Now that the two (main at least) terrorists from the Boston Marathon attack have been killed or captured we enter a new phase, the phase in which the dominant Politically Correct (but Factually Incorrect) forces try to explain away the attack.
Can this be done? Will they really try? Well, yes. True, as one of my correspondents remarked it is much easier to obfuscate far distant Benghazi than the total shutdown and horror in the middle of a major American city. Yet the spin-masters are already at work.
The first step must be, in part, a stalling technique but it sets the pattern for what is to come. As, in the words of a Reuters story, the “Boston Marathon bombing investigation turns to motive,” the motive must be obfuscated.The Reuters piece is a good start. The article spends seven paragraphs discussing the parents claim that the two brothers were framed. This suggests that the mass media and politicians will not shrink from suggesting—perhaps I should say, gives fair hearing—to bizarre conspiracy theories and doubts.
People shouldn’t believe these completely, is the theme, but you just can’t be too sure that two young Muslims would have any reason to harm Americans.
Indeed, there are now witnesses who heard the two terrorists’ mother claiming that September 11 was a U.S. plot to make people hate Muslims. That’s where playing with that kind of fire leads.
In the article, the word “Islam” is not mentioned, except to say that they once lived in one predominantly Muslim country and another place they lived, Dagestan, is “a southern Russian province that lies at the heart of a violent Islamist insurgency.” Here, we have another technique, minimize Islam as a factor and turn it into background noise.
Obviously, this will not apply completely both because the elephant in the room is too big and there is still some journalistic integrity in places. Both the Washington Post and Mother Jones took a lead in exposing the You-Tube likes of one of the terrorists which showed a propensity for al-Qaida views to say the least.
There are a lot of other quivers, however, in the arsenal of denial.
On “Face the Nation” Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said that he had no idea why the Tsarnaev brothers would target “innocent men, women and children in the way that these two fellows did.” The answer, of course, is that these people were not regarded as innocent at all but as soldiers in the alleged Christian-Jewish war on Islam, precisely the same thinking that has been produced by Islamists for decades. Might September 11, 2001, be a clue here?
Of course, for Patrick to say that at this point in the investigation is understandable on one level, a refusal by a government official to remark on an ongoing investigation and a relief from “the police are stupid” or “Trayvon looks like the son I didn’t have” remarks by someone else. Yet what is this claim is sustained week after week until the heat is off?
NBC News has just reported that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had visited an Islamist radical six times in a mosque in Dagestan. The Caucasian/Chechen angle, however, does offer some hope. A lot of media time can be spent talking about that conflict. Of course, if the young men were acting as Chechens they would have attacked a Russian and not an American target. The United States has not, even by the usual stretch of radical Islamist imagination, had anything to do with the conflict in Chechnya.
The more compelling the conflict there is as a source of pain and passion, the less compelling the argument that that was a motive. The Russians have indeed been brutal in suppressing the rebellion, far more than the West or Israel has acted toward anyone. So what cause overrides that one? Yet Chechen grievances will be a good source of obfuscation.
Then there will a frantic search for the “blame ourselves” theme. If the issue wasn’t such a tragic one, this would be humorous. Could America have acted more kindly toward these two brothers? Don’t underestimate how well this theme will play with those citizens who drink other flavors of Kool-Aid.
In this pursuit no idiocy is unthinkable. Canadian Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau, who is trying to be an Obama clone, explained:
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“There is no question that this happened because of someone who feels completely excluded, someone who feels completely at war…with society.”
The solution, then, is not to “marginalize people even further who already feel like they are enemies of society rather than people who have hope for the future.”
In other words, doing anything is more dangerous than doing nothing. To combat radical Islam is to hurt people’s feelings and that will produce more terrorism.
They were allowed in (rather questionably) as permanent residents and suddenly large numbers of relatives were in the United States as well (so much for draconian immigration laws); one of the brothers became a citizen. They went to the best schools. What did they learn there about the greatness of America? Was the seed of rage fertilized by the demonization of American history as evil, greedy, racist, and imperialist? One of them even got a scholarship.It is vital to understand the profound difference between these two and the September 11 hijackers, men who came on a mission of sabotage and murder. They reached the U.S. shore as enemies, reliable agents of revolutionary retribution.
These two young men, however, had a free choice. They had to actively close their minds to everything good they experienced and to adopt an ideology of hate. Only a very powerful force could move them in that direction. We have seen this frequently in the United Kingdom and France.
Guess what? If such comparisons were to be made it would have to be acknowledged that there is a second-generation (though strictly speaking these two were first generation) time bomb implanted. That means one can expect many more attacks like this. But will anyone make that point?
There normality will be used to make them seem…normal, their motive inexplicable. But on the contrary it is their very apparent normality, their seeming assimilation into American life, which makes the situation so scary.
What about their mosque and other contacts in the Muslim community? Why didn’t they get an anti-extremist indoctrination there, an explanation of what Islam really is about? They attended a Muslim Brotherhood sponsored mosque (but that won’t be said) and the Boston Muslim religious leadership is full of extremists (the evidence of which has long been available). The mosque even received a subsidy from Boston even as it hosted anti-American speakers who made the precise arguments used to rationalize terrorism.
We won’t be hearing much about these issues though. Well, except for two aspects: the story is now circulating that one of the brothers was thrown out of his mosque for being too radical. Then, there are all the denunciations of the terror attack by Islamist front groups.
Having followed this issue for many years, I have never heard of a single anti-radicalization program conducted by any mosque or “mainstream” Islamic group. Real moderates are isolated, vilified, denied media attention, and even forced out of local mosques. In a 2011 Pew poll, fully half of American Muslims say their leaders aren’t doing enough to fight extremism. That last point can safely be used as a certified non-“Islamophobic” argument about where much of the problem lies. But it won’t be.
And of course there is the troubled youth angle to be played to the fullest. Yes, the tribulations of young adulthood and adolescence are factors. But only inasmuch as it makes them vulnerable to systematic indoctrination. In other words, their specific psychology and even personal experiences are not the motive any more than the childhood of a professional hit-man for the Mafia is.
Another angle will be the growing story of governmental incompetence in using intelligence to stop terrorists. In part, this is unfair since there have also been many successes. A more important issue is why government officials, politicians, army officers, academics, and journalists fear to point out the truth. Look at the Nidal Hassan/Fort Hood case. Doing so is bad for their careers and reputation, as well as being sometimes counter to their ideology.
Then there is the partisan argument, as made most memorably by a journalist who openly hoped the terrorists would be white right-wingers. There is an unnoticed dimension here. If the attack is seen as a political defeat it cannot be a learning experience. The question isn’t, Does this attack tell us something important about the real world, but: How can we explain it away so we don’t suffer losses in the effort to fundamentally transform America into a just, non-racist society?
And so it can be claimed that, in a sense, white right-wingers, or at least the kind of policies they would endorse, did cause the Boston attack. America was mean to these kids; it is aggressive in other countries, counter-terrorist protection was reduced by budget cuts.
In other words, lying, concealing, and misleading become defined as virtuous. As Trudeau said, talking honestly about revolutionary Islamism would be to inspire more racism and terrorism.
Finally, there is a “full admission” fallback argument on which U.S. foreign policy is based. Sure it was those evil SOBs at al-Qaida. That’s why other Islamists are relatively good. That’s why we have to promote them into power since only they can counter the “bad” Islamists. That’s why Islamist governments in Egypt, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey are good for you.
Indeed, Secretary of State John Kerry in Turkey compared Americans’ feelings about the Boston attack to Turkish feelings about the killing of jihadis engaged in supporting a terrorist group (Hamas) who attacked Israeli soldiers during the Gaza flotilla incident. This should not be seen merely as a clumsy statement but as dangerous and revealing stupidity.
It is dangerous because it tells Muslims that they are equally the victims of “our” terrorism; and it is revealing because the context shows the equation of all violence, no matter what the cause, that reinforces such thinking. A U.S. attack on terrorists in Yemen, Afghanistan, or elsewhere then becomes anti-Muslim violence that justifies the next terror attack in an American city.
Former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw explained that American drones were killing innocent people and this led to rage against the “presumptuousness of the United States.”
In an honest discussion it must be considered what U.S. policy factors lead to terrorism. But now there is the transfer to America of the old “cycle of violence” argument about the Middle East. Terrorists murder Israeli civilians or fire rockets at Israel; Israel defends itself and the two events are treated as indistinguishable.Defending yourself offends people.
The proper response is to denounce the terrorists, the ideology of terrorism, and the right of focused self-defense, which means doing everything possible to retaliate against those responsible and not citizens of another country chosen at random.
The American secretary of state, a leading Canadian politician, journalists, and others are thus rationalizing in advance more such attacks. They will get their “wish” and then explain away the next event as more proof for their worldview.
This article is published on PJMedia.
Max Said:
Janet is good for nothing.
Max Said:
Your my neighbour,and your can’t spell, YOUR FROM OKLAHOMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honey Bee Said:
No, I’m just your country’s neighbour where we spell correctly with honour, labour and good humour and we don’t participate in the flavour of needless rumour.
Max Said:
Your a Brit!!!!!!!!!!
re US funding of jihadis cover up
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/is-this-missing-piece-to-benghazi-puzzle/#wzPQ7SMcVA3JTcJR.99
The question is: when are jihadis working for the US and when are they not?
Jihadis are sent to Syria by the sauds as a cover to obscure US involvement. What about Boston?
Honey Bee Said:
How can that be unless Janet is a transsexual?
First I heard of her – I’ve been out of the loop.
OK Israpunters -s is she good or bad for your cause?
yamit82 Said:
Today Beck said he had Janet by your favoite male body part. CB sent you message,did you read it.
yamit82 Said:
This is not important – what is important is what are the connections between Obama’s minders and domestic and foreign advisers with the ruling class and what are the connections between the ruling class to corporate donations to the democratic Party and how are those connections and favours paid back?
steven l Said:
rongrand Said:
Canadian Otter Said:
You people really got to stop being foolish about “left” and “right” the media and the politicians are not run by ideology -they are run by money and the money of the ruling class at that. The ruling class will switch ideologies in the media , in what their politicians do in a heartbeat to whatever serves their interests- and the leftists or rightists will suddenly have a change of heart.
Also the ruling class plays both ends agaisnt the middle.
Thinking for instance that the Republicans or the Conservatives are “for” Israel is an actually misleading because they are only a force in the play of the ruling class – if they want situation “A” they press this button, if they want situation “B” they press the other button.
There is only the ideology of power at work in the rule of America and Canada.
Half the CBC is now funded by corporate private money.
Whatever party is in power in Canada -can hire and fire the executive bosses of the CBC – Harper himself appointed the new director of CBC Radio One and the Harper government is responsibly for the direction of the CBC – a simple phone call gets news stories blocked or slanted etc and the phone call is usually not needed – the executives know what they are hired for..
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The power elite is 85 percent + “orangemen” all descended and connected with the British Empire – the Canadian oligarchy is firmly connected and follows or creates joint policy with the British ruling class who incidentally are responsible for the propaganda bent of the BBC, for instance.
@ yamit82:
Video: Janet Napolitano says Alharbi (Saudi National) was ‘put on a watchlist’
@ Max:
Photo of Michelle Obama visiting Al-Harbi (Saudi National) in Hospital?
By Shoebat Foundation on April 24, 2013 in Blog, General
Last week, we wrote of reports that first lady Michelle Obama visited Saudi national (formerly ‘suspect’ and ‘person of interest’) in the hospital. To this point, we had a photo of her in the hospital that Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi was reportedly recuperating in and independent reports that she visited him but no photographic evidence she paid a visit to his room.
Until we spotted these photos (h/t Free Republic commenter)
One photo in this montage appears to show Michelle standing right next to Al-Harbi. The other (bottom right) looks like her in the Al-Harbi’s room.
The first lady allegedly visited this hospital on April 18th, just two days after he had been placed on a watchlist (according to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano)
rongrand Said:
We need to distinguish liberals from liberals. The true liberal is open-minded and may be off Rt or Lt but never too far from the center. Once they express extreme ideas they are left or right and of NO USE.
The mother is proud to sacrifice herself and her sons to Jihad.
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Captured on tape – the hatred of a Jihadist family.
Boston jihadis’ mother: “I don’t care if my youngest son is going to be killed today. I want the world to hear this. And, I don’t care if I am going to get killed too. And I will say Allahu Akbar!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=muMu0ay9xJM
@ rongrand:
If you ever have a chance, watch the documentary Winged Migration. It’s excellent. And very moving too.
The camera follows flocks of large birds as they travel for thousands of miles. The sound of the beating of their wings becomes hypnotic. I was so moved by their strength and all the challenges they have to overcome. There is a scene where they stop for a rest at an eastern European pond that is filled with toxic sludge. It is heartbreaking.
Migratory birds are getting killed by the tens of thousands in toxic tailing ponds produced by our tar sands. The same tar sands producing oil for export. Others get the oil, we get the environmental desecration. I’m so angry and disgusted. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/birds-dying-from-oil-sands-byproduct-30-times-more-than-estimated-study/article1379416/
@ Canadian Otter:
Talk about geese, a number of years ago the geese showed up in numbers on late fall and not left. Apparently they took to this area of Pennsylvania.
In fact when I use to run (total knee replacement put a halt to that) we would not only run the streets and bridges, we would run the canal tow path. As we would run we were met with geese who would squawk and chase us as we got near their young.
There is a period when the white geese (I assume are snow geese) they appear in large numbers and they get the attention of those driving along the main highways as they blanket the corn fields. It appears as if had snowed.
If they migrated from the North they never returned, they remained.
@ rongrand:
I’m not a bird person. Unless you count ducks and geese, whom I visit almost daily at the park. 🙂
I like crows and seagulls too. ~~~~~ The absence of birds may have to do with the climate. But birds are disappearing all over the world, poisoned by the chemicals we add to the environment. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070614173737.htm
I also found this UK website with bird info. It may answer some of your questions. http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/helpingbirds/decline/
@ Canadian Otter:
Okay Otter, Canadian Otter I won’t change your name.
Remember I originally thought you were he and not she. Easy to be confused.
Living in the NE we have access to quite a bit of conservative radio programs. We have a local Fox Radio affiliate.
There are not too many liberal programs as they don’t have the audience.
Lets face it, if you want to advertise you want a program with the largest listening audience and fortunately the liberals can’t muster it.
Maybe you can shed some light on why we don’t see much of our Blue Jays. For a number of months we would put peanuts out for them and they would even land close to us on our back porch to pick up the nuts. Now for some reason they don’t appear to be around.
All other birds still come for feed we put out, including cardinals, black birds, doves, various small type birds and of course a half dozen always present squirrels.
Think they tired of peanuts??
@ rongrand:
No! No! No! Please don’t change my name. I’m a happy otter, I love my name. 🙂
NPR may be leftist but as I said, they have some good reports. Their shows are not as dumbed down as those by CBC radio. And it’s also interesting to see what the left is up to. The only time NPR gets intolerable is when they concentrate on an Obama project. Aside from his election campaigns, they went on an intensive indoctrination campaign in favor of Obamacare. Now they are hammering on racism again. They can get quite obsessive.
Car Talk on Saturday morning is a good show. Nothing leftist about it and lots of fun.
The CBC is anti-Israel because the staff keeps hiring more like-minded leftists. If you’re not a leftist, you’d better not apply.
The other problem with CBC radio is that it is so very boring. They are really dumbed down. And CBC TV is hopeless.
@ Canadian Otter:
NPR is too far liberal and to the left.
If you have an I-Phone, I-Pad or Kindle, you need to download iHeart Radio. You should have no problem finding a station you feel comfortable with.
BTW, I find it hard calling a fine young lady “Canadian Otter”, if you don’t mind I’ll refer to you as Candice.
@ Max:
Max, please tell me why the CBC is anti-Israel and anti-Semitic. For the love of me, why drives this and why.
What did Israel or the Jews ever do to warrant this attitude?
I bet if you ask 1000 anti-Semites why they have a dislike for Jews or Israel, they won’t have an answer. Their reply may be “why do you ask”.
It could qualify for the worlds most kept secret.
Talk about “bum rap”, an adverse opinion or judgment considered undeserved or unjust
to say the least.
@ Max:
I can’t remember who her guest was at that time. I listen to her show sometimes when I go out, with only one ear because they are rather forgettable. She is interested in mystery books a lot, something I never read.
The government cut 10% of the CBC budget. I wish they continued to cut 20% a year until they become financed by their leftist fans, like NPR does. I’d like to see the unctuous Peter Mansbridge and the barking Anna Maria Tremonti beg for donations.
Canadian Otter Said:
I like to listen to Rogers and book shows – who was the guest?- I’d like to hear that “revealing” incident – I can get the archive – the audio archives go back several years .
The way it works is they mix the high quality shows and people with the propaganda slant. People develop a positive reaction to the good stuff – then their identification with CBC gets transferred to the propaganda bent.
CBC is anti- Israel, anti-Semitic across the board, They are also following the same obfuscating and denial policy as Obama about Islam. That should tell people it’s not “Obama” – it’s the power behind both Obama and the CBC and that would economic power – which is the only real power IE the ruling class ( the oligarchy) – the economic backers and owners of the political parties and media.
Another forbidden topic is the oligarchy – they are never mentioned and the connections/corruption between the ruling class and the politicians is a forbidden and censored subject. In many ways there is little difference between the propaganda system in Canada and in Nazi Germany of old – in fact modern Elite propagandists have improved on the Nazi model.
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To study how propaganda works takes a lot of work and lot of self-awareness. Most people don’t do it – they just get steamrolled without knowing it.
@ Max:
Your comment regarding the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) reminds me of a radio show with Shelagh Rogers on The Next Chapter, a book show. Now Shelagh, for those of you not familiar with her, is a sweet old lady with a very warm and pleasant voice (unlike the testosterone-laden CBC females, such as the frightening host of The Current). Shellagh is polite, kind, sweet, never interrupts, she is the ideal interviewer. ~~~ Well, Shelagh’s guest started to say something negative about Obama – nothing terrible, just critical. That guest never finished her thought. In an instant sweet Shellagh morphed into a horrible witch, interrupted rudely and raised her angry voice in strong defense of Hussein Obama. I was in shock at her rudeness, and I suppose every listener was too. ~~~~~ In the CBC they are like Pavlovian dogs. They are trained to respond according to the CBC Credo: “In the Left we trust” or something like that. The CBC is fully funded by us, the taxpayers. I don’t listen to CBC radio anymore, except for one ten-minute news broadcast a day. And I never watch CBC TV. ~~~ I listen to NPR from the States (Obama’s Radio Pravda). They are leftists too, but I like their calm voices, and when they’re not completely obsessed with one of Obama’s projects, they have some interesting reports.
@ yamit82:
What have you done with “Yamit”, you are saying exactly what Max has said.
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“Can this be done? Will they really try?”
It’s already been done. In Canada they have a radio show on CBC One – “Cross Country check up” It’s supposed to voice the opinions of “Canadians” but in fact it actually tells “Canadians what to think – they have a minder who pre-screens the intake calls and censors non PC responses and the host Rex Murphy handles any thing aberrant that gets through , presents the official PC view that the CBC executives (appointed by a Government-corporate cartel) wants , hides and obfuscates the real facts has the last “authoritative word” ridiculing any dangerous truth expressed.
Just listen to last Sunday’s show – the fix is in already.
And on their entire webpage for that show – the words “Islam”, Jihad” and “Muslim” don’t exist.
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I think America does it slightly differently – but in Canada it’s an extremely controlled and closed system – no real voices or popular voices of the people have ever got a chance of hitting the airwaves. People believe that they are listening to the people’s voice and so parrot it without understanding any alternative but in fact they are listening to the voice of the State.
Like Yamit says – “we” are dead already – that includes Canada.
My comment to Narvey disappeared!!!! Ted go back to your old spammmer it was less intrusive.
@ Bill Narvey:
Fascism is the merging of State and Corporate Powers. That is America today. They dictate American policy and they are in bed with the Islamists especially the oil producing States who are funding with American petrol Dollars the spread of Islam and terrorism around the world.
The soft Jihad is the internal subversion of Western societies even ownership of Key industries in America and the West.
Now what do you suggest we execute the Big Banksters, Wall Street Mega Corps heads? Maybe we should liquidate the Heads of All so so called Military Industrial Complex in America? How about the heads of Monsanto or Major Drug Companies? There is a long list. How about the politicians who are bought and paid for by the Too Big to Fails?
In short there is no way to fight the creeping Islamist take over of America and the West because the greediest elements of that society will be the big losers and they won’t ever let that happen. They will take you to war rather than have to take a a big loss of money and power.
In a few weeks or will have all but put Boston behind them much the same way they have with all other similar terrorist events especially 9/11.
The American distraction machine will churn out other diversions like reality shows Pro sports new pop idols and salacious court trials televised to keep the 24/7 Cable channels fueled with programming and high ratings.
America will not die a quick death but she is dieing and in a few years will be Europe in all but name. Even today the word is out that America does not have the wherewithal to attack Iran. Google it very entertaining description of how low American has fallen and will continue to fall in power and influence in the coming years.
So “How can the West get real and get tough demands specificity and not just generalities” The short answer is they can’t.
And speaking of tyrannosaurus rex or elephant in the room, what about the Armenian genocide? Between 1 million and 1.5 million Armenians are estimated to have been killed by Ottoman forces in 1915.
Knesset members from the left and right called for Israel to recognize the Armenian genocide, a topic which has been avoided for years for fear of hurting diplomatic relations with Turkey. MK Reuven Rivlin (Likud) said: Israel must find a way to “fulfill its moral obligation of remembering wrongs done to others.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/mks-say-high-time-for-recognition-of-armenian-genocide/
Further to my previous talkback – Democrat Bob Beckel made a startling call for a moratorium on all student visas for Muslims. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/04/23/Beckel-Calls-For-Moratorium-On-Muslim-Student-Visas
American and European activism against the building of mosques and sharia law is admirable but pointless. As long as there is no attempt to stop Muslim immigration, all minor victories are temporary. Muslims win in the end by their increased immigration and reproduction numbers, and by the power of their money to influence legislators, judges, the media, etc. ~~~ It is unbelievable how, even in the midst of a depression, there is not even a mention of a moratorium on immigration. These two samples I cited today are a rarity. They made big headlines on the right wing media. In the meantime Canada is moving ahead with repressive security measures, but not a word on immigration.
In an attempt to eliminate Jews the West “uses” morale relativism. Only through science can we reduce the influence of morale relativism (look like it is based on personal believes. Therefore faith is part of it)Hum!!! That may be one of the reasons why so many Jews are in sciences!!!
The tyrannosauros rex in the room – shhh – don’t even think about it…
Gasp! A stop to Muslim immigration?
“Radio host Laura Ingraham announced on her program Monday that she’s long believed the United States should shut down all immigration from central Asia and any nation with a majority Muslim population.” http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/laura-ingraham-end-all-muslim-immigration/?cat_orig=politics
The problem is that you can’t shut it down based on geography alone. There are too many Muslims with birth certificates from Europe, Australia and Latin America. It has to be based on religion, difficult as it may be.
My suggestion is to stop all immigration, period. They could use the economy as an excuse.
Brokaw is as much a moron as Kerry. How would Brokaw explain the jihads being waged throughout Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Europe, the Philipines, Thailand etc.? How do people so willfully ignorant get into such high positions of power?
What are the jihadists motives? The mass media are dumb, lots of Americans do not care, lots are dumb and the administration and the left are looking for cover-up and for apologizing to the poor Muslims. Jihad existed several hundreds years BEFORE US was created. This is a testimony to the brainwashing taking place in history classes all over the US. The government/left is involved in massive revisionism to deny/erase Bernard Lewis and Samuel P. Huntington masterful works on Muslims and their predictions on future conflicts with the West.
Now it is all about UNIVERSALISM, the Muslim way!!!
Let ‘s destroy everything so someone can rebuild!!!
People like Kerry are rich enough that they can in the worst case scenario fly to the Moon or now Mars! A Dutch consortium is looking for volunteers for a one way ticket to Mars. Perhaps G-D is there.
What’s mysterious? It’s Obama’s govt.
It’s easy to beat up on Sec. State Kerry, Obama, his administration, Justin Trudeau, other poltical leaders like him and the media over their pathetic efforts to either ignore the Tsarnaev brothers were Muslims, radical Muslims, Jihadists or the like or to compartementalize them as bad Muslims as distinct from the so called vast majority of the world’s good, decent and law abiding Muslims.
For those like Rubin who wield the heaviest hammers to beat on Kerry who symbolizes the ineptitude and willful blindness of all those institutional leaders to distract attention from reality so they will not have to deal with it, the answer always seems to be the same – our leaders must unequivocally denounce terrorism, the ideology that inspires it and to self righteously proclaim our right of self defence.
That advice too is not adequate or realistic for it fails to address the question of why do Western institutional leaders continue to respond to Islamism as they do which does nothing to stem the tide of that Islamism, but fail to provide not only a feasible alternate position to this seemingly interminable manifest existential threat, but a practical means to act on it.
To put it another way, Western words of disingenuity and self delusion regarding Islamism is countered with mere words that the West must cease this disingenuity and self delusion that is an exercise in futility.
The magnitude and complexity of the problem of Islamism poses for the West admits no easy solutions. At least the Rubins of the world should begin with acknowledging that and then come up with more than general statements that the West must get real and get tough.
How can the West get real and get tough demands specificity and not just generalities.
Its not “mysterious” at all – its Islam that’s a 7th Century genocidal death cult and its jihad.
People refuse to face the fact that Islamic terrorism is inspired by the Koran and the Hadiths. There is no such thing as “moderate” Islam.
Muslims want to kill us all, period. Vast majorities of them hate the Jews, Israel and America and want to see both destroyed.
What’s astonishing is the extent to which intelligent people contort themselves to deny reality. Islamic terrorism is a fact of life.
those like Kerry have spent and entire lifetime engaged in the habit of lying and deception. Old habits die hard.
these are the clear truths which existed prior to bombing and are self evident regardless of where this latest bombing leads:
-Islam is not a religion of peace
-every day on a global basis muslims are killing people
-Saudi arabia is the major financier and creator of world terrorism through its global funding of terror mosques& madrassas,Jihadist cells and orgs globally, western universities and media, anti semitic and infidel incitement.
-saudi infiltraton and control of western institutions and media has reached dangerous proportions.
short reply:
It’s the Muslims, especially the Saudis!
Wake up or die.