Sultan Knish: the Imaginary Islamic Radical

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Rush Limbaugh , Glenn Beck , Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog 8 Comments Español - Translated into Mark Steyn , Daniel Pipes , Glenn Spanish Reynolds , Allen West , Lou Dobbs , Dick Morris , Ed Driscoll , The debate over Islamic terrorism has shifted so far from reality that it has now German translations - Italian Richard Fernandez , Andrew become an argument between the administration, which insists that there is nothing translations - Polish translations Bostom , Caroline Glick , Andrew Islamic about ISIS, and critics who contend that a minority of Islamic extremists are Bolt , Pamela Geller , Tim Blair, the ones causing all the problems. Judith Klinghoffer , Phyllis THE P OINT BLOG Chesler , Robert Spencer , Melanie Philips , Michelle But what makes an Islamic The Point Blog Malkin , Victor Davis Hanson , radical, extremist? Where is the The Blaze , National Review and Al Qaeda: America Weak, line between ordinary Muslim FOX News France Now No. 1 Enemy practice and its extremist dark Obama kept claiming that side? It can’t be beheading Al Qaeda is on the run. Al people in public. Qaeda thinks the same thing about him. The ABOUT M E ideological leader of Saudi Arabia just did that and Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in was praised for its the Arabian Peninsula progressiveness by the UN (AQAP) said Friday that Secretary General, had flags France had surpassed the United States as the top flown at half-staff in the honor enemy of Islam. With the of its deceased tyrant in the UK “weakening” of the… and that same tyrant was Hagel: White House honored by Obama, in Pressured Me to Free preference to such minor events as the Paris Unity March and the Auschwitz Terrorists commemoration. Obama hasn’t had much luck with his SOS’s. Panetta wrote a memoir It can’t be terrorism either. Not when the US funds the PLO and three successive slamming the White administrations invested massive amounts of political capital into turning the House. He decided to terrorist group into a state. While the US and the EU fund the Palestinian abruptly fire Hagel after SUBSCRIBE Authority’s homicidal kleptocracy; its media urges stabbing Jews. fighting for his appointment and now Hagel is slowly repaying Email Subscription Clearly that’s not Islamic extremism either. At least it’s not too extreme for Obama. the favor. Washington (CNN)White House Enter your email address: And there are few Islamic terrorist groups that don’t have friends in high places in officials pressured Secretary of Defense the Muslim world. Chuck Hagel to increase the pace… If blowing up civilians in Allah’s name isn’t extreme, what do our radicals have to do Obama Ready to Help Email Delivery to get really radical? Finance $160 Billion in India Green Energy (if you are having Sex slavery? The Saudis only abolished it in 1962; officially. Unofficially it continues. No problem. I’m sure the problems with Every few years a Saudi bigwig gets busted for it abroad. The third in line for the Chinese will be happy to let overlapping images in us have that money at email, please click here ) Saudi throne was the son of a “slave girl”. reasonable rates. India also owned about $60 billion of our foreign debt, so we’ll Ethnic cleansing? Genocide? The “moderate” Islamists we backed in Syria, Libya Feed Subscription be borrowing more money and Egypt have been busy doing it with the weapons and support that we gave them. for India to finance solar in So that can’t be extreme either. India. I’m starting to think Subscribe Nero was actually a…

If terrorism, ethnic cleansing, sex slavery and beheading are just the behavior of Why Blame “Anti-Vaxxers” moderate Muslims, what does a Jihadist have to do to be officially extreme? What is Instead of Immigrants for Measles Outbreaks? it that makes ISIS extreme? The usual clickbait sites SEARCH T HIS B LOG are gleefully blaming “anti- From a Muslim perspective, ISIS is radical because it declared a Caliphate and is vaxxers”, parents opposed casual about declaring other Muslims infidels. That’s a serious issue for Muslims to vaccines for their and when we distinguish between radicals and moderates based not on their children, for the measles outbreak. They are treatment of people, but their treatment of Muslims, we define radicalism from the TOPICS certainly a safe target, but perspective of Islamic supremacism, rather than our own American values. overlooked is the simple America future of the west fact that there would be no outbreaks without Important Posts Islam The position that the Muslim Brotherhood is moderate and Al Qaeda is extreme immigration from because the Brotherhood kills Christians and Jews while Al Qaeda kills Muslims is Israel Jewish Matters countries where measles is Islamic Supremacism. The idea of the moderate Muslim places the lives of Muslims Liberalism politics Satire widespread. So much over those of every other human being on earth. vitriol is… socialism Terrorism New York Times Claims War on Terror Our Countering Violent Extremism program emphasizes the centrality of Islamic Hillary “Embelished” Lie legal authority as the best means of fighting Islamic terrorists. Our ideological About Being Under Fire in warfare slams terrorists for not accepting the proper Islamic chain of command. Our Bosnia Not sniper fire It’s not a lie SUPPORT solution to Islamic terrorism is a call for Sharia submission. if you believe it. That’s the defense that the New York This blog and the articles I That’s not an American position. It’s an Islamic position and it puts us in the strange Times is going with. It write take a lot of time and position of arguing Islamic legalism with Islamic terrorists. Our politicians, generals begins by exonerating Neil effort. Please Help Keep this DeGrasse Tyson for and cops insist that the Islamic terrorists we’re dealing with know nothing about Site Online smearing Bush by backing Islam because that is what their Saudi liaisons told them to say. up his defense that he had confused the president’s It’s as if we were fighting Marxist terrorist groups by reproving them for not tribute to the dead accepting the authority of the USSR or the Fourth International. It’s not only stupid astronauts with a… of us to nitpick another ideology’s fine points, especially when our leaders don’t

know what they’re talking about, but our path to victory involves uniting our enemies behind one central theocracy. That’s even worse than arming and training them, which we’re also doing (but only for the moderate genocidal terrorists, not the RECENT A RTICLES MENTIONS extremists). The Imaginary Islamic Cited at Front Page Magazine , Radical The Spectator and Commentary Our government’s definition of (8 comments) Magazine , and One Jerusalem , moderate often hinges on a The debate over Islamic Outpost Magazine and Gateway willingness to negotiate terrorism has shifted so far Pundit , Power Line , and regardless of the results. The from reality that it has now American Thinker and Hot Air moderate Taliban were the ones become an argument and the New Media Journal between the administration, willing to talk us. They just which insists that t... weren’t willing to make a deal. Radio/TV mentions by Rush Iran’s new government is Limbaugh , Glenn Beck , Michael moderate because it engages in Savage , Quinn and Rose, "America's Morning Show" , AM aimless negotiations while 770 CHQR - The World Tonight pushing its nuclear program with Rob Breakenridge , 680 forward and issuing violent threats, instead of just pushing and threatening without WCBM Sean and Frank and Jim the negotiations. Nothing has come of the negotiations, but the very willingness to Ball Named one of the Jewish Press' Most Worthwhile Blogs, negotiate is moderate. The Temperature at 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 and Which Global Warming 2010-2011 The Saudis would talk to us all day long while they continued sponsoring terrorists Freezes and setting up terror mosques in the West. That made them moderates. Qatar keeps (27 comments) talking to us while arming terrorists and propping up the Muslim Brotherhood. So The sky over New York City they too are moderate. The Muslim Brotherhood talked to us even while its thugs was a falling sheet of white. MY NEWSPAPER burned churches, tortured protesters and worked with terrorist groups in the Sinai. Trails of footprints, work OP-EDS boots, paw prints, sneakers A radical terrorist will kill you. A moderate terrorist will talk to you and then kill and bird claws, told their someone else. And you’ll ignore it because the conversation is a sign that they’re own story ... willing to pretend to be reasonable. IMPORTANT ARTICLES That’s more than Secretary of State Kerry is willing to be. Our Consensus Rulers Every society is ruled by a Kerry views accusations of extremism as already too extreme. ISIS, he insists, are consensus. The consensus rarely comes from the nihilists and anarchists. bottom up. Usually it's imposed from the top Nihilism is the exact opposite of the highly structured Islamic system of the The Hollywood Jihad down. The consensus is Caliphate. It might be a more accurate description of Kerry. But as irrational as Against American what the people running Sniper things believe. It's their Kerry’s claims might be, they have a source. The Saudis and the Muslim (33 comments) equivalent of common Brotherhood successfully sold the Western security establishment on the idea that American Sniper is the sense. The United States is the only way to defeat Islamic terrorism was by denying any Islamic links to its movie that should not have not run by the voters. It's actions. not run by… existed. Even though the book was a bestseller, The Muslim Suicide Convert This was like an arsonist convincing the fire department that the best way to fight nobody in Hollywood Both of the suicide bombers fires was to pretend that they happened randomly on their own. wanted the rights. And who struck in Russia were why... Muslim converts. They follow a long string of Victory through denial demands that we pretend that Islamic terrorism has nothing Muslim terrorist converts, to do with Islam. It’s a wholly irrational position, but the alternative of a tiny including the murderers of minority of extremists is nearly as irrational. British soldier Lee Rigby who were sentenced last month and Terry Lee If ISIS is extreme and Islam is moderate, what did ISIS do that Mohammed did not? Loewen who plotted to car bomb the Wichita The answers usually have a whole lot to do with the internal structures of Islam and Mid-Continent Airport that very little to do with such pragmatic things as not raping women or not killing Why the Left Refuses to same month.… non-Muslims. Talk About Muslim The Left is Too Smart to Fail Anti-Semitism The infrastructure of (20 comments) manufactured intelligence Early on we decided to take sides between Islamic dictators and Islamic terrorists, Even articles about Muslim has become a truly deeming the former moderate and the latter extremists. But the dictators were Anti-Semitism rarely want impressive thing. Today as backing their own terrorists. And when it came to human rights, there wasn’t all that to talk about Muslim never before there is an much of a difference between the two. Anti-Semitism. In the industry dedicated, not to aftermath of the Kosher educating people, but to supermarket massacre in making them feel smart. It made sense for us to put down Islamic terrorists because they often represented a Franc... From paradigm shifting more direct threat, but allowing the Islamic dictators to convince us that they and TED talks by thought the terrorists followed two different brands of Islam and that the only solution to leaders and documentaries Islamic terrorism lay in their theocracy was foolish of us. by change agents that promise to transform your view of… The Islamic terrorist group is more mobile, more agile and more willing to take risks.

Government is Magic It plays the short game and so its violent actions are more apparent in the short Our technocracy is detached term. The Islamic dictatorship takes the longer view and its long game, such as from competence. It's not immigration, is harder to spot, but much more destructive. the technocracy of Suppose Islam Had a engineers, but of Holocaust and No One "thinkers" who read ISIS and the Saudis differ in Noticed Malcolm Gladwell and their tactics, but there was very (52 comments) Thomas Friedman and little in the way of differences While Western newspapers watch TED talks and savor when it came to how they saw us were debating whether or the flavor of competence, not to reprint the and non-Muslims in general. without ever imbibing its Mohammed cartoons, in substance. These are the The Soviet Union was not Nigeria as many as 2,000 people who love moderate because it chose to people were massacred by Freakonomics, who enjoy defer a nuclear confrontation the Isla... all sorts of mental… and because it was forced to Using Cultural Technology in come to the negotiating table. It the Culture War was still playing a long game that We often talk about a culture war, but we don't usually it never got a chance to finish. talk about what that means The Saudis are not moderate. They are playing the long game. We can’t win the War beyond protests over on Terror through their theocracy. That way lies a real Caliphate. movies and art exhibits. Culture is programming. The culture war is a Our problem is not the Islamic radical, but the inherent radicalism of Islam. Islam is programming conflict. a radical religion. It radicalizes those who follow it. Every atrocity we associate with Ideas are code. They're viruses. They're memes. Islamic radicals is already in Islam. The Koran is not the solution to Islamic Our form of code is radicalism, it is the cause. communication. A man alone isn't… Our enemy is not radicalism, but a hostile civilization bearing grudges and The Civilized Savage ambitions. "They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train/And though it's We aren’t fighting nihilists or radicals. We are at war with the inheritors of an old ARCHIVES smoky and crowded they're empire seeking to reestablish its supremacy not only in the hinterlands of the east, too civilized to complain." but in the megalopolises of the west. "Bongo, Bongo, Bongo", Danny Kaye The difference between the civilized man VISITORS and the savage is that the civilized man follows the 101 334 25 9 1 0 rules and the savage does Like not. A civilized man… Like Follow Go ogle + Blogger

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Western Post-Nationalism Responding to the Sydney Mohammed riots featuring bloodied police officers and Muslim children holding I' M R EADING beheading signs, 8 comments: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said, "What Anonymous said... we saw in Sydney on the weekend wasn't The US stinks We are a rotting nation devoid of morals and direction. Y multiculturalism but I am ashamed of the nation in which I live. You can say what you want about the Islamic extremism." Muslim barbarians...but they are kicking our ass. PAAC extremism is multicultural. TheBlackStone It is the essence of their EdwardCline 29/1/15 approach to BestPrice $4.00 multiculturalism. Only orBuyNew $8.00 through, what… Anonymous said... The Mirage of Moderate PrivacyInformation Islam What I would like to know is there a third, maybe unofficial status besides dhimmi in I'm Also Reading Travelers across the vast Islam? It seems that the second most important people besides Moslems themselves are stretches of the Arabian the active collaborators who are either monetarily compensated or ideologically aligned. Desert have been known to It is simply unimaginable that Islam can make gains without a third party helping to get lost and, in their thirst and exhaustion, make way for it.Charlie Hebdo has his direct opposite. There are active apologists who hallucinate oases with explain every atrocity away that they previously said was impossible to happen before palm trees and flowing that. From what I read it was no different during the original spread of Islam. Weak water. Western leaders and opportunists were always on the borders of Islam. Islam seems to have been policymakers lost in the pushed back when the remaining hardcore freedom lovers became tightly banded and TheIsraeliSolution vast stretches of madness stood against the Islamists as a united front. CarolineGlick that define the Muslim BestPrice $13.07 world are even more wont orBuyNew $19.08 29/1/15 to hallucinate the…

How the Left Wins Elections PrivacyInformation by Transforming Nations Just a common 'tater said... Elections are won by I'm Watching demographics. No soup Thank you Daniel, you really are on target. Isn't it amazing what OPEC oil money can company blindly dumps buy? Our politicians, our press, and I am beginning to think our spiritual leaders. The cans of its newest "Turkey Church in general has been silent regarding the murders, kidnappings, enslavement, and Coconut Bouillon with other atrocities against Christians and minority groups. The so called intellectuals have Nutmeg and Omega 3" in apparently been bought off by endowed chairs, research grants, fine buildings, and Aisle 6 of the supermarket without testing to see what maybe some dancing girls? demographics such a hideous concoction might It seems to me that there was a similar phenomenon prior to WWII. Notables such as appeal to. Will the product Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh thought Hitler had done wonders for Germany and appeal to lesbian single that we should learn from him. Well, we did learn something, but it was not what some mothers, divorced… thought we would. I wonder, whose head removal will it take before the American The Progressive- people wake up and do something, like vote out these sandal lickers in DC? 9/11/01 Traditionalist War evidently was not enough yet. Europe on the other hand, just blew their last chance. A The main weapon that lot of good marching down the street did. Maybe that will be our fate: a grand march progressives wield against through the Capitol, then the Caliphate. traditionalists is their ability to break down the 30/1/15 values that make up their worldview by challenging norms of behavior and Lilyhammer DenisO said... thought, with the goal of StevenVanZandt,... using cultural friction to BestPrice $14.49 "...Our enemy is not radicalism, but a hostile civilization bearing grudges and orBuyNew $18.48 slowly replace traditional ambitions..." values and mores with their own. This is a weapon You've narrowed it down to a "civilization"; wonderful. Our enemy is a civilization, now PrivacyInformation that… all we have to do is what? Regards, The Great Identity Crisis A moral crisis tends to go 30/1/15 RECENT C OMMENTS hand in hand with an identity crisis. It's when Anonymous commented on you don't know who you Suppose Islam Had Holocaust are that you're most likely Godfrey Daniels said... And No One_19 : “Anonymous to take refuge in a political Sad that commonsense always must be argued to the senseless. Pushing oysters into a posts this: "Side note/quick or ethical identity that parking meter comes to mind. history lesson Muhammed never provides you with the ordered an ethnic…” comfort of a false sense of superiority. When all other 30/1/15 Anonymous commented on The identities… Imaginary Islamic Radical : “I Israel's Peace Disease DenisO said... pray that those who are For the last twenty years currently enslaved under this Israel has been swept into Sad? Where is the common sense that must be argued, Godfrey? Nobody has any ideas cult can be shown freedom and an obsession with few of how to deal with an enemy "civilization", except by wringing their hands and whining. come to live…” parallels except to the I'd say that only goes so far, wouldn't you? Dutch Tulip economy. Anonymous commented on The Maybe it's time to narrow the enemy definition down a bit more? Except instead of tulips, its Imaginary Islamic Radical : commodity of choice is an To solve a problem, you have to identify it exactly, before you start. “Hopefully civilization will even more insubstantial The problem is religion, but you folks have a hard time admitting it. With religion, all finally get rid of the evil that has thing, the faint promise of evil is possible because any horror is, and has been, justified because it is, or was, god's plagued all races and all…” peace. Peace fever is the will. Anonymous commented on The disease consuming Israel Regards, Temperature At Which Global as surely as… Warming : “Down here in South Three Fundamental Mistakes 30/1/15 Texas, I enjoy burning old tires in Dealing with Islam to release carbon. I practice my We made three fundamental little seance…” mistakes in our dealings Anonymous said... with Islam. First, we Anonymous commented on assumed that the only Hopefully civilization will finally get rid of the evil that has plagued all races and all President Obie : “Thanks for the politically acceptable civilized people for the last 1400 years with violence, murder, slavery, rape, honor Alice's Restaurant storyline. answer was also the right killings, female genitalia mutilations and pedophilia. The bad part is while all of these Great grade school memories answer. This is the most things are crimes in a modern society, in Islam they are considered virtues. All of these listening to my older…” common mistake that "virtues" have been codified in their written word and promoted by leaders of this cult politicians make. Second, RecentCommentsWidget we established a construct non-stop for 1400 years. of a moderate and extreme Islam that reflected how 31/1/15 we saw it…

Islam, the Religion of Slavery Anonymous said... The slow collapse of Dubai, a *Iran'schief desert mirage built on oil I pray that those who are currently enslaved under this cult can be shown freedom and ofstafflinks money, human misery and come to live in peace with their brothers and sisters in the rest of the world. I pray for Sinaiviolence the greed of Western *IDFdetains this because the people group who have historically (and in modern times as well) businesses, reminds us 2armed suffered the most murders, wars, sex crimes and genocide have been Muslims at the once again of the fate of all Palestinians slave economies in the hands of good moderate Islamists. If you do care about Muslims as a people and/or any *Chadarmy end. But for all the of God's creations we all should call for an end to Islam. TODAY! sayskills120 skyscrapers in Dubai, the glittering avenues built by 31/1/15 slave labor and the… Photo Blog The Power of Weakness Post a Comment City Minute Weakness is one of the Torah Blog greatest forms of power The Sultan's Parsha imaginable in the modern Video Blog West. Weakness grants irresponsibility for personal actions and more Photoshop Blog importantly in a collectivist Obama Photoshopped society, it provides freedom from for the collective burdens of Commentas: society and civilization. LINKS The weak are not responsible for their Publish actions. They can rob,… News Gateway Pundit Power Line IsraPundit Oil Prices VIDEOS Israel Behind the News Links to this post IsraPort Israel National News Create a Link Right Side News The JIDF Home OLDER P OST IsreallyCool Atlas Shrugs Jihad Watch "My Article Delivered as a Jewish Indy Tea Party Speech" Standing with Israel Religion of Peace Gates of Vienna Middle East Info

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