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Terror, Society, and Journalism.
Dec 24th, 2017 at 9:40am
 
There is an article in the Weekend Australian by Brendan O'neill that voices my longtime concerns about the platitudes offered to the public after Muzlim atrocities, and what effect that is having on our society.

Here are some quotes:

"After the Manchester attack on pop fans, the Oasis song Don't Look Back In Anger became the anthem of the nation. It captured the sentiment that now takes hold after terrorist attacks: don't dwell on it, just lay a flower and move on.

We are discouraged from asking difficult questions. Debate is frowned on.

Wonder if radical Islam is a problem for the West and you are branded “Islamophobe.”

Ask if it was wise of Angela Merkel to welcome hundreds of the thousands of migrants from the Middle East in 2015 and you'll be called racist.

Even to argue that there are certain French, British, American and Australian values that are good, and that we should encourage newcomers to adopt, is to risk being viewed as a sinner against the multicultural idea that all values are equally valid.

We always see this post-terror chilling of debate. The aim is to tame moral thought, dampen dangerous emotions. After every attack their (policos and the media) response is to say: “There had better not be an Islamophobic backlash in reponse to this.”

It is becoming clear that the perversely chilled response to terror is not an act of defiance. Rather, it speaks to a reluctance in the West to engage in robust debate about terror, religion, immigration and values.

We need to change this post-terror culture. We need to recognise that a society, that will not even permit anger or moral soulsearching when an eight-year-old girl at an Ariana Grande concert is blown apart, is a society that has already been defeated. "

Yes indeed, and Greg, Ross, Gandalf and Karmal are part of that defeat.
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Re: Terror, Society, and Journalism.
Reply #1 - Dec 24th, 2017 at 10:25am
 
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Yes indeed, and Greg, Ross, Gandalf and Karmal are part of that defeat.



People such as they, are enablers and facilitators         of whatever ISLAM is,
and of that worldview which ISLAM is promoting in the world.

Enablers and facilitators, of the most wicked of hearts in men.

They refuse to censure such hearts.



"Let us do evil, let us allow evil,     so that good may come."


Every moslem and every 'Humanist', imo, has embraced a 'philosophy' which promotes such a 'humane' ideal.

They walk in darkness.




Yadda said....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1509883266/40#40
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ISLAM's foundational religious texts, have plainly been interpreted by moslem scholars to indicate,
that those who have embraced ISLAM,
have embraced enmity, and hatred, and hostility and warfare and murder, towards those who reject ISLAM.



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Here, for example, are two very illuminating passages from the canonical Life of Mohammed by Ibn Ishaq, as translated by A. Guillaume, and a third passage, from the earliest known Muslim historian.

Ishaq: 204 - "'Men, do you know what you are pledging yourselves to in swearing allegiance to this man [Muhammad]?' 'Yes. In swearing allegiance to him we are pledging to wage war against all mankind.'"

Ishaq:231 - "Muslims are one ummah (community) to the exclusion of all men. Believers are friends of one another to the exclusion of all outsiders."

And here is Al-Tabari, a very early Muslim historian, in book 9, chapter or section 69, reporting words that Muslims believe to have been said by Mohammed himself - "Killing infidels is a small matter to us".

These texts are not fossils from a distant past.

They are not dead letters.

They are still 'live' and carry tremendous weight in the imagination and practice of many Muslims around the world.
...DDA


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we are pledging to wage war against all mankind, al-Tabari





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Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
11  If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12  Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13  We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14  Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15  My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16  For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
.....
31  Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32  For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33  But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.



Proverbs 2:1
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
2  So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
3  Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
4  If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
5  Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
6  For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
7  He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
8  He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
9  Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
10  When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
11  Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
12  To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
13  Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
14  Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
15  Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:



Proverbs 4:14
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
15  Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
16  For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
17  For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
18  But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
19  The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.



Isaiah 60:2
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
3  And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

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"....And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
Luke 16:31
 
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Re: Terror, Society, and Journalism.
Reply #2 - Dec 24th, 2017 at 10:53am
 




It is 'easy' for most men to hate the truth,      because they firmly are of the opinion, that truth does not best serve them, and their interests.

But those who stray from the paths of truth, are choosing to walk in darkness.

Their terror will come upon them, they will stumble, and fall,      and there will be no helper for them.






There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to  keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
- Herbert Spencer


"There are two ways to be fooled [deceived].
One way is to believe what is not true.
The other is to refuse to accept what is true."
- Soren Kierkegaard


OCCULT, from the Latin verb, "Occultare",
meaning "to hide", "to conceal", "to keep secret", HIDDEN.


I can understand a child being afraid of the dark, but I cannot understand an adult being afraid of the light.
- Plato


Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
- Winston Churchill

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"....And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
Luke 16:31
 
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