[The Telegraph] Unfortunately, the great lie underpinning the creed of multiculturalism, as spouted by Francoise Cerrah and her ilk, is that all cultures are "equally valid". Well, patently, they're not. The reason irate Pakistani patriarchs are not chucking bricks at their errant daughters in the Birmingham Bull Ring is because Britain has a basically uncorrupt police force, a robust judiciary and an enlightened, hard-won system of liberal values that regards women and girls as equals, not third-class citizens.
But instead of standing up to barbarism and ignorance, too often we have looked away in embarrassment or fear. How many teachers have averted their gaze when 13-year-old Muslim girls suddenly disappear from the classroom to be taken "home" for a forced marriage, because this would present unwelcome evidence that some cultures are less valid than others? The two paragraphs above are excerpts from the thought provoking article.
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You got any Moslem neighbors? And if they use camel meat in their burgers who are we to judge.?
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'White Men Can't Jump'
I say unto you "Mikhael Barishnikov," Besoeker. Or, my high school sport was gymnastics. So was my high school boyfriend's, who rejoiced is sharing a bloodline with the writer John Updike.
And of course, back in the old days it was accepted that basketball simply was a Jewish sport. All that innate scrappy intelligence, donchaknow. Still is a fave among the lads at the Jewish community centers today. It's just that they have other options for careers, now. Basketball, like boxing, is for those poor lads who don't have many options and happen to have a natural gift.
You got any Moslem neighbors?
Mr. Big Thromoth3646, you are being particularly insipid this morning. Do try not to do that.
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Check life expectancy stats, the come tell us about 'equal'. And who did the ground work to make that happen for the modern world? And notice how when press about all that socialist failure stats they always seem to point out a couple northern European countries composed of 98+ percent white, Lutheran cultured people.
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A driving force behind the "success" of multi-culturalism was the conflation of race and culture.
You couldn't disparage the culture of the drugs and violence riddled ghetto because that made you a racist. So the abhorrent cultures became valid and the anarchist/fascist tribes in academia found a way to make money off it whild disparaging the hard working folks that made our society possible.
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Multiculturalism? The Rodney King view of the world: "Why cant we all just get along?" Academia seems to embrace this kumbaya approach as they have institutionalized it into their programs big time. At risk of being called xenophobic, "How's that working out for us?" The borders are thrown open, kids from other countries are sent to our borders which have created risks for them and us; the good with the bad come pouring through. We often educate people from other countries only later to become our enemies. The "other" cultures end up expecting us to bend to their way of life, e.g. sharia law, etc. We have had multiculturalism in the past; however, we have expected those from other countries to obey our laws, learn our language, learn some of our history and political system and blend into our culture to some degree. We used to have a controlled process of immigration. Now, it seems there are no rules for this process--it is chaotic. The reason it is chaotic it that politicians of one stripe or another are eagerly pandering for anticipated votes or cheap labor.
Cape Town - A man has been arrested in Gugulethu for allegedly cutting out the heart of his ex-girlfriends current lover and eating it with a knife and fork.
Neighbours were awoken by a traumatised man who had witnessed the attack late on Tuesday night, reported the Times. The suspect allegedly stabbed 62-year-old Mbuyiselo Manona in the chest and neck and bit the victim on the left side of his face.
A witness told the Cape Argus he looked through a window of Manonas house and saw the suspect sitting next to Manonas body and digging from the body and stuffing his face.
Police apparently found the suspect with a piece of heart dripping from his mouth. Manonas girlfriend, Nomonde Tshabalala, who had been living with him for three years, has been left in a state of shock.
Manonas sisters also expressed their horror at his death and said he didnt deserve to die in the hands of an animal.em> News24 Link
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"#1 You just have to look at the wealth creation differences."
In Yemen, I believe, there are the ruins of the city state that was the domain of the Queen of Sheba. It was rich, powerful, and built on the crops grown by the water trapped by a bronze-age dam.
In the centuries since its collapse, the locals have made no effort to rebuild the dam, preferring begging and theft to the hard work of building a civilization.
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The idea that all cultures are equal is stoopid on its face. It puts the Coahuiltecan or the Karankawa Indians on the same level as civilized folk.
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allegedly cutting out the heart of his ex-girlfriend's current lover and eating it with a knife and fork.
Nice to see there is still a trace of civilization in SA.
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Reminds me of a passage in Band of Brothers where he talks about different cultres the soldiers have dealt with. Dutch and Germans got high marks because they cleaned up the bombed out mess. French less so because they expected others to clean up for them. Even among whites there are cultural differences.
I agree with AlanC. All races might be equal but when you slap culture ontop differences become immediately apparant.
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Unfortunately, the great lie underpinning the creed of multiculturalism, as spouted by Francoise Cerrah and her ilk, is that all cultures are "equally valid". More hogwash from the left. Embracing multiculturalism as the left means all cultures are equal. They don't consider that some cultures lop off heads. Others are supremacist cultures who try to take over your culture and impose their will and culture on you. Unfortunately, the notion of multiculturalism from the left degrades into "tribalism." They don't mean absorbing other cultures into our culture and having them become Americans.
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A great read; only comment; the author opines that Obama has made every mistake there is to make; I don't think he is done phuquing up just yet as he has 2 more years to go.......
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It is naive to think teh 0ne is done yet. He set out to fundamentally transform this country, and he isn't finished. Even if the Pubs take the senate, Obama will continue to do ends around Congress and the constitution and the Pubs will be to spineless to stop him.
Next up after the election, the creation of the domestic civilian force that rivals the military.
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Next up after the election, the creation of the domestic civilian force that rivals the military.
Takes years to grow a good NCO corps. Too many vets (remember the Homeland Security classifies them as a threat) out there with years of experience. The civilian corps will fold as fast as the Iraqis when confronted by skilled personnel.
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There are legions of people in the U.S. that are armed. That is why the left is so assiduously tries to disarm them--they are the fine line between freedom and tyranny. The founding fathers were not dummies.
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Come Mr Taliban,
Tally me kablamma
Jihad come, and I want to go boom
Its six verse, seven verse, eight verse, snuff!
Jihad come, and I want to go boom
Fat! I say Faaaaat-wa!
Jihad come, and I want to go boom
[DAWN] THERE's no better way to say this so here goes: the terror attacks on Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... airport were not the handiwork of Indian agents. There is a fever that needs to break if we are facing this menace in earnest, and not just with empty rage.
[DAWN] AS the shock and distress over the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... airport attack refuses to subside quickly and the numbing questions the attack has raised refuse to go away, this much is clear: the state, both civil and military, has failed to reassure the public or demonstrate that it really does have a plan to keep the country safe. Even the post-attack restoration of calm has been shattered. How, for example, did the security forces declare the airport secured when there were still some civilians to be recovered? How was it possible for a second attack -- rejected as an attack altogether by some sections of the security forces -- to be launched and for all the attackers to simply melt away hours after the initial attack? Where has the leadership been at the provincial and federal levels? For the Sindh government to foist all responsibility on the federal government simply because airports fall in the federal domain of responsibility is absurd. Surely, with the central leadership so shockingly absent, a quick Sindh government response would have been both appreciated and accepted.
Yet, much of the attention must rightly turn to the two principal actors in the state's fight against militancy: the army and the federal government. Start with the army -- if only because it seems keen on action against some krazed killers, where the government is not. For days before the Karachi attack, military action in North Wazoo had targeted hubs of foreign krazed killers. Then, elements among the foreign turbans turned around and hit the Karachi airport. Can anyone be surprised by this? And yet, it seems the military was, even though, after the split in the outlawed TTP, military officials themselves talked privately of the threat to Karachi. So, was the army-run intelligence apparatus in Karachi put in overdrive? Were all decks on hand and every spare resource dedicated to monitoring and intercepting communications among turbans and movement of terrorist cells? Even now, what exactly is the plan? More retaliation it seems, according to media reports sourced from army officials. If retaliation didn't work before, why will it work now? And does more retaliation mean the army will this time put its vast intelligence network on the highest state of alert to try and thwart another Karachi airport-style attack?
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[DAWN] Months of behind-the-curtain efforts to drive a wedge between Khan Said and the Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... -led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain are bearing fruit. Khan Said overcame his reluctance and bade adieu to a myrmidon network that has wreaked havoc across the country. But what next?
Khan Said alias Sajna's exit from the TTP had been in the works even before the start of now-doomed peace talks, but contrary to expectations what happened afterwards has made the myrmidon scene in Pakistain more perplexed and complicated.
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[Ynet] No one should be surprised that US is willing to work with Paleostinian unity government.
No one should be surprised the US government is "willing to work" with the new unity government announced by Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... Nor should we be surprised at US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
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[Ynet] Breaking the Silence activists have become part of 'Durban strategy,' which aims to destroy the State of Israel.
Last Friday, Breaking the Silence supporters read out testimonies of soldiers about the IDF's misdeeds. A long time ago, when the organization first became active, I was among those who came to its defense. Because when there are exceptions, they must be exposed. They must not be concealed.
I believed at the time, and others still believe, that the organization's goal is to fix, improve and even strengthen the IDF. The problem is that something happened in the past decade.
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Jim Wald is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for the Book at Hampshire College, where he teaches modern European cultural history and the history of the book.
I think this is hilarious. Others may differ. And some idiots will take this as gospel truth and spread it all over the internet -- these days mostly confined to Facebook, thank goodness. So if you see it there, please remember that you saw it here first.
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If we restricted the Holy Land to those who could verify, via molecular genetics, 100% descent from those who lived there in 200 B.C. with no admixture from Europeans, Turks, or various non-Cannanite Arabs, it would be depopulated.
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Well, the juices are known for cleverness, it would be just like them to pull some trickery like that. I mean look at Sandy Koufax (not now) he could easily have passed for a Khazar, albeit a Khazar with a damn fine combination fastball and vicious curve. So yeah. It cold happen.
[DAWN] BESIDES being a blow to the government in Storied Baghdad, the fall of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... is an event of major military and political significance whose consequences could shake the entire region. The most pitiable actor in the Iraqi drama has been Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... , who in spite of having secured a third term as prime minister in last month's general election, was unable to defend Iraq's second biggest city. The Iraqi army is still there as a fighting force, but what is in doubt is Mr Maliki's ability to mobilise the people and have the necessary will to eject the euphoric Islamic snuffies from Mosul. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... already controls some other parts of Iraq; Mosul's capture means the Islamist snuffies have acquired a major, oil-rich industrial base for their operations not only in Iraq but in neighbouring Syria, where security forces loyal to Bashir al-Assad have of late been winning the civil war. The flight of half a million people from the city and the haste with which security forces abandoned it after discarding their uniforms underscore the Islamist murderous Moslems' success in sowing terror and demoralising the people and the security forces.
The Gulf states and other powers which helped Al Qaeda and its various offshoots in the Syrian civil war and turned a fight for democracy into a sectarian conflict must now rue Mosul's fall. The ISIL is now in a position to operate in greater comfort, turn Mosul into a safe haven for other bad boy groups and plan a further expansion of the territory under its control through murderous Moslem operations. Mosul cannot be negotiated; it has to be retaken by force, and that clearly appears beyond the beleaguered Maliki government's prowess. Mosul is also close to Kurdistan, which is already enjoying a fair degree of autonomy. Going by its philosophy and tactics, the ISIL will covet the oil-rich Kurdistan and that way inch closer to Turkey. If the government in Kirkuk has some wisdom, it should make common cause with Storied Baghdad against the snuffies for the greater good of Iraq.
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He told the Republican leadership that they need to wake up, pointing out that people want a new Republican Party with fresh faces and vigorous leadership, things we arent getting right now. The donks are talking, acting, and gloating like they are immune from a much needed cleaning out. They should not take any solace in David Brat's unseating of Cantor. Personally, I would welcome such a cleaning out of long-sitting, entrenched deadwood.
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