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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FOUND here.

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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. (more…)

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.

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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.

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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. 

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MICHAEL RUSKIN writes: