Category Archives: Islam

The Dance Of Dunces

So it’s not only our country’s media (in recent days Wolf Blitzer and this woman from Slate) and constabulary that do the dance of dunces when it comes to Islam and the proclivities of its practitioners. Police in Hamburg, north Germany, have told the citizenry that the motive of an attack on the Hamburger Morgenpost, a newspaper that published the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, “is still under investigation.” The paper was “firebombed overnight Sunday.”

I don’t want to insult the ostrich community …

We’re winning.

I Said ‘Sentimentality’; Steyn Says ‘Screw Your Hashtag Solidarity’

Ilana Mercer, Islam, Jihad, Media, Terrorism

It doesn’t happen often, but just this time it feels good to be able to say, for once, that my “Show Of Solidarity Or Sentimentality? Winning À La The West” (01.07.15)—a post pertaining to the pens-up “defiance” in the wake of the slaughter at Charlie Hebdo—is considerably milder than Mark Steyn’s version of the same sickened sentiment (Jan 9, 2015):

MARK STEYN: These men were exceptionally brave. Most of the people expressing solidarity with them are not that brave. … And to be honest, it makes me vomit to see people holding these Princess Dianafied candlelit vigils, and using the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie – I am Charlie -and in effect appropriating these guys’ sacrifice for this bogus solidarity. It makes me sick to see all these ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’ cartoons that have appeared in newspapers all over the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Australia, everywhere, from other cartoonists, again expressing solidarity with these very brave men – but not doing what they did…

These guys are dead because back in 2005, these Danish cartoons were published in an obscure Jutland newspaper, and a bunch of fanatics went bananas and started killing people over them. So a couple of publications on the planet, including mine in Canada, and Charlie Hebdo in Paris, published these cartoons… Le Monde didn’t, and the Times of London didn’t, and the New York Times didn’t, and nobody else did. And as a result, these fellows in Charlie Hebdo became the focus of murderous rage. If we’d all just published them on the front page and said “If you want to kill us, you go to hell, you can’t just kill a couple of obscure Danes, you’re going to have to kill us all”, we wouldn’t have this problem. But because nobody did that, these Parisian guys are dead. They’re dead. And I’ve been on enough, I’ve been on enough events in Europe with less famous cartoonists than these who live under death threats, live under armed guard, have had their family restaurant firebombed – it’s happened to a Norwegian comedienne I know – have come home and found their home burned, as a Swedish artist I know happened to. And all these people doing the phony hashtag solidarity, screw your phony hashtag solidarity. Let’s have some real solidarity – or if not, at least have the good taste to stay the hell out of it.

(A somewhat related critique of Steyn is here.)

Some People Need Killing

Crime, Islam, Jihad, Justice, Terrorism

Breaking. 2:08 AM Pacific Time: “Presumably they’ll want to take them alive” so that justice can be meted, said the BBC News anchor to a fellow reporter, who was reporting from the scene of “a warehouse in northern France,” where the suspects implicated in the Charlie Hebdo massacre are holed up, as I write.

Shots have been fired and there are reports of a hostage being taken as French police close in on suspects linked to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
Several people are said to have been wounded at Dammartin-en-Goele, 35km (22 miles) from Paris, but officials denied reports of deaths.
Negotiations between the gunmen and police are now under way, reports say.
The development comes nearly 48 hours after the attack on the magazine’s office, when 12 people were shot dead.
The heavily armed gunmen fled Paris by car after the attack.
A convoy of police vehicles has been seen heading by motorway to Dammartin-en-Goele.

(BBC News)

Justice will be served just fine if the the French kill these two on site. I hope to awaken later this morning and hear that these devils have been dispatched, their decent into hell hastened, rather than that they are headed for a French resorts for the next 30 years (commensurate with sentencing in France).

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For Media, Lying About Islam A Hard Habit To Break

Islam, Media

The malfunctioning Media must have gotten something of a fright at the horrific events unfolding in Paris, where France’s top cartoonists and satirists were taken out by their French compatriots, practitioners of Islam. Living in a parallel reality as the media do has its price. The Fourth Estate (media) has moved the country into the Third Dimension. They lie so much that when shit happens that scares them; they no longer know where to turn for the truth.

But desperate times call for desperate measures. Truth tellers who seldom get a hearing on the idiot’s lantern, Fox News included, have been called upon to shed light where media and their cyphers in skirts have shed only darkness.

Thus, yesterday Megyn Kelly’s “expert” on Islam was Brooke Goldstein; she is generally Kelly’s choice on matters Muslim. Unless good looks qualify one to expatiate on Islam, Goldstein is gormless; she knows next to nothing meaningful about Islam. Yet she and her ilk are fixtures on TV talking about the topic.

Today, however, Megyn Kelly traded Goldstein for Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whom Kelly had only ever interviewed, in the past, about women in Islam and not about Islam.

Ayaan is valuable in what she says about Islam, not in the cures she advocates (intellectual outreach):

“All that violence you can no longer divorce from the religion of Islam,” she told Kelly.

Like Kelly, Anderson Cooper had also decided to quit beating about the bush. He was treated to tougher words from Ayaan:

the most important bit of it is to face the grim reality that this is embedded in the religion that we were brought up in. I happen to have left the religion, … but at some point we have to face the grim fact, it is an ugly fact, it’s a fact we want to turn away from, no one wants to turn away that fact more from than I am.
This is embedded in Islam, and the best way to fix this is to acknowledge that, and when you talk about attitudes and our mindsets, the first thing comes to my mind is it is an attitude toward the Qur’an. These individuals who committed this crime and all of these people who are committing this crime, they treat the Qur’an like a driver’s manual. They look at their Prophet Muhammad as a moral guide for today, and if they look at the Prophet Muhammad as a moral guide on some instances, that would be OK, but in some instances, he cannot be a moral guide.
And that’s … the rest of us who are brought in the house of Islam, we need to stand up and to say in many ways the Prophet Muhammad cannot be a moral guide. That is what Charlie Hebdo was doing. If we want to be a part of civilized society, we have to say that the Prophet Muhammad, especially in his years after Medina, he cannot be a moral guide for good. He was from our 21st century perspective absolutely immoral. We have to satirize that…

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch would have bested Ayaan Hirsi Ali by far.