“It’s terrible. This is shameful for the international community.” Indeed it is — that is, the international community’s indifference is shameful. But it is all in the service of “dialogue,” doncha know. Remember: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.” — Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February 8, 2013. Those “positive achievements” don’t include doing a thing to stop this sort of thing.
“Mosul Christians forced to flee,” AGI, July 19, 2014 (thanks to C. Cantoni):
(AGI) Vatican City, July 19 – The seat of the Syrian Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul in Iraq has been burned down by members of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, and the situation for Iraqi Christians has become dramatic, Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan told Vatican Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Dominique Mamberti on Saturday. The Islamist militants have threatened to kill Christians unless they convert to Islam. “It’s terrible. This is shameful for the international community,” the patriarch said. (AGI)
Michael Copeland says
Will David Cameron call this “a betrayal of Islam”?
jewdog says
Sometimes I think David Cameron is a betrayal of human intelligence.
Beagle says
It’s only shameful for the international community if if our leaders don’t ignore it completely. Which they will. Our Ignorer-in-Chief will go a step further and fund more such destruction. A half billion buys a lot of explosives.
BC says
Cameron is sending millions of pounds of our money to Syria/Iraq supposedly to help the refugees, but who knows what this money is being used for? At the least it is helping ISIS as they use it to make themselves look humanitarian and good.
dumbledoresarmy says
The only way to be sure the money would reach those most in need – that is, the Christians – would have been to channel the whole lot via “The Barnabas Fund”.
mortimer says
The UNIVERSAL CALIPH AND EMIR OF ALL MUSLIMS has NOTHING to do with Islam!
Obviously, nothing.
Sure.
mortimer says
The caliphate has NOTHING to do with ‘real’ Islam.
The papacy has NOTHING to do with ‘real’ Catholicism.
Ajay says
What do you mean “real” islam? what you see the ISIS doing is the real thing – the same islam that had been since the 7th century: destruction of Persia, the Holy Land, India and Spain.
AnneCrockett says
sooner or later everyone, yes, even Catholic bishops, will have to stop living in fantasyland, but for some it will not be until they themselves are driven from their homes and see their world in flames
Smokey says
They most certainly have to open their eyes and stop trying to play the Liberal approach, which is don’t offend the Muslims. Even when you appease them this only empowers them to spread the poison and continue to kill Non Muslims all over the world.
BC says
When the jihaists start blowing up shrines, churches and destroying classic antiquities in Italy then they will wake up but then it will be too late.
John C. Barile says
This church in Mosul is truly venerable–there has been a church there FOR 1800 YEARS, which predates Islam itself!
Myxlplik says
I wouldn’t have a problem with Muslims or Islam if they marched on Washington to protest the global injustices carried out in the name of Islam more often than they complain about trivial grievances. What do we hear though? Muslims complain if someone wants to buy pork, enforce secular dress codes in Western countries, own a dog, and we hear lamentations over the Jews who just won’t give up and die like the Christians in Iraq, Nigeria, or the Sudan.
You really are, the whole lot of you, I’m sorry to say, quite disgusting and disappointing to say the least.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Way to go Caliphate! If Islam is accepted by the world as a religion of peace, and it is, then these guys are tiny minority hijacker extremists. That being so, this church burning will set off a wave of mass protests and even fighting by the millions of Unicorns with little white caps and gnarly beards in Iraq.
***
Nothing turns on a good Moslem like a good old fashioned church burning. Except maybe a Hindu temple burning. And doing a complete arson burn down job on a Jewish temple? Orgasm time.
Aardvark says
Don’t forget stoning, APF. Judging from the videos that are occasionally shown, burying a woman up to her shoulders in the ground and then throwing rocks at her until she is reduced to a bloody pulp really seems to get them going.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Of course you’re right, Vark. I was just trying to limit my comment to the particular Moslem crime that is the topic of this thread: the destruction of an Infidel house of worship. But the little-stoning to death of a putative Moslima slut must be an extra turn on.
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Oh, is Moslem crime a redundancy? I’m sorry, but speaking objectively a strong, tolerant and reasonable argument can be made that just being a Moslem should a felony crime. After all, that’s how they define the reverse.
Charli Main says
The Pope will probably rush out a batch of invitations to all Imams in the region to come to Rome to do a bit of howling and Allah Akhbaring in St Peter´s.
Must show the Muslims how much he loves and respects Islam.
Beagle says
In addition to the IS overrunning the Syrian gas facility (100+ killed, 200+ captured) the IS has struck the Iraqi forces trying to take Tikrit, destroying a major air base and eight helicopters. The learned UK military analyst who assured us the IS was “surrounded by enemies” and suggested their “days were numbered” may want to add some days to that number.
John C. Barile says
There is no real resistance offered against the IS, which is so very curious, IS being so virulent and menacing. But Mr. Obama doesn’t want to, as he puts it, “play whack-a-mole with every group that pops-up in the region.” Pity. IS is busy consolidating its gains and setting plans into being for its further expansion. More regional disintegration may assist them to grow in strength and malignancy.
gravenimage says
John C. Barile wrote:
There is no real resistance offered against the IS, which is so very curious, IS being so virulent and menacing.
………………………………
Well, I understand why *Muslims* are doing little to oppose them, John. Despite a bit of lackluster nattering, how many pious Muslims can *really* vigorously oppose the self-proclaimed *Caliphate*?
After all, this is what all Muslims really want—a would-be global Islamic state.
Most of the opposition seems narrowly focused on the idea that someone else other than Al-Bagdadi should be running it—perhaps themselves.
As for the West, if the “Caliphate” doesn’t collapse under its own weight, chances are Western nations in a year or two will be babbling about how the Caliphate is poised to be come more “moderate”, because now they have to focus on “filling potholes”—the same witless ‘argument’ that has been used for genocidal Hamas.
I hate to be so cynical—but we have seen this happen over and over again at this point.
Walter Sieruk says
What will people even learn that such interfaith programs are nothing but a hoax ?
Such interfaith programs as best will only result in futility. Even worse they may have outcomes of total disaster.
Wellington says
While not all Muslims are ready to act upon the many intolerant and violent dictates of their faith, enough are so that it is reasonable, indeed imperative, to conclude that Islam will always remain a death cult for a certain percentage of its deluded believers. Only the percentage here is a variable that can be debated (but it’s certainly far more than just “a tiny minority of extremists”). One also has to take into account the huge number of Muslims who themselves will not engage in actual violence in the name of their religion but who will support fellow Muslims who do. Moreover, no other major religion is dangerous as Islam is and anyone asserting such is either a fool or a liar.
Islam is spiritual fascism. Islam is awful. Islam deserves no respect. Islam is an enemy of mankind.
Gail Griffin says
Good one Wellington. Via the news everyday more and more are seeing the real Islam. There is a delema though, how do you make a war on so many believers in so many countries, even our own? How do you get rid of an ideology of evil?
Jay Boo says
Very true Wellington, Islam was built on a foundation of intolerance.
Islam is (all about submission) because it can’t stand on its own as a religion
The Shahada history (http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2012/10/what-is-shahada.html)
The first part of the Shahada “I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, ” is not meant to ‘affirm’ a single god of Islam as much as to serve as an excuse for Muslims denying all others the right to practice their own religion or no religion.
Greyhound Fancier says
Christians should not respect Islam in the least. The only recognition it should receive is as a brute force that subverts decency, enslaves people while it claims to free them, and is the worst retrograde force against civilization in the world today.
Islam twists Jesus into Issa, a guy who is a devout Muslim and wants us all to be the same, and who will judge and punish those of us who don’t convert. Islamic teachings make it very difficult for Muslims to become Christians, because they think they already know all about Jesus.
Christians only interest in Muslims should be to try to convert those who question their religion, be wary of the rest, and support the victims of Islamic persecution.
Mirren10 says
”Islam is spiritual fascism”
Wellington, you should take out a copyright on this phrase. So true. And, a phrase which ( I hope you don’t mind) I have used on many other forums.
Huck Folder says
I love it too!
Wellington says
Don’t mind at all, Mirren. Use it as often as you like.
Buraq says
All part of Islam’s interfaith monologue.
Clowns!
Jay Boo says
Islam
— Reveal it
— Mock it immediately when it gloats — be loud and clear
— Infiltrate it
— outlaw it
Have Mercy says
Oh well. Thank you Bush for destroying Mesopotamian Christians and Obama for destroying Levantine Christians. Fine job the US government is doing around the globe while destroying the American way of life and the last remnants of a constitutional government. I am now an atheist who sees the world through a dispassionate lens. While Islam is catastrophe for most its adherents and the poor non-Muslims who live under the shadow of its sword, why is it a threat to the West? Who destroyed the West from the inside and opened the flood gate to millions of Muslims? Who covers up Islamic crimes and the nature of Islamic dogma? Jihadies are not a threat to the American way of life! Ask your self who destroyed the American family? Who socially engineered society so that most American children are bastards or rendered fatherless by a hostile family law system even if they have a good loving father? Who led to the walking dead phenomenon with millions upon millions of utterly damaged Americans? Who stole America’s wealth and made a large portion of the population economic slaves living on handouts or working their behinds off just to get by? Jihad will not be the cause of America’s fall. The exact plummeting trajectory can be traced to the actions of individuals and groups serving a single special interest who have been at it for while. The mortal enemy is not some foaming at the mouth turbaned Muslim hiding in a cave. The real mortal enemy is in Congress, the White House, security agencies, the captains of industry, the media moguls, international bankers, rich and power dual loyalists advancing interests contrary to those of the American people. They hold sway in DC, London and various western centers of power where they burrowed deep and assimilated the hierarchy. This site will not make a hill of beans in the grand scheme. Jihadies are primitive annoying insects… Nothing more. The fools who reserve the sum of their wrath and hatred for Muslims are looking at the world through a straw.
Davegreybeard says
@Have Mercy
“The real mortal enemy is in Congress, the White House, security agencies, the captains of industry, the media moguls, international bankers, rich and power dual loyalists advancing interests contrary to those of the American people.”
Great, another fog machine.
Had you identified PC/MC “social engineers “as they more important foe, I might have been with you.
Such types are usually Leftists, but to be fair, do include a smattering of confused individuals on the Right. They seek to destroy freedom in the name of “fairness,” whilst simultaneously cloaking and enabling our Jihadi enemy.
But as it stands, your comment is pretty much gibberish.
Jay Boo says
Davegreybeard
Have Mercy’s response is to blame ANYTHING BUT Islam.
A bunch of Huff Post CAIR stooges
This is so typical of many on the left who claim to be atheists yet still dance wide circles around Islam.
Don’t take my word for it though go to websites such as AmericanAtheists.org and notice that there links to ‘activism’ against unjust laws is all about Christianity and conservative politicians.
You never see anything about Stop Islamization of America. ( SIOA) and opposition to sharia laws or condemnation of honor killings.
That website used to actually proselytize for Islamic doctrine on one of its links
Have Mercy says
Your post is house of strawman arguments.
I despise Islam as the most horrific among all mainstream ideologies that claim divine origin. It’s more malevolent and enduring than the secular totalitarian ideologies that killed millions in the 20th century. My thesis is not that Islam is blameless. It is that for the US and the West as a whole, Jihad is a symptom and not the mortal disease. Western civilization is facing social and economic upheaval that threatens its survival to an extent not see not seen since the collapse of the Roman empire. Its wounds are mostly self inflected and its inflection is deliberate and not spontaneous.
I further contend that certain special interests within the government, the media-entertainment complex, big business, and politics are either directly of indirectly aiding and abetting Jihadisim and Islamisim. I ask is it not interesting? You look at the effect… I search for the root cause. Call me curious!
And yes, many atheists are radical leftists who single out Christianity and ignore Islam… Also, there are many liberal Christians and Jews who are staunch leftists. What is your point other than attacking the messenger? Thankfully, as I have freed my mind from the shackles of religion, I also freed myself from dogged conservatism to embrace libertarianism.
Do you people not see that US is rapidly declining and transforming into something terrible that would have been inconceivable not long ago!!! Is it Jihadism that is doing that? Who is doing it and why? Ask yourselves!
Jay Boo says
@Have Mercy
How ironic that you should mention strawman arguments
As I glance down the many of your comments in reply I see a strawman theme repeat to drift further and further away from the original topic. —-
“: Islamic State burns down seat of Syrian Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul”
Muslims once again persecuting Christians in the Middle East.
Who is to blame?????
My best guest is (pause) hmmmm MUSLIMS
Have Mercy says
Gibberish!!! So, please answer me this?
1) Who created a debt crisis that very well could bring down the US?
2) Who are working hard to control more and more aspects of the lives of ordinary Americans either through sweeping legislation or the unilateral actions of the federal government and its three letter agencies?
3) Who are relentlessly working and succeeding in stripping Americans of their rights under the Bill of Rights? The Left pushes and the Right either helps or stands aside.
4) Who are benefiting the most from out of control government spending and control of the economy?
5) Who are fleecing the public coffers that generations to come will carry the burden of that debt?
6) What is far more likely to bring down the US either completely or render it a second rate power, ruinous actions by the elites or the work of Jihadies?
Jay Boo says
I blame
MUSLIMS
dumbledoresarmy says
You wrote – “most American children are bastards or rendered fatherless by a hostile family law system”.
REALLY? “Most” implies to me at least seventy percent.
So you are claiming that at least seventy percent of children in America today are either illegitimate (with no known or identified father), or are the children of divorced parents, with their mothers the sole custodians?
I do think that you exaggerate somewhat.
And in fact I just checked and have gotten a figure of 35 percent applying to children under 18 who live with one parent in a family or subfamily (and this can include children living with cohabiting parents, but not children living with married step-parents).
Now that’s high – but 35 percent is NOT by any stretch of the imagination “most”.
It indicates that something like *65* percent of kids are NOT in ‘single parent’ situations.
Further, the 2013 census actually reported that 76 percent of American parents living with children under 18 were *married*.
Here’s an analysis of those census results.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/families_households/cb13-199.html
Now, there is cause for concern, but to claim sweepingly that “most” American children today are “bastards” is simply NOT TRUE.
gravenimage says
Good post, DDA.
America—and the rest of the West—certainly have their problems, and I would never be one to minimize that.
But the idea that the American family has been “destroyed” is, as you note, a ridiculous overstatement on Have Mercy’s part.
The problems in the West are, indeed, apt to *enable* incursions of Islam, and that makes them very dangerous. But the idea that these problems somehow render the existential threat of oppressive and sanguinary Islam negligible is just just bizarre.
Have Mercy says
Mr. gravenimage.
Yes, the American family as a sacred institution has been destroyed by family laws and court rulings that render fatherhood superfluous and relegates fathers to being mere payers of child support and alimony. It is no exaggeration on my part. If the wife or the mother of the children can summarily at a whim cast the father out of the family and limit his contact with the children with the help of the courts and the police with little recourse , then this institution is as sacred as as showing up to court for a traffic violation. Divorce and single motherhood have been normalized and popularized. If that is not a mortal blow to the American family, what is?
I assure you that Islam is not what is bringing Western civilization to the edge of the abbess. These primitives are empowered by world powers. Muslims cannot feed, cloth, educate, provide medical care or basic services to their populations on their own much less wage and win a global war against the West, Russia, China, and the Far East. Pakistan would not have been much of a threat to even India if it was not for Western and Chinese aid and support. Jihad is a deadly game that the major powers engage in for both domestic and geopolitical goals.
Have Mercy says
The thesis of my post is that the actions of certain interests are bringing immensely more harm to the American people, threatening their of way of life, and the longterm viability of the US. You left that out and harped on a small point using your own understanding of it.
1) Most is a superlative of many and much. So, it is a great number, but not specifically over 70%. Which I am reasonably sure that ratio will be reached, say unless your unlikely fantasy of Jihadist takeover occurs in the few coming decades.
2) You mixed up illegitimacy rates with children being deprived from being raised by and living with their biological father, which are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Divorce and the mother remarrying or cohabiting with the non-biological father is not counted along with single mother headed households. So, if you add the ratio of kids in single mother-headed households (35%) with the kids living with a step dad or mom’s boyfriend that may very well jump to over 50%.
3) At least, you agreed that there is trouble in paradise.
Ask yourself how did things get this way and what are the long term implications of that trend to the future of the US.
Jay Boo says
“Ask yourself how did things get this way and what are the long term implications of that trend to the future of the US.”
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Have Mercy – whatever does illegitimacy rates have to do with Muslims persecuting Christians in Iraq
I believe MUSLIMS are at fault
Davegreybeard says
Another point; while the most effective way to fight Islam is to expose it for the evil fraud that it is, this in itself is also a direct attack on the PC/MC paradigm.
Which is why any truthful discussion of Islam is so vigorously and emotionally shouted down by PC/MC types, because it exposes the fundamental flaw of PC/MC ideology – namely that all cultures are provably NOT equal and that ours is better.
So, open truthful discussion of Islam is an attack on both our domestic enemy, which seeks to destroy our freedom, as well as our Jihadi enemy that seeks to cut our throats.
Have Mercy says
1) Who owns and operates the mainstream media? It is a business, after all.
2) Who were the architects of the immigration law change that took place in the 60s that opened the floodgates to Muslims and other thrid-worlders? What was their angle? Reduce the lower end of wages… Nah… The same concerns pushed for increasing the minimum wage and strengthening the stranglehold of unions on American industries. Do you think that it had more to do with weakening the American society? I do.
3) Muslims in the US do not dictate American foreign policy. What groups do so on behalf of foreign powers even when it is contrary to the short and long term interests of the American people? Who pushes American hands in cages with rabid dogs and who brings these beasts into our homes.
4) Jihad is the greatest of smoke screens. It is clearly aided and abetted by the American and other Western governments. If they have to routinely prop it up, blow air it, or look the other way, then it is merely a tool of geopolitics and a bogyman to help governments control and fleece their populations. What is the ultimate goal of this deadly charade? The future will answer that! However, I take heed from how Vlad Putin used Jihadists on his way to crush Russian democracy and steal billions.
Jay Boo says
“minimum wage and strengthening the stranglehold of unions
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Have Mercy
Tell the Pope that Christians are being persecuted in MUSLIM lands.
Side Note: Hindus, Jews and atheists too.
Jay Boo says
Have Mercy said
“Jihad is the greatest of smoke screens. It is clearly aided and abetted by the American and other Western governments …(and also) … then it is merely a tool of geopolitics and a bogyman to help governments control and fleece their populations”
Have Mercy
Why not include the website Jihad Watch in your list as well then?
Have Mercy says
You must not have understood what I am trying to say. Just because the US government plays dirty by funding and training Jihadists in Libya and Syria, turns on Mubarak and Ben Ali, and makes arrangements with the Brotherhood, it does not make Robert Spencer part of the game.
The US supported Chechen rebels (at least that what the Russians claimed). Also, we know for sure that the CIA and US Special Forces trained and funded Islamic militants during the Balkan conflicts. For a long time Western governments gave asylum to Islamic Jihadists fighting to bring down governments that are reportedly allies such as Egypt while ignoring suffering Coptic Christians, and later Iraqi and Syrian Christians. Why? Who sponsored the blind cleric, Omar Abdulrahman, who headed the militant organization that assassinated Sadat, murdered and terrorized scores of Coptic Christians, Egyptian security forces and Western tourists? And yeah, later blew up the WTC; the first time that is. His followers are a big part of Alqeda’s core leadership. He is not an isolated case. Thousands of militants have settled in the West. Does that not strike you as odd?
Please do not try to turn this into tin foil hat conspiracy theories on my part. A rational man can smell a rat in all of this. If you cannot put two and two together, that is your problem!
Transmaster says
Would be that we again had Bishops of Rome who donned armor and carried swords into battle.
umbra says
Would not get that with the present SJ pontiff. It’s all flowers, kumbaya and more inter-faith outreach.
Huck Folder says
I think we can beat them AND artless, heartless, mohammedan savages with this:
“The minstrel boy to the war is gone,
In the ranks of death you’ll find him;
His father’s sword he has girded on,
And his wild harp slung behind him;
“Land of Song!” said the warrior bard,
“Though all the world betrays thee,
One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard,
One faithful harp shall praise thee!”
And this:
“And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On England’s pleasant pastures seen!
And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Bring me my Bow of burning gold;
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In England’s green & pleasant Land.”
There is much discussion about Blake’s allegories;
I think the ‘dark Satanic mills’ are now the mosques,
grinding human souls exceeding fine, to zombie flour.
Hugh says
the grammar in this comment is so bad that i dont know what your trying to say!
voegelinian says
Keep in mind also that the majority of jihadists pursuing this ongoing Islamic revolution in Iraq are not ISIS per se, but Baathist Sunnis (you know, those “secular” Muslims).
See Andrew Bostom on this:
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2014/07/06/my-pjm-blog-this-past-week-on-why-u-s-should-stay-out-of-iraqs-sectarian-morass/
Jay Boo says
“not ISIS per se”
They might not be focused on the Islamic Sunni Caliphate but the so-called “secular” Muslims still kiss the floor and worship hate.
AnneM says
Confirms that Islam is from the devil himself.
Louise from Canada says
How about if we start burning mosques. What would happen? We could always say: tooth for tooth, eye for eye, no? We would be following their stupid book the coran, sorry, the satanic coran.
Jan Fourowls says
So what are we doing about it to use our words for anything but preaching to the choir here?
Here’s another of my comment series unlikely to be posted today —
Your [http://wamc.org/post/mass-us-senator-markey-weighs-ukraine-and-gaza] failure to “approve” the comment below would only prove that you’re part of the TTHT (Taqiyya Trojan Horse Tactics) brigade.
Consistent with the subtext of his remarks here, Senator Edward Markey, Democrat from Massachusetts, also and not coincidentally on the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations, is co-sponsoring S. 2219 with New York Democrat Congressman Hakeem Jeffries sponsoring H.R. 3878. See https://www.facebook.com/ConcernedAmericansAgainstTheTakeoverOfAmerica/posts/529458160496134. Senator Markey by his remarks about the plane shot down over the Ukraine and about Gaza utterly fails to disclose: (1) the likelihood that Ukrainian Muslim terrorists (with the most to gain from the chaos, and also being unwelcome to non-Muslim “separatists” who know from experience about Islamic terror tactics and are fighting in self-defense against the Muslim terrorists) misused stolen Russian equipment to shoot down the plane, or (2) the ongoing deception and violence of Hamas as a terrorist organization by its 1988 charter (never abrogated), currently requiring its own soldier-citizens in Gaza under Hamas threat to be human shields to Israel’s cross-fire in self-defense after Hamas initiated aggression. Senator Markey is a hypocrite and oligarch who like POTUS betrays the American people in foreign press commentary as well as in Washington, D.C.
As I get informally, behind-the-scenes censored more and more on the internet, I am emailing all my personal contacts and lists with messages like the following:
“Hope you’re having a beautiful Saturday! Thinking of you, wishing only good to all you love.
This email forwards information and a guide to action for anybody who might be similarly moved under rapidly escalating Islamist geopolitical encroachments and new risks to Americans by stealth jihad. We now face a new potential to have our Constitutional freedoms eroded internally through elected officials following the overtly demoralizing terrorism of 9/11, Fort Hood and the Boston Marathon Bombing. (The fact that some legislation tracking websites publish a small likelihood of this anti-freedom legislation passing could be designed to lull us into inaction. In a “taqiyya” world, nothing said or printed can be taken at face value, only what is done or not done.)
There’s a lot of information in the forwarded email. In summary without the provided context, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries sponsoring H.R. 3878 is a Democrat, New Yorker and Muslim.
His co-sponsor in the Senate for S. 2219, Senator Edward Markey, is a Democrat and Liberal from Massachusetts, also and not coincidentally on the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations.
It continues to go increasingly wrong in the UK where Muslims and their apologists who are politically prominent citizens twist more and more control of government into alignment with principles of Sharia law instead of the rule of Western civilization’s law. In America we still have the Constitution which the UK lacks, and which our forebears fought the British to obtain. Congressman Hakeem Jeffries’ bill, aided and abetted by traitorous Senator Markey, is an end-run around the Constitution that many bloggers I read see as a “line in the sand” we should not allow our nation to cross.
I hope and pray Americans will not believe falsely “it cannot happen here” and by inaction not even let their elected leaders know we object as a patriotic people.
And now I’m going to go enjoy the rest of my Saturday while I’m still free to do so!”
Jay Boo says
NPR tried to sell the obvious lie that Russian rebels are the ones that might actually have links to Islamic terrorists but they got no traction. Why does NPR obsess about Ukraine and Crimea. Could it be because Russians still remember the Beslan massacre committed by Muslims against Russian children?
Jay Boo says
The Qur’an is made of paper. Paper is made of trees.
The trees will say:
“O Muslim, O slave of Allah! There is a (truth) hiding behind me,
come and open your eyes and see that Islam is not a religion;
it is just a mental disease.”
voegelinian says
A slender wisp of good news: An Iraqi Christian has been trying to organize a militia to defend one city in Iraq:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10916613/Iraqs-beleaguered-Christians-make-final-stand-on-the-Mosul-frontline.html
If we had an actual American President, he would be sending air power in to help Captain Jacob’s militia (instead of helping Muslims in Iraq or Syria or Libya…).
John C. Barile says
I see that the Kurds have sent a small detachment from Irbil to assist the militiamen.
gravenimage says
Voegelinian wrote:
A slender wisp of good news: An Iraqi Christian has been trying to organize a militia to defend one city in Iraq…
…………………………..
That’s good to hear, Voegelinian.
There is actually a long and proud tradition of defensive Christian militias in Syria itself—although I imagine most of these have proven unequal to the hideous mass influx of ravening Jihadists there.
Still, it is heartening that some Christians are talking about fighting back.
John C. Barile says
That town is truly the front line with IS. I’m glad the Kurds dispatched help. The Kurds had offered the Turkmen in Tal Afar to protect their town from ISIS, but the Turkmen refused, preferring to go it alone, and so their town was seized by ISIS.
Have Mercy says
Clearly, there is no convincing you folks that Jihadists are not worst of your problems and that it bears thinking to search out the ultimate sponsors and manipulators of Jihad violence and their nefarious goals. Jihadies will not throw you out of your homes or kick down your door in the middle of the night with a SWAT team. Jihadies do not control the flow of information or the educational system that produces hordes absent curiosity or intellect that are barely literate. Jihadies have not made the modern leftist nanny state funded by fiat currency which will see you utterly destitute and ruined. I lived among Muslims during a big part of my life. Many of you seem to share much in common with them which is why both of your camps are easily manipulated. The patriotic types join the military to kill for god and country and the Jihadies fight for Allah and the celestial virgins (and the immortal boys, of course). Tragically, both serve the same masters who are laughing all the way to the bank and seats of power as millions of lives are ruined.
I decried the upcoming Iraq war in late 2002 on this site as a catastrophe that will harm the American national interest and benefit Iran and Saudi Arabia. Sadly, I participated in that fiasco as a military linguist and I saw my fears unfold firsthand. When I came back I argued with Hugh Fitzgerald who was a staunch defender of that epic plunder. My posts have been conveniently deleted. Sadly, this site is as intellectually dead as a Quranic school. Folks, the madrasa is in session… Mr. Spencer, please lead the recitation! Alikum El Slaam.