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We Are Living In A Nihilistic World

Oct 13, 2016 2:01 pm By Michael Devolin

 

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“Americans have learned to expect, after every Islamist terror attack, lectures instructing them that such assaults should in no way be connected to Islamic faith of any kind.” — Dorothy Rabinowitz

In Vancouver, B.C. they are now handing out free heroin to addicts. Turns out that the B.C. government is spending more money on drugs than on treatment to get addicts off drugs. One caller phoned in to a CBC Radio host, complaining about the absurdity of such a self-defeating strategy and remarking: “We are living in a nihilistic world.” He pointed out what should have been the obvious, that such a program did nothing but encourage addicts from the surrounding areas to move to Vancouver to get free drugs, that handing out free heroin to these addicts would only accommodate their addiction, not remedy it.

We are doing to the same for jihadists. We are bending over backwards to avoid connecting Islamic terrorist attacks with Islam proper. We are concocting the most bizarre excuses for the religion of Islam, so as not to blame the religion of Islam for the transgressions of its most zealous (and always murderous) followers. This is why I long ago referred to Islam as “the Teflon religion.” Because nothing seems to stick to it. No amount of savagery and bloodletting in the name of Islam seems to bring any measure of culpability to Islam. Jews and Zionism are calumniated for all the misfortune befalling the so-called Palestinians; Christians are blamed even for Islamic terror attacks (e.g. the Orlando terror attack); but Muslims and Islam seem to be covered by clouds of exculpation when it comes to their most observant religious. Hell, Justin Trudeau even rewards jihadists returning to Canada by allowing them to retain Canadian citizenship. Thank you, Canada.

Dorothy Rabinowitz writes: “On no subject has there been more sermonizing than on Muslims and terrorism and on what the real Islam is and is not—no surprise in an administration which has from its outset tended to the apparent view that the American nation is essentially composed of yahoos whose barely controlled instincts to riot require regular monitoring and checks by their enlightened betters.” But it isn’t only in America where an obtrusion of the inverse morality of our “enlightened betters” is steamrolling over the common citizen. It’s happening in Canada and Western Europe as well. Our children are being inculcated and indoctrinated, contrary to our wishes and in spite of our protestations, with the bizarre notion that simply because Islam is ancient and the religion of choice of countless millions, we must avoid all criticism and condemnation of this faith and its followers. Or else. We must accept, for example, the Western media’s general claim that Muslim Arabs stabbing Jews to death or running them over with cars on city streets in Israel is not because the Arab is Muslim and the Israeli is Jewish, but rather because those Jews targeted are Zionists and therefore bad, and the Muslims attacking them are victims of Zionist conquest and therefore good.

Viktor Frankl wrote: “It is characteristic of American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to ‘be happy.’ But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to be happy.” The same applies to Canadian culture. Not only are we commanded and ordered to be happy, but we are also forbidden the liberty of feeling unhappy, of voicing our dissent and our disquieted contempt for governments and media that perpetuate the lie that “Islam is OK” and that the influx of Muslim refugees from countries where Christians are today being murdered by Muslims is nothing we should feel anxious about. The Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (as reported in the UK’s Daily Mail) stated: “At a time when the numbers of displaced and refugees have hit an all-time high, Islamists groups — ISIS foremost — are carrying out religiously motivated ethnic cleansing of Christians.” They further warned: “In parts of the Middle East — particularly in Syria and Iraq — the crisis is so severe that barring significant interventions on the part of world powers, the Christian presence may disappear completely within a decade or even sooner.” The obvious nihilism here is found in the present governments of both Canada and the United States and their hard sell to their respective citizens, which is that these same Muslim refugees have left behind their centuries-old hatred of Christians and Jews upon arriving on our shores. Nothing is further from the truth.

I believe the atrocities Christians are suffering in Syria and Iraq is a direct result of what Neil Kressel refers to as “the Muslim sense of superiority.” When you read anywhere of apologists posturing about Islam and Muslims as tolerant of other faiths, believe it not. The essential criteria of Islam is an imperialistic agenda that is absolutely contrary to the circumscribed visions and concepts of democratic nations. As Alasdair Palmer of the UK’s Telegraph reported way back in 2009, “So it is a mistake to pretend that there is no conflict between principles that are supposed to animate British society – freedom of religion, equality of the sexes, and the primacy of secular law made by democratic representatives – and fundamentalist interpretations of Islam. But much official policy seems to be based on the hope that such a conflict is illusory, and will simply evaporate if we pretend it is not there.” Well, this conflict is still with us, plaguing Western societies at an even greater rate than it was in 2009. And we are still pretending it is not there. We most certainly are living in a nihilistic world. Now more than ever.

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  1. Damocles Junior says

    Oct 13, 2016 at 2:42 pm

    Muslim Superiority. I am not an expert on this matter, just an observer in far off Australia where we too have a very serious “Muslim Problem” Their whole mind set is based on their assumed superiority and if it is challenged in any way they claim victim status.

    The most obvious sign of their superiority complex is the burka. It almost shouts to mainstream Australia that we as Muslims are better than you are. We will defy all your professional and other accepted dress codes or even regulations. “If you feel uncomfortable being served by a Muslim in a department store, that is your problem, go to the manager and complain and you will be prosecuted for race vilification” or Don’t hire us and we will go straight to the discrimination authorities and sue etc”

    Then there are those evil looking mosques that now dominate our suburbs, they get erected despite vigorous community protest.

    Their whole mindset is “We are right, Islam comes first no matter what. We, poor deluded nominally white Christians will even change the school curriculum to accommodate Muslims. They know that we are frightened of offending them (Muslims). They have it all over us.

    Here in Australia Muslim crime and terror does get reported as such but at the highest levels of government we are still reaching out to them and enforcing our human rights laws that protect them.

    In the meantime anyone who criticises Islam is still called a racist bigot. Oh, when will we wake and see what is happening, are we so blind?

    • overman says

      Oct 13, 2016 at 4:00 pm

      Yes, DJ, your absolutely right. l saw a video recently about the African [muslim] gangs terrorizing Melbourne – Apex Gangs.

      • Damocles Junior says

        Oct 13, 2016 at 5:27 pm

        African & Muslim = The immigrant from Hell!

        About 10 years ago a very senior and respected member of our Federal Parliament, Mr Kevin Andrews MP, then Minister for Immigration, called for a ban on African Immigrants to Australia for this very reason. He was totally condemned by the self righteous hypocrites in his own party, the loopy left, aid agencies, the Church, the Greens & the UN. It almost cost him his political career.

        • overman says

          Oct 13, 2016 at 5:58 pm

          Yes, and now the sport shops in Melbourne are almost ‘sold out’ of baseball bats, because Melburnian citizens can’t rely on cops to protect them. They should never have banned guns in Australia a few years ago – isn’t that a coincidence; sudden mass immigration of muslims and the banning of guns – perfect timing. Seems fishy to me.

        • Damocles Junior says

          Oct 13, 2016 at 6:04 pm

          To overman, Have you thought for a moment who is buying hunting knives from those sports shops, the answer is very scary! (I imagine they are more deadly than kitchen knives)

        • overman says

          Oct 13, 2016 at 7:01 pm

          “To overman, Have you thought for a moment who is buying hunting knives from those sports shops, the answer is very scary! (I imagine they are more deadly than kitchen knives)”

          Yes, all sorts will buy weapons, but decent ppl are allowed to defend themselves when law enforcement are not around.

          Have you seen some of those kitchen knives – there like machetes lol

          But, l know exactly what you mean. However, blackmarket guns aren’t hard to come by – especially for muslims.

          Civil War in the suburbs isn’t far off l think.

  2. Crimelord Canada says

    Oct 13, 2016 at 4:29 pm

    Treating patients for what a serious health issue, addiction, is not remotely akin to appeasement of Islam.

    Heroin in these cases, 26 only btw, is being used exactly the same as any other opioid, primarily methadone, used in cessation treatment or long term care. The vast majority of patients receiving this kind of care live productive and healthy lives, quite the opposite of nihilism.

    • Kepha says

      Oct 13, 2016 at 6:07 pm

      When I was recovering from back surgery, I was given a pain killer which, the physician’s assistant warned me, was an opioid, and if I found that some off-the-shelf pain killer worked for me, I should use it rather than the opioid. I took that advice and never looked back.

      My guess, however, that feeling good and righteous from being EmCeePeeCee is even more addictive!

    • UNCLE VLADDI says

      Oct 14, 2016 at 3:47 am

      Poor little victimologist! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ADDICTION!

    • DiMu says

      Oct 14, 2016 at 8:00 am

      Where is your evidence they are living healthy and productive lives? Certainly not the ones I’m all too familiar with – ie those who actually haven’t died of an overdose!

      Methadone is not a vaccine, it is a continuation of addiction and has the side effects of all addictive substances.

  3. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Oct 14, 2016 at 3:46 am

    THERE’S NO MONEY IN SOLUTIONS!

    There are also no crimes nor criminals, because we’re really all only helpless victims – of society/ mere products of our environments, and of course proud slaves of allah! Since we can never truly understand the complexities of cause and effect, therefore all so-called facts are really only opinions, so our liberals’ entirely fact-free, subjective opinions are the diversely-opposite equals of the conservatives’ silly objective facts! GOT IT, YET?!

    😉

  4. ninetyninepct says

    Oct 14, 2016 at 9:59 am

    The braindead politicians in British Columbia are spending at least $27,000 / yr giving free heroin to addicts. This is attracting even more addicts who are demanding even more free heroin. The politicians and bleeding hearts in BC are drug dealers and are breaking the law.

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/crosstown-clinic-heroin-addiction-1.3779768

    I am a BC resident and I am demanding they give me at least $27,000 so that I feel happy. There could be grounds for a lawsuit. I will be looking into this.

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