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No More: After Nice, let’s stop the nonsense

Jul 16, 2016 1:38 pm By Robert Spencer

A terrific and important piece. If only it were heeded. But the political and media elites are immovable, and will keep repeating their empty gestures after every new jihad attack. Immovable of themselves — they will have to be moved by free people: replaced by saner, stronger people who are willing to defend free nations.

Bodies are seen on the ground after at least 30 people were killed in the southern French town of Nice when a truck ran into a crowd celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday

“No More: After Nice, let’s stop the nonsense,” by Bruce Bawer, City Journal, July 16, 2016:

No more flags of foreign countries posted on Facebook in a spirit of solidarity. No more empathic Twitter hashtags. No more empty statements by heads of government declaring that “the terrorists have failed in their effort to turn us against one another.” No more equally empty statements by other heads of government expressing their own country’s support for “our ally in its time of grief.” No more calls for love in the face of hate, or candlelight processions as a response to murder. No more clicking of tongues and shaking of heads over the horrible loss of life—as if people had died in a one-off natural disaster, a hurricane or tornado or tsunami—followed, after a few days, by a return to normal. Until the next time, of course.

No more attempts to psychologically analyze every new jihadist—to probe his troubled family or professional life in an attempt to figure out what “turned him to violence and extremism.” No more reflexive reassurances that “this has nothing to do with Islam,” that a handful of bad guys have “hijacked” a “peaceful” faith, and that “the great majority of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims are, of course, peace-loving people who utterly reject this kind of action.” No more slick pivoting to the subject of gun control, or American homophobia, or whatever other diversion seems useful under the specific circumstances. No more blaming of Europeans’ supposed failure to accept or embrace or integrate or employ Muslims, or of Muslims’ alleged poverty or hopelessness or frustration or alienation.

No more hand-wringing by journalists, as they stand mere yards from the bodies of the dead, about the possible “backlash” against Muslims (which never really materializes). No more declarations by U.S. officials that the mere mention of Islam in connection with Islamic terrorism is “dangerous” and “counterproductive” because it “alienates” the Muslim allies and Muslim communities whose help we need in fighting this problem that we dare not properly name. No more respectful TV interviews with representatives of “Muslim civil-rights organizations” that have been proven over and over again to be fronts for terrorism.

No more outrageous lies by government and media that, almost fifteen years after 9/11, keep so many Americans so outrageously in the dark about the world in which we live now. No more of the despicable day-to-day efforts by the same actors to keep those Americans who do get it in line, to instill in them an unholy fear that, if they dare to address the problem honestly, they’ll be thrust forever out into the dark—beyond the realm of decent society, unacceptable, unemployable, unfriendable. No more societal tyranny by those who (because they’re cowardly, or feel powerless, or have no sense of responsibility to preserve the precious gift of freedom that their own forebears fought and died for and have bequeathed them, or are, inconceivably, unconcerned about the world their own children and grandchildren will inhabit) treat as enemies not those who seek to destroy them but those who dare to speak the truth about it….

In the years after 9/11, major acts of Islamic terrorism in the West seemed to come along every year or so, leaving plenty of time in between to go back to pretending that everything was fine and to resume mouthing benign platitudes. Now they’re happening so often, one right on top of the other, that we can hardly keep track of them. The only upside is that it’s getting harder and harder to maintain that pretense….

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  1. biff says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 1:51 pm

    Somebody just got fired.

  2. Jeff says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 1:53 pm

    How can Islam be extricated from Europe? We’ve let Muslims flow freely into our lands, something never done before the 20th century. And now a heavy price is being paid and will continue to be paid until Islam is sent away from our midst.

    • biff says

      Jul 16, 2016 at 2:11 pm

      Our leaders cannot handle the idea of offending anyone.

      It’s much easier to hold vigils for the thousands killed by Islam than to risk offending progressive voters.

      Imagine, a Muslim might SUE. Then what would happen? We would have to back down.

      Saving our society and western lives is not worth it yet.

      These attacks will have to come daily and affect the Limousine driven politicians before there is change.

      When servants grocery shop for you and isolate you from real life is it any wonder?

      Hillary Clinton, Barrack, the rest of them do not even know how the world works.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akLjzTisZoI

      Remember when Bush “discovered” that there were supermarket scanners?

      Progressive politicians live in their own bubble that they refuse to have burst.

      Look at Paul Ryan and his fence around his ranch to keep his kids safe! You think he has any understanding of the little people that live in houses without backup power, safe rooms and camera;s?

      Just imagine how out of touch a progressive is compared to that.

      • bridgette says

        Jul 16, 2016 at 7:11 pm

        They don’t mind offending those that won’t vote for them anymore. Seems even their deaths mean nothing. Nothing has changed and nothing will until the people rise up but of course they’re getting prepared for this, something they don’t care enough to prepare for if the moslems do it – civil unrest.

      • PRCS says

        Jul 16, 2016 at 8:08 pm

        “Imagine, a Muslim might SUE.”

        Or become really, really outraged:

        http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/07/chicago-muslims-outraged-anti-isis-cartoon-local-paper/

        • Westman says

          Jul 16, 2016 at 10:57 pm

          Thanks, PRCS. That was a classic! It would make a great bumper sticker.

        • PRCS says

          Jul 17, 2016 at 11:06 pm

          Westman, yes, that WOULD make a great bumper sticker!

        • Mark Swan says

          Jul 18, 2016 at 6:02 am

          Good One PRCS, made me laugh—thanks.

      • Myles says

        Jul 17, 2016 at 7:48 am

        I consider paul rino ryan part of the problem for not doing anything to defund obama’s pro muslim welfare state. Plus rino ryan is supporting open borders and displacing the American work force with cheap labor from central America, India, Pakistan, etc.
        All that being said, I would take rino ryan over any, ANY, democrat. The democrat party is a terrorist organization. Its current leaders are pro muslim, specifically pro muslim brotherhood. The democrat party is our common enemy.
        And rino ryan needs a fence around his “ranch”, and so does America’s southern border.

      • Jack Everett says

        Jul 17, 2016 at 10:38 am

        The world move forward not backwards. Progress ideas are what moves us forward not standing back in nostalgia or the “good old days.”
        If you want to live in the pat you sould not be using all these modern electronics like your computer.

        • heidi says

          Jul 18, 2016 at 2:16 am

          c’mon jack, we all want to LIVE! and yeah, sure would be nice to have a country that valued safety & security of it’s citizens, job/advancement opps for it’s workers, trade deals that benefited U.S.,a reduction of our ludicrous $20trill debt, & lots of things are negotiable, but not if we are forced to live in a society that restricts freedom and forces us into islamic sharia laws of obedience & oppression.

    • Demsci says

      Jul 17, 2016 at 4:28 am

      One reply to your question could be: What is it that most of us prefer over and above Islam in our midst? Or; What is it that we cherish and desire for which Islam stands as an obstacle.

      The normal approach when something disastrous is going on is to see it as a Negative Deviation (in this case Islam) and to desire to eliminate or at least to reduce it. And I do see awareness of danger, vigilance as good and necessary.

      But the other approach is; find out what is in opposition, competition with the Negative Deviation Islam. Find the Positive Exception(s) in society and formulate, organise around and promote them well.

      Of course I see enlightenment, democratic principles, human rights, golden rule, striving for longevity with happiness all as BETTER THAN ISLAM, so as alternatives and competition to it.

      And as a good alternatives for Muslims themselves to believe in and to convert to. And when Muslims convert in big numbers, the threat and concern about them must diminish. This is my logic.

    • Scorpio says

      Jul 17, 2016 at 7:21 am

      Dear Jeff,

      You are right it is difficult, but that should not stop us from doing something – at least make a start. Picking on Muslims as being a problem at least let’s them understand that we – the non PC indigenous Europeans have now reached the end of the appeasement process and they have to shape-up or ship-out.

      Firstly, refuse all Muslim refugees and migrants access to Europe,
      Secondly, empty the prisons of all Muslims immediately on the condition that they agree to deportation to the countries they can from (default country, say Afghanistan). This should apply to all Muslims on the security services watch-lists.
      Thirdly, closing down of all Muslim schools.
      Fourthly, stop the building of any further mosques or allowing Shariah courts etc etc.

      The list is endless but the message is clear.

    • watling says

      Jul 17, 2016 at 11:48 am

      I don’t think the West’s leaders care too much about the victims of jihad. As long as the veneer of civilization is maintained and the likelihood of any one random individual becoming a victim remains very low then our leaders will simply carry on as before. “How awful that all these people have been murdered in this barbaric truck/bomb/gun/missile attack, but … life must go on. Except for the victims, of course.”

      They might put more police on the streets in tourist areas and introduce more rigorous checks at borders, but these things do next to nothing in addressing the real problem.

    • Abu J. M says

      Jul 17, 2016 at 1:55 pm

      Those who forget history will repeat the mistake of the past to their peril. In earlier centuries, Muslims raided Europe which had to wage a violent crusade to reverse Islam. Europeans have learnt nothing from that experience and have allowed their continent to be flooded with Arab Muslims in the name refugees. With their apathy to the Christian faith ( an effective weapon to counter Islam), Europe will soon be over-run by Muslims and I see catastrophy waiting that continent. Germany, Britain and France will be the league of victims of jihad terror.

  3. Ex-muslim says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 2:17 pm

    Not even Ten Thousand Nices will wake up the West!

    • Westman says

      Jul 16, 2016 at 2:42 pm

      The mindset of the elite “leadership” is, “this, too, shall pass”. They put on their best “running for office” mask and act as if they were courting the Muslim vote.

      Of course, it won’t pass because they have invited the enemy into their borders and even allow foreign entities to finance schools of insurrection that create more jihadists.

      • Greyhound Fancier says

        Jul 16, 2016 at 3:29 pm

        If you were a Muslim and left Crapistan and had a chance to live in France, Germany, the UK, or any other lovely place in Europe, would you leave willingly? It’s even more attractive because the dumb dhimmi Europeans pay for the Muslims’ housing, food, school, healthcare…

        How about stopping all the assistance. Many of those on the receiving end will never be able to or want to assimilate, and will be a public charge forever. They’d be better off living with others who share their language and customs. Those who won’t or can’t support themselves could self-deport, once they had no food and no roof over their head. If I lived in Europe, I’d be willing to pay for a one-way ticket to remove the Muslims (but they’d have to be fingerprinted so they wouldn’t return).

        • watling says

          Jul 17, 2016 at 12:06 pm

          During the UK’s Blair government Muslims were actively encouraged and supported in their attempts to migrate to the UK.

          This is why nearly every private taxi in the UK is driven by a Pakistani (I kid you not). These aren’t skilled workers that are going to boost our economy. They were brought here to prop up the Labour vote. Now many towns in the north of England have large, expanding, unassimilated Muslim populations.

          Things can only get worse as the Muslim population continues to increase. High property prices are currently keeping Muslims out of desirable areas, but it only takes a few to gain a foothold and then a trickle becomes a torrent. Only when the elites find significant numbers of Muslims on their streets, and with nowhere else to hide from them, will any action be taken.

      • jamesmi says

        Jul 17, 2016 at 3:13 am

        “This, too, shall pass” – and also, “After me, the deluge”. IOW – someone else can deal with it. Talk about irresponsible !

    • Myles says

      Jul 17, 2016 at 7:57 am

      Most of us feel helpless. We despise our politicians, and realize they are being financed by middle eastern oil.
      People like clinton, cameron, merkel, bush,especially obama, are pawns of the muslim jihadis. In their demented minds, these politicians are just good multi culturalists. To those affected by mass, illegal immigration, we are fighting for survival of not only our lives but everything we hold sacred.
      Our last hope appears to be Donald Trump, the anti politician. Let’s see how crooked clinton tries to rig the coming election. The media will help her, and so will the IRS, FBI, Dept of INjustice.

      • Jack Everett says

        Jul 17, 2016 at 10:43 am

        ROFL you sound like your back on the crack. Trump is the best recruiter the terrorists have.

        • watling says

          Jul 17, 2016 at 12:11 pm

          So, do you think we shouldn’t fight back against the terrorists for fear of upsetting them? By the way, you meant “you’re”, not “your”.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 2:29 pm

    The French people as well as all the other people who compose the nations of the West should take that jihad attack in in the city of Nice as a wake up call and stop being so politically correct and have a reality check that the Muslims who engage in the violent and deadly militant jihad for the cause of Islam are not as the PC folk claim “just criminals who “hijacked Islam for politics” but real actual ,real jihad -minded Koran based Muslims who are totally committed to the world advancement of Islam by the use of murderous violence and force. As that that specific Islamic jihad attack in the city of Nice France. the follower in so much need to be reiterated Which is that on Bastille Day in Nice, France there was another jihadist/Muslim terror attack. This jihad attack, like the others, was vicious, malicious and murderous. At first that jihadist opened fired into a group of people and then he plowed into and through, with a large truck, a crowd of people. In that deadly Islamic terror attack in Nice it was so awful and hideous that one witness, just after that Islamic terror attack, described the scene as “bodies everywhere.” Another wittiness said “I was standing in blood, It’ everywhere.” This Islamic jihadist attack in Nice resulted in 84 murdered and over 200 injured. This violent and heinous murderous action of Islamic violence is based on the violence and killing that is part of the doctrines of the Koran, as some call Islam’s “holy book” the Qur’an . To give only a few of many example of this from the Koran is Sura 2:191 which instructs “Kill the disbelievers wherever you fine them.” Likewise, the Koran also teaches “Whenever you encounter the unbeliever’s strike of their heads, until you make a great slaughter among them…” Sura 47:4. Let’s face it , using a firearm and a truck can sure make a greater “slaughter among them” then a sword can . In addition, that jihad –minded Muslim also died in the brutal and deadly Islamic attack. This too is Koranic based. For the Koran instructs “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Sura 9:111. So it’s not wise to be taken in as in fool as or snowed , by the many apologists for Islam who make the false claim that “Islam is a peaceful religion that was hijacked by criminal for politics” That is a lame attempt to hide as in cover up the violent and deadly essence of that religion which is Islam. Nevertheless,there are already denials that the Bastille Day jihadist with his murderous terrorism was really a Muslim. This denial is based on the grounds that he has engaged in un-Islamic activities. For example, he ate pork and drank alcohol. This is the same line of reasoning which denied that the Muslim terrorists shooter and mass murderer of Orlando was a real Muslim because it was said that he might have had “homosexual tendencies.” Likewise, some people have even said that the 9/11 hijackers were not actual Muslims because two of them, maybe, attended a strip joint during the night of September 10, 2001. All such claims aren’t taking into account that according to Islam if a jihad –minded Muslim dies in a jihad suicide/homicide attack, which they call a “martyrdom operation,” then all his sins are wiped clean and he will then enter into paradise. These meaning all his sins, whatever those sins are. Including the eating of pork, or the drinking of alcohol, homosexual tendencies or spending time in a strip joint. In conclusion, that jihadist terrorist mass murder at the city in Nice France on July 14 was a real Muslim terrorist.

    • Jude says

      Jul 16, 2016 at 9:27 pm

      You are so right!!

  5. bytheway says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 2:31 pm

    Excellent article – I personally am sick to death of islam and the pretence ordinary muslims put on, “that it has nothing to do with them,” when the very book they live by encourages death to the Jews and Christians of this world. In fact death to anyone who doesn’t convert.
    Pretending that islam has nothing to do with this, is just plain ignorance.
    Blaming gun control, crime and mental illness are distractions. The common denominator for all these killings is islam and it was done by MUSLIMS.
    I have absolutely no doubt that in the annals of history, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky will be held accountable along with the current government for failing to challenge islam on every level. They are all complicit in failing the people of this country. When a young child died on the beach in Greece, there was outrage. So many publications had it as a front page story; however I don’t see the same kind of outrage when a European child lies dead in the street in Nice, with a doll next to the body, having been deliberately killed by a muslim driving a truck. WHY? Does the death of a European child mean less than a refugee? Does it sell less newspapers?
    Shame on all of these news channels for not challenging this evil ideology at its core.
    It breaks my heart at how far they are all prepared to go, to remain politically correct – Shame on you!

    • Umar Kozey says

      Jul 17, 2016 at 5:12 am

      Yeah you are right! I have just left Islam after having gone through the rest that we have not been told about the religion that our forefathers had stupidly accepted from the arabs.

  6. berserker says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 2:39 pm

    It was an Interview that Bruce Bawer gave on NPR more than a decade ago that opened my eyes to the problems with Islam in Europe.

  7. peter says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 2:59 pm

    Not even a million Nices will wake up the west as long as it is led by people like Obama, David Cameron as our leaders ,as the very election of these leaders show that they are experts at brain washing people second to none including even Mohamed . We need a leader like Churchill who can call spade a spade and have special concentration camps for Mohamedans!

    • Jack Everett says

      Jul 17, 2016 at 10:46 am

      FDR did it with he Japanese.

  8. umbra says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 3:02 pm

    The prevailing West behaviour to islamic terror is evidently masochistic. Western leaders and media are like pain addicts with self-inflicting injury disorder. They just could not stop hurting their own society.

  9. Angemon says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 3:12 pm

    The only upside is that it’s getting harder and harder to maintain that pretense

    Unfortunately, that won’t keep people from trying. And in a world where people believe air conditioning is sexist… Well, you see where I’m getting at.

  10. Hwilsongoon says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 3:59 pm

    The French government is calling on French “patriots” to protect their border and roads.
    Looks like things are slowly moving in the right direction.

    But if France wants to keep their political status quo they will have to quickly come up with trumped up charges for Le Pen as she will likely be in power next election.

    Germany has also moved against online hate speech against anti jihadist. Dawn police raids. Which I predicted would happen at the start of the refugee influx. And some on here ridiculed me for saying the Germany would launch dawn raids to arrest bloggers and comments on facebook. Which just happened.
    Egg on face? You know who you are.

  11. Havoc says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 4:00 pm

    Join the Backlash !

  12. Guest says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 4:17 pm

    After months of jihad now they say “no more?”
    I’ve been saying that for fifteen years!

  13. Wellington says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 5:27 pm

    America and all the West need a new Evil Empire speech by an American President. Will never happen with the fool now occupying the Oval Office. Might eventually happen under a President Trump. Certainly won’t under another President Clinton. But that it should happen, I would contend, is no longer debatable.

    A good start would be for an American President to publicly state that the term “radical Islam” is redundant. Then go from there and point out specific MAINSTREAM Islamic doctrines, such as death for apostasy and death or severe bodily harm for any criticism of Islam, the Koran or Mohammed ,as being incompatible with the American Constitution. More could follow. Much more.

    In any case, I have no doubt that such a speech is needed. Overdue in fact. After all, there’s little to no use in continuing to pretend that something evil is not evil. That’s a route for fools and ignoramuses to follow and it’s about time America no longer has a fool or an ignoramus as Commander-in-Chief.

    • JAR says

      Jul 16, 2016 at 11:37 pm

      Wellington-

      One could piece together some of your many comments here at JW and no doubt get a fine Evil Empire address. Thanks for your contributions on the state of the union.

    • Demsci says

      Jul 17, 2016 at 5:27 am

      Wellington, fine post, I agree, only: There is this problem that until now the “other side”, the policors, will always reject anything that is a “sweeping statement of Muslims”, “stereotyping Muslims”, “generalizing Muslims, “Painting with one brush of all Muslims”.

      Ad Nauseam we hear from the policors about the “vast majority of Muslims, who lead an innocent, peaceful life, and who even contribute a lot to our society.

      So if Radical Islam versus Moderate Islam is out, how then do we distinguish between divers categories of Muslims?

      You see, Wellington, if Islam as a whole is clear, antithetical to our civilisation, and ALL Muslims have belief in Islam in common, then the dreaded “you are painting all with a broad brush” is thrown at us when we express this “Islam as a whole is the problem”. And often a whole discussion is then derailed.

      My way out is to deceive a little and declare Islam not as antithetical to our civilisation as a whole,

      but UNCLEAR, MULTI-INTERPRETABLE, and prone to the antithetical interpretations by hundreds of Millions of Muslims.

      This leaves open the other category of Muslims, also presumably hundreds of millions strong; the potentially harmless contributing kind, who interpret Islam differently, more compatible somehow.

      This is my political logic.

      • Wellington says

        Jul 17, 2016 at 12:44 pm

        Thanks for your reply, Demsci. The way I would put, the way I have put it, is that an ideology should be judged on what it says and not by the fact that many adherents of that ideology don’t fully adhere to or implement the tenets of that ideology. One could have found relatively harmless Nazi Party members in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s—–teachers, lawyers, businessmen, etc.—– who did not themselves want to have concentration camps or start a war for the expansion of the Aryan Race, but this didn’t make Nazism OK. Ditto for many Communist Party members in sundry countries, including in some Western countries like Italy, France and America, during the Cold War but this never made Marxism all right.

        This is my thinking in summary. It is the ideology that matters most and not the fact that many adherents of a particular ideology are not fully “devout.” Hope you are doing well. Always look forward to your comments here.

        • Demsci says

          Jul 17, 2016 at 3:14 pm

          Thanks Wellington, I never ever skip your comments when I encounter them, without reading them whole.

          Yes, I too see this distinction you make, in a way, between the ideology and it’s followers. And coming from my own ideology; you know, democratic system, loyalty to democracy’s core nations and the pursuit of happiness (in healthy longevity) I concur.

          If I may say so, concerning history we are “two of a kind” in interest and knowledge and I so appreciate this. We may hope we can put present developments in good historical perspective and help each other and others with that.

          Hope you are doing well too, and for a long time to come.

        • PRCS says

          Jul 17, 2016 at 11:29 pm

          I have recently been in a Twtter conversation with an intelligent, educated Muslima resident of Jakarta.

          The conflict in our conversation, and the reason I agree with Wellington’s view, is the lady’s steadfast assertion that HER experience with Islam’s teachings, and the teachings of her mosque, differ from that of the “terrorists”.

          I know that for the MOST PART, Indonesian Muslims are not Salafists/Wahabbists–like our special allies in Saudi–but her absolute refusal to admit–despite her insistence to the contrary–that she is neither truly devout nor fully compliant.

          Polite, specific questions generally result in obfuscation.

          Like so many Muslims, she wants to defend her “religion”, of course, and has a great many excuses ready for that purpose.

          I’m sure she knows she’s being dishonest with both me–and herself–but the Kool-Aid pitcher seems to always be full, there.

      • Michael Copeland says

        Jul 17, 2016 at 1:13 pm

        A couple of useful points:

        The “vast majority of peaceful muslims” do not define Islam, nor can they influence or modify it. Islam is defined by ONLY its source texts. The “vast majority” is a distraction: Islam is not a Trade Union.

        “Painting with a broad brush”?
        It is not a brush. It is a book.

        • Demsci says

          Jul 17, 2016 at 3:29 pm

          Well, think about that; what you say; Islam is “source texts”, “a book”. Robert, and Bill Warner, and ,many others, define those source texts as Quran-Sira-Sahih Hadiths, this is the Sunnah. And nothing more than the Sunnah can be considered DIVINE by Muslims, it seems to me.

          But there are also weak hadiths and tafsir, exegesis. The tafsir clarify a lot and there are those 4 schools of, Sunni at least; Shafi, Hanafi, Hanbali (Saudi Arabia’s), Maliki (big in North Africa).

          BUT the tafsir cannot be DIVINE. And if it is only they who clarify Islam enough for right interpretation, and, if they do not have ultimate authority according to many Muslims,

          then logic might say; Hey, the Sunnah ITSELF, isn’t that UNCLEAR???, and Multi-interpretable, incomplete, obsolete, contradictory? And if it is, there is no need to paint Islam and Muslims with a broad brush because Unclear texts allow multiple interpretations of parts and thus also the whole.

          And yes, that really seems to be the case, now that we see that Muslim-apologists are discredited left and right on the internet, and the more they try to be precise, the more they get thrashed,

          by Robert and Hugh here, by David Wood, by ex-Muslims like ex-Muslim brother Ismail, then there are Amos Yee, vegan atheist, pharao, mr stick, imam brother (yes, really), voltaire’s ghost and more.

  14. Luke says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 5:57 pm

    No more. But who is listening? Who is equipped to actually change policy on this matter? There seems to be no political will at all to risk more trouble and admit Islamic immigration is a very bad idea. It has to be grass roots. It means people at church groups, in social gatherings, discussing the heart of the matter, if necessary some “Islam for dummies” courses in the community centre. As it stands, 99.9% of the population has not a clue what Islamic scriptures say, and yet, incredibly, ASSUME THEY DO – because they have a nice Muslim friend who told them one day a load of fluffy BS and Muslim mouthpieces on the TV keep spurting the same deceptions. They’ve heard “Islam is a religion of peace” about a thousand times already. It goes in.
    It needs activists, like you and me, educated on the matter, to start challenging in the internet domain, those who promote Islam and islamisation. It takes local councillors and officials to start making a stand, like the Swiss, against minarets and calls to prayer, to start to stigmatize the use of Burkas, FGM, and Sharia. We can all boycott Halal food outlets. I already do. Maybe you do to.
    This enemy is pernicious, it has many faces and hides behind floral patterns and pleasantries. When its true face is revealed it disowns it and slips out of reach. Many Muslims themselves do not know the true nature of Islam. It’s astonishing, but even I, with my limited grasp of the Sunnah, have schooled several lukewarm Muslims on their faith. It’s built on lies. A huge lie for a start that Muhammad was prophesied in the Christian and Jewish scriptures. Muslims don’t know that no such prophecy exists, They assume it does, but they seldom look at Jewish and Christian scriptures. Tell them!
    Tell them also the huge contradiction at the heart of Islam. Shirk – the unforgivable sin – assigning associates to Allah, is enshrined in their theology, by the myth that the koran has existed eternally in association with Allah in heaven (i.e. Allah didn’t write it!) Tell them, they’ve probably never thought about it. And if you are so inclined you could tell them also that they have a Savior in Jesus Christ, who, I believe is ultimately the only one who is going to sort this unholy mess out.

  15. Ngwu says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 6:59 pm

    Am sorry Europe, but this is only the beginning of chaos …you people don’t know what you have let in. am sorry and I really want to be wrong, but I will not be wrong. if I were in Marseille, I be on my guard.

    Germany my beloved country in Europe, get ready. please send or all of them, especially the males… remember history is not a friend to those who disregard him.

    • Johan Elzinga says

      Jul 17, 2016 at 10:08 am

      Thanks. It is now unstoppable. I do not see any other possible outcome than complete chaos and fights, more violence from any side now. Life as we knew it will not be restored I’m afraid. We will all long for the peaceful times we had.

  16. Paul N Silas says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 7:26 pm

    The Greatest trick the Devil ever played on mankind, was to convince us that he does not exist.

    Other than we Patriots/Crusaders, how many are aware of just how infiltrated our Government is with Muslim Socialist?

    Nice this week, Peoria, Cleveland, or Philly to come

  17. William says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    When is someone more learned and braver than I going to nail to the electronic door of the Church of Multicultarianism (Multiculturalism and Egalitarianism) the Ninety-Five Theses to begin a cultural revolution and to overthrow the current orthodoxy of heresies and its purveyors and its apologists? The time is nigh past to throw down this gauntlet.

  18. Mong says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 8:13 pm

    Having welcomed so many of them into our territories and with their numbers growing so much faster than our own and given the deception they engage in, can anybody come up with a realistic and comprehensive method of resolving this problem? I emphasise realistic because I think the aforementioned “concentration camps” are a non starter given the number of duped lefties around. So, what’s the plan?

    • citycat says

      Jul 16, 2016 at 11:30 pm

      Captue Allah and then expose Allah to daylight?

      • Mark Swan says

        Jul 18, 2016 at 6:25 am

        Good One

    • Johan Elzinga says

      Jul 17, 2016 at 10:05 am

      Make all primary schools state schools and not allow islam schools as in the Netherlands, children are brainwashed with religion both at home AND at school here

      • Demsci says

        Jul 17, 2016 at 11:18 am

        I 100 % agree there.

        But what happens in the “normal schools”? There are many Islamic children in the classes now and the subject of Islam and Democracy most of the time is very taboo or Islam and it’s history gets “whitewashed” a lot, because of that. Teachers not wanting to upset the Islamic children and their parents. As a result, everyone on every school behaves political correct. Let us hope we can solve that problem also.

    • Demsci says

      Jul 17, 2016 at 11:42 am

      For one thing, Mong. I like “Iterative thinking, design-thinking”. This entails NOT BIG PLANS, but SMALL STEPS. experimental plans, actions and quick study/ evaluation of all resulting feedback, data. Via Big Data Analysis. Then let us reject what fails, adopt what works.

      Experiments entail:

      Carefully note all that we really object to in Islam and the behavior/ mindset of Muslims, then formulate what is the opposite of that and demand that as tenet from Muslims, Muslim organisations and Mosques.

      Make contracts in writing for those opposites of what we object to. Muslims will likely often lie, but this tactic is for the benefit of convincing our own swingvoters, fence-sitters, political corrects, not for the illusion that Muslims will change.

      Examples;
      We object to deathpenalty for apostasy, so we demand from Muslims, Islamic org.s and Mosquest to put in writing a tenet that every one, including Muslims, is absolutely free and protected in choice of religion.

      We object against the Divine law and shariah being placed above the law of the land. Therefore we demand from Muslims and Mosques to put in writing a tenet of them that the law of the land is more important than divine law.

      Every Muslim, or for that matter, every citizen, who refuses to undersign that, get’s deported or jailed or heavily fined. And so are those who are caught still propagating Divine law as more important than the law of the land.

      We object to loyalty to enemy states or groups. And demand from Muslims, and if need be from all citizens, loyalty to democratic nations and their allies, over and above loyalty to enemies.

      Neutrality of Muslims should no longer be enough, given the tendency among hundreds of millions of Muslims to be allied to or in favor of enemies of democratic nations and the democratic system of government.

      Deportation for worst case scenario’s can be considered. And if no Islamic country will take deportees, they can even be deported to Greenland or Baffin.

      As long as Muslims have a choice in primary loyalty to democratic laws and nations and refuse to make that choice.

      Deportation-possibility will restore some confidence in Democratic Citizens, that we do not make irrevocable choices when we let Muslims into our countries. Because they are then in our countries on condition, even their children.

      And if need be; we can contemplate to let all citizens undergo the same vetting as we let Muslims have, so as to preclude the accusation of discrimination based on religion.

      Although, in the case of Islam, that is perfectly defensible, because Islam has at least quite a few very anti-democratic, intolerant tenets and laws that we are aware of now, very much in contradiction to our own democratic, tolerant tenets, values and laws.

  19. David, Thailand says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    Excellent piece as usual, but wasted on our unashamedly intimidated leaders.

    When black becomes white and it’s a crime to say otherwise, that society is deservedly doomed.

  20. G179 says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 9:13 pm

    In short: no more Obama.

  21. Norwegian says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 9:20 pm

    It is starting to get to me…

    Nice was a harder one than all the otherd…I saw the videos of dead people in the streets…streams of blood…

    It is getting to me…

    Drunk now..to get a break….

    I wish I could do more than just post statements and links on Facebook…That I had more people to talk to…

    We need another miracle just like Brexit…

    So keyed up now 🙁

    • Mong says

      Jul 16, 2016 at 9:53 pm

      You can do more. Concentrate on educating the people around you. Most people are totally ignorant to this issue and just need informing of the facts. Make sure your family and friends understand the situation properly and spread videos by people like David Wood (although he often pushes another religion) and Dr. Bill Warner of the Centre for the Study of Political Islam. As posting links to such videos on sites like this is often preaching to the converted, try posting them on loosely related sites, even unrelated sites! Now go to it and stay hopeful. All the best.

      • Johan Elzinga says

        Jul 17, 2016 at 10:01 am

        I agree completely!

    • Myxlplik says

      Jul 17, 2016 at 12:19 am

      It’s changing by degrees my friend, soon the truth will prevail, as its tempest is now lashing against this dam of lies our governments and the Left has built.

      Cracks are forming, it’s not long now.

      • Norwegian says

        Jul 17, 2016 at 6:38 am

        Yes, I know that. We are soon there. See it too…so I better hang on for the last hard miles ?

        This last year I learned who my real friends are. I learned who is strong and brave. I learned who I will never say a word to again and not forgive in a million years…That is for sure.

  22. jamesmi says

    Jul 17, 2016 at 3:04 am

    No more Mr Nice guy. Seriously. France could make a start by banning Islam, ad Angola has done. It should also bring back the DP for terrorism. Which ought to include something smeared with pig-fat, so that the criminal can’t enter the Mohammedan Paradise. An obligatory last meal including pork sausage and pork scratchings and bacon might be the thing.

  23. Baucent says

    Jul 17, 2016 at 3:08 am

    An excellent opinion piece. As the body count rises in the cities of the West, those reality dodgers who “see no evil,hear no evil, talk on evil” about Islam will find their lies increasingly met with the contempt and derision they deserve.

  24. Johan Elzinga says

    Jul 17, 2016 at 4:09 am

    I agree with most comments here. But unfortunately this will not change the fact that even “a thousand Nices” will not change the public attitude in Europe. I therefore repeat here what I said before: please let us all leave links to jihadwatch everywhere we can. Only awareness will help. Especially in the comment sections of leftish online media, I made it some point to post in German online newspapers so far. It will take you some time but, for what it is worth, it has a greater effect than posting here. Although I thank everyone on this forum for their effort to post comments here as well!!

    • eur says

      Jul 18, 2016 at 5:32 am

      The civil war is comming and will start soon , already openly say some political scientists , heads of national intelligence … and the war will be against Muslims and not against the Islamists .. against Muslims.

    • Epidermoid says

      Jul 18, 2016 at 12:11 pm

      Difficult to do in the UK because those outlets are rigorous in their proscribing of anything that suggests Islam is a problem. The egregious Guardian newspaper cannot tolerate freedom of coment in its ‘Comment is Free’ section and Harry’s Place too will resist the approaches of Spencer.

      • Angemon says

        Jul 18, 2016 at 2:06 pm

        I don’t know how the Guardian’s comment section is moderated, but I doubt it’s worse than how it is on my country’s #1 leftist propaganda rag… I mean, “impartial newspaper”. It’s community-moderated. There are three user levels. The first two levels have their posts subjected to the moderation/approval of users of the highest level, who can post immediately and without restrictions. How does a user level up? I have no clue – the site’s ToU has a vague description – “by participating in the comment section and expressing their opinions”. From my experience, people with the “right” (meaning “left”) opinions can get to the highest level in less than a week, while those who don’t are doomed to be banned almost as fast as they can create new accounts.

  25. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jul 17, 2016 at 5:45 am

    “… major acts of Islamic terrorism in the West … [are] happening so often, one right on top of the other, that we can hardly keep track of them…”

    And our weak minded political leadership have become professional mourners, while we citizens have been left largely defenceless in a war brought to our doorsteps by Islamic Soldiers.

    • eur says

      Jul 18, 2016 at 5:07 am

      Remember, USA America september 11 , Madrid Europe March 11 . Never forget. Stop Islam ..now.

  26. steve says

    Jul 17, 2016 at 6:14 am

    The time is NOW, for the English to storm their ‘Bastille’, the BBC, destroy it root and branch and end the lies and deceit spawned by this corrupt organ.

  27. duh swani says

    Jul 17, 2016 at 8:46 am

    If you kill for fun and profit, it is criminal and evil …But if you kill for Allah, it is a divine and glorious Holy act… As long as pl pleasing the blood sucking vampire Allah is a priority, the nonsense will continue…

  28. Mr. Maky Lemur says

    Jul 17, 2016 at 9:00 am

    ISLAM DELENDA EST.

  29. David says

    Jul 17, 2016 at 1:56 pm

    The laws must be changed. Islam is not a religion, but is instead an ideology very much like NAZISM!
    It is pure evil. It is subversive and sedition.
    The sooner it is BANNED in all civilised nations. And put under strict legal control, the safer everyone will be!

    • eur says

      Jul 18, 2016 at 5:01 am

      Ban islam and make the biggest purge of history , without violence if it is possible, expelling all , nationals and foreigners .. all of them. There is no other remedy, get together throughout the West and make a barrier against Islam , save all non-Muslims doing the same, free haven Muslim countries protected by heavy weapons . Disarm its Muslim countries and let them kill each other with machetes if they want . Every five years should be made purges in the west because they would infiltrate or subnormal people who would convert to Islam … those to the other side of the barrier. Breaking relations between Mordor and all civilized countries , expel any Muslim country of the UN and all organizations, wrest control of oil and vital resources for development and put them in the hands of the UN. ( Unfair but necessary ) . They are monsters and with monsters there is no negotiation possible.

  30. John A. Marre says

    Jul 17, 2016 at 2:57 pm

    Every time a Muslim attacks and kills innocent people, I wonder if this will be the one that helps the folks finally “get it.” Every time I am disappointed, once again. Maybe this time they will “get it.”

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