds.”
She agreed that might be the case . . . .
Something about certain events concentrating the mind springs to mind.
That’s actually a very good counter to my statement. Or a limit on the extremes to which it could be taken. Thanks for the reminder.
The perpetrator lived, till very recently, just down the road from my Auntie Pat, on the Hagley Road in Edgbaston (Birmingham).
My brother-in-law flew down from Scotland on Tuesday morning to see the selfsame Auntie Pat, and rented his car at the same car rental branch that the perpetrator rented his from, on “Monday or Tuesday,” (according to the Telegraph).
When you live in Birmingham (England’s second-largest city), they are that close.
Yikes, She!
And
18. The more modern, officially correct translation of “allahu akbar” is “my motives for doing this are unclear at this time.”