When they say ‘kill a crusader’ they mean kill Christians

From The Australian, Islamic State calls for terrorist attacks in Australia.

ISLAMIC State has named Australia as one of five main targets for terrorist attacks, calling for “stab the crusader” to be a “battle cry” for its supporters around the world.

The group released the latest edition of Dabiq — its official magazine — early this morning, which featured calls for worldwide action against the “crusaders”, as it has dubbed the US-led coalition committed to tackling Islamic State through military action.

The release of the magazine followed last month’s speech by the group’s official spokesman, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, in which the first public calls for attacks in specific countries were made.

All terrorist attacks should clearly be attributable to “patrons” of Islamic State so they cannot be described by media as “random killings”, the new article said.

“It is very important that attacks take place in every country that has entered into the alliance against the Islamic State, especially the US, UK, France, Australia and Germany,” an article in the magazine said.

“Every Muslim should get out of his house, find a crusader, and kill him.

“It is important that the killing becomes attributed to patrons of the Islamic State who have obeyed its leadership … otherwise, crusader media makes such attacks appear to be random killings.”

Obama and the decline and fall of the Roman Empire

I have also in the past noted the connection between the Roman emperor Commodus and the American President. Just to put you in the picture, Commodus is the emperor who fights Russell Crowe in Gladiator. He was the son of Marcus Aurelius who fought a succession of wars against barbarian invaders and when he died the wars continued but Commodus was made of different stuff. It is one of those hard to measure statistics but from the time of Commodus the standard of living in Europe is said to have dropped for the succeeding 1000 years and did not return to the level it was at in AD 187 until sometime in the sixteenth century. So today, there is this article, Obama and Commodus which begins:

The Roman Emperor Commodus turned away from a fight against barbarians along the frontier to take up more rewarding domestic pursuits. It didn’t work out so well for the Emperor.

It didn’t work out for anyone else either, aside from the barbarian invaders. And on Commodus and the ruin of the Empire, we have this:

Aurelius made his contribution to Rome’s failings. Staying with the passing of power from father to son, he had his son Commodus succeeed him, which began Rome on a path of ruin.

Whenever I teach the business cycle, I always point out that it is a cycle, that every downturn is followed by an upturn. But whenever I teach the cycle, I always have in the back of my mind the Roman empire under Commodus. Barbarians do win from time to time, and the Dark Age that follows can last a very long time.

Is this cynicism or just the way it is?

From Instapundit

MATTHEW CONTINETTI: Only American Ground Troops Can Defeat ISIS.

Yeah, but that’s not Obama’s plan. His plan is to look like he’s kinda doing something until November, then let ISIS win.

Or perhaps we could go to one of the comments at Instapundit for some amplification of the same point:

Lets just pretend for a moment that America had elected to the presidency, a closet Muslim who wanted to enable the establishment of a caliphate across the middle east and north africa. How would such a President act, that is different from how this President acts?

Good question. What’s the answer?

It’s the media – Obama is just a low grade leftist with a high grade media defence

obama cover up team

Obama could not have gotten away with even a quarter of his mis-rule if he were not supported to the hilt by the American media, the academic world and the far left. But it is the unbalance in the media where nothing negative about Obama ever becomes a raging news story that has mattered the most. It is only Obama’s fantastic level of incompetence that has been able to breach the defences that surround the president. The media are stone cold ignorant and live in as much of a fantasy world as Obama, completely unable to understand the nature of the world as it is and what is required to maintain a civilised community.

Terrifying if this is even half true

Here’s an article on DENMARK PARTIES: TURN ASYLUM SEEKERS BACK AT THE AIRPORT. These are only oppositional parties, not the government. Given what the the following article says, you have to wonder why government parties aren’t saying the same thing:

Muslims comprise just under 5% of the population of Denmark. Five percent may not sound like a lot, but it doesn’t take a lot to wreak havoc on a nation.

Per a series of Gatestone Institute reports (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here [which are found in the original article]), crime in Denmark has exploded. Muslim street gangs “have taken over large parts of Danish towns and cities.” Often wearing bulletproof vests and armed to the teeth, Muslim thugs are engaged in all manner of criminal activity, from illegal weapons trafficking to arson to human trafficking to car theft, vandalism, extortion, robbery, assault, rape, and murder. This in a nation that had one of the lowest crime rates in Europe.

Coupled with rampant crime has been weak (at best) enforcement of the law. Muslim criminals are often portrayed as victims of circumstance. Few cases go to trial. It is rare for a Muslim gang member go to prison. In addition, the ineffective dhimmi police force is running out of man power to handle escalating crime.

Madness reigns supreme in numerous “no go” zones where non-Muslims enter at their own risk. Including the police. Meanwhile, Muslims are pushing for “Sharia Law Zones” where Muslims would operate autonomously with no obligation to obey Danish law. And if you thought Muslims in Muslim-majority nations were the strictest in obeying Sharia law, think again. Denmark ranks among the top ten nations in the world for the degree to which Muslims adhere to Islamic law.

But while they may not like Danish law, they surely do love the Danish welfare system, as a disproportionate number of Muslims live off government subsidies. Though Muslims comprise just under 5% of the population, they consume 40% of social welfare benefits.

“What are you made of, George?” Now we know

Never try to outdrink an Aussie. As the story says, “John Newcombe, who was with the the former president on the night he was pulled over DUI, has revealed what really happened, and how the politician was a bit of a ‘party boy’ back then.” Well, we knew that about GWB, and in fact, this may have been the moment Bush decided to give it all up.

The sportsman, who was inducted into the Australian Hall of Fame on Friday evening, had not met the younger Bush, but as they were similar ages they decided to go out with Bush’s younger sister and his father’s press sectary Peter Roussol.

During the evening Bush tried to ‘keep pace’ with Newcombe, then 32, while drinking ‘reasonably-sized’ mugs of beer and played a ‘silent game’ with him.

Newcombe told Melbourne radio station SEN: ‘After about four of these, I picked the glass up in my teeth without my hands and skulled it straight down and I said, “What are you made of, George?” And so he had to do that.’

What’s more amazing is that Newcombe could live like that and still return serve. There were giants in their time.

“In the hands of a system whose reach is unlimited but whose safeguards are not”

There is some controversy over the damage Snowden did but given how easily he was able to pull off what he was able to do, every spy agency in the world had been there before. The American intelligence networks are as open as a pubic library. The rest of the world taps into anything they want. Secrecy to our enemies is nil. The only people this vast network of domestic espionage was unknown to were we citizens of the West. The startling part about the entire story was how someone like Snowden could penetrate the system in the way he did and download what he was able. If you think the Russians, the Chinese and the Iranians had not been there before, you are as blind to the incompetence of the American bureaucratic establishment as it is possible to be.

To be released on October 24.

A parable on immigration

The core of our Judeo-Christian teaching on kindness to strangers:

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”

27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

28 “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”

29 But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

30 In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’

36 “Which of these three do you think was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”

37 The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”

Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”

And when the man who was attacked by robbers had recovered, the man from Samaria would feel very hard done by if the man he had saved then turned around and attacked him.

Obama Ebola, Ebola Obama – let’s call the whole thing off

That Obama cares not a whit about the welfare of the United States was discussed in a previosu post. Which brings me to the headlines on Drudge this morning:

NYT PAGE ONE THURSDAY: FEDS SCRAMBLE TO CALM PUBLIC ON EBOLA…
DALLAS PATIENT DEAD…
Remains Still Infectious…
Nephew: ‘Unfair’ Treatment…
Family members kept under quarantine…
Officials monitoring 48 people…
UPDATE: Sheriff’s Deputy ‘Exhibiting Symptoms’…
Claims Had Contact…
‘Patient’ Taken From LAX…
Man hospitalized in NYC…
Nurse showing symptoms isolated in Australia…
Six hospitalized in Madrid…
PAPER: HEAT SCANNERS NOT EFFECTIVE…
WAR OF WORDS IN MADRID OVER FAILURES SURROUNDING INFECTION…
HIGH PRICE PAID TO STOP VIRUS…
EU politicians using crisis to demand sharp curbs in immigration…

Now it’s here and we shall see what we shall see. No reassurances from any public official can be taken at face value, I’m afraid.