My latest in PJ Media:
So it turns out that the acting director of the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, William Perry Pendley, has denied the Left’s “climate change” mythology, and opposes jihad violence and illegal immigration. CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski is out for blood, trying to get Pendley for heresy, that is, for his dissent from Leftist orthodoxy.
My first reaction to this was, so what? William Perry Pendley is in the Bureau of Land Management. What does that have to do with “global warming,” unless Kaczynski thinks that the sea levels are going to rise and swallow whole cities, including Obama’s new beachfront estate, and we’re all going to be dead in 12 years? What do jihad violence and illegal immigration have to do with land management? Kaczynski here shows that he would have been a terrific Gestapo official: why no, sir, you cannot have a position as a grocery clerk, because you have shown insufficient ardor for the Führer.
And indeed, the left is increasingly open about its totalitarianism. Those with dissenting views will not be allowed to hold jobs, even if those jobs have nothing to do with the subject of their dissent. A few years ago I was invited to address an education conference in California that had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam; the hate-filled fascist Georgetown University thug Nathan Lean got the cowardly Catholic bishop Jaime Soto, under whose auspices the conference was being held, to cancel my appearance. (I spoke at the conference as scheduled, in a venue outside the bishop’s purview.) And also a few years ago, the Washington Post discovered that Qur’an-burning pastor Terry Jones was driving for Uber; they duly got him fired. I don’t approve of book-burning, but it is not illegal in the United States, and the idea that a man must be hounded forever and prevented from making a living for views that dissent from the Left’s reveals what Leftists really are.
Among William Perry Pendley’s heresies was that he “has repeatedly pushed hardline anti-Muslim views, including citing an article by anti-Muslim activist Robert Spencer in a 2018 tweet to claim Islam was at war with America.”
Here Kaczynski employs the familiar smear of Leftist “journalists,” that opposing jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others makes one “anti-Muslim.” That could only be true if all Muslims endorse jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others. Does Kaczynski believe that? If so, he should accuse himself of “Islamophobia” and resign in disgrace from CNN. In reality, opposing such things doesn’t make one “anti-Muslim” any more than opposing the Nazis during World War II made one “anti-German.” I’ve only said that about ten thousand times, and have said it directly to Kaczynski in emails. He doesn’t take any note of it, because he is not a real journalist, he is a Leftist propagandist who is not interested in the truth, but only in shaping the world by imposing his narrative upon it. He may succeed for a while, but all totalitarian thought-control breaks down in the end under the weight of reality.
In this case, reality may break in on Kaczynski in a most unpleasant way, when he discovers that the Islamic jihadis he has enabled and run interference for are something less than grateful.
Kaczynski smeared Pendley with this: “‘Who knew? Islam’s war with America started just up the road in Greeley, Colorado!,’ Pendley tweeted. In the article, Spencer floats unfounded conspiracies about ‘leftists’ allying with ‘Islamic hardliners who adhere to Sharia, a system of laws that would have many of them executed.’”
The PJ Media article in question details how Leftist were banning the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” which Muslim Brotherhood theorist and Islamic scholar Sayyid Qutb also found objectionable. That wasn’t a conspiracy theory at all. Both the Leftist hatred for the song and Qutb’s similar hatred for it are amply documented in the article and elsewhere. What is ironic here is that Kaczynski claims that I spread “unfounded conspiracies about ‘leftists’ allying with ‘Islamic hardliners who adhere to Sharia, a system of laws that would have many of them executed.’” Yet in demonizing me for opposing jihad terror, he enables those Islamic hardliners. In claiming that the idea that Leftists would ally with Islamic hardliners is a “conspiracy theory,” the hardcore Leftist Kaczynski allies with Islamic hardliners to try to destroy those who stand against jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others. Conspiracy theory?
There is much more. Read the rest here.
gravenimage says
CNN Tries to Get Interior Department Official Fired for Opposing Jihad Violence
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Just appalling. And how is this within the purview of the press, whatever Pendley’s beliefs? Opinion is on one thing; this is something else.
That he is merely opposed to Jihad terror–as every decent and sane person should be–makes this all the worse.
mortimer says
Diversity of opinion is only for Muslims.
Manuele Lui says
GEORGE SOROS DIRT MONEY SO SWEET FOR CNN. HATE IS GREATER THAN ANYTHING. ALL THE YEARS OF EDUCATION TO BE JOURNALIST TO WRITE THE TRUTH & BE FAIR IN WHAT THEY’RE WRITING FOR/ABOUT. NONE OF THAT MATTERS. HATE HAS TAKEN OVER, EATEN UP DUE TO HATE FOR/OF THE TRUTH. THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH A PASS AND FAIL CREDITING. FAIL IN EXAMS WAS NOT AN ALTERNATIVE FOR THEM ALL AS TO HOW THEY GOT TO POSITIONS THEY’VE BEEN OCCUPYING. “THEY CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT TO ADMIT THEIR WRONG DOINGS. THEY CAN’T MOVE FORWARD THEREFORE STUCK IN THE PAST. AMERICA IS BEING JEOPARDIZE BY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY & THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA THEIR CORRUPT FRIENDS. GOD BLESS AMERICA. BLESS ITS PRESIDENT & HIS ADMINISTRATION.
RegT says
The Left has discovered that this method of _politically_ SWATting a conservative works as well as actual SWATting. The many halls of government are full of Deep State™ scum who spend many hours in their third-floor walk-up flats, cruising the Internet looking for tweets and posts that can be twisted to make a conservative appear to be a racist, supremacist, or otherwise undesirable.
The worse crime is the weak-kneed, pissant supervisors who force these victims of twisted and spun comments, or comments made when they were a callow teenager, to resign. Judged guilty before – and after – an explanation, proof that they were never guilty of what they were accused.
mortimer says
The US was founded upon the right to dissent from what the government says, but CNN has not received that memo. CNN wants yes-men and they want only yes-men. And CNN wants the government to be full of yes-men as well.
CNN is a censorship outfit that only carries the party line and nothing else. CNN is the Leftist-Globalist party organ. The only question is ‘who is the ultimate boss of CNN?’
The exposure of the RED-GREEN AXIS is one of the things that worries CNN the most, so I am not surprised that they do their utmost to cover it up.
Islamism and communism have been close allies since the days of the KGB. The RED-GREEN political collaboration is now a clear pattern going back many decades and not just a ‘theory’.
In fact, there’s practically no ‘THEORIZING’ to do about the RED-GREEN AXIS, because ‘The Squad’ and other RED-GREEN teams show up regularly in one another’s company. The following, for instance:
“An Antifa protest outside a Maxime Bernier event in Hamilton got slightly out of hand last weekend, when 81-year-old Dorothy Marston was called “nazi scum” while trying to enter the venue where the leader of the People’s Party of Canada was speaking. ”
https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2019/10/soufis-restaurant-toronto-antifa-hamilton/
An antifa thug was the son of Muslim Syrian restaurant owners. Is the young man an Islamist or a communist? Choose one.
Clearly, the Left is using Islamism as a rough ally to harass and intimidate conservatives. Once they achieve unending political power, the Left will abandon Islamists … Stalin did that in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
The Left is clearly an ally of the Muslim Brotherhood, since they never criticize it.
Joe Z. Wells says
Theirs must be an awful life to live when you’re constantly offended by everything & everyone who you can’t control and everyone who doesn’t agree with you. This is the legacy that they have passed on to the next generation. This emotional rollercoaster must cause all kinds of chronic illnesses. Hypertension, high cholesterol, heart problems and anxiety to name a few.
Cicero says
Your last sentence is very correct Joe Z Wells . Yes.
Reziac says
Get all the soy and flaxseed out of our diets, and you’d see a remarkable reduction in this behavior — soy and flaxseed contain huge doses of phytoestrogens, which are thyroid inhibitors. That in turn leads to all the health issues you cite (obesity is a co-symptom, not a cause), plus a drop in sex hormones (leading to soyboys and infertility), AND it negatively impacts one’s ability to think clearly. Otherwise-intelligent people deprived of the ability to reason become anxious and paranoid, and dependent on their new religion (leftism) to tell them how to behave and what to believe.
Angemon says
That was certainly the case with Greta Thunberg – by11 she had suffered anxiety, depression and had an eating disorder, after years of her parents telling her how
global warmingclimate change was going to doom everyone slowly and in the most terrible ways…RegT says
First, the connection goes back to before WWII, when the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was bosom buddies with Adolph. Second, getting rid of the muslims afterwards will not be a trivial endeavor. In Europe, they will have out-done the native Europeans in population, and will have taken over the countries which allowed unchecked immigration, as the muslimas -four to a muslim – have baby after baby.
It’s called demographic jihad, and it is well on its way to success.
mortimer says
Macchiavelli said, ‘Be sure: our friends never speak ill of us.’ CNN never speaks ill of the Muslim Brotherhood or of political Islam.
paul 316 says
Maybe Kaczynski is simply afraid, fearful that if he were to tell the truth of islam/jihad like Robert Spencer and other writers at JW that he would have the sometime negative effects of being courageous and standing up for the truth that would be uncomfortable like losing his job, having his life and the ones he loves threatened, or worse just to name a few.
gravenimage says
If he were just afraid he wouldn’t have to lie about it.
paul 316 says
True
Kurt says
Some of us here believe climate change is real. What % is man made is a question. I wouldn’t agree foes of Jihad terror also deny climate change.
Westman says
True enough. Climate Change morphed into Global Warming after it was pointed out that Climate Change has always been in dynamic flux. Then, of course, the unanswered question is, “How much of Global Warming is due to humans?”; which brings up more questions such as, “Can it actually be reversed?”, and, ” If China, the largest heat/CO2 polluter, refuses to cut back can there be a successful reversal?”
The Left, in religious fervor, declares, like Chicken Little, that we are doomed while NOT knowing the most important question: “How much of Global Warming is due to humans?” Of course, a couple of volcanos of sufficient proportion could cause Global Cooling for years in a system that has no actual “normal” state within the scale of millions, or even thousands, of years.
And as you mention, Global Warming has nothing to do with Jihad. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Left will eventually cite it as the reason for Muslim migration rather than the failure of Islamic governments to provide opportunity and protection. It’s all about getting your Benjamins for their causes and themselves.
mortimer says
The hysteria is based on an erroneous differential factor that has not be proved to be correct, since the temperatures have dropped since 2002.
Richard Lindzen, a professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said, “The models are not performing well … we are using them as a ouija board.”
Westman says
It was the unexpected variances in the output of differently seeded weather models that led to the discovery of Chaos Theory. It’s also the reason that weather predictions can fail after 5 days or so ahead and it doesn’t matter if they are run on a quantum computer.
Somehow, some weather scientists have forgotten that the variables they don’t know or didn’t include because of their infinitesimal values may change the results of calculations, the error increasing with time.
Creating a model that mimics the past does not insure accurate predictions from the model. There is a big difference between correlation and causation. That the model is able to accurately predict can only be determined by future results that have not ocurred. Right now it’s nothing but informed guessing.
Reziac says
@Westman — It’s worse; the models don’t even correctly ‘predict’ the past. How can they be expected to predict the future? and why is it necessary to smooth away the (all somewhat warmer than today) Medieval, Roman, and Minoan warm periods to demonstrate current ‘warming’ ?? why do they neglect to point out that warm periods are prosperous, but every time we’ve had a serious cold period, things go badly for humanity? (most recently the Little Ice Age.)
Any chart using ‘anomaly’ instead of raw data is automatically suspect, because ‘anomaly’ values depend on your choice of baseline. If I choose midnight as my baseline, then noon is anomalously hot and bright.
I’d suggest videos featuring Roy Spencer and Willie Soon as both experts and heretics. See also Patrick Moore “A Dearth of Carbon”.
tim gallagher says
As mentioned in the article, the left do seem increasingly totalitarian. People aren’t allowed to step out of line at all from toeing the leftist politically correct line or they are attacked. This is an issue that is discussed quite a lot in Australia, and probably everywhere else. I heard James Morrow, who is a conservative commentator here in Australia, originally from New York, bemoaning how everything now seems be so politicised ( he was talking about the left attacking some person’s child rearing methods because the person didn’t quite have the right attitudes on climate change or some such bullshit) and he said, dripping with sarcasm, that the person had “committed wrong think” and had to be punished. I hadn’t heard it put that way before and thought it was a pretty good choice of words. Overtones of Orwellian thought control and also of “committing a sin”, etc. There was also a little discussion this week of Ellen DeGeneres speaking up against the attacks on her for daring to have a friendship with George W Bush (after the photo at a baseball game). She was rightly applauded by conservative commentators for arguing that, why the hell shouldn’t she have friends with different political views. It’s a pretty vicious world these days, especially from the fascist lefties. It must be so frigging boring to be amongst the lefties who seem to be in furious agreement on every issue, whether attitudes to Islam, gender issues, climate change, etc.
mortimer says
Censorship of dissent is one of the defining criteria of fascism. The so-called ‘Left’ loves censorship and they are seeking the ability to have sole access to the means of communication. We must reassert the freedom of expression and the freedom of the press.
tim gallagher says
I agree, Mortimer. The fascists on the left do seem very thuggish and bullying these days. Their attitude seems to be, how dare anyone see the world in a different way to the way we do. I believe that they think that their often idiotic (for example, their protection of Islam, their claiming it is peaceful, etc.) views are the only morally correct attitudes and therefore they feel entitled to shut down conservatives, who they see as nasty, immoral people. As you say, we certainly have to fight to keep our freedoms alive, because there seems to be no doubt that the left would love to be able to shut down all views that differ from theirs.
Cicero says
Someone I know recently had an exhibition of his Art Work at a London Community Arts Centre. His work as he was installing it won much praise and plaudits from the Director and Trustees ad he was installing it.
Just before his work went on public view he had crafted a Swastik emblem in front of his Diamond Grid , on the floor. The director saw it and freaked out ! She went red in the face and summoned the artist into her office , read out the contract and demanded that the artist dismantle the emblem immediately.
The artist on his knees , in front of the assembled viewers proceeded to scrub the the emblem off his artwork. He was humiliated .
When challenged the Director said that the symbol could generate negative publicity and negative discussion far beyond the confines of the Community Arts Centre over which the Centre would have little or no control. She said that many people used the Centre who had suffered impact of the Shoah , implying it would be insulting to them.
This demonstrates how far and to what extent the British left leaning liberal elite will go to crush any ideas or expressions which do not toe the pusillanimous line they have drawn for British society