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IS attacks at Brussels airport, metro, at least 34 dead, 200 injured
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Are We Ready for Reality after the Brussels Terror Attacks?
h/t Instapundit
Are progressives going to murder our children with their political correctness?

Brutal as that sounds, that's a serious question we must all be asking ourselves after the terror attacks in Brussels. Everyone knows such events could easily happen here (where our population dwarfs Belgium's and therefore opens us to a far greater catastrophe numerically) and yet our progressive and liberal friends -- even and especially the moral narcissists running for the Democratic presidential nomination -- refuse to name radical Islam as the perpetrator of the attacks.

Let alone Islam itself, the true culprit.

...We live in a culture where someone threw a punch at a Donald Trump rally -- not remotely the mayhem at your average British soccer match -- and our media goes into a dither. Then they warn us about Islamophobia -- a junk term, if there ever was one -- in the wake of mass murder in the name of Allah.

Something wrong? Of course. Something is very wrong. Western civilization is on a suicide run and we all get to watch.

Well, I suggest we stop watching and do something about it.

First of all, that requires facing reality. As I mentioned, it's not radical Islam but Islam itself that is the problem. Throughout the world, young Muslim children are being taught from holy books to separate humanity between Dar al Islam (the House of Islam) and Dar al Harb (the House of War). That indoctrination seems to have worked. Those of us in the West apparently do live in Dar al Harb, as recent events demonstrate too clearly.

...Does that sound racist? Well, fine. I assure it is nowhere near as racist as anything you would find in the Koran. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of seeing innocent people murdered in Allah's name.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/22/2016 16:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ooops
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/22/2016 17:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Precisely, g(r)omgoru. Moved to where it belongs.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/22/2016 18:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Thanks.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/22/2016 18:55 Comments || Top||

#4  I swear to Gog and Magog a leftist would say we must have open borders as a Muslim started to draw the knife across their throat.
Posted by: Chaith Oppressor of the Lutherans1517 || 03/22/2016 19:02 Comments || Top||

#5  To paraphrase the question is:
"Can humanity tolerate Islam and remain civilized?"

Posted by: 3dc || 03/22/2016 19:27 Comments || Top||

#6  I will acknowledge that only a minority of Muslims are the cause of the problem, but I can't tell who they are: the not-bad ones MUST make it VERY clear or become collateral damage. NOW.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/22/2016 19:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Camouflage is passive and neutral Glen.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/22/2016 20:06 Comments || Top||

#8  In that case, kill 'em all and let Allan sort 'em out.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/22/2016 21:34 Comments || Top||

#9  What has Islam learned - thus far, as feared it is the US-West that has seemingly been doing all the compromisin'-n-concedin', etc.???

The Demoleft + aligned Special interests have no qualms letting in Jihadists + Cartellinos, etal. as long as it the outcome is the so-called "BIG[GEST] GOVT." + RELATED OR ASSOCIATED DEFICIT SPENDING, WELFARE-NANNY SUPERSTATE, ETC.

At the rate the Secular Lefties are going, OWG Amerika will be a Muslim or Islamic State long before Sharia Law is even officially adopted.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/22/2016 23:27 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
The Quds and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Benghazi connection
[Wash Times] In the aftermath of the 2012 Benghazi attack that killed four Americans, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn tasked the intelligence community for information on Iran’s involvement in the attack.

Until now, government officials have refused to acknowledge any Iranian involvement in Benghazi. But the Flynn memo indicates that at least some in the U.S. intelligence community suspected Tehran from the very beginning.

A top secret Sept. 21 memo responding to the director’s inquiry and disclosed as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request from the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch includes fragmentary information on al Qaeda affiliates. But its conclusions regarding Iran’s notorious Quds Force, a deadly hybrid of intelligence and special operations, have been totally redacted.

Now retired, Gen. Flynn told The Washington Times that, for classification reasons, he could not discuss the memo’s redacted contents or talk about his four hours of secret testimony for the House Special Benghazi committee. He did note, however, that a recently declassified trove of letters from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden reveal that Shiite Iran was willing to help Sunni militants if the common foe was the United States.

The U.S. military has crossed swords with Iran’s Quds Force in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen where the Quds Force used a similar tactic to what sources believe they use in Benghazi: infiltrating a paramilitary operations team into a hostile environment under cover of humanitarian aide workers for the Red Crescent Society, the Muslim equivalent of the Red Cross.

A Red Crescent team from Iran arrived in Benghazi, Libya on July 30, 2012, ostensibly to provide humanitarian aide to the post-Gadhafi revolutionary regime. The secret CIA Annex operating in Benghazi had been tipped off and dispatched local "watchers" to track their movements, according to Dylan Davies, a British security contractor in charge of the local guards protecting the Benghazi facility.

"Everyone knew the Iranians were in Benghazi," former CIA security officer Kris "Tanto" Paranto said in an interview. "Especially once the Red Cross [Red Crescent] team from Iran was ‘kidnapped’ by Ansar al-Shariah, we knew about them and were tracking them."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Force used a similar tactic to what sources believe they use in Benghazi: infiltrating a paramilitary operations team into a hostile environment under cover of humanitarian aide workers for the Red Crescent Society, the Muslim equivalent of the Red Cross.

The polio vaccination cover works so much better. Keep up the good work General !

If the Iranian sanctions were just eased a bit, some sort of WMD 'deal' involving great sums of money, etc, etc, perhaps no one on their side will say anything about the Benghazi Quds Force involvement.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/22/2016 4:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Always thought it could be the Persians behind this.

Either Takavar or Spetsnaz, although the Persians were much more 'invested' in FSA arms interdiction at the time and this article's information seems to say that they had the opportunity to be in the area.

Attack required a special skillset in small mortar deployment and usage, something AQI or 'Proto-ISIS' didn't have (at the time, anyway).
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/22/2016 10:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't look for deep laid, elaborate plots where the bestial nature of the locals will account.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/22/2016 10:17 Comments || Top||

#4  The preplanned targeting of the indirect fire on the CIA compound, with quick adjustments through a probable forward deployed FSO who made accurate call for fire adjustments suggests a level of crew training and target adjustment practice uncommon among the ragtag remnants of the locals in Benghazi. Conversely, such a skill set from an Al-Quds/Spetznaz force team would be expected. Add the new revelation about the timely Red Crescent team insertion with "supplies" and their strange "kidnapping" to provide plausible deniability, and poof, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/22/2016 14:35 Comments || Top||

#5  "Cut by Occam's Razor", eh Grom?

Attack required a special skillset in small mortar deployment and usage
No reason to believe their's was a short notice tactical response. I expect the static Embassy site (as many) was presurveyed, defense response locations identified and launch markers prepositioned.
Posted by: WarDoof || 03/22/2016 15:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Libya used to have an army, NMBS
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/22/2016 16:35 Comments || Top||


Gawker Owner Nick Denton Whines About The Hulk Hogan Verdict
The decision by a Florida jury to grant $140 million in damages for a story on Gawker.com about a Hulk Hogan sex tape was extraordinary. The number is far larger than even the plaintiff himself had asked for in relief. It’s a huge pay-day for an indiscretion that would have been quickly forgotten, one among many in the professional wrestler’s personal life.

The enormous size of the verdict is chilling to Gawker Media and other publishers with a tabloid streak, but it is also a flag to higher courts that this case went wildly off the rails. The plaintiff’s lawyers, with the occasional assist from our witnesses, successfully painted Gawker as representative of an untrammeled internet that good and decent people should find frightening and distasteful. Emotion was permitted to trump the law, and key evidence and witnesses were kept from the jury.

A state appeals court and a federal judge have already held repeatedly that the 2012 commentary and short video excerpt, which joined an existing conversation and explored the public’s fascination with celebrity sex tapes, were newsworthy. We have had our day in trial court, and we lost. We will have our day back in appeals court, and we will be vindicated.
Couldn't happen to a bigger scumbag nicer guy.
Posted by: Raj || 03/22/2016 17:40 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When you don't have the law, argue the facts. When you don't have the facts, argue the law. When you have neither, persecute the prosecutor.

Which is exactly what he just did. Flame Hogan and ignore his own perfidy. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving prick.
Posted by: Fester Thrimble9033 || 03/22/2016 18:42 Comments || Top||

#2  FT,

I heard it my law course as, if you have the law pound the law; if you have the facts pound the facts, if you have neither pound the table.

Denton is pounding that table for all he's worth.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/22/2016 20:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Fester Thrimble9033?
Wrestling "fan" or Denton paid-prick?

Posted by: Frank G || 03/22/2016 21:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Where is he going to get the bond money that must be posted in order to appeal?
Posted by: Mad Eye Angolurong5086 || 03/22/2016 22:39 Comments || Top||



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