This entire episode should lead the French to do some serious soul-searching about their entire approach to the jihad threat. But it won’t.
“Suspected Strasbourg shooter Cherif Chekatt ‘killed during police operation,'” Independent.ie, December 13, 2018:
The suspected Strasbourg shooter Cherif Chekatt has reportedly been killed during a police operation.
Armed police launched a security operation in Strasbourg as they hunted for the gunman suspected of attacking a Christmas market.
The attack left three people dead and wounded 13 others, including five who are in a serious condition.
A police source told Reuters that the shooter was “neutralised”.
More than 700 officers were involved in the manhunt for 29-year-old Cherif Chekatt and prosecutors have opened a terror investigation into Tuesday’s attack.
The police operation took place in the Strasbourg neighbourhood where Chekatt was last seen.
A French police official said security forces, including the elite Raid squad, took action based on a “supposition only” that Chekkat could be hiding in a nearby building.
The official said the operation was sparked by reports of a person moving through gardens in the area.
French interior minister Christophe Castaner, speaking at the Senate while the roughly two-hour operation was under way, said it was aimed at “removing doubts” but did not necessarily mean the suspect was in that area. He said several similar police operations have taken place since the attack.
Meanwhile, the Paris prosecutor’s office said a fifth person had been arrested and placed in custody in connection with the investigation.
A spokesman said the man is a member of Chekatt’s “entourage” but not a family member and he was placed in custody on Thursday morning. The four others detained were Chekatt’s parents and two of his brothers.
Asked earlier about instructions given to police forces searching for Chekatt, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said the focus was on catching the suspect “as soon as possible,” no matter whether he was dead or alive, and “put an end to the manhunt”.
Police distributed a photo of Chekatt, who was wounded in an exchange of fire with security forces, with the warning: “Individual dangerous, above all do not intervene.”
Chekatt allegedly shouted “God is great!” in Arabic and sprayed gunfire from a security zone near the Christmas market….
Wellington says
A la General Philip Sheridan, the only good Islamic terrorist is a dead Islamic terrorist.
11B40 says
Greetings, Wellington:
Phil Sheridan said that about everybody !!!
Know any good biographies ???
Wellington says
To my knowledge, 11B40, Sheridan said that only about certain Indian tribes, such as the Cheyennes and Comanches. If you disagree, I would be most grateful for information by you here.
Now, I do very much understand that the American Indians were often treated horribly by white Americans, no doubt about this, but they in turn treated many white settlers horribly as well as each other. And let’s not forget that the principal reason why the Five Civilized Tribes (Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, Seminole and Chickasaw), in what is now Oklahoma, sided with the Confederacy was in order to preserve their black slavery system (quite conveniently this is virtually never mentioned in text books of today, just as free blacks owning black slaves in the South, and especially in North Carolina, is not either). Indeed, the very last Confederate general to surrender to Union troops was Stand Waitie, in late June of 1865, some ten weeks after General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox, and who was a Cherokee chief.
We live in a very phony world. The excoriation of Caucasoid wrongs, to the exclusion of mentioning the wrongs of other races, serves as partial testimony of this phoniness.
Respecting good biographies, I would direct you to Sheridan’s own memoirs, published in the very year of his death, 1888. If you wish any further information here, please don’t hesitate to ask.
gravenimage says
Personal Memoirs Of P. H. Sheridan
https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Memoirs-P-H-Sheridan/dp/0306804875
11B40 says
Greetings, Wellington:
I’m familiar with Sheridan’s work with the Comanche through T.R. Fehrenbach’s “Comanches: The History of a People” and a personal favorite General Ranald Slidell MacKenzie’s biography “Bad Hand”. Interestingly, In these Progressive days, Fehrenbach’s book has been retitled as “Comanches: The Destruction of a People”. Both their works contribute to the plot of John Ford’s classic 11B40movie “Rio Grande”.
Mirren10 says
Hi, Wellington, you can get Sheridan’s memoirs on amazonUK for free as a kindle download.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Personal+Memoirs+Of+P.+H.+Sheridan
lebel says
Wellington on historical events involving non-Muslims (particularly white Christians/Cultural Christians): We must bear in mind the context, there are multiple interpretations, the other side was also brutal (the side we invades and whose land we stole), history is being ideologized etc.
Wellington on historical events involving Muslims (or people with Muslim names): It was ALL Islam and ALL evil. 1400 years of it. Case closed.
Wellington can see right through fallacies expect when he or his side commits them.
Wellington says
lebel: I do not think all Muslims through the ages down to the present have been evil, so your attributing this sentiment to me is fallacious. I fully acknowledge that many Muslims in their day-to-day life have been good and decent. My wife, when she had cancer years ago (she was cured of it) was treated quite well by a black Muslim nurse, very kindly. Before I retired from teaching I had taught a few Muslims who were nice people, one in particular was a very good person.
My point all along, lebel, has been that Islam is evil, the only major religion I consider such. Its provisions like death for apostasy and death or severe bodily harm for any criticism of Islam, the Koran or Mohammed are simply wicked. The character of its reputed founder is also deeply disturbing, psychopathic and narcissistic clearly so I would contend, Islamic law to this day considers non-Muslims the equivalent of human waste (one of the ten unclean things according to Islam). And there is no Golden Rule for all in Islam, only for Muslims. There is also the matter of holy war (jihad), making Islam the only religion which in its theological blueprint calls for war to be made upon all mankind in the name of religion. When Christians did such in the past they were violating the tenets of their creed, not so with Muslims. And the Koran is the most wretched religious work I have ever read. And on and on like this.
You know, Marxism and Nazism are also malevolent ideologies, but some Nazis and Marxists in their daily life acted in good fashion. Nazi diplomats in China back in 1937 helped save some Chinese lives during the Japanese Rape of Nanking. Many Communists during the Cold War were, on a daily basis, good with family and friends but this didn’t make Communism (Marxism) OK. Conversely, you can have a good belief system like Christianity and yet some of its practitioners are hypocrites or even extremely bad human beings.
Put succinctly, an ideology, whether secular or spiritual, must be judged on what it says and never on the fact that some of the adherents of the ideology in question don’t fully implement its tenets or wrongly do so. I trust I have been clear enough for you here, lebel. If not, let me know. I welcome any response you might be inclined to make.
Charles Lutz says
Wellington, this reminds one of a story in National Geographic Society magazine where the Six Nation warriors are boosted with dithyrambic fervour while their savage attacks against vulnerable and peaceful New France farmers of early Quebec is totally swept under the carpet
gravenimage says
I see that the egregious lebel is sneering at the idea that there is a problem with Islam on a thread about a pious Muslim murdering innocent people at a Christmas market.
How *dare* the ‘filthy Infidels’ think there is anything wrong with this? Bad, bad dhimmis…
thebigW says
” that many Muslims in their day-to-day life have been good and decent. ”
Many Nazis were good and decent too. Depends on how much you narrow the focus, from the general cuture they’re enabling through to their micro goodness & decency part of that enabling. and part of that enabling is fooling us into thinking there’s no macro enabling going on.
Sons of Liberty says
Well stated , Wellington ! Most people in the United States today know little about slavery past or present including the fact that it is still ongoing ! Africa , the Middle East to name a few areas . I guess everybody forgot about Boko Haram and the Christian girls they took for their slaves of the right hand. Michelle Obama’s hash tag campaign was laughed at by the jihadists of Boko Haram. Ignorance is bliss .
11B40 says
Greetings:
My thanks to “Mirren 10” for the biography steer. Git both volumes downloaded this morning.
Martin says
video – Italian MEP Begs Europe to WAKE UP to Islamic threat
Angelo Ciocca (Lega Nord party), an Italian MEP in Strasbourg, spoke Wednesday December 12 in the European Parliament
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFv4IRF2zAs
Jayell says
There have been many people in the West who have been saying exactly this for years and have been ignored. Just like Chamberlain’s ‘Peace in our time’ 80 years ago.
J D S says
Hey folks …when someone gets off topic…we are talking about Muslim Terrorist not just terrorist in general our our American Indians …. try to steer them back yo the main topic.
Now as to France and this terrorist kill…As ROBERT states Nothing will change in France or anywhere else in Europe either. This mess has gone too far and there is not enough law enforcement personnel…To address the Muslim Terrorist situation in Europe those nations would have to bring in their Armies and that would just show too much force but this is war, where they want to admit it or not, and Armies are more geared towards war than police.
J D S says
….ERROR…. Should read .”.not our American indians” sorry bout that.
mortimer says
Agree that Islamic terrorists deserve the death sentence. After a proper trial, they ought to be executed. Moreover, death is EXACTLY what these delusional Muslims are seeking.
I am abolitionist except in the matter of Islamic terrorists who purportedly “LOVE DEATH”.
Be our guest.
That being said, I believe police should do everything in their power to bring these terrorists in alive in order to gather further information that will lead to solving the jihad problem.
somehistory says
He’s dead and five people have been arrested. So, he wasn’t a “lone wolf,” but a “known” one.
There will be others like him. There already are those like him. They just haven’t gone as far with their criminal actions to the point of terror. But, they will.
Wellington says
“There will be others like him.”
Indeed, somehistory. They’re out there right now in the world at large. By the hundreds. By the thousands. By the hundreds of thousands. Even by the millions. And a HUGE number of Muslims who won’t actually themselves engage in prescriptive, directed terror as instructed to do so by the Islamic texts (Koran, hadiths and sira) and by all the major schools of Islamic theology to this very day, both Sunni and Shiite, will nonetheless acquiesce in Islamic terror to some greater or lesser degree.
Islam is sick to its core. I have for a long time started from this premise and nothing, I mean NOTHING, has come to light which has remotely dissuaded me from doubting this assessment of mine. Actually, with each passing year I feel further confirmed in the veracity of this conviction.
somehistory says
+2
mortimer says
Support remarks of Wellington. Islam began as an EXTORTIONIST DEATH CULT and it REMAINS an EXTORTIONIST DEATH CULT … no matter how modern Muslims try to convince us otherwise.
Islam cannot be reformed because the GATES OF IJTIHAD were closed in 1111 AD.
Keys says
Yes, somehistory, and as others have said here at JW many, many times after these damnable atrocities: investigate and monitor the mosque(s) these Mohammadans attend.
Think of the resources needed to properly protect citizens from Islam’s fanatics ! It is untenable. Drastic situations call for drastic measures.
somehistory says
+2
gravenimage says
Good point–but I don’t think monitoring Mosques is drastic–really, it should be common sense.
Keys says
Agreed, gravenimage, that monitoring mosques is not drastic. We must do more than that.
Rufolino says
Do you live in Europe ? The “monitoring of mosques” is impossible. There would be an Islamic uprising proclaiming victimhood. This is the climate in which Europe lives.
The so-called “European Court of Human Rights” would come along to say it was “an infringement of a human right to practise religion”, etc. etc. and so on…
gravenimage says
Rufolino, I was not saying that Muslims would not go insane over any attempt to monitor Jihad terror plotting.
Michael Copeland says
Strasbourg mayor Roland Ries said that finding Chekatt meant the worried people of his city would now be able to return to a normal life. (BBC,co.uk)
All part and parcel of life in a modern city, according to Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London.
Keys says
The Strasbourg mayor is a fool. Sadiq Khan is no fool.
jihad3tracker says
Robert’s associate at AFDI, Pamela Geller, also has been covering this. For newbies to JW or readers who have not discovered her daily blog, go to www [dot] gellerreport [dot] com.
She is the most courageous civilian in our United States, with Robert right there behind her. Please take a few minutes every day of the week to read items she posts on the blog.
Google robo-fascists already skew conservative website searches into the lower ranks, so our heavy traffic directed to her blog is crucially important to offset Google’s agenda.
Undaunted says
I don’t think Robert’s courage is second to anyone.
gravenimage says
Agreed, jihad3tracker and Undaunted. Both great heroes of our time.
Wellington says
Definitely seconded.
don vito says
Is that mark on dead suspect’s forhead a zebiba? I can’t tell from the pics?
don vito says
maybe itace can tell us.
johnjjj says
I’d say so. earlier images don’t show anything. One of the many Salafi signs from the Maghreb.
gravenimage says
Looks like it to me.
simpleton1 says
The zebidah fits! (just where a moderate unicorn would sprout a horn) as guided by the “perfect man” Mohammad.
The “perfect man”, Mohammad’s words to guide all sincere, observant, pious, devout, reverent, faithful, righteous, dedicated, followers
Tom from Brussels says
Yes. It was reported in the French press.
11B40 says
Greetings:
Les Francais prefer “neutralized” as their verb.
Ashley says
You know, I’ve always had an issue with this “neutralized” crap. It sounds so “sanitary,”
Are we applying a paste of Borax to a stained apron?
somehistory says
A chaw of tobacco or a dip of snuff to a the large and painful bite or sting of a poisonous insect. Not pleasant, but effective.
Richard says
“Chekatt allegedly shouted “God is great!” in Arabic and sprayed gunfire from a security zone near the Christmas market….”
Firstly the Islamic cry is “Allah is the GREATEST [god]”. Akbar is in the superlative tense, (Great, Greater, Greatest)
Islam is supremacist religion and nothing illustrates it more than their supremacist war cry.
And nothing illustrates its murderous nature better than the acts it commands its believers to commit after uttering those words.
The only way its apologists and useful idiots defend it is to unanimously scream that this is not Islam and the person following its teachings was not a Muslim.
Peter says
Cremate him, and feed his ashes to pigs.
Ernie says
No need for cremation Peter ; just feed him to the swine .
Wellington says
Yes, Ernie, a better choice. All, yes ALL, Islamic terrorists, once dead and their corpses captured, should be buried in tact at an undisclosed location with slabs of bacon (or, as an alternative—yours—directly fed to fine and healthy pork products). And this needs to be very, very, very publicly announced. I say deny these barbaric bastards their 72 virgins and do it quite openly. replete with contempt.
If those leading the West right now were smart (they’re clearly not), they would publicly announce such a “policy.” Sadly, the chief “inhibitor” here is not Mo’s creed or Mo’s followers but rather all those silly kuffaars out there who continue to act in full dhimmi mode, as examples, May, Merkel, Macron, Trudeau and Pope Francis (shaping up as the most destructive Pope in history I would be ready to argue).
eduardo odraude says
I’m not at all sure the imams wouldn’t easily issue a fatwa that Allah will not blame the jihadist “martyrs” for the fact that infidels buried them with pigs. Islam is quite flexible in certain ways. That’s part of why its totalitarianism is so potent, why it has lasted so long and spread so far. Stories about American military use of such pork burial methods against Far Eastern jihadists seem to be mostly or entirely false, and even if there is any truth to them, what worked among some particularly provincial backwater jihadists in jungles in the Far East 80 years ago seems unlikely to work among a relatively much more cosmopolitan, information-rich jihadist population globally hooked up to the internet and to imams worldwide.
Ernie says
I like your recommendations Wellington , thank you ! Do we still agree in case of extending the procedures to jihadists caught alive Wellington ?
Wellington says
If jihadists are caught alive, Ernie, and then imprisoned, I say, let them eat pork products and little else. They can’t have a Koran or prayer rug either, but a Bible would be OK.
Ernie says
That’s nice Wellington . Thank you .
ItsReallyQuiteClear says
In French, that would be personne neutralisé au gratin…
Laveritétriomphera says
@ItsRealyQuiteClear,
Personne neutralisée au gratin (?) or personna non grata.
Gratin is a dish ex: gratin dauphinois and au gratin is a recipe ex:
Potatoes (pommes de terre) au gratin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufPyqzDyMUY.
ItsReallyQuiteClear says
Laveritétriomphera, I’m quite an admirer of the French language, and apologize if my abuse of poetic license caused any offense or confusion. I was referring to two earlier comments about the media’s use of the term “neutralized”, and about a suggestion that this jihadi murderer should become a meal.
Cordialement.
Lavéritétriomphera says
ItsReallyQuiteClear,
Bonjour,
Merci pour ces précisions, mais j’avais en quelque par compris. En fait l’expression consacrée est : “je vais le cuisiner aux petits oignons” car on ne gratine à ma connaissance que les légumes.
Amitiés.
ItsReallyQuiteClear says
Bonjour Laveritétriomphera,
Désolé, si j’ai mal compris votre commentaire. Et je pense avoir autant à apprendre de la cuisine que du français! Mais revenons à nos moutons. 🙂
Cordialement.
Lavéritétriomphera says
Bonjour ItsRealQuiteClear,
J’apprécie que vous vous intéressiez à notre langue et je suppose culture. Je signale que j’ai fait une faute d’orthographe : on écrit quelque part et non quelque par.
Pour revenir à nos moutons, le peuple français est très fier et notre président le sait puisqu’il s’est excusé de ses dérapages de langage lors d’une allocution télévisée. Nous n’accepterons donc pas que nos traditions soient remises en question. Le marché de noël de Strasbourg est l’un des plus anciens d’Europe !
Amitiés
ItsReallyQuiteClear says
Bonjour Lavéritétriomphera,
Merci pour la clarification, et bien d’entendre la dernière partie.
Cordialement.
Lavéritétriomphera says
ItsRealQuiteClear,
On fête aussi noël aux Etats-Unis et dans beaucoup de pays anglophones, francophones et autres respectueux de leurs traditions :
I wish you all a merry Christmas.
Amitiés
Terry Gain says
Pigs deserve better.
somehistory says
Pigs are smart. And some of their internal organs are much like humans.
They do deserve much better treatment than to be fed these moslim creeps.
We raised hogs many years ago, and some of them were even friendly and recognized a lot of words.
Now where they go to cool off…not so nice and kind of stinks. I’m sure the moslim creeps would feel right at home there.
gravenimage says
France: Strasbourg jihad mass murderer Cherif Chekatt “killed during police operation”
………………..
I hope this thug is enjoying his “72 Virginians”.
And note that this now seems to be a family affair–Chekatt, his two brothers, his parents, and a buddy.
Generally when you hear about a family and a friend re a Christmas market, the only issues are whether you all shop together, or if the older kids go by themselves, whether to get bretzels (French pretzels) or go straight for the sweets, and whether the tree at home has room for yet more ornaments. With Muslims, though, they are just trying to up the body count of innocent people.
God, I hate Islam.
WPM says
Anything nice peaceful ,colorful, musical, festival , family and friends having a good time Islam hates. Even hardcore Atheist and non-Christians can enjoy a Christmas market in the Western world. Islam enjoys others pain, fear, murder and sexually abusing others ,beating their woman all in the worshiping excuse of the pagan moon god allah. The two greats lies of the world in my opinion the devil is not real, and Islam is the religion of peace.
Wellington says
:There is no fun in Islam,” per that turd of a human being, one Ayatollah Khomeini.
gravenimage says
True, WPM and Wellington.
Carol the 1st says
Psychotherapist Dr. Phyliss Chesler has just written a review on Jihadist Psychopath (we’ll likely see it here soon). She says Jamie (and some other psychoanalytic theorists) believe jihadists are psychologically “empty” and have something akin to an “attachment disorder” (Osama bin Laden being a prime example in her opinion). The particular paragraph concludes with:
THEREFORE, A JIHADIST FEELS ALIVE AND POWERFUL ONLY WHEN HE OR SHE CAN “DOMINATE” AND PARALYZE OTHERS IN ORDER TO DESTROY THEM.”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/23146
abad says
Dear France:
If you have anything of a remaining conscience about your French culture, you will close every single mosque, round up every single Moslem and deport them back to a Moslem-majority nation, and place a moratorium on your tourist industry, shut your borders for awhile. Islam has never belonged in France.
Your country needs serious healing.
Good luck,
Me, 1/4 French heritage.
Wellington says
The many legal difficulties aside, abad, you expressed a beautiful sentiment. My compliments.
Notice to all Muslims: While we don’t intend so many of you any personal harm, indeed Western nations have protected your rights far more than any Islamic country has protected the rights of non-Muslims, we are nonetheless sick to death of your putrid religion.
May your Allah strike me dead tonight (no, not your Islamic thugs here on earth but your Allah) if I have erred here.
See you soon—and back with further excoriation of your religion, the worst religion of all time and a major drag on humanity in general (N.B., though an agnostic myself, I would not castigate any other major religion as I did just yours—GRASP THIS).
Rufolino says
“Close every mosque”. You obviously don’t live in Europe and are unaware of its current political realities. I sometimes get irritated by non-european voices telling Europeans what they should do. Come and live here.
WPM says
You could start by electing leaders who are willing to defend non_Moslems ,and face some kind of reality on the “refugee crisis”..
Wellington says
I did mention in my reply to abad, Rufolino, that there would be “many legal difficulties.” But what abad proposed in theory has much merit.
I am fully aware that Western Europe is much further along in dhimmifcation than is America. Western European countries also lack the equivalent of the First and Second Amendments to our Constitution (the oldest written constitution on earth I might add) and this is a damn shame too, but you have to start some time to correct what is going on and you are running out of time. If nothing happens, you can kiss Western Europe good-bye because between Islam and Leftism they will effectively make Western Europe unrecognizable from what it was.
somehistory says
My paternal grandfather was French.
David M says
I heard on BBC radio the local Muslim community where he was shot are shocked to discover he was on the watch list, shocked he was radical, shocked at everything.
Rubbish, they were harbouring him & knew exactly who he was, not one of them told the authorities he was sheltering among them & turned him in. They were all cheerleading for him.
Kavin says
How our radical leftist shovedown our throats their ideology, we need to spread the facts of shameful immorality of Islam and it’s prophet in light of righteousness. Make them feel the truth that to be in Islam is to be hate monger.
Don’t Stop loving Muslims, but hate Islam as much as you want.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
“And another one bites the dust, and another one and another one…” Queen.
What do you expect from people who follow the teachings of a suicidal, murderous, sex addict suffering from delusions and hallucinations due to temporal lobe epilepsy. RIP you poor fool.
Pathetic.
common sense says
“prosecutors have opened a terror investigation into Tuesday’s attack” and they have the shooters parents and siblings basically translates to another few months before more people are mowed down stabbed or shot.
common sense says
The west investigates and scratches their collective heads while Islam takes over gaining protection from the very people that westerners elected.
I’m glad they are foiling plots but it’s just a band aid to the real problem they won’t acknowledge ad naseum.
eduardo odraude says
Another devastating video from David Wood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=720&v=ps8iwcxaXV0
dan christensen says
This is what POTUS calls fake news and MSM calls real news:
The slightly psychologically disturbed young naive man, who had nothing to do with islam, was quietly and peacefully walking innocently around in Strasbourg last night. Suddenly he ran into a group of triggerhappy French racist, fascist military suppressors of poor muslims. The emotional volatile suppressor troops opened fire, when they spotted the young naive innocent muslim. Immediately they let the shots fly freely against the young naive innocent muslim man – just because he a looked a bit dark in the skin and had nothing to do with islam.
Let him enjoy his 80 raisins in his paradise – the dear poor innocent naive young soul.
Jasnan says
It is sad to know infidels don’t know the reason why mohammedian Muslims hate the west, to kill some one unknown to you need to hate their culture group, race… Etc.
Why Muslims hate the west
1. Right from childhood they are taught the infidel west are disgusting, commit dirty acts like homosexuality, adultery, ,drink alcohol, mock the stupidity of Islam…..all of these are criminal acts under Islamic law and recently they added a new propaganda, the west killed lot of Muslims( as though Muslims never killed anyone including their own)…etc …..in short the west are evil who support
Allah forbidden criminal acts.
2. Since childhood they segregate women and the male are guardian of women’s virginity and modesty ( wearing hijab, fully covered clothing, never never ever date, Mary, love , befriended infidel ) , in the Mohammedan’s eyes western women cheap, whores,sluts who are no more than sexual slaves, the Mohammedan in Europe despite western women and hate them if they don’t sleep with them, only Mohammedans commit gang rapes of infidel women, and children.
This hatred and disgusting feeling towards infidel makes them kill them, …… When they see successful hardworking infidel their hatred increases and he kills them….
Ernie says
NEWS : Thursday evening ( yesterday) three women were wounded In Nuremberg , Germany by knive-attacks . Police have no clues concerning the backgrounds of these knive-attacks . I’ve a dark suspicion . ( krone.at/1826416 )
Tom from Brussels says
Local television in Strasbourg when reporting the killing of Chérif, played Bob Marley”s “I shot the sheriff”. in the background. Today they’re busy apologizing to everyone, saying it was a technical error.
Bodega says
As an almost 80 yo woman, I am so grateful I will not live in the future of these times. My life has been wonderful overall; I am very happy with my kids and grandkids for the most part and incredibly proud to be an American and living in the USA. That being said, I am aghast at our collective lack of deductive reasoning power here in the USA and in a good part of Europe concerning the Muslims and their articulated threat to take over all societies. .
After reading the Quran, knowing a couple of Muslims (what a rare thing is that), and reading the news from Europe, the USA and the rest of the Americas including Canada for the last 5 years (and, of course, all those years earlier), I think the population of the world has gone brain dead overall. But the last 5 years have been very telling.
I knew we had a problem with Muslims when I was teaching graduate students at Texas A&M during the 80’s. Yes, as long ago as that, I was teaching and doing experimental work growing cell cultures and microbiological cultures.. Teaching and expecting students not to cheat and including stern admonitions in my introduction to NOT cheat, were part and parcel of my classes.
Plagiarism was a centerpoint of those remarks I gave them. At the end of the semester a term paper was required. I told them I would check every reference they used as authority to back their ideas and writings. One of my students, Pakistani, plagiarized almost his whole paper. Because of his nationality and religion and knowing my university wanted foreign students to succeed, I went to my Dean with his paper and my evidence. He told me to do exactly what my syllabus said I would do and that was to fail him. I did. The student was outraged and threatened me, disparaged my sex, told me I was stupid. I said we had rules and certain behaviors were not acceptable in academia. The next thing I knew my cultures, cell and microbiological were all contaminated with fecal coliforms. I went to the faculty in my department on an individual basis and back to my Dean. Nothing would be done because I didn’t have proof (like a video) that he had done that dirty deed.
Nobody even wanted to talk with him. He might very well have confessed to the male members of my department since he was so sure I was not only stupid but had no authority over him since I was a woman. (I was the only female member of that department’s faculty at that time.)
I knew then I could not remain at that university and I didn’t. I can’t imagine how it must be now to teach there with all the PC nonsense and the efforts to “pass” all minority students, colored students,etc. Degredation of the scholastic system has been an overall effort in the USA for many years and that includes K-12, and undergraduates and graduate students. I am so sorry I made not a dent in that.
dan christenen says
Thanks for your most telling observations.
Everybody with common sense can see that muslims are very poorly educated and fitted to cope with modern society. The basic fault with islam is its stubborn denial of science and technology, by accepting religious scriptures alone as valid sources for everything.
Even the most pigheaded religious fanatic is happy to be saved from sickness and death by modern technological hospitals and medicine. It is common knowledge that Israeli hospitals also admit muslim patients from Gaza and elsewhere; the muslim patients seem to be satidfied.
The pride and arrogance of islam is becoming downright intolerable for normal civilized nations. At some point the patience of the western world must run out – maybe when oil no longer is an indispensable commodity?
Wellington says
Thank you, Bodega, for that enlightened and informative post of yours. I can not only sympathize but empathize with you since right after I retired from the small college I taught at here in Pennsylvania, the new rubes in charge did away with my Western Civilization course as well as any required history course.
The descent continues. Surely. And Islam is “champing at the bit.”
gravenimage says
Very troubling, Bodega.
I first had trouble with Muslim students in the late 1970s. It took me some time to fully understand what had happened in the context of Islamic diktats, though.
somehistory says
In the late 80’s and through the 90’s into this century, moslims in Arlington were numerous. UTA is over-run with moslims from just about every country. They are arrogant in the community, acting as though they own the city, demanding special privileges and accommodations.
You did what you could and there is no need to apologize. One never knows for sure that there is not at least one student who has learned and appreciated the efforts of his/her teachers. I hope you live long enough to see a difference in what is happening…for the good of all.
Walter Sieruk says
That jihadist /Muslim, Cherif Chekatt , had a very harsh reality check after he died in that shootout with French police which occurred only forty-eight hours after he had murdered those people in this jihad attacks at that Christian market in the city of Strasbourg, France.
For instead of finding himself in a paradise, with or without virgins, he found himself, to his shock and horror, trapped and suffering in the fires of hell, Luke 16:1-31. As the Bible teaches murderer “will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21. The Bible also gives a list of those who are fated to suffer terribly forever in the Lake of fire and murderers are on that list, Revelations 21:8.
Furthermore, all those heinous jihad suicide/homicide attacker are both murderous and demonic. It now should be made known that this jihad murderous bombing is the outcome of the Islamic doctrine from the Qu‘’ran [the Koran] of a sexual paradise with many virgins, houris , in it for the male Muslim /jihadist who dies fighting in the jihad for the cause of Islam is found in the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran, in Sura 44:54. 55: 56. 78:31. Also there is the Koranic instruction of Sura 9:111 which teaches “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Getting back to the origin doctrine of Islam from the Koran of a sex –filled paradise with many houris for the use only by the male jihadist who dies fight for the advancement of Islam. All this started when the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad manufactured Islam he put , had stolen, some of sex doctrine of Zoroastrian mythology and a yet smaller bit of Hindu mythological sex teachings along with as well as mixture pagan Arabian folklore and myth plus a heavy dose of Judaism and Christianity . Also some of it apostate “Christianity” For the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, couldn’t discern the difference between genuine Bible based Christianity and bogus “Christianity.” Those words and teaching Muhammad gathered from many sources, including the virgins /sex place mythology. , and taught as “Divine Truth” were written down on many things then later compiled and then went into the composition of the Koran. So the hoax of the Koran is actually a mixture and fusion Judaism Christianity and mythology of other religions and now the Muslim clerics with the Koranic brainwashing of young Muslims who are thoroughly mind programmed into believing this Islamic/Koranic virgins myth. This deception of false doctrine /myth into the thoughts of some people was predicted in the Bible along with the false teachers who engage in the indoctrination of such a myth /doctrine into the minds and hearts other people . For it is written “For the time will come when they will not stand wholesome teaching, but will follow their own fancy and gather a crown of teachers to tickle their ears. They will stop their ears to the truth and turn to mythology.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [N.E.B.]
Walter Sieruk says
This heinous malicious and murderous shooting in Strasbourg France by a jihad-minded Muslim terrorist is a reflection of Islam with it’s vicious Islamic god ,Allah. For this hideous jihad deadly violence is Quranic based . As found in Sura 2:191. 9:5, 123. 47:4. To become even for specific the Quran instructs in 9: 111 “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain they kill and are killed.” That’s just what those jihadist/Muslims do in, Israel , Egypt, Iraq and Syria they “kill and were killed.” .Likewise, the Quran teaches in 47:4. “Whenever you encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” Furthermore, on Palestinian television Imam Suliman Satari said “Annihilate the Infidels… Allah count them and kill them, to the last one and don’t leave even one.” Furthermore Imam Abu Hamza Al-Masri said “What makes Allah happy? Allah is happy when Kafiers get killed. [1] . The above words of these Imams reflect the example of Islam’s prophet and the teachings of the Quran. “Muhammad now fell upon them [the Jews] slew all the men, nine hundred of them…”[2] In short, these Imams and their murderous prophet with their bloody Quran show the world what Islam really is. After all, Jesus did teach “by their fruits ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:20.
[1] The disc documentary OBSESSION: RADICAL ISLAM’s AGAINST THE WEST
[2] THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: THE WHOLE STORY OF MAN by H.G. Wells