Saturday, November 05, 2005

Youths Islamofascists Torched An Ambulance

Roger points out that the Islamofascist violence is not abating in France:
Widespread riots across impoverished areas of France took a malevolent turn in a ninth night of violence, as youths torched an ambulance and stoned medical workers coming to the aid of a sick person. Authorities arrested more than 200 people, an unprecedented sweep since the beginning of the unrest.
And did I forget to mention that 9,000 police cars have been stoned in France since the beginning of the year? 9,000!?

Oh, and they set a disabled woman on fire. Because they feel "oppressed" you see. C'est la vie...

Look down just a few posts to:
It is better to be opposed by an enemy than to be adrift in meaninglessness, for the simulacrum of an enemy lends purpose to actions whose nihilism would otherwise be self-evident.
Killing or even attempting to injure medical personnel in the act of rescue is nihilism pure and simple. The irony is that rationality would easily argue that anyone attacking medical personnel should either be killed on sight or immediately whisked into a rubber room.

And it exposes the great Catch-22 of the advance of civilization: We've somehow advanced to the point where the best of our societies have their lives constantly at risk to help save nihilists. Because they truly believe that nobody is beyond the reach of being "saved". And the very success of our best via these heroic acts helps foster the very dependence that is a -- probably the -- critical root cause of nihilism.

And why do they perceive ambulances as evil? Because as PALLYWOOD makes clear, they themselves use them as mere props -- if not actual instruments of terror.
"Recent newspaper stories report how imams and community "mothers" have been marching against the violence, only to have themselves stoned and jeered. De Villepin unleashed his ultimate weapon and it turned out to be a rubber sword.

What de Villepin's planning probably missed was that the millet system plus the Internet formed a combination that would go through the 21st century "impassable Ardennes" like s..t through a goose. The millet system meant that potentially hostile foci were were already pre-deployed outside the cordon, often in cities outside Paris. And the Internet of course ensured that command and control could be exercised at a distance by command cells despite any number of deployed riot police. My guess is that by day 6 or 7 the French leadership began to doubt whether their impenetrable defenses would hold. By 9th day, I think, a real panic had begun to set in and they are now scrambling for a Plan B."
BEST QUOTE HEARD SO FAR TODAY: "Often wrong but never uncertain."

Friday, November 04, 2005

March, 1939?

The Root Of The French Fried Fires

"They therefore come to believe in the malevolence of those who maintain them in their limbo: and they want to keep alive the belief in this perfect malevolence, for it gives meaning-the only possible meaning-to their stunted lives. It is better to be opposed by an enemy than to be adrift in meaninglessness, for the simulacrum of an enemy lends purpose to actions whose nihilism would otherwise be self-evident."

UPDATE: Here's the non-signup link to the Taheri article you should have read by now.
'... the issue jelled around a demand by the representatives of the rioters that the French police leave the "occupied territories"'
Day By Day delivers this week's knock-out blow:

Thursday, November 03, 2005

ORWELL SPINNING IN HIS GRAVE DEPT: "Aside from protecting us at the front and the rear, our great leader Kim Jong Il, the benevolent father of the people, showed us mercy by filtering the water. And, in order to help and care about the health of our people, he progressively practiced appropriate measures. Now, in North Korea, the land of pure hope, the people can gracefully drink clean water through the endless love of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il." (HT Publius)
(C)BS Update: Mary my better.
What the hell-ABLE? Over?
"But this is France."

UPDATE: "Sadek has learned how to be French. He is the perfect Frenchman. The path ahead is tough- and he quit. Fight the Nazis? Non, too hard. Carry groceries up stairs? Merde! J'ai stoppé."

AND I WOULD TOP THIS BUT I CAN'T: From his hospital bed, Le Pew issued an apology to the Parisian cat community, explaining that "I am to be walking in zee park one day, in ze merry merry month of Mai," and "Pepe, he is to thinking this feline girl, she is un belle skunk femme fatale, no?"
"C.S. Lewis once said that the greatest advantage that the devil has is the belief that he doesn't exist."
Darn, and I was so sure listening to the lefties that being high and dry in Colorado would be such a good real estate investment...

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

"Precisely those who do not recognize Israel's right to exist have been opposed to the birth of an independent Palestinian state. Such as happened in 1948 when, in order to prevent the Jewish state from seeing the light of day, they only prevented the creation of the Palestinian state foreseen in 1947 by UN Resolution 181. And why did Jordan, instead of annexing Cisjordan in 1949 and Egypt, instead of governing the Gaza Strip in 1967, never agree to have a Palestinian state in those territories?"
"The First Amendment specifically protected the free exercise of political speech, and yet under the BCRA the First Amendment now offers more protection to nude dancing and pornography than it does to political candidates who want to communicate with prospective constituents."

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

"These are not simply American claims, they are also the official positions of the Egyptian, Algerian, and Saudi governments."

Dalrymple On The Heart Of Suicide Hell

"Of course, hatred is the underlying emotion. A man in prison who told me that he wanted to be a suicide bomber was more hate-filled than any man I have ever met. The offspring of a broken marriage between a Muslim man and a female convert, he had followed the trajectory of many young men in his area: sex and drugs and rock and roll, untainted by anything resembling higher culture. Violent and aggressive by nature, intolerant of the slightest frustration to his will and frequently suicidal, he had experienced taunting during his childhood because of his mixed parentage. After a vicious rape for which he went to prison, he converted to a Salafist form of Islam and became convinced that any system of justice that could take the word of a mere woman over his own was irredeemably corrupt.

I noticed one day that his mood had greatly improved; he was communicative and almost jovial, which he had never been before. I asked him what had changed in his life for the better. He had made his decision, he said. Everything was resolved. He was not going to kill himself in an isolated way, as he had previously intended. Suicide was a mortal sin, according to the tenets of the Islamic faith. No, when he got out of prison he would not kill himself; he would make himself a martyr, and be rewarded eternally, by making himself into a bomb and taking as many enemies with him as he could.

Enemies, I asked; what enemies? How could he know that the people he killed at random would be enemies? They were enemies, he said, because they lived happily in our rotten and unjust society. Therefore, by definition, they were enemies—enemies in the objective sense, as Stalin might have put it—and hence were legitimate targets.

I asked him whether he thought that, in order to deter him from his course of action, it would be right for the state to threaten to kill his mother and his brothers and sisters—and to carry out this threat if he carried out his, in order to deter others like him.

The idea appalled him, not because it was yet another example of the wickedness of a Western democratic state, but because he could not conceive of such a state acting in this unprincipled way. In other words, he assumed a high degree of moral restraint on the part of the very organism that he wanted to attack and destroy."

(HT Charles) Dalrymple gets to the heart of the matter. One part mental illness and one part attacking us in -- and relying upon -- the heart of our virtue. And on reflection, it's nearly impossible to distinguish this from the moonbats...

As Wretchard pointed out, we have it correctly sized up as a long one. Well, on our more sanguine days anyway...

Monday, October 31, 2005

Miniter On ...

Pushing back the hands of the Tinfoil clock. It's a reasonably persuasive piece and I hope he's right. Unfortunately, it doesn't invalidate the basic Tinfoil Apocalypse thesis: Technology keeps growing but their minds don't...
JAW DROPPINGS a brewin': 9,000??? ... ?
TODAY'S INNUMERACY UPDATE: The reverse Ponzi scheme.
TODAY'S UPDATE from the "extremely complicated science" department.
"Islam has always been militant and the West only recently supine. In fairness, Islam's only fault may be that it retained a belief in itself long after the West embraced self-disgust. It may be that Gingrich's Long War is less about fighting Muslims than about the West rediscovering itself. While it's apparent battlefields may be in the mountains, jungles and desert fastnesses, the only frontier that matters is in its own heart."

Sunday, October 30, 2005

"If the media wanted the US to lose this War in Iraq what would they change about their reporting today?"
COMMENT OF THE DAY -- AND MORE: "It is for these reasons that the eventual resolution of the war on terror is inextricably bound up with dismantling the welfare state, with one side in the civil war absolutely determined not to reopen the issue. The tipping point which leads to total war, our own Maginot Line, runs now through our own societies and will only be crossed in locality after locality as affluent professionals and their children, rather than immigrants, less educated citizens and inner city welfare recipients, are blown apart." As you can imagine, you need to read Wretchard's post first...
"Islamofascists are cowards. They attack unarmed civilians precisely because they know they cannot succeed with their activity any other way. Anyone who would plan and carry out this kind of crime has no sense of humanity, honor, or worth. The only rational response is to find them and kill them before they attack more children for their sick and twisted motives."