LONDON — In what political analysts described as a historic turning point for Western Civilization, Great Britain announced a "Reverse Crusade" where they invite Muslims to come and destroy England.

With the original Crusades of the Britons journeying to the Middle East to free the Holy Land from Islamic rule long in the past, UK leaders said it was time to wipe the slate clean and turn the tables to allow Muslims to return the favor.

"We're flipping the script," said UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. "We can now look back and see the flaws in our approach to invading Islamic territories centuries ago to reclaim Jerusalem from the Turks, so we decided to make things fair by inviting millions of Muslims to come and drive the British people into extinction."

Though the Reverse Crusade was only officially announced today, leaders admitted that it has been effectively taking place for the last two decades. "We needed to let the Muslims have their turn," said Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner. "We had our time back in the day, but the proper thing to do is to allow the Muslims to travel here, out-populate us, destroy our culture, wipe us all out, and conquer England. It might sound like an extreme move, but fair is fair. We had a good run, but turnabout is fair play and all."

At publishing time, Great Britain had offered to help Muslims in any effort to remove Israelis from Jerusalem and set up a new Caliphate as a form of reparations.

Dear Yadda,

your posts are so long and convoluted that I doubt many people read them.


It's better to make them short and punchy.

Who among lovers of literature and myth would want to do without the story of Mars and Venus and what they were doing when Vulcan imprisoned them in a net? Of Midas and the disastrous request he made when the god Bacchus offered to grant his any wish? Of Daphne and her frantic efforts to outrun the swift-footed, love-struck, lust-driven Apollo? Of Daedalus and the flying contraption he fashioned—with unfortunate consequences for his hubristic son, Icarus, who flew too close to the sun? Of the blind prophet Tiresias and the experiences that made him supremely qualified to judge whether a man or a woman gets more pleasure out of sex? Of how even Tantalus stopped trying to reach water, Sisyphus climbed on his rock to listen, and for the first time ever, the Furies wept, when Orpheus sang of his love for Eurydice?

All these stories are found in the Metamorphoses, the indispensable compendium of Greek and Roman myth by the prolific Latin poet Publius Ovidius Naso, known to us as Ovid. Long a mainstay of great-books courses, the Metamorphoses has influenced—and supplied source material for—painters from Brueghel to Titian and writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Yeats, Rilke, Kafka, Joyce, and Eliot. Not the most demanding book in a foundation course, it performs the vital function of gathering together many myths and legends of lasting interest. Some of the tales have the quality of parables that may be fruitfully pondered. Knowledge of them will help prepare the student for myths in modern dress (Shaw’s adaptation of the story of Pygmalion, Jean Cocteau’s film version of Orpheus) and for the vast number of works that make reference to the Metamorphoses. Consider Albert Camus’ existential musings in The Myth of Sisyphus or T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. According to Eliot, Tiresias is “the most important personage in the poem.”

Quite aside from its pedagogical advantages, Ovid’s masterwork has given pleasure to generations of serious readers. It has often been a required text in Columbia’s “Literature Humanities” course, a glory of the university’s core curriculum since the 1920s. (I took the yearlong course in my freshman year at Columbia and it changed my life.) In 2015, however, Columbia students mounted a campaign against canonical texts that contain “triggering and offensive material that marginalizes student identities in the classroom.” Four students, members of Columbia’s Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board, collaborated on an op-ed column in the Columbia Daily Spectator categorizing Ovid’s Metamorphoses as among those “texts” that are “wrought with histories and narratives of exclusion and oppression” and therefore “can be difficult to read and discuss as a survivor, a person of color, or a student from a low-income background.” The faculty hemmed and hawed before capitulating. As Liza Libes, a veteran of Literature Humanities, recently wrote, more in sorrow than in anger, “Ovid was sent on a three-year furlough, returning to the syllabus briefly in 2018 before being nixed entirely.”
https://newcriterion.com/article/ovid-in-exile-2/


Stupid wokery's assault on reason, sense, art, history, philosophy is relentless and Hydra-like.

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Part of the clip lable. Nowhere does the story connect this statment with the fact that the vast Majority of extremest violence comes from the extreme right, the nationalist right , the religious right. Why do the right consistently make statments that show the opposite to what the facts would support?

Dnarever wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 7:58pm:


We only have to look at what happened in Melbourne last Sunday to prove this statement wrong. 

Dnarever wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2025 at 11:07am:



The question is why we let them get away with it. There is, they contend, an inalienable “right to protest”. But no such right exists. What the law protects is the right of peaceful assembly – a right that, since its initial development in the 19th century, has always been subject to stringent limits designed to prevent disorder and safeguard the public.

So when the Free Palestine Coalition claims that “police denied thousands the right to protest”, what it is really seeking is the right to deny the rights of others, suppressing their freedoms of peaceful assembly, association and expression. Since October 7, that has been the method of Islamists and their leftist fellow travellers: threats, intimidation and disruption deployed not to defend liberty but to extinguish it.

The problem is not a lack of authority but of will: a government quick to crush anti-lockdown protests now shrinks from confronting Islamists and leftists, no matter how dangerous they become.

The violence in Melbourne is not an aberration. It is the symptom of a society that by tolerating the intolerable is cutting its own throat, with Victoria leading the way. The “red fascists”, as Jurgen Habermas called them, may have swapped jackboots for keffiyehs, but their contempt for freedom is unchanged. If we will not draw the line, they will finish the work our complacency began.

Belgarion wrote on Oct 26^th, 2025 at 6:50pm:


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Cops always justify what cops do right or wrong. I have seen vic police action at a number of protests and then I have seen the police interviews about those actions. Never once seen a senior police officer come out and critisise the police violence. On the street it is often a different matter.

Asking if anyone seen what was said by the least credible person doesn't hold a lot of weight.

I am not against the police but Vic police have a poor reputation with protests and most of the video I have seen from this seem to show the police being more agressive against seemingly passive protesters. Australian police seem to be heavy handed when dealing with protests it doesn't seem to be amoung their stronger points.