‘The Last of the Just’ in Belgium
In college I read a novel called The Last of the Just by André Schwarz-Bart inspired by a legend/theory from the Talmud — that there are thirty-six righteous souls (the Lamed Vav) in every generation whose existence justifies “the purpose of mankind” to God. From Wikipedia:
As a mystical concept, the number 36 is even more intriguing. It is said that at all times there are 36 special people in the world, and that were it not for them, all of them, if even one of them was missing, the world would come to an end. The two Hebrew letters for 36 are the lamed, which is 30, and the vav, which is 6. Therefore, these 36 are referred to as the Lamed-Vav Tzadikim. This widely-held belief, this most unusual Jewish concept is based on a Talmudic statement to the effect that in every generation 36 righteous “greet the Shechinah,” the Divine Presence (Tractate Sanhedrin 97b; Tractate Sukkah 45b).
I hadn’t thought of the Lamed Vav or Schwarz-Bart’s book for a while until the other day when my friend Banfsheh Zand, an Iranian activist, sent her email list a YouTube video from Belgium.
A man — seemingly by himself — had stood up at a town hall meeting in that country and denounced the installation of two Islamists who had just won positions in a municipal election. He said their election was illegal because the men were avowed adherents of Shariah law, which is in direct contradiction with Belgian civil law and the European Convention on Human Rights.
The man was right, of course, but no one rose to his defense. When he left, the formal installation of the Islamists was completed as if nothing happened.
Was this lone man one of the Lamed Vav?
If so, I hope his thirty-five compatriots are paying attention. (And that the man himself has the good sense to watch his back from here on in. He doesn’t need to be the next Theo Van Gogh.)
When you look at the faces of the others in the room visible on the video, you don’t exactly see “profiles in courage.” I would wager, however, that if you asked each of them individually whether they favored equal rights for women and homosexuals, as well as separation of church and state and liberal democracy and Enlightenment principles in general (all anathema to Shariah), they would uniformly say yes. Further I would imagine they would all be appalled at the idea of a global caliphate under Islam, and therefore the end of Belgium as a sovereign nation, the very intention of Shariah.
Still, political correctness — leavened, to be sure, with a modicum of cowardice — overwhelmed their good sense and allowed the decent and courageous man to leave by himself.
If you ever wondered how Hitler happened, you have part of your answer on this video.
Obama doesn’t enforce laws he doesn’t like, either. What we and Europe have is true democracy, the rule of the crowd (read: women) over the law. Any resistance can be dismissed with a single judge’s dubious opinion, even a republican democratic referendum.
When Muslims seize control, the first thing they will do is stop the estrogen poisoning, so it doesn’t turn on them next. It always eventually betrays comfortable, familiar civilizations in favor of sexier foreign shores.
I’ll tell you a secret about why this happens. Women between puberty and menopause need to be pregnant or lactating (both of which surppress their monthly cycle) in order to be solid citizens. Each month that they complete a cycle without being pregnant, their bodies get a message that something about their standing in society is not right, so steps have to be taken. In a tribal society (no modern plumbing!) menstruation itself is incentive enough consciously to come up with a mating strategy. In modern society not so much, but what is left is a sour mood and desire for change, any sort of change. Remember, a young woman who runs weeping into the forest in a fit of hysteria, away from the tribe’s protection, and as a result is captured and enslaved by others, is a young women who next month is much more likely to be pregnant! Her genes are more likely to be passed on to the next generation.
So yes, young women who do not quickly become young mothers soon after puberty have evolved to become “unpatriotic”. Tribal structures — nations — come and go, but lack of children is forever. Hence we see women in the West
“always eventually betray comfortable, familiar civilizations in favor of sexier foreign shores.”
as men in the west become ever less willing to marry and become fathers. How stupid does Santorum seem now with his jaundiced views on birth control?
Note that these motives and feeling are more effective for arising and thriving in the unconscious minds of young females. Consciously they will tell you whatever reasoning is currently fashionable, another Darwinian adaptation to be attractive and increase their chances of marriage and children.
Sorry, man, you lost me at “lactating.”
Todd Akin, how nice to hear from you again…
(most of America wishes you would hang your head in shame and never utter any inanities again, but that’s plainly too much to ask).
As a practicing female, I feel compelled to say that I have not a clue as to what you are talking about, and suspect that you don’t either.
Looks like some misogynists got lost on their way to Dr Helen.
No kidding.
How dare anyone suggest that females have a powerful maternal instinct?
Such hate. We should all try to injure this guy.
HeatherRadish,
We’re all Sinners, even women. Women tho’ have a special talent for being gullible for slick cons.
Our Sin Nature expresses itself in somewhat different forms among Men and Women (think partially overlapping bell curves)as our powers and interests vary, and individually even more so.
TennWriter, are you kidding me? I’m a military wife. Do you know how many dumb young soldiers get conned into marrying some chick just before deployment who subsequently sleeps around on him and takes his money? If he’s lucky, she won’t get pregnant too.
I think neither sex has a monopoly on stupid. They are both, in my experience, about equally gullible to a con.
My God, the hatred and contempt for all things female is toxic here. You’re all going to make fine muslims, boys.
You must be a liberal – able to take a single bad example of something and generalize sweeping, universal judgements about people you know nothing about.
Go back to HuffPo, Dkos, or other children’s areas.
Typical liberals–they’re all about Darwin until they encounter someone who actually speaks Darwin-ese. Then they freak out. They love Darwin the supposed “atheist”, but the “racist” and “sexist” Darwin? Not so much. Leftism is a religion and therefore the reaction of the typical leftist is to get all moralistic like a Biblical literalist being told by Huxley that “we are all descended from monkeys and apes.” Too bad. MN’s comment is a straightforward application of modern Darwinian theory to evolutionary psychology. It’s either a true statement or an untrue statement. It’s not “immoral” to raise the issue. Unlike liberals, we still practice freedom of speech.
Except that MN is talking out his ass. And you apparently paint with just as broad a brush when it suits you. Wean yourself from Rush’s heaving teat.
I thought I just read an article about a few good men. Or maybe it was 36 who stood for our salvation. Where in the hell did you two idiots come from? Are any of the Islamist dictators women? Do the women of the Muslim world control the violence and assault on freedom? Have you been on this planet these past few decades? Maybe you could try one of the “Survivalists” web sites.
Actually, it is “thirty-six righteous souls “. Gender is not mentioned. The fact that women are accused as the problem is indicative of a hatred of women. This theme is a constant on this site. I think that the males who express this hatred have some real issues but that is their problem not mine.
Hate is a current liberal buzzword. Anything that differs from your accepted narrative is “hate”. It is a very convenient device; just call something that you don’t want to debate “hate” and you can escape the difficult job of actually thinking and using reason and facts to support your position.
This exemplifies the “low info” voters so successfully targeted by the left.
Well said, Chuck.
Hence the proliferation of “hate speech” laws. What a great way to suppress other views!
Just define them as “hate”, and presto! No need to actually refute other ideas, you just throw the speakers in jail.
Yeah, pretty sure that I never suffered from this mysterious “irrational female syndrome.” I guess you could always ask my husband that. He’d know after having been married to me for close to 17 years now.
oh yeah. Like no men ever feel like that. or even just a few men. No, this is the human condition, and in every age, some brave and thoughtful men and women have stood against it.
Also, sometimes you live in a society that SHOULD be changed. So this dissatisfaction becomes a good thing, no? So are women the ones who force that good change? No? Some men too? I think your thesis fell apart.
I have news for you, in 2012 women are no longer are viewed as baby-making machines whose worth is measured only by how many children they can bear. Given the choice of having multiple children and living in the East and having no children and living in the West, I would choose the latter hand’s down.
Don’t really want to jump into this fight, but, having no children – that one of the big problems with the West.
In addition to pressure from the East and Middle East, we’re being destroyed demographically from within. Because women don’t want children. Or the wrong people reproduce – because they married the Government and are supported by tax dollars.
OY!
I have five children. They are all being raised to think for themselves. They are all conservative, so far.
Most of the conservative women I know have indeed been fruitful and multiplied. Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin both multiplied profusely as well, as did Mrs. Romney. It is COMMON for conservative women to bear lots of kids. Not so much for liberal women.
They did this because THEY WANTED CHILDREN. They did not do it for kinder küche kirche. Please, please go find a female who can pummel some sense into your head before you say something even stupider.
Would love to see this guy hold court at a Manhattan cocktail party.
Muslim birth rates either mean they have confidence in the future or they want a bunch of kids to take care of them.
re:Muslim birth rates either mean they have confidence in the future or they want a bunch of kids to take care of them
Having lived for a tiem in the ME, a large family is power. a large muslim family is doing the work of the ‘holy book’. if you can outnumber and outvote you enemies, it is so much better than having a war. problem is in the middle east, is they are all trying to ‘outbirth’ eachother. make for a miserable economy and many many people with no jobs = ripe for terrorism.
Actually, Muslim birthrates are declining rapidly (see Spengler). In Iran, the government called it a national crisis. Birthrates typically decline well after advances in health and sanitation ensure that more babies survive to adulthood – it used to be a woman had 10 and 5 lived; now if she has 10, 8-9 survive. That’s the 3rd World bulge you saw in the 60s, 70s, 80s. Now, with increased access to birth control or abortion (in Russia, where they are far short of replacement levels, its abortion), women have 1 or 2. China’s 1-child policy has created a demographic disaster; Japan is rapidly aging; and in the US, the birthrate just plunged – immigrants, who had the highest birthrate, just stopped having babies (the recession?). The demographic argument has gone from Malthus to bust.
I don’t consider MN to be another ‘Akin’. He pretty much hit the biological and historical nail on the head.
Women were specifically targeted in this last election. The people who know marketing know how to market to women, and win them.
From the first jibe to a gop candidate by george staphylococcus (the nbc ‘independent newscaster’ from nbc, to the ‘cutsie’ little commercial with the young woman (girl?) about here ‘first time’ voting relating to her first time sex, to the angry protests of ‘Flukey’, the professional woman’s ‘rights’ to have free birth control and anything related to it, and plugging obama as the ‘cool’ type since he chats with rappers.
Notice how they insulted women by NOT thinking they had any brains on the economy? EVERY negative to gop commercial hit women on their emotional side and proves MN is right. Akin was a jerk the way he presented it, but too many GOP types took the bait and made an A$$ of themselves on national TV. That was the goal of the left and they succeeded. Most of America was STUPID – they didn’t see what the left has been doing in the media.
The country is going to deserve what it gets. The left know and believe that women ARE stupid when it comes to the economy, taxes, and politics, so they hit them in the emotions – it works EVERY Time.
Okay, I guess I should tell my doctors that I need to get pregnant right NOW in order to be a solid citizen, their concerns for my health be damned! (Yeah, they were just kidding when they said I could have died the last time. All seven of ‘em who helped sew me back up. Telling me not to even think of having more kids. Pshaw! What do they know?)
This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read. I am now stupider than I was before I read it.
Pal, thanks a lot for reducing women to our bodies – like the liberals keep doing. FYI, the reason women turn to liberalism is because they believe, for some crazy reason, that the government will take care of them and any future children better than a man will.
Has nothing to do with menstruation, lactation, gestation, or any other -ation. Women, fyi, are not like animals. We gots brains, and thoughts, and stuff! Many of us have an IQ higher than that of a toothpick. We are even – people.
MN posts a controversial idea suggesting a mechanism that pushes women toward irrationality. Jamie W responds with anger, straw-man generalizations and invective.
Sorry Jamie, were you trying to refute his comment or personify it?
It’s not a secret – except the way you put it was like trying to thread a needle with a tree stump. Very clumsy!
As a woman (me, that is…), all you needed to say was that perhap we (society) had it right in the good old days when men and women each understood their place and function in society and ever since we left those functions things have gone to hell.
And to the feminazi’s out there – you were wrong and full of it. I bought into all that crud in the 70′s and everything you said was bunk!
Except for VERY few exceptions, women SUCK in the jobs men specialize in. Men are better providers and women can and do keep up with the household and the wild animals that will be the next generation. We are just hardwired that way and no amount of social engineering will EVER change that fact – Period!
Thank you, Lolly! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Higher Game and MN – thanks for making sure no women will vote for a Conservative or GOP ever again- with ideas like this I can’t say I would blame them. I am ashamed to be associated with your misogynist ideas. You provide all the ammo, the PROOF, the libs need to call us Neanderthal, Bible thumping, women haters, throwbacks to the past. So barefoot and pregnant is your idea of a 21st Century American woman- I am thinking the libs have it right to say you are the same as the Muslims in Taliban, they do as you suggest already.
the rest of what I would say is not printable here
Yes, all women will vote for Leftists. They’ve tended that way for 60 years. The Founding Fathers yet another time win the experiment in changing the Constitution and observing bad effects. Male voters were able to elect Washington, Jefferson, amd Jackson, but the women gave us Bill Clinton, rapist and harasser. They’ll vote for the candidate who gives them what they want. Who knew?
@MN: isn’t it funny how the loonies go to an extreme to “preserve natural balance” for the spotted owl, the coyote, carbon monoxide, etc. and yet they inject any substance in their bloodstream, mess with the core of the human body and psyche, expect to succeed at “deconstructing” culture, etc. Watch Walt Disney’s Fantasia specifically that part when Mickey Mouse plays Duka’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and then see how the entire world careens out of control. We are in the hands of fools who are not content with managing the political body or the economy. They also want to remake nature. You will see the fools that laugh and deride your comment wandering about with an empty stare if they survive the worldwide storm that’s coming. Japan’s tsunami, Katrina, and Sandy are small harbingers of the things to come in the following months. Those Mayan prophets may have a hit after all.
You should take heart from the fact that Muslim women, by your definition, are the most solid citizens on earth. Somalia has the best, if I’m not mistaken the average woman there bears 7-point-something kids by the time she’s 25 and after that she’s safely out of the way and useless for anything except holding down her granddaughter for the knife so the lucky girl can begin her career as a solid citizen.
Cheer up, friend, it’s the fastest growing demographic in the world. Things will go your way yet.
Wha… Huh?
1. Higher Game:
I’m sorry, but what is it about people who respond to Roger’s posts wanting to hijack a thread for their own silly, twisted ends?
One of the greatest books written in the last century. I think of it with every gentle rain that falls in Yerushalayim.
If he becomes the Next Theo Van Gough on December 21 2012, I’d get REAL Worried in a hurry!
Oh yes, there will be Islamic retribution but that does not obviate everyone’s responsibility, to stand up and take a position. And Islamists and their leftist helpmates are counting on their full throttle intimidation, as guarantees that their revolutionary take overs will come to fruition.
No matter. Shariah law is not only incompatible with western ideals, but it is inextricably tied to bloodletting, evidenced in a policy paper ‘Islam & Blood’.
So, by all means, do not stay silent, for silence IS agreement – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/21/how-far-will-arabsmuslims-go-to-further-their-agenda-chopping-down-holy-trees-defaming-mohammed-too-addendum-to-unraveling-the-video-the-so-called-trigger-fuse-commentary-by-adina-k/
And every time you lose your nerve, think about the anti-American/western actions of the likes of Huma Abedin and her leftist supporters. IF that doesn’t make your head spin, and cause you to assert yourselves, nothing will.
There is no room for cowards in this life and death struggle for western civilization. None at all.
I always enjoy your perspective especially that you are so well informed even at a great distance from the USA. I would guess that maybe 20 people reading this blog know who Huma Abedin is and who would guess that she is carrying out the muslim game plan,in plain sight right under our noses and with direct daily access to the one of the highest offices in the land. I know this could never happen in Israel but under Obama anything is possible.We are not only losing the war internationaly against radical Islam but we are active participants in our own demise. It is a disgrace and an outrage but everyone is just waiting for them to “come for us” and the MB will come eventually.
Huma Abedin – The former Congressman Weiner’s wife and Hillary’s aid, and some say she’s neck-deep in ties to the Muslim brotherhood. I always wondered how someone with so obviously a Middle Eastern background wound up married to a man who seems to be Jewish. That one must have been a hard pill of Taqqiya to swallow.
You do realize that in one of his next appointments to the Supreme Court, Obama will pick a Muslim. Will the people that have to vote in agreement have the courage to stand up against him? I think not.
I fear you are correct. Consider how the GOP establishment pounced on Bachman and her colleagues when they raised concerns about Muslim Brotherhood penetration into senior positions in the Administration. If a Muslim is nominated, even those in the Senate in opposition will go along so as to avoid being charged with “racism” or Islamophobia. Heck, Christie appointed a Muslim lawyer to a judgeship despite his having defended a Hamas fundraiser.
That citizen in Belgium is correct that one believing in sharia cannot at the same time grant legitimacy to secular, man-made institutions or their constitutions. (cf. Diner’s “Lost in the Sacred”) That Muslims in Belgium are already achieving positions of authority doesn’t surprise me. Belgium will likely be among the first to fall into the Muslim camp in Europe. It’s all in the demographics.
I was thinking in particular about the one Christie appointed in New Jersey. If I may recall he, himself, was some how tied into giving money to our enemies. Christie ignored it.
When you speak of Huma, you should also mention Valerie. There are more, and they are gaining power.
That’s the problem.
You’ll just ‘become real worried.’
You, and millions like you, won’t do anything else…but worry.
What would you suggest we do? I am trying to ensure my family has a way out, but aside from that, what are we supposed to do?
Nancy, for starters, stand with the gentleman instead of just sitting and watching him leave alone. He was willing to fight for those in the room even as they let it happen. It could be more merciful if he doesn’t live to see what he fears for his country as it comes to fruition.
You are a thoroughly tiresome person.
Until I’m no longer allowed to have my own opinion in this nation, or until PJM bans my account, I have every right to be ‘tiresome,’ here.
Thinking that everyone else is ‘tiresome’ is a part of what led to the Nazi atrocities…and to other atrocities throughout history.
Being afraid to stand up and say what you think because others think you’re being ‘tiresome’ is the problem we’re discussing, here.
iow, you’re a part of the problem, not a part of the solution.
WB,
And we have the right to our opinion as well.
Tiresome is because you continually accuse, but never take a position. You only attack the positions of others. That is cowardly.
I don’t think you picked up that habit in the Corps.
I never thought I’d be among such Logically Challanged.
December 21 2012, mayan Calender date = End of World!
Article theme, when the number drops below 36 = End of World!
Get it?
In today’s lame world pc simply trumps all…
Slavery is our future. Who will be your master is the question. This is why in the 2nd coming of Jesus it will be easy to convert all of Islam to Jesus. Someone greater than Mohamed has arrived will be the tongue , God in the flesh .
Eyes will be open to the slavery atheist plan to bring . This comment from the Krugman comment section a few hours ago is tip of the iceborg how the middle class slip into slavery for the atheist elite see human less then their machines
” I’m a customer service rep working for a corporation of about 80,000 employees, half of which are outside the U.S. The corporation had its best year in 20 last year and spent the money moving its marketing and banking divisions out of the U.S. In the last two years, I have been reduced to part-time, moved home without printer, fax, or copier, (they say office rental is too expensive so required me to give up one-quarter of my condo living room to accommodate their “home” office), and my every move is monitored and recorded. I am immediately notified if I deviate for five minutes from my schedule. I work unpaid hours each week catching up on emails, reading training materials, submitting reimbursement requests, etc. In the last five years, I had a total of a fifty cent raise per hour. The corporation told us to vote republican in the last election.
I am dismayed at the people in Michigan giving up their worker rights. They must have no idea how bad it can get.
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Nice quote. Any attribution? Of course not. Made up nonsense for Krugman’s benefit. This poor “slave” could – shockingly – get another job. This gets a D minus on the troll scale.
The person who wrote that comment is either a troll or simply abysmally stupid, perhaps both. A company with 80K employees is going to have an HR/LR and legal department that simply won’t let them treat employees that way. You can find this sort of working conditions but it is almost always in a struggling mom and pop business and in an area where there aren’t a lot of jobs. It ain’t something big evil corporations do; in fact many of them are generous to their employees to a fault in trying to avoid bad publicity and employee lawsuits. A customer service rep doesn’t have independent judgement and discretion and isn’t professionally exempt, so such an employee is overtime eligible under the Fair Labor Standards Act. One call to those friendly people at the state’s Wage and Hour office or at the USDOL and you get your “uncompensated” time back for three years and in many instances if the act was willful, you get treble payment. Also, having any employee, but especially an overtime eligible employee, work at home is a tremendous risk to an employer and poses a far greater liability than the cost of an office. For example, if you tell your employee to work at home, you’re liable under the ADA for the ergonomics of his/her work area, liable under OSHA regs and Workers’ Comp laws for the safety of the work area, e.g., if the employee should have to go to the mailbox to mail in a report, and slips and falls because he hadn’t bothered to shovel the snow off the walk, you’re liable for failing to provide a safe workplace and you get to have your WC insurance pay him to live for awhile and watch your WC insurance rate go up. In any event, any large employer I’m familiar with makes employees sign elaborate agreements if they are to work at home and almost never lets an overtime eligible employee work away from direct supervision.
Sorry, NO 2nd coming of Jesus.
It is something Christians have held onto for way too long. Believe if it you want.
Why would GOD want to limit Himself to worrying about ONE planet in the entire universe? especially with so many stupid people on it? Why did Jesus say’ come, I prepare a place for you.” ? it isn’t HERE.
Wanting to ‘RULING’ a planet is a shortcoming of MEN (and women). Wanting to be ruled by anyone is an even more grievous fault. That’s why GOD gave us free will.
That’s also why I am not a member of any ‘church’. While there are several Universal Truths to live by,I get tired of them being interpreted by men (or women) who try to impose their own sense of humanistic behavior on me. They are usually faulty.
We have held onto our belief in the Second Coming for so long because there is no Christianity without belief in the Second Coming. To deny the Second Coming is to deny the Resurrection, and to deny the Resurrection is to deny Christ Himself. In fact, your own words testify against you, for when you say, “Why would GOD want to limit Himself to worrying about ONE planet in the entire universe? especially with so many stupid people on it?” you attack the Incarnation and Crucifixion of Christ? Apparently, we matter enough to God that we’re worth the Son of God taking on human flesh and dying for us!
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth
John 1;1 In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God
All things came to be through him and ….
The first coming of God in the flesh Jesus say no sigh will be given except the sign of Jonah in the belly of the Whale . Who could see inside the belly of the whale only the chosen saints
The 2nd coming God in the flesh comes with all the power of the creator of heaven and earth. The only ones who will reject This great almighty power are the atheist lusting to rule over God’s earth convinced they have the truth and the right to rule the ones who see Christians useful today but ready to throw them away once they no longer serve the interest of these atheist anti christs used by Satan the Devil to attempt to conquer God’s earth for themselves
Islam people will recognize the 2nd coming as from God and will listen The atheist elite, the last Antichrist so close to winning they believe will not bend their knees to the Great absolute power of the Son of God just like Pharaoh in Egypt and hate the 2nd coming bringing great blinding deception besides they convince themselves they can manipulate the people who believe in Abraham to hate each other and they can until god in the flesh retun
…I get tired of them being interpreted by men (or women) who try to impose their own sense of humanistic behavior on me.
And is that your… oh, what’s the word? …interpretation?
Tell you what I’m tired of: The line “that’s why I don’t go to church.”
You don’t have to agree with every last thing that’s said in a church (and very few demand that you do). But the reason that Communism has made such strides in education is because they organized. That’s why they demonized the phrase “organized religion”: they know how powerful organization is.
Meanwhile, the folks on the right decided to play “lone wolf,” and act all cool about it. And what happened? The left now OWNS the educational system.
It is simply amazing (and deeply depressing) that some of the most judgemental people in the world, islamists, are being facilitated in their plans in the name of being “non-judgemental”. I don’t know if leftists actually believe they can coopt the adherents of Shariah law before they begin executing homosexuals, or if they are simply too programmed by political correctness to care. This is the way the culture ends–not with a bang, but with a whimper.
Allah Willing, Belgium, the UK & all of Europe will soon be freed from polytheism and idolatry. Let us live in an Islamic state, in which there is no idolatry, and there is only “There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.”
The Sharia is the solutioin for all of Belgium’s, the UK’s & Europe’s problems.
We call to implement the Sharia in Belgium, the UK & all of Europe. We invite all Crusaders, Zionists and Infidels to submit to the light of Islam. Save yourself and your children of the painful punishment of the hereafter and grant yourself eternal life in paradise. There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
Belgium, the UK & all of Europe will soon be an Islamic state ruled by the Sharia, Insha’Allah.
HEh. See? That’s what I like about Islam. Such creativity and spontaneity.
They are rather mono-drone-atic, aren’t they?
I have a suggestion for what you can do with your sharia. Perhaps you’d like to come meet my extended family of military vets and 2nd Amendment supporters so we can all discuss it.
Dude:
You forgot to add a /sarc tag. Without it, or some other hint that you are joking, people will take your comments seriously. I am perceptive enough to realize that you are mocking Islamism, and pretending to be an Islamist clown.
HAS to be irony! Rather reminds me of an islamic version of LovelyEarth, who channels the greeny-libtards.
Absolutely. No Muslim would tell the truth like this, that is the way you can tell it is sarcasm.
Actually, “Islamist in Londonistan” had the same effect on me as a “sarc” tag.
Jesus Christ is Lord and God the Father has raised Him from the dead. The Eucharist is the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ who was Incarnate in human flesh, crucified, died, and rose from the dead. I am prepared to give my life to defend these truths.
We are the Borg
Lower your shields and surrender your ships
We will add your technological and biological distinctiveness to our own
Your culture will adapt to service us
Resistance is futile
Islam – all of it – is an abomination worthy only of extinction. Islam is a serial killer of entire peoples and cultures. Islam has earned a serial killer’s fate.
I was reading Andrew Bostom’s book Sharia vs Freedom and was struck by all the references to Islam’s disdain for reason. The rational mind. Which is precisely what I have been documenting as being under attack via education. UN-driven reforms where the Islamic nations are the largest voting bloc. There are a lot of dynamics going on pushing the Western Mind towards intuition and feelings as the cultivated response as I have been describing, but everyone of them creates a Mind that will be far easier to manipulate and dominate. It just becomes a matter of who controls the levers of government.
Now in the US all the references are to Interfaith and the Pluralism Project but it strips Judeo-Christianity of its distinctiveness, misrepresents Islam, and puts the emphasis on temporal spiritual values. Creating the heaven on Earth now through a collective effort. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/producing-docile-instruments-and-captive-souls-putty-at-the-hands-of-the-predator-state/
This is unilateral intellectual disarmament.
And the daily cultivation in young minds of an allegiance to the group and the Common Good as told to you by others is setting us up for tragedy.
A big part of what led to Germany in the 20th lays back with the disdain for reason and cultivation via education of unconscious emotion as the driving personal impetus. Add on to that disdain for the individual and celebration of the group identity of the Germanic community tied to race and place and we have recognizable cauldrons of similar brews coming to a boil again in the 21st century.
“A big part of what led to Germany in the 20th lays back with the disdain for reason and cultivation via education of unconscious emotion as the driving personal impetus. Add on to that disdain for the individual and celebration of the group identity of the Germanic community tied to race and place and we have recognizable cauldrons of similar brews coming to a boil again in the 21st century.”
I think cultivation of unconscious emotion via education was a product of the rise of the NSDAP, not a cause. Certainly the Nazis went after the youth of Germany with an emotional appeal, but the adults of Germany, or at least a significant and important number of them, supported the Nazis before the Nazis got control of the German educational system.
Our and the Soviet’s propaganda depicted the Nazis as lower or working class thugs and certainly there was that element, particularly in the SA, but the bulwark of their support was the “intellectuals” and professionals. The first German institution to come under firm Nazi influence and then control was the bar and the legal system and the civil service. Teachers and other professions weren’t far behind.
I think the rise to power of the Nazis and the popularity of Hitler are best explained by the fact that after the defeat in WWI and the crippling of the Germany economy during and after the War, the Germans had simply lost their National identity and their faith in their Country and its institutions. They were having their own “National malaise,” to use a phrase from times when our Nation had seemingly lost its way. They responded to a charismatic leader who restored their faith in their institutions and gave them a vision. People were not yet innured to mass media and popular culture in the 20s and 30s and the Nazis use of electronic media and spectacular pagentry produced what might best be described as a mass hysteria in Germany that suppressed dissent and in combination with the return to good economic times led people to either support or at least accept the increasingly radical Nazi agenda. We’ve invented the “good German” mostly since we needed to rehabilitate the Germans so that German boys could help plug the Fulda Gap, but there really was little dissent or disagreement, or even questioning, in Hitler’s Germany. You might find Goldhagen’s “Hitler’s Willing Executioners” interesting. Goldhagen makes a good case that the Holocaust was as German as apple strudel.
The signers of the one sided Treaty of Versailles that crippled Germany after WWI were labeled the “November Criminals” by Hitler in Mein Kampf. It stuck. From the 1920s forward the Nazis fought a political war of attrition with the Conservatives and manipulated the centrists until they obtained a plurality over the Catholics, their biggest obstacle.
Long story short, Hitler didn’t take Germany so much as he was awarded it by the Free Stuff coalition of the day.
I am afraid.
re: nazis
Back then they blamed the Jews for everything.
The Jews were ‘rich’!
Does that ring a fricking BELL for you all YET!????
Hitler and the nazis had to have a ‘universal ‘enemy’
Obama and company have to have a universal enemy- it is the RICH, and those making over $200, $250 whatever.
Next it will be the ‘almost rich – people making over $xxx,xxx a year. The $xx,xxx. then $x,xxx.
Then it will be anyone making more than you. I have already seen this in many posts on different forums. People are whining about how those making X number of dollars should be taxed more to ‘pay their fair share. So far, the lowest ‘too much’ is about $39,000 a year.
It will get lower. next will be your savings, your 401K and then a ‘wealth tax’ on what you already have.
The REALLY rich and financially capable WILL move their money out of the U.S. legally, like the Soros’s the Kerry’s, the Kennedy’s, etc.
obama loves this – Goebbels would be proud.
it’s working.
And Obama’s on vacation – you are paying for that too.
There was also a lot of feeling that the whole concept of democracy had been discredited. When Woodrow (He kept us out of war) Wilson led the United States into WW I, he trumpeted his 14 points as the basis for peace. The gullible Germans, not having experience with Democrats, took him at his word. They kicked out the Kaiser and Austro-Hungarian Emperor and ended the rule by aristocracy, established democratic governments. Among the 14 points was a requirement that people be allowed to select their own governments and draw borders that put ethnic groups together. With the Austro-Hungarian Empire broken into ethnically coherent states, the German speaking Austrians sought to merge into a democratic Germany. That possibility was dismissed by the victors at Versailles.
Before Hitler rose to power democracy was associated with the loss of WW I, economic disaster and national humiliation. It was the world’s misfortune that Hitler came along at that moment to offer an alternative.
@Harry the Spiller
All should understand that there was LOTS of “free stuff” in Germany, even under the Kaiser. You can have a monarchy and still be socialist and Kaiser Germany was pretty socialistic. Interestingly, the “free stuff” component seems to be what kept the Wiemar Republic going. Germany’s elaborate social welfare scheme and their heavily unionized workforce with access to wage arbitration allowed Wiemar to try to inflate their way out of their crushing war debt so long as wages and social welfare systems allowed the people to ride the inflation successfully. The Worldwide economic downturn of the late 1920s rendered the social welfare system unable to keep up with the inflation and led the business to rebel against the largely communist labor unions and the arbitration scheme. (Interestingly, Germany’s labor scheme during Wiemar looks a LOT like the schemes being proposed in Card Check legislation today.) The NSDAP made its peace with German business, what we now call “coordination,” by promising to protect private ownership from the communists and other leftists so long as the business “coordinated” its actions with the NSDAP. The NSDAP and its bully-boys, the SA, then went to work suppressing the communists and other competing parties, with more than a little Jew Bashing thrown in, and when Hitler became Chancellor he set about “coordination” of the labor unions making them a part of Party apparatus rather than idependent entities and eliminating the communist influence.
One thing I always admired about my communist adversaries, the ones that knew they were communists anyway, was that they were very methodical about learning from their defeats. The Soros Junta is very much following the Nazi model of coodination of the business community – rewarding their friends and punishing their enemies – in a dynamic of crony socialism. At some point, however, those coordinated businesses, e.g., GE, GM, are going to come into conflict with organized labor, which hasn’t been “coordinated” with the regime really; the unions think this administration is union chattel just like any other Democrat administration. It will be interesting to see what happens when one of Comrade Obama’s coordinated businesses comes into serious conflict with one of his union friends. My money is on the union losing and dramatically; Obama and his ilk can never get past their elitist contempt for the “working class.”
Gary Cooper in “High Noon,” aptly displays the human condition where it concerns courage: a room full of people determined to do the wrong thing at any price.
Right on!
The left and Islam and “the crowd (read: women)” all have one thing in common; they hate rationality. Those of us who aren’t in those folds aren’t much better. We get all squishy when someone, like Brevik in Norway, unloads on them. We still delude ourselves that we can reason the problem away with words, and that tactic may not be rational. It could be that the only effective way to stop them is to vanquish them.
Except Brevik is the freedom fighter, in my opinion. Oh sure, what he did was wrong, (blah, blah, blah) but I understand it. Those he killed were the children of the elites – being groomed to take their place to sell off the rest of their country and ready to CRUSH all resistance. Brevik was merely hitting the enemy where it would count.
There’s a lot of good Belgians though they laid down LONG AGO.
Heck, Brussels is inundated with shawarma and/ or kebab shops and Arab music is heard EVERYWHERE.
The cost of living is outrageous whereas tiny apartments and/ or lofts/ homes are shared with multiple roommates.
Many Brussels residents live in lofts with shared walls whereas the back of their place has a porchbalcony which faces a courtyard, balconies of many adjoining lofts, apartments etc.,
Where again Arab music is played LOUD and all-day long, treating the courtyard like an echo chamber.
While visiting I went to 3 apartments who’d played their Arab music loudly and asked them to please turn the music down.
The people for whom I’d stayed with were blown away by my acts. Again, they laid down long ago.
Mr. Simon, the Flemish residents in Belgium have been thee go-getters and cog of Belgium’s economy.
With the few Poles living in Belgium being the ONLY people who attend Catholic services, Islam is exponentially growing.
While I commend the Belgian for speaking up, his fellow countrymen/ countrywomen could care less.
It is no accident or coincidence that Belgians have followed their neighbors in the Netherlands in allowing euthanasia of “inconvenient” elderly. The same civic lethargy and cowardice that allows surrender to Islamism also allows the murder of innocents for the “greater good.”
Mr. Simon, the Flemish residents in Belgium have been thee go-getters and cog of Belgium’s economy.
Belgium is a dead country walking. When (not if) Flanders secedes from the corrupt regime in Brussels, her people will be able to take the necessary corrective measures — such as throwing all Muslims out of the new nation.
Interesting.
In Hitler’s day, one of the thirty-six was certainly Winston Churchill, although that would have been laughable right up until the time when all seemed lost and the cry went up “Why Not Winston?”
Who would be among the thirty-six today? Do we even know their names as yet?
Who would you deem worthy?
My personal choice would be Sarah Palin. She is every bit as much in the political wilderness (literally and figuratively) as was Churchill in the prewar years. Like Churchill, she has been right about just about everything that is afflicting us today, and like Churchill, she is demonized for it.
I don’t know…
And one was a sailor and one was a priest and one was slain by a fierce wild beast…. and I want to be one too.
The anti-Jihad march from Poitiers to Paris was ignored by the French media.
The man in the video and our modern society lacks the proper language to protest. The swearing in of these politicians does not violate democracy. It violates freedom. But democracy long ago replaced freedom as the highest ideal in the public’s mind. Democracy is manipulable and it has no limiting principle, so the politicians are all for it.
Very well and tersely said.
Permit me to add that immediately we see that Democracy has given us Americans the likes of this chameleon Obama and his braying-donkey clarion-claque in the White House and our popular press here in America.
There is a fine line between the lowest common denominator and its merging into mob rule, and my personal wish is that we Americans [the rest of the Christian world seems to be more malleable] quickly determine that our precious Freedom does indeed go hand in hand with Democracy, but we must watch for dangerous overlaps and Muslim encroachment.
Not being an historical scholar, still, I seem to recall that during our days as a British Territory, that the question of “mob rule” versus “Democracy” came up, probably from the British side, during the our earliest revolutionary unrest in the Colonies.
The video here seems to be a modern day parallel, or maybe closer to a corollary, to our American problem with these malignant Muslims in Dearborn and Northern Virginia encroaching with stridency against our Freedom.
These Muslims over here have seized upon and are skillfully using this against us as “Lawfare”
Our public [again, that lowest common denominator] at large doesn’t seem to understand this application of Democracy against us in the guise of practicing “Democracy/Freedom”….hence we’ve got our circular Obama problem, and all of this overlapping subtly.
A brave man to voice his objections publicly, recorded on film to propagate throughout the world. Those others in the audience sitting on their hands. Waiting to see which way to turn?
How long before brownshirts teach him a lesson? Emphasising to others and their networks the lesson given by the President of the Council and audience to shut up or get out?
In Belgium. The present and future royal court of the United States of Europe. Feeding from the trough built by the European Elite to succour/sucker citizens of all European nations. By default to establish One Overarching Ruling body, dare one suggest Reich/New Empire? As in more than one way to skin a cat? AND never letting a crisis their EURO go to waste?
Yes Hitler also gained assent needed for his designs from the major part of the populations. That’s populations plural, throughout Europe.
His inducement to citizens wanting direction with his rock concerts/Rallies in Nuremberg. Tellingly photographed by Leni Riefenstahl. VERY impressive as “way to go”.
Plus of course the CHANGES in law and the Constitutions agreed by eminent members of the legal profession and Court. AND the hoopla from the information Media controlled by Joseph Goebbels.
Check out the film Cabaret. The gasthaus with the beautiful blonde boy panned down during his song. The sitting people young and old standing to chorus his song over their beer and sausage. The final “Tomorrow belongs to me”.
Then go to newsreels of Vienna after Anschluss with Viennese swarming the streets to cheer Hitler and his parade of beautiful, well polished and disciplined troops. See if you can see any troops with guns forcing these Viennese to their cheering.
Viennese: highly cultured, civilised intellectual and even intelligent western Europeans. Their history of war and conflict in their skins. AND their socialisation of benefits shortly after the Austro-Hungarian Empire was dismantled from effects of “The Guns of August”.
In the Cause of, the HOPE for CHANGE from disparate peoples to one people racially and otherwise “pure”.
Review the campaign rallies of BH Obama in 2008. Shortly after the banking crash. Throughout Europe and Great Britain. His appearance treated as if he were a Rock Star. OR a religious ceremony at appearance of a Saviour. Some of his cheerleaders even call him their Messiah when not their New Kennedy. Elmer Gantry anyone?
Lest we forget George Santayana’s plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose.
What’s darkly amusing about all this is that “tolerance” and “diversity” were memes created by the progressive left as weapons against all who stood against their rise to absolute power. Now they, and a large part of society, are so wedded to the concept, that they can’t break away from it even to save themselves from destruction. Perhaps it is a kind of religious fanaticism that blinds them to reality, a refusal to admit they were wrong and created a monster that needs to be put down, or perhaps they simply think they can control the Islamists much as their ancestors thought they could control Hitler and Stalin.
Whatever they think, history is going to repeat itself, only this time there might not be a recovery and return to rational civilization, at least not for a very long time.
I don’t get it either.
Somehow the “Progressive” Left thinks they can simultaneously be the Defenders of Homosexuality and Gender Feminism, AND the Enablers of the Rise of Islam as a pre-eminent Global Power.
Unless their goal is to blow up the entire damned planet as some form of “population control”, none of that makes ANY sense whatsoever.
That could be. Many of the progs think the Earth is overcrowded and they put animals and plants above human beings in value (except for themselves of course). Then there are rumors around about those who want to cull humanity back to around 500 million people at most. That population sounds awfully small in the grand scheme of things but one can imagine the super rich psychopaths have calculated that will be enough slaves to keep the few thousand elite in a degree of luxury.
Most likely what will come of any such plan is rendering the planet uninhabitable for anyone given the vast number of chemical storage sites, nuke plants, etc. Then what happens when a real natural disaster happens and that nice, concentrated bit of humanity, most likely chosen to be unimaginative, docile and compliant, can’t cope?
“This is as good a way to get rid of them as any.”
- Charles Wurster, lead scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, when told the banning of DDT would likely result in millions of deaths from malaria.
You explained yourself why this idea is one of those crazy speculations that equal those about 9/11. Sure there are some crazy figures around who believe this. What’s more important though is the fact the the fundamentally religious in Iran believe in the return of the 12th Mahdi who, according to their belief system would only come back after an apocalyptic scenario of some kind. Fundamentalism is scary as it’s fundamentalism of many sorts that kills a greater number of people, see Hitler, see Stalin, see Mao.
If only we don’t care that much about anything, we will be saved.
Sorry, dude, extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. The Fundamental truths of the Bible are Reality. The Law of Gravity is Reality. And that is fundamentally that.
# Tennwriter
It was in the name of liberty in a way that Hitler acted: liberty from Jews, a judenreines country. And the churches with some rare exceptions of noble men and women were with him. Defense is something different. Defense isn’t necessarily fundamentalistic. Let’s suppose that we can only use the term fundamentalism for attacks and not for defense.
Somehow the “Progressive” Left thinks they can simultaneously be the Defenders of Homosexuality and Gender Feminism, AND the Enablers of the Rise of Islam as a pre-eminent Global Power.
Progressives only cater to their sub-constituencies to get their votes and support. Once total dominance has been achieved, all these constituencies will be thrown under the gigantic progressive bus. This is how the Democrats won the 2012 election: all these subgroups with their narrow concerns voting selfishly.
Excepting that Islam usually trumps the Communists where they overthrew the Capitalist Bourgeouis Imperialists.
Muslim immigrants overwhelmingly vote for Leftwing parties in Europe. They are the replacement population to finish off European Christendom via balkanization…and to provide votes in the meantime to thwart European Christendom from asserting their right to exist and dominion.
It is not about being rational. It is not about being rational. Never forget, it is not about being rational. If you fight them on the basis of logic, you will lose every time.
Leaving aside the mysticism, the number of just/righteous is always very small, and always will be. In modern times you might start with Churchill; the student in front of the tank in Tianamen Square (maybe); and Enoch Powell. Add your own choices; it’ll be a small list.
The world of water-cooler wisdom always dominates but rarely prevails, probably because it’s usually nonsense. Meanwhile, it you want a steaming fresh, head-bangin’ attack on lazy thinking — perhaps better called the righteous anger of a just man — try this:
http://tinyurl.com/bahf2w6
Maybe a bit esoteric for some; but by whatever name, it affects us all. Safe to predict Belgium’s days are numbered, too.
I’d say the number is too small and just symbolic to point out a very small number of poeple. But thinking of Churchill I also have to think of resistance in France and Germany like the White Rose. I would think of the Danes who protected the Jews by shipping them to Sweden over night. So you get a considerable number, but rather late. So maybe the number is really that small at the beginning. I wonder if it also symbolizes that courage is such a rare quality. People think today that courage is when they do bungee-jumping or something similar. And maybe these activities are done by poeple who would like to be courageous, but don’t really dare to speak up when necessary. This group- and community thinking that became a fashion decades ago and also Facebook (many so-called friends) makes it difficult to speak up, as you end up alone. Family not being a safe haven any more and people using society as a replacement created an enormous fear of being alone, old-fashioned or simply politically incorrect. This term was established first and given a coating of hunmanity. While people then fear to be unhuman they can really create inhumane systems in the long run.
Sure, the number is small because it’s mainly symbolic — goodness and altruism are found everywhere, often donated anonymously. But the ‘good’ symbols of the age are never many. The greatest evil, as you suggest, is usually found in the groupthink/ silence of decent people everywhere. Cowardice is often part of ignorance and stupidity, and the fear of being kicked out of the herd. The common thread? Well, just look around you; we all get to pick our own word.
Seems over-the-top to me. I mean, I am a religious Jew and an Israeli, so I am a prime target, and the general concept is correct, but in this case?
1. All of these things apply to Communists, and in spades. If a Communist is elected, shall he be refused office? Should we have a new blacklist?
2. ” I would wager, however, that if you asked each of them individually whether they favored equal rights for women and homosexuals, as well as separation of church and state…”
Suppose I left the question at this point, and asked George Washington or John Adams or James Madison? I think their answer would be, “My God, man, of course not! Are you some godless heathen trying to destroy civilization?” (Mind you, I agree with them, but as a non-Christian, it’s not my call.)
“If a Communist is elected, shall he be refused office?”
A Nazi would be. What’s the difference?
Commie scum killed more people.
But, Rob, I know what you meant.
In Europe, perhaps. In the US, it would be hard to pull that off.
But Washington, Adams, and Madison lived 200 years ago. First, you’d have to explain to them what you meant by “the separation of church and state,” and tell them what a “homosexual” is (they had the thing but not the word). Even then, their answers would not be morally and intellectually sound for our time, as they might be for theirs. Times change; people do not have the same ideas and do not expect from the world the same kinds of things. For example, there’s no justification for denying women the right to vote anymore, when they’re as capable of taking care of themselves as men are, and receive the same education that men do (or lack of education, as the case may be).
Speaking of “homosexual,” one can deduce the recent coinage of that word from the mismatching of a Latin root with a Greek affix. That’s why I myself prefer idemsexual. What is your position on idemsexual marriage?
You, sir, are part of the problem when you believe there is little in the way of universal truth and everything is relative to time and place.
I don’t think he’s saying all things are relative. But obviously, some things indeed are.
I think Ann Coulter would disagree with you.
Without getting into details, I think morality is absolute and non-scientific. If there is an argument for accepting homosexuality that doesn’t equally apply to incest, I would like to hear it.
George Washington was ahead of his time in insisting Jews were equal and did not need to be tolerated. Many of the founders were agaisnt slavery, at least in theory. Regarding other things, I think they had the right idea, and it’s silly to attack Muslims because they don’t change the definition of right and wrong every five minutes. There are other things to attack them on.
Until the US went utterly mad in the 1960s and, especially, 1970s, you would not have been able to hold office or have a government job if you were an open communist. Public employees from janitor and clerk on up, teachers, etc., had to take an oath of office that in some instances specifically required that they not be communists and in others required that they swear that they were not a part of any organization dedicated to the overthrow of the US government. Of course the true-believer communists didn’t mind taking the oath because the revolution was a higher morality and they didn’t plan to abide by that silly oath; sorta’ the same mentality Islamists and many foreigners have towards US laws today.
I would say that a communist shouldn’t be allowed to run in the first place as an open an avowed enemy or our system of governance. Why would you allow your enemy to use your own system to defeat you?
It’s precisely what we see happening now and look at the results.
Not only that, they should be tried for treason and sent packing without citizenship. Enjoy Cuba!
Look, I think a Communist is the same as a Nazi (and the Nazis wiped out those of my relatives who were still in Poland). I think a Che poster is the same as a Himmler poster. But I don’t think Roger would go for the return of the blacklist, and frankly, there should not be any restriction on parties. We have this in Israel, and, like most things, it’s disproportionally used against the right.
I think I’ll give you the following two laws:
(1) Any law or organization created to save Jews will at the end be used to try to kill them (c.f., the UN).
(2) Any tool to suppress radicals will be disproportionally used agaisnt the Right.
1. All of these things apply to Communists, and in spades. If a Communist is elected, shall he be refused office? Should we have a new blacklist? -mkz1
This is exactly the point I made. The reason why this fellow is objecting to Islamists entering governance and policy making, is because people were shouted down as McCarthyists before, probably with this guy leading the chant and booting out the objectors.
Essentially the horse has long bolted from the barn. The Social Democrats and Socialists/Greens/Communists merely disagree on the means not the ends. The Moderate Islamists and the Jihadists merely disagree on the means not the ends.
There wouldnt be Muslim colonization without the policy making and indoctrination of the Left. There wouldnt be Islamists taking elected positions in the institutions to object to.
Two questions:
1. Was the election of the Islamists really “illegal”? Is that the right word?
2. What does this have in common with the rise of Hitler?
I’m tempted to say that the election of the Islamists is not illegal, and that it doesn’t have anything in common with the rise of Hitler. Of course I might be wrong.
Remember that radical Islamists were very fond of Hitler, and still are. The Muslim Brotherhood loved the guy. Their aims were very similar in fact: murder the Jews and then anyone else who was deemed unworthy. Both also believed in total world domination.
Seriously, start paying attention to these people and their plans.
But Hitler was the most popular national leader of all time, whereas the Muslims in Europe are still seen as despised aliens and merely tolerated. If the Muslims shall ever take over Europe (and, to be honest, it’s hard to see how this may happen) it certainly won’t be for a very long time.
Why is the taking over of Europe hard to imagine? What has happened in Iran, Egypt and Turkey? Look at Africa and tell me that Islam is not taking over. The difference between the Western model and the Islamist model is the propensity for violence. Islam STARTS with violence and the uses intimidation and blackmail to further their evil religion. Their stated goal is domination of ALL non believers, actually all people including their own followers. A tiny country like Belgium is an easy apple to pluck from the tree of democracy and the tree and it’s roots will be next. You only have to look back to the Bosnian war to see what has happened to the European mindset at what they allowed to happen with the Islamic prisoners and how they were treated by the Serbs. They have no backbone or guts to stand up to anyone any longer. The new term for Europe is “Eat me last”.
If memory serves, the early Arab conquests of the seventh century that included Egypt and Persia came in the wake of one of the largest and most mutually destructive wars between the Sassanid and Byzantine empires. Back then, Arab fanaticism and courage were enough to overcome the Greek and Persian advantages in weapons and tactics. Asia minor was conquered militarily in the 11th century by the Seljuks, whose rule was later overturned by the Mongols who were presently displaced by the Ottomans. Each of these conquests took place before Europe had acquired the overwhelming military supremacy that it has enjoyed for the past 500 years or so.
Today a military conquest of Europe by Muslims seems inconceivable. Imagine the Arabs trying to fight a war against 50 Israels!
Islam took over Iran, Egypt and Turkey more than a millenium ago. What was unnatural in these countries was the secular government that they would say was imposed on them from the outside, primarily after the demise of the Ottoman Empire after WWI.
What makes Europe’s situation different is that Europeans fought off the Muslim invasion over several centuries. From Tours to Vienna, they fought Muslims attempting to take over Europe. Remember the Spanish driving out the Moors. After driving Muslims out of Europe, they are welcoming them back in, at the cost of their own civilizations and culture. Here in the US, we are well along the same path. Western civilization is committing suicide. Sharia will become the new normal, unless we find a way to stop it.
You’re not paying attention to demographics. Muslims are the fastest, well only, growing demographic in most Western European nations, and they aren’t assimilating. Sure there are only two now, but pretty soon, there will be a plurality elected, and when that happens, they can wreak whatever changes they wish to the government. Of course, since the native European population will be an aging one with the muslim population a young one, they might just decide to take matters into their own hands much sooner through violence.
It’s like Edward Longshanks said of the Scots in Braveheart – If we can’t get them out, we’ll breed them out.
I agree about the importance of demographics, but I seriously doubt that the native Europeans will simply let Muslim immigrants outvote them. If Muslim immigration isn’t stopped, there will be some kind of bloody intra-European conflict, perhaps beginning with separate race riots in different countries and ending in a full-fledged nationalist war. In the end Islam will either be suppressed humanely now or brutally later, but it will be suppressed.
Only a few decades, demography is destiny. Many European cities have majority Muslim kids in their K-4 grades. When these kids get to midlife, Muslims will be the voting outright majority. They will have block voted already to power, before then, with Affirmative Action and Multicultural Capitulation assisting their dominion. And among the young, they will have an overwhelming majority (the young being of fighting military age).
By then it will be a done deal. All that is left is for the few remaining to flee to the Anglo Nations or to stay and embrace dhimmitude.
First Muslims will dominate and majoritize European cities, the centers of culture, commerce, trade, communication, transportation hubs. Then it will be the rural indigenous European Christians vs the urban Third World Muslims.
I think that we will see the Israelification of European Christendom, with tens or hundreds of Gazas and West Banks, security fences, roadblocks, etc, before that happens. As the Europeans are already wising up, it seems, and the European Nationalist Parties are gaining support and steam. Eventually ethnic cleansing and even some genocide will take place. This will wreck Europes economy and take them out of contention as world powers, as they will be consumed with domestic turmoil. However the payoff in the end is the end of the EU, a rebirth of Christianity, the removal of Islam, the death of European guilt and self loathing replaced by love of self and an affirmative right to exist, the reduction of the welfare state and less regulatory regimes with regards to industry and markets.
It looks like our predictions are basically similar, though I doubt there will be any lasting and large-scale return to Christianity.
I hope you’re right, but ultimately political power flows from the barrel of a gun. I suspect the corrupt leftist governments of the EU will simply outlaw the nationalist parties if they gain too much support, as Belgium did with the Vlaams Blok. With the soap box and ballot box taken away, that leaves only the ammo box. And the only European nation with gun rights similar to ours is Switzerland. I doubt if the Swiss could supply the rest of the continent with enough firepower to take down the Muslims. So the US and Russia would have to smuggle weapons and ammunition in. As an alternative, we could take an unused page from World War II and airdrop mass quantities of something like the FP-45 to the resistance. The easiest way to arm yourself is to take a dead enemy’s weapons.
A couple of side effects of this…
The Left is totally discredited along with their entire ideology that has brought us to this disasterous state of affairs in European Christendom. This will see a great disruption in the University and Education systems as well as the media, as the bums are thrown out if not prosecuted for treason.
This pan Europeanism/Christianism will affect the Anglo nations including the US, which is a really really good thing. Ideas that were once verboten by PC will be ascendent, whilst Leftwing Multiculturalism, Diversity Promotion, Moral and Cultural Relativism, etc are jettisoned.
And we will have Islam to thank for the Revitalization of European Christendom, in a strange twist of fate, being just too powerful and obnoxious a population to push into the current New Left Zeitgeist.
The return of a robust and vibrant European Christendom, globally.
It’s easy, really. They stay clustered. They buy up all the real estate and they cluster – entire families. Once they have the numbers they start trouble in the neighborhoods in order to drive the natives out. This is what they’ve done in every major European city where the police are afraid to enter the “no-go-zones.
And this is what they did in Dearborn, Michigan, except they got the whole town.
I’ve always wondered, why Dearborn…..?
Are you thinking of Henry Ford’s anti-semitic newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, selections from which (under the title “the International Jew”) are sold widely in the Muslim world, together with “Mein Kampf” and “the Protocols of the elders of Zion”?
But I have toruble with your overall comment. As a religious Jew, I’m rather used to having the comment made about us.
I guess you don’t remember one of the protest signs in Denmark over the cartoons: “2030 – then we take over.” According to Bruce Bawer, it’s been on t-shirts, too.
It’s later than you think.
I seem to remember that Hitler said he learned a lot from the Turks’ genocide of Armenians….
Of course, you are wrong.
Have you objectively studied the rise of Hitler? Or, is your understanding of Hitler, like the majority, based on rumor and myth?
“The rise of Hitler” isn’t a “thing” that can be studied in isolation like hydrogen, but I dare say I know about it a thing or two. And it’s by no means clear to me that the election to municipal office of two members of a despised minority, whatever their views, can have much in common with the popular nationalism of Hitler.
Of all time? Really? I don’t think he even pulled a majority in Germany(*), and he certainly had his detractors elsewhere.
(*) One reason I want to keep the Electoral College. I’m afraid of election by plurality.
All minds are joined at a spiritual level and the good news is none of us has to be anywhere close to perfect to join with others through prayer.
Bless you for this article, Roger. “More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.” Tennyson
A lot of people will watch that video and be skeptical. They’ll say, “How do we know that the new councilor really is an advocate of Sharia law? How do we know that the man in the audience isn’t just a crackpot or a bigot?”
And I have to admit, one of those people is me.
And what are you doing about your ignorance?
Joshua, your interpretation of the event is nice and therapeutic, and if you have not learned much about the Islamic scriptures, it is even reasonable. Before 9-11, most of us were totally ignorant about the Islamic world view. Being a Christian or a Jew, even superficially so, it is easy to make a simple error of projection and imagining that Islam must be a peaceful proposition since it is a religion, and your interpretation is understandable, but unfortunately uninformed.
But you need not stay in the dark. Read the works of Wafa Sultan, Robert Spencer, Walid Shoebat, Pamela Geller, Aayan Hirsi Ali, Daniel Pipes and many other scholars of the Islamic scriptures, and you may recognize that the outraged Belgian is not making things up. He was the odd man, but he understood more than most in the room, and in any case he was the only one with the courage to voice his alarm. This does not imply that all Muslims are ardent imperialists, but in the long established view of the Islamists among them, they are ignorant and infidels, even heretic. So far, the non-fanatic Muslims have been unable to stop the zealots among them. If they manage to stop them, they will deserve all the gratitude we can muster.
“He said their election was illegal because the men were avowed adherents of Shariah law, which is in direct contradiction with Belgian civil law and the European Convention on Human Rights.”
Absolutely. Everyone elected in the EU should be examined and tested for their adherence to the official ideology of the EU; those who by their examiner’s judgment aren’t sufficiently in thrall to the EU conventions should be excluded from elections.
And we should do that here: first let’s exclude the communists, socialist, and greens, all of which have allegiances to anti-American, anti-Democratic ideologies. Back to the ’50s.
“individually whether they favored equal rights for women and homosexuals”
Most people favor equal rights for homosexuals: a homosexual man may marry any woman of his choice and any homosexual woman may marry any man of her choice. Equality isn’t what is wanted.
“Everyone elected in the EU should be examined and tested for their adherence to the official ideology of the EU”
Hmm…not sure about that. I do think that the EU has done some good *up to now* but I’d like to vote for the abolition, or at least re-foundation, of the EU: according to you, I should not be allowed to do so.
How do you feel about “one man, one vote, one time?”
Hitler came to power because of his ‘will to power’. He realized that if you go out and grab power confidently and ruthlessly then good people will usually not try to stop you until it is almost or too late. This is because good people believe in living in a give and take world and so try to be accommodating and are thus caught off guard by the thug.
Obama also has the will to power. When he was first elected, we kept hearing how he was the smartest man ever elected. We conservatives were puzzled by this. “What are you talking about, he is the biggest idiot we have ever elected?”
Now we start to see what the others were saying. Behind closed doors, he was telling his followers. “I have the will to power. Just watch, I am going to drastically change America and I am going to get away with it.”
I’m sure some of his followers advised caution: “Be careful. The American people are like frogs in the boiling pot. If you turn the heat up too fast they will jump out and stop you”.
But Obama reassured them: “No the American people are not like frogs in a pot. They are like geese feeding beside a lake. If you walk into a flock of geese and disturb them, they will squawk violently and fly off, but eventually they will return and continue eating like nothing happened. Some people will squawk at first, but then they will just go on living and we will get our way”.
Unfortunately, he was right. We are not boiling frogs. We are squawking geese.
Pretty good, nice picture, but I don’t agree. You just don’t know yet what to do. Simon writes that he comes closer to understanding how Hitler was possible: Nobody dared stand up. I also guess that at the beginning nobody could really believe what he was up to. Look at Chamberlain.
But I think our systems are completely different. So far, I haven’t seen any proof of our systems singling out a group. With one exception: Israel. And that’s what makes me doubt them. Then not standing up to Muslim belief systems might have to do with money and only with money. Oh, btw., you need the Latinos, you might need them later. They might defend America and Christianity. You only have to make the GOP eligible for them. Very important, imho.
Hmm. Seems to me cases could be made that they do single out specific groups. A few that quickly come to mind are: the “2%”, the successful people, the Christians, the white men, the conservatives, the people who believe fetal killing is murder, the Catholics, the Tea Party, the people who don’t want large government, the businesses, the pharmaceutical companies, the insurance companies, the savers, the people who don’t want to pay more for energy that is “green”, and so forth. I am sure others can add to this list.
He said their election was illegal because the men were avowed adherents of Shariah law, which is in direct contradiction with Belgian civil law and the European Convention on Human Rights.
In America, we have the dissembling representative Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota ) and the representative from Indiana Andr Carson (D-Indiana).
Every time Ellison opens his mouth you think taqiyya.
Carson is the guy who, reportedly, told that infamous lie at the passage of Obamacare (“On March 20, 2010, Carson told reporters that health care protesters outside the Capitol hurled racial slurs at fellow Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) member Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia.”)
Reportedly, Carson told the Islamic Circle of North America in May of this year:
“America will never tap into educational innovation and ingenuity without looking at the model that we have in our madrassas, in our schools, where innovation is encouraged, where the foundation is the Koran. And that model that we are pushing in some of our schools meets the multiple needs of students. …I have found that we need an educational model that is current, that meets the needs of our students. America must understand that she needs Muslims.”
(source wikipedia)
In Madrassas, you get to memorize one single book in a language you don’t speak.
Israel doesn’t exist on the maps used in geography.
And if you are female, forget about it.
ATT: MN
I think the stark dichotomy (ies) within female ranks needs to be recognized, especially when one moves from the West to female “approaches” in the rest of the world. Females elsewhere, especially in tribal societies, bitten hard by daily realities, have no illusions having experienced war/conflict/brutal strife to varying degrees. Thus, the absence of rose colored glasses. They are more inclined to see reality and demand their men have the balls to act and act tough…otherwise.
Western women are plain and simply: self destructive idiots who have “de-balled” most of their men (husbands, sons etc) in their misguided quest to be “equal” (read: dominant)when the deity had no such intention. Women are “equal” but separate in my mind. They have turned “nature’s way” on its head and called it “liberation and/or progress.” Sure, mentally if they can move away from frivolous pursuits and shallow undertakings in the name of “female emancipation” they can be any man’s equal; but far too many are superficial and shallow and give those of us (yes, I’m female) who strive to be “equal” within nature’s parameters, a very difficult road to navigate. So much more could be said on this subject…
But this would be a digression from Mr. Simon’s topic and superb piece: where are the brave souls willing to stand up collectively before its too late? or are we, individually, going to be identified and silenced??
Of course they are. That’s how all women are when they rebel against the Creator. What were the curses God gave to Eve after the Fall? “I will multiply your pains in childbirth,” and “Your urge shall be toward [your husband], but he shall be your master.” Conversely, the rebellion of men takes the form of blasphemy, sex perversion and violence.
Quick perusal of comments (everything seems quick these days)of MN led to my previous comment. I ran with the gist (his frustration with Western women?) of his comment. In hindsight, that was a mistake and I agree with those who commented below him: you don’t make much sense except your visible frustration (and misogyny?)borne of a deep frustration no doubt. But the menstrual cycle has nothing to do with the current state of affairs notwithstanding PMS.
Whether or not they will succeed is one thing, but the Islamist determination for takeover of “decadent” western culture and civilization is really not open to question.
Take (please!) the Iraqi Kurd, Mullah Krekar, admirer of bin Laden, who has been spewing his filth in Norway all these years. A few years ago, he laughed that Muslims (“breeding like mosquitoes”) would take over Europe.
Or the decree of the Ikhwan(the Muslim Brotherhood) in 1991 outlining the goal for North America of destroying the miserable house of the unbeliever from within.
When you consider election to the Congress of the United States of individuals whose true loyalties are barely concealed, you could say that the drip drip drip is proceeding apace.
Obama has had representatives of organizations like CAIR at the White House.
CAIR (an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation lawsuit) raises money for Hamas and Hezbollah in the United States.
Orwell: “Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist.”
Bin Laden: “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.”
These two quotes seem to sum up the last 15 years or so. If the west doesn’t soon start reasserting its earned superiority, the only safe financial investment will be in companies that produce burkas and scimitars.
Based on the language spoken, that is the Wallonian part of Belgium. I’m not surprised they voted in a couple of Islamists.
In Oslo, Block Voting Third World Muslim Colonists for Third World Muslim Coloinists, have taken control of the local Labour Party.
The part that you missed Roger is that these folks already had let the horse bolt from the barn with regards to Communists and their fellow travelling Socialist Democrat Left. Of course when brave men stood up and tried to face them down from entering the institutions, they were escourted from polite society or shouted down as McCarthyist fascists. The Brownshirt Antifa and their Muslim allies are brutalizing all resistance to Islamization and the Thrid Worldizing of Europe via colonization and non-assimilation. All the Anlgo Nations likewise.
The small minority of the world population that is Whtie European 7% are the new Jews along with the Jews. They have been slated for extermination to make room for the Revolution.
It’s past time for Europeans to stand up and proclaim that they have a right to exist and that, that isnt xenophobic, racist, hatred, but self love.
There are places on this planet where “Others” are the majority and promote their culture and well being. Europeans likewise deserve their place in the Sun. And if you dont like it, then leave, we will help you with travel arrangements and revoke your citizenship at the border.
The conditions are rapidly accumulating in the US as well. I wouldn’t say that Sharia is the inevitable termination, but oppression certainly is. The signs are too manifest to require recitatiion. After two stright elections of an anti-semite, anti-religious, anti free market, western civilization hating marxist idealogue, can there be the slightest doubt about it? What conservative voices his or her opinion in public any more?
What the giggling pickpockets and racists are too stupid to realize is that when the manufactured hatred turns on one group (i.e., Rox News viewers, Tea Partiers, conservatives, men, religious people, et al), then it will eventually turn on them as well.
And we aren’t talking in terms of decades either.
Good piece. I’m slogging my wah through Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – Nazi Germany didn’t rise up out of strength, it rose up out of profound national weakness that permitted thugs to steal the seat of power.
I awake every day in the grip of fear for my son’s future.
know you are not alone, Harry the Spiller. We’s in a race with the devil, and it’s not a footrace but the human race.
It will be up to the Slavs to save Europe, yet again. King John III Sobieski was among the 36 of his time.
One more time “People get the government they deserve”
I think the L”V are people you never hear about. It is funny how you think of something you havent heard or thought about for years and then it pops up again out of nowhere.
Just yesterday I was thinking about the L”V 36 righteous which I had not thought about for years. There is a guy who always seems to be at the grocery where we shop. He is an older guy, tall and balding basically ordinary looking. He is there every time I go. He usually only has a few things in his cart but what he does is he looks around at what other people have in their shopping carts. Then he takes out this thick pouch full of coupons and says something like “Oh, Lucky Charms, I have one for that” or whatever and gives you coupons for stuff.
It most circumstances it would seem creepy or wierd but somehow this guy never makes you feel that way at all. He is not even looking for your thanks or approval. He just wants to hand out coupons to strangers.
So while I was in the checkout line I thought “what if this guy is one of the 36 righteous? What if the universe exists in some way so that he can go about his mission of handing out coupons to total strangers?” Then all of a sudden this article mentions this obscure legend.
In the moral universe I think that the small things that are barely noticed count for more than what makes the history books.
I like that story.
And agree that real heroes aren’t necessarily the most obvious ones or the ones acclaimed by “history”.
spindok, always with the story that sticks. is it the tale or the telling? i do not know.
This reminded me of that picture of all those Germans saluting Hitler … except for one lone man who very pointedly had his arms crossed. One wonders whatever happened to him?
Islam is nazism, fascism and terrorism all rolled into one and masquerading as a religion. It’s core beliefs are the antithesis of all things decent and human. The anti-Christ is not a person, it is Islam and it has arrived. We are living in the beginning of the catalyst for the next world war.
Let’s bring it right into the literal, Toronto Girl,
You are right about one thing: Islam is not (merely) a religion, but a theocratic governing system, of a ‘religion’ that worships the evil one, and NOT the God of creation, Israel, nor Christianity.
This is clearly demonstrated in their ‘holy’ Quran. According to historians, Muhammad wrote the Quran–and thus created his false ‘religion’–by skewing the Truth set forth in the Holy Bible. This is why everything Islam believes and supports is a diametric opposite of everything the Bible says.
While the Bible tells husbands to ‘Love your wives’ over and over, the Quron tells men to treat all women like cattle–not even like human beings.
As for that video and the ’36ers’ Mr. Simon discusses, it merely demonstrates how utterly how SCARED most people are of Islamists. For Islam has always been spread ‘by the sword’ (violence), and not through “peace,” for peace ONLY comes through Love (and the word Love is NEVER mentioned in the Quran).
Whereas, in the Bible (NIV), the word “Love” is mentioned 319 times in the Old Testament and 232 times in the New Testament.
While–being a Christian gentile–I have never heard of the ’36ers’ legend before, I am not surprised at the low the number of ‘righteous men’ in any given generation. The legend reminds me of the story of Lot, and his family, as told in Genesis 19 in the Bible (Though Lot led a life of sin, in this one circumstance, he behaved as a ‘righteous man living in an unholy city.’). Of course, once Lot removed his family from Sodom, it was destroyed.
Things seem to be exactly like that in our times as well, shown clearly in that video and in America’s recent presidential election. Very few people are fearless enough to truly stand up for what is right, regardless of the consequences.
Many Americans–myself included–believed the 2012 election would play out much like the election of 1980; a time when Americans voted out a failing president before he could do more damage. It is clear from Obama’s reelection, that American society has fallen much further into sin and ruin since 1980 and a majority of the people no longer have the will to stand up and take action against evil. Millions of Americans simply abstained from voting.
Lest we forget a very famous quote (by Edmund Burke) which says, “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.”
Unfortunately, most ‘good men’ and women stand by and do nothing when faced with a coming evil, out of fear of consequences. My question to all is, “How is letting evil happen BETTER than your personal consequences for standing against it?”
Toronto Girl, Catharine B, SB, cloudbuster and many others, thanks for your comments today. There is a definite female/male malmixture in our problems nowadays. Let me propose that Islam is best understood as Satan’s counter-attack against Jesus Christ. It took Satan six hundred years to come up with his best plan. Islam isn’t merely a religion twisted into worshipping the evil one, it was started by the evil one and remains under his strict direction today. The political progressives are an unconscious left hand to Islam’s strong right arm.
The earth that Jesus entered was a vast ocean of peoples, a mix of local religions and local gods with great variety. Humans were smart and thoughtful, some were seekers of the God who loves them and made all, and related to that God thru the materials they have at hand by which to love Him and live rightly. And of course all groups had those who were shallow, mean, devious, violent, double-minded, superstitious, and greedy. The Jews were a special small case. The Romans/Greeks superimposed an overarching unity of sophisticated government, war, engineering, communication and commerce that was not matched until the 19th century.
Jesus’s Christianity was a total revolution that made available in humans a new higher level of understanding in both heart and intellect, but leaving each person in the same body and in the same old problems that can be ameliorated, but not eliminated. It’s difficult to prove what I just said. Miracles can be tricky to see clearly. Christendom developed as a middle ground between Christ-livers and the world of the old ways. Islam was created by a competing spiritual intervention. It was made to oppose the good social evolution caused by christ-ians spread through all societies.
Inside Islam there will always be people of goodness drawn to God even tho they are mislead by the system of Allah; they are immersed in it. This fact doesn’t change that the whole thrust of Islam is defeat, subjugation, and annihilation of every other system for ordering human society. It could be, given that Obama won reelection and other evidences, that Americanism and the western christian nations must be completely trampled and the destruction of complete defeat stare us in the face, eye to eye. Then Jesus returns to our world to claim it as his, and wins the war himself in one terrible battle.
I’d like to be hopeful of the final outcome but with a happier pathway to it for us who are involved. C’mon, you Thirty Six, get out there and save us from judgement in these days. Lord help the rest of us be strong for what you have for us.Thanks for telling me of the Lamed Vav, Roger.
I have thought for some time that the anti-Christ is Islam and it is good to hear some one else with that view. My belief that I am correct in that assessment grows stronger by the day.
You have stated very well the things that make Islam anathema to civilization of any sort not only Western Civilization.
Other than Satanic influence I find it incomprehensible that the civilized world tolerates this “religion” of evil. It is especially disturbing to hear commentators from the Left mock legitimate concerns about Islam.
We will soon be living in interesting times indeed.
Flem or Walloon: it is their country, and if it is lost in the Muslim flood it is by nothing but their own will. I think the man who raised his voice should bolt. I would and so should you.
> and so should you.
And where, pray tell, do you suggesting bolting to ?
That video ought to go viral. I applaud that man’s courage, and despair for Europe and for ourselves.
The point of the “Lamed Vuvnicks (36ers)” is that they are humble and anonymous. It is a different type of service than Churchill’s high level public leadership, but if one subscribes to the belief “36ers”, no less important.
Thanks for reminding me to read Last Of The Just.
I liken Political Correctness to a cancer on Democracy. Don’t get me started on Islamofasism.
I think part of the problem is that this man, like many well-intentioned people keeps talking about supporting democracy, not freedom. It is freedom that is important, not the mechanism.
The Islamists clearly understand and have articulated that democracy is just a means to an end: “When you reach your station, you get off.” The most horrible, horrible things can be done by purely democratic methods. Democracy is just the rule of the mob, it is not, in itself, representative of any higher principles.
As a counter-example, the U.S. Constition, some of us wearily repeat, is not primarily concerned with defending democracy, it is concerned with defending higher principles — individual freedom, limited government. Democratic actions are just one of the many means it uses to that end. In fact, the Constitution as originally implemented contained many measures to limit the influence of democratic action, to prevent mob rule from over-riding the rights of individuals and minorities.
Today, people speak as if there is something special about democracy all by itself. There is not. 51% of the people can democratically vote to impose Sharia on the other 49%, or to wage a genocidal war against them.
We must have principles higher than “democracy” to which even democratic means must bow.
The gentleman in the video understood that, I believe, but was not effective in expressing it. When he was shouting “This is not democracy” what he really meant was “This is not freedom!”
We have to understand that to preserve the societies and institutions we love, we cannot make “democracy” the first principle (it’s not even a principle) we defend. We must hearken back to the first principles: “All men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” If a man believes in Sharia, we do ourselves no favors by ceding a “democratic right” to have him placed in a position of power.
We have to fight statists of any ilk — the Islamist who wishes to make a dhimmi of you, or the Nanny Stater who thinks it’s appropriate for him to tell you what size drink you can buy, how you heat your house or how you provide for your health care.
We have to preserve the first principle “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Yet the Egyptian people are standing up to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Decline is not inevitable. The undying pessimism on the right is unwarranted, unseemly and offputting.
Excellent point.
Many of us are frustrated that so few “get it”. Perhaps in expressing our frustration, we should each provide a small example of what we are doing individually to stand up for truth.
Here is mine. My wife and I, just this last week, changed churches. We left our church of nine years, after careful prayer and consideration. It has recently begun to support collectivist rhetoric and has gone too far, in our opinion, to embrace current culture at the expense of truth. Our new church is not shy about discussing the danger of Islam and how Europe is losing its Christianity. It does not dwell on it or obsess about it, but the pastor speaks plainly about it.
In 2007, the 5th District of Minnesota elected Keith Elison to the US House of Representatives. Elison claimed to be a Muslim. The Liberals in the 5th District elected him, in order to prove that they were just as liberal as the Coasties. If course, if he was truly a Muslim, he could not take the oath of office, which requires the swearing of allegiance to the US Constitution. But of course, he was not and is not truly a Muslim. He’s a “Black Muslim,” a Farrakhan Muslim. True Islam would find Elison an apostate.
Thus, by elected him, the 5th District of Minnesota did not prove how liberal they are; they proved how stupid they are.
Ultimately, yes. But until then, Traditional Arab Jihadi Twelver Shi’as would indeed use the Black Scientologist Farrakhan Muslims as temporary allies to help get them deeper ingrained into our land and institutions.
They wouldn’t kill them for apostasy until they had enough control to.
There’s also the issue that the “well meaning” rank-and-file Lefties think that all Islam is like Farrakhan Islam, and that’s why they don’t believe that Jihad exists or that The Shari’ah is the endgame of the Arab (and Iranian) Muslims.
Encouraging Muslim immigration to the West after 9/11 is like hiding Nazis in your attic during WW2.
“I would imagine they would all be appalled at the idea of a global caliphate under Islam, and therefore the end of Belgium as a sovereign nation”
Since they seem to be Walloons, probably so. However there are people, including me, who happen to think that the end of Belgium as a sovereign nation might, just possibly, be a good idea.
Which makes me wonder: since it is not unconstitutional to advocate abolishing the Belgian State altogether, is it really unconstitutional to advocate turning Belgium into an Islamic theocracy?
I suppose the constitutional issue is beside the point: that guy wanted to make a stand, and did it pretty well. Still, I think this is a sideshow compared to the issue of the breakup of Belgium.
European Christians are going to have to stand up for the continued existence of their states and culture….to reimpose their dominion and will, to the detriment of minorities and “Others.”
That is the bottom line.
Oh, they’ll take a stand alright–when it’s too late. Then they’ll try to emigrate to the US and start all over here.
I include the Anglo Nations, the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in that.
Islam will be the bridge too far, that spikes the New Zeitgeist, of self preservation and love, ditching guilt and self loathing.
Even young whites are getting it…the majority of even young White Women voted for Romney.
White women will rejoin the tribe if you give them something to join, by actively protecting them and fostering institutions which protect them and promote their well being outside the Feminist paradigm. They will support the strong horse….but given the choice between no horse or guilt ridden surrender monkey’s, they will find a spot for themselves in the New Identity Politics paradigm. Everything old is new again. Listen to old speeches by the White European Christian supremacists….everything they predicted has come true or is coming true.
AMERICA NEARS EL TIPPING POINTO
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-12-05.html
Start with Enoch Powell, then move on the Wiston Churchill on Mohammadean.
Importing hostile minorities and not only not enforcing formally and informally assimilation, but encouraging separatism and hostile feelings towards White European Christians and their culture and zeitgeist, in fact inviting colonization and balkanization is disasterous for White Europeans, especially their children, and grandchildren who will have to live in a world as despised and demonized minoriities. They will not look back fondly at the decadent cowards that passed on this state of affairs for them to deal with.
My fears eloquently expressed by Mr. Simon. Where are the courageous souls that inspired all of us and made so many willing to die, to protect and defend, rather than succumb to what we’re apparently so willing, even eager to now? What’s happened to our love of country, our patriotism and exceptionalism?
The protesting man could have said it a shade differently. The Muslim’s oath is different from the required oath as the Muslim’s civic duty is to carry out the will of the Koran despite the law and constitution. (It is similar to the oath of the card-carrying Communist Party member.) He could have said something like Allah commands a Muslim to follow the will of the Koran in all things including violating the oath of office, and to advance Islam in all actions.
There are no just in Belgium. Brussels, the center of the EUSSR, is plotting how to justify their impending invasion of Syria (probably with American blood and flesh, as usual). The goal of course is to isolate Iran for daring to defy the dollar-based Brussels-homed IMF banking system. I imagine a chemical false flag will shortly be used as the justification for turning the nation over to the Sunni jihadis. I have Lebanese refugee neighbors, with family in Aleppo. They have horrendous accounts of what the Islamist madmen are doing, especially to Christians. They ask what would the West do if it were Jews being slaughtered in the streets?
” I have Lebanese refugee neighbors, with family in Aleppo. They have horrendous accounts of what the Islamist madmen are doing, especially to Christians. They ask what would the West do if it were Jews being slaughtered in the streets?”
What would the west do?
Simple answer is same as last time. Only then it was in the very heart of the western streets.
The Christian community as a whole is far more powerful than Jews ever were. I do not know why there is so little effort to help get Christians there out of harm’s way. Even if it is an effort to get visas and exits for some it is worthwhile. I know that why should these people leave this place? They were there before Islam, even before Rome was Catholic. Maybe support to help them stay but this looks more like kristallnacht every day.
The video was old news for me-saw it a few days ago on creeping sharia blog and sadly the rise of ISLAMOFASCISM is a topic I have been spouting off about since the day after 9-11, 2001-it has been 1939 since then & the reason I shifted towards the GOP — After all my research and learning I came to the sad conclusion that Never Again is HERE Again. When “they ” finish turning “HERE” into “THERE” where will we go to live in freedom?
I was so happy to see your mention of the righteous 36 as the reason He will no destroy us all. As Baal Tshuva I have also returned to my roots and found much wisdom there in-
This week I saw two things of interest that pertain to your topic and some of the commentators statements above:
a video on our common roots 9cvalues not shared by Mohammedeans) http://www.aish.com/v/ho/49682657.html
and an essay on the history of the roots of Nazism pre ww2 http://www.imaginativeconservative.org/2012/04/fascism-precursor-to-postmodernism.html#.UMZb1KzNlhJ
We hide in the wilderness, or die like men. The Messiah spoke of the coming Time of Great Distress, which is also called the Great Tribulation, the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, the Birthpangs of the Messiah, or Daniel’s 70th Week. He said that in those days would be a time of such great terror that men’s hearts will fail them for fear, and that it will be a time of unparalleled distress since the foundation of the world. So great is the calamity that shall come upon the Earth, that were it allowed to run its course it would result in the extinction of all life on Earth, but for the sake of the elect, God has shortened those days, so that a remnant shall be spared. Many shall abandon God out of cowardice or hardness of heart, and most of the faithful shall be martyred by beheading, burning, starvation or other violence.
A man more evil than Hitler, Nero and Pharaoh put together shall rise and lead the multitudes into naked rebellion against God. He will perform lying signs and wonders by the power of Satan to lead many astray. Perhaps Obama is this man, perhaps it is somebody else we know of, or perhaps he has not yet appeared on the world scene. When he does reveal himself, however, he will lead many to damnation and unleash the fiercest persecution of God’s faithful ones that has ever been seen. It will be as in the days of Lot, when a righteous man could not go out onto the street for fear of being raped and/or murdered. It will be as in the days of Noah, when the wicked made merry and multiplied their sins, and did not heed the warnings that had been given to them for over a century, but instead were taken by complete surprise when the wrath of God was poured out on them, and they perished swiftly.
Many are the ways to convince a person that they are wrong and few who are willing, these days, to stand up and argue the point. What we lack, in this generation,is the wisdom and boldness of an older generation that HAS wisdom.
My grandparents would boldly speak out on any issue that came up. Religion and politics were always welcome discussions at the dinner table. We didn’t have to agree with them, but they didn’t call us evil for disagreeing either. That is because they KNEW they were speaking from a position of strength. The truth would support their conservative views as it would not support the liberal and anti-American views that had been drummed into us by our society(I was raised in the Berkeley of the mid-west) and our teachers in the public school system.
Now, a signifigant portion of our older generation is made up of old hippies and hippy wanna-bes who fell for the Gramsci cultural infiltration techniques hook, line and sinker. Many wouldn’t know the truth if bit them you know where and still more would dispute that there is such a thing as truth. As for moral absolutes, well you’d have better luck convincing a bull to give milk.
And that (along with a goodly dose of crowd psychology)is why none of that crowd joined that man’s protestations – not just out of fear, but because they have become convinced there is no such thing a truth and if that is so, where can they stand? At least, in the opinion of a hating, conservative, Christian, racist, homphobic, barbarian hobbit such as myself.
Drat! I forgot to include “sexist” in that last sentence.
There is Lack of Courage.
Saudi Arabia promotes, funds, organizes and spreads Sharia law worldwide, including hundreds to Schools within the USA. The push to spread Sharia law is fueled by massive profits as result of the Petro-Dollar system created by President Nixon and sidekick Kissinger. If you want to assign Blame for the spread of Sharia law, look no further than the U.S. Petro dollar system created in 1971. This system allows Saudi Arabia to spend tens of Billions annually supporting the overthrow of Democratic Republics.
The Lack of Courage by MSM and sites like PJM to define facts and instead whine about democrats and liberals, beating our chests to feel a sense of accomplishment is why we will not avoid the inevitable. We would rather bury our heads in the sand and rig polling, fooling ourselves who will win an election. When the election unfolds as real mathematicians predicted, we cry havoc and let slip the dogs of voter fraud. What a pitiful lot.
Honestly i fear for this country because we choose a scapegoat instead of growing a Backbone. The problem is not Sharia law, or women, or liberals or conservatives.
The problem is lack of Courage to face facts.
France: Generation Identitaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ims4r1fCExY
Europe has just signed it’s own death warrant.
In less than 40 days a catastrophe of huge proportion will strike the continent.
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=295399
What it will be, what form it will take, I have no idea. Please Hashem have pity on those poor souls who have betrayed by their own governments.
Its difficult to believe that any rational thinking person, could deny that Islam is slowly but surely taking over the world. And there seems to be absolutely nothing we can do about it.
How wonderful. Now I know that at least two people have read it, you and I. If more people read books like that instead of 50 Shades of Grey perhaps the world would be a little more sane and orderly, not to mention more inclined to Tzedokah.
I apologize if it’s been mentioned but much of Belgium takes their cues from France.
France, who ignored the Poles (as well as Russia)/ Versailles Treaty getting invaded in ’39.
France, whereas then-West Germany was nearly unprotected due to their invading Poland DID NOT attack Germany at that time either.
France, for whom ‘didn’t know’ or ‘take into account’ Germany would attack through Belgium..?
France, who surrendered in a mere 6 weeks.
Yes, the French resistance DID save many American, Brit soldiers. Though the Resistance was minuscule.
Again Belgium is following France’s ‘lead’.
The Spanish Civil War in people’s minds happened in the 30s, and WW2 in the 40s, but truth is, the war in Spain ended just a few months before the September 1939 beginning of WW2. So France had a big war ongoing right on her southern border, right up into the war developing on her northwestern border. One item of exculpatory evidence, so to speak.
Northeastern border, duh.
Re the gender discussion upthread, comes across tv news just now, the Sandy Hook shooter killed his mom, eight adult women staff, twelve little first and second-grader girls, and eight little first and second-grader boys.
Looks like he may have been after females, tho that is wild, uninformed speculation.
The school principal, a woman, ran straight at the shooter to tackle him, but was shot as she approached. One can’t help but wonder why a requirement for senior staff at elementary schools is something, anything that could engage at distance. It’s pitiful that this heroic woman had nothing but her body to fight with.
You know, there’s a federal law that forbids guns within 1000′ of K12 school compounds.
How many potential shooters will look at those facts, and be encouraged, rather than discouraged?
Not go off/thread –just had to say.