“Reprisal attacks are something that should not happen.” Indeed so. They should not happen, and for the most part they don’t. Jihad attacks are also something that should not happen. Where are the Muslims offering to ride with Infidels in order to defend them against other Muslims who may wish to bomb them, behead them, or take them hostage as they step into a coffee shop today?
“#illridewithyou supports Muslims amid Sydney siege,” AFP, December 15, 2014 (thanks to Lookmann):
Australians came out Monday in solidarity with the Muslim community following a siege at a Sydney cafe, as tens of thousands tweeted the hashtag #illridewithyou to counter concern about an anti-Islam backlash.
The hostage-taking at the Lindt chocolate cafe triggered a security lockdown in the heart of Australia’s biggest city, with the government and Muslim leaders condemning the attack and calling for unity.
Amid uncertainty about the hostage-taker’s motives and fears of reprisals after an Islamic flag was raised in the cafe, an Australian woman reportedly started the #illridewithyou hashtag to show solidarity with Muslims who might feel threatened on public transport.
“#373 bus between Coogee & Martin Place. #illridewithyou @ me if you just want to wear your headdress & not be bothered,” @sirtessa tweeted.
Within hours, Australians around the country repeated the hashtag, with more than 40,000 tweets helping #illridewithyou become one of the top trends on the social media site.
“I make a commitment, right now, to always say something when I see any kind of abuse on public transport. #illridewithyou,” one user tweeted.
Another user in South Australia wrote, “If you wear religious attire, & need to get from #Adelaide’s west suburbs to the city on Tues but don’t want to travel alone #illridewithyou.”
Others offered help beyond travel support: “I’m mostly housebound so Im not useful for #illridewithyou but if you’re ever in tarneit VIC and need somewhere safe to hide out, contact me.”
Australia’s race discrimination commissioner Tim Soutphommasane said he was heartened by the campaign, adding: “let’s not allow fear, hatred and division to triumph.”
Anti-Islam groups had earlier expressed outrage about the siege, with the Australian Defence League writing on Facebook: “Here it is folks, homegrown islamic terrorism in our backyard, courtesy of successive australian governments and their brainwashed voters.”
New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said officers were working with the Muslim community.
“Reprisal attacks are something that should not happen,” he added.
More than 40 Muslim groups condemned the siege, saying in a statement that they rejected “any attempt to take the innocent life of any human being or to instil fear and terror into their hearts”.
Note the key word “innocent.” Which human beings exactly are innocent?
KiwiKaffir says
Dhimmi and taqiyya comes to mind!
Andrew GB says
#wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire.
How’s that for islamaphobia đ
Seth says
This is why we’ve lost. The preening moral cretinousness — utterly disgusting.
CogitoErgoSum says
Seth, don’t give up so easily. We haven’t lost yet. In fact, I’d say the real fight has yet to begin. In the meantime, be vigilant, be watchful and be prepared because when it does come it will be as a theif in the night.
Bigotry Wrapped In Jesus is still bigotry says
Bigots seldom recognize themselves !!
CogitoErgoSum says
Interesting screen name you chose. Yes, bigotry wrapped in anything is still bigotry. But why did you single out Jesus? Couldn’t Muhammad be used as a wrapper also? Try discussing that with a Muslim while sitting together with him or her on the bus and see how far you get with the conversation. Please let me know how it goes.
gravenimage says
“Bigotry Wrapped In Jesus is still bigotry” wrote:
Bigots seldom recognize themselves !!
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What witless moral equivalenceâit is not Christians who are taking hostages and murdering innocent people in cafes.
vickie says
There is another way to look at this. What that hashtag really shows is that the hashtag people are truly the better people than those mentioned by Mohamad as followers of Mohamad, those who are supposedly the better people in the Koran.
These hashtaggers will no matter your religion and ideology trust that there is a civilized decent soul in each and every person. I hope though that the hashtaggers understand how difficult it is to distinguish between the civilized Muslim and the one ready to go into SJS – sudden jihadi syndrome.
I will be surprised if more and more of the civilized decent Muslim do not start distancing themselves from Islam.
Keith says
How can they distance themselves from Islam without becoming apostates and therefore deserving of the death penalty? Which only the bravest willl do.
deja vu says
Thankfully hundreds of thousands are leaving Islam every year – hence the underground church which is being horribly persecuted.
gravenimage says
Vickie wrote:
These hashtaggers will no matter your religion and ideology trust that there is a civilized decent soul in each and every person.
……………………………………
Would that this were the case, Vickie. The fact is that these useful idiots are *not* reaching out to the victims of Jihad like the families and survivors of the Lindt Chocolate Cafe atrocity.
Instead, they are pretending that those who condemn such savagery as hostage-taking and murder are the “real” villains, and that a fictive “backlash” is the real crime.
Richard Sherman says
Australians have as much in common with Muslims as Jews have with Nazis.
rightrightright says
http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-media-heroine-of-the-australian-counterbacklash-has-some-issues/
The BareNakedIslam site points out that the originator of the hashtag campaign has real issues of a racist persuasion with European and European-stock people. This woman appears to be originally from the Far East, going by her name and her appearance.
As ever, political preference is mixed in with Islamophilia plus an opportunity to milk Westerners’ innate sympathy with the apparent underdog.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that very enlightening link.
And Tessa Kum’s frothing-at-the-mouth anti-white racism is at least partially self-hatredâwhat a surprise! sarc/off She is, unsurprisingly, half white herself.
Some may notice that Tessa Kum admits that she is mentally illâbut for the most “politically correct” that is now a plus.
Here’s her blog:
http://silence-without.blogspot.com/
Notice that she has *not a single word of condemnation* for the ravening JIhadist who took a cafe of innocent people hostage and murdered two people.
Her only concern is that white people involved in #illridewithyou may start exhibiting “White Savior Complex”âi.e., that they might for just one moment avoid wallowing in unearned guilt.
What is hostage-taking, terror, and murder compared to this? sarc/off
Then she goes onâbizarrelyâto suggest that Muslimahs don’t really need this helpâwhich is true, since they are not threatenedâbut it they accept it then it is as some sort of gift to the dhimmi tool who is offering:
“But keep in mind, please, it is not for anyone to burden their need to help upon others. Respect that while too many are afraid to go out in public, many still walk the streets confidently and comfortably, and need nothing from any of us. If you’re asked to buddy up, that is an amazing honour and sign of trust. That is enough. Don’t expect more.”
And she’s decided that Man Haron Monisâthe vicious Jihadist who murdered two people and might have butchered many more, was “sad”:
“That man, he lost hope. He knew what he was doing and how this would end. One sad, angry man and look at the hurt we have let him do. The hostages, all of them. The ex-wife whose murder to which he was allegedly accessory. We failed her too. He was sad, and angry, and he did this because we, this country, enabled him. I am so sorry.”
See? This has nothing to do with Jihadâit is Australia’s fault. She even chalks up the Honor Killing of his wife to the supposed failings of Australians.
Insane dhimmitude…
PatnCats says
I’m appalled with this nonsense #illridewithyou. I read the story of the Miss Bleeding Heart watching the hijab clad woman removing her scarf. Then after their hugs, the woman ran off and did NOT put the thing back on? Did I read that right??
Maybe the woman removed that garment because the enlightenment that their pedophile prophet is a MURDERER…that a cleric/iman/murderer came from her mosque/religion/social system – and she was ASHAMED TO WEAR IT any longer.
Maybe the woman was ASHAMED TO WEAR THAT GARMENT ONE MORE MINUTE?
That is why she ran off.
SHAME of their mudering koran, the acceptance of people such as that islamic terrorist.
Not that anyone bothered her – “FROWNED at her? Are you kidding me??
PERHAPS SHE HAD SEEN ENOUGH OF HER SO-CALLED RELIGION AND CHOSE NOT TO WEAR ITS REPRESENTATION ANY LONGER.
Of that I would commend the woman for removing the scarf.
For me, I’m not kissing any muslim backside as their collective guilt over the murders in the name of their prophet started ticking for me on September 11the 2001 when those planes hit our cities, Pentagon and the farm field in Pennsylvania.
#illridewithyoumyass!
#takeoffthat barbaric garment and join FREE WOMEN
deja vu says
I’m sure hundreds of people do come to the aid of others every day. How come the sympathy of Miss BH gets so much publicity?
It shows a very worrying trend of self promotion and self congratulation via social media, and the general cluessness of those following blindly along behind. Sheep to the slaughter.
deja vu says
Sorry – general cluelessness of those following. Would be nice to have a preview page!
Angemon says
Not to a chocolate cafe you won’t.
Salah says
@Christy
Did you know that Muhammad, your “prophet,” used to suck on the tongues of little boys and little girls?
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2010/04/tongue-sucker-muhammad-mahomet-suceur.html
Angemon says
Christy posted:
“Ten statements by âanti-jihadâ writer Robert Spencer and Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher are compared.”
The first thing to point out is that this list (which Christy decided to spam on topics regardless of its relevance to the topic at hand) is nothing new:
http://middleclassdub.blogspot.pt/2011/10/islamophobia-and-antisemitism-same.html
The second thing to point out is that Christy (and Colm Ă Broin, the original author of that list) purposely leave out that Robert Spencer reports on what islamic clerics and leaders do and say, and backs what he says with quotes from the quran, ahadith, or islamic leaders or clerics.
Let that sink in for a while. Ă Broin/Christy are arguing that what RS says about islam is similar to nazi propaganda. But RS backs what he says with quotes from islamic sources. Therefore, what Ă Broin/Christy are saying is that islam is similar to nazi propaganda.
So, how about comparing muslims and jews, since Ă Broin/Christy are trying to pass them as being in the same situation? Letâs start with the Jews.
There are no jewish organizations killing non-jews in the name of Yahweh. There are no jewish organizations calling for the establishment of a jewish state run by jewish law. There are no lone-wolf jews committing terror acts for the sake of Yahweh because the OT says that jews who kill and are killed for Yahweh are admitted into paradise. In fact, the violence in the OT is descriptive and restricted to specific times and places.
Now letâs see how the muslims fare.
There are muslim organizations killing non-muslims (and muslims who are deemed to be not devout enough) for the sake of allah. All over the world we see muslim groups calling for the establishment of a caliphate run by islamic law. All around the world muslims commit lone-wolf terror attacks because the quran says that those who kill and are killed in the name of allah are admitted into paradise. The quran mandates warfare against non-muslims for ever until islam rules all over the world.
The nazi propaganda who unjustly portrayed jews as shrewd, devious creatures was just that: propaganda. In fact, much of it still lives on in the islamic world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_canard
A Nazi German cartoon circa 1938 depicts Churchill as a Jewish octopus encircling the glob
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_canard#mediaviewer/File:OctopusNAS1.jpg
The same imagery revived on the cover of the 2001 Egyptian edition of The International Jew.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_canard#mediaviewer/File:2001_ed_The_International_Jew_by_Henry_Ford.jpg
Anyone claiming that muslims are being persecuted worldwide the same way jews were persecuted in pre-WWII Germany should be committed to a mental asylum for life. Where are the muslims being forced to use a green crescent on their clothes to let everyone else knew that they are muslims, like the jews who had to wear a yellow star of David? Where are the signs on restaurants, or barbershops, or anywhere else saying âNO MUSLIMS ALLOWEDâ? Where are muslims being forced by the government to live in ghettos? The treatment of jews in pre-WWII Germany and of muslims nowadays is as far apart as zero is from infinity, no matter what grievance mongers like Ă Broin or Christy here would have us think.
Islam sucks man says
All I want to say is, now read it carefully because it is not what it says in the article. #illNOTridewithyou.
i’ll NOT ride with you.
profitsbeard says
This hashtag is actually a clever way to keep Muslims under surveillance.
Not that this was its intention, but you have to take pure stupid and turn it to some useful advantage.
IN fact, if every Muslim had a infidel minder, they’d find their terrorism style nicely cramped.
dumbledoresarmy says
Neat.
dumbledoresarmy says
Jihadwatchers who are feeling flabbergasted and infuriated by this spectacle of grovelling dhimmitude on Twitter can join the **counter-campaign**.
See here.
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2014/12/15/illnotridewithyou-backlash-against-the-illridewithyou-twitter-campaign/
#IllNotRideWithYou and #IWontRideWithYou BACKLASH against the #IllRideWithYou Twitter campaign
Have fun, guys and gals! Tweet away! Pile it on!
Seriously, some of the counter-tweets already produced, and showcased by barenakedislam, are **brilliant**.
They manage to expose the sheer *insanity* of this “I’llridewithyou” campaign, by combining their incisive remarks, with iconic news-report-based images from those many occasions where Musilms on board planes, trains and buses …**blew them up** or caused mayhem in other ways.
And one of the Comments is perfect: it manages to sum up dhimmitude – and non-dhimmitude – in just four lines of a few words each.
âŞ@rjfitz66
>get attacked by islamists
>declare solidarity with them
wtf logic
âŞ#illnotridewithyou
10:38 PM – 15 Dec 2014
The preceding article is pretty good, too:
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2014/12/15/stupid-stupid-stupid-leftist-aussies-offering-free-rides-to-muslims-who-are-afraid-of-racist-backlash/
STUPID STUPID STUPID leftist Aussies â offering free rides to Muslims who are afraid of âracistâ backlash
And see the comments – among which, one of the best is this –
Joe Walsh âŞ@WalshFreedom
Follow
Media playbook on terrorist attacks:
1) Distance jihadist from Islam
2) Remind viewers “religion of peace.”
3) Distract: âŞ#illridewithyou
4:33 AM – 16 Dec 2014
Arthur says
#ISIS says to #i’llridewithyou, “Could you watch my bag? I’ll be right back…” before stepping off the bus
dumbledoresarmy says
I must say that the person or persons who instigated this campaign should be nominated for Dhimmi of the Year, Internationale.
gravenimage says
DDA, Tessa Kum is not just a well-meaning naĂŻf. She isâhopefully quite rareâsomeone who actually does hate Australia. See my post and rightrightright’s, above.
Of course, I’m sure that a lot of the clueless liberal tools who have responded so enthusiastically to this idiocy don’t know that.
Steven says
tweet #illridewithyou hashtag….sound like a happy lamb led his herd and himself to halal slaughterhouse!
clifford hall says
“Sanctimonious little vermin”
Well done Free Speech. Your best yet.
clifford hall says
The tweeters may be misguided but I guess “Hands up. Don’t shoot” is catching on. Nevertheless, however misguided, they show themselves to have spontaneously kind hearts, indeed Christian hearts. And it does rather better the word “vermin” as applied to a fellow blogger..
clifford hall says
‘Bigotry wrapped in Jesus’….fine name that. Whoever you are, come again.
Mirren10 says
This perverted nonsense is eerily similar to ”A million hijabs for Salmah Ahwadi”.
As soon as it was proved that it wasn’t ”racist islamophobes” that murdered the poor woman, but her husband ‘honour’ murdering her, the whole campaign, and its leftard moron progenitors, melted away like a snowflake in the sun.
This Tessa Kum who started this nauseating sideshow looks and sounds like an insane inverted racist, herself. She hates white people. If the mohammedan in a hijab had been white, would dear little Tessa have started this revolting crap ? Somehow I doubt it.
gravenimage says
Very apt comparison, Mirrenâthis is just as bogus. Here’s Rachael Jacobs admitting that her story about the woman in the Hijab was pretty much bullsh*t:
“Woman who inspired #illridewithyou after Sydney jihad siege now admits she ‘editorialized’ much of the story”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/woman-who-inspired-illridewithyou-after-sydney-jihad-siege-now-admits-she-editorialized-much-of-the-story
Champ says
#DANGEROUS-Ding-a-lings
…heavens to murgatroyd never trust a muslim!!!!