Terror experts tell Fox News that “the grisly massacre at an upscale Kenyan shopping mall by al-Shabab militants is a ‘great shot in the arm’ to the Al Qaeda-linked group’s efforts to recruit fighters from the West, including the U.S.” It’s going to attract new adherents in droves.
By selecting and ultimately carrying out an attack on a soft target such as a shopping mall frequented by Westerners and affluent locals, al-Shabab — which means “The Youth” in Arabic — sent a clear message to would-be jihadists, Schroeder said.
“We’re still credible and we’re alive,” he said. “So come join us. That’s going to be the message.”
Astonishingly enough, ThinkProgress agrees. It’s a poster drive. A recruitment campaign. “The bloody Shabaab attack on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall on September 21 was an act of desperation by a jihadi group beset by internal power struggles and plummeting support.”
There’s a tendency in the Western public to believe that the scenes of mayhem, cruelty and destruction are somehow a turn-off to the al-Shabaab cause. They imagine that these grisly scenes will discourage new recruits.
Why would they think that? People talk about dog whistles. This is a message in a special pitch.
Making the assumption that terrorism attracts the idealistic, disaffected, and alienated is as epic a blunder as assuming Che Guevara was a nice guy. Or that Pol Pot only had humanity in mind. Like everything else, the prospect of inflicting death, pain, and cruelty on others attracts a certain kind of individual.
It’s the same old call from the same shadowy places. The lure of power. The chance to gratify sadism, perversion, and greed. For the most brutal, it is a chance to inflict fear and absolute abjection as a way of affirming the nothingness in them.
Oh they dress it up with a line of patter. But that’s just to add insult to injury. Not only are they going to hurt you, but they are going to make you thank them for it before they’re through.
Unfortunately, the Justice Dept, run by the law-breaking Holder and his thugs, will never enforce the laws of the U.S. Conservative groups have been and continue to be illegally targeted by the IRS, but the FBI and Holder's thugs haven't even investigated one case.
Obama is in active betrayal of the U.S., its Constitution, and its people.
I assume he was in the British SAS. If he was carrying that handgun in London, or in Washington DC, he'd have been arrested after his heroism and prosecuted for weapons violations.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was fond of pointing out that in 1929 seven criminals were shot in a Chicago garage and as a result we changed the U.S. Constitution. Recently a dictator in Syria killed 100,000 and we said nothing and then when he was accused, subject to dispute, of using gas we blustered and gave the keys to Putin. Now the barbarians, the same crowd who killed 3,000 twelve years ago that we were told were out of business, are running the board across the globe and killing Americans and members of the nomenklatura and the response is paralysis. Is Barry hiding under his desk?
They tell us do nothing or the bad guys win. They said the same thing twelve years ago. They assured us that bin Laden wanted the Americans to invade so we should just hire a few hundred more Diversity Counselors and forget about it. The "If you do (or don't do) X the Bad Guys win" argument is best left to 19 year olds trying to get a girl into bed. What should we do with the terrorists bodies? Feed them through swine offal blenders. We should find their home villages and destroy them. If we think there are innocents there then let them depart in peace but destroy the houses wells mosques trees and sow the ground with salt. I suggest my prior comment about declaring that any woman who has a child with a terrorist or material supporter of terrorism a "camp follower of an invading army' rendering her children not US citizens. An exception should be made if he declares her pregnancy the result of rape.
Why do they keep attacking us? Because they can. So far they have faced very little down side. In fact we have paid them to. We need to change the equation.
Tonight I attended a talk by Marshall Sahlins. The retired University of Chicago Anthropologist is very much a man of the Left and ridicules Economics. One part of his talk struck me, but not in the way I am sure intended. Sahlins describes how most cultures are familial with wealth being distributed to gain status and not produced as in the commercial exploitative West. Value is determined partly by acquisition from Outside. For example one tribe lays claim to the persona of the Colonial Governor and a rival lays claim to the persona of the Queen. The Others are by definition not human until integrated into the community. This struck me as a perfect model for Islam, although Sahlins may be horrified to have it put this way. Wealth exists to be extracted from inhuman Others and is not measured by the financial standards we know but in prestige.
The mall attackers were collecting coup for Islam. Therefor the way to fight them in their own terms is to collect more coup and reduce their prestige. They claim they are reacting to humiliation. We should not treat them like backward children but like dangerous adults. A good reply to their cries of grievance would be "Good you deserve humiliation for such barbarous acts. You should be ashamed of yourselves. If you want respect then be respectable."
A lot of people are going to get hurt, badly, by ObamaCare. In fact, almost everyone (apart from the very wealthy) is going to get hurt badly.
Well-to-do but not extremely wealthy liberals who have never really been directly affected by the destructive/deleterious consequences of the liberal policies they have supported (and, by their support, helped implement) are about to be affected, directly.
Take, for instance, my well-to-do but not extremely wealthy--and with huge personal debts and fixed incomes--brother and his wife. They have promoted open borders. I have argued them that they don't mind unrestricted immigration because it doesn't affect them. They both worked at the University of Chicago, and very little affected them. They could afford to be liberals.
Soon, very soon, when ObamaCare kicks in, they will be awakened rudely, and painfully. They will feel the hurt.
A lot of liberals are in for a painful awakening.
Life E.G. Robinson ("Dathan") in the cinematic Ten Commandments, I will then ask them: "where's your messiah now? Nyaaaah."
Will they see the light? We'll see.
It is not a matter of what we want.
If they go beyond words, the only response possible is to answer force with more force. It is not a matter of making "everything fine" or deciding who is right. It will be a matter of deciding who will be left.
It is what it is.
[italics] Only the Great Blue Sky Tengri Nor knows what the outcome will be. [end italics] as the master of my namesake said.
Subotai Bahadur
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/world/middleeast/egyptian-court-bans-muslim-brotherhood.html?_r=0
Obama's touch may be such poison that even the US supreme court will be emboldened to declare Obamacare unconstitutional.
Now the question: Can the Egyptian military do a full cleansing against Islamic fascism along the lines of what Atatürk originally did for the Turks? If the answer is "Yes" then there is hope for the Arab world.
I doubt that Obama played that great of a role. The crisis facing Egypt was existential and Obama's chattering was simply background noise. It is interesting that everything Obama touches turns into manure. It looks like a backlash against Obama and socialism in general is setting in. Let's hope that this backlash will derail Obamacare before it causes too much harm.
He's actually fascinating. Check him out on the Toob or online, and put up a prayer for him and Sen. Mike Lee, also holding forth. At least there are two Men in the Senate.
And now this "narrative meme:"
"It's really only a terrorist popularity contest! Whee!"
Nothing to see here, Folks! Just move it along, now...!
It should never be allowed by backwards people to be considered “illegal” to accuse these criminals (moslems) of their crimes, allegedly because the painful truth might offend them or hurt their feelings, & so “make” them commit even more crimes!
No problem was ever solved by ignoring it, & nobody is doing even these moslems any favours, by indulging their historic lies that islam is a “religion” (at all, much less one “of peace”) or a “race” (much less one of poor oppressed People Of Colour”)!
ALL moslems are criminals: by their own rules, they must endorse in public every word in the Qur’an, which tells them that they are so “superior” to all non-moslems, that it’s not only their right, but also their holy duty to their god, to extort, enslave, and murder all the non-moslems in the world, simply for the “crime” of not being moslems. So the Qur'an is a clearly-written, us-versus-them hate-crime book, endorsing a permanent might-makes-right death-threat.
ALL muslims are criminals, as being members of the ancient, ongoing global extortion racket called islam. In sharia law texts, muslims are SUPPOSED to be regarded as threats (as "objects of fear") by all the unbelievers, whether or not the individual muslim has itself actually committed any crimes. That's why we have laws against simply being a MEMBER of a crime-gang or 'criminal enterprise' because the threat is inherent.
All muslims are criminals, members of an extortion gang. We have laws against membership in a crime gang, even if one doesn’t specifically engage in any crimes beyond one’s own membership therein endorsing the general threat. Threats are crimes in themselves: they are psychological attacks, also known as intimidation, bullying, coercion, duress, harrassment, activist agitation, extortion, and “terrorism.” And even any “only” attempted crimes are still considered by civilized people to be crimes.
Here’s islam’s “holy Message from god” as exemplified by the collective words and deeds of it’s Founder:
“I will save humanity by lying to, extorting, torturing, robbing, burning out of their homes, kidnapping and ransoming, enslaving, raping and murdering everyone who even only verbally disagrees with me – and you can, too!”
-Muhammad-
Muhammad was really only a con-man and bandit-king, an arch-criminal who always blamed “god” for his own penchant for committing crimes. If Moe got away with committing a crime (and he tried them all, enthusiastically, more than once, but instead of ever showing contrition, bragged about how much fun it was to commit them, and advised everyone else to join in the fun, too), then it was held to be “obvious” that “god” wanted him to get away with having committed those crimes!
So, islam is not a “religion” (at all, much less one “of peace”) nor is it a “race” (at all, much less one of “Poor, Oppressed, People Of Colour”)!
Obviously, islam is ONLY an ancient, ongoing extortion-racket CRIME-syndicate, and the only “religious” part in it, is where they say:
“God told us to commit these crimes!”
(Capisce?)!
;-)
We should simply BAN ISLAM – because everything moslems pretend to consider “holy” is already a crime!
;-(
ALL politicians owe the world an explanation for why they continually insist that:
"Islam must be a valid religion because it's god prescribes wanton random murder as the only sure way into it's heaven! Whee!"
;-(
Sure. But so what? Good Muslims have been rendered, or have rendered themselves, irrelevant in the context of what is being done in the name of Islam. As the old saying goes, evil flourishes becasue "good" Muslims do nothing.
Please, please, please, look up the words Hudna, Taquiya and Dhimmi. You are in line for all three.
- from WIKI entry Eric Hoffer on the advent of social chaos and the rise of destructive mass movements in Asia
Same could be said of Detroit and Chicago or any other American place where community organizers prosper.
Then let these scenes also be used to enlighten ever more people to the fundamentally evil nature of islam so that ever more people will oppose its spread.