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Leftist/Jihadist Alliance illustrated
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Pretty much like a member of ANTIFA wearing a t-shirt with Khomeini's or Ahmadinejad's photo on it, isn't it?
May fave tee shirt was the kid in Aceh wearing Osama bin Laden's face on his chest.
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As he stood in line after the tsunami waiting for free food courtesy of JudeoChristian American taxpayers. The hypocrisy baked in to Islam is without shame or apology.
Some things work. Che is a great icon for Leftists, given that he's dead handsome and romantic in many ways, a dashing figure whose story can be made effectively into movies and comic books, printed on money and knick-knacks and so on. He's attractive to look at and to identify with for many. We can complain about the reality of the man, but the fact is that he "works."
Do we have a "Robert Spencer" icon, as it were? We do not. We have the real Spencer, good for us, I make plain. We also have gifted illustrators who could, should they so choose, create that iconic image for us that the Left has in Che. There's no "argument" in a tee-shirt image. Most people are not intellectuals, and they don't care about the arguments. They prefer the aura or the mystique, a la Obama. In Spencer and others like him, Wilders, for example, we have living and decent people who are intellectually honest and, dare ii say, truthful, and who are at the same time publicly appealing as "Myths." Such is the nature of the world we live in. We don't so much rely on stained glass windows to get the story while the priest mumbles in Latin; but often enough, others do rely on a cartoon image of their chosen figure to convey their identities and beliefs to themselves and others. If all one has is icons, still it doesn't vitiate the credo.
I'd be proud to have a Robert Spencer tattoo. Others would be more than pleased, I think, to settle for the tee-shirt. It's not a cult of personality in the making; it's just ordinary marketing. The Che tee-shirt, the scarf, they immediately project a meaning. We need the same sorts of universal icons. Leftists do many things very well,a dn we should do the same only moreso.
Frankly, I'd say that Che Guevara looked like a Neanderthaler. Ever see pix of him in profile? Prominent brow ridges, prognathous profile, the beard only makes it more so...Oops! I'm insulting people who, as Shanidar II proved, buried their dead with flowers and cared for their incapacitated.
Let's just hope that the Jihadis end up as bumbling and self-destructive as Ernesto Guevara Serna y Lynch. They're as cowardly and nasty to their underlings, though. It's said that Guevara, after ordering his followers to fight to the death, surrendered to the Bolivian soldiers with a full clip in his pistol.
"I'd be proud to have a Robert Spencer tattoo."
lol! I'd love to know RS's reaction to that!!
Yeah, that's a bit over the top, as they say, but I liked it. My guess is that Robert will stay quiet rather than start a trend he might regret in ten years time.
I'd be in for a 'Robert Spencer' t-shirt..
Come to think of it, it would be a bloody good idea.
You guys must be nuts!
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Son of Walker wrote:
Some things work. Che is a great icon for Leftists
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As a decent, rational person, I am appalled at the icon this brutal, cowardly mass-murderer has become. As an artist and designer, I can't help but be damned impressed at the graphic artist who decided to posterize that photo of Che.
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Do we have a "Robert Spencer" icon, as it were? We do not. We have the real Spencer, good for us, I make plain. We also have gifted illustrators who could, should they so choose, create that iconic image for us that the Left has in Che.
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Do you mean like this?
http://s478.photobucket.com/albums/rr144/gravenimageartist/?action=view¤t=rs.jpg
Or maybe not...
"You guys must be nuts!"
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Yeah - We're nuts for you. And Geert and Wafa and Nonie and Walid and Ali Sina and Brigitte and Pam and David Horowitz and Hugh and Hirsi and others.
Catch my drift?!
Cuuute.
*I*'ve said before, and I'll say it again, we could do with a fund-raising Calendar.
Remember the film 'Calendar Girls'?
Without going so far as the people did in *that*, we could have a great calendar comprising portraits of the Heroes and Heroines of the Resistance. Pictures and quotable quotes.
Imagine Geert Wilders, Pierre Rehov and Raymond Ibrahim posing in broad grins and elegant black speedos on, respectively, beaches in the Netherlands, Israel and California. Nice star of David pendant on Rehov's manly chest; a Coptic cross for Mr Ibrahim, to complete the effect. Not sure what jewellery Wilders would choose; maybe he should go for a seaman's gold earring, given the seagoing history of the Dutch. A whole bunch of homely down-to-earth blokes from the EDL or the SIOE or 'March for England', on a pebbly English beach somewhere, or waving from the pier, in old-fashioned British stripey swimsuits, waving flags.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali in a scarlet string bikini decorating a beach at St Tropez. Brigitte Gabriel would still look pretty good in a swimsuit, I think. There's that Italian lady parliamentarian who's confronted Muslims on occasion; and there's a couple of ladies, from Austria and Switzerland, who've been getting in trouble for calling things like it is; maybe those ladies would choose their favourite swimsuit or little black dress for a photo shoot for The Calendar. (I'm afraid their names escape me, at the moment).
The older folks could go for a pose en deshabille (say, in elegant 18th-century-style dressing gown) in living room or study, surrounded by books: Bat Yeor and David Littmann; Mr Spencer; Andrew Bostom; Wafa Sultan; Nonie Darwish with her Coptic husband; the elderly grande dame Susanne Zeller-Hirzel, of the White Rose and of Pax Europa; Canon Patrick Sookhdeo wearing a cross and reading his bible. Magdi Cristiano Allam with a cross around his neck, writing his latest article for Corriere della Sera.
Kurt Westergaard at his drawing board.
I wonder how hard it would be, to *produce* something like that, for sale among the Resisters? Pierre Rehov is a film-maker; maybe *he'd* be up to doing the rounds of the subjects, taking the photos.
Such a calendar, if hung up in someone's home or office, could provide a great talking point and jumping-off point for instructive conversations.