The modern left and Islamic fascism
The new threat to the West is a vile and ignorant
Islamic religious fascism
coming out of the Middle East.
It is a threat both to Muslims and infidels.
This violent utopian
Islamic fascism
is basically a modern, 20th century totalitarian movement,
similar to violent utopian communism
or to mid-20th century
European fascism.
It is opposed to democracy, human rights, free speech,
freedom of religion and freedom of sexuality.
It is at war with everyone who is not an Islamic fundamentalist fascist.
It has killed vast numbers of Muslims.
The western left, to some people's surprise,
are on the side of the fascists.
Two pictures sum up young western leftists'
naive support for anti-western violence:
International Solidarity Movement
members pose with Palestinian terrorists, summer 2006.
Holding guns are ISM volunteers
from Sweden (lives in Ireland)
and Scotland.
Standing on right is an
Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades terrorist.
Pictures from a StopTheISM.com
infiltrator.
Full explanation in
The ISM-Terror Connection
by Lee Kaplan, September 13, 2006.
ISM volunteers from
Ireland and Denmark
standing holding guns.
Centre is the heroically brave StopTheISM.com infiltrator
(who risked torture and a horrible death if he was uncovered here),
and a Palestinian "policeman"
(i.e. terrorist).
And because these
useful idiots
have forgotten, or don't care:
List of Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades attacks on Israeli civilians.
It was an Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades gunman
that shot the little boys
Noam and Matan Ohayon
in 2002
as they cowered in their bedroom with their mummy.
The left's reaction to 9/11
Departure of Mehmed VI,
last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 1922.
Apparently every leftist should regret
the collapse of the Ottoman Empire,
according to John Pilger.
Image from here.
It seems like only yesterday that the left was opposed to
all religious fascism,
indeed all religion.
How did this change come about?
How has religious extremism become trendy again?
(Provided it is third-world religious extremism.)
-
Bush's Secularist Triumph:
The left apologizes for religious fanatics. The president fights them.
- article by Christopher Hitchens,
who is, like me, an atheist for Bush.
- "Only one faction in American politics has found itself able to make excuses
for the kind of religious fanaticism that immediately menaces us in the here and now. And that faction,
I am sorry and furious to say, is the left. From the first day of the immolation of the World Trade Center,
right down to the present moment, a gallery of pseudointellectuals has been willing to represent
the worst face of Islam as the voice of the oppressed."
- "George Bush may subjectively be a Christian, but he
- and the U.S. armed forces
- have objectively done more for secularism than the whole of the
American agnostic community combined and doubled."
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The Transformation of "Jihad Jack" and John Walker Lindh
by Christian Beenfeldt
- How can you go from trendy western liberal-left godlessness
to Islamic religious fascism?
You can if your trendy, non-judgemental godlessness is based on feelings
rather than on reason:
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"Consider the typical "progressive" leftist, with his non-judgmental relativism.
He is the embodiment of subjectivism: he holds that there are no absolute principles,
that truth is "in the eye of the beholder," and that
"what's right for you might not be right for me."
...
the subjectivist makes clear that his choices are ruled by blind feelings."
- "This is precisely also the basic policy of the religious dogmatist.
There are an infinite number of opposing religious sects.
How does the religionist decide
which faith to embrace, which revelations to follow and which authority to obey?
Does he scientifically gather the evidence, carefully weigh it,
and then adopt the conclusion to which reason and logic point? Obviously not. He feels it.
He feels that Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, astrology or whatever,
is the right faith for him."
- "So while the religionist may claim to uphold absolute truths, his beliefs are as arbitrary and baseless as those of the subjectivist. Thus, the paradoxical conversions of Jack Thomas and Walker Lindh
- from subjectivist to religious dogmatist
- aren't so paradoxical after all; in both cases, the switch was merely from one form of emotionalism to another."
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Australian Taliban Feted Again - Via the Medium of Dance
- Scott Burgess is hilarious on
Australian leftists' mad support for
the Australian Islamic convert and jihadist
David Hicks.
If he was a Christian violent fundamentalist nutcase
the leftists wouldn't touch him with a bargepole.
-
Pimp my Soviet ride, Tim Blair, January 05, 2008
- On Australian leftists' support for David Hicks.
-
Open Letter from an Arab-American Student
by Oubai Mohammad Shahbandar
- A Syrian disgusted with the western left.
- "They have never known the humiliation of living under the iron rule of an Islamic despotism. I have."
- The left-wing solicitor
Gareth Peirce's bland whitewashing of
the women-hating, gay-hating, atheist-hating,
mass-murdering religious savages, the Taliban.
- Afghans and the Guardian
by Matthew Leeming
- Afghan women, who suffered under the Taliban,
listen to how left-wing writers in the west defended the Taliban,
and get angry.
-
Zachary Roth, May 22, 2009, at the left-wing
Talking Points Memo,
illustrates the double standards.
On jihadis who planned to slaughter Jews at American synagogues:
"It's easy to laugh at this gang of goons -- and we've done our share of that. But, frankly, it's also hard not to feel some compassion for what looks like a group of struggling, credulous, under-educated men, existing on the fringes of society, who lacked the intelligence or willpower to avoid getting taken in by a government informant anxious to mitigate his own situation, and by their own vague understanding of radical Islam and the hole it might fill in their lives."
Can you imagine, just for one second, him saying that if these were
white right-wing skinheads who planned to slaughter Jews at American synagogues?
- This moral sickness on the left has been building for a long time:
- The writer
Chris Hedges
(and search)
is typical of the confusion
of the modern left over Christianity ("bad") and Islam ("good").
- He writes an entire book,
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (2007),
on Christian fundamentalists in America,
who, it is true, are nuts,
but who
have little power,
little ability to change laws
(e.g. the laws on pornography and gay rights got more liberal under
Reagan and George W. Bush),
and who violently
oppress nobody and kill nobody.
-
It's fair enough to attack them, just in case they become a real threat,
but it seems like he has a more sinister agenda
when he ignores
the vast, rolling, international Islamic jihad
that oppresses millions in Islamic states
and kills tens of thousands of innocents every year all over the world.
This, surely, is what any enemy of "religious fascism" should be primarily focused on.
- Not just does Hedges not see it that way,
but he even makes excuses for the Islamic Fascists.
See debate:
Christopher Hitchens vs. Chris Hedges, May 24, 2007.
Hedges says the
Islamic religious maniac suicide killers
are desperate and unemployed.
Hitchens replies:
"God forbid a KKK'er ... be unemployed,
for Hedges would think it okay to noose black folks."
- For confused lefties like Hedges, religious fascism is bad only if it comes from
their own tradition.
If it comes from strange third world people, it needs to be "understood".
- With incredible arrogance and rudeness,
Chris Hedges
wrecked the graduation ceremony of students
at Rockford College, Illinois, in 2003,
by forcing a
rambling anti-American rant
on the captive audience.
-
If people have actually come to hear his offensive left-wing theories about the world that's fine.
But he should not inflict them on people who aren't interested, and
who are having a special, important day in their lives.
Even if Hedges' ideas made any sense, it would still be rude.
As TimesWatch says:
"Hedges seems to be droning in a world of his own, oblivious to context or nuance or even where he was, not acknowledging the hostile audience, who were understandably wondering what became of their graduation ceremony."
-
He actually said, as jihadis and Baathists organised to kill brave Americans to stop democracy:
"This is a war of liberation in Iraq, but it is a war now of liberation of Iraqis from American occupation".
This patronising, sneering cynic,
with his Masters in "Divinity" from Harvard,
actually described the brave American soldiers as
"poor kids from Mississippi or Alabama or Texas who could not get a decent job or health insurance
and joined the army because it was all we offered them."
As opposed to smart, strong, brave people
making their own decisions to protect the West against its enemies.
-
The videos are hilarious, as many of the audience display their disgust with
having this anti-American crap inflicted on them.
One woman shouts:
"You've already ruined our graduation. Don't ruin it any more, sir."
They boo and hoot at this fool, as he ploughs on and on.
Good for them.
This is where the strange modern left-wing sympathy for
Islamic religious fascism really began.
- International Solidarity Movement
in Palestine
-
NGO Monitor on ISM
-
ISM "human shields" protect an Islamic terrorist's house in Gaza,
Nov 2006,
despite the Qassam rockets being fired by him and his comrades
from Gaza at civilians in the Israeli town of Sderot.
-
Why don't these "human shield" idiots stand in Sderot
to protect Israeli civilians from the incoming Palestinian rockets?
If you can answer that question,
you will finally understand not just the modern western left
but also the entire Arab-Israeli conflict.
- The ISM
moronically describes this "human shield" approach as
"the Palestinian non-violent resistance movement",
despite the fact that they are protecting the homes of
people who are violent.
- Rachel Corrie
-
Who killed Rachel Corrie?
by Dennis Prager
- "The world is filled with evil, and young idealists like Rachel Corrie don't like
it. Which is lovely. But they don't confront real evil because they know they
will get hurt. That's one reason there are no "peace activists" or "human
shields" confronting Islamic terror, North Korean totalitarianism, or Chinese
Communist despotism."
-
Channel 4 evades the truth behind a death in Gaza
by Oliver Kamm
- The play
"My Name is Rachel Corrie"
-
Vacationing In Someone Else's Despair
- review by Mark Steyn.
-
Earnest Ignorance: My Name is Rachel Corrie at the New Rep
-
The forgotten Rachels
by Tom Gross
-
"Rachel Corrie's death was undoubtedly tragic.
But ultimately, this play isn't really about Corrie, but about fomenting hatred of Israel."
-
The Other Rachels
(and pictures)
by Steven Plaut, summarises Gross' list:
Here are the names of some plays that have not yet been produced
in London:
- My Name is
Rachel Levy (Israeli girl age 17, blown up in a grocery
store)
- My Name is
Rachel Thaler (Israeli girl aged 16, blown up in a pizzeria)
- My Name is Rachel Levi (Israeli girl aged 19, murdered while waiting
for the bus)
- My Name is Rachel Gavish (killed with her husband and son while at
home)
- My Name is Rachel Charhi (blown up while sitting in a cafe)
- My Name is Rachel Shabo
(murdered with her three sons aged 5, 13 and 16
while sitting at home)
|
"All The Rachels"
Flyer from
standwithus.com.
See full flyer:
- Jimmy Carter
(or "Dhimmi Carter", as counter-jihad people call him)
- Jimmy Carter is
American Dhimmi of the Year 2008
in the Jihad Watch awards.
- Jimmy Carter's "book" on Israel,
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (2006)
- Reviews
- I don't link to a lot of criticism of Jimmy Carter.
He's simply too easy a target.
He is an idiot
who is best forgotten.
-
But
this total destruction of Jimmy Carter's "book" on Israel
by Mitchell Bard
is worth reading because it takes on and destroys every single argument
on Israel believed by Carter and all the leftists I know.
It is a great starting point for de-programming the years of
left-wing propaganda most people grow up with on Israel.
-
A Comprehensive Collection of Jimmy Carter's Errors
- The ADL on Carter's book
- "One should never judge a book by its cover, but in the case of former President Jimmy Carter's latest work, "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid", we should make an exception. All one really needs to know about this biased account is found in the title."
-
Why won't Carter debate his book?, Alan Dershowitz, December 21, 2006,
on Carter's refusal to debate him.
"You can always tell when a public figure has written an indefensible book:
when he refuses to debate it in the court of public opinion. And you can always tell when he's a hypocrite to boot:
when he says he wrote a book in order to stimulate a debate, and then he refuses to participate in any such debate."
- Jimmy Carter denies
that Palestinians firing missiles at Israeli civilian areas is terrorism.
- Terrorists and racists love his book:
-
Sick.
Jimmy Carter lays a wreath on Arafat's grave, Apr 2008.
Jimmy Carter's "book" (left) on sale in a bookshop in Jordan
which also promotes the popular
Mein Kampf (right).
From
The David Project Center for Jewish Leadership.
Do you think you can buy
Daniel Pipes in Jordan?
Or Robert Spencer?
Or Ibn Warraq?
Of course not.
The modern left's support for the
Iraqi fascist "resistance"
In any struggle between the West and its enemies,
leftists' instincts are to criticise their own side.
Leftists like to think of themselves as intelligent dissenters
and neutrals,
certainly not traitors, or enemies of the West.
Intelligent dissent cannot be unpatriotic, surely?
The sad fact is, though, that much as many leftists may not mean it to,
such dissent does encourage the enemy,
and may even create a climate that breeds new enemies:
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It is no coincidence that
Islamism took off not in the early 20th century
but since the 1960s-70s,
when self-criticism of the West took off exponentially.
-
It is also no coincidence that
Islamism is stronger among European Muslims than among American Muslims,
when Europe is far more left-wing and anti-West than America.
-
The world's left, and left-leaning media, have
created a more friendly world
for anti-American hatreds like communism and Islamism to flourish.
It is no coincidence that
modern Islamist terror started in 1968 -
that era of late 1960s revolution
that also gave birth to the IRA, ETA,
and the 1970s terrorists.
Marxist revolution was in the air then,
and we are still living with the consequences of that time.
Modern Islamism is utopian, international, anti-American
- appealing to violent, idealistic young people.
It is the heir of violent revolutionary communism.
The Islamism attacking us was
born not centuries ago
but rather in the revolutionary 1960s and 1970s,
and is kept alive by the constant anti-Americanism spread by the media
throughout the world, not least in Ireland.
It has
intellectual origins in the western left
and is
supported by the western left.
See for example the fact that
Michael Moore's book encouraged the Bali bombers.
In summary,
the marxist left could be said to be the origin of
modern Islamism
as much as ancient Islam is.
-
The radical loser
by
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- "the Islamists are perfectly happy to plunder the arsenal of their predecessors.
It is often overlooked that modern terrorism is a European invention of the nineteenth century.
Its most important ancestors came from Czarist Russia,
but it can also look back on a long history in Western Europe.
In recent times, the left-wing terrorism of the 1970s
has proved a source of inspiration, with Islamists borrowing many of its symbols and techniques.
The style of their announcements, the use of video recordings,
the emblematic significance of the Kalashnikov,
even the gestures, body language and dress, all this shows how much they have learned from these western role models."
- Islamists read our media,
and
what the left says encourages Islamist killers.
Again, you may not like it, but it's true.
-
Certainly, if the liberal left supported America,
as they did in WW2 and Korea,
Islamism would be far weaker,
and the world would be a much better place.
- From Hitler
to the Soviets
to North Vietnam
to Saddam,
peace marches encourage tyrants.
You may not like it, but it's true.
-
Holy War in Europe
by Reuel Marc Gerecht,
argues that Islamists in Europe are a product of
leftist anti-Americanism
almost as much as a product of their ancestral cultures.
In short,
the left is breeding Islamists.
The left is partly responsible for creating these people.
-
"The jihadists of Europe have drunk deeply from the virulently anti-American left-wing currents of
Continental thought and mixed it with the Islamic emotions of 1,400 years of competition with the Christian
West. It's a Molotov cocktail of the third-world socialist Frantz Fanon and the Muslim Brother Sayyid
Qutb."
-
The anti-American left exists also in America,
but has been far less successful at breeding Islamists there:
"the modern European
experience seems much more likely to produce violent young Muslims than the American. Europe may be
competitive with the worst breeding grounds in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan."
-
The French Path to Jihad,
John Rosenthal,
Oct-Nov 2006
- This fascinating discussion of interviews with French jihadis
challenges many current myths about where Islamism comes from:
- The French jihadis are not poor and oppressed:
"Lest anyone still cling to the illusion that the root cause of Islamic terror
is poverty and economic inequality, for instance,
the interviews massively reinforce the findings of
the already substantial body of research
on Arab Islamists showing that jihadists are largely recruited
from relatively more privileged social strata in their countries of origin.
As a rule, the inmates interviewed are highly educated, well-traveled, and multilingual."
- France gives them great opportunities,
but it never accepts them as truly French.
(It is true that Europe needs to learn from America on this.)
- As a result, they develop a great hatred of France,
which morphs
(as is the way with illogical hatreds)
into a hatred of countries of which they have no experience
(US and Israel).
Why? Because of what they see on the TV.
- And what TV is this?
"It is important to recall in this connection that the first language
of most of the inmates interviewed is French.
Some, like Jacques, do not speak Arabic or have at most only a very limited knowledge of it.
"The tv" to which they allude for the most part is undoubtedly French television."
- They feel supported by mainstream French intellectual ideas:
"The French Islamist inmates are evidently well aware that their ideas about the malevolence of American power,
like their ideas about the exemplarity of Israeli "oppression,"
place them well within the French intellectual mainstream.
Thus "Karim," for example, in admitting to having given lodging to Jihadists, remarks nonchalantly:
'If they engaged in jihad, they had their reasons. When they revolted against the Americans, they weren't the only ones.
A large part of the French are also against American policy
with respect to the Palestinians
and others'"
- In short, regular French TV and society may be breeding jihadis.
Europe's standard, unthinking left-wing anti-Israeli prejudice
and anti-Americanism
may be breeding jihadis in Europe.
- "In any case, the "Islamism" of the inmates ...
is clearly a product not of the "Muslim world" alone,
but rather of a certain encounter between Islamic traditions and modern European culture and society.
When one considers that many of the leading intellectual figures in the history
of the Islamist movement lived for extensive periods in Europe
and did advanced studies in European universities,
there is reason to believe that this mixed heritage
is also characteristic of Islamist ideology more generally."
- In summary, one should be very careful when criticising the democracies
in a conflict with a tyranny.
I am not proposing any government restraint on you.
I am proposing some self-restraint.
Why?
Because of the risk that you might encourage the enemy.
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Kenan Malik, 1 Feb 2009, recalls a friend who in 1989 made the short journey from West-hating leftist to West-hating Islamist:
-
"The Hassan I had known in London had been a member of the
Socialist Workers party
(as had I). His other indulgences were Southern Comfort, sex and Arsenal. We had watched the Specials together, smoked dope together, argued together about football. He was secular through and through: the only god he worshipped was Liam Brady, Arsenal's magical midfielder. But here he was in Bradford, an errand boy to the mullahs, inspired by book-burners, willing to shed blood for a 1,000-year-old fable that he had never believed in."
- An election during war
- Orson Scott Card,
September 26, 2004,
on John Kerry's
shameful election campaign of 2004.
Campaigning during a war is tricky
- given that it must involve criticising the government.
Nothing you say must give any encouragement to the enemy that they are winning,
and that if they just hold out (or make one final push)
the current administration will fall.
The Democrats have in no way taken this on board in their campaign.
Their entire campaign sends the message to America's enemies
to keep going and stay the course.
-
It could have been so different. The Democrats could have scared the enemy
into thinking they might even be worse than Bush.
And then they could have campaigned away against Bush
on the many areas where he is vulnerable.
"It's actually possible to conduct a political campaign in which you don't encourage enemies
of the United States to kill Americans."
- As Orson Scott Card points out, the people in the West who bear guilt
for encouraging Islamism,
for encouraging Al Qaeda and the Iraqi resistance,
are precisely the "anti-war" party.
Anybody, in fact, who says anything about the
War on Islamism
that is not basically supportive of the democracies' fight against Islamism
- that is not simply a disagreement about tactics.
You may not like it, but it's true.
Hope is what keeps the jihadis going,
and the western left gives them hope.
If you don't want blood on your hands, don't open your mouth.
- Osama Bin Laden reads the left:
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Seeking Sympathy from the Infidel: Zawahiri invokes the language of social justice, Raymond Ibrahim, May 16, 2007.
- Ayman al-Zawahiri cynically appeals to anybody who might be anti-American,
even if they are not an Islamist religious maniac.
- He appeals to the non-white and non-American infidels that he plans to slaughter:
"That's why I want blacks in America, people of color, American Indians, Hispanics,
and all the weak and oppressed in North and South America, in Africa and Asia, and all over the world,
to know that ... we aren't waging jihad to lift oppression from Muslims only;
we are waging jihad to lift oppression from all mankind
... I want every oppressed one on the face of the earth to know that our victory over America and the Crusading West
... is a victory for them".
And then they shall be rounded up for conversion or death.
- He appeals to environmentalists,
complaining that America
"went out and ruined for the entire world,
the atmosphere and climate with the gases emitted by its factories".
As if Al Qaeda gives a shit about the environment.
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Is There an "Emboldenment" Effect? Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq, Radha Iyengar and Jonathan Monten, Feb 2008.
"Using data on attacks and variation in access to international news across Iraqi provinces, we identify an "emboldenment" effect by comparing the rate of insurgent attacks in areas with higher and lower access to information about U.S news after public statements critical of the war. We find in periods after a spike in war-critical statements, insurgent attacks increases by 5-10 percent. The results suggest that insurgent groups respond rationally to expected probability of US withdrawal."
Defeatism
-
The War Against World War IV
by Norman Podhoretz
- on defeatism
in WW2,
in WW3 (the Cold War),
and in WW4 (the current war):
- "During World War II there was scarcely any defeatist sentiment in the air,
not even in response to actual defeats - and we suffered many, especially in the early years.
Nor was there a fixation on the mistakes made by Roosevelt and Churchill
- and, great men though they indubitably were, they made many.
What is more, some of their mistakes were so large and consequential that by comparison
those of which Bush and Rumsfeld stand accused seem insignificant"
- "In World War III, by contrast, great bouts of defeatist sentiment
did get aroused by critics of the Left and the Right alike."
And is it possible that such defeatism prolonged
the Cold War by years, even decades?
-
Victor Davis Hanson, October 29, 2004,
on how the Islamists cannot win on the battlefield.
They can only win if we lose heart ourselves.
"Because of our astounding weaponry and superb military, the terrorists in Fallujah count on
the help of such postmodern Western guilt and internecine blame to supply constraints
on the American military every bit as effective as the old Soviet nuclear deterrent.
Again, a Michael Moore
- or so they believe - is worth an entire jihadist cell.
...
The truth is that war remains the same the more it changes. For all the technological gadgetry,
foreign landscapes, baffling global communications, and endemic pacifism of the present age,
war is still a struggle of the human spirit."
-
Press Pile-On
by Douglas Mackinnon, December 11, 2004
- "I have yet to talk with a member of our military
who does not strongly believe that the Abu Ghraib
prison scandal [was] blown out of all proportion.
Worse, they feel that the ensuing media feeding frenzy
had a direct result in
fueling the insurgents attacking our troops and innocent civilians
in Iraq."
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The Iraq Panic:
Zarqawi's bombs hit their target in Washington
- General George Casey, the Iraq theater commander,
replies to the defeatist loser
Senator Ted Kennedy.
Casey says:
"I thought I was fairly clear in what I laid out in my testimony about what's going on in Iraq,
that you have an insurgency with no vision, no base, limited popular support,
an elected government, committed Iraqis to the democratic process, and you have Iraqi security forces
that are fighting and dying for their country every day. Senator, that is not a quagmire."
As the article points out:
"defeatism can be a self-fulfilling prophecy".
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Aiding and Abetting the Enemy: the Media in Iraq
by Lieutenant Colonel Tim Ryan, January 14, 2005
- On the media:
"The inaccurate picture they paint has distorted the world view of the daily realities in Iraq.
The result is a further erosion of international public support for the United States' efforts there,
and a strengthening of the insurgents' resolve and recruiting efforts while weakening our own.
Through their incomplete, uninformed and unbalanced reporting, many members of the media covering the war
in Iraq are aiding and abetting the enemy."
- The Fallujah operation:
"In Fallujah, the enemy death toll has already exceeded 1,500 and still is climbing.
...
Given all of this, why don't the papers lead with
"Coalition Crushes Remaining Pockets of Insurgents"
or "Enemy Forces Resort to Suicide Bombings of Civilians"?
This would paint a far more accurate picture of the enemy's predicament over here.
Instead, headlines focus almost exclusively on our hardships."
- On the talking heads of the media,
he says with wonderful understatement:
"So what are the credentials of these self proclaimed "experts"? The fact is that most of those on
whom we rely for complete and factual accounts have little or no experience or education
in counter-insurgency operations or in nation-building to support their assessments.
How would they really know if things are going well or not?
War is an ugly thing with many unexpected twists and turns. Who among them is qualified to say
if this one is worse than any other at this point?"
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Account of the jihadis in Guantanamo
by a U.S. Army male nurse who worked with them.
They believe they will win this war.
The nurse says:
"Their leaders consistently stress that jihad is working and our culture is a hollow shell.
They point to VietNam, Somalia, 9/11, Madrid (both the bombings and the elections immediately following),
and the anti-war propagandists here in the United States.
... The jihadists are constantly told that America is weak-willed and will turn and run
if they can be inflicted with enough damage and peace can be delayed long enough."
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The lesson of Vietnam has been learnt by the jihadis.
The left of the 1960s is responsible for prolonging
even this current war.
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Jihadi instructions for using the Web to foster Anti-War sentiment among Americans, March 20, 2007
- "There is no doubt, my brothers, that raiding American [web] forums
is among the most important means of obtaining victory in the fierce media war
... and of influencing the views of the weak-minded American"
- (That's you, lefties.
You're the kind of westerner they love.
If only we were all like you, they think.)
- "Obviously, you should post your contribution
... as an American ...
You should invent stories about American soldiers you have
[allegedly] personally known
...
who were drafted to Iraq and then committed suicide while in service by hanging or shooting themselves
...
Also, write using a sad tone, and tell them that you feel sorry for your [female] neighbor or co-worker
who became addicted to alcohol or drugs ... because her poor fiancé, a former soldier in Iraq,
was paralyzed or [because] his legs were amputated ...
[Use any story] which will break their spirits,
oh brave fighter for the sake of God
...
Your concern should [only] be introducing topics which
... will cause [them to feel] frustration and anger towards their government
..., which will ... render them hostile to Bush ... and his Republican Party
and make them feel they must vote to
bring the troops back from Iraq
as soon as possible"
-
(As I've said elsewhere,
and people have violently disputed,
the jihadis clearly want the Democrats to win.)
- American Al Qaeda traitor
Adam Gadahn praises
George Galloway and Robert Fisk,
Aug 2006.
See
transcript
and
discussion.
- The 27 year old convert jihadi
Adam Gadahn
says we should convert to a religion called Islam
or else we will be killed.
- He thanks the western left for their support,
but says they will still go to hell (ooh, scary!)
unless they actually convert to Islam:
"As for those who have expressed their respect and admiration for Islam,
and acknowledged that it is the truth,
and demonstrated their support and sympathy for the Muslims and their causes,
like George Galloway, Robert Fisk, and countless others,
I say to them "Isn't it time you stopped sitting on the fence and came over to the side of truth?"
Don't take as your role model Abu Taleb, the uncle of the Prophet who stood by his nephew
and the Muslims in thick and thin,
and protected and aided them and testified to the truthfulness of Mohamed,
peace be upon him, and to the truth of his message,
yet died an unbeliever,
and entered the hellfire,
because he didn't want it to be said that Abu Taleb abandoned the religion of his forefathers."
- This religious maniac asks Seymour Hirsh
to help him:
"And here we challenge investigative journalists like Seymour Hirsh
to reveal the extent of this coverup and let Americans and the rest of the world
see for themselves the extent of the cowardice of the current regime."
- He praises the generals who have been criticizing Rumsfeld,
thus indicating that Rumsfeld must be doing something right.
He says that Bush:
"doesn't care one bit about what the military thinks
as evidence by his rejection of recent and retired serving officers demands for Rumsfeld to go
and his blithe dismissal of concerns about the way America's Crusade is going."
Again, it's an obvious point, but if your enemy wants you to resign,
you must be doing something right.
- Nice video of Adam Gadahn
spliced with the evil carried out by his people:
-
Adam Gadahn was charged with treason in
Oct 2006.
The first American charged with treason since the Axis Japan collaborator
Tomoya Kawakita
in 1952.
A conviction on treason carries penalties up to the death penalty.
"The war in Iraq in itself didn't cause the London bombers
to blow up the Tube and a bus last summer.
It was rather the story that the western media is promulgating,
that the Iraqis are victims of the west rather than of
their real persecutors in al Qaeda and the remnants of the Ba'ath party,
that surely gave the death cult which for various reasons finds such purchase
among certain Muslim youths its point of detonation.
It is that utterly mendacious presentation which is the recruiting sergeant for terrorism"
- Melanie Phillips
(or via here), 2006.
Will the left be pro-fascist or anti-fascist?
- The Agony of the Left
- article by Andrew Sullivan
on the strange phenomenon of modern leftist support for racist, religiously sectarian,
women-hating, gay-murdering
Islamic fundamentalist fascists.
-
Anti-Jewish? Anti-gay? Welcome to Britain
- article by Anthony Browne
on the left's tolerance of anti-semitic gay-haters.
"If these were old-style anti-Semitic homophobes
the Left would be campaigning to have them locked up."
-
Europe's Islamist Alliance
- Amir Taheri
on the left-Islamofascist alliance in Europe.
-
Nick Cohen
is, like me, baffled at the modern left:
"Why is it that apologies for a militant Islam which stands for everything the liberal left
is against come from the liberal left? Why will students hear a leftish postmodern theorist
defend the exploitation of women in traditional cultures but not a crusty conservative don?
...
why after the 7/7 attacks on London did leftish rather than right-wing newspapers
run pieces excusing suicide bombers who were inspired by a psychopathic theology
from the ultra-right?
...
In short, why is the world upside down?"
- Victor Davis Hanson
-
Feeding the Minotaur
- "It was hard for the Islamic fascists to find ideological support in the West,
given their agenda of gender apartheid, homophobia, religious persecution,
racial hatred, fundamentalism, polygamy, and primordial barbarism."
And yet they succeeded - with the left.
-
Year Three
- "Right after 9/11, some of us thought it was impossible for leftist critics to undermine a war against fascists who were sexist, fundamentalist, homophobic, racist, ethnocentric, intolerant of diversity, mass murderers of Kurds and Arabs, and who had the blood of 3,000 Americans on their hands. We were dead wrong. In fact, they did just that."
-
It's been a good year
- Mark Steyn on the left-Islamist alliance:
"The extreme Left has made a terrible strategic mistake shacking up with
the Islamists. In one sense, they're not as incompatible as they might
appear: Islamism may be religious in origin
but in its political form it is
simply this decade's brand of oppressive statism, as communism was
before it."
- After the end of the Soviet Union,
"Western intellectuals have found a new totalitarianism to be dupes for"
-
The Islamic fascist threat has made many on the modern left
re-think their most basic instincts.
Their instinct,
in a war between democracy and fascism,
is always to take the side of fascism.
But the horror of the evil we face
is making at least some of them oppose fascism
for the first time:
- Leaving the left
The disgusting,
anti-American
Arizona 9/11 Memorial
(see
photos)
illustrates the left's complete inability to understand 9/11.
This memorial should be destroyed.
Iowahawk's cracking
parody of the Arizona 9/11 Memorial.
My favourite:
"You don't win artsy monument grant battles with bronze eagles."
Sanctuary
(and part 2)
- Bill Whittle on the sickness of the left,
as they compound their error
in opposing the liberation of Iraq
with shameful tacit support for the post-war fascist "resistance":
"I, for one, can not get past the idea that millions of Western Progressives
would rather see a nation re-enslaved, or erupt in civil war,
or have twenty thousand of their countrymen come home in boxes
than admit that they were wrong."
He says this war has shown us the left in all its horror:
"But this war has done much more. It has shown us just how many people
here inside the walls of our Sanctuary
wish for - work for - its destruction."
If you must read just one essay attacking the left for its lack of support
for the War on Islamism, read this one.
Return to
The left's support for tyranny.