The Cult That Plans to Kill You
She told the truth about Islamic jihad and its unchanged determination to annihilate Western civilization. She presented evidence with no calculation of personal liability or that of the politicians responsible.
Our way of life is under attack. As a reporter doing investigative work, I chose this subject because I can’t stand that there is a major lie being propagated about the real situation. I don’t care who is in power. I don’t care who’s behind it. Take your family to Arlington National Cemetery and look at the fresh graves. Those graves are dug by al-Qaeda, the Pakistani Government, the Taliban, Haqqani, by all those people who want to destroy the United States, the West and our way of life.
Logan may lose the moth-fodder we call success. Once-open doors will close for her. Every person she knows is obliged now to stand with her or “turn back and walk with her no more for this saying is hard and who can hear it?”
How ironic that the pathetic talking-point belched by the media-herd of scribbling minions is:
Logan ignores that true journalists never make themselves the story.
I try to think of a journalist who has had less concern for self. Explaining her professional philosophy, detailing the methodology employed to select the story, and giving free-rein to her emotions, Logan paradoxically shifted the entire focus from herself to the report’s implications. Contextualizing this geo-political conflict within a personal pursuit for meaningful, useful information highlighted the buried truth about jihad and the significance of objective truth itself.
In nineteen minutes, she indicted the culture of self-serving relativism we know as journalism and reminded millions that objective truth matters. Much of reality lies beyond opinion, is independent of our desires, doesn’t care who speaks for it, and refuses to attenuate its own uncomfortable consequences.
Karzai can’t move around his own country even with the Americans there. Karzai will not long survive the end of the American presence nor will his gov’t. The Taliban will take over and it is as simple as that.
Pakistan is also without a solution. They have their own problems with radicals.
America keeps ignoring our failures and takes dramatic actions that accomplish nothing and refuses to take actions that would make a difference. It’s time to think about severely restricting immigration into America, especially from Muslim countries, and to radically alter the way we interact with Muslim nations whose rhertoric is unacceptable. We put up with such nonsense in favor of the “realities” of having to deal with countries like Turkey and Egypt but these regimes are insane.
Quarantine policies should be put in place. You want to live like madmen, fine. We will not allow your citizens access to the US nor will we do business with you, or form alliances. Things are getting worse, not better, and it’s time to change the way we do things.
I concur with you on quarantine of these places and the creatures that inhabit them.
Along with it, the admonition that they never want to do anything that would cause is to come back.
Nation building in islam is a waste of time and treasure. If we ever have to go back, it won’t be for nation building, and the losers won’t be sent home with uniforms and weapons.
We’ll deal with Dearborn, Michigan at some point as well.
Yeah, I’d hate to live in a dysfunctional, third world country in the 21st century. The Americans might decide to come in and “help” us.
Like I’ve said before, American “nation building” seems more like a threat than a promise.
“Quid est Veritas? What is the truth?”
Truth is God.
Who will guard against the guardians?
Me.
So long as Wahabism is allowed to survive, the problem will continue. Take the killing to the sources: ideological, theological, financial.
In an ideal world, Lara Logan’s insight would be shared with the public from the great pulpit provided to the MSM and repeated until it was absorbed by all but the most oblivious minds. Then great changes in our policies would follow.
But in THIS world, the real one, I can’t help but wonder how quickly Logan is going to be sent packing. Her insight is utterly at odds with the policies being touted by the Obama administration and all their propagandists in the MSM that Islam is harmless, aside from a few extremists.
If Logan is actually allowed to share her insights widely, it contradicts everything the MSM and the administration has been claiming since Obama took office. I just can’t see that being allowed to happen. And if it DOES happen – and if it spreads, as it should – perhaps we will finally have proof that the MSM isn’t all a bunch of kneejerk apologists for the Democratic line. Or perhaps it will make the moment that the MSM finally awoke to the evidence of their own eyes and started reconnecting with the real world, rather than the World of Wishful Thinking they have inhabited for so long.
It’s kinda funny. Logan represents a threat that common sense might be once again mainstreamed in America. When I think of a voice of reason with thought and experience behind it like Logan, and then think of madmen like Chris Matthews, the shuddering starts.
And that’s because Western leftism is itself a cult. It does all of the things that cults do: it indoctrinates and isolates its members, it gaslights them until they are incapable of perceiving truth, and it threatens any who entertain thoughts about leaving the reservation. Logan is questioning that cult’s truths. The cult isn’t going to just take it lying down.
I read Bella Dodd’s book recently (it’s online here: http://www.yamaguchy.com/library/dodd/dodd.html). I was particularly struck by her description of leaving Communism, as it reminded me of all the descriptions I’ve heard of those leaving the Regnum Christi cult (I’m involved in a small way with helping ex-members to recover). Leftism, which is modern Communism, is very much a cult I think.
Love to chat about this sometime!
From Bella Dodd’s story, Chapter 15, on how her character was defamed.
“They were looking for an excuse to expel me on charges that would besmirch my character, drive my friends away, and stop discussion instead of starting it. What better than to expel me for the crime of becoming a “hireling of the landlords”?
They must have realized that such an argument would scarcely be cogent to outsiders. Even to many of the Party it was weak. They must add something really unforgivable to make me an outcast in the eyes of the simple people of the Party. They did this by spreading the story that in my court appearances I had made remarks against the Puerto Rican tenants, that I had slandered them, and showed myself a racist, almost a fascist. And last of all, a charge of anti-Negro, anti-Semitism, and anti-working class was thrown in for good measure.”
Interesting. I note they peacefully demonstrated and enjoyed their civil rights without being molested or intimidated or assaulted in anyway. It’s unfortunate that there was no silent peaceful counter group across the street doing likewise, for example stomping on the black flag of jihad. Surely we can all just get along? Surely both groups would have continued their peaceful activities on both sides of the street in mutual respect and good harmony? Surely?
Ms. Pryor: You wrote: “Radical Islam is indeed a cult.” I think you could have left off the first word of that sentence.
“Quid est Veritas? What is the truth?”
Ripley’s Believe It or Not once provided an anagrammatic answer: “Est vir qui adest. It is the man who stands before you.”
Wow, this is so profound, the truth is in the man who stands before you. I have no idea if you are the famous Anson E Long , Psychologist from Indiana University….but if you are, Jeanette should be honored you are posting on her article.
I knew Jeanette for years and have friends who were her former school administrators when she was a nun, and know former students (who loved having her as a teacher). All of us are shocked that she believes that her time as a Catholic nun made her a brainwashed cult member. There was one bishop in her religious order who had personal opinions that were wrong. He has been publically castigated, removed from a position of authority, and finally expelled from his order, the SSPX (see http://www.sspx.org/superior_generals_news/sspx_communique_concerning_bishop_williamson_10-24-2012.htm) . But Jeanette always lived 600-2000 miles from him, and never could have heard him speak more than 5 times a year. He did publish a monthly letter, but how can someone be brainwashed by a newsletter (however odd or wrong it may have been)?
My concern for Jeanette has made me ask her repeated what she suffered to make her believe she was a cult member? I believe she never lost money, nor land, believe she was not sexually assaulted, was never told not to pursue university studies, was not coerced into marriage, never had anyone threaten to take her children. I think her lack of response to my questions confirms my beliefs. What does that leave? Her own articles imply she believes she was brainwashed into being anti-Semitic. But the order (SSPX) isn’t anti-Semitic. So, I am still at a loss, why does she believe she was a cult member?
I began researching cults, and specifically the definition of cultism by Rosedale and Langone http://www.csj.org/infoserv_articles/langone_michael_term_cult.htm
They believe the patient should be analyzed, “Nor do we deny the necessity to make expert judgments about whether or not a particular set of group processes harmed a specific person or persons, a judgment that mental health clinicians and other professionals sometimes have to make in therapeutic or forensic contexts. We do, however, advocate that these kinds of judgments should rest on careful analyses of structure and behavior within a specific context, rather than a superficial classification decision.” Jeanette, please seek help, get an expert mental health clinician to determine how you were harmed. I just can’t see this level of bitterness more than 10 years since you quit being a nun as being good for you. To continue with Rosedale’s thought, “Such analyses sometimes result in the conclusion that some groups that harm some people are not necessarily cults. ……. A church may harm some believers because its pastor is domineering…” His final word about the word cult is, “…let us at least strive to use it judiciously.”
Now, referring to your current article, “I know I have tried to tell the truth about life in cults…” The word ‘tried’ implies to me you are seeking to avoid admitting you in fact did not tell the truth, and again in your own words, “objective truth matters”. Jeanette, look in the mirror, truth can be found in the man who stands before you. Publically tell the truth, the SSPX was never a cult, and you have not studied sufficiently and do not even know the meaning of the word cult, nor are you qualified to determine whether an organization is a cult. Please read “On using the term Cult” cited above, and get psychological help for yourself, and your husband.
Mary,
If Jeanette is bitter and is still recovering from her experiences in the SSPX cult, that isn’t a sin. But you seem to be hitting her with that “stick”, that yes, professional help might assist her in recovering from her experiences. She gets to discern all by herself whether or not she wants counseling, since she isn’t in a cult any more. But if you honestly don’t understand why she might not want to have anything to do with you, you might want to do some self-examination and ask yourself why you are so toxic. Do you actually think you’re exhibiting Christian charity?
Thank you for your reply Jeanette (with 2 n’s) but the question and comment was directed to Jeanette with one n.