tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post7683477021914784347..comments2024-01-26T03:40:32.465-05:00Comments on Breath of the Beast: The Lessons of Mumbai- Too Long for a Bumper StickerYaacov Ben Moshehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16711165551258127500noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-73742224228696024902008-12-12T04:28:00.000-05:002008-12-12T04:28:00.000-05:00This was a wonderful post. You said so many import...This was a wonderful post. You said so many important things that need to be said in public.Chana @ Lemon Lime Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11656854855385193867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-65059058775145010632008-12-05T23:16:00.000-05:002008-12-05T23:16:00.000-05:00The problem I have with the "Coexist" bumper stick...The problem I have with the "Coexist" bumper stickers is that they target the wrong audience. Given the cultural diversity of our country, and the overall lack of ethnic violence here, we are probably the most tolerant nation on Earth. The stickers are unnecessary here. Someone should ship a thousand crates of these bumper stickers to Karachi, Teheran, and Riyadh. Now that would be money well spent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-37970987828006614002008-12-03T23:29:00.000-05:002008-12-03T23:29:00.000-05:00I am reminded of a picture Michael Totten found in...I am reminded of a picture Michael Totten found in Ramadi in 2007 by an Iraqi child. It shows a many headed hydra - an ancient symbol for evil - the beast itself being stabbed. An Iraqi flag flys from the top of the knife and the strong arm stabbing the hydra has an American flag on its sleeve. With experience even a small child can recognize evil. Put it this way - al Qaeda and their ilk are determined to provide the necessary experience.lgudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12774491337993415578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-22090203865032598372008-12-03T15:33:00.000-05:002008-12-03T15:33:00.000-05:00Those Co-exist bumper stickers imply that all reli...Those <I>Co-exist</I> bumper stickers imply that all religions are equal which is only possible if they are all wrong, which is probably what they believe.<BR/><BR/>People refuse to face the reality for a number of reasons.<BR/><BR/>Some of them find the truth about Jihad so terrifying that they are in denial. Like little children they think they can make it go away by pretending it isn't there.<BR/><BR/>Some cannot accept that their is a conflict going on that is not rooted in the class struggle. Their "secular religion" of Socialism requires that they believe that.shoprathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05265612188236394307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-1435626661083092762008-12-03T08:24:00.000-05:002008-12-03T08:24:00.000-05:00The "coexist" bumper stickers are about the most i...The "coexist" bumper stickers are about the most idiotic. But the "God bless the whole world; No Exceptions," which I have seen where I live, run a close second.<BR/><BR/>The latter is not just a shot at "God Bless America," but at the entire idea that one culture or nation is superior to any other.<BR/><BR/>These are the same folks who display "Arms are for Hugging" and "It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." <BR/><BR/>To these people, anyone who blames any aspect of Islam for terrorism is a "hater." They'd stop their attacks if only we loved them more, sent foreign aid, cut back on our military spending... you know the drill.Tom the Redhunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01989584196825992054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-41982246908498763092008-12-02T19:24:00.000-05:002008-12-02T19:24:00.000-05:00Re: Melanie Phillips's articleLet's look again at ...Re: Melanie Phillips's article<BR/><BR/>Let's look again at the key paragraph:<BR/><BR/><BR/>This new strategy entails targeting countries with a substantial Muslim presence for 'low-intensity warfare' comprising bombings, kidnappings, the taking of hostages, the use of women and children as human shields, beheadings and other attacks that make normal life impossible. <BR/><BR/>So, al Qaeda, according to Phillips, plans to target countries with a substantial Muslim presence for low-intensity terrorist warfare along the lines of the Bombay attack that would make normal life in those countries impossible. Isn't that phrase, "substantial Muslim presence," uh, telling us something? Something connected with the non-discriminatory immigration policies that have brought into existence the substantial Muslim presence in Western countries? <BR/>Phillips writes that Britain is highly vulnerable to the threat of Bombay-type attacks, and she expresses great anxiety about it, but she ends the article without a single mention of what to do about it. The thought evidently doesn't even cross her mind: "Shouldn't we at least stop further Muslim immigration into Britain? And those 2,000 known terrorists currently under surveillance by the police--shouldn't we just ... remove them?" Such thoughts are of course impossible to her. Her brain--one half of which is consumed with a rational horror of Islam, the other half of which is rigidly and unthinkingly devoted to modern liberalism and its core imperative of non-discrimination--is in a complete lock. Thus, while she repeatedly said in her 2006 book Londonistan that Muslim immigration into Britain had been a "lethal" development, she has never proposed that Muslim immigration be reduced by so much as a single Muslim per year. Brain-locked Melanie fears and loathes the lethal, but her liberalism won't let her do anything to stop the lethal. <BR/><BR/>Let's look once again at that key sentence:<BR/><BR/><BR/>This new strategy entails targeting countries with a substantial Muslim presence for 'low-intensity warfare' ... <BR/><BR/>What have I said a hundred times? <BR/><BR/>Muslims do not belong in significant numbers in any Western society, period. <BR/><BR/>If my policy were followed, there would not be a single Western country that would be suitable for targeting by al Qaeda's low-intensity terrorist warfare, because there would not be a single Western country with a substantial Muslim presence. <BR/><BR/>Rick Darby writes:<BR/><BR/>Today I sent the following e-mail to Melanie Phillips: <BR/><BR/>As long as Britain keeps admitting more Muslims and allowing the Muslims already in the UK to have their own state-within-a-state, no amount of preparation and intelligence gathering can possibly make it safe.<BR/>When will you outgrow your inner Guardianista and call for an end to Muslim immigration? <BR/><BR/><BR/>I have not received a reply, but I know she is busy, and I don't expect one.Malcolmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05478747589100326721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-22489384918091394622008-12-02T14:29:00.000-05:002008-12-02T14:29:00.000-05:00Done- good catch.Done- good catch.Yaacov Ben Moshehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16711165551258127500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-55801544276294359022008-12-02T14:09:00.000-05:002008-12-02T14:09:00.000-05:00John;Your prosecutor story goes back to the late m...John;<BR/>Your prosecutor story goes back to the late middle ages; it is known as the parable/proverb/example of Buridan's ass. Named for the French mathematician and philosopher Jean Buridan, it tells the story of how his ass starved to death for being unable to choose between two more or less equal piles of hay.<BR/><BR/>Also would someone please add an 'O' to "To Long" in the title, most of us aren't longing for bumper stickers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-48219791032975558032008-12-02T02:06:00.000-05:002008-12-02T02:06:00.000-05:00yaacov:i posted this at a discussion group in resp...yaacov:<BR/><BR/>i posted this at a discussion group in response to a piece sammy benoit did at yidwithlid, re: an appointment of a fellow named kurtzer as b. hussein's "special envoy" to the middle east. i suppose i should put a link in here ... link: http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2008/12/obama-to-appoint-james-bakers-anti.html<BR/><BR/>kurtzer once said, in a glorious "god bless everybody" statement showing every ounce of moral cupidity as your bunker sticker wielder:<BR/><BR/>"Kurtzer responded, "The United States can't and will not base its peace process policy on public statements made by either side. We don't support statements by either side that are excessive. We don't support public statements by either side that are designed not to advance the peace process, and we don't react to those kinds of public statements." [from the yidwithlid article.]<BR/><BR/>but, i think if your readers will read this, they will get how it applies to your outrage over stupid bumper stickers. it seems incredible, but people seem incapable of making moral choices, or discerning where the good lies, and how this relates to whom one picks as an ally in conflicts.<BR/><BR/>.........................<BR/><BR/>friends:<BR/> <BR/>mr. kurtzer is a smart fellow. sometimes being smart is more of a curse and a limitation than a gift.<BR/> <BR/>i worked with a guy, let us call him "pete." he was a fellow prosecutor. when i took over his position, he had left me a file cabinet of about 5 or 6 hundred uncharged cases, for which he had found probable cause to proceed. why then, had he not charged them? because he was too smart to decide how.<BR/> <BR/>all of the many choices which presented themselves to his very analytical mind, paralyzed him in their multiplicity: a kid in an intellectual candy store.<BR/> <BR/>i found legal pad page after legal pad page of lovely schematics, the likes of which to this day i would not be smart or experienced enough to duplicate, and flow charts, considering the various statutory elements of crimes which the kids had committed, and which elements were elements of other crimes. and he had them drawn out, and compared, and considered, ... , and he could not choose. between the "competing" crimes. so, his solution to the intellectual dilemmas? he did nothing. he choose nothing.<BR/> <BR/>he would not, could not, did not care to choose between the various crimes, and could not impose choice upon the competing values they represented.<BR/> <BR/>so, in the "tiny url" set out below, and in sammy's linked article, it is described how kurtzer said we will not impose our settlement proposals upon the parties for anything they have said, and by logical extension by inference, implication and the barest modicum of real world experience, ... , for anything that they may have done. what he said, in real life speech, was that we cannot impose a choice or preference upon them for what they say, because we cannot choose intellectually between the competing values.<BR/> <BR/>you will excuse me, but i like to call it "pete's disease." a paralysis of choice based upon an inability to distinguish or delineate values, and an inability to look at real world behaviors and assign value or blame to them. "pete''s disease." think about it. you will like it.<BR/> <BR/>one final note. "pete" never got any better. he advised people for years with his flow chart indecisiveness, and left them dumbfounded and speechless at trying to decide anything based on his analysis. he is still at it, as confounding brilliant as ever, totally ineffectual at discerning where the center lies.<BR/> <BR/>i think you should get used to the notion, mr. kurtzer looks to me that he has never gotten over the affliction. always a carrier, his whole life. he really doesn't see the difference between israel and the a-rabs, because, as we all know, it is all the same, these values. they must be respected for what they are. values. they are like nipples, everybody has got 'em, and they all look alike, no matter what they are attached to.<BR/> <BR/>that is all.<BR/> <BR/>john<BR/> <BR/>p.s. i am a simple minded fellow, when it gets right down to it. to me, it all is based upon one's early in life decision, as to which scout troop he belongs to, and whether he is a beaver's or a duck's fan. you know your friends, you ought to, you picked them. you are allied to you friends, because they share your aspirations and values. and, you stick to your friends, by g_d. simple. just like me. mr. kurtzer is way smarter than me, for sure. who by the way, as between mr. kurtzer and i, would you rather have as a friend. now, i didn't say, who would you rather talk to at a fashionable cocktail party, or spend a swell evening with at a swanky restaurant. i asked you, very straight forwardly, who would you rather have as a friend, ..., say, maybe, in a tight spot? in the grime, and in the muck and the mire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-29349510461423640642008-12-02T01:59:00.000-05:002008-12-02T01:59:00.000-05:00I posted the same quotation as above, and so did t...I posted the same quotation as above, and so did the young Canadian at Blog of Walker. If I looked, I'm sure I'd find it all over the world. The message is universal. <BR/><BR/>And thanks to you for adding another voice of decency and normalcy to the world's growing chorus.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.com