Just as some media still pretend the phrase “radical Islam,” deployed by Megyn Kelly again today, is not a redundancy—Islam is radical—others make believe that when individuals shoot up a place of business yelling praise for their vampiric godhead, “the motive … of the perpetrators [is] still unknown.” How many journalists like Ms. Krule of Slate still pretend, with each Islam-inspired atrocity, the we have a Whodunit to unravel?
On Satire
Satire—caricatures included—is a highly civilized and refined way of exposing ‘folly, vice, or stupidity,’ to follow the dictionary. The dictionary defines satire as ‘a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.’ Writers, this one included, have instantiated in writing the questions the cartoons of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo posed in pictures.
With a cartoon, a subset of satire, ‘the subject’s distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect,’ so as to bring to the fore the illustrator’s perspective. The Charlie Hebdo satirical spoofing, like the 12 Jyllands-Posten cartoons before it, did not in the least exaggerate the connection between the example the prophet set, his teachings, including the exhortation to Jihad, and the violence that convulses a critical mass of Muslims.
Only Dutchman Geert Wilders Edifies
It is to be expected. The only edifying words to come from a politician, worldwide, in response to the craven, yet characteristic massacre, today, of staff at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, come from Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders:
The West is at war and should de-Islamize.
“… Wilders, leader of the anti-Islam Party of Freedom PVV … responded quickly via Twitter. ‘Just requested a debate with Prime Minister Rutte after the terrible attack in Paris,’ he tweeted.”
While Wilders’ full statement, via Vlad Tepes, is not endorsed here in full—it does contain more than a kernel of truth regarding the solution to “Islam’s bloody borders,” in the worlds of Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington.
Said Geert Wilders: “We have to close our borders, reinstate border controls, get rid of political correctness, introduce administrative detention, and stop immigration from Islamic countries. We must defend ourselves. Enough is enough.”
If experience tells us anything, there are certainly better candidates for immigration to the West—minority South Africans, perhaps?—than practitioners of the religion of peace.
Who’s Racist? Charlie Rangel Is
In an attempt to wrangle black police officers into defying their training to be more like him, Democratic New York Rep. Charles Rangel blurted out a home truth about the proclivities among men of his racial sensibilities: “In the Korean War, only black deaths bothered me. … I never was moved until I saw dead people that looked like me in my uniform. And it does make a difference.”
Yes, who is more likely, in aggregate, to embody this tribal racialism? Whites, who’re forever marching alongside blacks victimized, or blacks whom one seldom sees standing up for whites victimized?