Monthly Archives: September 2015

Maybe we should be frightened

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refugee rape

This is the kind of story we are being spared by the media precisely so that we do not became terrified by what is going on in Europe. The basic premise of progressive internationalism is that every culture is basically the same and that civilised values are a universal. Maybe, but there are then stories like this one that make you ask what happens if that isn’t true. The title is Germany’s Migrant Rape Epidemic. Here’s part of what it says:

A growing number of women and young girls housed in refugee shelters in Germany are being raped, sexually assaulted and even forced into prostitution by male asylum seekers, according to German social work organizations with first-hand knowledge of the situation. . . .

Conditions for women and girls at some shelters are so perilous that females are being described as “wild game” fighting off Muslim male predators. But many victims, fearing reprisals, are keeping silent, social workers say.

At the same time, growing numbers of German women in towns and cities across the country are being raped by asylum seekers from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Many of the crimes are being downplayed by German authorities and the national media, apparently to avoid fueling anti-immigration sentiments.

The question is, if these are the kinds of people who are entering Europe, why wouldn’t you want to fuel anti-immigration sentiments. The answer to this question I do not know, but there is much evidence that the authorities are conniving with the media to keep these stories out of the news. Everyone knows, of course, it’s just not in the news so it is not officially true so no one officially needs to do a single thing. The reality is that the demographic shift in Europe may be the biggest story of our time yet is virtually never mentioned in the press.

Yet this is where some good could actually be done. By branding rapists as the barbarians they are, perhaps some kinds of social pressure could be brought to bear on such practices. By saying nothing in public we are, in effect, condoning behaviours that are disgusting to their very core. We must side up with the women being attacked, and do what we can to protect them from some of the most vile human scum who are found in their midst.

Half of America are gullible fools – while the media clocks in at 95%

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A fraud and a hoax. The President could not care less since this is one of his teachable moments. It would be if only people were capable of learning. You and I may know what’s going on but does anyone else? Meanwhile, Ben Carson, running for the Republican nomination, started quite a commotion within the media which is 95% gullible fools.

Carson ignited a media firestorm in a Sunday morning interview with Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press,” in which he said he “would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation.”

“I absolutely would not agree with that,” Carson said.

In an interview with The Hill, Carson opened up about why he believes a Muslim would be unfit to serve as commander in chief.

“I do not believe Sharia is consistent with the Constitution of this country,” Carson said, referencing the Islamic law derived from the Koran and traditions of Islam. “Muslims feel that their religion is very much a part of your public life and what you do as a public official, and that’s inconsistent with our principles and our Constitution.”

Carson said that the only exception he’d make would be if the Muslim running for office “publicly rejected all the tenets of Sharia and lived a life consistent with that.”



“Then I wouldn’t have any problem,” he said.

However, on several occasions Carson mentioned “Taqiyya,” a practice in the Shia Islam denomination in which a Muslim can mislead nonbelievers about the nature of their faith to avoid religious persecution.

“Taqiyya is a component of Shia that allows, and even encourages you to lie to achieve your goals,” Carson said.

Pushing back at the media firestorm over his remarks, Carson sought to frame himself as one of the few candidates running for president willing to tell hard truths.

“We are a different kind of nation,” Carson said. “Part of why we rose so quickly is because we wouldn’t allow our values or principles to be supplanted because we were going to be politically correct. … Part of the problem today is that we’re so busy trying to be politically correct, that we lose all perspective.”

Carson told The Hill that the question of a Muslim president is largely “irrelevant” because no Muslims are running in 2016. He said the question, which Todd is posing to all of the Republican presidential hopefuls who go on his show, “may well have been” gotcha journalism meant to trip the candidates up.

However, he acknowledged the question “served a useful purpose by providing the opportunity to talk about what Sharia is and what their goals are.

The question really is, why would anyone want to talk about that when there are other more important issues to discuss?

UPDATE: They really do have to be shockingly stupid, and the lack of an apology is even more revealing. This is picked up at Instapundit.

“The history of economic thought should in no way be disconnected from current issues in economics”

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I wrote a book about this very subject as part of what I could do from preventing the European Research Council from turning the history of economic thought into a sub-sub-set of the History of the Human Memory. Now it is part of the very ethos of HET in Europe:

The issues of inequalities confirm the ESHET’s firm belief that the study of the history of economic thought should in no way be disconnected from current issues in economics and beyond, and could in fact help provide historical perspectives on standard views about the subject.

Oh yes indeed. There will come a time, and it’s not far off, when economists will start to relearn their history which, among other things, contains a vast storehouse of ideas that have been lost or forgotten but are as valid if not more so than the ones we now have in our currents economic texts.

The first to say “racist” loses the argument

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I came across the above poster the other day, which seems to be a widely held belief although I wouldn’t know myself. Since he spoke Russian it’s a hard one to confirm. Yet the point is clear enough. Those without an actual argument just say “racist” and then let the thought-police do the rest. As an example of almost an infinite number that might be found, I did come across this today on Drudge which is a story from last night’s Emmy Awards in the US:

ATTACK: Trump Called ‘Racist’ in Opening Monologue…

Which is all related to Donald Trump’s off-handed reply to a query from the stands the other day on what religion he thought Obama followed. In the wake of this non-story, which has, of course, become explosive in the hands of the American media, here is what we can also find on Drudge:

CARSON: A Muslim should not be president…
Video…
Stephanopoulos Grills Trump: Why Can’t You Say That Obama Is Not Muslim?
FLASHBACK: Obama ‘My Muslim Faith’…

This business about Obama’s religion has led to plenty of advice over what Donald Trump ought to have said, and has now extended to the entire Republican field who are also being asked to answer what no one can possibly know, what religion does Obama really follows in his heart of hearts. Mark Steyn has his own views which he has addressed to the American media and is thus filed under the heading, Get Lost, You Palace-Guard Creeps. Naturally you need to read it all where he provides seven different possible answers. This is number six.

As to whether he’s a Christian, have you asked him whether he has attended even semi-regularly any church other than that of Jeremiah (“God damn America”) Wright? A man is free to attend the Westboro Baptist Church but if he chooses to do so I’m not obligated to defend his Christianity. And frankly, whatever the President’s personal faith, there is no dispute that his leadership of the western world has been an utter catastrophe for Christians around the planet. Some of the oldest Christian communities on earth have been entirely extinguished on Obama’s watch: in Mosul, Iraq, which was an American protectorate on the day he took office, not a single Christian remains. Every single one of them is dead or fled. So, instead of jumping through your preposterous hoops and speaking up for the most powerful man in the world, I would rather speak up for the powerless – for the Nigerian schoolgirls, for the Yazidi, for the Copts in Egypt, and for all the other beleaguered Christian communities in the world this feckless president has set alight and watched burn.

When you think about all this, what possible difference does it make what he believes. What he has done, or not done, is what counts. What religion he follows matters not at all.

And as a general principle, the first to call someone else a racist loses the argument immediately.

What should Trump have said about Obama’s religious beliefs?

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This business about Obama’s religion does go on with plenty of advice with what Donald Trump should have said, and now extending to the entire Republican field who are also being asked to answer what no one can possibly know, what religion does Barack Obama really follow in his heart of hearts. Mark Steyn has his own views which he has filed under the heading, Get Lost, You Palace-Guard Creeps. Naturally you need to read it all where he provides seven different possible answers, all good. This is number six.

As to whether he’s a Christian, have you asked him whether he has attended even semi-regularly any church other than that of Jeremiah (“God damn America”) Wright? A man is free to attend the Westboro Baptist Church but if he chooses to do so I’m not obligated to defend his Christianity. And frankly, whatever the President’s personal faith, there is no dispute that his leadership of the western world has been an utter catastrophe for Christians around the planet. Some of the oldest Christian communities on earth have been entirely extinguished on Obama’s watch: in Mosul, Iraq, which was an American protectorate on the day he took office, not a single Christian remains. Every single one of them is dead or fled. So, instead of jumping through your preposterous hoops and speaking up for the most powerful man in the world, I would rather speak up for the powerless – for the Nigerian schoolgirls, for the Yazidi, for the Copts in Egypt, and for all the other beleaguered Christian communities in the world this feckless president has set alight and watched burn.

When you think about all this, what possible difference does it make what he believes when it is what he has done, or not done, that is what counts.

Camp of the Saints pdf

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Here is the link to the pdf version of Camp of the Saints by Jean Respail. This is his introduction to what was a novel in 1973 but is now reality.

And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison, and will go forth and deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, and will gather them together for the battle; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up over the breadth of the earth and encompassed the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. —APOCALYPSE 20

My spirit turns more and more toward the West, toward the old heritage. There are, perhaps, some treasures to retrieve among its ruins … I don’t know. —LAWRENCE DURRELL

As seen from the outside, the massive upheaval in Western society is approaching the limit beyond which it will become “meta-stable” and must collapse. —SOLZHENITSYN

I HAD WANTED TO WRITE a lengthy preface to explain my position and show that this is no wild-eyed dream; that even if the specific action, symbolic as it is, may seem farfetched, the fact remains that we are inevitably heading for something of the sort. We need only glance at the awesome population figures predicted for the year 2000, i.e., twenty-eight years from now: seven billion people, only nine hundred million of whom will be white.

But what good would it do?

I should at least point out, though, that many of the texts I have put into my characters’ mouths or pens—editorials, speeches, pastoral letters, laws, news stories, statements of every description—are, in fact, authentic. Perhaps the reader will spot them as they go by. In terms of the fictional situation I have presented, they become all the more revealing.
—J.R.

[My thanks to Mrs Beardsley for the link]

Advice to Trump on what he should say about Obama

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This is Steve Hayward’s advice to Donald Trump on what he ought to say to someone who accuses Obama of being a Muslim.

As far as I’m concerned, Obama’s nationality and religious faith are a settled matter. But you can understand why many Americans might think otherwise from his words and deeds in office. He has strengthened our enemies seemingly on purpose, obviously hates Jews and Israel, and really doesn’t appear to like America very much. If we did have a secret Muslim in the Oval Office, it would be hard to tell the difference from the actual Obama record. Instead of demanding my apology, the Democratic Party ought to apologize for foisting this plainly defective president on our once-great country.

You can see what Hayward thinks but knows he cannot say.

UPDATE: Then there’s this ridiculous article attacking Trump for being somehow opposed to small government and Republican principles. Here is a reply in the comments that says pretty well what I think myself:

What the author, GOP Inc and the DC Establishment fail to grasp is 25 years of saying one thing and doing the opposite tends to make people question things. How could Trump be worse than the supposed leaders of the leaders of the GOP ?They campaign on limited government, and then go to Washington and give away the store. And the most obvious example is the DC GOP wants desperately to give away the store again with amnesty to make the Chamber of Commerce donor class happy at the expense of middle and working class Americans. We’re supposed to be upset because Trump isn’t conservative enough, but the likes of Jeb and Grahamnesty are “true conservatives”? Without fixing immigration, none of it matters. And the idiots running the GOP do not grasp that. Trump, if nothing else, does. And without him no one else is even talking about immigration.

Trump is the only one anywhere talking about America as a nation state while the rest are interested only in one form or another of open borders. If they really are unaware of what is going on across the world, where our way of life is being submerged by migrants who know nothing of the principles of a free society and personal responsibility, then there should be no surprise when some of us will make one last effort to preserve for the next generations what we were able to enjoy ourselves.

FURTHER UPDATE: Here is what Roger Simon thinks Trump ought to have said:

Although it’s perhaps a bit too complicated, or even apocalyptic, for the campaign hustings, here’s how Trump should have answered the man’s question. Is Obama a Muslim? No, but he’s something even worse — a transnational progressive.

But he adds this, which is the Republican elite response of the moment to the challenge posed by Donald Trump:

On second thought, such complex ideological talk is obviously not Trump’s style. But there is someone running for the presidency with the intellectual chops, guts and speaking clarity to explain something like this to the public — Carly.

Fine and dandy, but what does she think about immigration, which is the real issue, not Obama’s religious beliefs which no one will ever know while he is still president.

And then we may add this, which is the conclusion to It’s Back: The President’s Religion Controversy:

So, America, is Barack Obama a Christian or a Muslim? Wrong question, destined to lead to an insufficient answer. I suspect that we are presided over by a modern Marxist agnostic, holding our own historical foundations and culture in contempt, while he is sympathetic with and ready to enfold the culture of people who have sworn to slaughter us. I suspect he has no desire to make us Islamic, and that President Obama is more opportunistically taking advantage of Muslim upheaval to work anarchy and chaos against the America he wants to change. Because American government is indeed founded on the Judeo-Christian principles I stated above, he exhibits the same simmering hostility to Christianity that we see generally among the “progressive” American Left.

Both of these have been taken from Instapundit