?
| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: WoT |
| Caroline Glick: America’s pathological denial of reality |
| 2015-12-04 |
| How much lower will America sink before it regains its senses? Wednesday, two Muslims walked into a Christmas party at a community service center in San Bernardino, California where one worked. They were wearing body armor and video cameras and carrying automatic rifles, pipe bombs and pistols. They opened fire, killed 14, and wounded 17. The murderers, Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik were killed by police. Speaking to the Daily News, Farook’s father said his son, “was very religious. He would go to work, come back, go to pray, come back. He’s Muslim.” Farook’s neighbor told the paper that over the past two years, Farook exchanged his Western dress for Islamic gowns and grew a beard. These data points lead naturally to the conclusion that Farook and his wife were jihadists who killed in order to kill in the name of Islam. But in America of December 2015, natural conclusions are considered irresponsible, at best. In an interview with CNN following the shooting, US President Barack Obama said the massacre demonstrates that the US needs stricter gun laws. As for the motives of the shooters, Obama shrugged. “We don’t yet know the motives of the shooters,” he insisted. In other words, while ignoring what in all likelihood drove Farooq and his wife to murder innocent people, Obama laid responsibility for the carnage at the feet of his political opponents who reject his demands for stricter limitations on gun ownership. Here is the place to note that California has some of the most stringent gun control laws in the US. According to the victims, Farook and his partners were able to reload their weapons and shoot without interruption for several minutes until the police arrived because there was no one to stop them. Obama wasn’t alone in deflecting attention away from the likely motivations of the murderers. Wednesday evening, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), held a press conference at the Islamic Center of Orange County. Farook’s brother in law, Farhan Khan was carted out before the cameras to tell the world that he for one had no idea why his brother in law opened fire. Two other speakers at the event were Hussam Auyloush, CAIR’s regional executive director and Muzammil Siddiqi, the director of the Islamic Society of Orange County. Auyloush insisted that he had no idea would could have possibly prompted Farook and his wife to murder those gathered at the center. Auyloush raised the prospect that they could have been mentally ill, or perhaps they just didn’t like the victims, or maybe they were garden-variety extremists. For his part, Siddiqi insisted that Islam had nothing to do with the shooters’ decision to murder innocent people, (how he could be so certain, is unknown). Siddiqi added that he hopes law enforcement bodies will conduct a full investigation into the “people and motives,” behind the attack. To a degree, the very fact that Siddiqi had no compunction about stepping in front of the cameras just hours after the attack is proof that the US has lost its way. More at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #5 Gríma Wormtongue From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Wormtongue" redirects here. For the Icelandic poet, see Gunnlaugr Ormstunga. Gríma Tolkien's legendarium character Aliases Wormtongue, Worm Race Men Book(s) The Two Towers (1954) The Return of the King (1955) Unfinished Tales (1980) Portal icon Middle-earth portal Gríma, called (the) Wormtongue, is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. He appears in the second and third volumes of the work, The Two Towers and The Return of the King, and his role is expanded upon in Unfinished Tales. He is introduced in The Two Towers as the chief advisor to King Théoden of Rohan and henchman of Saruman. Gríma serves as an archetypal sycophant, flatterer, liar, and manipulator. The name Gríma derives from the Old English or Icelandic word meaning "mask", "helmet" or "spectre".[1][2] It is also possible to link the name to the English word "grim", which among other characteristics means "ugly"[3] in Old English. Rantburg is educational as well as enlightening. Pardon my ignorance. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2015-12-04 08:35 |
| #4 First remove the Wormtongues who betray the men of the West. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-12-04 07:35 |
| #3 How much lower will America sink before it regains its senses? Is that a rhetorical question? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-12-04 04:08 |
| #2 Islam in the US == ? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2015-12-04 01:23 |
| #1 the very fact that Siddiqi had no compunction about stepping in front of the cameras just hours after the attack is proof that the US has lost its way What's Arabic for 'chutzpah'? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-12-04 00:52 |