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William Kilpatrick laments the fact that pictures which don't fit the narrative of "standard narrative about peaceful Muslims seeking a better life" are never shown in the media. Excerpt:
The clinching argument for many was the image of a drowned Syrian child which went viral. There should, of course, be no doubt about what to do if you spot a drowning boy in the water or if a hungry person shows up at the door. But the photo tells us absolutely nothing about what sort of immigration policies governments should adopt. It could be argued that if European immigration policy was less liberal and its welfare allowances less generous, fewer people would risk their lives to get there.
And what about the images we don’t see—images of the European victims of ill-considered immigration programs? Right now I’m looking at a photo of an 87-year-old Dutch man lying in a hospital bed, his face beaten black and blue. He and his 86-year-old wife, both of them Holocaust survivors, were attacked in their apartment by two men of Moroccan descent who threw them on the floor, kicked them repeatedly, and shouted: “Dirty Jews—from now on your property is ours.” The husband and wife, who had been living independently, are now confined to wheelchairs at a rehabilitation center.
Leaders in the Catholic Church have got to wake up to the nature of Islam as not just a religion, but as a totalitarian political system. As W. K. ends his article:
One wonders what it will take to remind the Catholic Church of its own centuries-long struggle with Islam. The modern Church was quick to understand the totalitarian nature of communism. Catholic clergy, academics, and journalists were, on the whole, much more astute about the communist menace than their secular counterparts. Yet they have been painfully slow in awakening to the dangers inherent in Islam. Let’s hope that will soon change.
"Ye shall know them by their fruits."
You've heard about Ahmed and his clock, I take it.
ReplyDeleteSomeone tells Dreher that gullible is written on the ceiling and he looks up there, every time.
DeleteLike Diane said:
Delete#DreherStandsWithTheCoolKids
To be minimally fair to Rod, his master, Wick Allison, is flogging this thing back at the mother ship for all it's worth. Without those young Dallas area liberals, Wick would have to give up tony Highland Park, maybe even move to Irving, so Wick needs to push the narrative they're looking for on all possible fronts.
DeleteBut what's funny to me is that Ahmed & company are already sucking up so much of the publicity directly themselves that the ROI on multiple Wickblog attempts to mine clickbait from it are crashing.
Here is the first mention of the incident, then this, which not only garnered about 10 times the usual number of comments for them but also found retired DMN reporter Bill Marvel casually lying about the facts of the case. Some of the other comments are a hoot as well.
After that, though, this, this, and this attempt drew nothing or virtually nothing. Obama & MIT had already taken the last blood from the turnip.