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Harvard lecturer worries in Slate that Berlin jihad attack will “give a big boost to the far-right”

Dec 20, 2016 1:34 pm By Robert Spencer

Yascha Mounk is a lecturer on government at Harvard University and a fellow in the political reform program at the Soros-funded New America foundation. He writes: “And the murder at Berlin’s Christmas market is very likely to incite hatred against innocent immigrants and refugees.”

Has the Left really sunk this low? Yes, the Left has really sunk this low. Do they really mean to pursue their immigration and globalization initiative in spite of how high the body count rises? Yes, they do. Do they care in the slightest degree about the Islamic jihad threat and the innocent lives jihadis take? No, they do not. They would rather see Europeans and North Americans murdered by jihadis than reconsider their globalization project.

“A Dangerous Day for Democracy,” by Yascha Mounk, Slate, December 20, 2016:

…Monday began with the news that a Turkish policeman had gunned down the Russian ambassador at a gallery opening in the heart of Ankara, apparently to protest the cynical destruction of Aleppo, Syria. Thankfully, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have improved their hostile relationship over the course of the past year, which makes it less likely that Russia will blame the Turkish government for the ambassador’s death. And yet the (admittedly imperfect) parallels to 1914, when the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at the hands of a Yugoslav nationalist precipitated World War I, were unnerving . The need for de-escalation was clear, which quickly gave rise to dark jokes about keeping the escalator-in-chief, Donald Trump, off Twitter for as long as possible.

The jokes hit home. How comforting it has been, over these past eight years, to know that the inhabitant of the White House is a man of great decency and extraordinary composure, someone who can be counted upon to weigh his steps and their consequences with care and intelligence. And how terrifying it is to think that, a month from today, the inhabitant of the White House will be a man who acts rashly and impulsively, with a self-assurance borne of ignorance and a braggadocio that expresses itself in an incessant form of self-assertion that pays little heed to its own consequences….

We live in a time at which one tragedy begets another. The senseless slaughter in Aleppo helped to inspire a dangerous death in Ankara. And the murder at Berlin’s Christmas market is very likely to incite hatred against innocent immigrants and refugees. It will also give a big boost to the far-right Alternative for Germany, which has, according to recent polls, in any case been on course to become the country’s third biggest party at next year’s elections. And so the different horrors of our age form an unholy alliance: Every terrorist attack increases the power of the populists. As their power grows and minority groups are openly discriminated against, more immigrants become susceptible to the temptations of martyrdom.

I don’t know what consequences the violence in Berlin or Ankara will have. I don’t know whether we will eventually manage to contain the twin waves of populism and terrorism. I don’t know whether it is wiser to be optimistic or pessimistic. None of us do….

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  1. miriamrove says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 1:42 pm

    What a DB. m

    • DAI says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 3:09 pm

      Id like to punch the shit right in the gob. Scum

    • Guest says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 6:59 pm

      These types fail to understand that most AfD politicians, as well as Donald Trump had plenty of other things to do with their lives and are only turning to politics because the situation has become so desperate. Perhaps the reason they fail to understand it is because Mounk and similar people *don’t* have anything better to do with their lives than pretend that they are dabbling in politics.

      • Saleem Smith says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 8:54 pm

        And don’t forget that most tenured university and college professors make upwards of $80,000 a year. Acquiring a masters degree and securing tenure at a university or college means big bucks and much job security.

        And most institutions and teachers are hard-Left in virtually every respect. When it comes to Islam they all teach a white-washed, completely sanitized version of Mohammedanism free from all criticism.

        Sadly, most universities and colleges today actually increase “the Islam problem”. Regular JW commentator Wellington would likely know much more about this phenomenon than I.

        We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that the main problem with Islam is its founder and his example as the model man for human behavior. Muslims are obedient to the words Muhammad to such an extent that they are eager to die for them in hopes of attaining Islamic Paradise with its promised virgins.

        Muhammad is the most evil human being to have ever lived and the Quran the most dangerous and harmful book in print. Until both are discarded by Muslims more jihad is surely on the way.

        Quran 033:021:

        ‘There is a good example in God’s apostle for those of you who look to God and the Last Day and remember God always.’

        Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:

        “One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…

        The statement continues,

        Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”

        • Saleem Smith says

          Dec 20, 2016 at 9:32 pm

          Singh the Sikh said:

          ‘Imagine, this type of drivel passes as analysis at Havard nowadays. It’s the terrorists who alone incite hatred against migrants with their murderous actions. You can only take in so many cold-blooded killings of unarmed, unprepared innocents before something gives. The westerners’ incredible patience and generosity have been returned with murderous Islamists rampages – one after another. A good number of refugees see westerners as decadent and evil. They support the jihadists out of religious duty and conviction, even if they don’t commit violent acts themselves, but this simple fact is too hard for this moron to grasp. Why is it only Muslims going on killing sprees, rapes and well-coordinated mass sexual assaults? Why not migrants of other religious communities, one wonders? Why do we see the same pattern in all countries with Muslim migrants?’

          We ex-Muslims know that Muslims attempt to follow every detail of Islamic theology and law and this naturally leads them to engage in jihad terrorism and the enforcement of Sharia law.

        • Pajaro says

          Dec 21, 2016 at 1:32 am

          Thank You!

        • Dave says

          Dec 21, 2016 at 5:48 am

          AGREE

      • Saleem Smith says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 9:39 pm

        Thanks, Singh the Sikh, for your comment below. Islamic theology is most certainly an evil fraud.

    • Anne Smith says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 5:13 am

      Poor English as well. It is correctly “none of us does” not, “none of us do”.

    • john spielman says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 9:52 am

      at least he was ripped to shreds( academically speaking) by the comments of the SLATE readers

  2. IQ al Rassooli says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 1:43 pm

    This CRETIN of a so called ‘lecturer’ is more worried that so called Right Wingers will have more support than any compassion to the VICTIMS

    Like ALL leftists they still have not grasped that it is precisely because they (leftists) have been putting a sealed lid upon Muslim atrocities that millions of ordinary Europeans and Americans have had it with these Politically Correct utterly clueless and criminally negligent elites

    It is the LEFTISTS who are literally forcing ordinary citizens to gravitate towards the only voices against the Muslim onslaught that is coming from so called rightists

    Just as what happened with Trump’s Americans, the same will happen in Europe who will literally overthrow every single leftist government and turn their full wrath upon the Muslim INVADERS

    Already a revolt is stirring in Merkel’s party. This is the beginning of her END!

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

    • Custos Custodum says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 3:25 pm

      Why does everyone cling to the polite fiction that the ultra-hard Left does not actually WANT the foreseeable and foreseen consequences of their Project 4M (Massive Male Muslim Migration)?

      This Harvard minion and his paymaster George Soros are elitists who WANT to sic Muslim terror on the general population to create a compliant, submissive underclass at the beck and call of an intellectual and protected elite (i.e. themselves).

      Rule by elite “cadres” is at the very core of the communist/hard-Left cult. Their actions make sense ONLY if one dares consider that this is their real aim.

      • mortimer says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 6:17 pm

        Responding to Custos Custodum: the Leftist ‘guardians’ of Western countries are BEING BRIBED by Gulf oil money and by the bankers who earn a living off of them! THEY ARE SODDY SELL-OUTS

        What OTHER conclusion makes sense?

        • Custos Custodum says

          Dec 20, 2016 at 9:23 pm

          Bribery by SA and Qatar is certainly part of the equation but the cadre-based totalitarian cults go back to the late 1800s at least.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 6:14 pm

      Agree with al Rasooli! Jascha Mounck is a fraud who exposes his LACUNA of knowledge on Islam. Jascha Mounck has not read Islam’s foundational source texts (the Koran, Sira and hadiths or the canonical commentaries), and yet, preposterously he presents himself as an AUTHORITY on Islam.

      Leftist academics are especially prone to make EX CATHEDRA PRONOUNCEMENTS about Islam (just like Pope Frank). It is ABSURD to claim to understand the COMPLEX POLITICAL SYSTEM OF ISLAM without MINIMALLY READING and then STUDYING the source documents.

      I doubt that Jascha Mounck has read even ONE of Islam’s voluminous foundational TEXTS! He is GUESSING. An academic should know better than to GUESS while making a PROUNOUNCEMENT outside his field of learning!

      • Oliver says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 7:44 pm

        Mortimer, I might be wrong, but I think his field of expertise is being stupid. Just my views (of him and most of the Harvard and Yale elites).

  3. Ecosse1314 says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 1:54 pm

    The idiot doesn’t even know that Pricip who killed Franz Ferdinand was a serbian nationalist…not a yugoslavian which was not even created in 1914

  4. common sense says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 1:58 pm

    “A lecturer on govt”- a lecturing govt is the reason people keep getting killed. Our enemies laugh in our face and claim social benefits while they carry our attacks.
    -misdirection speech for the herd of the ignorant.

    So if I don a turban, a robe and grow a beard do I get to punch this evil ahole in the face without fear of consequence? As long as I make a ‘beautiful prayer’ to Satan 5 times a day and complain of inequality?

    • common sense says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 2:02 pm

      Correction, Carry “OUT” attacks

  5. Norger says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 1:58 pm

    “More immigrants become susceptible to the temptations of martyrdom.” WHAT?!!! Since when is “martyrdom” such a great “temptation” to anyone other than Islamic terrorists? Jihad terror is just so “tempting” to oppressed immigrants like that dessert you just can’t resist. You know, at some point ANY oppressed immigrant just has to give in to the overwhelming “temptation” to start mass murdering innocent strangers. There is one, and only one immigrant group that reliably contains a certain number of individuals so “tempted.” The apologists for Islamic terror are completely shameless. Unbelievable, just unbelievable.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 11:56 pm

      Yeah–no one else is “tempted” to kill themselves while murdering as many unbelievers as possible…

  6. Guy Jones says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 2:00 pm

    ” How comforting it has been, over these past eight years, to know that the inhabitant of the White House is a man of great decency and extraordinary composure…”
    —–

    I think that Neville Chamberlain was also thought of as “decent” and “composed.”

    Can you imagine the U.S. waging war on two fronts in World War II with today’s histrionic, emasculated Leftists constantly hindering the effort by urging restraint in the face of transparent and evil totalitarianism, and, vilifying those who would combat such totalitarianism with unabashed resoluteness and unequivocal moral clarity?

    These people are contemptible reprobates. Frankly, they are worse than that — I’m at the point where I think that anyone on the Left who excuses, rationalizes, parses, deflects and trivializes totalitarian and fascistic ideologies of hate and aggression is rightly labeled a collaborator and an enabler of those ideologies and of the jackboots who practice them.

    • Westman says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 2:45 pm

      I see the left as spoiled children, what Ralph Nader called “sustained adolescents”, expecting all their privileges to be free and throwing tantrums when denied. They want to be the child of Christmas and not the real Santa who must sacrifice while passing up the gifts and credit. And when Santa suggests not playing with scorpions…Waahhhh

      • common sense says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 3:46 pm

        I second Westman and Guy, with force and vigor!

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 22, 2016 at 12:02 am

        Yes, good posts.

  7. jewdog says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 2:02 pm

    How about importing fewer of the sort of immigrants who will be tempted to use terrorism? Oh, excuse me, but I’m just one of those simplistic right wingers.

    • DFD says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 2:33 pm

      jewdog says: “….Oh, excuse me, but I’m just one of those simplistic right wingers.”

      Aren’t we all, aren’t we all. If you don’t agree with the left you are a Nazi, bigot etc., in your case you can point out that you use the handle “jewdog”, wont make any difference. Say: ‘Israel’ and you will be told that this a Nazi country!

      In the European “free press” for instance, any party that is not part of the current cliques/regimes is automatically labelled as ‘far right/nazi/neo-nazi’. Such as the AfD in Germany, their party program or manifesto? Practically identical with the CDU 20 years ago, pre-Merkel that is. They are a party continuously demanding that the verfassung (constitution) must be scrupulously adhered to.

      We live in interesting times, no?

      • Oliver says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 4:48 pm

        DFD– re: your comment- the German AdF platform being practically identical with the CDU 20 years ago, pre- Merkel.

        Pres. Elect Trump’s saying build a wall between the US & Mexican borders– BILL CLINTON SAID THE SAME THING, WHEN HE RAN, THE FIRST TIME.

        As to limiting UNSKILLED IMMIGRANTS- NOT ONLY DID BILL CLINTON CALL FOR THAT, SO DID HUSSEIN OBAMA.

        BUT, to the leftists assholes, only Trump is a racist. (By the way, when did Mexicans become a race? I thought that it was a description of a citizen of Mexico).

    • don vito says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 3:47 am

      Imagine having to share a country with that putz? Even the same planet? OK, ok yeah we have to, but couldn’t that putz have been in a different dimension?

  8. Crusades Were Right! says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 2:03 pm

    He comes across like a slimy, pseudo-intellectual, politically-correct poseur. I’ll bet he wears badges to show how “anti-racist” he is.

    Pillock.

  9. davej says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 2:06 pm

    That’s murders plural, asshole.

    So anyone who sees something wrong with terror attacks and the welcome refugees policy that spawns them is automatically “far right”? Just shows how beyond the pale you hopeless Marxist left wing scumbags really are.

    • K0lk says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 3:58 pm

      It’s leftist scumbags like this that, by attempting to censor and ridicule anyone who opposes the evil that is Islam, enable and abet it. They are actually defending that murderous, barbaric ideology. These two groups need a swift sweeping from our societies. We are the chickens, the left is the gatekeeper, and Islam is the fox.

  10. Benedict says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 2:25 pm

    “more immigrants become susceptible to the temptations of martyrdom.”

    To validate the Muslim concept and definition of martyrdom: to kill others in order to be killed – shows how Islamic poison has infected this guys mind.

    A martyr is “a person who is put to death or endures greatsuffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause.” – not one who murders people in order to get a reward in heaven.

    • Oliver says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 4:49 pm

      Benedict-he is at Harvard. Do you expect him to be knowledgeable?

      Just has to toe and spout the party line.

    • davej says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 11:03 pm

      Excellent point. The Islamic concept of martyrdom illustrates their arrogant and egotistical attitude. Rewards for murder are just more “booty” to these immoral imbeciles.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 22, 2016 at 12:30 am

        True.

  11. Jack Diamond says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 2:27 pm

    Let’s see, “more immigrants become susceptible to the temptations of martyrdom”…as they are discriminated against. 17 quick questions:

    So, Muslims only take their faith seriously (as in seeking martyrdom) when they are “discriminated” against? Not otherwise? Even if they are “discriminated” against (and what do you consider discrimination?) because their co-religionists are murdering non-Muslims in the name of Islam? What kind of discrimination “forces” someone to kill themselves in order to murder infidels? Banning the burqa? Stopping Muslim immigration? The country fighting ISIS? Lynch mobs?

    If they take martyrdom seriously, what else in the doctrines of Islam do they take seriously that we should be worried about? Anything? But if they are “safe” peace-loving secular-liberal-democracy-loving Muslim immigrants who reject violence, why oh why would “martyrdom” even be on the radar as a choice for them, why would martyrdom even be a “temptation”? Is it a temptation for any immigrants besides those who are Muslims? Don’t they face discrimination?

    Or does Islam only teach there is something virtuous about dying while fighting in the way of allah and taking allah’s enemy with you? Who does allah say are those enemies? Just who is inciting hatred against who here?

    • Norger says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 2:43 pm

      Precisely. Thank you Jack.

      He is just so matter of fact about this; “of course, if we upset them, we have to understand that a few are likely to give in the overwhelming ‘temptation’and start committing random acts of mass murder.” Very similar to the old saw that we better not alienate “moderate” Muslims or they’ll join their head-chopping brethren. In either case, it’s all our fault,you see.

      Does this guy even stop to listen to himself?

    • efoc says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 8:19 pm

      An excellent and most incisive response. Thank you very much.

  12. Westman says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 2:28 pm

    Let’s correct a statement with reality:

    ” Every terrorist attack increases the power of the [new] populists. As their power grows..” ours, the power of the current Left Populists, diminishes. We don’t like idea that people are returning to the support of the US as a nation, rediscovering the importance of maintaining its freedom, and praising the opportunities that flow from such freedom. We have spent a considerable effort to rewrite the national history into dishonor, prepare the way for one world government, fund our special interests with other people’s money, and, through avoiding national service, enjoy rights guaranteed by other peoples lives. — The current Populist Left.

  13. Isabelle says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 2:29 pm

    Soros-founded ? Ok . I understand.

  14. JawsV says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 2:36 pm

    What can you say? He’s a leftist moron. He should be deported to Yemen.

    • Oliver says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 4:52 pm

      Or Pakistan. or Syria or Iraq or perhaps Iran? And, he should take 25,000 (or more) of those who think like him, with him.

  15. CrossWare says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 3:05 pm

    What worries me, that a moron like him still there, lecturing and ruining and indoctrinating countless young minds.

  16. Champ says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    Yascha Mounk is the one who’s “dangerous”! …wow what a useful tool for islam this whiny lil’ *coward* is.

    • Guest says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 3:18 pm

      People can only be pushed so far, and his sort are becoming a useful tool for us. Have you noticed that the best-liked comments in HuffPo, Slate, Independent etc after these hand-wringing articles could have been written by JW readers?

      Let them keep posting their propaganda – it’s just making more people wake up.

      • Oliver says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 4:54 pm

        I read the other day that Huff Post was bought by a firm that is controlled or owned by AOL. (I believe it is/was Verizon).

        If Verizon does own AOL- and they continue with their bid to buy Yahoo,-shouldn’t that raise anti-trust issues?

        And, does anyone really take Huff Post seriously anymore>

        • Carolyne says

          Dec 21, 2016 at 4:24 pm

          AOL bought Huff post several years ago. I don’t think they own Verizon or vice versa though.

          Arianna Huffington, the originator of Huffington Post is a Greek who was married to a California Congressman. Her hubby decided he was gay and took off with a boyfriend. She was left with several young children. She used to be a conservative and appeared as such on talk shows but her husband leaving must have done something to her brain, because Huff Post was and is as left as they come.

        • Oliver says

          Dec 21, 2016 at 4:40 pm

          What I recall about Adriana Huffington. Husband was a Congressman from Cal
          Was gay
          Also worth in the 9 digits from inheritance. When divorced
          Children were asked with which parent did they want to stay

          Were close to being teens.
          All said father

          I read that years ago

          And both she and husband very conservative

  17. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 3:17 pm

    Merkel is as guilty as sin regarding taking part of the blame for that Islamic terror truck attack. For her PC politics and polices led to that murderous jihad murder disaster. Furthermore, is should be made clear that the “holy book” of Islam, the Quran, [the Koran] gives instruction in the ways of the violent and deadly jihad. To give only one out of many examples of this from the Koran is Sura 47:4. Which teaches “Whenever you encounter he unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” Let’s face it, using a large truck as a weapon, as the Muslim /jihadist did, can sure make a greater “slaughter among them” than a sword can.

  18. somehistory says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 3:21 pm

    Harvard has an ethics course, and ethics program. This guy should be taking it instead of faking it. He looks as though one would find him on the street, dragging puffs on a cig and talking about what he was gonna’a do when his mom kicks him out.

    His assessment of the current guy in the WH is so skewed by his thinkful wishing as to be utterly contemptible.

    To bad students at Harvard are subject to his insanity.

    • somehistory says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 3:22 pm

      “Too” bad.

    • Shmooviyet says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 5:31 pm

      “thinkful wishing”, ha ha.
      This jerk and his circle of friends are going to be swamped in nostalgia for years, what with their careful-composed-thoughtful-decent-grownup Prez gone from rule forever.
      Agreed: the students are doomed to some nasty brain-bleaching as payback.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 12:37 am

      I hate to think what is being taught in the Harvard Ethics courses these days…

  19. Richard says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    Yes…damn those dead and injured people at the Christmas market for annoying that Muslim jihadist and causng him to kill and maim them, because this will now create an unwarranted backlash against Muslims, who will then be forced to go out and kill more people.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 12:40 am

      Grimly hilarious, Richard.

  20. Singh the Sikh says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 3:47 pm

    Imagine, this type of drivel passes as analysis at Havard nowadays. It’s the terrorists who alone incite hatred against migrants with their murderous actions. You can only take in so many cold-blooded killings of unarmed, unprepared innocents before something gives. The westerners’ incredible patience and generosity have been returned with murderous Islamists rampages – one after another. A good number of refugees see westerners as decadent and evil. They support the jihadists out of religious duty and conviction, even if they don’t commit violent acts themselves, but this simple fact is too hard for this moron to grasp. Why is it only Muslims going on killing sprees, rapes and well-coordinated mass sexual assaults? Why not migrants of other religious communities, one wonders? Why do we see the same pattern in all countries with Muslim migrants?

    • Carolyne says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 5:21 pm

      And I truly am alarmed at the brainwashing our children get in colleges today. A college degree really is worthless in many situations today, but necessary to get a job whether you know anything or not.

  21. TheOldOligarch says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 3:48 pm

    I always find it funny when leftists say this. It really is amazing how often they complain about reality ‘giving ammunition’ to the Right, or ‘giving credibility’ to the Right, or how the Right is going to use X or Y event to boost their appeal. Obviously none of these events are evidence that the Right is, well, right. No, of course not, they are just random, freak occurrences that just so happen to coincide with what people on the Right are constantly predicting and saying is obvious

  22. Wellington says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 4:02 pm

    Proving once again that the Left has no proper moral compass and no common sense.

    • Kay says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 8:22 pm

      I agree. To call common sense “far right” is simply a way to discredit valid points of view and to keep people from becoming aware.

      To be “far right” now simply means I want my country and my laws. Ridiculous.

      • boakai ngombu says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 10:54 pm

        the left are short sighted and some left are so far left that far right might actually be middle

  23. Lesley says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    The Left is basing its logic on fallacies such as western powers’ actions in Syria or non-action for Palestine has brought acts of vengeance upon us.

    It’s amazing that these many smart people fail to read Islamic texts for themselves. Upon even cursory study, it becomes glaringly apparent that just existing and not being Muslim is cause for “righteous” violence within the sick ideology of Islam.

    Thank goodness for President elect Trump. His election was the silent majority’s revolution against the Left without a shot being fired.

    I’d like to buy this guy a one-way ticket to the cr@pistan of his choice…

  24. Tim says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 4:49 pm

    Muslim grins after the attack in TV:
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1442241015816091&set=p.1442241015816091&type=3

  25. Oliver says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 4:58 pm

    I heard these same statements made by some lefty on the radio, after the Nice murders.

    NOT ONE WORD about the dead or injured, just that Europeans would flock to a person like Mr. Trump.

    And that was 6 months ago; perhaps this asshole heard the same thing, and is just regurgitating it, with a few variations for the past 6 months.

    Sick bastard.

    • Wellington says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 5:09 pm

      Yeah, you’re right, Oliver. This guy is a sick bastard, a morally sick bastard. So no wonder he’s teaching at the university level. A lot of such lesser human beings can be found now at former institutions of higher learning which have devolved into institutions of lower learning.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 12:49 am

      True, Oliver.

  26. mortimer says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 5:36 pm

    Yascha Mounk lives in denial of the supremacist jihad doctrine.

  27. Angemon says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 5:38 pm

    Look at that prick’s face and tell me if it isn’t just begging to be punched?!?!?!

    And the murder at Berlin’s Christmas market is very likely to incite hatred against innocent immigrants and refugees.

    Well, Mr. “Look at me, I’m standing up for the innocent immigrants and refugees”, in your little scenario, where exactly is this alleged “incitement of hatred” taking place? Because it seems that the ones doing the incitement are the people behind the attack – i.e., the terrorists. And since you’re so keen on the plight of the “innocent immigrants and refugees”, do you have some sort of plan to distinguish between potential terrorists and genuine, good-willed people who just want to have a shot at a life with dignity, or genuine refugees escaping persecution that’ll be eager to repay their host nation? You must have something up your sleeve, right ? You wouldn’t just be trying to tug at people’s feelings to try to make them feel bad for having a survival instinct, would you?

    It will also give a big boost to the far-right Alternative for Germany, which has, according to recent polls, in any case been on course to become the country’s third biggest party at next year’s elections.

    Listen, you jackass. First of all, groups like AfD or Pegida, are NOT “far-right” (or, if they are, they’re hiding it very well so far). You don’t know what “far-right” is because you keep tossing that term around as a “press here to win the argument” button. Second, do you know *why* that happens? Do you know why groups like AfD get a boost in popularity from jihadi attacks like the one in Berlin yesterday? Because they’re the only ones addressing the source of the problem and promising to do anything about it. Jackasses like you and your hive-minded “right-thinking” (i.e., left-aligned) buddies keep telling the people that have to deal with the fallout from Merkel’s policies on a daily basis that they’re wrong, that they’re not experiencing what they are, in fact, experiencing on their daily life and that they’re “islamophobes”, “bigots” or “racists” for having the gal to disagree with you.

    Do you get that, you ignorant buffoon? If people are turning to “far-right” groups it’s because s***stains such as yourself drive them to it by making it impossible to have an open, fact-based discussion about their problems, thus cutting off any other alternative. What do you think people will chose if they have to pick between being lauded as “tolerant”, “open-minded” and “progressive” and having to live in constant fear that they or their families will be assaulted, raped, murdered or any combination of that during their everyday routine, or being called “racists”, “bigots” or “islamophobes” by people living in ivory towers but not having to worry about whether they’ll survive the work-home/home-work route or being hit by a truck on a Christmas market?

    • Bezelel says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 8:05 pm

      Angemon, “Look at that prick’s face and tell me if it isn’t just begging to be punched?!?!?!”
      That was my initial thought as well. So smug, as if he’s ascended above the human nature of “fight or flight” We peasants must seem so trivial to such a benevolent demigod. But then the thought occurred to me that we still need a replacement for Ambassador Stevens. I should think he would jump at the chance.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 12:53 am

      They “incited” the poor Muslims by going to a Christmas Market…

  28. Islam the religion of killers says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 5:42 pm

    Idiot, of course it’s going to make the population lean toward the right, the right want to protect it’s citizens and don’t want the country to die a social death it will never recover from ……

  29. Shmooviyet says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    You’d think these deranged turds would just once tire of seeing a terrorist attack, dashing off a small scrap to telegraph their tolerance and to shudder at the approaching backlash against innocent immigrants, then waiting and watching for nothing.
    But instead every new terror appears to be another chance for them to pump their egos.

  30. Keval says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 6:00 pm

    There would not be any boost to far right, any increase in hatred against immigrants, if governments were doing their job of providing justice and protecting innocent civilians against such attacks, instead of trying to manage information.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 6:31 pm

      Jascha Mounck fears to “give a big boost to the far-right”. He has exposed his motive. The Left is admitting to using Muslim migrants to divide and rule the hated Christian which the Left hopes to neutralize in their traditional countries in Europe and the Americas.

      Jascha Mounck has let the Leftist cat out of the bag. He is hoping to continue the Muslim invasions for the purpose of POPULATION REPLACEMENT… that is, he wish to replace FREEDOM-LOVING CHRISTIANS with Muslims who love TOTALITARIAN RULE.

  31. WVinMN says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 7:24 pm

    Given the frequency of Islam inspired terrorist attacks and the near complete lack of reprisals, how does anyone sane take people like this over paid, highly credentialed propagandist seriously? I guess I answered my own question.

    • Oliver says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 7:55 pm

      What credentials does he have, for anything? That he teaches(?) at Harvard?

      i would think being a left leaning, near communist or communist fellow traveler is all that si required. And, a hatred of the west; of Jews and Christians.

  32. Carlos Danger says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 8:57 pm

    Soros tool.

    • Oliver says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 9:03 pm

      To Benzel.

      I think better replacement for the late Ambassador Stevens. Sidney Blumenthal and his two sons. And if they get killed
      What difference would it make
      Question

      HRC can go along and say the Libyans are such nice people

  33. Badger says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 9:24 pm

    When muslims protest these massacres on the same scale as they protest against Israel defending itself (120,000 in the London streets a couple of years ago) then I might begin to view them in a slightly more favourable light.

    Until then I regard muslims as my enemy and I will continue to hate them.

    Why is it always the right that provides protection against this evil cancer? What left wing leaders would you trust with this problem?

  34. Rob says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    So where were the rampaging packs of right wing revenge-takers after 9/11, London, Madrid, Beslan, Lee Rigby, Ft Hood, San Bernardino, Boston, Orlando, Times Square, Bataclan, Brussels etc etc?
    Advanced societies operate under the social contract. They believe that no matter what the provocation, some things should be left to the law – not vigilantes.
    But there is a limit and we could be reaching it. If 2017 doesn’t result in a wholesale political correction in France and Germany particularly, we will be in for trouble.

    • underbed cat says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 12:50 am

      I agree , good comment about advanced societies and lawful behavior, due to our laws that are not,…..not sharia.

  35. underbed cat says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 12:39 am

    To read the description that describes Obama in terms that he was a leader “with great decency and composure”, leads me to understand he is not aware that appearing composed during a crisis does not equal making good decisions, especially since if he understood islamic doctrine, the goals of the muslim brotherhood, ie refer to the Explanatory Memorandum from the HLF trial, he may conclude otherwise.
    He is trained, precisely to misdirect the motives and agenda of the religion of peace, he is following sharia law by not exposing the true nature of sharia and the roots of jihadi terror. His first speech as the leader was to the MB, a group tied to terrorism in Egypt. The ties go on and on with his choices of staff and the obligation to protect Americans, no matter how sincere he sounds, he cleverly disguised every step to benefit the doctrine followers that have no tolerance for the kufur,…Christians, athesist and Israel. It really was a type of calm infiltration, appearing nuetral.

    • Mak says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 11:29 am

      Obama was a disgrace to us. Every other world leader, Netanyahu (Israel), Modi (India), Putin (Russia) all considered him to be spineless. And he was. Along with other western leaders this is not just a risk to those of us who are non-Muslim or any religion or none. This is a risk to our very civilization.

  36. ScottM says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 2:45 am

    Mounk and cohort are dangerous fools. It appears that it makes no difference how much evidence is stacked against them and their stupid policies – its just business as usual. They must be stopped at any cost before they take the rest of us down too. Their idiocy is beyond comprehension.

  37. f c king says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 3:58 am

    These are not innocent refugees. These are muslims migrating en masse, with no intention of endin g their dark-ages , supremacist religion and politics. They are migrating to where they can extract free food, housing medical care, and make many babies. They need to stay home and fight for a safe homeland.

  38. BC says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 4:46 am

    Robert you missed another parallel, as also did Mounk. The shooting of the diplomat vom Rath in Paris in November 1938 by 17 year old Jew Grynszpan, which was used as justification for the Kristalnacht pogrom. He actually wanted to kill the ambassador and got he wrong official.
    The fact that the perpetrator of the Berlin murder jihad on innocent civilians is no doubt a Muslim, will not provoke a similar reaction against the Muslims in Germany. This lays bare the fallacy of the Muslim claims to being treated by the Jews in Nazi Germany and their ridiculous claims to victim hood.
    BTW this historic pogrom event is brilliantly described by Ian Kershaw in his masterwork Hitler 1936-1945
    Nemesis, Chapter 3

  39. BC says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 4:50 am

    Sorry for mistake it should read ‘like the Jews in Germany’ not ‘by the Jews”

  40. scherado says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 5:21 am

    I understand that one might be worried that the dreaded “far-right” might be correct. Yes, I do. This, too, would lead one to conclude that the Harvard professor is incorrect about a few things.

    Oops!

  41. Marty says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 5:32 am

    There is no more “far right” ideology than islam.
    It starts openly where Nazism stopped.
    The so called “far right” in the UK has been described by Corbyn &
    other Labour politicians to include Labour MPs who supported Blair.
    It’s a meaningless term now.
    As a social liberal, I welcome the “Far Right” if it means Geert Wilders
    & Marine Le Pen.
    So do millions like me, who see the non racist, non anti semitic “Far Right”
    as the only hope for the European peoples.

    • Madhvi says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 5:39 am

      Well said

  42. Madhvi says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 5:37 am

    Kind of like saying during WW2after discovery of horrors of concentration camps :” Oh dear . This discovery of the camps will stir up anti-German sentiment ”
    No sympathy for the victims; no condemnation of the perpetrators. Just a constant attack on those who work to prevent further bloodshed and threats to freedom

  43. Badger says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 10:27 am

    This guy, like so many self-hating Jews, must be an embarrassment to his decent compatriots, the Jews who have defended civilisation in the Middle East for centuries and are still the only ones who understand the threat to the world outside islam and actually fight the real enemy.

    • IQ al Rassooli says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 10:38 am

      Like most leftist (liberal) Jews in academia, media and entertainment they literally have the intellect of morons by being totally brain dead Politically Correct

      Most of them by the way are from Harvard! A cesspool of unintelligent ‘academicians’ because they use Emotions instead of Logic in their thinking process and fail miserably every time

      The foremost Jewish thinkers have been and continue to be those who support Trump and or the Republican movement!

      IQ al Rassooli
      Kafir & Proud!

  44. eL says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 10:38 am

    I wish it did give such boost and also a good kick up the academics butt

  45. Florida Jim says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 10:52 am

    Harvard has become a laughing stock for political correctness and ideology. Many, many years ago it was a fine institution of learning and varied ideas that has changed since 1965 it is now raping students by brainwashing them at very high charges for little knowledge mostly brainwashing by democrats for democrats. Another failure of our institutions.Every black professor has become a radical race-baiter milking blacks and students laugh all the way to the bank or Goldman-Sachs where they hangout.Ask Ogletree how much money he has made and how much more he will make off the reparations he has worked on for 50 year, disgusting.

  46. Jaladhi says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 12:04 pm

    Just read the last para from this moron.:

    “I don’t know what consequences the violence in Berlin or Ankara will have. I don’t know whether we will eventually manage to contain the twin waves of populism and terrorism. I don’t know whether it is wiser to be optimistic or pessimistic. None of us do….”

    He is equating populism with terrorism – is this due to ignorance, stupidity, dead brain cells …

    ..or all of the above!

  47. Gordon Miller says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    If I’m alive (very doubtful) when my grandson gets into Harvard, I will not give one penny for his tuition.

  48. RL Robison says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 5:36 pm

    How speaking is it that a professor of government at such an upper-crust college as Harvard should equate populism (defined as “a belief (often anti-establishment or anti-intellectual) in the power of regular people, and in their right to have control over their government rather than a small group of political insiders or a wealthy elite”) with terrorism. How evil and deranged, he thinks, that regular people should believe that their opinions, wants and needs should be respected in their own countries. As I have been preaching for over half a century, Americans do not pay nearly enough attention to what their kids are being taught in American schools. The results of that lack of oversight have recently been demonstrated on school campuses across this country and by “educators” like Yascha Mounk.

  49. gravenimage says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 11:39 pm

    Harvard lecturer worries in Slate that Berlin jihad attack will “give a big boost to the far-right”
    ………………………..

    This creep doesn’t care about the victims, or all the future victims of these pious Muslims–just that some “far right” might venture that letting in all these violent Muslim invaders might not the be best idea…

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