* They become Jihadists because Islamic culture allows them to be, through its veneration of martyrdom. If you’ve got a quick path to glory, it doesn’t take much to push you down it.
* Just noting that an awful lot of the “Muslims condemn Orlando” headlined stories are in reality “Ahmadiyya Muslims condemn Orlando” stories.
The Ahmadiyya are a sect considered by Sunnis not to be Muslim, and are often attacked in places like Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The Glasgow shopkeeper killed for wishing a Happy Easter to Christians was an Ahmadiyya.
* The first Muslim to win a Nobel prize for science was an Ahmaddiya—only one of three so far.
The late Abdus Salam, a Pakistani, won the prize with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for the major development in physics known as electroweak theory.
For his trouble he has had the word “Muslim” removed from his tombstone and has no institutions, awards or places named after him. Pakistan stopped recognising Ahmaddiyas as Muslims in the 1970s and require them to renounce the founder of their sect before they can get a passport.
* I saw a headline that said the FBI was investigating whether Mateen’s sexuality played a role in the event. Isn’t that illegal? I mean, to question one’s sexuality? Is this who we are? At tragic times and events like this, we question our sexuality?
* Who gave American politicians the mandate to inject unchecked ‘diversity’ into this country and when? Was it the 1965 immigration act? When I came to the US in the 1980s it was still the America we imagined it would be. I began noticing the change in the mid 1990s.
* Armenian Cher is defending Muslims & Islam on Twitter, even though Muslims murdered millions of her people. Muslims are not big fans of Armenians.
If her people were murdered by Germans for example instead of Muslims, I bet she would have an extreme hatred of Germans.
* The great sin was not shutting down immigration from the Middle East after 9/11.
Any halfway competent president would have done it, and it wouldn’t have even required congressional approval.
Bush was quite possibly the worst president in American history.
* “The difference today is that the Muslim Terminator wasn’t murdering elites like immigrant anarchists were a hundred odd years ago.”
Since 9/11, Islamic terror has mostly struck a bunch of low-rent nowheresvilles like San Bernardino and Orlando. So your point stands.
But on 9/11, they hit the most elite of elite zip codes. There was overwhelming political will to fix the problem. Bush could have signed an executive order shutting down MENA immigration in a week.
Instead he pranced around with Saudis, lecturing us about the “Religion of Peace,” and invading secular Arab nations.
* WP: “Carter, who was among several patrons Mateen held hostage after they’d tried to take refuge in a club bathroom, told a news conference Tuesday that Mateen asked if there were any African Americans in the bathroom. When one man answered yes, “the gunman responded back to him saying, ‘You know, I don’t have a problem with black people. This is about my country. You guys have suffered enough.’”
Oh, wow, even mass murdering fanatics/self-loathing homosexuals want to make sure they don’t come off as racists… in the middle of the rampage!
* The Dilbert man did a thought experiment last December on how many terrorism deaths would be acceptable as the cost of being good, clean liberals:
The odds of a Muslim immigrant being a terrorist or a terrorist sympathizer is probably far lower than 1%, assuming we’re good at screening. I don’t know the exact odds, and neither do you, because it depends on how hard ISIS is trying to infiltrate in that particular way. If they are trying hard, one assumes the number is higher than if they are not trying. But the bottom line is that we don’t know.
I propose that instead of calling fellow citizens racists or idiots we do a deeper dive into the risks and put a price tag on our preference for religious intolerance. If the risk of future terror attacks is tiny, most of us would prefer maintaining our respect for religious differences.
But if the risk is more than tiny, can you put a price on your love of religious tolerance? In other words, how many dead Americans are you willing to accept? I’ll go first.
Personally, I would accept up to 1,000 dead Americans, over a ten-year period, to allow Muslim non-citizens to enter this country. My calculation assumes we are better off accepting some degree of tragedy in the name of freedom. That is often the case with freedom.
* Yeah, it’s been a really depressing couple of days. He [Trump] gave the speech of his life yesterday but I don’t think the public is ready for it and when they will be, it’ll be too late.
* I’m feeling pretty down too. Latest poll has the Evil One beating Trump 49-37. Too many simply don’t care about justice, fairness, or the truth in this country. Supposedly even with White men he’s only pulling 58%. You can’t save people who won’t save themselves, those who would rather signal than live.
Like George Carlin’s dog Tippy: “Poor Tippy was full of guilt. So much so, in fact, she’s the only dog I ever had who committed suicide. Yeah, well, we don’t say it like that around the house. We say she put herself to sleep. But she ran out in front of a milk truck. That’s f***ing suicide! But that was her decision. That’s what Tippy wanted to do. And that’s the way it is in our family. If you want to commit suicide, we back you up. So we supported Tippy in her little suicide decision…”
The White race is pulling a Tippy.
NYP: What we really need to reject is Islamophobia-phobia
A dangerous mindset has taken hold in America, but it isn’t Islamophobia. It’s Islamophobia-phobia.
In a large and growing segment of American society, fear of being tagged “racist” about Muslims (though Islam is not a race) provides a much more direct threat to your livelihood than radical Islam.
Former police officer Daniel Gilroy told Florida Today that he repeatedly raised red flags about Omar Mateen when both men worked at the same security firm, but his employer did nothing because Mateen was a Muslim.
The pattern is familiar. Before the Islamist attack that left 14 dead in San Bernardino last December, neighbor Aaron Elswick told ABC 7 News in Los Angeles that shooter Syed Farook was “kind of suspicious” and Elswick “wanted to report it” but “didn’t want to profile” him.
Before Army Maj. Nidal Hasan murdered 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, “He made his views known, and he was very vocal, he had extremely radical jihadist views,” Lt. Col. Val Finnell told FoxNews.com.
Finnell took health-services classes with Hasan, who said, “I’m a Muslim first, and I hold the Shariah, the Islamic Law, before the United States Constitution,” according to Finnell.
That statement alone disqualified Hasan from military service. No one did anything, Finnell added, because “they were too concerned about being politically correct.”
Perhaps nothing could have been done to stop Mateen’s rampage, but I have a sickening suspicion that we’re going to learn that many more warnings went unseen by those who blindfolded themselves with political correctness.
No one wants Muslims to feel harassed as a class, but it’s silly to pretend that being a Muslim makes you just another patch in the glorious American quilt, like being black or Jewish or gay.
In a poll of British Muslims, a majority said homosexuality should be illegal. Nearly a quarter said Shariah law should be imposed in Britain. Four percent — that’s tens of thousands of people — admitted they sympathized with suicide bombers.
