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Bear Growls: Shibboleths

 

 

Our bruin friend at Saint Corbinian’s Bear has a great post on how terrorist attacks have become part of our contemporary scenery:

 

On The Latest Terrorist Attack (Print Out and Save)

 
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You know the one.

That awful one that just happened.

It all went down like this.

One or more young Muslim males killed some people while shouting Allahu’ Akbar.

The authorities pretended to be puzzled at this, as if such a thing had never before happened. Police went “searching for motives.”  Oscar-worthy performances of utter cluelessness were delivered in a great production the Bear calls, “The West Rolls Over and Shows Its Belly.”

Every Social Justice Warrior from Archbishops on down to first year fine arts majors buffed their tolerance cred by making up excuses for the poor Jihad Joe, like he was “biopolar,” or abused by a Catholic priest as a lad, or something equally implausible.

And everyone lectured us on how great Islam is, and what a beautiful people Muslims are, and how, by, golly, they’re practically Catholics cuz OMG3greatabrahamicreligionssamegod, and how Islam is peaceful.

The word “backlash” was shrieked like an ululating Mahdist woman cutting choice parts from one of Kipling’s Tommies in the Sudan.

The young Muslim male did it for any reason except Islam (delicious to those of us with a sensitive palate for irony).

Other people saw it in their Facebook feed, or on the news, and were upset until shortly before bedtime. The next day there was some other damned thing and they forgot. They’re all named Mohammed, anyway,  so there’s no way to even keep score.  Neil Postman’s wonderful Amusing Ourselves to Death’s low information-action ratio is the iron law of our media age.

Or, to put it another way, everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it. Terrorism has become a part of the cultural weather, and is treated just the same.

Go here to read the rest.  Now why is this so?  The media know how to whip up artificial frenzies about the most foolish things imaginable.  Politicians are certainly not shy about increasing their power by riding the crest of popular outrage.  So, why is a situation where terrorists are going around murdering people constantly minimized in the West?  Because doing something about Jihadism means attacking some of the major shibboleths among elites in our society:
1.  Multiculturalism-Our strength is in our diversity!
2.  Open borders-Y’all come!
3.  People are fungible-Instead of a melting pot we are a wonderful stew!
4.  Tolerance-Uber alles!
5.  Third worldism-Their problems are caused by us.
6.  Islam-A good stick to use against Christians.
7.  Religion-Unimportant in our contemporary world.
8.  Military power-Unnecessary in our modern world.
9.  Ecumenism-The Brotherhood of Man under the Fatherhood of God!  (Bomfog)
10.Globalism-Petty distinctions to be submerged under the rule of a benevolent caste of global elites.
Yep, the elites will do their best to ignore Islamic Jihadism until one  of our cities is reduced to a pile of radioactive rubble, and even after that there will be attempts to embrace this ostrich policy again.
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Clinton
Clinton
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 5:15am

I think there is a more sinister reason why some of our political elites are so
insistant on the necessity of importing a hostile jihadist underclass in defiance
of all common sense and despite the objections of the governed. Those new
hostile jihadists are very useful in the campaign to Fundamentally Transform
society.
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The Orlando shooting, for example, instantly became a bloody shirt to wave
in the fight to gut the Second Amendment. Additionally, it was used by the left
as a stick to beat the right– for it’s now somehow the fault of the right that their
political opinions and ‘hate speech’ triggered the shooter’s evil deed. Hence
AG Lynch’s deep concern over supposed ‘anti-muslim rhetoric’ — a convenient
excuse to widen the definition of ‘hate speech’ to encompass the political
opinions of those who might oppose the wholesale importation of people who
want to kill us. Social media already censor news feeds, delete comment threads
and ban the accounts of people who, in their opinion, threaten ‘safety’ with
their speech. Just ask Pamela Gellar, Milo Yiannoupolos, Stacy McCain, Mark
Steyn or Ezra Levant– they’ve all been banned or censored by Facebook or
or YouTube, or Twitter, or some combination of the above– or been dragged
to court because of their ‘hate speech’.
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By importing people who want to kill us, our elites create a crisis they can exploit.
Acts of terror frighten and divide people, and frightened people would be
more willing to accept an erosion of their liberties in the name of ‘safety’, and
a divided people will be less likely to be able to defend their freedoms. And
if our elites have to let a few Orlandos get shot up to achieve their aims, they
appear to be willing to do it.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 10:47am

Suppose you were a liar, and suppose you were a liberal, but I repeat myself. Hat tip to Mark Twain.
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Almost everything a liberal says is 100% false. It is nothing more than sound and chatter signifying nothing.
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The bigger (than Islamist massacres) problem is millions of imbeciles have the vote.
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Got ammo?

Kennybhoy
Kennybhoy
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 12:18pm

Thanks for the link to “Saint Corbinian’s Bear” Maister McC.

I wholeheartedly agree with him that the Islamist Jihadis pose no existential threat. They are not predators. They are not even carrion. They are flies that would feast on decay, But as I wrote over by, beware the Monsters from the Western, particularly Continental European Id which will likely emerge before we get to the Blade Runner melange predicted by the bruin. You can see them btl all over the blogsphere. They think that their time is coming and they may be correct. It is these monsters that the elites very rightly fear but which in their blind, ostrich like stupidity they have actively invoked. God save us…

Kennybhoy
Kennybhoy
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 12:33pm

Clinton writes:

“I think there is a more sinister reason why…”

Nope. Always bet on cock up and self-delusion rather than conspiracy. At least as far as the current ruling elites are concerned. They believe that civilization is perpetual, a natural phenomenon. They cannot grasp the basic conservative insight, I think described by Orwell, that for every action that makes civilized life worth living there must be countless actions that make such civilization possible at all. And these latter actions are not, alas, always pretty…

There are sinister forces out there who would exploit crisis and decay but they are not the current ruling elites, They are those “Monsters from the Id” I referred to above.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 1:23pm

My guess is that they’re so malignantly narcissist that they can’t imagine anyone hates X (Christians, America, Republicans, etc. take your pick) for any reason different from their own, and that if they can just show the world that they, the “good” Americans, hate the same things and want them to go away, the violence will stop. Or at least be directed towards the right people.
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Naturally, a large amount of cognitive dissonance (i.e. doublethink) is involved. Thus the gun (not to mention christian homophobia) made the orlando ‘splodey dope go postal, and not Islam.

(Which we all know is a religion of peace).

Foxfier
Admin
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 1:49pm

Look at national politics: if you want the same result that they do, you MUST agree with going about it the same way they want to; if you don’t support the same course of action, then you don’t really want the Good Thing to happen, and you don’t want any other good stuff, either.

Insane, but consistent.

Christine
Christine
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 7:29pm

I love the way they belittle you and pc you into thinking your own natural instincts are bad, or mean, or wrong. Any one would be terrified of muslims after the news almost daily of an attack on someone, someplace. And they should be.
Well, Loretta Lynch, your greatest fear may be the rise of anti-muslim rhetoric, but my greatest fear is….muslims.

bill bannon
bill bannon
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 7:56pm

Quran (8:12) – “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.”
The prophet on attacking Mecca from Medina because the Meccans would not let him enter that city.

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Thursday, July 28, AD 2016 2:28am

It may very well be that Islam is the scourge that God is using to chastise the West for worshiping false gods of Modernism which has been supported and abetted by evil elements in the Catholic Church. Our Lady of Fatima warned us. But who listens?

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