The Rise Of Islam

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* The Middle East has become notably less “diverse” since 1900 among its citizen populations. The Levant was once 1/4th to 1/3rd Christian, and Lebanon had a Christian majority. More ethnic groups, like the Turks, Armenians and Sephardi Jews. Nearly all gone from the Arab world.

What has changed in the other direction is the oil-fueled migrant worker boom. It brought exclusive gated towns for the Western oil workers, South Asians held as near-slave labor, and Slavs for a time in Saddam’s Iraq.

During the 19th century, and up to 1956, the Western powers had clear technological advantages over the Arabs and before that the Ottomans. Islamism, or properly the Wahabbis began around this time but it took oil and the AK-47 to give it legitimacy. There have been tensions between Egyptian Islamists, of Al-Azhar, and what they consider to be the nomadic Wahabbi degenerate Saudi princes.

The particular rise of Islamism today has more to due with the simultaneous discrediting of liberalism, Pan-Arabism and Communism. The Brotherhood, and now ISIS, are the only political forces with vitality. Their defeat only prolongs the secular dictatorships which have yet to prove they can make a Singapore.

Of course, common understanding of the teachings of the Koran and Hadiths do imply a commitment to expansionist violence and third-class status for “People of the Book”. If the Muslim world somehow regained technological superiority, not likely for the cousin-marrying, the march of conquest will no longer be actively supported by a mere minority.

* As Kevin MacDonald has pointed out the peoples of the ME tend towards hyper ethnocentricism which explains the chronic instability. Segmentary societies always on the brink of communal violence, not unlike the conflicts noted by Enoch Powell as existant in India between different tribes and religions that still occur.

* I subscribed to the Islamist group Hizb ut Tahrir’s magazine a few years ago. Their ‘political’ dogma was pretty simple. They didn’t have one! There was no need for it since Islam provided all the laws that were necessary the sole purpose of the ‘state’ was to enforce Islamic law. This made it unnecessary and even blasphemous to ‘vote’ for candidates in an election since, if Allah had already made all the laws, a legislature was redundant at best and evil if it passed laws that contradicted the Koran.

As already noted, the Ummah supersedes the idea of nation so to be an American or Egyptian is to negate the very essence of Islam.

* Most people in African American discussion boards that I have browsed through believe White police officers are a more dangerous threat to society than Islamic terrorists. They say poor Michael Brown was not murdered by an ISIS Jihadist, he was murdered by a White supremacist with a badge. They say ISIS ain’t committing genocide against our Black babies like them racist White pigs are.

* Of course world Jewry, with its millennia long history was raised in that crucible which is near-eastern low-trust hyper-competitive tribal ethnies.

After the Roman caused diaspora, Jews established themselves in Europe, taking with them the deeply ingrained tribalistic traits engendered with them in that cockpit/rat’s nest which is the Levant.
Relative Jewish success in the 18th/19th centuries lead to an Ashkenazi population explosion in Europe, which lead to a fierce battle for resources with gentiles. Ethnocentric tribalistic traits and tendencies gave Jews the edge in that Malthusian resource battle.

* I DO like Israelis like Netanyahu, they FIGHT! Instead of wimping out and rolling over to expose their belly. Like Pajama Boys or Paleos. Sadly most elite Israelis are as Pajama Boy as they come. But come on, Netanyahu was a paratrooper, and Ehud Barak a Mossad agent who helped kill the Red Prince terrorist of the PLO and made in his own words, the world’s ugliest Arab woman during that operation. What’s not to like? You want Boy Rubio? Aging Hillary! and the cankles and pantsuits and vodka and falls?
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As for Pinker, he’s desperate to try and salvage his obviously wrong idea that the world has gotten more peaceful. He sees an absence of WWI/WWII style industrial wars in Europe and figures like that famous New Yorker cartoon (the world is NYC, with Paris and Texas all crowded together) that’s the world.

1. The AK-47 lowers the entry cost into brutal warfare. No longer is a German sized industrial economy needed, cheap and reliable AK-47s can support brutal African or Columbian insurgencies for decades.

2. Drugs, illegal ivory, endangered species, logging, etc. can support an insurgency for decades, fueling violence that does not rise to the level of the Somme or Bastogne but is very high indeed. The FARC, Shining Path, etc. predate ISIS by decades and in the case of the FARC remain in operation. The violence is a way for young men who are NOT smart but able to kill to make decent money, at the expense of massive misery for everyone else.

3. Rise of globally networked criminal gangs like the Knights Templar, Gulf, Zeta cartels in Mexico controlling everything from mining, to ports, to agriculture pushes out the state and produces a Big Man feudalistic social structure in conflict with other Big men. Lacking the notion of Kingship and Divine Right, there is always a fight, with many casualties, even higher than Medieval Europe and there is no strong State to reduce personal violence between ordinary people and various free-range thugs looking for the next gang.

4. Muslim states have ALWAYS been more violent in this way, as the State has always, always been week. You can read any Bernard Lewis book, and his description of Ottoman Tax farmers mirrors that of ISIS, and how Saddam and Assad and Ghadaffi raised money. Tax collectors get a cut, instead of being part of a strong, centralized state run by an efficient, modern bureaucracy like say, the Kaiser’s Germany or the Meji Restoration government.

From Mohammed’s death, the Muslim world has been the scene of violent battles for power and succession, rivaling or exceeding late Roman Republic, and Imperial battles. Only outside forces: the Turks, Mongols, and Persians have ever put a temporary lid on this dynamic.

5. Only Egypt and the Saudi princes have found solutions to Muslim violence and the example of Mohammed — go camp out in the desert, raise followers, raid the cities and become the new Caliph. The Egyptians have been ruled by the Army since the overthrow of the monarch, and the Army has kept the lights on, been less corrupt than other neighboring armies, given some improvement in daily life, and brutally suppressed by ultra-violence the Muslim Brotherhood to keep some semblance of nationalism and military power versus other nations, not limited to Israel but including the Sudan and other threats to the Upper Nile.

Saudi Arabia has been more Wahabbi than Mohammed, and spent a lot of money in the balance on clerics and external jihad. Money alone has not bought peace, they have had to be as rigidly Islamic as the Taliban and support Jihad where it has been a backfiring problem — creating cadres of experienced fighters thinking they not the ruling Princes should rule the Kingdom.

Every place else has been a disaster jump started by the AK-47.

Even in Latin America, you have the FARC, and other types of criminal/guerrilla movements that produce a great deal of misery, and places like Thailand are gripped in violent repressions of the countryside by urban elites.

* There’s a video online of Boko Haram shooting hundreds of Black African Christians in the head on a bridge and tossing the bodies into the river.

The media would show that (pixelated) if it was Serbs.

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Millionaire Gupta Family Seen as Symbol of Zuma’s Failing Rule

“Interesting intersection of HBD, IQ, Africans, Asians, Ethnic tensions, etc. It was close but it appears there’s no white people to blame here.”

From Bloomberg:

As South Africans endure their deepest economic crisis since 2009, it’s not just President Jacob Zuma they blame. There’s a family whose name is increasingly the target of protest: the Guptas.

As tens of thousands marched in October in South Africa’s biggest wave of nationwide anti-government protests since the African National Congress came to power, one poster, broadcast on the nation’s television channels, captured the public anger: “SA: Gupta Farm.”

Since Atul Gupta arrived in South Africa from Uttar Pradesh, India, in 1993, a year before the election of Nelson Mandela marked the end of apartheid, he and his brothers Rajesh and Ajay have built on a computer business to amass stakes in uranium, gold and coal mines, a luxury game lodge, an engineering company, a newspaper and a 24-hour news TV station. This month they agreed to take control of two coal mines From Glencore Plc.
Having employed or been in business with at least three of President Zuma’s immediate family, including his son Duduzane, the family drew increased scrutiny in September as opposition parties and local newspapers raised the question that they may have influenced the appointment of a minister to manage the embattled and important mining industry.

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Progressive PR firm FitzGibbon shuts after sexual harassment allegations

The Guardian: The public relations firm behind some of the world’s most progressive organizations has dramatically closed after its founder and figurehead received what one staffer described as “an avalanche” of complaints about sexual harassment and assault by his employees.

Trevor FitzGibbon, a major figure in the communications industry, who counts among his clients Amnesty International, MoveOn, the American Civil Liberties Union and WikiLeaks, confirmed in an emailed statement that the company bearing his name was closing after complaints about him.

“The allegations against me are a distraction to the mission at hand,” FitzGibbon said. The public relations expert, who has been on leave of absence since complaints first emerged, added: “it is abundantly clear that an irreconcilable difference has arisen between the FitzGibbon team and me”.

Employees at FitzGibbon Media, which is based in Washington DC and has offices in New York, San Francisco and London, were informed of its closure during a company-wide call at 4pm on Thursday.

Suddenly out of work, staff spent the evening drafting a collective statement, saying they were “incredibly sad and disappointed” to confirm the allegations against FitzGibbon were “for sexual assault and harassment of multiple female staffers”.

“Staffers reported over a half dozen incidents of sexual harassment and at least two involving sexual assault committed by Trevor FitzGibbon against his own employees,” it added.

The Guardian, which is among a handful of media outlets listed as clients of FitzGibbon Media, has spoken to five employees at the firm, all of whom were involved in drafting the statement and confirmed its authenticity. Andy Stepanian, the company’s senior director of media relations, said the statement was drafted online and signed off by 24 of the firm’s 29 employees.

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Steve Sailer: Farooked: Some People Just Aren’t Cut Out for a Life of International Intrigue

Steve Sailer writes:

He’s been confessing to the FBI pretty much nonstop ever since the Farooks went off, and now the Bureau has posted the criminal complaint against him.

Reading it, it’s evident that some people just aren’t cut out for a life of international intrigue. For example, Marquez seems to have had a thing for his hot Russian blonde fake wife. In a new report, the FBI summarized one texting session with the fake wife “M.C.:”

M.C. states that she is at “home” and MARQUEZ asks if he can come over. MARQUEZ states that he is “just a little anxious and want to talk more about the Interview.” M.C. responds, “Omg!! Enrique I’m the one freaking out here!!! Relax I’ll see u Monday and we’ll talk.” The conversation continues and M.C. states that he should “relax” and states “[i]f they decline me its my problem not yours.” MARQUEZ states that he had a list of questions he thought might be asked at the interview and continues, “[t]he only reason why we’re anxious is because we haven’t hung out that much.”

The fake couple appear to have had differing opinions on whether not hanging out much was a feature or a bug of their nonrelationship.

… MARQUEZ also communicates with another person about the interview, and states that if they don not pass, M.C. will get deported and he will face “fines and imprisonment for fraud.”

Poor Enrique not only had premonitions that all the madness would end badly for him, but he couldn’t even get his Facebook friends to realize he wasn’t speaking metaphorically, with them responding to his confessions with condescending “In a way, aren’t we all …” platitudes. A month before Mr. and Mrs. Farook went all jihad in San Bernardino, Marquez got into a Facebook discussion:

[MARQUEZ]: No one really know knows me. I lead multiple lives and I’m wondering when its all going to collapse on M[e]

[Facebook User]: incidentally

[MARQUEZ]: Yeah. My life turned ridiculous

[Facebook User]: I think everyone leads multiple lives

[MARQUEZ]: Involved in terrorist plots, drugs, antisocial behavior, marriage, might go to prison for fraud, etc.

I like the response, “I think everyone leads multiple lives.” What movie or TV show did that “In a way, don’t we all …” trope come from where the main character can’t get anybody to realize he’s telling the ridiculous truth? It’s like an anti-Being There. It’s kind of an El Guapo Speech, but a little different.

COMMENTS:

* Marquez being sent up the river is expected. What I’m waiting to see is what the Feds do with the Russian “wife” and if they’ll go so far as to indict her sister for conspiracy to commit immigration fraud and deport her too.

If that hand plays out it’ll result in the odd outcome of an Islamic terrorist attack resulting in the imprisonment of a Mexican and two Russian women.

Now that I think about it, the Feds could probably indict Farook’s family for knowing about the marriage scam or possibly facilitating it, and maybe even round up the Mexican boyfriend of the fake wife.

Immigration law could be the way to put the whole family away, just like tax law put away Al Capone.

* This guy converted but remained a sap who, with just a little pressure, spilled the beans to the feds and renounced his Islamic omerta.

Incidentally, I was just watching an episode of Lockup this weekend that had an Hispanic inmate who converted to Islam for a few months, but then wanted to chuck it because all the washing and praying 5 times a day was too annoying for him and gave him no peace.

And we can’t forget that, despite 700 years of Muslim rule over the Iberian peninsula, Spain and Portugal really didn’t take to Islam and forcibly kicked it out—and Spain became the most Catholic nation in Europe, complete with controlling many popes.

So I’m going to say something pretty racist: it seems as if Hispanic and Portuguese cultures really don’t mix with Islam all that well.

So, if Trump doesn’t close the border and deport the illegals, we can at least bet on the Latin Americans invading to have no problems themselves dealing with Islamists by making it extremely unwelcome in their neighborhoods—and not converting to Islam at all.

It would be a consolation prize, I guess: gang violence beats terrorism.

* This Mexican guy wanted a Russian mail order bride because he couldn’t get a Mexican girlfriend in The Inland Empire. Which makes sense because Enrique Marquez looks like a total square nerd/geek and the vast majority of Mexican women prefer the bad boy Vato Cholo look that you see in Mexican gangsta films like Blood In Blood Out, Sicario, and End Of Watch. Mexican women are like African American women in that very few of them are open to dating guys who look as geeky nerdy as Mr. Marquez and Rick Moranis for example from Honey I Shrunk The Kids. Where Russian women associate the square geek male nerd look with being a good financial provider. Hence why it is not unusual for some Russian women to marry an extremely nerdy looking Jap or Chinaman that they meet online.

* I’m continually surprised by how these Muslim terrorists chose their targets, just ordinary people, so all they accomplish is instilling fear of random violence. Anders Breivik though had strategic vision and his terrorist attack struck at the heart of his enemies.

Imagine how terrorists could influence society if they targeted the high and mighty? In this regard, these terrorists are like black rioters who riot in their own black neighborhoods, destroying the shops that they and their family use on a daily basis instead of taking a bus to Beverly Hills and destroying that neighborhood.

* Re: Four Lions

Your review of that film in Taki’s Magazine was, as ever, absolutely spot on, Steve: Chris Morris, despite his reputation in Britain as a taboo-breaking satirist, proved that he was just as PC and left wing as all the other comedians in this country.

In addition, it’s interesting to note that Four Lions was:

a) made before the Pakistani grooming gangs were really known about.

and

b) filmed in Sheffield, which neighbours the forever-tainted town of Rotherham.

I doubt, then, that Morris will be heading off to South Yorkshire again to put the Pakistani “community” back on the big screen.

* Including the two Russian sisters in the marriage=visa=permanent residency scams. Including all the legal/illegal immigrants who believe that paying taxes is for suckers (an iSteve line I believe) meaning native born Americans. All immigrants are fiddling and diddling until proven otherwise. Partly because that grand prosperous (for average middle classes) America they saw in movies in Guatemala and Pakistan does not exist anymore. With easy to make money. With easy to score white women with big tits. Gone! At least for you, Jose and Achmed.
So they resort to scam ways of making a living, cash businesses, and paying nothing in taxes or as little as you can can get away without the law/IRS getting after you.

* This whole situation has the feel of a Coen Brothers movie. It has that memorable juxtaposition of absurd characters and mass murder.

* Even though I want him to go to prison for a long time, there’s still a part of me that feels sorry for Enrique. He was probably so thrilled to have a dangerous and daring friend (or any friend at all) that he was willing to do anything to maintain that friendship.

* This sordid story is about as anti-American as a story can be.

But while reading about it, a tune plays in my head.

Because as anti-American as this plot and terror were, the whole cast of characters and the event is wrapped in all the happy-go-lucky themes of neo-Americanism.

Ah, the immigration experience, not from one nation but from three or four. Mexico, Russia, Pakistan, etc. The diversity! The melting pot (or the vibrant pressure cooker).

The interracial marriage(even if farcical and fraudulent, but hey, symbolism is what counts.)

The culture of ‘inclusion’. Give us your huddled, wretched, enraged, bitter, resentful, hateful, fanatical, demented, criminal, pregnant(esp if Chinese), etc.

Multi-culti friendship. New Opportunities. Don’t just shop at Walmart; work at Walmart. What is good for Walmart is good for America. (Why not call it’ tear-down-this-wall-mart’?)

It has all the neo-American themes that could be set to Diamond’s schlocky anthem, yet all these themes that are thought to be so ‘American’ were in the service of something most anti-American. And the horror happened at a X-mas party of all things. (But then, I guess this is just a hardcore war on X-mas. A softcore version has been going on from corporatism that totally commercialized it and by PC that tells us ‘happy holidays’ is good, ‘merry christmas’ is bad.)

(yellow principal bans ‘christmas’ in the name of neo-Americanism which is to americanism what neoconservatism is to conservatism).

This disaster sort of reminds me of ERASERHEAD, BLUE VELVET, and MULHOLLAND DR.

ERASERHEAD has themes of family movie. BLUE VELVET of American suburbia with green lawns and happy families. MUL DRI of the American Dream of fame and success.
But, those themes seen them through the glass darkly. Dream becomes nightmare.

This recent terror shows that for multi-culti to work, we must all seek deracination, mindless consumerism, and hedonism and NOTHING ELSE.

Suppose Farook gave up Islam and became just another Walmartian. Just another Black Friday nut running riot for video games. And suppose Marquez were the same way. Both would be alive and their victims would be alive. They would all be consumers and getting along cuz they have only one thing in common: consume, consume, consume. No identity or loyalty beyond that.

But Farook had a loyalty higher and deeper(and more darker)than that.

America says it is open to ALL cultures, but if every ethnic group really practiced their cultural values and loyalties, US would blow up. Multi-culturalism only works if various people give up their own cultural values and loyalties.

Cultures are different and at odds. They cannot live side by side as equals. A dominant majority culture can tolerate a weaker minority culture, but when everyone is told that his culture should have equal representation and power in a nation, there will be resentment if that isn’t the case.

So far, multi-cultaralism has worked politically for the ‘left’ cuz of the KKKrazy Glue. Different groups with very different values have been pulled together in common hatred of whitey. And white Libs have joined this coalition as ‘good whites’ at war with ‘bad whites’.

But as whites get weaker/smaller and with Obama as two-term president, the idea of all-powerful white ‘racist’ as bogeyman is no longer compelling. Already, the colored folks are turning against Jews who seem so powerful in elite colleges.

Multi-cultism works if various groups are made to favor consumerism and pop culture hedonism over all else. Above Allah, above race, above nation, and etc. And if they kowtow to PC that says all ‘victim groups’ must support ‘gay marriage’ in solidarity against the ‘right’.

This is a harder sell to Muslims, and this makes Muslims both more dangerous and, in some ways, admirable.
Muslims do have a higher calling than ‘gay marriage’ and consumerism. They have Allah.

In contrast, most Latinos and Asians don’t. They may gripe about their ‘victim’ status, but they really just wanna be a part of the ‘cool culture’ of America. Their identities become superficial as their highest value becomes listening to Jay-Z and living the sex and city lifestyle.

They have no higher value than what they see on TV and get from globo-professors.

So, they assimilate better to neo-Americanism. And as white Americans have been deracinated and de-cultured, they too easily become Black Friday zombies brainwashed by PC as the highest religion.

But Muslims will never give up their faith for neo-Americanism even as they take advantage of it.

Of course, white Americans must not become as crazy and barbaric as Muslims.
But they have something to learn from Muslims, namely that they need to believe in something higher, deeper, and more powerful than PC, Oprah, consumerism, hedonism, fashion, and MTV.

White Americans must submit to the needs of their own race, culture, and history, not submit to globalism.

PS. Most Americans, even Libs, will admit that Farook’s action was anti-American. But what is ‘American’ in our world? Far more dangerous and depressing than Farook’s blatant anti-Americanism is the fact that a soft form of anti-Americanism is now the official Americanism of America.

Barack is the prez. He’s for open borders, ‘gay marriage’, anti-white policy, blowing up other nations, PC, praising Bruce Jenner as a woman, instigating black urban violence, and etc.
How are those things ‘American’? Yet, such things now have the official stamp of approval.

As for Trump saying we need to strengthen borders and take tough measures to ensure no more terror? The entire spectrum of the ‘American’ Establishment says that is ‘un-American’ or ‘anti-American’.

Institutional Terror against True America is the new Americanism. Farook is small potatoes.

Globo-elite terrorists with briefcases filled with legal paper did more damage to American than terrorists with bombs in suitcases.
The Rahm Emanuels and Paul Ryans of the world are worse terrorists against America than the likes of Farook and his minion Marquez.

* Notably the plan which was abandoned was to throw pipe bombs on the 91 Freeway where there were no exits, to block traffic, and then go down the freeway killing everyone, police first, then firefighters, lastly civilians. Abandoned after unrelated terrorism arrests of other Muslims in the Inland Empire.

Muslim Jihadis don’t want to attack elites — elites already agree with them. They want to kill ordinary people so they will surrender and submit. That’s the whole point. That is how Muslims have operated since the beginning. Elites surrender immediately and the ordinary people are terrorized into submission.

* Muslim terrorists living in The U.S never commit terrorist attacks at locations mostly frequented by Liberals like Planned Parenthood abortion clinics, Black Lives Matter Rallies, and Gay Pride Parades for example. Is this just a mere coincidence? The conspiracy theorist in me says it is not. Jihadists are afraid the pro-open borders invite the world elites will turn against Islam, if Muslims start terrorizing places that are considered sacred to Liberals. So far Jihadists have not done anything to piss off people who plan to vote for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

* SoCal federal prosecutors spend about 40% of their time deporting alien criminals. The modal deportee is a 50 yesr old Mexican who has been deported before and has drug and alcohol issues.

It does happen, in large numbers, and they often get long prison sentences before their deportation. the problem is one of numbers and funding, we are set up for about 100,000 real deportations a year, and the annual number of illegals is much higher.

We also do a lot of “agree to leave immediately so we don’t have to formally deport you, and that way you avoid jail and are not banned from the USA for life.”

* Everyone was convinced because that is what Charles Moose, the inept head of the task force, told everyone. D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey concurred, “We were looking for a white van with white people.” They were very disappointed when it turned out to be two black guys, but they responded by downplaying any connection John Allen Muhammad had to the Religion of Peace. My home state of Virginia did have the cojones to execute Muhammad after his conviction. His youthful sidekick was tried in Maryland and is a ward of the taxpayers for life.

* The San Bernardino situation, if comic at all, is the blackest of comedies. This doofus reminds me of William H. Macy’s character from Fargo. He got in way over his head and was too stupid to realize it until it was too late.

* Like all armies, including the U.S. Army, Islam doesn’t send its Best & Brightest into the self-selected ranks of its expendable infantry for small unit action.

Islam gulls or incites its least brainy, least capable to commit the small unit action jihad attacks. For its showpiece big impact jihad attacks Islam sends its Best & Brightest – as with Mohammed Atta in the 9-11 attacks. All the rest of the small unit action jihadis are nothing but expendable infantry doing their koranic job to “strike terror” into the kuffar/kufr/kaffir.

Be not misled by Islam’s least competent – yet no less lethal – ordinary self-selected small unit action jihadis, because they, like all the rest of Islam’s multiple jihad prongs, serve Islam’s purpose. Even the dumbest jihadis serve Islam’s stick-prong of Islam’s carrot-&-stick multi-pronged jihad. You saw the effect of these small unit jihadi attacks this earlier this week, as that one San Bernardino jihad slaughter prompted the L.A. United School District to waste millions of dollars to shut down classes for a single day – and this, too, serves Islam’s jihad purpose and ultimate goal.

Moreover, by compelling its non-organized (i.e. , not connected to major Islamic jihad divisions such as Al Qaida or ISIS) expendable self-selected small unit infantry to commit jihad attacks, Islam takes advantage of its self-selected small units’ ability to get through Western security. Even when the small jihad units are caught in pre-attack or jihad-support by Western security, they too serve the purpose of spreading Western security thin and driving up the cost to the kuffar of kuffar security; and Moslem inmates the purpose of pursuing dawa (proselytizing) in prisons while forcing the kuffar to pay for the imprisoned Moslems’ shelter, clothing and food (and Moslem inmates demand and get halal chow, at extra expense to us kuffar). Plus, from each successful and unsuccessful small jihadi operation, jihadis of every sort learn more about how to outfox Western security and defenses.

* Liberals can blame Walmart and it’s low wages for why Enrique Marquez decided to become a gun runner for Jihad. Yes poverty was the root cause for the San Bernardino terrorist attack. Not a liberal immigration policy that lets in any 3rd world person with a working pulse. This is entirely the fault of the Walton family. Poverty breeds Jihad. That is why poor White trash people in Appalachia are converting to radical Islam in alarming numbers. The only way Enrique could pay the bills was to become a gangsta for Jihad.

* Think of Mishima and the young man who committed ritual suicide with him. The young lad was some naive farm boy who felt so flattered to be chosen by the great writer that he just blindly went along… But deep down inside, he was just a wuss. When the time came for the Big Act, he totally botched it and he barely scratched his belly before his head was cut off.

But then, are GOP cucks all that different? They are such sappy toadies to the oligarchs who fund them and order them about.

When under the will of someone stronger, approval from the master trumps all else.

We see this in DOWNFALL. The German officers are so much under the spell of Hitler that they follow him to the end. If such capable and intelligent men do that, it’s hardly surprising for someone like Marquez.

“You’re my amigo? Really?”

Mexican saps are willing to serve anyone who has more will and power.
It could be something good or something bad.
But morality and ideology are not the main issue. It is personality and will.

But then, same goes for white cucks. They will serve the power that is pushiest and meaniest. So, GOP serves pushy Neocons, and white college deans all cave to the demands of BLM. Jews are pushy, and blacks are fisty.

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Dutch Men Drive Out Refugees

Comment: A bunch of politicians in Gedermalsen, Netherlands got together with a bunch of Muslims to discuss building a giant “refugee” complex for them. Out of a total population of 10,000 for the town, about 2,000 very able-bodied young Dutch men crashed through police barricades, driving the police before them, invaded the hall and drove out the politicians and their Muslims, all running in total panic. Be sure to watch both videos. The first from the perspective of the police, and the second from the perspective of the politicians. Merry Christmas!

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Housing Policies Still Pin Poor in Baltimore, but Some Escape to Suburbs

Doug Donovan, Baltimore Sun, December 15, 2015:

Danielle Hill has a secret, one she shares with dozens of other residents of Baltimore public housing. It goes like this: They don’t live in the city.

Instead, they live in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford and Howard counties, in houses purchased by the Housing Authority of Baltimore City. Thousands more have moved to the counties with special rent subsidies in a companion program.

Hill’s family is among nearly 10,000 black women and children who have moved into overwhelmingly white, prosperous suburbs through a court-ordered relocation program designed to combat the intense inner-city segregation and poverty forged by decades of discrimination.

That relocation program–one of the nation’s largest–has been discreetly rolled out to avoid the political and community opposition that routinely arises to defeat proposals for building subsidized housing in Baltimore’s suburbs. Hill’s Cockeysville townhouse, for example, was purchased by the city through a nonprofit organization based in the suburbs, with little notice to elected Baltimore County officials or the public.

“We did it very much under the radar,” Amy Wilkinson, fair housing director for the Housing Authority of Baltimore City, said of the home purchases. “We met very early on with the county executives. They understood we had to do it. Their request was to make sure [the homes] are really scattered and make sure we do it quietly.”

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While local officials in the Baltimore area–one of the most segregated in the nation–have ramped up collaborative efforts to meet federal fair-housing standards, they concede that more needs to be done to provide more affordable homes in prosperous neighborhoods. The need is obvious: More than 100,000 people are on waiting lists for subsidized housing in the region, with Baltimore bearing the biggest burden. Most counties have not taken two steps that advocates say are essential: requiring developers to set aside housing for low-income tenants and prohibiting landlords from refusing to accept tenants with federal rent subsidies.

There are two main components to Baltimore’s “mobility” campaign, which aims to relocate public housing residents to better neighborhoods. Nearly 3,100 participating families, headed almost entirely by single black mothers, have relocated with special subsidies that are designed for high suburban rents; about 1,300 other families will join them over the next three years. Nearly 50 families, including Hill’s, have moved into houses owned by the city housing authority in prosperous county communities; 110 more will soon move to houses in strong city neighborhoods.

Participants in the mobility program receive counseling and other advice on issues ranging from household budgeting to clothing. And despite the large number of families who have moved, the fears most commonly expressed by opponents–rising crime, plummeting property values–have not materialized, research shows.

“Most people don’t even know we’re [in the suburbs],” said Barbara Samuels, managing attorney for the ACLU of Maryland, which helped establish the mobility program after winning a landmark federal fair-housing lawsuit in Baltimore known as Thompson v. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A judge ruled that HUD had violated federal law by not taking a regional approach to desegregating public housing. “We’re not going to advertise it. The most intense opposition comes when a project is proposed. When it’s built and on the ground, you almost never have opposition.”

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Syrian educational system: “The Jews are cancerous”

Stephen Steinlight writes: “Further proof, if any were required, why the LEADING ROLE taken by Jewish organizations to bring tens of thousands of putative “Syrian” “refugees” to the United States (there is no way to ascertain how many are either as none can be vetted) is a classic example of self-righteous sanctimony taken to suicidal proportions. What’s worse, not only are these childish morally arrogant globalist Jews risking their own safety, far worse, they are also risking the safety of their fellow Americans. If you wish to put yourselves on the line in an act of such utter idiocy, go ahead. But do it on an island somewhere. But don’t endanger this country and your fellow citizens because of your neurotic impulses.”

Rachel Avraham writes:

Syrian educational system: “The Jews are cancerous”
Syrian school books teach that Jews are cancerous, that the Holocaust is a positive event and that Zionism is similar to Nazism and is a partner in world imperialism. In an exclusive interview with JerusalemOnline, head of the Center for Near East Policy Research David Bedein noted that this study is a cause for concern as many Syrian refugees immigrate to the West.

As the Western world reaches out to accept Syrian refugees, the Center for Near East Policy Research republished a study that was performed by Dr. Arnon Groiss of Syrian school textbooks that have been in use since 2001. Based upon the English translations of these textbooks, the Center for Near East Policy Research noted that “a child growing up and progressing through the Syrian educational system will be educated in a manner that teaches hate and intolerance rather than one that promotes peace.”

According to the study, Syrian school children are taught that the Holocaust is a positive event, that Jews are racist because they believe that they are the “chosen people,” and that Zionist is a racist movement based upon lies that is similar to Nazism and a partner in world imperialism. In Syrian schoolbooks, Palestine but not Israel exists on the map. Syrian children are taught that the Jews stole land from the Arabs and that they have established a cancerous, racist and illegitimate nation that threatens the whole Arab world. Children are furthermore taught that the concept of peace is treasonous.

David Bedein, the head of the Center for Near East Policy Research, stated in an exclusive interview with JerusalemOnline that whenever we witness someone who is 40-years-old that is screwed up and violent, we must examine what kind of education they had in reference to the ISIS supporters who are now infiltrating into Europe among the Syrian refugees: “The study on the Syrian education system that my colleague Dr. Groiss did shows that Syria prepares children for war against the Jews. They have been learning this their whole lives. Thus, Obama’s statement that children are harmless is ridiculous. That child is now 40 or 50 years old and those ideas stick. All of the educational system is pervasive throughout the society. Their entire lives were oriented towards indoctrinating for a war against the Jews. When you meet most Syrian refugees, you meet people that hate you. They really feel at war with us.”

While noting that there are some figures in the opposition who are now opposed to both the Baathists and the Islamists, with some groups like the Kurds, Yazidis and even some Arab opposition figures outspokenly declaring their support for peace with Israel, Bedein still notes that Syria is a totalitarian regime where “this generations learns from these textbooks. You have people who came off the boat from an anti-Semitic country where there is no such thing as not agreeing with the government as it is totalitarian. Freedom of speech does not exist. Most people that came out of Syria have not been detoxified. It is an illusion that we can have a peace process when their whole orientation is towards our destruction.”

Recently, the Times of Israel published that the Toronto Jewish Day School has decided to sponsor a Syrian refugee family. Bedein also noted that the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain welcomed Syrian refugees, that 1,000 rabbis signed unto a petition to support Syrian refugees and that so many Jews in the West are ready to take them into their homes: “It is hard for anyone in the West to conceptionalize that they are oriented on the idea of making war against the Jews. Never deny a person’s ethnic background and how that will affect their judgement. If you have someone coming out of a totalitarian regime, you have no reason to think they would think otherwise except in rare cases.”

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Bye Bye Jeb!

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Jeb Bush never becoming president of The United States works out quite well for his wife Columba, because if she is the First Lady than she will have to do a lot more media interviews in English, a language she is not comfortable with.

In Miami she can get away with participating in Spanish only interviews because Miami is not really part of The United States in a cultural and language sense, but she can not get away with only doing Spanish interviews in Washington DC where the vast majority of the population is Non Hispanic.

Donald Trump putting his hat into the presidential race is really a blessing in disguise for Columba. She just dodged a bullet and can now continue to remain in her Hispanic bubble in Miami.

I remember reading that Columba was uncomfortable living in Tallahassee because it is too culturally Southern and not culturally Latin American enough for her. Tallahassee shares more cultural similarities with Alabama than it does to Miami.

* My candidate is Kevin Sutherland, the Democrat DC staffer who was butchered to death by one Jasper Spires in a DC metro train car.
Sutherland was knifed so hard by Spires that his liver literally fell out and hit the floor of the train car.

There’s a moral there – surely – for all those who think.

* That one went down the memory hole instantly, even on local news. My favorite part is there were thirty or so other passengers on the car, and not only did nothing to help, afterwards handed over their wallets and watches to the murderer. Almost makes me believe that a couple of guys with razor knives could actually hijack four planes. Almost.

* The big news is that Donald Trump said nice things about Putin, and ¡Jeb! said Trump was evil for not condemning Putin. That Putin kills journalists and political opponents, while the US President just kills terrorists. As if Russia could or would do any better than Putin. What, a drunk kleptocrat like Yeltsin or an aging one like Brezhnev? As far as I am concerned if Putin wants to fight ISIS, Turkey, the Gulf Cooperation Council, let him.”

Never having a girlfriend drove Enrique Marquez to convert to radical Islam because he was told by other Muslim men that 72 female virgins will F his brains out once he dies and goes to heaven. Back in the real world, Enrique could not afford an escort in the Los Angeles metropolitan area or travel to Thailand on his Walmart salary.

Mexican guys don’t usually have a problem getting laid because of their Latin lover reputation, but Enrique Marquez is not your average Mexican.

* The majority of 20 something, male Wal-Mart employees live empty lives of involuntary celibacy and functional nihilism. Say what you like about radical Islam, but at least it’s an ethos. Americas’s young, male demographic is a sucking, dark, spriritual void waiting to be filled. ISIS could turn an army from the minions of the Walton family overnight with a halfway credible promise of getting them laid and giving them some meaning or purpose beyond World of Warcraft.

* I’m thinking Marquez is just some combination of dim-witted and emotionally stunted. But the motivation of Jihadists makes them punch above their weight in terror. One, or maybe the central, reason we’re always flogged with the “white mass murderer” cliche it’s because the perception white guys are just so much better at it.
And Muslims are seen, as happens with every ethnic group the more familiar they become, as falling on a continuum of intelligence and capability, in their case, fairly or not, as somewhat below the average white dude and above most NAMs. We can be heartened by the obvious weakness of any inherent political skill–Muslims will only be as good as whoever’s running the Narrative is willing and capable of making them. Of course clock boy Ahmed and the abundance of silly pc responses to San Bernardino demonstrate, there’s an enduring willingness to prop them up. It started in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and hasn’t really stopped, the reflexive decision to make Muslims the next Minority Group.

I’ve tried to find this old MTV PSA that–I want to confirm if my memory’s correct about the timing–aired just days, maybe a week, after 9/11. It’s an attractive young woman who we are to take for a Muslim American, complaining about stereotyping; people are supposedly asking her if she’s “related to any of the terrorists”; maybe I’m naive, but how many people are stupid enough to ask you that? One, I might believe. Still, the Muslim myth the Left spins for us has gotten bigger, but no better than that stupid, slick piece on MTV.

Anyway, the impulse to normalize Muslims within the still optimistic conventional view of US history was habitual. These people have no idea what they’re foisting on the US. The Muslim problem goes so far beyond the HBD heresies of group differences in IQ and aggressiveness, which are nonetheless real and negative in consequence here, but to a profoundly opposed religious worldview. No group contributing significantly to the history and demographics of the nation have been this foreign to it, and none by such a long-held, continuing, and as powerful a tradition, as Islam. What in the world are people thinking? Was it something we said, powers-that-be?

* What in polite circles is now called intellectual disability is not the same thing as mental illness. I suppose you are going to scold us that it is also “sick” to mock anyone on the left side of the Bell Curve?

But how “limited” can this man be, and how Muslim can he be, after he found out about the consequences of his actions that he 1) went on a drinking binge, 2) started crying with the 9-1-1 operator, and 3) “spilled his guts” to the FBI?

This guy’s level of terrorism doesn’t even rise to the level of the “free as a bird, guilty as sin” university professor pal of the President. I think he was harboring the adolescent fantasy of “wouldn’t it be cool to blow stuff up” much as he was fantasizing about “making it with a girl” without regarding that either of those events would ever take place.

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together would say “I accepting money to harbor a Russian here illegally, and I am sharing my guns with these two Middle Easterners”, but then that would be “profiling”, now wouldn’t it, and our betters have been trying to educate us to harbor such prejudice

That he engaged in his cathartic confession to the FBI suggests, again, that he is not very bright but that he at least has a moral compass. In this day and age of “what you say can and will be used against you in a court of law”, tough-on-crime prosecutors, and the neutering of Constitutional jury nullification, no attempt will be made to make a wise decision of just what is the appropriate level of punishment for this guy.

* The one thing that can keep Americans of so many different backgrounds united is Christianity. Even the unbelieving can go along nodding their heads and being polite. Islam, however, doesn’t play that game. They will use our politeness and Golden Rule against us until they get whatever they want.

Two thoughts: No more Muslims. Atheists and agnostics, stop trying to stamp out Christianity; You need us more than you realize.

* So, successful and connected Hispanics like Rubio take orders from Jews, and unsuccessful and disconnected Hispanics like Marquez take orders from Muslims.

Rubio: make me president and I’ll supply Pentagon with all the arms it needs to smash Russia and Iran.

Marquez: be my friend and get me a Russian bride(even if only as make-believe), and I’ll buy some assault rifles for you.

* There’s a fun passage in singer Linda Lewis’s memoirs where the young Elton is distraught that he will never have children. Linda, a close friend from their poor-struggling-artist days, bravely offered to bear his child for him. And if the process made him uncomfortable, then she was quite willing to do it with a bottle.

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Is It a Copout for Jews to Say They Are ‘White’?

Are Jews white? It depends on the incentives.

From Haaretz:

A few weeks ago I began the long process of applying to several American universities. So there I was, filling the lines away, until I found myself faced with a nasty old foe – the ethnicity check box.

For any Jewish person faced with the spare prose of official U.S. forms, there always comes that strange moment of stumbling across that stubborn box. It’s not that you don’t know it’s coming – if you’ve been around the block once or twice you know for a fact that it’s coming – but you hope maybe this time they forgot. Maybe this time you won’t have to face that strange decision.

But, time and time again, it appears, out of the proverbial bend, just when you least expect it. You stand facing that monolithic square and try to decide for the umpteenth time what you are: “white” or “other”?

That choice is seemingly easier as a result of the little parenthetical remark next to the “white” option, which now includes “original peoples of Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East.” That addition should, ostensibly, solve the problem for Mizrahi Jews – Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent – but I’m still stumped. As an Israeli of Ashkenazi descent, am I a people of the Middle East? I mean, I think I am, but then again I’m told I’m not that either.

More recently, the U.S. census bureau, following lobbying by American organizations and activists, started testing of a new separate category for individuals identifying themselves as originating from the Middle East and North Africa ahead of the planned 2020 census. In other words, on that questionnaire they would have the option of choosing MENA, and not “white.”

But the issue of Jews identifying themselves as white or not, is not just one of race or complexion or even origin, but of attaching oneself, or distancing oneself, from power. The problem is whether Jews are willing to stop being white.

There was a time, one that perhaps persists, when being white, or being able to pass as white, meant power. It meant you could, in a racist world, move ahead, create a better life for your children. That made the choice quite easy for Jews living in the white world: they would definitely mark down “white,” since every other choice meant discrimination and pain. It’s that Jewish survival thing, where you choose what aids in not being killed, not being marginalized, or at least reduces the chances of both. If white works, go for white….

But, in a world that is becoming increasingly multicultural, and in which distinct ethnic groups, including the many Jewish extractions, begin to not only attempt to hide their differences but take pride in them, that “assimilate” part is beginning to take on a much more sinister tone. Passing as white, in this sense, is its own quiet extermination of identity and history, the kind in which one discards any trait that marks them as different in the hopes of surviving another day.

So yes, a good student of Jewish history definitely should go for that “white” box, since it provides you with a sense of security and of proximity to power. But, I think until a different box comes along, perhaps one that reads “accepted as white by whites as long as you’re nice,” I’ll stick with my “other.” It seems that’s what the world is telling me to be anyway. Might as well enjoy it.

COMMENTS TO STEVE SAILER:

* If Jews were tabulated separately from whites for the purposes of racial bean-counting, it would be terrible for the Jews and the Narrative in general. It would make their extreme overrepresentation in elite institutions very obvious, and give the lie to the notion that generic “whites” are dominating these institutions.

* Why aren’t Jews counted ethnically on the US Census, like everyone else is? I think the terms “Ashkenazi” and “Sephardi” would cover 98% of them, referring to blood not faith (eg, Lawrence Auster, not Sammy Davis, Jr), so it’s not a First Amendment issue.

Instead, they’re Russians, Poles, Hungarians, etc, clouding matters not only for themselves but for those other groups as well.

* ‘Other’ box?

If they are proud, they should check JEWISH.

And we shall soon find out that there is a group even MORE POWERFUL than the whites.

Of course, that is why Jews prefer ‘other’ than ‘Jewish’.

* Is the flight-from-beauty phenomenon related to this?

For example, the stunning French singer Alizée in 2003:

And (after some very conscious choices) in 2014:

* I’ve always considered Jews to be a white ethnic group- Irish, Italians, Greeks, Jews.

* I am still looking for a Judeo-Christian. I am not sure how the ‘Judeo’s’ hijacked the narrative.

* Flight from white, meanwhile Trump is making a flight to white. Recent speech had the stage decked out with Christmas trees. Sure, it’s a direct appeal to Christianity but more broadly he’s wrapping himself up in the identity of pre-65 America.

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Steve Sailer: The Arab-American Flight from White: Is It Good for the Jews?

Steve Sailer writes: I went looking for recent articles on this subject of the Census Bureau’s experiments with dealing with Arab demands to not be white anymore. Not surprisingly, the most interesting articles I found were in the Jewish press debating whether it would be good for the Jews. From The Forward:

U.S. Census May Add Controversial ‘Israeli’ Category

Debra Nussbaum Cohen (Haaretz)June 19, 2015

Does being Jewish mean being part of a race? Or a religion? What ethnicity are Jews? Many American Jews have found these questions difficult to answer every 10 years, when a census taker knocks on the door as part of the decennial national head count.

The only choices: “white, black or Asian” for race and, under ethnicity, “Hispanic/Latino” don’t quite fit the way many American Jews – and others – see themselves. Religion is not asked about at all, for reasons rooted both in privacy concerns and objections by American Jewry in the years immediately following the Holocaust.

Now the United States Census Bureau is testing a new category, “Middle East-North Africa” or MENA, in response to more than three decades of lobbying by Arab American organizations for a designation that better represents them. The testing, to start in September, will refine wording and sub-categories for the 2020 census. Nineteen options will be offered under the MENA designation, among them Israeli and Palestinian, as well as Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese, Turkish, Iranian, Moroccan and Algerian. Even Sudanese and Somali are being considered.

“Most Arabs don’t consider themselves white,” said Samer Khalaf, national president of The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, which has long lobbied for a more accurate label than “white.” Khalaf was one of 30 participants in a May 29 meeting convened by the U.S. Census Bureau so that researchers and representatives of MENA communities could discuss and offer feedback on the proposed changes.

“It’s a little arrogant for the government to dictate to any citizens what you should be identified as,” Khalaf told Haaretz later. “The MENA category was a bit of a compromise for us. In a perfect world we’d have an Arab category.” Instead, they agreed to settle on the geography-based MENA designation.

At least some in the Israeli-American community welcome the addition of a MENA option, though others prefer not to label themselves.

At a time when notions of race and ethnicity in America, like gender, are increasingly fluid, what will the addition of this category mean for the American Jewish community? If Israelis choose to be identified as part of MENA, will that in any way separate them from American Jews who opt for “white?”

And as the meaning of race is being refracted through the lens of the Rachel Dolezal scandal, after the head of the Spokane, WA NAACP chapter was outed as white, though she long identified as black, will these census changes serve to clarify ethnic identity in America or cloud the issues further?

… “We allocate billions of dollars to state and local governments based on these counts,” said Ramirez.

The last change to the race and ethnicity categories was in 1970, when Hispanic was added as an option to some questionnaires. In 1980 it became part of the form distributed to every household. While the census bureau is testing MENA and other issues under consideration for changes in the 2020 census, ultimately it is up to the White House Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Congress to approve new classifications, Ramirez said.

To date, the only way to glean the contours of foreign-born communities has been through a census question asking where respondents were born. But that doesn’t capture people’s real sense of national/racial/ethnic identity, particularly when it comes to a country like Israel, where people are often born in other countries and there is a great deal of mobility.

Oren Heiman, chairperson of Moatza Mekomit, was part of the May 29 census meeting in Washington and is a good illustration of some of the unique challenges of Israeli identity: Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he moved to Israel at the age of 9, where he lived in Herziliya until age 30. Now an attorney in New York, Heiman has lived here for many years and is returning shortly to Israel with his wife and infant daughter. Since he previously answered American-born, until now he would not have been counted by the U.S. government as Israeli, though it is very much the way he identifies himself.

“How do you count people who deem themselves Israeli, have Israeli citizenship, did the military, speak Hebrew at home and children who have both parents Israeli? Now if you have a MENA category, with Israeli in a drop-down menu, they can,” he said in an interview.

But some Israelis don’t even like the notion of being identified that way on a U.S. Census.

Ronit Lavi was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, to a Jewish mother and Lithuanian father. She emigrated to Israel alone as a young teenager, becoming religious, and Hebraized her name. Lavi, who is now a physical therapist in Brooklyn and lives in Sheepshead Bay, a heavily Russian-Jewish neighborhood, stayed in Israel for 16 years. Blond and with a fair complexion, she was catcalled by Israeli men and teenagers when she lived in Jerusalem. …

The addition of new census categories will be good for the Jews beyond Israeli Americans, said demographer Steven M. Cohen.

In America, with its “melting pot” orientation, Jews assimilate more rapidly than do fellow tribe members in Canada, Great Britain or Australia, which have smaller Jewish populations but cultures more sympathetic to the perpetuation of ethnic group ties, Cohen said.

“Being unwelcoming of the perpetuation of ethnic identity actually speeds up Jewish assimilation,” he told Haaretz. “Jews have an interest in an America which is more vividly Hispanic, Hindu, Muslim and Middle Eastern. This would be a small blow in favor of recognizing ethnic variation in America, which in the long run will survive as a distinct ethnic group.”

“Anything that fosters ethnic identity in America actually helps Jewish continuity,” he said. “It makes the culture more empathetic to perpetuation of ethnic group ties.”

In Jewish population studies most, though far from all, American Jews say they are Jewish by religion. And no race/ethnicity category, by itself, can fully reflect the truth of what it means to be Jewish.

“Faced with a census form and the mental images of a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, a black Baptist, a Korean Buddhist or a Hispanic Catholic, white, black, Asian and Sephardi Jews might have some conflicted feelings,” said Rabbi Avi Shafran, a spokesman for Agudath Israel of America, in an email. “While Judaism is a religion, the Jewish people is a people. Peoplehood, at least Jewish peoplehood, transcends ethnicity and race.”

The last time the federal government asked about religion was 1957, said Alan Cooperman, director of religion research at the Pew Research Center, in a population survey rather than decennial census. Subsequently “there was a debate and a number of religious groups and civil liberties groups asked that the census not ask about religion, as a violation of church and state or intrusion on privacy.”

Concepts of race and ethnicity have a complicated, terrible history for Jews, and American Jewish organizations were among those opposed to census questions about religion….

Yet “there was a time when Jews referred to themselves as the Hebrew race,” noted Kelner.

“American Jews want to maintain a distinct identity and on the other hand want to be fully integrated into broader society and don’t want the distinctiveness to come at a price,” Kelner said. “Being marked on the census as Jewish gives you more information. It affirms the difference. Maybe it will have some type of legal consequences and benefits. But on the other hand, it goes against a century-plus of how American Jews have managed that tension.”

Comments:

* Steve, why exactly do you want Indians and Arabs to be classified as white? In what context are we thought of as white? For example, if immigration were entirely restricted to Arabs and Indians, would your fellow travelers suddenly stop worrying about whites becoming a minority?

As to your concern about “flight from white” for benefits, couple of points:
1) the government and the media already have no trouble at all distinguishing between Asians and underrepresented minorities (URM or NAM, as your readers call them).
2) I’m pretty sure discrimination or disparate impact can be decided on national origin too, not just race. If Russians were heavily discriminated against or badly underrepresented, I’m fairly sure the government can address it without requiring them to identity as non-white. Same for Arabs.

This drive to get a MENA category is likely motivated by the same impulse as the drive to get people to use “ze” or whatever – some people are really into the minutiae of asserting identity. I really don’t see why it would affect eligibility for benefits.

* Barring a tiny minority of wealthy indians, primarily from the northwest of the country, no one in India could seriously be considered White.
Yes, Indians can have some caucasoid facial features, and look more similar to Whites than to Chinese, but that’s akin to classifying Native Americans as East Asians, just because they both have slanted eyes.

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