Raymond Ibrahim: The Islamic Schoolyard Bully and Obama’s America

Over at FrontPage Mag (via RaymondIbrahim.com), I discuss how understanding Obama's failed Mideast policy is as easy as understanding the bully mentality when appeased:

In an era of high education and specialty degrees—from psychology to political science—perhaps it was inevitable for simple common sense to fall by the wayside. The embassy attacks across the Muslim world, especially the most savage in Egypt and Libya, are a testimony to this: U.S. policy towards these countries fundamentally exacerbated their wild reactions. To understand all this, one need only turn to the classic “schoolyard bully” paradigm, that any child can understand.

Not especially large or strong, the schoolyard bully—generally a prickly, nasty fellow—picks on two groups: 1) those who are obviously weaker than him and 2) those who, while larger or stronger than him, willingly give in to him—willingly appease. Bullying the first group, the weak, is an easy matter for the bully. As for the second group, whose capacities and responses are unclear, these he must first determine through a few bully trial-runs—to see whether they will fight back, or whether they will give in. He begins small—a shove and harsh word here and there—and takes it from there, always seeing how far he can go.

The bully will receive one of two responses from the second group, those not smaller or weaker than him: either appeasement and giving in, or a punch to the nose. If he receives the former, he continually ups the bullying to see how much more he can get away with: harsh words and shoves become demands for lunch money and stolen jackets. His work becomes complete with the absolute subordination of his victim.

As for the one who does not put up with his bullying—who gives him a swift punch to the nose—not only does the bully leave him be, he even begins to respect if not befriend him.

For centuries, people from all walks of life knew this—from experience if not common sense. Children knew it.

Now consider how the Schoolyard Bully paradigm helps explain America’s relationship to the Muslim world, especially in the last four years, culminating with the U.S. embassy debacles in the Muslim world...

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"..nothing short of a punch to the nose—or at this very late date, when the image of an appeasing America is so ingrained, several punches—will ever cease the bullying and earn some respect for the United States."

Several punches? I like that. Here's one little punch:

"Innocence of Muslims" Truth or Blasphemy?
(arabic version)
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2012/10/innocence-of-muslims-dissected-arabic.html

More on obama that a friend researched and wrote, and sent to my inbox this afternoon ...

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This is the trend of a future dictator.

Please read this carefully and understand what obama is doing - taking away all control of the American people.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS ISSUED:

Teddy Roosevelt 3
Others up to FDR NONE
FDR 11 in 16 years
Truman 5 in 7 years
Ike 2 in 8 years
Kennedy 4 in 3 years
LBJ 4 in 5 years
Nixon 1 in 6 years
Ford 3 in 2 years
Carter 3 in 4 years
Reagan 5 in 8 years
Bush 3 in 4 years
Clinton 15 in 8 years
George W. Bush 62 in 8 years
Obama 923 in 3 1/2 years!

That's over 7 1/2 times as many as all the other presidents put together,
and he did it in 3 1/2 years.

Scary !

923 Executive Orders in 40 Months! During my lifetime, all presidents, some more than others, have issued Executive Orders for reasons that vary.

When a President issued as many as 30 Executive Orders during a term in office,
people thought there was something amiss.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT 923 EXECUTIVE ORDERS IN ONE PART OF ONE TERM???

YES, THERE IS A REASON. IT IS THAT THE PRESIDENT IS DETERMINED TO TAKE CONTROL AWAY FROM THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE.

Even some Democrats in the House have turned on him, plus a very small number of Democrat Senators question him.

HE SHOULD BE QUESTIONED. WHAT IS HE REALLY TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH???

DOES THIS SCARE YOU AS MUCH AS IT DOES ME?
________________________________

Not really surprising that he appointed "Czars" to be in charge of everything. Emperor Obama? Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
________________________________

THIS IS NOT FUNNY, AND IF YOU VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN, YOU CAN EXPECT MORE!

Remember what he told Russia's Putin: "I'll be more flexible after I'm re-elected."

~~~~~~~~~

I agree with my friend, do you? Scary! is right ...



Islam is set up so as to create and enable and reward **bullies**.

Six years ago, someone at jihadwatch who had had experience within the Arab Muslim world as a military trainer, shared his observations of the way their society worked (or did not work):


http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/05/muhammads-birthday-celebrated-in-german-protestant-church.html

hello123 | May 25, 2006 9:34 PM


'The hard truth is that Islam is a bully ideology.

'Similar to Naziism or Soviet Communism.

'When I have trained with Muslim Armies and lived around Muslim societies I have observed the bully mentality: Any perceived weakness is despised.

'The "stronger" are expected to prey on the "weaker" (whether physical handicap, female, minority, etc.).

'If the "stronger" show mercy to the "weaker" they are perceived as weak.

' Insecure, truly weak men rise to the top by crossing all moral boundaries.

'**Islam allows men to cross all moral/ethical boundaries. In fact, it encourages this.** {my emphasis - dda}

'Despite the bully culture, Muslim males are generally some of the most cowardly men in the world.

'Muslims make awful soldiers because they are generally undisciplined and weak.

'The officers always expect special treatment and will not lead from the front.

' I don't know how many Saudi officers I have been around that expected others to carry their rucksack.

'I trained with the Israelis for about 6 months: The secret of Israel's success lies in the incompetence/weakness of conventional Arab, Muslim Armies. The IDF is not that good, but it's enemies really are that bad. Muslims just cannot fight.

'Suicide-Murder and throat-slitting (of unarmed POWs) are the most cowardly/weak actions a man can commit.

'They require absolutely no military skills and can be committed by pregnant women. In fact, many suicide-murderers are now men dressed as women. These operations require no risk of life or man-to-man combat. We don't praise those who commit suicide in the West, they are cowards.

'Muslim men driven toward these operations are usually small in stature, and have deep insecurity complexes. They are weak and cowardly. Committing suicide-murder is their one way to gain some perceived self-respect. They have no real reason to live, as they are usually losers in civilian life.

'Despite all this, many Westerners are terrified of the dreaded "Jihadists". They cower over the risk of offending Islam.

'This fear and respect shown to the weak Islamist bullies helps drive more bullying.

'These insecure, loser men are emboldened by every show of fear by the West.

'Giving in, by appeasing Islam, is the exact wrong action to take in the face of this threat.

'What we require is ruthless strength against weak, insecure men.

'When they are faced with opponents who show backbone and courage, they will fall apart.

'They will then prey on the next "weaker", which will be in their own Muslim society.

'We must start making fun of these cowardly losers. We, as a Western culture, must start making fun of Mohammed (9 year old sex partner, kept man, baby, etc. etc. This must be proclaimed throughout the world).

'We, as a Western culture, must boldly point out the ridiculous fallacies in the Koran and Hadiths: [among which are the following, and he lists a few - dda] Jesus wasn't crucified despite all the secular historic documentation. The Jewish temple didn't exist despite all hard archeology and history. Mary was the sister of Moses, despite over 1000 years of separation. Gospels and Hebrew scripture are "true" and yet the Koran (written 600 years after the last New Testament writings) screws up everything.

'Islam is a friggin joke, and the Islamists are cowardly and insecure men.

'If those in the West [and, for that matter, in other countries - India, Thailand, Philippines...dda] would be bold, Islam would recede under the rock it came from.

'So what if they blow up a few more trains or buildings. We all have to die sometime. Wouldn't it be best to live and die brave and free?????? Actually, by showing courage far fewer of us would die.
Random thoughts." END.

I think he's onto something.

And that, by the way, is why I think that if Israel - or, preferably, the USA, if Romney gets in - suddenly and devastatingly strikes, and turns the key parts of Iran's nuke project into a series of enormous smoking holes in the ground, all over the world the jihad will suddenly ramp back a bit.


Hi Champ it's Peter Shearer replying to your comment. It has been a while since I've talked to you so I hope you and yours are doing well.

Has something changed at Jihad Watch? I just noticed that the Comments facility is masking my name with some sort of Internet Address. It certainly didn't do that the last time I made a comment (a few months back).

Anyway, I'm sure that will sort itself out eventually.

I just thought I would warn you that the information in the email sent to you is bogus. In fact, it is very bogus.

Whoever originated that email is not only lying, they are lying with numbers that are at least 1 order of magnitude wrong and in some cases more than 2 orders of magnitude (100+ times) wrong.

Snopes.com, the site that debunks urban legends and frauds has an article on this particular email fraud. It is a useful article because it presents the information in columnar form with the claimed figure in one column and the actual figure in another.

One variant of the email sent to you lists a number of 'evil' executive orders that it attributes to Obama. The Snopes.com article points out that all of those executive orders were either issued by JFK, LBJ or Gerald Ford.

The Snopes.com article is at

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/executiveorders.asp


Hopefully, all of this becomes moot on Nov. 6. Hopefully you in America see fit to elect yourselves a new and better President, one who will defend you and your country's Constitution. Hopefully, U.S. politicians on both sides of the political divide will then see fit to work together as they once did.

Have a nice day Champ. Talk to yah soon.

Peter Shearer

Hi Peter ...

Seems that you are right, so thank you for providing the correct information. And I just received this email from my friend retracting yesterday's email:

"First, a retraction from yesterday's post, which I did not write, but forwarded to you, from another source. A handful of individuals challenged me on the accuracy of the post. They appear to be correct. A Fact-Checker site shows that Obama did not write almost 900 Executive Orders. The correct number was around 130-something. Please accept my sincere apologies for forwarding that incorrect post."

Also, it turns out that my friend did not write that information; as I previously thought.

Yeah it seems that a lot of people are having trouble with the new MovableType sign in. I use the original Typepad, so I haven't run into any problems on my end; but I'm sorry that you and others are having issues. Take care :)

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