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Muslims Fear Backlash From People They Keep Raping

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Luke Ford

* This is a good time to reflect on our extraordinary good fortune so far–we have a pretty large Muslim population that *hasn’t* become a permanent resentful underclass and a source for terrorist recruiting. This is presumably not because of our clever policies, but rather luck–France, Belgium, and the UK appear to have gotten a much worse grade of Muslim immigrants. There is not an obvious reason why this has to keep working out for us, either.

I wonder how much of this is due to getting more ambitious/smarter/harder working Muslim populations immigrating here, and how much is due to the resentful underclass niche already being mostly filled by blacks in the U.S.

* When I was a kid, I remember my dad always talking about pendulum swings in politics. And now I’m an old guy, and like half the big political issues look like pendulum swings to me. At some point in a fit of good-intentioned penal reform, we let too many bad people out of jail. Crime went up partly as a result of that and partly due to whatever weird social forces move crime rates. So we all got scared of criminals and passed laws to lock a whole bunch of them up again, and we overdid it–you can see that because we have an incredibly high incarceration rate relative to other countries. Pendulum swing.

I expect much of Europe is at a different place in their pendulum swing on this issue. Eventually they’ll expand their prison population to be able to lock up all the folks who badly need locking up, and most likely they’ll overshoot and end up locking up a lot of low-level nobodies who don’t really need long prison terms. And eventually, their pendulum will swing back on this issue, too.

* Blacks are black even though they’ve been in the USA for 400 years. Muslims are “European” if their parents arrived in Europe five seconds before they were born.

I guess whether Muslims are Muslim or “European” all depends on which answer makes (real) Europeans look bad.

* Is this what Europeans look like?

No. These are Europeans.

* This latest meme about the attackers being European, and thus completely unrelated to the immigration issue, is just proof that they have no intent on changing their views. Even some 2nd amendment supporters will agree that there are limits to gun ownership and will support a ban on fully automatic rifles. Or they will support more background checks of private gun sales. Some abortion supporters will agree there needs to be limits on late term abortions. But with immigration it appears there is no room for compromise. No matter what the results it must continue unabated.

Even with a Trump victory and similar positive elections in Europe, I doubt the minds of these open border supporters will change. They will probably use every legal trick in the book, including hearings in front of friendly justices, which will tie up Trump’s actions in courts of law.

I think the only way to change the majority of open border supporters’ views is to shift the paradigm of the issue. Currently the issue is seen as one in which the rich white nations are helping the poor third worlders by bringing them in. Additionally there is the bonus that it annoys the wrong type of whites, i.e. us. Instead if somehow these people could be made to see that immigration is robbing the third world of its talent and that bringing them here is akin to the old colonialists extracting resources from those far off places, it might begin to get the majority of the open borders crowd to reassess exactly why they support it. Additionally instead of playing up the white angst which makes them happy, we could play up the fact that these immigrants are being brought in to support whites in their retirement years. Are you kidding? That is akin to slavery, isn’t it?

Yes I know the real elite like open borders for cheap labor and such. But I am referring to the mass of voters we all know among our friends and relatives who dutifully reject any immigration restrictionist candidate and get squeamish even discussing the issue. These are the people who have been trained to fear the charge of racism and thus will go along with anything that is not racist. Therefore, changing the paradigm of immigration from the perspective that opposition to it equals racism to continued support of it equals racism is what is needed to flip this unfortunately large group.

* “Europe’s terrorist threat, while rising, has come overwhelmingly not from foreigners but from fellow Europeans. And terrorism experts say it’s Europeans who’ve traveled to fight with ISIS and are now coming home, not refugees or migrants, who pose the real threat.”

Terrorist threats from so-called “Europeans” who have names that sound like they came straight out of Aladdin.

It’s funny how these so-called “Europeans” who pledge allegiance to ISIS never have Western sounding names.

* I guess on the other end, if you accelerate immigration and displace the europeans, then your problem is also solved. you’ll have just another dysfunctional african or muslim country, except now it’s located in europe. It worked for Rhodesia and South Africa. During apartheid, South Africa was forever in the news as some kind of never-ending crisis, but once the whites were removed from power, all problems were ostensibly resolved. maybe whites just need to get tf out of the world and all problems will be resolved, right?

* Steve: could you write about the rise of the pro-immigrant meme in correlation with more women coming into western politics? Merkel’s nonsense probs has a nefarious and blackmail background to it, but can also be attributed to her being a woman (embrace the world), much as Thatcher’s hardness was overreaction due to her having to prove her manliness to the male political class. Basically the rise of female politicians means dissolution of western society, or something along those lines. What difference does it make whether a female pol has kids or not?

* My late grandmother was particularly fond of the truism “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”, which you don’t really hear much anymore, though I admit the metric version doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. My grandfather liked to say that common sense wasn’t all that common, and it seems Taub is trying her best to make it even less so.

A lot of 21st-century liberal writing seems to have the aim of convincing us that common sense/intuition is wrong. There are certainly cases where that’s true, but most of the examples that I can think of off the top of my head involve things that human beings only started thinking about very recently (evolution, quantum/relativistic physics, cardinalities of infinite sets, probability theory). In contrast, primates, being social animals, have been thinking about interactions with other primates for millions of years, so I feel like evolution has given most of us a pretty good cognitive tool set for evaluating our relationships with groups of other humans, particularly ones with a propensity for violence. I don’t know what evolutionary psychologists call this faculty(noticing?), but whatever it is, it’s gotten us this far, so why are progressives so bent on getting rid of it now?

* It’s extraordinarily culturally insensitive of us to police Muslims using principles designed for Europeans. We need to take multiculturalism to its logical conclusion and institute multicultural policing. This would include applying shariah law to Muslim criminals and communal violence for Muslim terror attacks. This wouldn’t be violence for its own sake, but violence specifically to facilitate intercultural understanding.

Torching a block or two of Molenbeek for example would translate to “Cut that shit out!”

* This quote by Aristotle should be stamped on the minds of every politician and journalist,

“Another cause of revolution is difference of races which do not at once acquire a common spirit; for a state is not the growth of a day, any more than it grows out of a multitude brought together by accident. Hence the reception of strangers in colonies, either at the time of their foundation or afterwards, has generally produced revolution…”

The term immigrant is a legal term without much meaning. Donald Trump is married to an immigrant woman but this is rarely brought up in his defense to show that he is pro-immigrant. What matters is what culture, race and civilization do you come from. Immigrants per se are not the problem; Muslims are the problem whether they be immigrants or not.

* Can you name a mainstream leftist propaganda outlet that is more noxious than VOX? I doubt it’s possible. Its staff writers are also overwhelmingly Jewish – surprisingly so even by left-wing NYC standards.

* I have a dream of the day when smack dealers are judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

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America Needs A Wall

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

Paul Joseph Watson: “Belgium is one of the most “tolerant,” Islam-friendly countries in Europe, yet it still got hit. What does this say about multiculturalism?”

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After Islamic Terror, What Will Be Left For Our Kids?

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* 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?”….

…….

“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.”

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How’s Israel Doing Assimilating Its Muslims?

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Israel’s Arab citizens (20% of its population; most of whom are Muslim) are much better integrated than French or Belgian Muslims.

* Mondoweiss: Jews and Arabs don’t really mix much in Israel. They attend separate schools from pre-kindergarten age (there are only 5 integrated state schools in the country where Arab and Jewish pupils learn together.) They live in separate cities and towns, with a few exceptions like Haifa and Lod; and even in these mixed municipalities, they tend to live in their ethnically defined neighborhoods. Organizations like Yad L’Achim and Lehava, which receive funding and the tacit approval of the Israeli government, exist in order to combat fraternization between the groups, especially between Jewish women and Arab men. There is no civil marriage option in Israel, which essentially places Jewish-Arab relationships permanently in the realm of the illegitimate.

What can we do to help the Israelis assimilate their Muslims? Insist on a one-state solution that integrates Gaza, Israel and the West Bank?

Yes.

Insist that Israel drop the racial and ethnic identification on all ID cards?

Yes, that, too.

Insist that Israel immediately institute secular/civil marriage and divorce laws?

That would also help show goodwill.

Withhold all further civil and military assistance until they do?

Yes, that is obvious.

It is actually a true statement that the problem in Israel is its failure to assimilate its Muslim (and Christian) citizenry.

It is also true that the problem in Europe and the United States is Israel’s failure to assimilate its Muslim (and Christian) citizenry.

* I am sure that Muslims would be “better integrated” in Europe and America if we returned to the Israeli-style system we used to have a century ago.

In Israel today (as in America a century ago) everybody knows where the lines are drawn and the cost of stepping over them.

Belgians could start by bulldozing houses of collaborators. There must be dozens if not hundreds who looked the other way in Molenbeek.

* Israel hasn’t even tried to integrate West Bank Arabs, Boot wants to continue with that policy, meaning an Apartheid system for settlers and Arabs in the West Bank, which would become ever more evident, as the demographics altered. Boot is mainly interested with his own prestige as an important authority on America’s place in the world, Belgium and Israel effectively ceasing to exist in the foreseeable future is not his primary concern.

* This is actually one of the less stupid things that Boot has said recently. It is true that America has done a better job of assimilating Muslims than Europe has done. And that, in large part, accounts for why there are more attacks there than here. (Other reasons include simple proximity and also closer operational links between Eur0-based radical Muslims and terror groups in the Muslim world).

However, what Boot doesn’t get is that–to quote the Derb quoting Enoch Powell–numbers are of the essence. The larger a Muslim community in a non-Muslim country grows, the more separate it becomes, the more alienated, hostile and prone to radicalism.

America is a sense then just “lucky” that our Muslim population is so much smaller (relatively) and dispersed than Europe’s. But of course if Boot had his way, we’d be taking in a billion more of them.

In my opinion, we don’t need ANY and never did. But if you’re going to have them, fewer is always better than more.

* Forty years ago I saw some fool at the Boston zoo provoke the Baboons, which it seemed was easy to do. Boot is right, the Muslims should not be provoked, but they should also be in a cage or sent back to their natural habitat.

* In the wake of today’s events in Brussels, Hillary and Bernie called for more surveillance. This should be expected as historically the only way to keep the peace in multi ethnic society is to turn it into a police state. I.E. you fear the secret police more then you fear your ethnically different neighbor. But then Max Boot said he’d rather vote for Stalin then Trump so no surprise there either.

To bad Rand Paul couldn’t connect those dot’s, pro liberty, pro rights needs homogeneity to work.

* Muslims are integrating better in America, but the details of why that is makes leftists uncomfortable. They’re integrating here because we enforce minimum wage laws less zealously than the Europeans do. And thus, our Muslims are busy driving taxis 18 hours a day, while in Europe they sit on their butts dreaming of jihad unless they can wangle a corporate-type job.

* How about we send Europe our Latino illegal immigrants? They may not be the sharpest knives in the drawer, but they are not Muslim and they do not blow people up. They work hard and are ready, willing and able to help grow the population there without explosions. Think of it, Mexicans would fit into life in Spain a lot better than Moroccans do.

Send the current, ungrateful migrants back from whence they came. They can transform their Muslim countries into the wonderful nirvanas that we heard they would make Europe. Send Frau Merkel with them.

* Give this crop of immigrants to America a generation or two…

1. Continue to overpromise then to fail to deliver the American Dream to so many… no matter whether immigrant or native born no matter how long or for how many generations they or their families have been in the US

2. Continue to fail to integrate the newcomers by continuing to emphasize divisions and diversity over unity and shared values.

3. Continue to sow discord and hate with identity politics that tell minorities… even if they CHOOSE to come here… that they are victims and suffer the oppression and inequities of racism so they can cultivate their own ressentiment and political loyalty as reliable partisan clientele.

4. Continue to supplicate to the vanguards of these “victim classes” by caving to their every demand and guaranteeing special favored consideration for any and all newcomers to compensate for discrimination

5. To maximize friction and heat, mix well, but not too well
(diversity + proximity = you know what)
We wouldn’t want any of these distinct and incompatible vibrant elements actually blending and losing any of their distinct characteristics as the mainstream Leitkultur rubs off on them.

Then America too can look forward to a bright and bloody future just like Europe already enjoys!

* Imagine a press release in the late 1930′s that read:

The problem in Europe is a failure to assimilate the National Socialist party. Germany has done best job, but the Herschel Grynszpan attack, and French and English resistance alienate Nazis & threaten security.

* There are still right wingers in Israel who want to keep it all. But even beyond that, there’s the fact that the non-Jews in the West Bank are fairly largely integrated into the Israeli controlled power grid, transport infrastructure, water, etc. Yet they have been under a separate set of rules for almost 50 years now. I don’t think that can continue, indefinitely, but the Israeli government doesn’t seem either willing or able to stop the expansion of settlements (although they do uproot some of the smaller ones from time to time.) Not to mention that, for water purposes alone, they will never leave the Jordan River Valley (or Golan) which means that any Palestinian entity will be an enclave in Israel.

It’s a real problem and the only thing that the Israeli government has been doing for the past 30 years (First Intifada) is kick the can down the road.

The conventional wisdom that you’re either going to have one state or two states is belied by the passage of time; if there ever is a separate Palestinian state it will be so closely tied to Israel that one will hardly know the difference. Short of population transfers, which I think are highly doubtful, there will probably be a bi-national state or at least a confederation by the end of the century. And then it will come down to power sharing.

* People always have personal anecdotes about their minority-X friend and how well that friend has assimilated to their cultural norms. So they naively assume that scaling that friend up from him and his family to a few hundred thousand will go just as smoothly.

But they fail to consider that their minority-X friend will acculturate differently when he is relatively unique in a majority culture versus when he and his own are closer to being the majority culture. Scaling up to 5 percent, 15 percent and higher produces much different results than the naive person assumed when his minority-X friend comprised a half a percent of the population.

Whether it is turning a town that was homogeneous into one with a 10 percent foreign population overnight, or doing the same with a school by busing in a diverse bunch of students, those in control rarely take into account what you wrote, “maybe it doesn’t scale. Not everything does.”

* Unlike the West, religious-ethnic communalism has always been the norm in the Levant. That’s still the basic system, though modified somewhat to the needs of the modern nation-state:

Israel’s population registry lists a slew of “nationalities” and ethnicities, among them Jew, Arab, Druse and more. But one word is conspicuously absent from the list: Israeli.

Residents cannot identify themselves as Israelis in the national registry because the move could have far-reaching consequences for the country’s Jewish character, the Israeli Supreme Court wrote in documents obtained Thursday.

The ruling was a response to a demand by 21 Israelis, most of whom are officially registered as Jews, that the court decide whether they can be listed as Israeli in the registry. The group had argued that without a secular Israeli identity, Israeli policies will favor Jews and discriminate against minorities.

* From today’s USAToday editorial:

“It takes Muslims to stand against the tiny minority of savage radicals in the U.S. and other nations, and Muslim forces to stand against ISIL in Syria, Iraq, Libya and everywhere they have gained a foothold. Alienating crucial allies in a shared war against extremists is, quite simply, stupid. Americans should not let it happen.”

What I find mindbogglingly stupid is editorial comment that implies that it is perfectly alright if several score or hundreds of citizens are massacred as long as there is no wish to avoid those who are most likely to kill to them. People like these USAToday editors and the Max Boots of the world are such Magnificent A*sho*es that it his difficult to fathom the world in which they slime-walk.

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Will terror help Trump?

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

The worse it gets, the better Trump will look to many voters.

America might need a strong man like Trump every so often.

Politico: In his victory speech after last week’s Florida primary, Donald Trump pinpointed the key moment in his meteoric political rise: “Paris happened.”
Trump said that after the November terrorist attacks that left 130 dead in the French capital, soon followed by a terrorist massacre in San Bernardino, California, his campaign “took on a whole new meaning … And all of a sudden the poll numbers just shot up.”
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Now many national security specialists fear that further attacks like the bombings that killed at least 30 people in Brussels on Tuesday will fuel Trump’s further rise, drawing more voters to his clenched-fist approach of closed borders and retribution killings — and could ultimately pave his unlikely path to the White House.
“In a climate of fear, Trump’s semi-authoritarian, unilateralist approach may be more appealing,” said Thomas Wright, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who has written about Trump’s strongman political style. “I don’t think so. But I might be wrong. It may be that people are so frightened that they’re willing to endorse policies that nobody over the last 50 years has even raised as remote possibility.”

All of these issues are, in fact, pillars of the aggressive response we have seen by Donald Trump in response to the news today,” said Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, a political science professor at Vanderbilt University. She is the co-author, with University of California Riverside professor Jennifer L. Merolla, of the book Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public.
Warning that more attacks in the U.S. are likely, Trump on Tuesday renewed his calls for a return to the waterboarding of terror suspects — which Congress outlawed last year — and warned that radical Muslims are infiltrating the U.S.
In a cautionary note for Democrats, Merolla said that their research showed that frightened voters do not necessarily look for traditional leadership qualities such as Clinton’s long tenure in government. She added that female politicians “are typically at a disadvantage” when terrorism is a dominant issue.
There was some evidence on Tuesday of pro-Trump sentiment emerging from unlikely quarters. “Hate Donald Trump all you like, but at least he seems to recognise the magnitude of the threat and at least he has firm proposals for how to try to defeat it,” the former CNN prime-time host Piers Morgan, generally considered a liberal, wrote in the Daily Mail. “[H]ow many more scenes like this morning’s appalling images from Brussels are we going to tolerate before we try a non-PC option to beat these disgusting excuses for human beings?”
Some Democrats still have bad memories of the 2004 election, when then-Senator John Kerry failed to unseat a vulnerable incumbent in President George W. Bush thanks in part, former Kerry aides said, to voter fears about terrorism.

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Will Rudy Be VP?

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

Rudy and Trump have been friends for a long time.

REPORT: Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani will probably endorse Donald Trump for president, but wants to “think about it a little bit more” beforehand.

“The way I look at it, there really are only three people who will be the next president of the United States. One’s Hillary Clinton, the other’s Donald Trump, and the third is Ted Cruz,” he said at a Monday night event hosted by the Columbia University College Republicans on campus.

A recording of Giuliani’s remarks was obtained by POLITICO New York.

“So I’ll choose between those three,” he said. “I’ll give you a hint: it won’t be Hillary Clinton. I seriously doubt it will be Ted Cruz. But I just want to think about it a little bit more before I do anything formally.”

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Trump Yarmulkes Are Biggest Seller at AIPAC Conference

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

Perhaps AIPAC should apologize to the other candidates?

Alana Goodman writes: If yarmulke sales are any indication of voter attitudes, Donald Trump was the clear winner at AIPAC on Monday night.

Marc Daniels, a vendor selling campaign logo kippas outside the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington, D.C. on Monday evening, said the “Donald Trump 2016” cap was his most popular item by far.

Daniels said he was “inundated” with requests for the Trump yarmulkes from conference-goers and sold out almost immediately.

“I totally underestimated the degree of support that Jewish people who are attending this event have for Trump,” said Daniels, who runs an online yarmulke shop called Marc’s Garden Jubilee. “I probably had about 50 inquiries for Trump yarmulkes that I could not fulfill.”

Daniels said he sold two or three Ted Cruz yarmulkes and three or four for John Kasich. By 8 p.m. on Monday, the vendor said he only had Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders caps left over, and was finding those tougher to unload.

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American Cities Receiving The Most Somalis

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

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Donald Trump’s Social Media Followers Include Many White Advocates

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

Somebody who cares about white people is no more a white supremacist than a Tibetan who cares about Tibetans is a Tibetan supremacist.

Hurling slurs is easy, but it reveals you don’t have an argument. There are only two honorable forms of argument — disputing facts and disputing theory. That’s it.

From Fortune magazine: In late January, Donald Trump did something that would have sunk almost any other presidential campaign: He retweeted an anonymous Nazi sympathizer and white supremacist who goes by the not-so-subtle handle @WhiteGenocideTM. Trump neither explained nor apologized for the retweet and then, three weeks later, he did it again. This subsequent retweet was quickly deleted, but just two days later Trump retweeted a different user named @EustaceFash, whose Twitter header image at the time also included the term “white genocide.”

None of this went unnoticed among ardent racists, many of whom believe there is a coordinated effort to eventually eliminate the “white race.”

Trump is “giving us the old wink-wink,” wrote Andrew Anglin, editor of a white supremacist website called The Daily Stormer, after Trump retweeted two other “white genocide” theorists within a single minute. “Whereas the odd White genocide tweet could be a random occurrence, it isn’t statistically possible that two of them back to back could be a random occurrence. It could only be deliberate…Today in America the air is cold and it tastes like victory.”

It is possible that Trump ― who, according to the campaign, does almost all of his own tweeting ― is unfamiliar with the term “white genocide” and doesn’t do even basic vetting of those whose tweets he amplifies to his seven million followers. But the reality is that there are dozens of tweets mentioning @realDonaldTrump each minute, and he has an uncanny ability to surface ones that come from accounts that proudly proclaim their white supremacist leanings.

“The retweets are based solely on the content, not the personal views of those individuals as they are not vetted, known or of interest to the candidate or the campaign,” says Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks, who declined to explain how Trump searches through his Twitter feed. Hicks also declined (repeatedly) to answer Fortune‘s question as to whether or not Trump believes that white genocide is a legitimate concern.

Countless numbers of people mention #WhiteGenocide each day on Twitter, but Fortune used social media analytics software from Little Bird to find those who are considered to be the most prominent. In the world of social media marketing, such people are called “influencers.”

“Our technology builds a big network of hundreds or thousands of specialists in a particular field or people who used a particular hashtag, and then analyzes the connections between the people in that network,” explains Little Bird co-founder and chairman Marshall Kirkpatrick. “We then find the person or people in that group that are most followed by others in the same group. It’s kind of like a ‘9-out-of-10 dentists recommend’ model rather than measuring people by the absolute popularity. We view it as earned influence within a specific context.”

The Little Bird software analyzed Twitter content to generate a ranked list of just under 2,000 #WhiteGenocide “influencers” as of February 8. The more impactful, the higher up on the list (which, understandably, ebbs and flows a bit over time).

Since the start of his campaign, Donald Trump has retweeted at least 75 users who follow at least three of the top 50 #WhiteGenocide influencers. Moreover, a majority of these retweeted accounts are themselves followed by more than 100 #WhiteGenocide influencers.

But the relationship isn’t limited to retweets. For example, Trump national campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson (who is black), follows the most influential #WhiteGenocide account, @Genophilia, which is best known for helping to launch a Star Wars boycott after it became known that the new film’s lead character was black. (Below are some recent #WhiteGenocide tweets from @Genophilia.)

Pierson also follows #WhiteGenocide influencer @Trumphat, who has tweeted that he looks forward to seeing people “swing from lampposts” on the #DOTR, which stands for Day of the Rope ― a seminal event in the racist Turner Diaries novels that inspired Timothy McVeigh.

Moreover, Pierson has company within Trump’s campaign:

The official Twitter account for Trump’s campaign in Nevada follows #WhiteGenocide influencers #3 and #40.
The official Twitter account for Trump’s campaign in North Carolina previously followed #20, #74 and #77.
Tana Goertz, a senior Trump advisor and co-chair of his Iowa campaign, follows #74 and #117.
Nancy Mace, Trump’s South Carolina coalitions director, follows #20 and #35.
Elizabeth Mae Davidson, a former campaign staffer who later sued Trump’s campaign for alleged sexual discrimination, follows #40.
Dena Espenscheid, Trump’s Virginia field director, follows #5, #22 and #35.

That last example is notable, because one of those followed accounts refers to itself as AdolfJoeBiden and has a profile image of Joe Biden with Hitler’s mustache and haircut — something that would have been visible to Espenscheid were she to have followed the account while using almost any device.

Bill O'Reilly is one step away from mentioning #WhiteGenocide. He finally gets the purpose of immigration.
—
AdolfJoeBiden™ (@Bidenshairplugs) December 02, 2015

Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks declined to discuss the Twitter follows of campaign staff or accounts, saying she doesn’t speak for them. Pierson did not return a request for comment.

Several grassroots organizations campaigning for Trump also follow #WhiteGenocide influencers. The most notable example may be Students for Trump, a national organization whose top two student leaders have met personally with Trump. Its main Twitter account (@TrumpStudents) follows nine of the top 100 #WhiteGenocide influencers, plus users like @WhiteAmericaKKK.

Even the Twitter account for @USAFreedomKids, the young girls whose performance for Trump in Florida became a viral sensation, follows 13 of the top 100 #WhiteGenocide influencers, plus another account that promotes a pro-Hitler documentary called The Greatest Story Never Told.

Fortune also used Little Bird software to analyze the top 50 influencers of the Trump campaign slogan #MakeAmericaGreatAgain, and found that 43 of them each follow at least 100 members of the #WhiteGenocide network.

Trump himself follows just 42 total Twitter accounts, none of which are #WhiteGenocide influencers. But a whopping 67.5% of the #WhiteGenocide influencers do follow @realDonaldTrump (as of March 15), while another 24.1% follow Trump campaign social media director @DanScavino. This compares to just 17.7% that follow @tedcruz, 5.7% that follow @HillaryClinton, 4% that follow @BernieSanders and 2% that follow @JohnKasich.

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Uber’s Muslim Problem

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

The sharing economy depends upon high social trust. High crime groups destroy that trust.

REPORT: A growing number of drivers working for Uber, Lyft and similar taxi services have been accused of sexually assaulting female passengers.

And many of them have Muslim names.

Two Uber drivers – Hassan Ibrahim, 48, and Salim Salem, 47 – were charged last week in connection with sexual assaults against female college students at Michigan State University, the Detroit Free Press reported.

The two men are accused of using their Uber driver jobs to prey upon college students.

Ibrahim faces one count of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with a Feb. 14 incident, according to East Lansing police. He turned himself in March 11 after a warrant had been issued for his arrest.

Salem faces two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct related to a Jan. 16 incident, and he turned himself in Tuesday.

Both were released on $5,000 bail. Salem’s bail includes a condition that he not work as an Uber driver or cab driver in the future.

East Lansing police said in late February they were investigating two drivers who allegedly made unwelcome sexual advances toward female MSU students, the Free Press reported. Multiple women complained of inappropriate touching.

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