Leftists in the United States and Europe have responded to the terror attack in Manchester as they have to previous incidents of mass murder by Islamic Supremacists… by expressing their unwavering solidarity with “Muslim Communities” whose feelings might be hurt by “Islamophobia” and the fear of a backlash.
Manchester City Council leader Sir Richard Leese also spoke of “fear” and “division”: “Manchester is a proud, strong city and we will not allow terrorists who seek to sow fear and division to achieve their aims.” Guess what, pal? They did achieve their aims: they killed 22 people, including children, and injured several dozen. Dead infidels: that’s their objective, period. (Or, as you would say, full stop.)
As has been so often the case lately, the perpetrator of the mass murder was “known to authorities,” who did nothing to prevent his mass murder. Similarly, Omar Mateen had been interviewed by the FBI and determined not to be a threat. Likewise, the Tsaernev brothers, and the Fort Lauderdale airport shooters were also passed over by law enforcement before they committed their acts of terror.
In Paris, some women have started a protest against certain neighborhoods of the city that are so infested with Islamic Supremacist migrants that French women are no longer safe there. It’s a safe bet that almost all of these women voted for left-wing French politicians who supported the mass immigration of these Islamists.
And In Britain, a woman who tweeted that British Men should stand up and protect women from terrorists is being investigated for a “hate crime.”
I like this from Neo-neocon:
Just as the tolerance virtue signalers are busy puffing up their egos, the Trumpester thumps them with a new label to fuss and fume about: evil losers.
These death cults have successfully played upon the ever ready sympathies of the Progressives who can only find evil in anyone or anything which causes “victims.” Understand the little bodies blown to bits are the tragedy resulting from “victims” (radical Islamists) striking out at intolerance, inequity, and whatever.
Aiding and abetting psychopaths is one of the great mysteries of Progressive “ideology.”
Obama openly welcomed the Muslim Brotherhood into the White House. CAIR – Council on American-Islamic Relations – should be forced to join in the battle against radical Islamists or change its name to Council on American-Islamiist Relations.
Our greatest problem in confronting this death cult of radical islamists is the overwrought political posturing of Progressives.
For the first time I am beginning to think there is something to what Progressives call hate speech. If you cut radical Islamists any slack, you either need to be silenced or sent to join them.
According to the left, it is okey dokey to punch “Nazis”. Sounds like a good idea, Heliotrope.
As has been so often the case lately, the perpetrator of the mass murder was “known to authorities,” ”
Unfortunately this is the drawback of living in a “pretty much” free society. Just as Dylan Roof was known to post and espouse hatred. Just like McVeigh was known to hate the government. Just like we continue to allow mentally ill buy weapons.
It sucks. But if it’s free for you it has to be for everyone.
“Council on American-Islamic Relations – should be forced to join in the battle against radical Islamists or change its name to Council on American-Islamiist Relations.”
Do you practice what you preach? Or do you defend and obfuscate when police shoot an unarmed person in the back and lie about it? Do you demand all police are held accountable and join in battle with protesters to stop police brutality?
Or do you do whar CAIR does with Muslims? Do you recognize that there are some bad and many good in a large population?
It wasn’t just any woman, it was the marvelous Katie Hopkins, who has been covering the problems posed by unchecked immigration almost as long as Bruce Bawer has and has reported on the less-than-paradise conditions in Sweden which are being denied by both the government and the populace, as well as expatriates and former US ambassadors. She detailed the latter on an episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight earlier this year, and according to her Twitter timeline, was on the same program Tuesday night to comment on the current investigation.
Also, you know the endless arguments for endless tolerance aren’t working when you’ve lost Morrissey…
I wonder why little letter mike isn’t joining a “kiss in” at a local mosque? Oh wait, he is a coward.
There once was a time when Europeans would see a native woman being burned alive for the “crime” of outliving her husband and say, “This is evil and we will not permit it.” Now we watch the molestation of children without action, and blame y-chromosomes for suicide bombings, because we think these are enlightened actions. This is not enlightenment, this is moral cowardice.
Do the Progressives really want a popular alt-Right? Because believe me, this inaction and wilfull blindness does nothing but drive people to the faction that both recognizes the problem and is actually willing to do something about it.
littlelettermikey, the fascist:
(1.) I don’t “preach” I articulate my deeply held belief system. Would that you snarky, inarticulate Progressives would learn to do the same.
(2.) How many cops shoot an unarmed person in the back, lie about it and skate past the police review commission? If it happens once, it is one too many. If the police review commission presents a compelling case for the police officer and his/her lie, we have the civil courts and an abundance of lawyers who will go pro bono just for the free advertising to get the cop thrown in the clink.
(3.) Yes. Unequivocally. That is why every time a cop fires his service revolver while on assignment he must surrender it to the shooting review commission in order to get it back and return to duty.
(4.) I wouldn’t waste a second on protesting if there is evidence of police brutality. I would join the intelligent people pressuring for a grand jury to be empaneled.
We have a terrific history of the rule of law and it works magnificently. If you, littlelettermikey, the fascist, have credible information about police corruption or an officer who is guilty of malfeasance or misfeasance, go to the prosecutor and file a complaint. When the cops come and threaten to burn your kittens in a bonfire on your front yard, call Rachael Madcow or Chris Matthews or Anderson Pooper or just yell CNN and they will run away and hide and shoot unarmed people in the back while you video it on your iPhone.
Is it time to ban Islam? Seriously — has the time come to make Islam illegal and to deport those who practice it? To dismiss the question is to dismiss the science of statistics: if a nation contains zero Muslims, it will suffer zero Islamic terrorist attacks. Western ideals state that a man must be free to believe as he chooses, to practice the religion of his choice. However, this particular ideology — Islam — hates that freedom and intends to destroy it, even though it grants the freedom to hate. Which is preferable: the stated ideal or the ability to live in a community free of this kind of intolerance, hatred, violence, and death? I’ve heard that the difference between the radical Muslim and the moderate Muslim is that the radical wants to cut off your head while the moderate wants the radical to cut off your head. Islam has radicalized me and if being ‘Western’ means that I accept this kind of violence as a new normal, than I am no longer Western by that definition. I am so Western that I’m as intolerant as the most fundamentalist Muslim; there can be absolutely no compromise between him and myself. It’s either his way or mine. I say we stop importing this problem now and furthermore, I say we deport this problem now. I have no issue with a man’s freedom of belief or freedom from belief; I have a problem with a specific belief, one that wishes to murder me.
Ignatius,
Islam is alone among the three great monotheistic religions which has not had a reformation.
It more likely has reached the point where Islam has to confront how to be one of the great religions in the world rather than the be-all and end-all religion of the world.
For that to happen, Islam would have to come to terms with itself and think in terms of coexistence rather than the caliphate.
That was the message Trump took to Saudi Arabia with the support of Egypt and Jordon and the Saudi king.
Islam will not have a reformation. Islam is not capable of reformation because introspection and doubt are part of neither faith nor, by extension, culture. In the West, faith implies the acceptance of fallibility; the Lutheran church (one example) was possible within a tradition of questioning. Western influence will not change Islam; rather, it will be vice-versa. Our openness is exploited, misunderstood as weakness and in this sense the Muslim is correct: if we do not defend existence, if we do not defend against the intolerance of toleration, in such a compromise it will be the intolerant who will win. If we don’t, was it worth defending?
Sean L. (#7): hear! hear!
When a thug attacks a cop, and the cop shoots him in self-defense, it’s “police brutality.” Just as inmates in jail or prison are “students,” criminals at large are “community members,” Trump is Hitler, illegal aliens are “undocumented immigrants,” rioters are “anti-fascist,” and taxpayers are “freeloaders.” And Islam is the religion of peace.
The only case I know of where a cop shot at an unarmed fleeing suspect was in Charleston, S.C., and that cop was fired and prosecuted for it. In the other controversial incidents (Michael Brown, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Slyville Smith) the shootings were justified. The thugs (oops-I mean, “community members”) were attacking the cops and/or reaching for weapons when they were shot.
Hillary Clinton said that those shootings were “intolerable.” But she tolerated the murders of 143 police officers in 2016 calmly enough.
Tamir Rice pointed a realistic-looking toy gun at a cop. The cop made a life-or-death decision in a split second, and it was a tragic mistake. Something similar happened in Salt Lake City, when Dillon Taylor reached to pull his pants up, and was shot by a cop who apparently thought he was drawing a weapon. There were no riots or protests about the latter shooting, though. Taylor was white.
Freddie Gray accidentally killed himself when his shakedown crash-for-cash scheme backfired. The cops were exonerated in court, but were fired anyway.
Maybe one arrest in a hundred involves a cop using force of any kind, and maybe one arrest in 5000 results in someone claiming that a cop used excessive force. (And that includes a lot of false claims filed by sore loser “community members” against innocent officers.)
Maybe not all Muslims are terrorists, but what is the percentage? Probably a lot more than 1 in 5000. In a poll, 25% of British Muslims said that the 7-7-2005 attacks were justified. 34% said that they would not report terrorists to the police, and 32% condoned violence against anyone who insulted Islam. And those are just the Muslims who openly admitted that they condone terrorism.
It is not just terrorism. Even “moderate” Muslims want theocracy and some degree of sharia law. As such, Islam is just not compatible with a society whose basic principles include separation of church and state.
And we “allow mentally ill to buy weapons”? Most states have laws against psychotics owning guns, and the federal Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits the sale of firearms to anyone who is legally insane or incompetent, or who has been diagnosed as dangerously mentally ill. It also bars convicted felons, minors, and dishonorably discharged military veterans from buying weapons.
What about when a politician attacks a 100 lb reporter?