This week Chinese media also threatened Australian flights over their islands, saying: "... it would be a shame if one day a plane fell from the sky and it happened to be Australian".
File under: it's time to stop feeding the dragon.
Chinese Navy to BBC: 'Stay away from islands'
A BBC journalist flies over one of the artificial islands created by China. An island far closer to Philippines territory than to China. And it's teeming with activity.
This week Chinese media also threatened Australian flights over their islands, saying: "... it would be a shame if one day a plane fell from the sky and it happened to be Australian".
File under: it's time to stop feeding the dragon.
This week Chinese media also threatened Australian flights over their islands, saying: "... it would be a shame if one day a plane fell from the sky and it happened to be Australian".
File under: it's time to stop feeding the dragon.
France: what motivates Islamic terrorists?
In the wake of the France attacks, apparently by members/proxies of ISIS (Islamic State), we've had the usual intellectually bankrupt journalism here in Australia which is worried more about a potential backlash against Muslims than it is in getting to the heart of understanding what motivates terrorists.
But a few weeks ago, ABC Lateline made some progress by honestly discussing the barbarity of the prophet Mohammed.
As Sam Harris says about Mohammed: "He was a warlord who did many of the things that you see members of ISIS doing".
The Koran contains 90 verses which implore Muslims to imitate the prophet Mohammed: "a beautiful pattern of conduct".
Devout Muslims, in an ardent search for the right way to follow their religion, inevitably turn to the biography of Mohammed, which reads like a war documentary.
Indeed, in early Islam, the biography of Mohammed was known as Maghazi (literally, stories of military expeditions).
And Mohammed nicknamed his swords "Pluck Out" and "Death", and himself had a nickname from early Muslim historian Tabari of "The Obliterator".
Religion is the imitation of archetypes, and Mohammed was nothing like Jesus or the Buddha. He was a role model in terrorism.
The kindest thing you can say about Islam is that it is open to interpretation, but the terrorists have a very convincing case that they are the true Muslims.
Other fun facts about Islam...
But a few weeks ago, ABC Lateline made some progress by honestly discussing the barbarity of the prophet Mohammed.
As Sam Harris says about Mohammed: "He was a warlord who did many of the things that you see members of ISIS doing".
The Koran contains 90 verses which implore Muslims to imitate the prophet Mohammed: "a beautiful pattern of conduct".
Devout Muslims, in an ardent search for the right way to follow their religion, inevitably turn to the biography of Mohammed, which reads like a war documentary.
Indeed, in early Islam, the biography of Mohammed was known as Maghazi (literally, stories of military expeditions).
And Mohammed nicknamed his swords "Pluck Out" and "Death", and himself had a nickname from early Muslim historian Tabari of "The Obliterator".
Religion is the imitation of archetypes, and Mohammed was nothing like Jesus or the Buddha. He was a role model in terrorism.
The kindest thing you can say about Islam is that it is open to interpretation, but the terrorists have a very convincing case that they are the true Muslims.
Other fun facts about Islam...
Mohammed beheaded 600-900 Jews on one day.File under: it's all about Mohammed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Banu_Qurayza
Mohammed ordered or supported 43 assassinations.
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/List_of_Killings_Ordered_or_Supported_by_Muhammad
The prophet Mohammed commanded 65 military campaigns, and fought in 27 of them. He averaged an event of violence every 6 weeks for the last 9 years of his life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9sYgqRtZGg
The prophet Mohammed sanctioned the killing of about 10 poets who criticised him.
http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/dead_poets.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Muhammad_12.jpg
The prophet Mohammed took a Jewish girl (Safiyah) to bed on the night of torturing her husband to death.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/safiyah.htm
Safiyah said: “Of all men, I hated the prophet the most—for he killed my husband, my brother, and my father”.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/raymond-ibrahim/cia-chief-john-brennan-deceptions-about-islam/
Mohammed sanctioned sex slaves as the spoils of war.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csl0gxWnyzs
The Islamic holy books (Koran, Hadith, Sira) contain more Jew hatred (9%) than Mein Kampf (7%).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjBDDC4wVxk
The Islamic calendar begins when Mohammed stopped being a peaceful preacher in Mecca and became a violent warlord in Medina.
The prophet Mohammed was poisoned by a Jewish women, following his attack on the Jewish settlement of Khaibar. He died three years later as a result.
http://www.answering-islam.org/Silas/mo-death.htm
Three of the first four Caliphs (Muslim rulers after the death of Mohammed) were also so well loved, they too met with violent death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate#Rashidun_Caliphs
US mining chief urges Australia to stop feeding the dragon
And he's absolutely right. China will eventually invade Australia, just like it's stealing the South China Sea, and has stolen Tibet and Uighur territory.
US miner links iron exports to China's advance in South China SeaFile under: national security trumps economics.
Cliffs Natural Resources... chief executive, Lourenco Goncalves, said the miners were supplying China "to become an enemy".
"I hope the Australians will continue to question themselves why one or two companies are giving their finite resource away to the Chinese while the Chinese builds into a military powerhouse in the South China Sea," he said in a conference call with analysts on Friday
"I believe that China is a disaster. I believe that China will bring Australia down.
"Australia is a member of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement), so it is a friend, at the same time that they supply China to become an enemy. So (they've) got to pick a side.
"I think that Australia will only believe China is destroying Australia when they build an artificial island on the Great Barrier Reef that they can see from the shore . So it is a matter of a myopic approach to world geopolitics and economics."
Tianjin: Confidence more important than food
If the Tianjin explosion was an inside job, which I suspect it was, then what might the motive be?
The answer might be found in this Confucius quote:
The Tianjin explosion followed shortly after China's stock market crash, where a lot of people lost a lot of money. Confidence in Xi Jinping's leadership was shattered, given that the Communist Party had encouraged people to invest in stocks, rather than property.
All of a sudden, China's leaders went from geniuses to fools. Xi Jinping would not have been on these people's Christmas card list.
So, what would China's leaders do in this situation? It would not be surprising if they did something to (a) distract people's attention away from the stock crisis and (b) censor talk that dramatised the crisis and questioned the leadership of Xi Jinping and (c) found some minions to blame.
The Tianjin explosion was a perfect distraction, and the government did censor talk about the crisis:
Restoring confidence in Xi was especially important because he would soon be sticking his head out of a moving car, while driving down a military parade.
And all this comes on the back of China's slowing economy:
So, the Tianjin explosion could simply have been one giant distraction, to get past the stock market crash, while avoiding a crisis of confidence in Xi's leadership.
The other dimension to the market crash is how China responded externally. I suspect that China blames its stock market crash on America, specifically a Morgan Stanley downgrade, which China interpreted as an act of economic warfare.
Subsequently, China retaliated by devaluing their currency and dumping US loans. There is also speculation that China began covertly attacking America, and allies, with all manner of "accidents", as per their doctrine of unrestricted warfare. But that's a big topic, and will have to wait for another time.
File under: the art of distraction.
The answer might be found in this Confucius quote:
So, Confucius is saying that a nation can recover from material loss, including deaths. But it's a far more serious matter when the people lose confidence in their leaders. So, if some people have to die to maintain confidence in your rulers, then so be it, according to Confucius.Zigong asked about government.
The Master said, "The requisites of government are that there be sufficient food, sufficient military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler."
Zigong said, "If one had to dispense with one of those three, which should be given up first?" "The military equipment, " said the Master.
Zigong again asked, "If one had to dispense with one of the two remaining, which should be given up?"
The Master answered, "Give up the food. From of old, death has always been the lot of men; but if the people have no faith in their rulers, they cannot stand."
The Tianjin explosion followed shortly after China's stock market crash, where a lot of people lost a lot of money. Confidence in Xi Jinping's leadership was shattered, given that the Communist Party had encouraged people to invest in stocks, rather than property.
All of a sudden, China's leaders went from geniuses to fools. Xi Jinping would not have been on these people's Christmas card list.
So, what would China's leaders do in this situation? It would not be surprising if they did something to (a) distract people's attention away from the stock crisis and (b) censor talk that dramatised the crisis and questioned the leadership of Xi Jinping and (c) found some minions to blame.
The Tianjin explosion was a perfect distraction, and the government did censor talk about the crisis:
China arrests man for suicide 'rumors' amid stock market routAll the boxes were ticked: distraction, censorship, and they scapegoated journalists and professionals for "spreading rumours" that accelerated the collapse.
Chinese authorities have arrested a man who allegedly spread rumors about people in Beijing jumping off buildings in response to a stock market crash, state television reported on Sunday.
The 29-year-old man, surnamed Tian, was detained for "disorderly behavior", China Central Television said.
He alleged wrote on social media on July 3 that "there are people, because of the stock market crash, who have jumped off buildings in Beijing's Financial Street," a commercial development in downtown that houses many financial institutions.
Restoring confidence in Xi was especially important because he would soon be sticking his head out of a moving car, while driving down a military parade.
And all this comes on the back of China's slowing economy:
Legitimacy built on economy instead of elections makes economic slowdown an existential crisis http://t.co/PPiJvVxX56 pic.twitter.com/FxxPbIf5iF— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) August 24, 2015So, the Tianjin explosion could simply have been one giant distraction, to get past the stock market crash, while avoiding a crisis of confidence in Xi's leadership.
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The other dimension to the market crash is how China responded externally. I suspect that China blames its stock market crash on America, specifically a Morgan Stanley downgrade, which China interpreted as an act of economic warfare.
Subsequently, China retaliated by devaluing their currency and dumping US loans. There is also speculation that China began covertly attacking America, and allies, with all manner of "accidents", as per their doctrine of unrestricted warfare. But that's a big topic, and will have to wait for another time.
File under: the art of distraction.
John McAfee: China is at war with us
Computer security expert John McAfee says what politicians won't: that China is at war with us.
File under: Chinese goods are not cheap.
File under: Chinese goods are not cheap.
Unrestricted Warfare - Part 2
Here's another video on China's doctrine of Unrestricted Warfare (also called Hybrid or Asymmetric Warfare).
Chris Chappell interviews Epoch Times reporter and China expert Joshua Philipp.
File under: Chinese goods are not cheap.
Chris Chappell interviews Epoch Times reporter and China expert Joshua Philipp.
File under: Chinese goods are not cheap.
Waking up to China's unrestricted warfare
Most people are aware of China's cyber war against America and allied countries. However, most people are not aware that these cyber attacks might not be an isolated strategy, but instead, might be just one component of a broader range of covert (or non-military) attacks, which are all part of the Chinese doctrine of Unrestricted Warfare.
So far, the rest of this doctrine has been largely theoretical or unnoticed. But since China's stock market crash, and a cluster of events surrounding the Tianjin explosion, there are signs that we might have had a bigger taste of China's unrestricted warfare. But before we get to that speculation, this post will just be a short introduction to the doctrine of unrestricted warfare.
Recent cyberattacks could be part of a Chinese military strategy started nearly 20 years ago:
"... in 1999, Generals Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui authored a book called “Unrestricted Warfare,” detailing a concept they describe as “warfare which transcends all boundaries and limits.” The gist was that innovative thinking could give China the edge over a US concetrated on developing newer and more complicated machines:
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Essentially, it's taking the lateral/asymmetric thinking of Sun Tzu's The Art of War, and transcribing it to a modern context whereby a weaker country (China) can subdue a stronger country (America), by attacking its weak spots, in order to degrade, demoralise and eventually destroy it.
Here are some more videos to explain it:
See also China: A Threat Analysis.
File under: Chinese goods are not cheap.
So far, the rest of this doctrine has been largely theoretical or unnoticed. But since China's stock market crash, and a cluster of events surrounding the Tianjin explosion, there are signs that we might have had a bigger taste of China's unrestricted warfare. But before we get to that speculation, this post will just be a short introduction to the doctrine of unrestricted warfare.
Recent cyberattacks could be part of a Chinese military strategy started nearly 20 years ago:
"... in 1999, Generals Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui authored a book called “Unrestricted Warfare,” detailing a concept they describe as “warfare which transcends all boundaries and limits.” The gist was that innovative thinking could give China the edge over a US concetrated on developing newer and more complicated machines:
Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America (PDF)Some of these sound silly. But others, such as “media,” “technological” and “resource warfare,” have a more plausible‚ even familiar, ring to them. Taken alongside the strong likelihood that the systematic cyberattacks have been state-sponsored, it seems not entirely far-fetched that China has been spending nearly two decades planning forms of warfare that the West hasn’t even considered. Welcome to a new world, folks".
Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, 1999
As we see it, a single man-made stock-market crash, a single computer virus invasion, or a single rumor or scandal that results in a fluctuation in the enemy country’s exchange rates or exposes the leaders of an enemy country on the Internet, all can be included in the ranks of new-concept weapons...
The new concept of weapons will cause ordinary people and military men alike to be greatly astonished at the fact that commonplace things that are close to them can also become weapons with which to engage in war. We believe that some morning people will awake to discover with surprise that quite a few gentle and kind things have begun to have offensive and lethal characteristics...
Such means and methods include psychological warfare (spreading rumors to intimidate the enemy and break down his will); smuggling warfare (throwing markets into confusion and attacking economic order); media warfare (manipulating what people see and hear in order to lead public opinion along); drug warfare (obtaining sudden and huge illicit profits by spreading disaster in other countries); network warfare (venturing out in secret and concealing one’s identity in a type of warfare that is virtually impossible to guard against); technological warfare (creating monopolies by setting standards independently); fabrication warfare (presenting a counterfeit appearance of real strength before the eyes of the enemy); resources warfare (grabbing riches by plundering stores of resources); economic aid warfare (bestowing favor in the open and contriving to control matters in secret); cultural warfare (leading cultural trends along in order to assimilate those with different views); and international law warfare (seizing the earliest opportunity to set up regulations)...
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Essentially, it's taking the lateral/asymmetric thinking of Sun Tzu's The Art of War, and transcribing it to a modern context whereby a weaker country (China) can subdue a stronger country (America), by attacking its weak spots, in order to degrade, demoralise and eventually destroy it.
Here are some more videos to explain it:
See also China: A Threat Analysis.
File under: Chinese goods are not cheap.
2014 China explosion - zombie burns video
If the previous video wasn't enough to convince you that China is capable of deception on a grand scale, then surely this video will.
The video is labelled 2014-08-02 Kunshan Car-Parts Factory Explosion. It is a 2014 explosion at a General Motors supply factory: Zhongrong Metal Products in Kunshan, Jiansu province. (See this Daily Mail report for details).
As you can see on the video, the scene looks more like lunchtime on the set of a Hollywood horror movie, rather than any real event.
The motive for this is pretty simple, to attack a foreign company. Typically, China invites foreign companies to set up shop in China, until such time as they have acquired all their technological secrets, and then suddenly they find themselves attacked and unwelcome.
So, it should be apparent by now that China is capable of grand deception, even on the scale of the Tianjin explosion.
The next post will speculate about why Tianjin, and other global "accidents", are happening.
The video is labelled 2014-08-02 Kunshan Car-Parts Factory Explosion. It is a 2014 explosion at a General Motors supply factory: Zhongrong Metal Products in Kunshan, Jiansu province. (See this Daily Mail report for details).
As you can see on the video, the scene looks more like lunchtime on the set of a Hollywood horror movie, rather than any real event.
The motive for this is pretty simple, to attack a foreign company. Typically, China invites foreign companies to set up shop in China, until such time as they have acquired all their technological secrets, and then suddenly they find themselves attacked and unwelcome.
So, it should be apparent by now that China is capable of grand deception, even on the scale of the Tianjin explosion.
The next post will speculate about why Tianjin, and other global "accidents", are happening.
Bizarre Tianjin "rescue" video
When it comes to China, it's always a good idea to never take things at face value, because you never know what is being orchestrated and scripted by the Communist Party.
The Tianjin explosion is no exception. At face value, it looks like a terrible accident. But then you see truly bizarre videos like this: Video Footage of First Tianjin Blast Firefighter Survivor.
And then you start to wonder whether this explosion is not an accident, but simply a convenient distraction from the recent stock market crash in China, which shattered the illusion that the Communist Party is all wise, and all knowing.
File under: the art of distraction?
The Tianjin explosion is no exception. At face value, it looks like a terrible accident. But then you see truly bizarre videos like this: Video Footage of First Tianjin Blast Firefighter Survivor.
And then you start to wonder whether this explosion is not an accident, but simply a convenient distraction from the recent stock market crash in China, which shattered the illusion that the Communist Party is all wise, and all knowing.
File under: the art of distraction?
Music break (New website coming soon...)
I have a new website/blog coming soon. It's more of a wide angle, big picture view, rather than a news commentary blog. Hopefully it should be floated within a few weeks.
Meanwhile, here is some holding music. Another collection of tunes: a mix of acoustic, folk, bluegrass, and Scottish Gaelic, as usual.
And you can view my daily Storify news links here.
Meanwhile, here is some holding music. Another collection of tunes: a mix of acoustic, folk, bluegrass, and Scottish Gaelic, as usual.
And you can view my daily Storify news links here.
Chatanooga Roundup & Tomi Lahren
So 4 Marines were shot dead by another Mohammedan in Chatanooga, Tennessee.
One of the strongest voices of reason came from 22-year-old Tomi Lahren, who blasted Obama's feeble strategy against Islamic terrorism.
Below is her viral video. And I've collected a bunch of other videos and tweets on Storify for more sane commentary on the shooting.
File under: it's all about Mohammed.
One of the strongest voices of reason came from 22-year-old Tomi Lahren, who blasted Obama's feeble strategy against Islamic terrorism.
Below is her viral video. And I've collected a bunch of other videos and tweets on Storify for more sane commentary on the shooting.
File under: it's all about Mohammed.
It’s time to end this lie about Islam: Andrew Bolt
Slowly the media is dragging itself towards the truth about Islam.
This week Melanie Phillips wrote: It’s pure myth that Islam is ‘a religion of peace’.
Here in Australia, Andrew Bolt is one of the few journalists to speak about Islam.
This week Melanie Phillips wrote: It’s pure myth that Islam is ‘a religion of peace’.
Here in Australia, Andrew Bolt is one of the few journalists to speak about Islam.
It’s Time to End This Lie About IslamFile under: it's all about Mohammed.
By Andrew Bolt
THE Prime Minister is wrong. I’m sure Tony Abbott knows it, too, but does not dare publicly tell the truth about Islamic terrorism.
Abbott insists Islam had nothing to do with last week’s shooting of tourists in Tunisia, bombing of Shia worshippers in Kuwait and beheading of a man in France...
Is he kidding us? ...
Let’s end this polite lie, which blinds us to the steps we must take to defend ourselves...
... Islamic State regularly quotes the Koran and sacred Surah to justify its every barbarity.
Its infamous statement last year ordering Muslims around the world to kill unbelievers quoted holy scripture at least 25 times in support.
Those quotations included this, from the Koran: “Kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush.”
And this, also from the Koran, justifying the Islamic State’s liking for decapitation: “He the Exalted said: ‘So when you meet those who disbelieve (in battle), strike (their) necks’.”
The Research and Fatwa Department of the Islamic State even produced a pamphlet last year quoting the Koran to let its soldiers enslave and rape hundreds of Yazidi women...
Clive Kessler, emeritus professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of NSW, has studied Islam for 50 years and is gloomy.
He says most mainstream Muslims don’t speak out because they actually “share a common mindset and set of attitudes” — that Islam must triumph — even if they don’t accept the radicals’ means...
Yes, it’s a voice of Islam speaking. Deal with it, or we’re lost.
China orders US out of South China Sea
Huge news coming out of China lately. Here we have audio of China ordering the US out of the South China Sea. China is on the march. They are going rogue.
File under: Chinese goods are not cheap.
File under: Chinese goods are not cheap.
I'm on Storify
If anyone follows my Twitter news feed, you might want to follow me on Storify now instead:https://storify.com/IdeologeeBlog/timeline
Twitter has disabled video embedding on our front pages (probably to highlight advertisements instead), so it's not as useful as it once was.
I will continue to use Twitter to gather links, but I will now drag the highlights into Storify where video embedding is still working, and the presentation is better.
Storify is intended for small stories, by gathering a handful of links together. But I will use it for one continuous stream (until I hit the 1000 item limit, and then I'll start a 2nd story, etc).
Like Twitter, Storify is easy to use, and makes for quick sharing of links.
Blogging will continue here, as usual, when I have the time.
Immigration surge by "conservative" Australian leader
But if you think Abbott is concerned about preserving the demographic character/integrity of Australia, then think again. He's just another open borders freak. Another man without identity. Another zombie.
Australian politics swings from the incompetent bleeding-heart Left, to the anarchistic free-market open-borders Right. There is no centre. There is no identity in Australian politics anymore. They have all been lobotomised and placed their brains on the altar of political correctness.
As Diana West wrote recently in Why Do Nations Extinguish Themselves:
"Who goes to work, pours a cup of coffee and makes these suicidal decisions?"
Five million visas into Australia this year likely to set new records
File under: zombies.Australia is set to issue, for the first time, more than 5 million visas this year, presenting a range and scale of policy challenges not seen since World War II.
Surging numbers of students, tourists and workers on short-term visas mean that as many as 1.9 million foreigners are likely to be in the country at any one time over the course of 2015, according to Michael Pezzullo, Secretary of the Department of Immigration.
The number of traditional permanent migrants is also surging, with this year's intake likely to surpass the existing record of 185,000, which was set in 1969.
... Mr Pezzullo ... pointed to a rapid shift in the ethnic composition of new migrants away from Europe towards east and southern Asia.
The number of Chinese-born Australians has more than tripled to almost 450,000 in the space of two decades, he said.
Those born in India has risen more than four-fold in that time, to almost 400,000.
Those numbers compare to about 1.2 million born in Britain and more than 600,000 in New Zealand, as part of an overall foreign-born population of 6.6 million.
The huge influx means a higher proportion of the population was born overseas than at any time since the gold rushes of the 19th century.
Kenyan "brother" says Obama resembles Frank Marshall Davis
A month ago I watched Dreams From My Real Father and was shocked that Obama resembles his Hawaiian neighbourhood communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis far more than he does his supposed Kenyan father. That's a big topic, so I'll leave that for another time.
But meanwhile, Obama's alleged half-brother Malik Obama was recently interviewed by Joel Gilbert (who sent Malik a copy of Dreams From My Real Father). Malik is disillusioned by Obama's disinterest in his Kenyan family and now even questions whether Obama is a blood relative. Malik said that Obama resembles Frank Marshall Davis and doesn't look like Obama Snr.
Here is the transcript.
File under: the undocumented president.
But meanwhile, Obama's alleged half-brother Malik Obama was recently interviewed by Joel Gilbert (who sent Malik a copy of Dreams From My Real Father). Malik is disillusioned by Obama's disinterest in his Kenyan family and now even questions whether Obama is a blood relative. Malik said that Obama resembles Frank Marshall Davis and doesn't look like Obama Snr.
Here is the transcript.
JG: So, do you think that Barack looks like Frank Marshall Davis - this is a man that he said raised him - more than your father?
MO: There’s a great resemblance. I think Frank Marshall Davis and Barack, they look alike. Some kind of moles I see on his face and Frank, he has those too. There’s a resemblance.
JG: And does he resemble your father?
MO: Not really, I don’t. They talk, they say about the years [ears?], but no. No. Your movie definitely puts a lot of questions in my mind.
JG: Well would you like to see or do a DNA test one day to know for sure?Via Noisy Room.
MO: That would really prove whether we are related or not. Yes. I would be willing to do that. I don’t know how I’d deal with it, if it really came out that he really is a fraud or a con.
JG: It might be the reason why he made such a big deal about you politically, but personally he doesn’t feel the bond.
MO: I’m agreeing. Yeah, I agree with that because it’s hard to understand how somebody can make such an about turn and make a big play about where he comes from and then once he gets what he gets, wants nothing to do with that place anymore. We need an explanation and if you can provide the explanation, it would be better for all of us so we won’t be hanging, hoping for nothing. That’s what I really feel for my people is ‘cause they keep hoping. Maybe they’re hoping for nothing. Cause he doesn’t mention it any more where he comes from or who his relatives are. He doesn’t say any of those things any more. It’s really disappointing, Joel, but that’s life. We live with it and move on and we wait for the truth to come out.
File under: the undocumented president.
It's All About Muhammad (new illustrated book)
F.W. Burleigh explains why he wrote the book:
More info at Citizen Warrior, Good Reads, and It's All About Muhammad.
Zenga Books has the Table of Contents, Introduction, and Chapter 23 (Qurayza genocide).
File under: crimes against humanity.
In order to write It's All About Muhammad I had to read a lot more than the Koran. In all, I soldiered through 20,000 pages of the original source material. I also read numerous secondary works by Western scholars and others. (I now have a physical library of nearly 500 books related to this subject!) From this study I extracted the real story about Muhammad, and it is presented in this book in a way that has never been done before.
For one, though it is a biography the book reads like a true crime story, for in fact Muhammad committed just about every crime listed by the International Criminal Court as constituting a crime against humanity--all provable from Muslim literature. I included 47 pages of double-column chapter notes citing--and often heavily quoting--the original sources. This is to show that nothing in the book is invented.
Additionally, the book is illustrated, with 25 black and white illustrations, half of them "depicting" atrocities Muhammad committed.
This is a default book. Following 9/11, year after year went by and no one wrote it even though it was clear it needed to be done. Muslims follow in the footsteps of Muhammad. Islam--what he created--is now a global threat. Everyone is threatened by it. But nobody wrote it so finally I had to do it. My biography is a simple statement of a fact. F. W. Burleigh: a man who saw a book that needed to be written and wrote it.
More info at Citizen Warrior, Good Reads, and It's All About Muhammad.
Zenga Books has the Table of Contents, Introduction, and Chapter 23 (Qurayza genocide).
File under: crimes against humanity.
China building 'Great Wall of Sand' in South China Sea
China building 'great wall of sand' in South China Sea:
China's land reclamation is creating a "great wall of sand" in the South China Sea, a top US official says, leading to "serious questions" on its intentions.
US Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Harry Harris made the comments in a speech in Australia on Tuesday night.
He said by pumping sand on to coral reefs and adding concrete, China had created "over 4 sq km (1.5 sq miles) of artificial landmass".
China has overlapping claims with neighbours in the South China Sea.
It has been reclaiming land in contested waters - something it said last year was "totally justified" as it had "sovereignty" over the area.
In recent months images have emerged of Chinese construction on reefs in the Spratly Islands to create artificial islands with facilities that could potentially be for military use, including an air strip.
Several nations, including Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan, also claim ownership of territory in the Spratly Islands.
Adm Harris described China's land reclamation as "unprecedented".
"China is building artificial land by pumping sand on to live coral reefs - some of them submerged - and paving over them with concrete. China has now created over 4 sq km (1.5 sq miles) of artificial landmass," he said.
"China is creating a great wall of sand with dredges and bulldozers over the course of months."
He said that considering China's "pattern of provocative actions towards smaller claimant states" in the South China Sea, the scope of the building raised "serious questions about Chinese intentions".
File under: Chinese goods are not cheap.
Asians group themselves racially for Australian election
Here in the recent New South Wales state election, there was an interesting group of candidates for our upper house.
Very little is known about the group's policies or ideology, so we can presume it was aimed squarely at the Asian vote, particularly the Chinese.
This is sign of what to expect from Australia's rapidly growing Asian population i.e. they will not hesitate to identify and vote racially.
This is particularly true of the Chinese, who generally retain a fierce identity with the "motherland".
And the majority of Australia's immigrants now come from China (and India).
When the Chinese/Asians begin to assert themselves politically, you can be sure the first policy they will throw in the bin is the diversity doctrine. They will skew our immigration further towards Asians, and away from those pesky white folks.
Diversity (on a mass scale) is a pathological, post-traumatic, post WW2, white man affliction. No other race believes in it (except temporarily to further colonise white countries).
As an example of what the Chinese think about their growing presence in Australia, look at how they named this magazine for Chinese-Australians:
File under: kin preference.
This is sign of what to expect from Australia's rapidly growing Asian population i.e. they will not hesitate to identify and vote racially.
This is particularly true of the Chinese, who generally retain a fierce identity with the "motherland".
And the majority of Australia's immigrants now come from China (and India).
When the Chinese/Asians begin to assert themselves politically, you can be sure the first policy they will throw in the bin is the diversity doctrine. They will skew our immigration further towards Asians, and away from those pesky white folks.
Diversity (on a mass scale) is a pathological, post-traumatic, post WW2, white man affliction. No other race believes in it (except temporarily to further colonise white countries).
As an example of what the Chinese think about their growing presence in Australia, look at how they named this magazine for Chinese-Australians:
File under: kin preference.
Obama did not write Dreams From My Father
Here in Australia, foreign policy expert Greg Sheridan is still dumbfounded by Obama's motives, in particular about Iran, but also generally.
He called Obama the "author of luminous prose" which I found quite funny after recently watching this video by literary expert Jack Cashill.
Cashill compared Dreams From My Father (an extremely well written book) with Obama's other published writings, which are meagre and sub-par. He concludes that there is "no way" Obama could have written the book, and that Obama was "not the primary craftsman of Dreams".
He also studied the writing of Obama's left-wing terrorist neighbour Bill Ayers and found a striking similarity with Dreams e.g. a penchant for nautical metaphors (which Ayers derived from his time working on boats).
It's one thing to have a ghost writer, it's another thing to claim "I wrote them myself" while your ghost writer is a terrorist.
That's just one glimpse into the rabbit hole of Obama's mindset, which goes much deeper.
File under: dreams from my neighbour.
He called Obama the "author of luminous prose" which I found quite funny after recently watching this video by literary expert Jack Cashill.
Cashill compared Dreams From My Father (an extremely well written book) with Obama's other published writings, which are meagre and sub-par. He concludes that there is "no way" Obama could have written the book, and that Obama was "not the primary craftsman of Dreams".
He also studied the writing of Obama's left-wing terrorist neighbour Bill Ayers and found a striking similarity with Dreams e.g. a penchant for nautical metaphors (which Ayers derived from his time working on boats).
It's one thing to have a ghost writer, it's another thing to claim "I wrote them myself" while your ghost writer is a terrorist.
That's just one glimpse into the rabbit hole of Obama's mindset, which goes much deeper.
File under: dreams from my neighbour.
Save Liverpool Plains from Shenhua coal mine
Mining is okay, but not near prime agricultural land.
If you want to stop this madness, don't vote for the NSW Liberal Party (i.e. Mike Baird) this weekend.
I would never vote for The Greens at federal level, but I will vote for them at the state level to stop this insane madness of mining near farms and water catchments.
Actor Michael Caton also has a video on Facebook suggesting who to vote for to avoid these mining disasters.
File under: your food, your future.
If you want to stop this madness, don't vote for the NSW Liberal Party (i.e. Mike Baird) this weekend.
I would never vote for The Greens at federal level, but I will vote for them at the state level to stop this insane madness of mining near farms and water catchments.
Actor Michael Caton also has a video on Facebook suggesting who to vote for to avoid these mining disasters.
File under: your food, your future.
NSW Electricity to be sold to China
So, you probably don't want to vote for the Liberals (i.e. comrade Mike Baird) in this weekend's NSW state election here in Australia.
NSW election 2015: Government slams 'racist' campaign against Chinese electricity network investmentFile under: too stupid for words.
A union campaign against Chinese investment in New South Wales' electricity assets is racist and puts trade relationships at risk, the state's Treasurer says.
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) is running an advertising campaign claiming China's government-owned State Grid Corporation is a "likely buyer" of leases over the state's power network.
The state's Coalition Government is seeking a mandate to partially privatise state-owned electricity assets and Treasurer Andrew Constance met with State Grid Corporation representatives late last year.
Sweden is headed towards a cliff
Spooky Dale Hurd has made another cheery video about Muslim immigration. Via GatesofVienna:
The following video is from the “Warnings” series aired on CBN. In it Dale Hurd interviews an immigrant to Sweden (who is also an economic researcher) about the economic effects of the refugee crisis in Sweden, and the increasingly deluded response of the Swedish elites.
File under: an irrational immigration cult.
The following video is from the “Warnings” series aired on CBN. In it Dale Hurd interviews an immigrant to Sweden (who is also an economic researcher) about the economic effects of the refugee crisis in Sweden, and the increasingly deluded response of the Swedish elites.
File under: an irrational immigration cult.
Does China have a secret plan to take America’s place?
Of course they do.
Mandarin speaker, and former panda hugger, Dr Michael Pillsbury provides evidence, in their own words, of the Chinese plan to restore their historical place as the global superpower.
File under: The Art Of War.
Mandarin speaker, and former panda hugger, Dr Michael Pillsbury provides evidence, in their own words, of the Chinese plan to restore their historical place as the global superpower.
File under: The Art Of War.
Jake Bilardi :: a victim of Western dementia
Yet the more he studied politics and history, the more he formed the view that Muslims (and others) were oppressed victims of aggressive Western/colonial powers. Muslims were simply freedom fighters. He viewed democracy as a sham, which should be overthrown by violent global revolution (and he had terrorism plans for Melbourne).
And this political view eventually morphed into a love for the religion of Islam.
Anyway, the whole shebang is a consequence of the demented Western policy regarding Islam.
The only sane policy regarding Islam is to acknowledge that it is inherently predisposed towards a violent interpretation, and thus Islam is a clear and present danger to the non-Muslim world.
Bilardi had a demented view of both Islam and the West, caused by the media, academia, and political class who live in a fantasy land that breeds idiot children like Bilardi through their narratives of "Islam means peace" and "Westerners are evil colonial racists" etc.
So, don't be surprised if some kids grow up and actually believe these demented narratives.
You can read his tortured manifesto here.
File under: ideas have consequences.
Raging Giuliani destroys Obama's "see no Islam" policy
This is a must-watch, breakthrough speech that literally SCREAMS questions at Obama, asking if he is stupid, asking if he really loves America, asking him to acknowledge that Islamic extremism actually exists, and to wake up to the dangers of Iran.
Rudy Giuliani gets full marks for emotional content, but maybe less for intellectual content. My comments below.
Good questions by Giuliani, but they miss the key point slightly.
Obama cannot do what is necessary to defend America i.e. to acknowledge that Islam is predisposed towards a violent interpretation (far more so than other religions).
He can't do that because of the implications that follow (a) it implies that the terrorists might be true Muslims which implies that (b) moderate Muslims might be ignorant fools about Islam and (c) logically we should stop all Muslim immigration.
Obama can't do any of those things because his identity is partly Muslim (due to his family heritage, his Arabic middle name, childhood in Indonesia, Pakistani college friends, travel to Pakistan, etc).
Muslims are Obama's family and friends. To acknowledge that Islam might be violent, would be humiliating for all moderate Muslims, and for Obama with his Muslim heritage. He will never do that.
This is what happens when you elect a president with DIVIDED loyalties.
Does Obama love America? Yeah, in some ways. (He loves non-white America). But he also loves Muslims and, in this case, he is putting the feelings of moderate Muslims above the security of America.
In the interests of not offending moderate Muslims, Obama cannot identify the enemy and cannot begin to defeat it.
Obama is the president of moderate Muslims, he is not the president of America.
Hence Obama deflects away from Islam with talk of the Crusades and the universality of violence. It's all a distraction. Meanwhile the Islamic threat grows everywhere.
In “Audacity of Hope” Obama wrote: “I will stand with them [Muslims] should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
He wasn't kidding. His loyalty to Muslims comes at the expense of US national security.
File under: divided loyalties.
Rudy Giuliani gets full marks for emotional content, but maybe less for intellectual content. My comments below.
Good questions by Giuliani, but they miss the key point slightly.
Obama cannot do what is necessary to defend America i.e. to acknowledge that Islam is predisposed towards a violent interpretation (far more so than other religions).
He can't do that because of the implications that follow (a) it implies that the terrorists might be true Muslims which implies that (b) moderate Muslims might be ignorant fools about Islam and (c) logically we should stop all Muslim immigration.
Obama can't do any of those things because his identity is partly Muslim (due to his family heritage, his Arabic middle name, childhood in Indonesia, Pakistani college friends, travel to Pakistan, etc).
Muslims are Obama's family and friends. To acknowledge that Islam might be violent, would be humiliating for all moderate Muslims, and for Obama with his Muslim heritage. He will never do that.
This is what happens when you elect a president with DIVIDED loyalties.
Does Obama love America? Yeah, in some ways. (He loves non-white America). But he also loves Muslims and, in this case, he is putting the feelings of moderate Muslims above the security of America.
In the interests of not offending moderate Muslims, Obama cannot identify the enemy and cannot begin to defeat it.
Obama is the president of moderate Muslims, he is not the president of America.
Hence Obama deflects away from Islam with talk of the Crusades and the universality of violence. It's all a distraction. Meanwhile the Islamic threat grows everywhere.
In “Audacity of Hope” Obama wrote: “I will stand with them [Muslims] should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
He wasn't kidding. His loyalty to Muslims comes at the expense of US national security.
File under: divided loyalties.
Antony Flew quote on Islam
Antony Flew (1923 – 2010) was a British philosopher.
From WikiIslam: Quotations on Islam from Notable Non-Muslims:
From WikiIslam: Quotations on Islam from Notable Non-Muslims:
I would never regard Islam with anything but horror and fear because it is fundamentally committed to conquering the world for Islam... it is, I think, best described in a Marxian way as the uniting and justifying ideology of Arab imperialism. Between the New Testament and the Qur'an there is (as it is customary to say when making such comparisons) no comparison. Whereas markets can be found for books on reading the Bible as literature, to read the Qur'an is a penance rather than a pleasure. There is no order or development in its subject matter.... The Prophet, though gifted in the arts of persuasion and clearly a considerable military leader, was both doubtfully literate and certainly ill-informed about the contents of the Old Testament and about several matters of which God, if not even the least informed of the Prophet’s contemporaries, must have been cognizant... one thing I’ll say in this comparison is that, for goodness sake, Jesus is an enormously attractive charismatic figure, which the Prophet of Islam most emphatically is not.[12]File under: abject terror.
The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.[13]
Obama: Don't Think of a Uniquely Violent Religion
So, Obama made a crude comparison between ISIS and the Crusades which shocked and confused a lot of people. Why would he do this? It's simple, it's a distraction. With all the rising tide of Islamic violence in the Middle East, and Western countries, you might be tempted to think there is something uniquely violent in Islam.
And that's exactly why Obama deflects your attention to the Crusades:
"And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ... So this is not unique to one group or one religion".
He doesn't want you to think this violence is unique to Islam. Why? Because Obama's identity is partly Muslim. He comes from a Muslim family, he lived in Muslim countries, and has an Arab middle name.
And what might happen if we open the Koran and read it for ourselves? We might find that the terrorists have a very credible interpretation of Islam, whereas the moderates have the weaker interpretation.
And that would be humiliating for all moderate Muslims, and for Obama with his Muslim heritage.
We know from Obama's speeches to Muslims, and his outreach through NASA, that his overriding goal is to make Muslims FEEL PROUD of themselves, to raise their heads high.
But investigating Islam risks exposing moderate Muslims to the humiliation that (a) the terrorists might be the true Muslims and thus (b) moderate Muslims might be ignorant fools, and flag bearers for a truly repulsive head-chopping religion.
That would take thin-skinned Obama and his Muslim buddies back to being humiliated, the very thing he's trying to run away from.
But the problem with saying "don't think this is unique to Islam", is that you've mentioned the elephant in the room, and you've instantly brought everyone's attention to it.
Remarks by the President at National Prayer Breakfast:
And that's exactly why Obama deflects your attention to the Crusades:
"And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ... So this is not unique to one group or one religion".
He doesn't want you to think this violence is unique to Islam. Why? Because Obama's identity is partly Muslim. He comes from a Muslim family, he lived in Muslim countries, and has an Arab middle name.
And what might happen if we open the Koran and read it for ourselves? We might find that the terrorists have a very credible interpretation of Islam, whereas the moderates have the weaker interpretation.
And that would be humiliating for all moderate Muslims, and for Obama with his Muslim heritage.
We know from Obama's speeches to Muslims, and his outreach through NASA, that his overriding goal is to make Muslims FEEL PROUD of themselves, to raise their heads high.
But investigating Islam risks exposing moderate Muslims to the humiliation that (a) the terrorists might be the true Muslims and thus (b) moderate Muslims might be ignorant fools, and flag bearers for a truly repulsive head-chopping religion.
That would take thin-skinned Obama and his Muslim buddies back to being humiliated, the very thing he's trying to run away from.
But the problem with saying "don't think this is unique to Islam", is that you've mentioned the elephant in the room, and you've instantly brought everyone's attention to it.
Remarks by the President at National Prayer Breakfast:
But part of what I want to touch on today is the degree to which we've seen professions of faith used both as an instrument of great good, but also twisted and misused in the name of evil.File under: don't think of an elephant.
As we speak, around the world, we see faith inspiring people to lift up one another...
But we also see faith being twisted and distorted, used as a wedge -- or, worse, sometimes used as a weapon. From a school in Pakistan to the streets of Paris, we have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith, professed to stand up for Islam, but, in fact, are betraying it. We see ISIL, a brutal, vicious death cult that, in the name of religion, carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism -- terrorizing religious minorities like the Yezidis, subjecting women to rape as a weapon of war, and claiming the mantle of religious authority for such actions.
We see sectarian war in Syria, the murder of Muslims and Christians in Nigeria, religious war in the Central African Republic, a rising tide of anti-Semitism and hate crimes in Europe, so often perpetrated in the name of religion.
So how do we, as people of faith, reconcile these realities -- the profound good, the strength, the tenacity, the compassion and love that can flow from all of our faiths, operating alongside those who seek to hijack religious for their own murderous ends?
Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ. Michelle and I returned from India -- an incredible, beautiful country, full of magnificent diversity -- but a place where, in past years, religious faiths of all types have, on occasion, been targeted by other peoples of faith, simply due to their heritage and their beliefs -- acts of intolerance that would have shocked Gandhiji, the person who helped to liberate that nation.
So this is not unique to one group or one religion. There is a tendency in us, a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith. In today’s world, when hate groups have their own Twitter accounts and bigotry can fester in hidden places in cyberspace, it can be even harder to counteract such intolerance. But God compels us to try. And in this mission, I believe there are a few principles that can guide us, particularly those of us who profess to believe.
And, first, we should start with some basic humility. I believe that the starting point of faith is some doubt -- not being so full of yourself and so confident that you are right and that God speaks only to us, and doesn’t speak to others, that God only cares about us and doesn’t care about others, that somehow we alone are in possession of the truth.
Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth -- our job is to be true to Him, His word, and His commandments. And we should assume humbly that we’re confused and don’t always know what we’re doing and we’re staggering and stumbling towards Him, and have some humility in that process. And that means we have to speak up against those who would misuse His name to justify oppression, or violence, or hatred with that fierce certainty. No God condones terror. No grievance justifies the taking of innocent lives, or the oppression of those who are weaker or fewer in number.
And so, as people of faith, we are summoned to push back against those who try to distort our religion -- any religion -- for their own nihilistic ends...
But part of humility is also recognizing in modern, complicated, diverse societies, the functioning of these rights, the concern for the protection of these rights calls for each of us to exercise civility and restraint and judgment. And if, in fact, we defend the legal right of a person to insult another’s religion, we’re equally obligated to use our free speech to condemn such insults -- (applause) -- and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with religious communities, particularly religious minorities who are the targets of such attacks. Just because you have the right to say something doesn’t mean the rest of us shouldn’t question those who would insult others in the name of free speech. Because we know that our nations are stronger when people of all faiths feel that they are welcome, that they, too, are full and equal members of our countries...
And, finally, let’s remember that if there is one law that we can all be most certain of that seems to bind people of all faiths, and people who are still finding their way towards faith but have a sense of ethics and morality in them -- that one law, that Golden Rule that we should treat one another as we wish to be treated. The Torah says “Love thy neighbor as yourself.” In Islam, there is a Hadith that states: "None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.” The Holy Bible tells us to “put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” Put on love.
Whatever our beliefs, whatever our traditions, we must seek to be instruments of peace, and bringing light where there is darkness, and sowing love where there is hatred...
If we are properly humble, if we drop to our knees on occasion, we will acknowledge that we never fully know God’s purpose. We can never fully fathom His amazing grace. “We see through a glass, darkly” -- grappling with the expanse of His awesome love. But even with our limits, we can heed that which is required: To do justice, and love kindness, and walk humbly with our God...
Does Islam forbid the burning of captives?
David Wood shows how Mohammed and several early Muslim leaders used fire to kill or torture (in addition to the usual head-chopping) so don't be surprised when ISIS does likewise.
File under: "I have been made victorious through terror".
File under: "I have been made victorious through terror".
Surfing break ...
Completely insane surfing off the coast of Western Australia, but mesmerising to watch.
China's 100-year plan to replace USA revealed
Bill Gertz, China’s Secret Strategy Exposed:
File under: Chinese goods are not cheap.China launched a secret 100-year modernization program that deceived successive U.S. administrations into unknowingly promoting Beijing’s strategy of replacing the U.S.-led world order with a Chinese communist-dominated economic and political system, according to a new book by a longtime Pentagon China specialist.
For more than four decades, Chinese leaders lulled presidents, cabinet secretaries, and other government analysts and policymakers into falsely assessing China as a benign power deserving of U.S. support, says Michael Pillsbury, the Mandarin-speaking analyst who has worked on China policy and intelligence issues for every U.S. administration since Richard Nixon.
The secret strategy, based on ancient Chinese statecraft, produced a large-scale transfer of cash, technology, and expertise that bolstered military and Communist Party “superhawks” in China who are now taking steps to catch up to and ultimately surpass the United States, Pillsbury concludes in a book published this week.
The Chinese strategic deception program was launched by Mao Zedong in 1955 and put forth the widespread misbelief that China is a poor, backward, inward-looking country. “And therefore the United States has to help them, and give away things to them, to make sure they stay friendly,” Pillsbury said in an interview. “This is totally wrong.”
The Chinese strategy also is aimed at gaining global economic dominance, he says, noting that China’s military buildup is but one part. The combined economic, political, and military power is seeking to produce China as a new global “hegemon” that will export its anti-democratic political system and predatory economic practices around the world.
In the interview, Pillsbury, currently director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Chinese Strategy, said new details contained in the book were cleared for publication by the FBI, CIA, and Defense Department, including details of formerly classified presidential directives, testimony from previously unknown Chinese defectors, and alarming details of writings from powerful Chinese military and political hawks.
The book also discloses for the first time that the opening to China in 1969 and 1970, considered one of the United States’ most significant strategic gambits, was not initiated by then-President Nixon’s top national security aide Henry Kissinger. Instead, Pillsbury shows that it was Chinese generals who played the United States card against the Soviet Union, amid fears of a takeover of the country by Moscow...
The Troubling Math of Muslim Migration
I don't read NRO but I think it's a popular so-called "conservative" website. This article calling for an end to Muslim immigration is a welcome break from the usual demented groupthink on such websites.
The Troubling Math of Muslim Migration
Preventing a Paris-style attack is, in part, a numbers game. Americans don’t seem to be paying attention.
By Ian Tuttle
File under: elementary maths.
The Troubling Math of Muslim Migration
Preventing a Paris-style attack is, in part, a numbers game. Americans don’t seem to be paying attention.
By Ian Tuttle
Here's hoping other "conservative" websites like FrontPageMag, FreeBeacon and DailyCaller can also break their silence, and call for an end to Muslim immigration.A major Islamist terror attack in France was only a matter of time. For several decades, the country has invited immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa en masse – first to bolster the labor force in the rebuilding years that followed World War II, then out of multicultural impulses that prevailed over prudential considerations. That radical Islam was transplanted to France, grew in strength and extent, and bore this week’s hideous fruit was not difficult to predict. The same is not unlikely in Sweden, Belgium, Germany, and elsewhere.
Demographics may not be the whole of destiny, but they are certainly a good part, and across the Atlantic, the United States seems increasingly to be turning toward Western Europe’s most undesirable demographic trends...
... it can hardly be considered surprising that as the Muslim population in the country has expanded, so has the incidence of radicalism...
But the potential threats of a permissive immigration policy are multigenerational. France has spent decades ushering in its recent fate...
Radicalism seems to ferment as much, if not more so, among first-generation Westerners as among their immigrant parents. Which means that massive Muslim immigration may have few visible repercussions today — but a great many tomorrow.
That reality is becoming manifest in the United States...
Suggesting a correlation between the number of Muslims in the country and the incidence of radicalism is, of course, considered insensitive, if not downright “Islamophobic.”
But the only point here is a mathematical one: Whatever the percentage of Muslims who support or would ever consider supporting jihadism, the raw number obviously increases along with the total number of Muslims. One percent of 10 million is much larger than 1 percent of 1 million. The questions is, at what point does the radical population achieve a kind of critical mass?
This need not be inevitable. America’s immigration policy can be tailored to address this challenge. Unfortunately, the available measures will be only minimally effective without a significant change of political circumstances.
The most obvious prophylactic would be to simply reduce the numbers of immigrants permitted from Muslim-majority countries. Reducing the numbers of immigrants from those countries allowed into the U.S. would reduce opportunities for many good, hard-working folk, yes, but it would almost certainly reduce the number of radical Islamists entering the country as well, making it much more difficult for those so inclined to wreak havoc within our borders, or to entrap the young and impressionable. That would help to reduce the likelihood both of terrorist activity currently and a generation hence. However, while Congress has the authority to legislate such a change, it would meet with fierce opposition from some quarters. A more plausible solution would be to reduce immigration from these countries as part of an across-the-board immigration reduction — although that, too, is improbable anytime soon. Those may of course both be too dramatic: One milder alternative would be to shift immigration priorities toward fellow English-speaking nations and liberal democracies...
But the potential problems associated with massive Muslim immigration, and potential solutions, must be addressed now, when they can still be implemented thoughtfully — not in the wake of an instance of large-scale domestic terrorism.
The attack on Charlie Hebdo was not inevitable, but years of permissive immigration policy made it more and more likely. If we want to reduce the probability of a similar attack inside America’s borders, we should recognize France’s mistake, and reform immigration policies that simply do not add up.
File under: elementary maths.
I Hereby Renounce Atheism (As An Identity)
So, the default label for someone like me is an "atheist".
I've probably disowned that label a few times before, due to the pervasive atheist behaviour of (a) in-your-face criticism of religion and (b) left-liberal-lunatic politics. Both unappealing.
But now I formally renounce atheism as an identity. Why?
Read this and see these pictures (keep scrolling down), and then reach for the bucket.
Not sure what to call myself now. Maybe a humanist, but that label comes with its own borderless one-world politics, so who knows...