May 24, 2013
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. Read More »
May 24, 2013
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. Read More »
May 24, 2013
At the socialist headquarters in Paris, demonstrators against same-sex marriage say they will never give up.
May 24, 2013
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. Read More »
May 23, 2013
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 The Merck Foundation, Intel and UPS had all withdrawn major grants because the Scouts would not approve of homosexuality in its ranks; it was likely finances figured into the decision.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.
May 23, 2013
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?
May 23, 2013
Lee Rigby, the 25-year-old soldier killed yesterday (The Daily Mail)
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.
Center for the Study of Political Islam
Center for the Study of Political Islam
May 23, 2013
Bhagwati with her parents, who are Ivy League professors
KIDIST P. ASRAT has an excellent post at Reclaiming Beauty on Anu Bhagwati, the feminist activist and former Marine who is in the news campaigning against the misogyny of the American military. The strange spectacle of a daughter of Indian immigrants lecturing the nation about the wholesale evil of historic military protocols has what is in many ways a very familiar background story. Here is a perfect symbol of multicultural America and its nihilistic elevation and worship of the alien other.
Bhagwati’s childhood was characterized by the typical Asian focus on educational success. Her parents, professors at Harvard and Columbia, had attained prominence not long after they came to America in the 1960s. Read More »
May 22, 2013
TWO machete-wielding black Muslims beheaded a man, believed to have been a British soldier, on a London street today and one of the men is apparently recorded on video with blood-soaked hands, saying, “You people will never be safe.”
David Cameron called the attack “truly shocking.” He is lying through his teeth. No one who knows the slightest thing about Islam would consider this attack shocking. Such beheadings were ordered by Mohammed himself. Here’s a news account in the Express. From the story:
A Whitehall source claimed the men were heard to shout ‘Allah Akbar’ as they attacked the victim in broad daylight.
The incident occurred near the headquarters of the Royal Artillery. Cameron is also quoted as saying:
“We have had these sort of attacks before in our country and we never buckled in the face of them.”
It’s true. The British government has never buckled before the obvious danger posed by Islam in Britain.
May 22, 2013
THE French organization Manif Pour Tous issued a statement this week on the occasion of the promulgation of the Taubira law legalizing same-sex “marriage.” It called on opponents of the law to attend this Sunday’s rally and vowed to continue until the law is repealed. From the remarkable statement:
Today the law is official. Has the last word been said? Must hope vanish? Is defeat definitive? No!
Our opposition movement, an immense groundswell, will not stop, for the simple reason that it is born of a profound, innate refusal of a law based on the lie that makes believe that a child could have two men or two women as parents.
Contrary to what has been said – another lie among many – this law concerns all Frenchmen because every human being, tomorrow, will be vulnerable to being deprived of a father or a mother.
Our movement is the profound expression of what a tremendous number of Frenchmen are feeling: the succession of generations, the future of humanity, can only be founded on a recognition of the reality of Man.
May 22, 2013
(AFP) Police cordon off Notre Dame
A translation of the suicide note of Dominique Venner, a French intellectual who opposed liberalism, can be found at Occam’s Razor. Venner shot himself before the altar of Notre Dame yesterday. At Chronicles, Srdja Trifkovic gives an account of the French man’s life in Dominique Venner, a French Samurai.
May 22, 2013
MICHAEL RUSKIN writes:
The item about Tbilisi’s priests and protesters caught my attention.
This is because my wife and I operate a bed-and-breakfast in New Zealand and are currently dealing with a complaint filed with the New Zealand Human Rights Commission. The reason is that we would not offer a lesbian couple a double bed, just single beds. Of course, in a world where millions are homeless and any bed would suffice, we have nevertheless transgressed most grievously against the holy caste.
May 21, 2013
Msgr. Joseph Manak, of Frydek Mistek in the Czech Republic
HOW MANY buffoons can the progressivist Catholic Church accommodate? Here’s one more at Tradition in Action.
May 21, 2013
DON VINCENZO writes:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York is a politician whose role in pushing through the legalization of homosexual marriage, including making knowingly false guarantees about the exemption of religious institutions from the law, is second to none. But it has not kept him from receiving the approval of the famously pandering prince of the Catholic Church, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York and Chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Read More »
May 21, 2013
Greer Garson in "Random Harvest"
ALAN writes:
One of the reasons why I enjoyed reading “View From The Right” was Lawrence Auster’s thoughtful discussions of motion pictures – specifically, what is right about classic motion pictures and what is wrong with modern motion pictures. On this theme, I offer the following thoughts:
Can any of your readers imagine today’s American motion picture industry saying: “We have the responsibility to see that what appears in our pictures is decent and moral – fit for the families of all the world. Decent entertainment continues to be the best entertainment.”
Of course the major studios are not going to say that. How could they, in light of the indescribable evil, ugliness, and depravity they choose to glorify in their motion pictures?
But they did say it in 1954: Eight motion picture studios pledged their continued support that year of the Motion Picture Production Code, which was not a form of “censorship” (as Modernists would have us believe) but a voluntary system of self-regulation. [ “Industry Heads Throw Weight Behind Code,” Motion Picture Herald, Feb. 20, 1954, pp. 12-13 ] Read More »
May 21, 2013
SAM writes:
Regarding your post on the rally in Tbilisi, I recently passed an incredibly pleasant six months in the Republic of Georgia. It’s the kind of place where pretty churches adorn every other street corner and every other hilltop. When a Georgian, regardless of age, passes or catches sight of one of these lovely places of worship, he stops to cross himself piously. Young women act sweet, dress stylishly but modestly, marry young, and dream of children. Young men marry as soon as they find a job (not easy) and the new family usually moves in with his parents. Divorce is rare. Laziness and alcoholism are their great national sins, and they admit it. Read More »
