“Is the White House a ‘Sleeper Cell’?” Roger L. Simon asked on Monday. I think semi-satirically, in the style of Charlie Hebdo (as Roger writes), or maybe the old National Lampoon in the days of P.J. O’Rourke and Michael O’Donoghue:
Senator Dianne Feinstein has just informed us that, yes, there are Islamic terror sleeper cells in our midst in the USA. If that’s true, I wonder why Feinstein wasted so much of her time wounding the CIA during the last weeks of her tenure as Senate Intelligence Committee chair, but never mind. Could there be one of those cells in the White House?
I started this post thinking it was kind of funny. I liked the hed — “Is the White House a ‘Sleeper Cell’?” It reminded me of, um… Charlie Hebdo. But actually it’s not so funny. And it’s not impossible. We know something close already happened during the communist era (Alger Hiss), and the Israelis famously planted an agent, Eli Cohen, at the highest echelons of the Syrian government until he was caught via the KGB and hanged in the central square of Damascus. They say it was Cohen’s reports that were responsible for the rapid Israeli success against the Syrians in the Six-Day War.
But a “sleeper cell” in the White House? It would certainly explain Obama’s not going to France, which was a decision that hurt the USA, hurt the effort against Islamic terror and hurt the president’s already tarnished reputation into the bargain. There are so many other things that the existence of a White House “sleeper cell” would explain that I couldn’t even begin to count them. And as you know, a cell doesn’t have to be violent to be active. There are many ways to do damage.
Today, Ace adds, “Islam Means ‘Submission,’ and So Does Liberalism:”
The West is now Islamic. All it took was some murderers to kill people, and then the craven institutions of the West to start signing away our cultural and political legacy in exchange for some promises that they’ll be the last to get their throats cut open.
Oxford University Press (OUP) explained that their books must take into consideration other cultures of the world and must avoid mentioning pigs or “anything else which could be perceived as pork,” the International Business Times reported.The move was revealed during a discussion on free speech during BBC Radio 4’s “Today,” following last week’s terror attacks in Paris.
“I’ve got a letter here that was sent out by OUP to an author doing something for young people.” Presenter Jim Naughtie said. “Among the things prohibited in the text that was commissioned by OUP was the following: Pigs plus sausages, or anything else which could be perceived as pork.”
All of this of course encourages terrorism and ever-more extreme brands of Islam, because the institutions of the West — our political, academic, and media institutions — are all essentially proclaiming that Islam, particularly violent, medieval Islam, is the only real and True religion in the world:
For what other religions do they bow and scrape to as if they were Slaves?
Only one.
If the Obama White House and increasingly the MSM wishes to be avoid being considered crypto-Muslims by much of the country, they could start by not acting like, you know, crypto-Muslims. The Blaze rounds up photos that illustrate “Four Ways the Associated Press Is Avoiding Showing the Muhammad Cartoon on New Charlie Hebdo Issue.” NBC is employing similar tactics. As Allahpundit writes:
Every media outlet that refuses to publish the image raises the risk, however marginally, to the ones who do. That’s why Charlie Hebdo was targeted to begin with. A small French paper shouldn’t be on jihadis’ radar screens, but if they’re one of only a handful globally willing to publish images of Mohammed, go figure that they might end up there.
Last week during his weekly interview with Hugh Hewitt, Mark Steyn told Hugh that when the Momamed cartoons first ran a decade ago, “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.” Which is why the MSM’s motto is simply “please kill us last.” But then, this is an MSM that in 2015 takes the concept of “better dead than rude” to literal new heights:
» Publisher: No cursing in the newsroom! http://t.co/HAzFtY2Ok0 – http://t.co/eVImNHUXJS oh is she going to regret having done this
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) January 14, 2015
Exit quote from Ace, which dovetails well with the Mark Steyn quote above:
Islamists, The cowards & cuckolds in our institutions are not legally authorized to sign surrender papers on our behalf. Deal with us.
— LeContredicteur (@AceofSpadesHQ) January 14, 2015
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