It is settled: The Paris terror attacks had almost nothing to do with Islam.
If there is any doubt about this, consider that on the one hand, you have the chilling new tape of the Charlie Hebdo attackers declaring, “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad,” and on the other, you have the tortured reassurances of White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
Which are you going to believe?
The Obama administration’s mind-bogglingly determined refusal to say that we are at war with “radical Islam,” together with the left’s evasions about Islamic terrorism, means that there has been a haze of euphemism and cowardice around what should be a galvanizing event in the West’s fight against terror.
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Dukistan
In a new initiative to promote religious pluralism, Duke University will broadcast the Muslim call to prayer every Friday on campus. The call to prayer—also known as “adhan”—will be chanted by the Duke Muslim Student Association.
The prayer itself is set to start this Friday at 1:00 p.m. and will be broadcast and amplified from the Chapel bell tower on campus.
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Police stopped a “Belgian Charlie Hebdo” late Thursday, with government agents killing at least two in raids aimed at jihadists returning from Syria who were planning to launch terrorist attacks “on a grand scale,” according to police and prosecutors.
The raids included one on an apartment above a bakery in the eastern city of Verviers, authorities said. They said no officers were injured and that the suspects opened fire on them as the swooped in. Authorities said the terror cell had ties to ISIS and was planning a major attack.
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The thing at Duke should be answered by The Hallelujah Chorus or some such.
And public exclamations of “Allah akhbar” should be answered with “Jesus is Lord!”
Duke reverses decision, will not allow Muslim call to prayer at its chapel
Duke reverses decision
I wonder if the usual anti-establishment/freedom from religion types got their knickers in a twist.
A haze so miasmically thick that Lowry doesn’t realize he’s lost in it as well.
The West thinks that if it’s not at war with Islam, then Islam won’t be at war with the West.
The West is mistaken.
>religion types got their knickers in a twist.<
mr. franklin graham went after duke donors
Some of my Twitterlocutors have scoffed at the idea that Islam can hurt us in the USA because they’d have to compose 51% of the population before anything bad happened.
Or an invading army would have to conquer the Beltway with tanks and bombs and stuff.
Morons.
A determined minority can guilt us or lawfare us into banning or severely restricting (a) bacon; (b) alcohol; (c) dogs; (d) co-ed swimming pools, classrooms, playgrounds; (e) music; (f) sports; (g) synagogues; (h) public displays of affection; (i) swimsuits on beaches; (j) Sunday services; (k) any book not the Koran.
“Islam” means submission to Islam.
Yes, we are just that soft enough.
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“Nothing to Do with Islam” – some fresh mockery from Pat Condell.
Flippin’ Shep froogs his frig on. Feaster fester, flippin’ Shep, flog it hard.
#isisisislam
ISIS Releases Pictures of Carrying Out Koranic Death Sentences
opps been covered but with less shempard
I seem to remember 11 guys with boxcutters and a rudimentary knowledge of flight operations changed the world on 9/11/01 just as surely as did the Imperial Japanese Navy on 12/7/41; arguably more successfully.
I’m not so sure – take away our God-given right to bacon and beer, and more than a few people may decide it’s time spit on their hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats…
>hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats…<
#isisisislam ;)
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H. L. Mencken, actually:
Tomorrow, Round Two: Saudis are flogging a blogger with 50 lashes a week, for 20 weeks, plus prison. For insulting Islam.
Saudi Arabia…home of Mecca, the closed city that only Muslims can visit. The beating-heart homeland of Islam; the source, the deep pockets funding radical terrorism with one hand while decrying it with the other.
And we still deal with Saudi Arabia. Barack Obama warmly pecked KingSaud on the cheek. George Bush funneled Saudis out of the country after 9-11.
Until we turn those bastards loose we will officially be deferential to Islam, because our leadership is under Saudi’s thrall.
>H. L. Mencken, actually:<
he's a kook #isisisislam
mencken proggtard kook
i refuse to bow to msm circa 1930’s
>H. L. Mencken, actually:<
pos proggtard actually
H. L. Mencken, a real-live journalist. Our current crop of nancypantsers couldn’t shine his shoes.
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And a prophet as well:
Only to their money.
Siegel calls him a liberal, in that the progressives of the Progressive Era were predominantly religious and middle class, whereas Liberals were overwhelmingly secular and anti-bourgeois. Especially the ones who, like Menken, came out of the middle class. Certainly his disdain for the common man (q.v.) comes through in the quote eCurmudgeon offered.
I don’t know if that makes him a forerunner of the New Deal Man or not.
Mencken would have happily pushed FDR’s wheelchair off a cliff — though with Hoover, Landon and Willkie in the owner’s lap.
“At the height of his influence in the 1920s, Mencken’s reputation fattened on the inanities of Prohibition, blue-nosed book-banning, and the Ku Klux Klan, all of which he saw as works of the “boobus Americanus.” His broadsides against Prohibition, posturing preachers, and anti-evolutionists made him a hero to generations of liberals and college students. But his true quarry was American democracy and the American people, whom he defined as a “rabble of ignorant peasants.” Fred Siegel, The Revolt Against the Masses, Encounter Books (2013), 23.
My impression of Menken is that he had an elitist contempt for everybody, including other elitists, that is often mistaken for curmudgeonry. I guess it’s possible that I have that backwards, or that he was just an out and out misanthrope who wrote extraordinarily well.
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Mencken was also an admirer of Nietzsche and all things German.
Fine, just don’t attempt to play The Dozens with him if you value your snout.
I think misanthrope works even with the Teutonophilia. What better way to hate mankind than to love Nietzsche?
The Belgian arms market and Charlie Hebdo connection.