Showing posts with label Charlie Hebdo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charlie Hebdo. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Je Suis Charlie : How the Charlie Hebdo attack changed France












AoSHQ: Morning Report 01.07.25


Monday, November 16, 2015

The Obama Administration is still pressing forward in taking Syrian refugees? Why?


Apparently the recent events in France have not diminished Barack Obama's still plans to import Syrian refugees to the United States.

That is how Progressives think...

I know the left wants to pretend that 9/11 was an aberration (or as they deem lately a bi-product of global warming) or that all our problems stem from ousting Saddam Hussein. If you are going to be intellectually honest, this problem would undoubtedly still be with us regardless of the decision to overthrow Hussein. I was not a fan of enhanced interrogation techniques, but does anyone really think that water boarding spurred this recent attack (or prompted Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or Jihad Johnny to start sawing off heads with butcher knives)? Hitchens also notes that the failed war of choice in Libya (the one Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama got us into) is contributing to the crisis Europe is facing.

I was offended by Peter Hitchens' piece about the Paris slaughter (there were far more offensive takes from the left out there, but I expected better from Hitchens). Not with his overall general advice (albeit generic and obvious), of course we do need to think and really look at what works and what does not in dealing with these terror threats. But there is so much fundamentally wrong with Hitchen's article, most importantly the advice (or lack of it) for dealing with killers such as the West faced last Friday. Hitchens is not currently of the left, but his thinking is muddled on this subject.

I absolutely reject the idea we abandon western civil liberties by detaining dangerous foreign attackers (rather we abandon western civil liberties by not defending ourselves). When did prisoners of war ever warrant trials?  The jihadis do have a master plan to break us--we should respond appropriately and defend outselves. There is nothing inherently shameful about Guantanamo, as a facility, other than the Obama's administration obsession with catch and release of captured Islamic Jihadis (and who's twisted faith and ideology dare not be named). Militant Islam is still part of Islam.
Je Suis Charlie Martel: Those who forget history are bound to repeat it...

Peter Hitchens rejects neoconservatism and Obama's Arab Spring (Hitchens' advice on be careful what you wish for is a sound one). Still, Islamofascism (as his late brother was apt to describe the forces we are combating) is not going away.


Actually, in the short term, Peter Hitchens nails the issue we need to guard against.
It is remarkably hard to defend yourself against an enemy whose language few of us speak, yet who speaks ours and can move freely in our world, and who is willing, even happy, to die at our hands – or his own – if he can kill us first.
I totally agree with that observation. So why would we (leaving Germany's Angela Merkel's societal suicidal tendencies aside) want to import millions of people from this region where there are better alternatives to help true refugees from where they are? That is why there is a backlash to taking in Syrian refugees. While we are at this point yet, we are at war that is in a way just as significant as the Cold War and WWII. It is a lack of measured response by the establishment that makes escalation of violence more likely.


Here is a country that has had no Islamic terror attacks, wonder why? 


Christopher Hitchens responds from the grave about Charlie Hebdo.

TOM: France At WarTERROR MANHUNT: French Authorities Seeking Accomplices of Islamic KillersPARIS ATTACK: Terrorist ‘Refugee’ Had Syrian Passport; Death Toll Now 129ISIS Claims Credit for Paris Slaughter; Death Toll 127 in Islamic Terror AttackPARIS JIHAD: Major Terrorist Attack

Wombat (as you can guess he has a lot of links of this subject today): JWF, Protein WisdomAmerican Thinker, Twitchy, Pam Geller, DaTechGuy, Don Surber, Joe For AmericaAmPowBlog, Jawa Report, This Aint Hell, Gateway Pundit, Lonely Conservative, Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn: The Leader of the Free World and his Universal ValuesCool Civilizational Death With Goes Viral and The Barbarians Are Already Inside and Their Are No Gates

EBL: ISIS claims American blood is best, So where's our safe space again?, and Paris France, Friday the 13th
Obama does have great timing...

Kevin Williamson: Unsentimental after Paris and Mugged by Reality
Andrew McCarthy: Radical Islam and immigration to France and the United States
Conservative Treehouse: Paris ISIS Attacks planned in Syria and launched form Belgium

Rush Limbaugh: Obama dismisses notions of US victory but comes to life when promoting bringing in Syrian Refugees, Hillary's smart diplomacy on display, all Democrats do is blame Bush, and Walid Phares explains Obama's strategy.

Instapundit: Obama not interested in winning (that only makes sense if he means the Charlie Sheen Form of #Winning), gay man named Milo frightened of mass Muslim migration, Democrats have no strategy for ISIS, and the Mid-Century roots of 6th Century problem

Lem's Levity: Obama is not interested in American Leadership or Winning

Spengler: Why France will do nothing (but how Israel managed to stop the Second Intifada without
torture)

Camp of the Saints: On Paris and The Lie As Our Form of Existence

Mark Steyn: Imagine, There's No Imagination Demographics don't lie, and Europe is doomed...

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Jihadis Come To Texas: Targeting Pam Geller and Draw Mohammed Contest. Update: ISIS connection?

Twitchy: Shots Fired and NYT reporter wonders why anyone would have such a contest
DaTechGuy: I share his view on this
Islamic Extremist Group Took Credit Just Before Attack
American Power Blog: Two suspects open fire, shot dead 
CNN picks up story
Lem's Place/Chicken Little: Don't Mess With Texas
Instapundit: Nick Gillespie: Never Give Into The Thug Veto and Stephen Green: The NYT is trying to blame Geller, not the terrorists…

Wombat: Two gunmen killed and Geller and Wilders unhurt
Memeorandum Thread

As InstapunditNoah RothmanAoSHQ, and Vodka Pundit note: There is an implication that Pam Geller had this coming.  The leftist and establishment media blaming Geller and the event organizers is complete and utter appeasement bullshit.
Instapundit: One does not simply "shoot up" a Texas art show and Kevin Williamson, What didn't happen next…
Free speech, no qualifiers
Drew at AoSHQ is right, spare us your throat clearing
Charlie Hebdo survivors say no comparison with Texas free speech (I get the distinction that Charlie Hebdo was anti religion in general and Pam Geller is anti Islam--to the extent Islam is not tolerant of dissent, but these remaining Charlie Hebdo survivors, while entitled to their opinion, are wrong.  There is a free speech element to both situations and Islamists who cannot tolerate such free speech.).  

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Shooting at free speech conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Update: Shooter killed…identified as 22 year old Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein

Instapundit: Danish Authorities say likely terror attack…We figured that out with shooting at free speech event! As an Instapundit reader dryly noted:  “Before the Danes get on their high horse let’s recall the many Viking atrocities.”
AoSHQ: The goal is destruction of free speech, followed by destruction of west…
Lem's Place
TOM: A woman's most important right

Update:
Instapundit: Another shooting in Copenhagen synagogue  1 2 dead. 6 5 wounded
American Power Blog: 2nd Terror Attack in Copenhagen and Obama mainstreaming Jew hatred at home
Legal Insurrection: Shooter killed by Danish authorities?
TOM: Jihad in Denmark
The shooter was a known suspect who then went off and did both attacks, killed by police (familiar M.O.)
AoSHQ: Shooter may have been inspired by Charlie Hebdo attacks
DaTechGuy: Time for Western Civilization to make a stand for itself
Mark Steyn: The war on free speech, day in, day out…
American Power Blog: Copenhagen Jihad Suspect Identified as 22-Year-Old Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein
Instapundit: Too many most wanted men and another case of known wolf terrorism

Friday, January 16, 2015

Bill Donahue and Pope Francis: Why draw a limit on free speech?

AoSHQ response to Bill Donahue and Pope Francis

I understand the opinion of not going out of your way to insult other religions. Donahue and Pope Francis went beyond that. Joking aside, why draw a limit on free speech? I agree with Ace it is not about hurt feelings (as Hugh Hewitt did in his interview with Donahue), it is about right and wrong.

As Noah Rothman notes:
When broadcasters effusively praise the bravery of the Charlie Hebdo journalists but refuse to show the work they are praising for fear of retribution from either extremists or attorneys; when the head of the Catholic Church can find some sensibleness in religious violence; when those who speak their minds are imprisoned for doing so, you know that Europe is on the verge of a new dark age.We support free speech because it is right to do so and part of that is tolerating speech we disagree with. There is a far greater good in doing so.    
Why is Islam above criticism? It is almost like the Charlie Hebdo attacks had nothing to do with Islam.

But apparently it is still okay for Muslims and Jimmy Carter to blame the Jews (there certainly has not been a lot of outcry about it). But as Mark Steyn notes that problem is taking care of itself… I recognize Jimmy Carter is not Catholic but he likes to think of himself as a Pope.

Other EBL Posts:
#JeSuisMissPiggy
The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam

Monday, January 12, 2015

Je suis le président Obama. Avez-vous me voir?

Rand Paul: Asset and Liability Rule 5


Kelley Paul, Rand Paul's Secret Weapon









Rule 5 and FMJRA

But Rand Paul does have one liability hurdle that may prove insurmountable…


A couple of issues over this recent statement by Ron: these attacks in France were the result of Algerians/Muslims who emigrated to France. While in a very broad sense France's past colonial territories, like Algeria, contributed to that immigration--this radicalization is a global phenomenon not limited to France.  France also had little involvement with the Shah (that was the British and then Americans who were involved in that). Plus, these were Sunni attacks, there was no Iranian or Shiite influence (at least as far as I have heard). 

I think Hyatt Boumediene (who fled to Syria) said she was radicalized by innocents being killed by American bombs in Iraq…but (beyond not being true) what does that have to do with Charlie Hebdo? One of the attackers pledged his allegiance to ISIS. In short, Ron Paul is mostly wrong. The French attacks really were over Western sensibilities over freedom of thought and expression. The statement from the attackers sums it up: "[Charlie Hebdo] had the freedom to use cartoons in their magazine, and we have the freedom to use bullets from our magazines. . ."

Could you imagine the field day the press would have if Rand Paul was the GOP nominee and Ron kept opening his mouth during the campaign? Rand would have a difficult enough time with all the crazy stuff Ron has said over the year.  


While Rand Paul the same as Ron Paul, a lot of people think the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.  Ron Paul's fiscal interests in a broad sense are sound, while I agree less involvement overseas is better, his view on complete pull out of overseas involvement would be very dangerous and would not make us safer.  Ron Paul's ties to racist groups and refusal to reject their contributions to his campaigns is not good.  But the biggest liability for Rand is Ron speaks in absolutes and cannot shut his mouth.  

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Anjem Choudary Rule 5


Choudary 2
Choudary 3 
TOM: Muslim Fanatic Anjem Choudary
EBL: No drivers licenses in Russia for transsexuals
Truth Revolt: Choudary: Muslims trying to teach West a lesson...
Ben Shapiro's interview with Anjem Choudary (Shapiro is right, when it comes to lunatics like Choudary, let them talk, don't talk over them).
Instapundit: Let's laugh at Islam
TOM: France Rallies, Boumediene flees to Syria
TOM: France and Terror
TOM: Why do they refer to the "Prophet Mohammed" and the New Exodus
Conrad Black: Defending the Christian West
Instapundit : Why didn't Obama go to Paris?… Our gutless surrenderIslam's tarnished brandSorry Charlieblasphemy for me but not for thee…and style matters
Mark Steyn: The fire rages
DaTechGuy: Islam's deadly problemRule 5 and FMJRA
AmPowBlog : The Federalist (stop pretending terrorism is not part of Islam)

Friday, January 9, 2015

"The Future Must Not Belong To Those Who Slander The Prophet of Islam"

#CharlieHebdo Terrorists in standoff with French police Update: Hostage takers killed by French forces


Twitchy has more.
CNN: Two tense standoffs underway in France
Holding hostages want to die as martyrs


And of course self promoting fool and tool Anjem Choudary calls says Islam is the future for us all and that President Obama a kafir (while I find Choudary annoying and offensive, provided he is peaceful it is his right to say what he wants, just like it is our right to respond to it and ridicule it).

EBL prior posts:
Defending free speech, human rights, and Western Civilization
Charlie Hebdo Matter Uncertain
Charlie Hebdo: The Heroes of Free Speech in France, RIP
Why is President of Egypt Al-Sisi's speech for internal reform of Islam being ignored? (this is the story that needs more attention in the wake of Charlie Hebdo attacks)
The future must on belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam (who said that)


Update:
French forces storm and kill Charlie Hebdo and Kosher Market terrorists/hostage takers RIP to the four hostages killed in Kosher market.
Instapundit: Live blog, more on al-Sisi speech and attack on free speech and Western Civilization...
TOM: Police kill Muslim fanatics
Wombat: Effel Tower goes black to mourn victims of this attack





Thursday, January 8, 2015

Defending free speech is defending Western Civilization and Human Rights

I don't agree with a lot of Charlie Hebdo's politics, and its cartoons tend to be over the top and offensive not only to Muslims, but Jews and Christians too. Jews and Christians shrug it off. Muslims, certainly these Islamist Terrorists, not so much. Like the Anchoress, I defend Charlie Hebdo's right to offend. We can not allow ourselves to self censor in fear of these radicals, we need to defeat them.  

So if Charlie Hebdo cartoons are not your taste, the Anchoress has a selection of classics:

Is Mohammed in hell?
I hope not. I wouldn’t wish damnation on anyone, and with God all things are possible. Even the perpetrators of yesterday’s slaughter are capable of being forgiven when, God willing, they are swiftly found and just as swiftly sent on their way to the afterlife.
But as we face this endless war–and it is a war, with every computer and newspaper and city a battleground–we must not yield to intimidation and threats.
And for now, that we means we must offend.
The New Yorker did a good commentary too: Who to blame for the Charlie Hebdo attacks:
But the murders in Paris were so specific and so brazen as to make their meaning quite clear. The cartoonists died for an idea. The killers are soldiers in a war against freedom of thought and speech, against tolerance, pluralism, and the right to offend—against everything decent in a democratic society. So we must all try to be Charlie, not just today but every day.
Folks on the left love to bring up how in the West the Catholic Church tried to suppress thought and free speech.  Most of their examples go back to hundreds of years, but we got beyond that with the Enlightenment. Our Constitution is a reflection of the concept that people have the natural and unalienable right to think and say what they want. You are not free unless you can say and think what you want. To those on the left who want to engage in relativism on Islamic violence, you have completely missed the point. I do not care what Muslims think. They are free to practice their faith, provided it does not interfere with me. You deal with attacks like this by responding back with appropriate and directed force to destroy those who would destroy us.

Mark Steyn/Hot Air: Charlie Hebdo was a target due to Media cowardice


Mark Steyn: The Fire Rages and I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees
TOM: Muslim Fanatic Anjem Choudary defends attacks on Charlie Hebdo
Instapundit: Christopher Hitchens on today's Paris massacre
Instapundit: Show some backbone (people on the front lines in the middle east are doing so)
AoSHQ: For shame Bill Donahue
Lem's Place/Chip Ahoy: Je suis Charlie
AmPowBlog: First photos of Charlie Hebdo

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Charlie Hebdo: One Suspect Dead, Two In Custody? Update: Definitely Uncertain?

Charlie Hebdo: Stéphane "Charb" Charbonnierand and the heroes of free speech in France RIP


Instapundit: Vox posts Charlie Hedbo Covers
Instapundit: Christopher Hitchens on today's Paris massacre
Regular Right Guy