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Showing posts with label Christopher Hitchens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christopher Hitchens. Show all posts
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Monday, August 15, 2022
Since Islamists are so intent on killing Salman Rushdie, maybe we should make this book a best seller...🤔¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Before you rush off to buy a book like the Satantic Verses, that you will probably not finish (because it is not very readable), you might consider Robert Spencer instead. How better to respond to violent radical Islam than to actually learn about it?
Has anyone considered that the attack on Salman Rushdie may have been motivated by climate change?
— Probably Mulder’s Intern’l House of Pandemicakes (@banishedprotein) August 15, 2022
Glad the FBI was all over it https://t.co/uX5ySIHcZ7
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 15, 2022
Monday, November 16, 2015
The Obama Administration is still pressing forward in taking Syrian refugees? Why?
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.
Where are the women, children and old people?
Here is a country that has had no Islamic terror attacks, wonder why?
In Denmark, Syrian refugees harassing women
Christopher Hitchens responds from the grave about Charlie Hebdo.
TOM: France At War, TERROR MANHUNT: French Authorities Seeking Accomplices of Islamic Killers, PARIS ATTACK: Terrorist ‘Refugee’ Had Syrian Passport; Death Toll Now 129, ISIS Claims Credit for Paris Slaughter; Death Toll 127 in Islamic Terror Attack, PARIS JIHAD: Major Terrorist Attack
Wombat (as you can guess he has a lot of links of this subject today): JWF, Protein Wisdom, American Thinker, Twitchy, Pam Geller, DaTechGuy, Don Surber, Joe For America, AmPowBlog, Jawa Report, This Aint Hell, Gateway Pundit, Lonely Conservative, Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn: The Leader of the Free World and his Universal Values, Cool 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...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Everyone Draw Mohammed Day!
Pam Geller: More events planned
Here is Bosch Fawstin's submission (without submission to Islam) for Draw Mohammed Day 2015
Here is Bosch Fawstin's submission (without submission to Islam) for Draw Mohammed Day 2015
I know it is supposed to be Alfred E. Newman/Mohammed but he looks like Mark Steyn
I don't agree with everything Christopher Hitchens has said, but he makes a very straight forward argument against Islam here:
When the most devout members of an ideology are monsters, the ideology is the problem, & its least devout members are irrelevant & impotent.
— Bosch Fawstin (@BoschFawstin) May 19, 2015
Instapundit: William Saletan at Slate may have the most idiotic article on ISIS you have ever read
and Ed Driscoll: Why does the left kowtow to Islam?
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Christopher Hitchens on free speech
Ann Althouse posted this today. It will get a rise out of some of her commentators, but it is a very good clip of Christopher Hitchens addressing the fundamentals of why free speech is so important. People do need to be prepared to defend their positions. And I have seen some abysmal comments in regards to free speech in the last week. I miss having Christopher Hitchens with us and can only imagine what his response would have been.
Happy Birthday U.S. Constitution.
And a few of the comments at Althouse are actually quite good:
I never thought I would see the day when my fellow liberals would allow a grifter politician and his filthy party to con them into flippantly denouncing the inalienable right of freedom of speech, protected by the First Amendment, as if it were some small and disagreeable thing that only political enemies worried about.
Absolutely shameful and disgusting.
Absolutely shameful and disgusting.
Dave said...
Nokoula B. Nokoula however did convince an untold number of people that America produced and allowed a film to be released denigrating Mohammed.....
So what? If even that were true and those people believed that America was the producer of such nonsensical garbage, then it would still be protected speech. It doesn't matter that content or context of the film, it is speech, it is was made by an American Democrat of Egyptian descent and he has the right to make it. Why is this a problem? The real problem you should be addressing is the absolutely chilling methodology by which Urkel set out his agents to bring this guy in for questioning. The fact that it happened in the middle of the night or that it occurred in front of camera for all of us to see doesn't bother you at all?
Nokoula B. Nokoula however did convince an untold number of people that America produced and allowed a film to be released denigrating Mohammed.....
So what? If even that were true and those people believed that America was the producer of such nonsensical garbage, then it would still be protected speech. It doesn't matter that content or context of the film, it is speech, it is was made by an American Democrat of Egyptian descent and he has the right to make it. Why is this a problem? The real problem you should be addressing is the absolutely chilling methodology by which Urkel set out his agents to bring this guy in for questioning. The fact that it happened in the middle of the night or that it occurred in front of camera for all of us to see doesn't bother you at all?
It would be better if our country went up in flames than for us to cede our responsibility of protecting the natural right of humans to speak and create freely. The responsibility for the effects of speech is borne by the speaker, but the responsibility of protecting the rights of that speaker is borne by all of us.
We deny this at our mortal peril.
We deny this at our mortal peril.
Please note, my use of "fellow liberals" was melancholic sarcasm. No one who ever properly understood and accepted Enlightenment-rooted liberalism would put themselves in the shameful company of the false-flag operation known as contemporary "liberalism". True liberals understand the gravity of this no matter what their political predilections.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
A wonderful commentary on Christopher Hitchens...
Father Barron discusses Christopher Hitchens
H/T to Michael Potemra and K-Lo at the Corner
I will miss Christopher Hitchens.
Update: How not to be an atheist activist. The amazing thing about Christopher is most believers (of the religious bent) did not hate him for his atheism activism, and in fact, many loved him and were big fans. Ironically it is the left that seemed to have more problems with Hitchens because they thought he betrayed their religious dogma.
Update II: Great comments by VDH
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Goodbye Christopher Hitchens
I want to express profound regret for the passing of Christopher Hitchens, while respecting his personal views. This is a great quote that works for all. I borrow it from Robert Duvall’s character in Broken Trail:
We’re all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth ’til death. We travel between the eternities.
Goodbye Christopher. We are all travelers on the same trail. And in the end, we will be remembered not for what we believe but what we did on the journey.
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