Wednesday • April 2 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XIV
Manchester, N.H.
I keep hoping that the purported peace-loving moderate Muslims are indeed the great majority who would prove me right by demonstrating their peacefulness and moderation in action. Thus far, only a faint murmur of equivocation is all that I hear from these people.
Originally published March 2011
“I am already against the next war,” read the bumper sticker on a car ahead of me. I long to tell the driver: the next war is already here; Islamists are waging it in every corner of the globe, and the “moderate Muslims” are either actively supporting them, placing the blame on the West, or simply looking the other way. This war aims to wipe out everything that free people cherish, including the right of expressing their sentiments. Banishing war has been the perennial dream of mankind’s best, while its worst has been frustrating its realization. To renounce war unilaterally and unconditionally is surrender and death.
Humanity has suffered horrific wars in the past. Yet, the present multi-form and multi-front war waged by Islamists has the potential of inflicting more suffering and destroying more lives than any before it. Ruthless Islamic forces are advancing rapidly in their conquests while those of freedom are acquiescing and retreating. Before long, Islamism is poised to achieve its Allah-mandated goal of cleansing the earth of all non-Muslims. Any and all means and weapons are to be enlisted in the service of this final holy war that aims to establish the Islamic Ummah.
But Islam is a religion of peace and the great majority of Muslims are not a party to any plans and actions of the radicals, so claim academic pundits, leftist journalists, and hired Islamic apologists. The incantation of these “authorities” is the lullaby that puts the people into a sleep of complacency. For an average free human busy with all manners of demands on his time and resources, would hardly want to worry about the threat of Islamism when those he believes are “in the know” emphatically claim that there is nothing to worry about. Some of these advocates of Islam go further by accusing those who sound the alarm as racists, bigots, hatemongers, and much more.
But where are all the peace-loving moderate Muslims that supposedly are in the great majority? The Muslims who are neither jihadists themselves, nor do they support them? I and others, time and again, have been calling upon them to stand up and show the world that they oppose the fanatical Islamists. It is small comfort even if the vast majority of Muslims are not fanatic radicals when they do nothing to demonstrate their position. It is instructive to recall that it is invariably a minority, and more often than not a very small minority, that launches a campaign of death and destruction.
Perhaps it is wishful thinking on the part of the non-Muslims to believe that one can be a Muslim moderate, given that Islam is radical at its very core. To be moderate Muslim demands that the person explicitly renounce much of the violent, exclusionary, and radical teachings of the Quran. By so doing, the individual who issues his own death warrant in Islamic countries is condemned as apostate if he lives in a non-Islamic land and may even earn a fatwa on his head.
It is deadly, in any confrontation, to assess the adversary through one’s own mental template, because the two templates can be vastly different from each other. People in the West are accustomed to relativistic rather than absolutistic thinking. To Westerners, just about all matters range from black to white with an array of gray shades between the two poles. To Muslims, by contrast, nearly everything is in black and white and with virtually no shades of gray. The former type of thinking is typical of more mature minds, while the latter is that of young children and the less enlightened.
This absolutist thinking is enshrined in the Quran itself. When the starting point for a Muslim is the explicit fanatical words of Allah in the Quran, then the faithful are left with no choice other than literally obeying its dictates or even taking it to the next level of fanaticism. Good Muslims, for instance, do not shake hands with women, even though the Quran does not explicitly forbid it. Although the Quran stipulates that men are rulers over women, good Muslim men take it upon themselves to rule women not much better than they treat their domesticated animals.
All extreme systems operate outside of the constraints of checks and balances and according to the principle of a negative feedback loop. That is, once it starts, the extreme becomes more and more extreme until self-destructs and takes the larger system down with it. Cancer is a case in point. It begins with only a few cells. Left unchecked, the few cells continue expanding and stop only with the death of the host.
Fanatical Islam may indeed be a minority. Yet it is deadly cancer that has metastasized throughout the body of the world. Urgent confrontation of this advancing disease is imperative to stave it off.
Dozens of Islamist shooting wars of lesser and greater bloodletting are presently raging in the world, aided and abetted by the “moderate Muslim” majority. The so-called moderate Muslims, even if they exist, are complicit in the crimes of the radicals either by providing them with funds, logistics, and new recruits or by simply failing to actively confront and unequivocally renounce them.
As is the case with cancer cells, it is the malignant minority that is death-bearing.
In Germany in the 1930s, for instance, very few people were Nazis and most Germans dismissed them as a bunch of hot-headed fools. Before long, the hot-headed few cowed in the dismissive masses and as a result, millions lost their lives.
The tentacles of the Islamist hydra have deeply penetrated the world. The Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood poses a clear threat in Egypt with its large block of representatives in the parliament, but also wages its deadly campaign through its hundreds of well-established and functioning branches all over the world.
The Wahhabis finance thousands of madrassahs throughout the world where young boys are brainwashed into becoming fanatical foot soldiers for the Petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the Persian Gulf.
The end-of-the-world believers of the bomb-aspiring Iran’s Khomeinism are busy establishing the Shia hegemony in an arc extending from the Gulf of Oman to the Mediterranean Sea.
Al Qaeda and dozens of its like-minded jihadists relentlessly carry their barbaric campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, the Philippines, the former Soviet Union republics, the Russian Federation, Somalia, North Africa, and parts of Europe, as well as other lands.
I keep hoping that the purported peace-loving moderate Muslims are indeed the great majority who would prove me right by demonstrating their peacefulness and moderation in action. Thus far, only a faint murmur of equivocation is all that I hear from these people.
Are “moderate Muslims” an illusion? The only viable alternative for peaceful people of Islamic background, therefore, is to leave the bondage of violent Islam altogether and join ranks with humanity’s free.
The selected puppet president Ahmadinejad boasts that Iran’s mullahs’ nuclear train has no reverse gear and lacks brakes. He should harbor no illusions. The non-Islamist masses of Iranians will not docilely submit to the mullahs’ maniacal plans. It is the unmatched force of freedom that has no reverse gear and it is the force fully capable and determined to bring the mullahs’ train to a screeching halt before it is armed with the Armageddon nuclear weapons they so doggedly pursue.
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing. Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow. Last week’s Overflow.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin. Still somewhat pressed for time but a full post today.
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Reap the Whirlwind
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He seems nice.
Not.
Remember, these are the same ilk who said:
And who now say things like this:
“Cristcucks”. Dehumanization of the enemy. You think you can coexist with these people? Make plans. They are.
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I know nothing more worthy of a man’s ambition than that his son be the best of men.
Plato
Interesting timing. My son is studying martial arts, in the same art where I got up to my brown belt before I wrecked my knees. He asked “What happens if I get to black belt – will you be mad that I passed you”? I told him no. A sign of a great parent is that they hope their children exceed them.
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Yeah, we’ll get them in 2024. Uh huh.
TINVOWOOT.
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Pick of the post:
Excellent point. And it brings back this classic question:
I simply do not grasp how my fellow Jews fall onto the gun-control side of this. But JPFO does have an interesting take on that, and it rings true:
The Shtetl Mentality (jpfo.org)
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Palate Cleansers:
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Well, last week I said, “this is going to be a slog – slow and steady for both of us”. Well, for me, yeah, for sure – slow and steady. But Tom, as you can see below, had a great week compared to the earlier three. If he keeps this up, I’m in trouble. After all, it’s the old 80/20 Rule for me (or so it seems). Eighty percent to get done only needs 20% of the effort. It’s that last 20% that takes that 80% of the effort, blood, sweat, and in this case, hunger. My “2nd” easy weight, I think, is now gone. Tom, however, seems to be getting on a roll!
I’ve had a mantra for years: “everything in moderation including moderation”. Unfortunately for me, and great for Tom, is that after a long absence, I had an urge for a chili dog. Hey, what can just one chili dog do, right (think the old Pringles’ jingle)? Kayem Ballpark hot dog (very mild), diced Vidalia onion, a thin line of French’s mustard, and a great hot do roll. Toast the bun with a slight schmear of butter on each side, medium grilling, and pan fry the hot dog until it gets a really crispy brownish skin on it. And D.L. Jardine’s Texas Chili mix
(“Try one teaspoon [red pepper] for chili that is ‘hotter than a two dollar pistol on Saturday night. If you want your Texas Chili even hotter, keep pouring and may the good Lord help you. Watch for the smoke and fallout”)
Yeah, more than a couple this week. And I have 3 more bowls of chili in the freezer. Pray for me that I can overcome this temptation (the recipe for the chile need two pounds of hamburg so there’s too much sitting there, just chortling at me. When Tom reads this, he’s going to laugh at me!
this is going to be a slog – slow and steady for both of us
sadf
asdf
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The history of Democrats violating campaign finance laws is long and heady and includes paying off women to keep quiet about illicit liaisons. Trump’s problem is that he is not a Democrat, so requesting the charges be dismissed will be on the table Tuesday for his arrest and arraignment.
But imagine if all he had to do was to say he was switching parties. Democrats rarely get more than a fine for illegal electioneering or campaign finance indiscretions. And while whatever they’ve charged Trump with may be too old to be actionable (he didn’t spend millions on a fake dossier to undermine a candidate or a presidency illegally), if he was on Team Blue, you have to wonder. Would dismissal be a foregone conclusion?
Is it anyway?
Democrats hold so much anger and resentment that there is little The Donald could do to please them except perhaps kill himself. And while setting him up for a perp walk in Manhattan reeks of opportunity for would-be assassins, he’ll have secret service protection (assuming we can still trust them to do their jobs, which we can’t). Will the Judge make this go away on day one, or did they (the left) get the Judge they wanted?
A book deal, cable news show, or is it – we’ll kill your family if you don’t do what we say, or maybe, here’s a beautiful Dacaha in Ukraine for after the war. Comrade Volinskyy says he will perform some comedy for your entertainment.
Is any of that beyond the pale at this point?
We are witnessing another full-on political persecution with the blessing of the folks tasked with ensuring justice in an increasingly two-tiered system.
Theirs and yours. It’s sad but also embarrassing, which got me thinking. Given how ridiculous this is, I wondered what the sealed Alvin Bragg indictment looks like.
Something a toddler crafted on manilla construction paper with oversized crayons.
Or maybe a blank piece of paper Bragg can fill in as his mood suits.
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When colleges and universities start offering courses like this, it isn’t about academic rigor, the striving for newer (and useful) knowledge. This is pandering in a pale (and useless) effort under the rubric of “transforming the world.”
Sorry, this is just out-and-out lame for the weak-minded that can’t do the math. Organic Chemistry would be like climbing Mt. Everest backwards for these underachievers that still want a “degree.”
You know what? These are the types of skulls full of nothing (quoting Rush with “skulls full of mush” would be too kind) wanting a diploma that Mom and Dad’s money is making a diploma worthless (emphasis mine)
University of Maryland Now Offering Minor in ‘Protest Art’
“Students in this interdisciplinary minor learn how artists and designers can play a vital role in advancing public dialogue”Students can now minor in “Creative Placemaking” starting this next semester at the University of Maryland.
“Students in this interdisciplinary minor learn how artists and designers can play a vital role in advancing public dialogue,” and will “[explore] our shared humanity and [while] addressing some of our major challenges,” according to the art department’s website. The new minor will help enrollees spark “conversations about racial injustice, inequitable development, climate change or celebrating the diverse communities and cultures around us.”
Starting to sound like a theological school of Woke to me. Swap out the Bible (heck, many Protestant mainline denominations have already done that), change the traditional sacraments and rituals, come up with new “hymnals” for protesting choirs, and there you go. The way it’s going, I would not be surprised to see a M.S. | Ph.D in Woke Divinity (where divinity is now redefined that WE are the god we worship anew) coming out of this.
To ask the question is to know the answer: and can you determine which Bible will be in use? “Traditional Values” or the “Progressive Obama Transformation of America” one?
Think Constitutional Conservatives would be welcome in the pews of this Church?
…“Coined by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2010, ‘creative placemaking’ is the collaboration of artists and designers with local residents and stakeholders to address community challenges and opportunities,” the media team wrote in its email. “Navigating the process with students allows them to practice the essential relationship-building, dialogue and collaborative decision-making involved in addressing a community’s needs and aspirations.”
Students in the program “will learn how to employ techniques like mural design, storytelling, pop-up installations, public events and performance to advance a community’s vision and nurture vibrant place” and “will engage in place-based art and design projects in partnership with local organizations, knowledge keepers, and artists in select areas of Maryland, including the Purple Line Corridor.”
No, someone like me (lack of artistic capability aside) would never be welcome there. In fact, I would be labeled a heathen, a heretic, or someone to be burnt at the stake immediately. But I will say, keeping in mind the words of Andrew Breitbart, “politics is downstream of culture,” that the Right had better come up with a better offering as this is just yet another effort by the Left to solidify its grasp on the Culture that now surrounds us.
The phrase used to be “The dumbing down of America.” This is the next illogical step: consider this part of the “Un-education of America”. Afterall,
(H/T: Legal Insurrection)
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The Truth Ministers at the Comrade Broadcasting System (CBS) have issued a media fatwa. Thou shalt not use the word ‘transgender’ when reporting on the carbon-based life form that shuffled off the mortal coils of six (including three children) at a Christian School.
Call Aiden (Audrey) Hale what you like, just not transgender. It makes no difference that Audrey was proud to be trans or that this may be relevant to the shooting (as in, it’s one of those hate crime things).
Hale left behind a “manifesto” and had studied the school and its entrance points, according to police. Hale was getting treatment for an unspecified “emotional disorder,” said Metro Police Chief John Drake. The shooter’s parents thought Hale had recently sold his only gun, but Hale had in fact legally purchased seven firearms from five different local gun shops, Drake said.
Was Hale a bit unhinged? Is this where the red flag folks say, “see, protective orders!”? Except that the same lot would probably call it a hate crime to request one on a guy who thinks he’s a woman. Discrimination! Bigot!
I’m not sure if CBS has any thoughts on that, but according to the NY Post, staffers had unhappy thoughts about the Fatwa passed down by their Media Mullahs.
“This is absurd because the police identified Hale as transgender,” a CBS insider said. “If the cops didn’t address it, maybe you could avoid it, but withholding information is not journalism.” …
The Tuesday call with the CBS News execs left the network’s roughly 150 staffers stunned into awkward silence, according to a source who was on the call.
The source noted that the two CBS News execs appeared to be “twisting themselves in knots” by censoring the reporting over their own “liberal bias,” which is ultimately a “disservice” to the network’s audience.
Well, that opens up some possibilities.
Don’t get me wrong. I like the idea that there are staffers barfed out of progressive modern J Schools inside CBS that think omitting “Transgender” from the reporting on “Audrey’s” mass murder is unethical. I don’t buy it.
There’s also this unpleasant fact. Transgenders and their political and media advocates get winded complaining about how the trans community needs to be accepted by the culture. Disregarding that we are talking about people incapable of accepting themselves for who they are, where’s the pride? These brave trendsetting glass-ceiling breakers get a special mention until one of them shoots up a Christian School. Then they are just a shooter.
Does anyone recall the attempted mass shooting by Floyd Corkins II?
And – most importantly – do they plan to apply this new policy to adjectives that would have described other shooters or just those that might lean left politically?
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After finding out that the Raymond school district was tracking children with digital badges, it appears as if they are going to go forward with this PBIS program. This time it looks like they will at least follow the law. They’ve been using the digital badges for a while now, but the administrators did not follow state regulations on digital tracking devices. You can read more about that here.
As I reported, this is government surveillance that includes the sharing of personal information with a 3rd party vendor.
There are no real privacy protections in place to secure the data because in December 2011, the U.S. Department of Education changed the regulations governing the release of student data to the private sector. President Obama did this without Congressional authorization.
Ed Tech vendors have profited since then by keeping parents in the dark when they mine their child’s data. Administrators have been too lazy or unwilling to protect the privacy of your children too. School administrators could be notifying parents about the potential to data-mine your child’s personal information without a law in place. Prior to 2011, school officials would have had to notify and receive consent by parents and guardians in order to use these kinds of software programs in the school.
All of this data mining by vendors and other outside sources, violate the The New Hampshire Constitution:
An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent. It may take someone willing to sue the schools to settle this in court.
The privacy policies tech vendors use, do not protect your child’s data. Instead they exploit the loophole in the federal student privacy law (FERPA). If you read the privacy policies that are supposed to protect your child’s data, because they follow the FERPA law, you assume that the tech vendor protects the student’s privacy. But there are now exceptions to which schools and vendors can share your child’s personal data without your knowledge or consent. The privacy policies are not private.
New Hampshire law RSA 189:68-II requires school districts to do the following when using digital badges in schools:II. No school shall require a student to use an identification device that uses radio frequency identification, or similar technology, to identify the student, transmit information regarding the student, or monitor or track the student without approval of the school board, after a public hearing, and without the written consent of a parent of legal guardian of an affected student which may be withheld without consequence.
Why wouldn’t parents want this type of digital tracking devices on their children? There are many reasons including the data mining of information on their children by the tech vendor. In addition to their right to live free from government intrusion, this type of device grooms children into thinking that they should be monitored at all times.
Since this is a positive rewards system, I asked some teachers and school counselors what they thought of this approach to addressing behavior. Here are some of the problems they saw with it:
1) This can be demoralizing to many children, especially children with special needs
2) Contrary to what counselors believes helps children
3) This rewards behavior that they should already be doing
4) The screen shown in class includes their face and behavior points
5) Whoever has the right number of points gets the toy.
6) Violates the counselor ethics when children are demoralized
7) Data collected in the teacher’s cell phones
What should be provided to all school board members and parents?
The whole contract, and look at the encryption, and security protections to see if they match the individual district security requirements.
What about security breaches? Have there been any? Would parents be immediately notified?
Has data from the PBIS system been shared with Keene State BHII? If so, were parents notified and did they consent?
Are parents given the right to opt out of this project? Why or why not? Where are schools using the digital badges with PBIS? Which schools? Did they let parents know their kids can opt out? Were kids forced to wear the digital badges?
There will be a school board hearing on April 5th. This is when parents can object to this tracking device. Parents also have the ability to not consent.
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