A MAN identified only as Alexandre D. was arrested yesterday for stabbing a French soldier in the neck over the weekend. He is a recent convert to Islam and was seen praying before the attack. The 25-year-old soldier was stabbed in a shopping mall, and was treated in a hospital and released. Interior Minister Manuel Valls says other “radical” Muslims are under surveillance, as if there is an administrative solution to a threat that arises in the invisible heart of an observant Muslim.

Alexandre D. had been under surveillance too. But then the French police have been busy arresting mothers of young children and Catholic university students. Why worry about followers of a creed that commands the violent conquest of France when there are so many dangerous people who want children to have a maman et papa? A Muslim must kill or maim before he is identified as a radical. A French patriot or Christian need merely wave a banner at the top of a building for the French security forces to determine he is as an extremist who should be arrested and detained.

Virgil’s Laocoön called out to the citizens of Troy,”O unhappy citizens, what madness?” But no one listened. Troy wanted to believe the wooden horse was a gift of peace and love. Or as David Cameron would say as Troy burned, “The horse is a betrayal of Greece.”

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JOSEPH RUDYARD KIPLING, a reader, has posted a Youtube video of the construction site of the $100 million Turkish American Culture and Civilization Center in Lanham, Maryland. The facility, which will include a mosque, was dedicated on May 15th by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who said it “will likely become the largest and most striking example of Islamic architecture in the Western Hemisphere.” Maryland′s Governor Martin O’Malley attended the ceremony.

Imagine a $100 million facility devoted to Nazi-ism on American soil with the complicity of the American government. The Turkish American Culture and Civilization Center is every bit as dangerous as that.

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WHILE the bishop who oversees the National Catholic Committee on Scouting has approved of the new membership policy of the Boy Scouts of America, the Rev. Derek Lappe, of Our Lady Star of the Sea parish, is among those priests who have repudiated it. Fr. Lappe announced in his Sunday bulletin this week that the parish will no longer host the Boy Scouts. He offers a lengthy explanation. Here is an excerpt:

Through no fault of their own, through the breakdown of families, through the failures of society at large young people can find themselves struggling with same-sex attraction. The question is, what is the best way to help them? How do we offer hope and healing?

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DANIEL S. writes:

I suppose it comes as little surprise that the Swedish police stood back and allowed hordes of Muslim immigrants to roam the streets of Stockholm burning cars, buildings, and anything else they fancied. What does stand out is that the Swedish police issued parking tickets on the numerous burned out cars.

In a not so dissimilar vein, British authorities arrested at least three people for making anti-Muslim comments on Facebook and Twitter following the brutal murder of a British soldier by a pair of Nigerian Muslims. (more…)

IN the entry on the Boy Scouts’ recent decision to admit boys who are openly homosexual, Bartholomew says I am wrong to condemn the decision. He writes:

Including youth as “homosexuals” and excluding youth as “homosexuals” sends them the same message — that they are, in fact, “homosexuals.” The only difference is that the Includers think the Scouts should celebrate “homosexuals,” while the Excluders think the Scouts should quarantine them. Either way, Includers and Excluders agree that a) there is a specific kind of youth called a “homosexual” and b) these youthful “homosexuals” should be treated differently (Includers preferentially, Excluders discriminatorily) than normal youths. (more…)

  IN a video posted at Gates of Vienna, David Wood replies to David Cameron's statement last week that the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby was a "betrayal of Islam."

DON VINCENZO writes:

Paul Tudor Jones, a hedge-fund billionaire, apologized on Friday for recent comments he made during a question-and-answer session at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. Jones was so insensitive as to inform his audience that based on his wide experience over decades, women and men are not equally successful in finance for one major reason: once a woman bears a child, she can never be as “focused” as earlier and thus can never be as successful. “And I’ve just seen it happen over and over.” (more…)

ESTIMATES vary dramatically as to the number of people who demonstrated against the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in Paris on Sunday. They range from 150,000 to one million. Judging from the photos and videos posted at Galliawatch, the number is at least several hundred thousand.

The New York Times accepts the smaller figure and describes the demonstrators as religious conservatives. In fact, many of those drawn to the Manif Pour Tous events are not religious. Galliawatch reports that Frigide Barjot has quit the organization. A major French newspaper’s declared the rally a success and stated that France has split in two.

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  I HAVE been away from my desk for two days, attending a family reunion. I plan to post comments that came in during that time shortly. I hope you and your families are having a pleasant holiday and join with you in honoring those who have died in military service to this country.

THERE is a good side to the decision by the Boy Scouts of America to make a dramatic break with its tradition. It has already inspired many parents to cut their ties with the national group and start to form new organizations. Taylor Marshall proposes a Catholic version of the Boy Scouts. He calls it the Scouts of St. George. He offers a seven-point manifesto here. Marshall proposes that the group not register as a non-profit and accept no government oversight at all.

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FROM the Telegraph:

The Deputy Prime Minister [Nick Clegg] paid tribute for [sic] Muslim groups for responding to the brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich on Wednesday with a call for “unity and calm”.

Mr Clegg said: “Over the last few days London has shown itself at its best: an unbreakable city once again refusing to bow to hatred and violence. Of all the groups and faiths represented here today, I would like to pay special tribute to London’s Muslim community. (more…)

YOU’VE got to appreciate the mendacious consistency of the press. This caption is from the Financial Times:

Policemen extinguish burning cars after youths rioted in Husby, Sweden, on May 20, 2013. Youths in the immigrant-heavy Stockholm suburb torched cars and threw rocks at police, in riots believed to be linked to the deadly police shooting of a local resident. (more…)

BILL R. writes:

I could not ask for better confirmation than this about who does and doesn’t condemn these acts or call them a “betrayal” of Islam. An Islamic cleric who taught Michael Adebolajo, the Woolwich attacker, and was banished from Britain in 2005 has praised him in an interview for “standing firm, courageous, brave.” This is what you actually get out of Islam in response to attacks like this if you get anything at all. So much for Adebolajo’s “betrayal” of Islam. (more…)

DON’T miss Tiberge’s post on Dominique Venner’s suicide at Notre Dame. Venner is being portrayed as a traditionalist Catholic by some in the press, but he was in fact deeply hostile to Christianity. Tiberge quotes the French writer Yves Daoudal, who knew Venner:

I found him very unlikeable. And it isn’t because he was “pagan”, since I know pagans whom I like. Behind his paganism, there was, in truth, as one can see in his final message at his blog (before his suicide letter), but one can see it also in his manner of relating history, a total atheism, hence an absolute, hateful rejection of all that is religious. There was in him something satanic. That is how I perceived it. And his death confirms it. (more…)

THE leadership of the Boy Scouts of America decided today to admit openly homosexual scouts, bringing an end to the organization as a preserve of youthful masculinity. The decision by a majority vote among 1,400 scout leaders was not unexpected. The Scouts had lost major corporate sponsors and received relentless bad press. The Merck Foundation, Intel and UPS had all withdrawn major grants because the Scouts would not approve of homosexuality in its ranks; it was likely finances figured into the decision. But then let’s not dismiss the rank submission of American men, and their disregard for childhood innocence, as major factors here. Hundreds of men voted, after thoughtful consideration, to encourage adolescents to define themselves as homosexuals in one of America’s most revered all-male institutions. Need we say more about the degradation of the American man’s sense of authority and protectiveness?

Stay tuned for articles about boy scouts who want to wear dresses, girls-who-want-to-be-boys scouts and boy scout parades that include make-up and earrings (it wouldn’t be fair otherwise.) Homosexual activists have vowed to continue to pressure the group until it accepts homosexual scout leaders. The best families will leave the organization, and years from now, when older men look back bitterly on how they were initiated into homosexuality in the scouts, the memory of the good that the organization once represented will be long forgotten and buried.

The Boy Scouts is no more, but there are still boys. There are still vast woods and lots of sticks with which to build fires. There are still plenty of good men who want to introduce boys to manhood. One doesn’t need a corporate-funded super-organization to take a pack of boys into the woods and learn about survival. It’s time to begin anew. As more and more American institutions collapse irrevocably, there is no time to weep.

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JAY from Goshen writes:

I’m surprised at you. You are just not getting it.

This London attack was an attack on Islam. That’s what really hurts.

Up is down.
Down is up.
Black is white.
White is black.
And the sun rotates around the earth.

Don’t you know that either?

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THE Woolwich jihadist, Michael Adebolajo, 28, became a serious Muslim when he was 15 years old, reports The Daily Mail. He is the son of Nigerian immigrants and, for thirteen years, he evinced all the makings of a future jihadist, reportedly alarming his family and friends. He became a self-appointed soldier for Islam and finally took his beliefs to their logical climax when he killed the British soldier Lee Rigby yesterday.

Such an act could have been prevented. But brilliant surveillance work that can distinguish the bad Muslims from the good Muslims will never work. All Muslims support jihadists in the sense that all support the prophet and the sacred texts that mandate brutal slaughter of infidels. There is only one sure way to prevent jihad in Britain, and that is to prohibit the practice of Islam — not radical Islam, but all Islam. Islam contains positive teachings and most Muslims are not murderers. But, as Bill Warner, of the Center for the Study of Political Islam, puts it, one cannot separate Islam’s political ideology and its promotion of violent conquest from its good moral teachings anymore than one can take yellow out of a rainbow and still have a rainbow.

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