THE WEEK THAT WAS : PART TWO
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HEY, REMEMBER WHEN WE ENSLAVED AND MURDERED YOU?
One of the UK’s leading Islamic organisations has warned that plans to revise the school history curriculum risk ignoring the Muslim contribution to western civilisation – an omission that will only foster alienation.
There can be no better example of that contribution than the Muslim slaver raids on coastal towns in Europe from 1500 to 1800 resulting in the enslavement of one million Europeans.
The inhabitants were taken completely by surprise. More than 200 armed corsairs landed in the Cove, torching the thatched roofs of the houses and carrying off with them ‘young and old out of their beds’. Moving on to the main village, the pirates took more captives before musket fire and the beating of a drum alerted the remaining villagers and persuaded Reis to end the raid. By that time more than 100 men, women and children had been taken. They were herded back to the ships, which bore them away from the coves of West Cork to the slave markets of North Africa.
In July 1625, a raiding party of corsairs landed at Mount’s Bay in Cornwall, and swept into the parish church where the locals were worshipping. Sixty men, women and children were abducted and carried onto the corsairs’ boats. Looe, a small Cornish port, was also attacked, though its inhabitants had tried to hide or flee. 80 men were taken and the village was burned.
Muslims Complain British History Curriculum Doesn’t Teach About Muslim “Contribution” to UK
A READING
Here’s a reading my article, Sharia’s Sticks and Stones
IT’S OBAMA’S WORLD, WE JUST LIVE IN IT
Obama Sending Troops to Syrian Border “In Case of Military Action”
Bloomberg Bemoans Special Interests in DC, Threatens to Punish Senators Who Won’t Do What He Says
Obama Slashed Bombing Prevention Budget in Half
Sheila Jackson-Lee: “Don’t Condemn the Gangbangers. Blame the Guns.”
Democratic Party Prostitute May Be Next Mayor of Vicksburg
Obama Cuts Military, Boosts UN Spending to $3.6 Billion
1.75 Trillion or 10% of US Economy Spent on Federal Regulations
“No Charity, We’re Socialists”: Obama Pushes a Higher Charity Tax
Department of Justice Spent $100 Mil on Conferences in One Year
EVERYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE SAID
While the GOP sleepwalks toward amnesty, there are a few voices pushing back. Mickey Kaus’ blogging has been invaluable. Rich Lowry had a good piece on Schumer taking Rubio to the cleaners. And Ann Coulter ruthlessly gets to the point and unties the entire package of absurdities.
Rubio keeps trotting out the canard about the bounty of taxes we’re going to collect from millions more minimum-wage workers when illegals are legalized, stoutly asserting: “In order to keep this legal status, you must be gainfully employed and you must be paying taxes.”
It’s as if he’s talking to someone who has never been to America and is unfamiliar with its tax system.
By “paying taxes,” Rubio means “filing a tax return and getting a payment back from the government in the form of the earned income tax credit.” Another term for what Rubio calls “paying taxes” is “receiving welfare” — which newly legalized illegals will start receiving right away under Rubio’s plan. The only tax they’ll pay is the same tax they pay now: sales tax.
But, incomprehensibly, Rubio swore up and down that the newly legalized illegal immigrants won’t get government benefits: “And then they don’t qualify for any federal benefits. This is an important point. No federal benefits, no food stamps, no welfare, no Obamacare.”
How on Earth does Rubio plan to enforce this “important point”?
Just three weeks ago, the U.S. Senate voted down a proposal to prevent illegal immigrants from receiving benefits under Obamacare. At the time, Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez sneered at Republicans opposing Obamacare for illegals, saying, “This is not a great way to try to do your outreach to the Hispanic and immigrant community.”
Forcing Republicans to spend the next two decades arguing that poor Hispanic children shouldn’t have access to government benefits like health care and food programs sounds like a terrific way to win over the Hispanic vote!
Is it going to be easier or harder for Republicans to deny welfare to 20 million newly legalized illegal aliens than it is for them to simply say that people who have broken our laws should not be on a fast-track to citizenship?
Coulter is right of course. The premise that you can combine a sellout under pressure with any kind of enforcement or red line is ridiculous.
In California — which will be America if Rubio’s plan goes through — 82 percent of households headed by an illegal immigrant are on welfare, as are 61 percent of households headed by legal immigrants, according to the March 2011 Current Population Survey by the Center for Immigration Studies.
If you think Republicans are Hispandering now, wait until the children of 20 million illegal aliens start to vote. Rubio’s amnesty isn’t just bad for America, it’s the end of America.
If you’re running for the border, then you’re not in any position to take a stand. Not now. Not then.
WHITE LIBERAL PRIVILEGE
Thus, for example, a strong black identity was forged in the face of genuine oppression, and is kept alive by fanning fears of racism. Likewise the distinctive gay identity, which may lose its distinctiveness in another decade or two, if current trends in general public attitudes toward homosexuality continue.
Some largely white ethnic or religious populations–Armenians, Jews, Mormons–have identities forged out of similar adversity. But because being white has never been a source of insecurity, whites as a whole, at least in America, have no such racial identity. That means being white is not a constraint in the formation of one’s political identity the way being black is.
Thus today’s insight: To be white in America is to have the privilege of being able to define one’s political identity in terms of one’s own superiority, whether real or imagined, over other members of one’s own race.
James Taranto is talking about the obsession of white liberals with white privilege being itself a form of white privilege. This might actually be an insight that some of these folks would actually welcome because it fits into their endless cycle of privilege worldview.
But to fit in with what Taranto is saying, whiteness has been made into a source of insecurity. People are being taught to see themselves as white and to be consciousness of their whiteness. This perversely has been the great liberal project recently. To make majorities feel like majorities. But imposing racial consciousness is likely to end up having the opposite of the intended effect. Spreading racial consciousness as racial insecurity is not going to achieve either stability or tolerance. Instead it’s going to be destructive in much the same way that it is in minorities.
RETREAT AND WAIT FOR WINTER
From RNC honcho Reince Priebus, from the senator from Swing-State Central Rob Portman, and even from the great Charles Murray, the same mournful dirge echoes through the cavernous emptiness of the Republican big tent: Give it up, losers — give it up on illegal immigration, gay marriage, abortion, and maybe Americans under 30, 50, whatever, will consider voting for you, or at any rate consider finding you marginally less repellent.
Charles Murray told conservatives his own children would never consider voting Republican because “they consider the party to be run by anti-abortion, anti-gay, religious nuts.” Leaving aside the question of whether this is an accurate characterization or a glowing tribute to the sterling work of the Democratic party’s courtiers in the media, suppose the GOP’s “anti-abortion, anti-gay, religious nuts” were to become pro-abortion, pro-gay, secular, non–clinically insane. My bet is they would still lose.
In Britain, the Conservative prime minister, David Cameron, has been eager to demonstrate that his Tories are not the “nasty,” “ugly” right-wingers of Mrs. Thatcher’s day. As part of his “detoxification” strategy, he decided he needed an issue that would serve as a kind of Sister Souljah on steroids, and enable him to break not just with a small faction but with a majority of his base. So he legislated gay marriage in the teeth of massive party-wide opposition. His calculation was that if enough conservatives can be persuaded to hate you, the urbane, cosmopolitan, metrosexual elite will accept you as one of their own and give you a better press. Which in turn will persuade enough of their followers to vote for you to compensate for however many of your reviled base decide to stay home.
Accommodationists seem to believe that immigration amnesty and “marriage equality” are the last towels they’ll ever have to throw in. But in the liberal bathhouse there’ll always be a new towel-snapper along in a minute. Free contraceptives . . . Abandonment of religious liberty . . . Single-payer health care . . .
So many trains, already lining up to leave the station.
Mark Steyn via American Digest
ANOTHER DESERT MIRAGE
Fayyad was nothing more than a Western delusion, like Arab peace with Israel. Fayyad didn’t have a chance of leading the Palestinians because he never personally killed a Jew. And the Palestinians only accept murderers as their leaders. But the fact that he never killed a Jew personally didn’t render Fayyad a partner for Israel.
Fayyad dutifully used donor funds to pay the salaries of terrorists in Judea, Samaria and Gaza every month.
He led the Palestinian branch of the boycott, divestment and sanctions war against Israel. He made working for Israelis and buying Israeli goods criminal offenses. Fayyad personally led raids into private homes to inspect people’s refrigerators to see if they had Israeli cottage cheese on their shelves. He organized and attended bonfires where they burned Israeli goods.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is not the sort of behavior you would expect a peace partner to engage in.
The Americans who insist on mourning Fayyad’s departure refuse to accept the obvious fact that Palestinian aspirations for statehood are a cheap, shoddy, for-export-only Arab product. The Palestinians don’t want a state. They want to destroy Israel.
Caroline Glick on, among other things, the Fayyad delusion.
NOT EVEN DIFFICULT ANYMORE
And before I, once again and for the umpteenth time, start banging my by now tired and worn drum on the issue, let me, also once again, point out why I am not in any way pulling any of the following out of my posterior: I was, once, of the left. Not just “flirting with the ideas” or “curiously studying their customs and quaint habits”, but “red scarf wearing true believer.”
Yes, I hang my head in shame over my youthful ignorance, but I got better. And I try to atone for it by passing on what I’ve learned to those who weren’t as dumb as I and therefore have not the first fucking clue as to what they think they’re up against. Without much success, as the past five years have shown, most of the time — when I get a response at all — it’s along the lines of “lalalala I can’t hear you” or “sure, but our lefties are diff’runt.”
They’re not. That’s the whole point of the left. On the left, nobody’s diff’runt or they’re not on the left anymore. Utter one, even a slight little minor one, heresy against the leftist catechism and we will make you a non-person. Just ask Bob Woodward who, we believe, was once quite the left’s hero for bringing down that horrible man, Richard Nixon. One act of heresy against the Dogma of the Cult of Obama, and he was a doddering old retarded fool and sellout, ready for the glue factory.
Overnight.
And that was not an aberration. That is how it works on the left. Again I say it: Because I KNOW it personally. Heck, I’ve been a part of the drum circle myself, reflexively and instantly “forgetting” people who were heroes yesterday but capitalist traitor scum the next who had suddenly never done a worthwhile thing in their lives. After a while it becomes habit. It’s not even difficult anymore.
Which Is What His Imperial Majesty Has Been Trying to Tell Everybody For Years Now
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