* Just before my grandfather died he started giving away his valuables to just about any stranger he felt was worthy of his charity. He was losing his marbles, we were losing our inheritance.
Our dotty old civilization has been doing the same for a couple of generations. What will be left for our kids?
* Jan. 28, 2016: Asked by the Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo about the feasibility of his proposal to bar foreign Muslims from entering the United States, Mr. Trump argued that Belgium and France had been blighted by the failure of Muslims in these countries to integrate.
“There is something going on, Maria,” he said. “Go to Brussels. Go to Paris. Go to different places. There is something going on and it’s not good, where they want Shariah law, where they want this, where they want things that — you know, there has to be some assimilation. There is no assimilation. There is something bad going on.”
Warming to his theme, he added that Brussels was in a particularly dire state. “You go to Brussels — I was in Brussels a long time ago, 20 years ago, so beautiful, everything is so beautiful — it’s like living in a hellhole right now,” Mr. Trump continued.
* Yes, obviously the Wahhabist muslims are only attacking us because Donald Trump is saying nasty things about them.
And Adolph Hitler only killed all those people because that horrible racist Mr. Churchill called him some bad names.
And Stalin only massacred the Kulaks because so many western leaders didn’t invite him over for tea.
And Pol Pot only slaughtered like a third of the population of Cambodia because there were a few people in the United States that criticized him.
Really the answer to terrorism is to just never say anything bad about anyone, for any reason.
I mean, look at Japan. They basically don’t let muslims enter their country and there is like zero terrorism and almost no crime. Don’t the Japanese understand how important ‘diversity’ is? Thank goodness our own leaders are so much more enlightened than the Japanese, or we could end up like them…
* The Dutch and the Flemish know all about the joys of Moroccan immigration, so in the wake of the Paris attacks last year, Joost Niemoller, a Dutch journalist and writer, wrote a blogpost about the book Brussel Eurabia, which was written back in 2007 by another Dutch journalist, Arthur van Amerongen.
Van Amerongen decided to spend a year undercover in Brussels’ most enriched, vibrant and Moroccan area: Molenbeek.
His findings, which he describes in the Youtube clips below, can be summarised in three words: “Ze haten ons.” (“They hate us.”)
I’m pretty sure that van Amerongen’s book was never released in the Netherlands, only in Flanders; however, Brussel Eurabia was soon flushed down the memory hole by the Flemish media, who wanted to forget about the book’s uncomfortable, yet entirely obvious findings.
I was unable to find any footage with English subtitles, unfortunately, but if your Dutch/French skills are up to scratch, here are two of the main videos that show how the Belgian/Flemish mainstream media lamely attempted to deal with this politically incorrect truth-teller…
* Your post reminded me of an article that I read around 1980 in Esquire magazine. I think it was entitled, “Letter from an Angry Reader.” He and his wife and moved to a very rough section of L.A. and he had purchased a pistol and acquired a concealed carry permit. He used his pistol to stop an attempted robbery, shooting and wounding the robber (who had a knife). His reaction was, “Well, this is just something we’ll have to get used to, like the ‘seven motors of suburbia or using an ATM.” Would that it were not so!
On a slightly different note, the normal expressions of “sympathy,” cartoons, hashtags, minutes of silence, I hear they’re going to light up the Eifel Tower in the Belgian flag colors, are almost too sickening to read about. Everything but coming to grip with the problem by justice directed against the community from which these fanatics are drawn.
* These attacks will change nothing because our current governing class is incapable of change. Get the Front National, and parties like it, into power and then a course correction at least becomes possible.
* This from a der Spiegel article on what motivates Frau Merkel and her immivasion policy:
“Shortly before the concert began, Merkel saw an old acquaintance: Reverend Rainer Eppelmann……Eppelmann told Merkel how courageous and wonderful he thought her refugee policies were. Given the situation in which Merkel is now in, Eppelmann said, he finds himself thinking often about his favorite quote from the former Czech president and writer Vaclav Havel. “Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”……She asked: “How did that quote about hope go again?”….
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“Dohnanyi knew Merkel’s parents and he believes that her Christian roots are very apparent in her approach to the refugee crisis. “She is the daughter of a socialist pastor. And her mother was an extremely devout woman. Such things are deep within you, they don’t just disappear,” he says. The Kasner family (Merkel is the name of the chancellor’s first husband) adhered to a practical form of theology that involved helping the poor, sick and disadvantaged, Dohnanyi says.
Merkel grew up with the tenet that, if a stranger is standing in the rain before your door, you let him in and help, he continues. “And when you let them in, you don’t grimace,” Dohnanyi says. “Christians don’t do that.” Merkel herself recently said something similar. “We hold speeches on Sundays and we talk about values. I am the chair of a Christian political party. And then people come to us from 2,000 kilometers away and then you’re supposed to say: You can’t show a friendly face here anymore?”
Pastor Eppelmann is likewise convinced that Merkel’s approach to the refugee crisis is deeply rooted in her past. “She stands on a solid foundation that was poured in her childhood and youth.” He also points out that her childhood home was not a normal Protestant parsonage, rather it was a church-run home for people with disabilities. Angela Kasner grew up surrounded by disabled people who needed to be cared for. “She breathed in empathy like air and oxygen,” says Eppelmann.
Later, Eppelmann goes on, Merkel also experienced what it is like to be pushed around by a regime. She initially was not granted a slot at university despite being best in her class. “Such an experience can break a person,” Eppelmann says. As such, Merkel can understand what it must be like for people fleeing Islamic State or the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria.
The Protestant Parsonage
The most important element, though, was the evangelical parsonage, emphasizes Eppelmann, who also worked as a pastor in East Germany. One “becomes aware of a certain ethical standards regarding how life should be led.” That includes that one shouldn’t value oneself more than other people, no matter where they come from, Eppelmann says.
Every day, Jesus and God were discussed in the Kasner household, Eppelmann continues. The daily message was: “Love thy neighbor as yourself. Not just German people. God loves everybody.” You should compare the Protestant Church’s statement on the refugee crisis with Merkel’s words, Eppelmann suggests. “They are virtually identical.”
When Merkel spoke to the CDU party convention in the middle of December, her speech was indeed reminiscent of a sermon. She recalled significant CDU achievements from the past, such as binding Germany to the West and reunification, which former chancellors Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl had pushed through against opposition and doubt. Then she presented her own policies as the heir to these miracles of Christian Democracy.
“The founding of the CDU was in reality an outrageous idea,” she said. “A party that finds its foundation in C, in the God-given dignity of each individual person. That means that today, it isn’t a mass of people that is coming to us. It means they are individuals.” When she stopped speaking after an hour, even the doubters and skeptics applauded her speech. For nine full minutes. Only one member of the audience seemed unimpressed: Wolfgang Schäuble, Merkel’s finance minister.
Schäuble, despite the sweater thrown over his shirt, is a bit chilly. It is the end of November and Schäuble spent four hours that morning in parliament, where it is always a bit drafty. But he hadn’t wanted to leave early. Merkel was delivering her speech on the Chancellery budget and Schäuble didn’t want it to look once again as though he wanted nothing to do with her policies.
Only a few days earlier, Schäuble had compared the chancellor to a clumsy skier who triggers an avalanche on a steep slope. It was an image that provided confirmation to those who blame Merkel for the flood of refugees arriving in Europe.”
