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Middle Eastern Christians: To understand their plight, look to the past

March 19, 2018 by Bookworm 11 Comments

Muslims have recently escalated killing Middle Eastern Christians. Robert Spencer explains the deep historic roots behind this new slaughter.

One of the family jokes is that, when the kids used to ask me for help with their history homework, no matter the historic subject at issue, I’d always say either “You need to go back to the Romans” or “You need to go back to the Bible.” Sometimes those answers were exaggerations. As often as not, though, I’d mean it.

It is impossible to understand the present without looking back and understanding what brought us here. To the extent that American and Western European history is an amalgam of the end of Rome and the ongoing influence of the Old and New Testaments, understanding both explains a great deal.

I thought of my commitment to the past as a necessary component to understand the present when I watched Robert Spencer explain the way in which Middle Eastern Christians, who had lived for centuries — indeed, millennia — relatively unmolested in the Muslim world (although always of lowly status), have found themselves the object of a full-scale jihad in the past few years. This bloody jihad has resulted in the destruction of many Middle Eastern Christian communities dating back to Jesus’s time. According to Spencer, the answer isn’t just written in the Koran, it’s written in the past, both the Middle Eastern and European past:

VIDEO: Jihad Bells — an Allahu Akbar from our Muslim Friends

December 23, 2017 by Bookworm 3 Comments

Because the Christmas season is always an exciting time for our Jihadist friends, here’s a Jihad Bells video to brighten the season.

The only bright light on the Jihad horizon is the fact that Saudi Arabia, faced with an ascendant Iran (thanks, President Obama) is finally figuring out that Israel is not the enemy. Even better, Prince Salman appears to be a genuine reformer. I wish him good luck and a long life.

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Remembrances from September 11, the day America changed

September 11, 2017 by Bookworm 3 Comments

It’s been 16 years, but for those of us who remember September 11, 2001, the memories are still raw. Here’s a round-up of interesting and moving articles.

These are articles and videos about September 11, both remembrances and analyses, that caught my eye during my morning reading. Some are old, some are new, and all are good. The links are not in any particular order.

I’m not the only one remembering Rick Rescorla. You can find a great post at PowerLine, along with links to other remembrances.

Robert Avrech notes that we have met this enemy before — Islam is Amalek, the slayer of innocents. Whitewashing that doesn’t change the reality; it just destroys our defenses.

Danny Lewin was a technological genius — and also the first victim on September 11 as he sought to prevent the attack.

Gerard Vanderleun republishes the contemporaneous notes he made on and immediately after September 11. They are visceral, compelling reading.

Glenn Reynolds’ remembrance today is a bit of plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose affair. The Left seems determined to ensure that we experience a terrorist version of Groundhog Day in perpetuity.

James Lileks understood a long time ago that the end of the world after September 11 would be a long, drawn-out, painful affair. [Read more…]

Under Islamic siege, politically-correct England fails the Fawlty Towers test

June 5, 2017 by Bookworm 5 Comments

In 1975’s Fawlty Towers, it was funny to say “don’t mention the war” to Germans. In England today, it’s no joke that you can’t pair Islam with violence.

After John Cleese left Monty Python, he and his then-wife, Connie Booth, went on to create and start in Fawlty Towers. In it, Cleese plays Basil Fawlty, the perpetually angry, extremely inept, always inappropriate and outspoken proprietor of a Cornish inn. The cast regulars surrounding him are his wife, Sybil, who rarely gets off the phone, stopping only to scold Fawlty for his stupidity; a Spanish waiter and all-around dogsbody who’s never mastered much English beyond “Que?”; a somewhat senile old major and a couple of wittering old ladies; and Polly (Connie Booth), the maid and waitress, who is the only decent, sane person in the establishment.

Fawlty Towers is not to everyone’s taste because it is anarchic, angry humor. However, for those who watched the show, one of the best episodes focuses on a group of Germans coming to stay at the inn. When this episode was made, in the mid-1970s, WWII had ended a mere 30 years before and lived on in all adult memories. Therefore, to ensure a pleasant stay for the German guests, the inn’s mantra was “Don’t mention the war.”

This mantra proved to be too much for Basil, especially after he sustained a blow to the head. I’ve included two links here. The first is to the entire brilliant episode. The second, for those who will never watch it or have already watched it, is to the key scene with the Germans. After you’ve watched the episode or refreshed your recollection, I’ll get to my point about modern England: [Read more…]

After the latest Islamic attack, we see the dregs to which England has sunk

June 4, 2017 by Bookworm 25 Comments

Showing how far it’s sunk, following the latest Islamic attack, England celebrates a coward with his beer as a sign of the nation’s “defiance.”

Dregs:
1. Dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
2. Usually, dregs. the least valuable part of anything:
the dregs of society.

Seldom can the dual meanings of one word so aptly sum up a decayed, defenseless nation. It popped into my mind when I saw that England has managed to latch onto a single image from last night’s Islamic massacre — at the iconic London Bridge — that they believe sums up their “spirit” and that I believe sums up how the dregs of drink reflect the dregs of England, i.e., the end of a nation.

I first saw England do its little “we’re still here” boast at the LAD Bible: [Read more…]

Jihad in America: the women warriors fighting soft, feminized jihad

May 31, 2017 by Bookworm 9 Comments

Jihad in America has a feminine face: Muslim women are telling us Islam isn’t violent and, if it is, that’s our fault — so suck it up.

Unlike Europeans, who have a consistent habit of responding both passively and apologetically to Muslim terrorist attacks, Americans don’t like being blown up, shot up, or beheaded. It tends to make them fractious and then they start demanding that their leaders bomb the bombers or keep them off American soil. In other words, direct jihad warfare against Americans is not an especially effective tactic and it can invite unpleasant reprisals.

So, what’s a jihadist to do? In America, I think, the answer is what I call a soft or feminized jihad. Feminized jihad consists of finding personable Muslim women who, under the guise of outreach and Leftist intersectionality, attack Americans and American policy, defend Islam, and slowly, stealthily, advance radical Islam’s cause in America.

This post has been germinating in my mind for some time, but the real impetus for my publishing today was the fact that a friend sent me an announcement about a minimum continuing legal education seminar that the Bar Association of San Francisco (“BASF”) was sponsoring. (You can see my thoughts about those despicable MCLE classes here.) Here’s the announcement for the seminar, which is taking place today:

The Litigation Section and In-House Subsection present
Challenging Presidential Executive Orders in the Courts
May 31, 2017: 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
MCLE Credits – 1 H, This is a brown bag luncheon.

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Balancing Power:
Challenging Presidential Executive Orders in the Courts

Speakers
Professor Zachary Price
UC Hastings

Andrew Pincus
Mayer Brown LLP

Zahra Billoo
Council on American-Islamic Relations

Elica Vafaie
Asian Law Caucus

Moderator
Mary Kelly Persyn
Persyn Law & Policy

Topics
• The history of court challenges to executive orders and presidential power
• Recent court challenges to President Trump’s travel ban
• The strengths and limits of court challenges to the power of the executive branch
• The next chapter-litigating future executive orders

Reading the announcement, the first thing that caught my eye was that one of the speakers at a seminar dedicated to hobbling President Trump’s constitutional right to issue executive orders is from CAIR, aka the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR, of course, believes that, when it comes to American-Islamic relations, the American side, not the Islamic said, needs to change and accommodate.

The second thing I noticed was that the CAIR representative is a woman, Zahra Billoo. Her presence on the panel reinforced my sense that there are certainly a lot of women speaking up on behalf of the Muslim community in America.

In a way, the overt presence of Muslim women is a continuation of the amazing success the Palestinians had when they promoted Hanan Ashrawi to be their spokesman to the Western world. The West was utterly blind to the fact that Muslims, whose faith is predicated on subordinating women, waived before them an apparently emancipated woman. [Read more…]

The Bookworm Beat 9/21/16 — the “I’m mad as Hell” evening edition and open thread

September 21, 2016 by Bookworm 8 Comments

I can’t say too much lest I breach Little Bookworm’s privacy, but suffice it to say that, after only two weeks at her Obscenely Expensive Liberal Arts College, she has already taken a giant step in the direction of moronic, damaging Leftism. I have refrained from berating her because that would be counterproductive. Instead, I provided her with objective information about the direction she has taken and she, with all the confident arrogance of an uninformed youngster, has refused to reconsider. I’m not feeling the love today.

I hope blogging helps me vent my spleen. Otherwise, if you read tomorrow that a woman suffered a deadly attack of spontaneous combustion during the night . . . well, that just might be me.

Preachy Leftist “comedians” may be harming Hillary. Mr. Bookworm adored Jon Stewart and was endlessly certain that, if I just sat and watched for a while, I’d be riotously amused and return to the Democrat fold. His confidence in Stewart’s powers of persuasion was misplaced. I found Stewart intentionally both ill-informed and dishonest.

When Stewart resigned, Mr. Bookworm transferred his allegiance to John Oliver and Samantha Bee, both of whom are even harder Left than Stewart, and both of whom have the same shtick: They say something insulting about a Republican or conservative, following it with a strained analogy, and then pause for the adoring audience’s laughter. It’s like a call-and-repeat in the Church of Leftism.

Mr. Bookworm has suggested that I lack a sense of humor, which may well be true. I prefer a bit of wit and intelligence to flavor political insults, so I’m probably expecting too much from the current generation of humorists. I, on the other hand, have tried suggesting to him that these smug Leftist harridans simply aren’t funny.

Ross Douthat might agree with me on that last point. He also thinks that these cultural avatars, along with the Lefties on football teams and at award shows, have pushed themselves into such an extreme political corner that they’re leaving no room for Hillary Clinton to survive:

The culture industry has always tilted leftward, but the swing toward social liberalism among younger Americans and the simultaneous surge of activist energy on the left have created a new dynamic, in which areas once considered relatively apolitical now have (or are being pushed to have) an overtly left-wing party line.

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First, within the liberal tent, they have dramatically raised expectations for just how far left our politics can move, while insulating many liberals from the harsh realities of political disagreement in a sprawling, 300-plus million person republic. Among millennials, especially, there’s a growing constituency for whom right-wing ideas are so alien or triggering, left-wing orthodoxy so pervasive and unquestioned, that supporting a candidate like Hillary Clinton looks like a needless form of compromise.

Thus Clinton’s peculiar predicament. She has moved further left than any modern Democratic nominee, and absorbed the newer left’s Manichaean view of the culture war sufficiently that she finds herself dismissing almost a quarter of the electorate as “irredeemable” before her donors. Yet she still finds herself battling an insurgency on her left flank, and somewhat desperately pitching millennials on her ideological bona fides.

Isn’t that just delicious? All I can say is, from Douthat’s essay to God’s ear.

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Found it on Facebook — more stupid and/or dishonest posters from the Lefties

July 15, 2016 by Bookworm 9 Comments

Between the Islamic terror attack on Nice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s decision to go full Bulworth, and Hillary’s semi-pass from Comey (a scathing indictment followed by a “get out of jail free” card), there’s been a bumper crop of stupidity in the Facebook feeds of my Lefty friends. I have to go to work soon but before I do I wanted to share three emblematic examples with you. The first is from The World Post which is, as best as I can tell, an arm of the Huffington Post:

That’s it from the Left — not angry, not defiant, not determined, not militant, just “tired.” And of course, still unable to name the ideology that sends out its brainwashed troops to engage in myriad individual acts of war directed at civilian populations. If you’re a Lefty, you can name all the locations where Islamists have hit, and you can make vapid claims that you’re the living embodiment of those places, but you can’t make yourself name the poisonous ideology behind all these massacres, nor are you willing to fight against it.

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“ISIS is either at your throat or at your feet,” so let’s bury the bastards

July 14, 2016 by Bookworm 30 Comments

The post caption is my rendering of a quotation common amongst the British during WWI, to the effect that “The Hun is either at your throat or at your feet.” As the British saw it, if you showed weakness, the Germ-hun would go for the jugular; if you showed strength, the Germ-hun would grovel at your feet. It was the best way that a relatively free society could describe an aggressive, rigidly hierarchical society. The same can be said of ISIS and of Islamists in general as was once said of the Germans.

Today’s Muslim “Allahu Akbar” murder spree in Nice is what reminded me of this trait, one that Islamists and the pre-1945 Germans had in common. (Obviously, there are good and peaceful Muslims, just as there were good and peaceful Germans. I am talking about the troublemakers who establish the dominant paradigm.) France’s vulnerability comes about because it has for a long time been a relatively friendly place for Muslims.

It’s true that, as long as the Muslims are overtly religiously, they cannot crack the French civil service or upper economic echelons, but that’s not their goal anyway. Their goal, which the French willingly granted them, was to be left alone, to be given welfare (free housing, food, and medical care), to have dominant French society retreat from the Muslim banlieues, to have Islam’s sadistic antisemitism applauded and worked into both the national culture and Middle Eastern policy, to take over whole streets for prayer, and generally to be left alone, like a virulent bacteria in a host body with a minimally functioning immune system.

Even after the Bataclan attack, all that France did was drop a couple of bombs in Syria. The hundreds of thousands of human time bombs in France that ought to have been put at a serious disadvantage were, instead, left alone. (Same goes, of course, for Belgium.)

Meanwhile, in America, while Clinton did bubkis after the deadly terrorist attacks on his watch, Bush, when his turn came, took us to war. We made it clear that we would bring the war to their homes and their families, and that we would kill them wherever they stood. And you know what happened during Bush’s war? Scattered Allahu Akbar attacks, but nothing too significant. Much as they postured, the Islamists knew America had them by the throat. Thus, between 9/11 and Obama’s First Inauguration, there were 16 separate Allahu Akbar attacks on American soil (as opposed to honor killings or other internecine Muslim murders), with a total of only 21 fatalities. (The number 16 is actually bit a bit misleading, because several of those attacks were individual sniper hits launched by John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo.)

Then Obama came along and opted for the French approach. He’s the Islamists’ biggest fan and apologist. Rather than demanding that they grovel at our feet, he went out of his way to grovel at theirs. And what did we end up with on Obama’s watch? We ended up with an escalating number of violent Allahu Akbar attacks on American soil — a clear pattern of greater frequency and greater virulence:

June 6 2009: A Muslim launches an Allahu Akbar attack on a soldier in a Little Rock recruiting station. Fatalities: 1.
November 5, 2009: A Muslim military psychiatrist launches an Allahu Akbar attack on soldiers at Fort Hood. Fatalities: 13.
December 4, 2009: A Muslim student launches an Allahu Akbar attack on a professor at Binghamton, New York. Fatalities: 1.
November 9, 2011: Three Jewish men have their throats slashed by one of the Tsarnaev Brothers, in his first Allahu Akbar attack, in Waltham, Massachusetts. Fatalities: 3.
January 15, 2012: A Muslim launches an Allahu Akbar attack against a Christian convert in Houston who also converted the Muslim’s daughter. Fatalities: 1.
November 12, 2012: A Muslim launches an Allahu Akbar attack against an American in Houston who converted a woman to Christianity. Fatalities: 1.
February 7, 2013: A Muslim launches an Allahu Akbar beheading attack in Buena Vista, New Jersey against two Coptic Christian immigrations. Fatalities: 2.
March 24, 2013: A Muslim convert in Ashtabula, OH, launches an Allahu Akbar attack against his own father. Fatalities: 1.
April 15, 2013: Two Muslim brothers detonate two bombs at the Boston Marathon, killing 3 and severely wounding several more. Fatalities: 3.
April 19, 2013: The same Muslim brothers kill a police office. Fatalities: 1.
August 4, 2013: A Muslim convert launches an Allahu Akbar attack on a store clerk in Richmond, California. Fatalities: 1.
April 27, 2014: A Muslim man launches an Allahu Akbar attack on another man. Fatalities: 1.
June 1, 2014: A Muslim man launches an Allahu Akbar attack on two gay men in Seattle, Washington. Fatalities: 2.
June 25, 2014: A Muslim launches an Allahu Akbar attack on a college student in West Orange, New Jersey. Fatalities: 1.
September 25, 2014: A Muslim launches an Allahu Akbar attack on a woman in Moore, Oklahoma, and posts a photo. Fatalities: 1.
December 18, 2014: A Muslim launches an Allahu Akbar attack on an old man in Morganton, North Carolina. Fatalities: 1.
July 16, 2015: A Muslim launches an Allahu Akbar attack on a recruiting center in Chattanooga. Fatalities: 5.
December 2, 2015: A Muslim couple launches an Allahu Akbar attack at an office Christmas party. Fatalities: 14.
June 13, 2016: A Muslim man launches an Allahu Akbar attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando. Fatalities: 49.

So while Bush, who went for the Islamists’ throats, had 16 civilian deaths on American soil due to post-9/11 Allahu Akbar attacks, Barack Obama, who’s groveled constantly at Islamist feet, has presided over 102 civilian deaths on American soil, as well as the deaths of an Ambassador, his aide, and two CIA operatives on Libyan soil.

The only way to stop violent, hierarchical people from acting out is to stomp on them and then, starting when they’re very, very young, to train them in the ways of peace. France, tragically, sent itself up for Charlie Hebdo, and Bataclan, and Nice, because France has spent decades pandering to monsters. France isn’t alone, of course. In Sweden and Germany, the monsters are prostituting the Swedish and German women, with the result that 1,500 German women were assaulted in a single night, while Swedish girls are being raped wherever there’s a crowd . . . or where there isn’t. In France and Belgium, the Islamists eschew rape and go for wholesale slaughter. As anyone familiar with the story of the frog and scorpion knows, deadly creatures kill (or rape) because it’s their nature. You either stay away from, destroy them, or change their nature at a very fundamental level.

As anyone familiar with the story of the frog and scorpion knows, deadly creatures kill (or rape) because it’s their nature. You either stay away from, destroy them, or change their nature at a very fundamental level.

Having said all that, my prayers are with the dead, and my thoughts are with the loved ones they left behind. As for the Islamists, I hope everyone of them rots for a painful, torturous eternity in a Muslim-designed Hell.

Oh, and one more thing: I’m getting vomitously sick of all my Lefty friends and their endless “I stand with….” Facebook posts or their teary-eyed “Give peace a chance” warblings. I’m not sad, I’m angry. Sad is a weak, passive, self-defeating, ultimately suicidal response to evil. We need to get right royally pissed off and kill the bastards. As for the ones who don’t fall in battle against our warriors, if they’re still incapable of playing nice, we need our boots resting firmly, in a powerful, yet peaceable way, on their throats, or we’ll find their knives buried deep in our necks.

The symbiotic relationship between the Westboro Baptists and the Left

June 27, 2016 by Bookworm 3 Comments

A collection of pictures has been circulating on my real-me Facebook feed, a feed mostly populated by Progressives (thanks to a lifetime spent in Progressive strongholds). The Progressives who post it are very proud of themselves when they share these images of costumed “angels” taking a stand against the Westboro Baptist Church protesters who inevitably showed up in the aftermath of the Orlando shooting:

Color me unimpressed. Indeed, color me cynical. As I see it, the Westboro Baptist cult and the Progressive cult have a symbiotic relationship, with each benefitting from the other. The Westboro Baptists want publicity and the attendant Progressive protests give them both a mainstream and social media presence. (By the way, you do know that the late Fred Phelps, who founded the Westboro Baptist Church, was a Democrat?) Meanwhile, the Progressives get the virtue signaling that is their life’s blood. You can hear them say to each other, “Aren’t we wonderful? Look at how we stand up to the evil Westboro Baptists. Yay for us!” And they too get their publicity, highlighting their wonderfulness.

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[VIDEO] Bill Whittle explains to Obama that the problem is Islam

June 23, 2016 by Bookworm 4 Comments

All of those who read this blog already know everything Bill Whittle says: that Islam has a violence problem; that Islam is now and has always been at war with everyone (i.e., it doesn’t play well with others); that there’s something very wrong about Obama’s rigid refusal to acknowledge Islam’s problems and his administration’s overtime efforts to erase Islam from the violence playbook; and that Obama’s cowardice means that millions of law-abiding Muslims stay silent because they know that our American government won’t protect them against their worst enemy, the fundamentalists in their midst.

It’s just that Whittle says it so well….

The Jihadists’ Niemöller poem

June 14, 2016 by Bookworm 4 Comments

After World War II, Pastor Martin Niemöller penned his famous “First they came” poem, detailing the cowardice of the intelligentsia in the lead-up to WWII. It’s time for an updated version of that, one for the jihadists in our midst:

First they came for the box cutters and utility blades,
But I did not need a box cutter because I had shoes.

Then they came for the shoes,
But I did not need shoes because I had bottles of baby formula.

Then they came for the water bottles and baby formula,
But I did not need water bottles and baby formula because I had legally purchased guns.

Then they came for the legally purchased guns,
But I did not need legally purchased guns because I had . . .

. . . Illegally acquired guns, bombs, toxic gas, machetes, knives, blunt objects (including my own fists and feet), acid, cages full of people drowned, grenade launchers, accelerants to burn people alive, buildings from which to throw people, crosses on which to crucify them, ropes with which to hang them, control over food so as to starve them, and all the other weapons of death and torture available to a depraved mind.

But I have to tell you — I’m awfully glad they came for the legally purchased guns because, once they were completely disarmed, it made it so much easier for me to terrorize Americans and Europeans.

By the way, now they’re not coming for anything any more. Why not? Because they are all either dead, enslaved, or converted.

I won.

After the Orlando shooting, Leftists again fail to read the handwriting on the wall

June 12, 2016 by Bookworm 44 Comments

Belshazzar was a great king who sneered at the Bible, partied decadently, and failed to read the handwriting on the wall when he might still have saved himself and his people.* His story is the story of the American Left.

For the entirely of the Obama presidency, the Left focuses obsessively on sex and drugs, gun control, and abandoning reason, whether this abandonment takes the form of their faith in the failed gods of climate change; their insistence that sex, which is embedded in our DNA, is a mere societal construct; or their refusal to recognize that there is an enemy massing at the gate. (Heck! Their chosen leader keeps inviting the enemy in, in ever greater numbers.)

Here’s what we know:

Islam is fanatically anti-gay:

This is what Muslims do to gays when they get the opportunity —

ISIS throws them off roofs:

Iran hangs them:

Saudi Arabia imprisons, beats, and executes gays. “Malaysian law currently provides for whipping and up to a 20-year prison sentence for homosexual acts involving either men or women.” Being gay in the Palestinian world is so dangerous that gay men routinely seek haven in Israel. Afghanistan imposes the death penalty for homosexuality. However, in a world where men can go throughout their lives without ever seeing any women except their mother, the Afghanis have added a sick twist: Sex with a beardless boy is not considered homosexuality, so child rape is normative and, indeed, subject to full societal approval.

That’s the Muslim culture — it’s sick, ugly, violent, and murderous.

And what do we know about Omar Mateen, the man responsible for shooting up an Orlando nightclub, killing 50 and wounding 53 members of the LGBT community? Well, we know a lot:

1. Mateen was an American-born Muslim.

2. His father ran for President of Afghanistan and strongly supported the Taliban.

3. Mateen opened the attack by hollering “Allahu Akbar,” the standard jihadist cry.

4. During the rampage, Mateen specifically called 911 to pledge allegiance to ISIS (see photos ISIS throwing gays off buildings, above).

5. During the same call, Mateen made known his support for the Tsarnaev brothers, who bombed the Boston Marathon.

6. U.S. Security knew about Mateen’s Islamic loyalty, but beyond questioning him a few times, was passive. (Probably because the Obama administration’s top-down leadership makes it clear that law enforcement should not scrutinize Muslims.)

7. The evidence for his alleged non-Islamic instability is that his ex-wife says he was violent and beat her — which is unstable by American standards, but normative in Afghani Muslim culture.

So let’s put the pieces together: A culture that loathes gays; a culture that kills gays whenever it has the power to do so; and a man who comes from and swears allegiance to that culture and who, when he has the power to do so, kills gays. I think we’re on to something here. The problem is Islam.

For a few, brief hours this morning, the Leftists on my Facebook feed were mourning the dead and making tentative little comments in the direction of Islam maybe, just maybe, having a problem. Heck, over at Mediate (a Progressive outlet), Tommy Christopher temporarily took his blinders off entirely:

We don’t know much about the shooter yet, but let’s keep it real, folks, we know enough about him to know that maybe it’s time we take the politically correct gloves off and realize that maybe the people calling for a total ban on these people aren’t completely off-base. Just a temporary ban, until we can figure this out.

As a liberal, it’s hard for me to admit that maybe I’ve been wrong in supporting the sorts of half-measures that allowed this atrocity to take place, but freedom is important to me. But our weak-willed politicians have failed to keep us safe from these people, unwilling even to find abetter way to vet them, let alone to keep the most dangerous ones from slipping through. I’ve heard all of the arguments before, that not all of them are killers, but all of the killers seem to be them. Meanwhile, we have a president who refuses to even identify them by name.

The Constitution protects their most cherished practices, but it doesn’t, or it shouldn’t, protect this unmitigated slaughter. We shouldn’t need to infringe on the good ones to weed out the bad ones, we just need the good ones to be a little more cooperative. When was the last time you heard one of them denounce their own for this perversion of their beliefs? They act like this scourge has nothing to do with them, when clearly, this scourge emanates from within their ranks, and they actively oppose any effort to stem it. In fact, their perfect solution is to attract more converts.

After reading that, a friend and I were speaking and we thought/hoped that maybe those who died in Orlando were martyrs to a real cause — with that cause being the Left finally waking up to the reality, which is that the enemy is real, it is reading the Koran, and it wants to kill us.

I should have known better than to get my hopes up. Obama instantly put the blame where he feels it belongs to be — on Americans and their guns (emphasis mine):

We are still learning all the facts. This is an open investigation. We’ve reached no definitive judgment on the precise motivations of the killer. The FBI is appropriately investigating this as an act of terrorism. And I’ve directed that we must spare no effort to determine what — if any — inspiration or association this killer may have had with terrorist groups. What is clear is that he was a person filled with hatred. Over the coming days, we’ll uncover why and how this happened, and we will go wherever the facts lead us.

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The shooter targeted a nightclub where people came together to be with friends, to dance and to sing, and to live. The place where they were attacked is more than a nightclub — it is a place of solidarity and empowerment where people have come together to raise awareness, to speak their minds, and to advocate for their civil rights.

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Today marks the most deadly shooting in American history. The shooter was apparently armed with a handgun and a powerful assault rifle. This massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision as well.

Boom!

First, no mention of Islam. Indeed, Obama questioned whether there even was an ideology (“if any”) driving the attack, despite the fact that the killer belongs to a religion that hates and kills gays, and swore fealty to the worst branch of that religion as he was slaughtering the innocents.

In Obama’s eyes, Islam will forever remain pure and peaceful. Indeed, Obama once said that the call to prayer is ““one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.” This is the call to prayer, just so you can compare its prettiness to, say, bird calls, the wind in the trees, a loved one’s voice, a Beethoven concerto, or anything else you like.

Second, he makes it political: Gay nightclubs, he assures us, are about civil rights. Back in my youth in San Francisco, when I had a bunch of gay friends, I had the occasion to visit gay nightclubs with them. They are not venues for advocating for civil rights. They’re for dancing — great dancing — and anonymous gay sex.

Third, Obama makes the death about Americans — read: Republicans — and their love of guns. San Bernardino was a gun control failure. Orlando is a gun control failure. Apparently 9/11, during which no guns were used, was also a gun control failure. Because in Obama’s world, when it comes to Islam, it’s never about Islam; it’s always about destroying the Second Amendment.

Well, within minutes of Obama’s statements, my Progressive friends got their marching orders. Here’s a sampling of my feed:

You know what? These people are sick. And when I say “these people,” I’m not talking about murderous Muslims, I’m talking about brain-dead Progressives. They worship multiple false idols. (Speaking of which, Planned Parenthood came out strongly against murdering innocents. Really, it did:

The handwriting is on the wall in letters big enough to be seen from outer space and they witter on about guns. It doesn’t seem to occur to any of them that if one or more of the people in the nightclub had also been armed, there’s a real possibility that they could have stopped the shooter when the number of victims was still in the single digits. That’s what happened in Israel when it relaxed its strict gun laws in the face of Muslim machine gun attacks.

How many more conservatives and others who recognize the threat from Islam are going to have to die because of this blind stupidity? And honestly, as long as they’re shouting for gun control, not Muslim control, I don’t give a flying fuck how many more gun control Leftists die. They deserve to be the first sacrifices on their own insane, blood-drenched altar.

In the coming election, as between Trump and Hillary (and no, neither Scott Walker nor Mitt Romney, nor anyone else, will get drafted at the convention), I’m voting for Trump and wish I could vote twice. Hillary is the queen of gun control and the friend of every Muslim, from her aide Huma Abedin (a true daughter of the Muslim Brotherhood), to all the Saudis** and Iranians whose backsides she’s kissed over the years in exchange for their money. Trump, whatever else his other issues, has the raw courage to state loudly and brutally that we have a problem with Islam, because Islam has a problem with us.

So ask yourself: Do you really want this woman in the White House?

Hillary getting friendly with Yassir Arafat’s wife, Suha

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* 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. 5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. *** 24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. 25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. 27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. 28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. 29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. 30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. (From The Book of Daniel, Chapter 5, King James Edition.)

** And yes, I know that the Saudis, terrified by the Iranian threat, are drawing closer to Israel, but that does not erase the fact that it is their money that funded the Sunni Wahabbism that underlies so much of the Muslim world’s fanaticism today. Israel is making common cause with Saudi Arabia because the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Hillary is making common cause with a country that bans all religions but Islam, cuts of thieves hands, gives its beheaders full-time work, censors all free political speech, subordinates women, and kills or tortures cause because . . . money.

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Destroying the libelous claim that “Trump supporters are racist”

March 28, 2016 by Bookworm 27 Comments

Illegal immigrants crossing into US Readers know that I hold no brief for Donald Trump, whom I view as a media-created Big Government demagogue, whose politics have half-tones of both Left and Right ideology, but whose dominant top-note is pure self-interest. The fact that I dislike Trump, though, does not mean that I dislike or disrespect the majority Americans who support him. I understand the frustration driving them, although I believe that they’ve put their faith in a false Messiah. Few things, therefore, make me go more ballistic than having Leftists smugly claim that the majority of Trump supporters are racist white men.

It’s true that the majority of Trump supporters are white men, although a lot of other people support him too. But about that racist bit? Let’s dig into that more deeply, because it’s a slander by which Leftists manage to avoid looking at their own appalling racism.

Let’s start with racism on the Right side of America’s political spectrum because the media and academia are so excited about tracking it. It’s true that there are small pockets of old-fashioned white supremacists still wandering around America. These are people who openly express their belief that any racial or religious groups other than white Christians are inferior and should be isolated, banished, or even killed.

Thankfully, in addition to being disgusting in attitude, these white supremacists are small in number. Out of an American population of roughly 318,000,000, the high estimate for “hate groups” is only 892 such groups. This number comes from the Southern Poverty Law Center which memorably, and entirely inaccurately, characterized the entire Tea Party movement as a “hate” group.

While it loves counting “hate” groups, the SPLC is coy about how big these groups are. I’d be very surprised if any of the listed groups boasted a thousand active members. I suspect most have a few hundred at best. Still, even if you assume that high of 1,000 active members, you’re still looking at fewer than 1,000,000 hardcore, old-fashioned KKK-type racists — or less than three-tenths of one percent of the American population.

The Left likes to claim that these groups vote Republican because Republican candidates keep “dog whistling” racism. This is a ludicrous claim to make given that the field, before being winnowed down, had blacks, East Asians, and Hispanics. It’s the Democrats who have no one to offer other than old white people. Still, the Democrats sneeringly ask, if Republicans aren’t selling racism, why do the David Duke’s of this world vote Republican? You have to go back a few decades to figure out the story.

Once upon a time, right up until the early 1960s, the Democrat Party was the openly racist party (more on that later). However, when the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and LBJ’s electoral strategy (more on that later too) meant that the Democrat Party started courting blacks, rather than actively discriminating against them, the white supremacist groups needed to find a new political home.

After 1964, government could no longer be the supremacists’ ally — and do remember that it was Southern government that gave Jim Crow its control in the South. The supremacists therefore concluded that their best bet was small government. They reasoned that small government would mean less welfare, and less welfare would harm the black population (I’ll get to that later, too). That’s why so many such groups came out of the woodwork when Ronald Reagan was elected — and became even more excited when Ron Paul, a solid libertarian, tied himself to the Republican party. With white supremacists having discovered the virtues of limited government, the Republican Party unwillingly had its minute population of fringe racists and the Democrats had their narrative: “Republicans are racist.”

What’s really funny, of course, is that the really racist political party in America is the Democrat Party. Worse, among Democrats, the racism isn’t confined to a minute fringe (less than 3/10 of 1% out of the American population) as the case with the Republicans. Instead, institutional racism is front and center in every Democrat Party policy.

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The Bookworm Beat 3/23/16 — the “catching up” edition and open thread

March 23, 2016 by Bookworm 7 Comments

Woman-writing-300x265 Bush didn’t, Obama wouldn’t, but the next president should: Call into the Oval Office the leaders of Muslim communities throughout America to say, “Because of the First Amendment, the fact that you and the people in your community practice Islam is irrelevant to us in America. Your faith is your business. What is relevant to me as leader of this nation is whether you support America or not. When all of you leave this office, you need to carry a single message to your communities: ‘You are either supportive of America or working to undermine America. If you’re in the latter category, you are on notice here and now that my administration will use every constitutional means available to track you, capture you, prosecute you, and imprison or deport you.’ End of story. Thank you for coming. Goodbye.”

Having got that off my chest, I’m about to engage in a speed round-up, because I’ve got about 40 articles — really good articles — to share with you.

A Cruz convert explains why. The most interesting point is that Trump started with something no other Republican has had since Reagan — vast name recognition.

Slowly catching on to the fact that Trump is the Republican Obama. I’ve been saying from Day 1 that Trump is a white Obama. He promises hope and change by using government power to shape America to his will. And let me say, that is my sole problem with Trump: That he’s all about big government, precisely as Obama is. I find that unacceptable. Jonathan Tobin is another one who’s finally figured out the whole Obama Doppelgänger thing.

Trump is a special interest candidate. And that special interest is Donald Trump.

Is the media sitting on big Trump stories? Ted Cruz thinks that there are some horrible stories to be told about Trump, which wouldn’t surprise me given his sordid personal life and . . . ah . . . colorful business life. Once Trump is the candidate, says Cruz, the media will “suddenly” discover stories that make Trump unelectable. I think Cruz is right because we all know the media, don’t we?

Trump’s enemy list makes me like him. George Soros has given money to 187 different special interest groups that are attacking Trump. (To be honest, a lot of them are attacking Cruz too. Indeed, on Sunday, I heard a New Yorker news hour on NPR during which the speakers agreed that Cruz is the more dangerous of the two leading Republican candidates because he actually believes in the Constitution.) In other words, here’s a list of 187 Soros-funded organizations that try to destroy anything conservative.

Will Trump win the nomination? Scott Elliott, an extremely astute election watcher and a man with a history of accurate election predictions, is not a Trump fan. He’s therefore created the “Stop-Trump-O-Meter,” which tracks the outcomes of state primaries and projects the outcome at the convention. Even if you’re a Trump fan, you’ll like Scott’s meter, because, if you ignore the name, it tells in a clear way where the candidates stand in the Republican primary.

If you destroy the polite people, you create room for the impolite ones. Glenn Reynolds points out that the GOP, RINOS, and the Leftist media establishment did everything possible to destroy the happy, tidy, law-abiding Tea Party. Now they’re horrified that destroying the Tea Party left rage in its place.

USA Today editors question Hillary’s fitness for office. USA Today, in its quest to be “America’s newspaper,” the one read in more hotel lobbies than any other paper, is careful about taking strong partisan stands. That’s why it’s impressive that the editors see Hillary’s penchant for secrecy, and the security-evading steps she took in pursuit of her paranoia, as a serious impediment to the presidency.

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