The phrase “lone wolf” is about as credible as “workplace violence.”
When I last wrote about this subject, I called them “homegrown” terrorists, the phrase of the month a year and a half ago. Back then, such imaginary monsters were bombing marathons; today they are shooting Canadian parliamentarians and security guards, and attacking NYPD guys with their jihadi axes.
It doesn’t really matter what you call them, because they’re figments of the “expert” imagination. The legend-mavens tell us that there are “normal” Americans (this part is very important) who somehow just go bad, and turn into murderous terrorists. There is no foreign input, no alien country or intelligence service, no global conspiracy. The terrorists are homegrown and they are on their own. Lone wolves. […]
There ARE homegrown terrorists, like the Unabomber, but these aren’t the people we’re talking about just now. Unabomber is a nut, but he’s a distinctly American nut, and definitely a lone wolf. The so-called lone wolves of recent days–the killer in Canada, the axeman in New York, and, we should add, the Oklahama City decapitator–aren’t loners, they’re members. They’ve been inspired by local or online jihadis.
Another thing. These jihadis often turn out to be converts, even “recent converts.”
Words like “convert” often slide past our active attention, but we should focus on them. The act of conversion requires the convert to join a religious community, and may require other actions. Converts to Islam, for example, are usually required to be circumcised, although I find that some online Muslim recruiting sites will tell you that you can avoid it if the thought is just too terrible. The sites do say that you can convert on your own; you don’t have to show up at a mosque to become a Muslim, all you have to do is swear an oath to Allah.
But then you’ve got to participate. And since the Koran is an Arabic text, you’d best learn some Arabic. The site will guide you to the local mosque where you can pursue your Islamic education.
The point being: converts are the opposite of lone wolves because they need help (do you think they circumcise themselves? Or study Arabic alone?). They are entering a new world–it’s why they are converting, after all–and it behooves us to take a careful look at the psychological dynamics of their transition.
You ever think that if “Lone Wolves” started acting against the interests of the Federal Government, the Government would find a common thread behind their actions? And use it to go after anyone who has ever so much as opined a thought against the Liberal cause du jour?
People taking the initiative and acting alone is what made us a great nation. And if you’re captured, there’s nothing to reveal. — George Washington
sudden jihad syndrome as initiation rite
Well, at least the Ottawa “lone wolf” proved strict gun control is a joke, so we have that going for us…
As usual with progressives and fascists (but I repeat myself) the problem is that the gun control isn’t strict enough.
Plus, guns are really easy to get in the U.S. (they practically give them to you) so what we really need is the same restrictions they have in Canada so that no one will kill other people any more with guns bought in the U.S. because that is probably what happened and even if it wasn’t what happened it sounds plausible so shut up and give up your guns because they are scary.
Patrick Poole and Michael Ledeen make what to my mind are powerful indictments against what begins to look like a general American tradition of ignoring the Islam in the terrorists (. . . Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, ClownDisaster — if not a full-blown tradition at this point, at least the makings of the beginning of one if allowed to continue).
There seem implicit (where not explicit) prescriptions to correction of the bad policy or partisan political motivations to that bad policy contained within these indictments — which, to name the policy as such, I’d suggest tacitly “Don’t see the Islam so there won’t be the Islam” as an anti-echo of the phrase “Don’t start nothin’, there won’t be nothin’ “.
Absurd, of course, if only because the “start” is given life by someone else.
But my question here is: How would we flesh out those implicit prescriptions? Or to put it another way, “what comes next?”
“with progressives and fascists (but I repeat myself) the problem is that the gun control isn’t strict enough.”
You’re right of course…*sigh*
Logic hasn’t a chance against an agenda, does it?
“what comes next?”
Iran joins the nuke club, Israel disappears, followed by Armageddon?
Just kidding. I’m sure everything will be fine.
>Members of the jihadist ummah
collectivein Lone Wolf clothing <language stuff also #isisisislam
from the google hipsters:
>cath·o·lic
?kaTH(?)lik/
adjective
adjective: catholic; adjective: Catholic
1.
(especially of a person’s tastes) including a wide variety of things; all-embracing.
synonyms: universal, diverse, diversified, wide, broad, broad-based, eclectic, liberal, latitudinarian;
comprehensive, all-encompassing, all-embracing, all-inclusive<
ie proggtarded
the word itself or google’s definition of same
oh my fretting @ wikipedia
> In these Abrahamic religions, not only are humans not a part of nature, but nature and the Earth are subordinate to humans. In fact, humans are explicitly instructed to “rule over,” and to “subdue” the Earth.[22]<
link
>the word itself or google’s definition of same<
oh darleen's use of the term "collective" has already a term in regards to islam: ummah/islamic nation. so i did some wiki/google for "catholic".
it is interesting to read of the topic of a "catholic/universalist" faith being discussed from 100-500ad (approx) then in about 700 ad moe puts the hammer down on "universalist faith" . boredom on a sunday night.
Sippin’ at that Pierian Spring water again, eh?
There’s only “one wolf” and the clothing is specialized and customized too.
Samantha Power?
Okay, maybe not yet.
>Sippin’ at that Pierian Spring water again, eh?<
do tell i'm totally stupid. and that's being charitable to me.
yes i did the wiki on ” Pierian Spring water”
still stupid
‘sokay, I had to google it too.
http://www.pierianspringwater.com?
with happyfeet addons
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
>Alexander Pope <
mr rap/hip hop for deadwhitemales
– She doesn’t have a gurney to stand on. In the case of contamination threats the gov has absolute authority and habeas corpus. Best she can hope for is her ambulance chasing lawyer , (whom is no doubt pumping her rather limited brain full of bullshit), might be able to get her some trouble money.
OT: Elián González
Just saw an interview with the lad, who is now 20. He says that if he’d remained in the U.S., he might have more stuff, but he wouldn’t have the love of his father, nor the loving relationship with his abuelo, Fidel. He’s a full-throated supporter of the man who visits his home and invites him to do stuff, including be a delegate to some dang thing in Ecuador. His father, celebrated for not defecting, was given a high position in the government.
So. Who had money on “Fidel will totally co-opt the kid with personal attention until the poor guy doesn’t know which way is up”?
Cuz you win.
Mark Stein once came under attack for saying that Muslims were the ones doing all the terrorism stuff. His reply was to produce an extensive, documented list of all major terrorist acts over a period of say 20 years. Every one was carried out by guys named Mohamed. I could hear the crickets chirping from here.
People such as the media and John Kerry need to be confronted every time they defend Islam . So , you’re okay with what they did but the Tea Party is the problem? Why do you so vociferously defend the root cause of these actions?
Go on the offensive. Get in their faces and ask why do they act as P.R. firms for Islam every time an atrocity is committed in it’s name by it’s practitioners? Point out the legion of examples of these atrocities. Quote the Koran itself.
Don’t allow people to piss on your leg and tell you it’s raining.
CAIR takes a stand on #gamergate.
In the former United States, don’t wolves usually hunt in PAC’s?
Greetings:
This may be a marginal or fine point, or even a marginally fine point, but my understanding is that Muslim “theology” (if that’s what it is) sees all people as being born Muslims, so those who are labeled “converts” by us nasty “kuffars” and such are considered “reverts” by their local Muslim Imammies and Idaddies.
That being said, Islam is the millstone. It is nothing more than the globalization of 7th Century predatory Arab tribal culture under a thin veneer of religion. And if your plan doesn’t include constraining, undermining, or eradicating Islam, you don’t have a plan. What you have is a hope.
What you have is a hope.
– If that’s the case what you have is hopelessness.
– Apparently the asinine memes of the Left, where anything that’s counter common sense is embraced with relish have morphed into Rhino viruses, wherein they can change when the wind doesn’t blow in a “useful” way.
– Media hacks are now calling them “stray dogs” instead of lone wolves because the laughter was getting too loud. All of it, of course, is to protect the little asshole king. There can be no terrorist attacks on his watch. I personally hope their association with the liars of Progressivism scars them all for life.
Saying that ISIS is not Muslim is like saying that the Nazis weren’t Germans.
Oh yes they were: they were hyper-German, and they could prove it, chapter and verse.
Likewise, ISIS is hyper-Muslim. The difference being that “German” just means “associated with the geographical region the Romans called “Germania.” There’s nothing inherent to Deutchland that points to fascism.
But ISIS can justify their actions by pointing to the Quran and the Hadith. Most Muslims aren’t down with that interpretation, but then, those Muslims aren’t willing to behead anyone who disagrees with them.
There’s nothing inherent to Deutchland that points to fascism.
You haven’t met my Mother, Di.
As I wrote in Volume I of my unauthorized autobiography:
Souse, er, source:
http://bobsautobio.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/excerpt-from-volume-i-1961-1964/
About half of the world’s Muslims embrace Sharia law in some form or other.
Who are the real Muslims. The so called moderates or the fanatical jihadists?
Both.
The Fanaticals want to torture and murder you.
The Moderates want to absorb you or enslave you – they are Evil with a happy, bearded face.
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Jeffery Goldberg: The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Officially Here
*** The other day I was talking to a senior Obama administration official about the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the most. “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit,” this official said, referring to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, by his nickname. ***
When Netanyahu pegged the ClownDisaster policy toward Israel building homes in Jerusalem awhile back as tantamount to simple racism, he simultaneously hit paydirt and got under their skin.
This is going to be the PresidentIWonPenPhone “pay-back”: a vicious opposition to any Jewish building in Jerusalem. Cards on the table: Jews get out, is what’s what with the ClownCatastrophe Gang.
“Guess what, Barry? Israel is not the 58th State.”
>Who are the real Muslims. <
#isisisislam go ask moe or allan