Update
I post things I think may be of interest, labeling the best
ones "Worth
Reading" to call attention to them. Today I labeled four
writers "Consistently
Worth Reading," as I always find their musings spot on.
High here Wednesday is predicted to hit 4 degrees F. Low
Wednesday night at -11. We maybe only have 12 inches of snow on the ground. but
lots of cold. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Confessed murderer on bail, immediately kills again.
By Martin Barillas
Excerpt: In Texas ,
Judge Ryan Patrick of the 177th District Court of Texas decided to
allow a confessed murderer out on bail for a bond of only $50,000. Dante Thomas
(20) confessed to killing a girlfriend, Linda Vu (24), following a charge for
the murder. He has since been charged again for another murder in a double
shooting in which he allegedly killed his aunt and wounded a cousin, according
to police reports. Judge Patrick is the son of Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick
-- a Republican who had gained celebrity in Texas as a conservative radio talk-show
host.
Excerpt: “Soylent Green is people!”
Schoolgirl, 12,
fights off attacker with Israeli army self defence moves
Excerpt: The youngster was walking home at around 6pm on her
way back from a Krav Maga combat class in Frognal when she was attacked by a
man who grabbed hold of her. Her mother said: “With her year plus of Krav Maga
training, she reacted quickly elbowing the perpetrator and then kneeing them in
the groin before taking off at a clip to safety before calling me,”
Damaging Admissions. By Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: A dean of admissions at Harvard, years ago, said,
“the question we ask is: how well has this person used the opportunities
available to him or her?” In other words, the issue is seen as which of the
competing applicants are more deserving. Since some people have had far better
educational opportunities than others, that is supposed to be taken into
account in deciding whom to admit. This myopic view of admissions decisions, as
a question of choosing between applicant A versus applicant B, totally ignores
the reason for the existence of educational institutions in the first place.
These institutions were not created in order to dispense favors to particular
individuals, but to confer benefits on society at large, by supplying graduates
with skills valuable to the other members of society.
Doomed by the South: Why the emerging Democratic majority
may never happen. For years we've heard that Democrats will rise on a coalition
of white liberals and non-whites. Here's the reality. By Michael Lind
Excerpt: “The Emerging Republican Advantage,” an essay by
the journalist and historian John Judis in National Journal, has ignited a
national controversy. In part this has to do with the fact that in 2002
Judis co-authored, with Ruy Teixeira, “The
Emerging Democratic Majority,” an empirically rich and well-reasoned study
that convinced many progressives that it was only a matter of time until the
numerical growth of a coalition of white professionals, African-Americans and
Latinos produced a permanent or at least long-term Democratic majority.
In reconsidering this thesis, Judis puts a lot of emphasis on the aversion to
taxes and big government of middle-income Americans, a discontent that benefits
the Republican Party.
Ukraine says some
soldiers taken prisoner in Debaltseve
Excerpt: Russian news agencies quoted Valery Chaly, chief of
the Ukrainian presidential administration, as saying that Kiev wants the EU and NATO to
"resolutely condemn" the separatists for violating the deals. The war
in eastern Ukraine
has already killed more than 5,600 people and displaced more than a million,
the United Nations said on Monday. It has also left the country's industrial
heartland in ruins. The government troops and rebels faced a deadline Tuesday
to start pulling back heavy weapons from the front line.
Brinksmanship: Greece
Excerpt: Talks between Greece and euro
zone finance ministers over the country's debt crisis broke down on Monday
when Athens
rejected a proposal to request a six-month extension of its international
bailout package as "unacceptable". The unexpectedly rapid collapse
raised doubts about Greece 's
future in the single currency area after a new leftist-led government vowed to
scrap the 240 billion euro ($272.4 billion) bailout, reverse austerity policies
and end cooperation with EU/IMF inspectors. (They are betting the EU has no
choice but to keep pouring money in. They may be right. ~Bob)
Polanski to attend
Polish extradition hearing, lawyer says
Excerpt: Filmmaker Roman Polanski will attend a court
hearing in Poland next week
that will consider a U.S.
extradition request over a 1977 child sex crime conviction, his lawyer said on
Tuesday. (Alert Whoopi and the Hollywood Brigade of Apologists for Child Rape,
which is excusable if you are a talented member of their club. ~Bob)
‘Protest Mob’
Descends Upon Gov. Scott Walker’s Personal Home — but Guess Who’s Apparently
Living There
Excerpt: Protesters descended upon a home in Wauwatosa , Wisconsin Walker ’s sons, Alex and
Matt Walker, both tweeted on Monday night that the home is where his grandparents
are living.
Melissa Harris-Perry
says, “Abortion Is Like Removing a Cancer
http://alfonzorachel.com/2237/zonation-melissa-harris-perry-says-abortion-like-removing-cancer
http://alfonzorachel.com/2237/zonation-melissa-harris-perry-says-abortion-like-removing-cancer
Excerpt: Is a human embryo comparable to cancer? A child is
no different than a tumor if you are MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry. (She's
inviting some fanatic nut with a gun to remove her "like a cancer."
~Bob)
Excerpt: The Obama administration will permit the widespread
export of armed drones for the first time, a step toward providing allied
nations with weapons that have become a cornerstone of U.S. counterterrorism
strategy but whose remotely controlled power to kill is intensely
controversial. The new policy, announced Tuesday after
a long internal review, is a significant step for U.S.
arms policy as allied nations from Italy
to Turkey to the Persian Gulf region clamor for the aircraft. It also is a
nod to U.S.
defense firms scrambling to secure a greater share of a growing global drone
market.
Update on the Boy's
Gift
http://nethugs.com/inspirational/stories/ohio-boys-gift-to-soldier/
http://nethugs.com/inspirational/stories/ohio-boys-gift-to-soldier/
Remember the story of the boy who found $20 and gave it to a
soldier? This is the follow-up. Be sure to watch to the end.
Tweet from Ken Gardner @kesgardner
Student loan debts are over $1.6 trillion. This is about 10%
of our entire GDP and will be a drag on the economy for decades to come. (But
think how all those Social work and gender studies degrees are helping the
economy. ~Bob)
Gun News
Suspect shot during
break-in
Excerpt: The homeowner told deputies that around 11:00 pm he
heard loud knocking at the front door and two people trying to get in. He then
heard glass break and saw a male suspect inside the home. The sheriff’s
office says the homeowner grabbed a gun and shot the suspect. The homeowner
then called for help. A second suspect was found running from the scene
and was arrested.
Armed Resident Shoots
Intruder
Excerpt: When a would be home invader smashed his way
into a house on Limestone Mill, which is off Woodlake Parkway in northeast
Bexar County, he found himself facing an armed man inside the house. The two
men exchanged gunfire. The homeowner was a better shot, and the wanna-be home
invader stumbled outside with a bullet to the belly.
Excerpt: Relatives of Adric White, 18, believe the Good
Samaritan who opened fire should have "just left the store." The
Good Samaritan told FOX10 News he was shopping at the Family Dollar on Stanton road when he
noticed a masked gunman leading one of the employees to the front of the store.
Relatives of Adric White, 18, believe the Good Samaritan who opened fire should
have "just left the store." The Good Samaritan told FOX10 News
he was shopping at the Family Dollar on Stanton
road when he noticed a masked gunman leading one of the employees to the front
of the store.
In NJ, Second
Amendment Doesn’t Even Cover a Musket!
http://politicaloutcast.com/2015/02/nj-second-amendment-doesnt-even-cover-musket/
http://politicaloutcast.com/2015/02/nj-second-amendment-doesnt-even-cover-musket/
Excerpt: According to New
Jersey ’s law (or the prosecutor’s and cops’
interpretation of the law), not even flintlocks in use back when the Second
Amendment was actually written are covered by the Second Amendment. A
seventy-two-year-old retired teacher is being threatened with a decade in
prison because he had an unloaded,
antique flintlock.
Gun Violence
‘Anti-gun’ attorney
arrested for gun at airport
Excerpt: A leading local civil rights attorney was arrested
over the weekend at Cleveland
Hopkins Airport
for having a concealed handgun in his carry-on bag, The Plain Dealer reported Sunday. David Malik, the original
attorney for the family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice who was slain by police in
November, spent the night in jail after a .22 caliber handgun and a box of
ammunition were discovered by airport security. "What's interesting about
David is he is such an anti-gun person," Steve Loomis, president of the
Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, told the press. "He's such an
anti-violence person, and of all the things for him to get arrested for, that
really surprises me."
Tweet from Politics and Humor @PoliticalLaughs
Left My Gun Alone Today; It Didn't Kill Anyone. (I took mine
with me to keep an eye on it. ~Bob)
Race Card News
Reflections during
Black History Month: Welfare Policy and Marriage
Excerpt: February is Black History Month, so the NCPA has
compiled a new report detailing the many government policies that are actually
hurting black Americans. For example, marriage and stable families are key to
keeping people out of poverty, yet government welfare policies lack incentives
to encourage two-parent families. Consider: Out-of-wedlock births are
the second key cause of poverty (next
to lack of employment), but the structure of welfare benefits encourages single
parenthood and family breakups. The poverty rate for female-headed households
with children is 44.5 percent, compared to 7.8 percent for married couples with
children. The poverty rate for married black Americans is only 11.4 percent,
while the rate for black female-headed households is 53.9 percent. African-American
children comprise about 25 percent of children who end up in foster care. As
the report notes, most welfare benefits are restricted to families with
children -- thus, having a baby offers a gateway to a generous package of
government benefits. On the other hand, if that mother marries a man who earns
a significant income, those benefits are lost. (The NCPA.org has a free policy
digest newsletter. It is worth getting and they are worth supporting. ~Bob)
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Live by the lie, die by the lie: Democrats are bracing for another Obamacare backlash.
By Jason Millman,
Washington Post
Excerpt: The Obamacare window technically just closed this
weekend, but a new round of political headaches could just be beginning for the
administration.
That's because it's tax season, and many Americans could
soon be getting an unwelcome surprise that they owe the government a penalty
for skipping health insurance coverage.
Up to 6 million Americans are expected to pay a penalty for
not having coverage in 2014, according to recent Obama administration
projections.
Look Who Wants to
Avoid ObamaCare Penalties
Excerpt: About four million Americans are going to get hit
with IRS fines for not having health insurance this tax season, and
congressional Democrats have taken it upon themselves to stop such a travesty.
Democrat representatives Sander Levin, Jim McDermott and Lloyd Doggett told the
Associated Press they are concerned about the law they passed in 2009 because
their constituents may have their tax returns gouged hundreds of dollars by the
IRS. Furthermore, nine senators sent
a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services advocating the
department to open a special enrollment period.
'Success:' Obamacare Website Falters Again, Dems Demand
Enrollment Extension. By Guy Benson
Excerpt: A technical problem that had been interfering with
sign-ups for President Barack Obama's health care law has been fixed, officials
say. Any consumer whose enrollment was hampered by the glitch will be provided
with a special enrollment period. The problem popped up the day before a
Sunday deadline to sign up for subsidized private health insurance.
Undocumented Democrat News
Important: Federal judge in Texas
Excerpt: A federal judge in Texas last night temporarily blocked the
Obama administration’s executive actions on immigration. The judge, responding
to a suit filed by 26 Republican-run states, did not rule on the legality of
immigration orders but said there was sufficient merit to the challenge to
warrant a suspension while the case goes forward. No law gave the
administration the power “to give 4.3 million removable aliens what the
Department of Homeland Security itself labels as ‘legal presence,’” the judge
said in a memorandum
opinion. “In fact the law mandates that these illegally-present
individuals be removed.” The Department of Homeland Security “has adopted a new
rule that substantially changes both the status and employability of millions.”
(Why the judiciary is so important. Had we elected five or six more RINO
senators in 2010, we would have blocked Obamacare and a LOT
of bad judges who will trouble us for years. I fear this will be over-turned.
~Bob)
Excerpt: What happens next? The White House issued a
statement early Tuesday morning indicating that the Department of Justice
"will appeal" Judge Hanen's order. That appeal will be heard a
three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit who could issue a decision around
July or August of this year. If the Obama administration lost that ruling, it
could then appeal for an en banc ruling from the 5th Circuit before then
appealing to the Supreme Court.
But the earliest the Supreme Court might here the case is
March of 2016 and the earliest they could issue a decision would be June 2016,
which is a huge problem for Obama since USCIS
was expected to begin accepting DAPA application fees to pay for their new
Crystal City office in May 2015.
Texas Gov. Greg
Abbott: ‘Federal Judge Just Granted My Request to Halt Obama’s Executive
Amnesty Order Nationwide’
Excerpt: The order of temporary injunction states: “The
reasons for this injunction are set out in detail in the accompanying
Memorandum Opinion and Order, but, to summarize, it is due to the failure of
the Defendants to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act.”
Voters Weigh Costs of
Obama’s Amnesty Plan
Excerpt: Voters still view President Obama’s order exempting
up to five million illegal immigrants from deportation as illegal and tend to
think Congress should try to stop it. But they’re evenly divided over whether a
partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security is the way to do it.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Pipelines are safer: West Virginia
Excerpt: Fires burned for hours Tuesday after a train
carrying 109 tankers of crude oil derailed in a snowstorm alongside a West Virginia creek,
sending fireballs into the sky and threatening the nearby water supply. ... The
train was carrying volatile Bakken crude from North Dakota 's
shale fields to an oil shipping depot in Yorktown ,
Virginia
New paper
demonstrates East Antarctica was ~3.5-4°C
warmer than the present during the last interglacial
Excerpt: A new paper in Climate of the Past
Discussions finds from high-resolution ice core data from East Antarctica
that temperatures were 3.5-4°C warmer during the last interglacial (~130,000
years ago) than during the present interglacial (the past ~18,000 years).
My personal path to
Catastrophic AGW skepticism. By Jonathan Abbott
Excerpt: My own story begins at school in England in the
early 80s. Between playing with Bunsen burners and iron filings, I remember
being told that some scientists predicted that we would soon enter a new ice
age. This sounded quite exciting but I never really thought it would happen; I
was too young then to have seen any significant change in the world around me
and it all seemed rather far-fetched. A nuclear war seemed far more likely.
Soon enough the whole scare melted away.
Excerpt The main driver of all weather and climate, the
entity which occupies 99.86% of all of the mass in our solar system, the great
ball of fire in the sky – has gone quiet again during what is likely to be the
weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century. For the past 5 days, solar
activity has been very low and one measure of solar activity – its X-ray output
– has basically flatlined in recent days (plot below courtesy NOAA/Space
Weather Prediction Center). Not since cycle 14 peaked in February 1906 has
there been a solar cycle with fewer sunspots. We are currently more than six years
into Solar Cycle 24 and today the sun is virtually spotless despite the fact
that we are still in what is considered to be its solar maximum phase. Solar
cycle 24 began after an unusually deep solar minimum that lasted from 2007 to
2009 which included more spotless days on the sun compared to any minimum in
almost a century.
Religion of Peace News
Consistently Worth Reading
Excerpt: Today the conclusion of those informing the
rest of us (and why, in light of Brian Williams, and surely others of like
conduct, should they enjoy public trust?) is that President Obama either will
not or cannot see the threat of radical Islam.
Consistently Worth Reading : Five Middle East
Blunders: The underlying causes of chaos in the Middle East are indigenous. But Obama hasn’t
helped. By Victor Davis
Hanson
Excerpt: President Obama claims he inherited a mess in the Middle East . Not so.
Fracking and horizontal drilling on private lands in the U.S. had taken off in the last years of the Bush
administration and by 2009 were set to revolutionize America ’s energy future. By 2011,
the U.S.
had cut way back its dependence on Middle Eastern gas and oil imports, which in
turn gave American diplomats a measure of immunity from petro-blackmail, and
therefore far more clout in the region. Iraq
was mostly stable; in Anbar Province tens of thousands of jihadists had been
killed by U.S.
troops and their tribal allies.
Worth Reading : What ISIS Really Wants:
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group
with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the
coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop
it.. By Graeme Wood
Excerpt: Where did it
come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can
be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In
December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major
General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle
East , admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic
State’s appeal. “We have not defeated the idea,” he said. “We do not even
understand the idea.” In the past year, President Obama has referred to the
Islamic State, variously, as “not Islamic” and as al-Qaeda’s “jayvee team,”
statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed
to significant strategic errors. ... The
reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted
psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected
populations of the Middle East and Europe . But
the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and
even learned interpretations of Islam.
Religion's week from hell. By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion
Editor
Excerpt: Whether you believe that religious violence is
fueled by faith or is a symptom of larger factors -- political instability,
poverty, cultural chaos -- one thing seems clear: Last week was hellish for
religion. Across several continents, including North America, Europe, Asia and Africa , scores of religious believers suffered and died
in brutal attacks over the past seven days. The causes of violence are complex,
and reducing them to talking points only adds to the problem, scholars say. But
if you want to rally troops to your side, few tools are more powerful than
religion, said Michael Jerryson, co-editor of "The Oxford Handbook of
Religion and Violence." (From
that painfully generic description, you could easily conclude the violence is
perpetrated by Buddhists and Mennonites. Deeper in the story, we see the
perpetrators identified: Boko Haram (twice), the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, that North Carolina atheist, and the Denmark
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/02/17/isis-reportedly-burns-alive-45-people-in-western-iraqi-town/
Muslims slaughtering Muslims for Allah--a centuries old
story. ~Bob
Excerpt: In a musical comedy, it would be hilarious to have
the president send out his "happy talk" message by someone whose
credibility was already thoroughly discredited by her serial lies on television
about the Benghazi
terrorist attack in 2012. Unfortunately -- indeed, tragically -- the world
today is about as far from a musical comedy as you can get, with terrorists
rampaging across the Middle East, leaving a trail of unspeakable atrocities in
their wake, and with Iran
moving closer to producing a nuclear bomb, with an intercontinental missile on
the horizon. We will be lucky to get
through the remainder of President Obama's term in office without a major
catastrophe, from which we may or may not recover.
Israeli captures 10
hours of harassment in Paris
Reporter dons kippa, documents insults as he walks through
the streets of the French capital
Many anti-Semitic incidents occurred while Klein was
walking in the suburb of Sarcelles , which sports
a large Muslim population, whereas his wandering through Paris ’ center was considerably calmer by
comparison, he told JTA last week. (The impunity with which Europeans
terrorized, demonize, beat and kill Jews must not go unpunished. We can learn a
lesson from Meyer Lansky in the 1930s. --LG)
Excerpt: Concerned about "what the gentiles
thought" and fearful of stirring up even more anti-Jewish sentiment, the
American Jewish establishment's response was often tentative and disorganized.
One group of American Jews which did not trouble themselves about what the
gentiles thought and had no compunctions about meeting the anti-Semites head-on
were Jewish gangsters. Nazi Bund rallies in New York during the 1930's created a
terrible dilemma for the city's Jewish leaders. They wanted the meetings
stopped, but could not do so legally. Nathan Perlman, a New York judge and former Republican
congressman, was one Jewish leader who believed that Jews "have to
demonstrate a little more militancy." Perlman surreptitiously contacted
Meyer Lanksy and asked him to help. He assured Lansky that money and legal
assistance would be put at his disposal. The only stipulation was that no Nazi
Bundists were to be killed. Beaten up, yes. Terminated, no. Lansky reluctantly
agreed. No killing.
Blind Hate Drives
Islamists to Absurdity
Excerpt: One is a jihadist movement that seeks global dominance,
beheading, throwing off of rooftops and massacring any perceived which crosses its path
on the way to restoring a grand Islamic state. The other is a sovereign state,
a refuge for a people repeatedly targeted for annihilation throughout history.
It also provides medical treatment for Syrians who have been
victims of attacks from Islamic State terrorists and the Assad regime. Fighting
for each apparently poses an equal threat. So says Hussam Ayloush, the Council
on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR) Los
Angeles director.
African allies claim
gains against Boko Haram
Excerpt: Nigerian troops, backed by air strikes, have reclaimed
the towns of Monguno and Marte from Boko Haram, according to a military
statement. Meanwhile, Cameroon
says its army has killed more than 80 Boko Haram soldiers and arrested 1,000 of
their supporters. Niger
also claimed on Monday to have arrested 160 people with links to Boko Haram
since 6 February. (Where is Mad Mike Hoare when they need him? ~Bob)
Excerpt: The Shiite insurgents who have toppled Yemen ’s
government are threatening to take over a key oil-producing province to the
east of the capital, triggering fears that the country could explode in all-out
civil war.
Excerpt: This Reuters article is deeply anti-Israel: “Yemen ’s Jewish community numbered over 40,000
until 1949, when Israel
organised their mass transfer to the newly-established state. Those who stayed
say they had lived in peace with their neighbours in the Muslim Arab country.”
This is not the whole story by any means. Professor Shmuel Trigano fills in some of the gaps: “In Yemen , sharia law was instated in
1913, worsening the situation of the dhimmi. Decrees specifying forced
conversion for orphans were issued between 1922 and 1928, while Jews were
excluded from public service positions and the army….In Yemen, a series of
riots and lootings took place in 1931 and 1947 (with eighty people killed). An
accusation of ritual crime was leveled against the Jews in Sana’a in
1948….Yemen prohibited Jews from leaving the country in 1949.”
Bob
Corker’s War. By Molly O'Toole
Excerpt: The soft-spoken businessman who was once seen as
too moderate and independent is now one of the most important figures
in Washington
for the war against the Islamic State as chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee. From this perch, Corker will
preside over the first full debate on war powers and U.S. military
intervention in more than a decade. It’s a policy fight that could shape U.S. national
security strategy beyond Obama’s last two years in office, for years
to come.
I suggest sending her as the envoy to ISIS to explain her jobs idea.
Excerpt: President Obama’s proposed Authorization for the
Use of Military Force against ISIS comes at a time when Iran and ISIS are fomenting disorder and
destruction throughout the Middle East .
Despite the enmity between these two species of jihadism, both pose serious
threats to our interests and security and those of our allies in the
region. The president’s stubborn refusal to strengthen his dubious
negotiations with Iran by
approving Congress’s more punishing sanctions, along with his pledge not
to use force against the mullahs, is guaranteed to make Iran a nuclear
power that will dominate the region. And nothing in the AUMF will achieve his
alleged “core objective” to destroy ISIS .
Quite the contrary–– it will squander an opportunity to concentrate and
eliminate tens of thousands of jihadists.
Excerpt: After every terrorist attack, the news goes through
the usual checklist of excuses. Muslims aren’t responsible. It had nothing to
do with Islam. Asking Muslims to condemn or disassociate themselves from the
attack is racist and you should be ashamed of yourself for even asking them to
do it. The Chapel Hill shootings reversed the
spin. The media switched from warning us that we shouldn’t blame Muslims for
Muslim terrorism, to blaming atheists for a parking dispute turned violent.
Their evidence was Craig Hicks’ Facebook page quoting prominent atheists
attacking, mainly, Christianity.
Excerpt: By now the refrain is familiar. A violent man,
usually in his 20s, is motivated by his belief system to commit murder in such
a way as to deliberately inspire fear and terror in a certain segment of the
population – frequently institutions that symbolize Western liberalism and/or
Jewish culture. The media, reporting on the violence, curiously refuses to
mention his religious affiliation – or buries it in the 12th paragraph. If the
terrorist in question converted to Islam after his birth, refuse to use his
adopted Muslim name, even if this is now his legal name. Spend most of the
story explaining the terrorist’s behavior in terms of his own personal
problems, dissatisfaction with society – anything but his religion. It almost
is not worth commenting on the phenomenon at this point, which is set forth
in this
Washington Post story on the Danish attacks on a free speech meeting
and a synagogue. The suspect’s name, “Omar Abdel Hamid el-Hussein” is not given
until paragraph 13.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama’s recent
condemnation of medieval Christian history to exonerate modern Islam is
a reminder of how woefully ignorant (or intentionally deceptive) a good many
people in the West are concerning the true history of Christian Europe and
Islam. The problem is that those who condemn things like the Crusades—including
“mainstream” academics, journalists, movie-makers, and politicians—do so
without mention of historical context. Worse, they imply “we” already
know the context: evil popes and greedy knights exploiting Christianity to
seize Muslim lands and wealth. Or as Karen Armstrong put it, “the idea
that Islam
imposed itself by the sword is a Western fiction, fabricated during the
time of the Crusades when, in fact, it was Western Christians who were fighting
brutal holy wars against Islam.” The true story of Christendom and Islam is the
antithesis of such claims. Consider some facts for a moment:
Islamic State: “Great
reward” for killing Coptic Christians. By Raymond Ibrahim
Excerpt: The following excerpt from the Islamic State
captures well the perverse logic that its many members and even more
sympathizers operate under. It recently appeared in an Islamic State report explaining
why the jihadis executed 21 Coptic Christian workers abducted in (post- “Arab
Spring”) Libya .
The justification begins by positioning the 2010 Islamic raid on
the Our Lady of Salvation Church in Iraq — where nearly 60 Christian
worshippers were slaughtered (graphic pictures here) — as a response to the absurd
allegations (based on Muslim projection) that the Coptic Church of Egypt was
forcing — and killing — Muslim women to convert to Christianity. In
short, the Islamic State justifies the killing, not only of Coptic Christians,
but all Christians anywhere, in the context of, yet again, “collective punishment.” The excerpt follows,
interspersed with my observations (emphases mine):
Excerpt: The BBC deigns to tell us his name, Mohammed Ammer
Ali, but other than that tells us only that he is “a man from Liverpool .”
As is typical of the mainstream media, it makes no mention whatsoever of the
fact that there is a jihad against the West, and that Mohammed Ammer Ali likely
considers himself to be a soldier of that jihad. This kind of coverage would be
like reporting that on December 7, 1941, a group of men from Japan destroyed some ships at Pearl
Harbor , with no hint that it was an act of war or that the
Japanese Empire was behind it.
Bahrain deploys
fighter jets to Jordan to strike ISIL
Excerpt: The Bahraini regime has deployed an unspecified
number of fighter jets to Jordan
to aid Amman in
the fight against the ISIL Takfiri group days after the immolation of a
Jordanian pilot held hostage by the terrorist group. 'This move highlights the
brotherly ties between Jordan
and Bahrain ," AFP
quoted Jordan 's
Information Minister Mohammad al-Momani as saying on Monday.
"Delta Flight 15
- A 9.11 Story"
Great story. Snopes says true. ~Bob
Worth Seeing: The Truth About the West
Bank
Not Leading from Behind: Italy
Mobilizes 5,000-Strong Military Force To Fight Isis In Libya
Excerpt: The government of Italy appears to be taking
seriously the threats posed by the Islamic State (ISIS) to its nation. Italian
officials said on Monday that they are considering sending 5,000 troops into Libya to combat
the country’s burgeoning jihadist presence.
Kurdish Teenager
Explains Why U.S. & Coalition Air Strikes Against ISIS
Are Doing Next To Nothing!
Excerpt: This is my picture and shows our weapon power. As
you can see, ISIS terrorist organization they got tanks and we only got
Kalashnikoff, so please send us anti-tank weapons so we can remove ISIS . Please act now, tomorrow will be too late.
Police: Muslim man
stabs two after discussion about religious beliefs
Excerpt: A Detroit
man stabbed two people at a suburban bus stop after asking his victims
whether or not they were Muslim, according to police. Federal authorities are
now looking at the case as a potential hate crime, police said on Tuesday.
Tweet from WH PRESS SECRETARY @weknowwhatsbest
The WH policy is to specifically use "CHRISTIAN"
in the context of the Crusades, but never when they are 'victims' of Islamic
attacks.
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