I don't want to go too much into the details of the shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub as inevitably some of the initial information proves wrong. It seems, however, some facts are clear. The shooter is a Muslim of Afghan descent married to a Muslim from Uzbekistan. The shooter's father, Mir Seddique, is a somewhat loopy refugee from Afghanistan who helps run an outfit called Durand Jirga which specializes in disputing the established border between Pakistan and Afghanistan--the Durand Line--and has sought to bring Pakistan before the International Criminal Court. He, reportedly, also seeks to become president of Afghanistan. He seems to be a Pashtoon nationalist of the sort I ran into all the time in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province. The politics at the shooter's home must have fallen on the whacky side.
The shooter, based on initial reports, seems to have had "involvement" with "radical" Islam--and, by the way, he was a registered Democrat. This leads me, of course, to repeat and repeat myself, and to provide links to prior posts such as a couple of older pieces (one here) which discuss something we still have not learned, to wit, we might not be at war with Islam but Islam is at war with us, and we are under attack.
I further wrote that,
[W]e must recognize that the threat comes not from this or that "radicalized" individual, cell, or group in caves in Afghanistan or Syria, or in dingy flats in London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Sydney, or New York. The threat comes from Islam, itself. The "crazies," the jihadis, the radicals, the Islamists, whatever you want to call those dying to meet their quota of brown-eyed virgins, understand their creed well. Islam does not mean peace. Islam does not preach tolerance and love for one's fellow human beings. Islam does not portray non-Muslims as equals or even as fit to live unless they convert, or pay a special tax and do not propagate their non-Islamic faith. Even as practiced today, and remember these are not just words in old forgotten tomes, Islam advocates lying to nonbelievers, and for the enslavement and the killing of those nonbelievers.I restate that paragraph because, once again, the practitioners of political correctness in the media are looking for the "motives" of the shooter; at the issue of gun control; or as the hopeless Democratic Florida senior Senator, Bill Nelson, just stated on TV some nonsense about how this means we "need to look into ourselves as a people." What? The groundwork, of course, is being laid for an endless discussion of the attack as an example of a "hate crime" against gays. Yeah, yeah. The father of the shooter, of course, has jumped on that by saying his son had been offended by the sight of men kissing. Yeah, yeah. Keep looking for those motives . . .
Let me give you a hint where to look: Islam. See, for example, this video of an Imam in Orlando urging death for gays. Try also reading something called the Quran.
As I have said many, many times, you cannot be both a good person and a good Muslim. It is, therefore, not a question of vetting this or that individual refugee or migrant.
The practice of Islam, today more than ever, is an exercise in hate.
Islam is the world's largest hate group.
Islam is about submission, conquest, intolerance, and violence, and driven by a powerful hatred of anything or any person non-Islamic.
Islam is the enemy and the motive for the horror in Orlando.
Bring on the "Syrian refugees"!
Perfectly stated.
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking about how my Facebook feed normally gets flooded with self-righteous "stop the hate" posts (often with anti-Christian overtones) whenever someone alleges that anti-LGBTQ bullying has occurred, but today, my feed is utterly silent on what happened in Orlando.
ReplyDeleteSpot on as always Lewis.
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ReplyDelete"Sure, we can take more completely unknown people from Syria! We still have more nightclubs." - Hillary
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(note, I'm all for serving those in need, but as some might say, we've got to be cautious about dangers, not blind to them.)
We will not be rid of Islamic terrorism until every single copy of the Quran is destroyed. Each is naught but a potential (actual, really) time-bomb waiting to infect the mind of some impressionable youth..like desiccated seeds in desert sands awaiting only a single drop of water from an occasional rain to spring to life.
ReplyDeleteLet me pose this question. Post our Civil War and the building of the transcontinental RR why did a young widow with two six-yr old twin daughters feel totally safe getting on a train in St Louis and traveling x-country to, say, Sacramento? Was it because the Army had guards at every RR tunnel and RR trestle? No, we had not the manpower for that. Was it because we had installed bullet/arrow proof glass? No. Was it because the Caverly road escort all the way? Again, no. The true answer is that we had simply killed all the Indians--or at least enough that the survivors could be controlled, most of whom were put on supervised reservations. Our ancestors were made of sterner stuff than is the case today.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the general public today is totally lacking in the will to gird its loins and face the coming struggle and the implementation of the only solutions that actually work. Rather they seemingly have an alternate plan....The Ostrich Plan.
****rode viz "road" --yikes!
ReplyDeleteJust unconscionable... The two biggest terror attacks in the US (by far) used airplanes, fertilizer, and box cutters... (namely, 9/11 and the oklahoma city bombing)
ReplyDeleteGuns and terrorism just aren't significant partners in this world.
And the reason for all these men to be at the Pulse nightclub was, according to Obummer in his remarks today, "to come together to advocate for civil rights." I kid you not ...
ReplyDeletePriceless. Somewhat unconnected, Mr Obama. Is he on something?
DeleteYes. His ideological high horse. I could feel it in my bones, how he was going to respond. The FL State Senator that shot her mouth off about "scary" military weapons and "magazines only used by the military" was even quicker off the mark. Not a word about the actual motives of the shooter.
DeleteSeriously.. their own loony world.. http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/12/aclu-lawyers-blames-christians-for-orlando-terror-attack
ReplyDeletesimply unhinged...
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For the benefit of all those social justice warriors who get all worked up over faked "hate crimes" like a disparaging note on a restaurant receipt, or declining to attend a birthday party -- this is what real homophobia looks like.
ReplyDeleteWould it not be correct to say we are in fact at war (perhaps civil)with liberals, as they are the enablers of all this behavior?
ReplyDeleteWell my Facebook feed is blowing up with Occupy Democrats memes advocating Aussie weapon bans and blaming the NRA. Looks like the left has predictably chosen their target.
ReplyDeleteIslam is the world's largest hate group.
ReplyDeleteI dunno. There are an awful lot of Socialists.
Good points, as usual. The opposition of Caliphate v. Magic Kingdom is especially apt. Unfortunately, that our dying culture has by and large bought into the fantasyland of organized perversion doesn't quite help things.
ReplyDeleteWe also need to overcome a few generations of people who are certain that they are wise, ejjumikated, and light years beyond mere "bigotry" (rapidly becoming a term used to dismiss realism) believing that Islam is the religion of tolerance and "dignity". Further, with the Obama-esque denials we see on the evening news, we see an elite culture getting into trouble with its doctrine that all religions are essentially the same, when one of them is clearly out of whack.
Unhappily, rather than squarely face that there is something wrong with Islam, our liberal elite will probably do away with religious liberty for the Christians and Jews. ShrillShroooo's insistence that an obscure video by an obscure immigrant sparked the Benghazi attacks and her insistence that all religions move to accommodate the pervert agenda are the first salvos in the liberal/socialist assault on First Amendment rights. This is a far more serious issue than ShrillShrooo's general disregard for law and her fundamental corruption.
Kepha