[Dhaka Tribune] Will the government now start taking seriously its duty to protect citizens with the urgency it requires?
And will it forthrightly declare that there will be zero tolerance for hate crimes, and that those who are guilty of such wanton murder will be hunted down and brought to justice with the full force of the state?
Let us make no mistake: Monday’s brutal murders of Roopbaan editor Xulhaz Mannan and Tanay Mojumdar in Kalabagan were hate crimes, and they were targeted for their brave championing of LGBT rights.
Whether you support LGBT rights or you do not, the one thing that we must all agree on is that there can never be any justification for murder, and that those who are guilty of such savage slaughter are enemies of the state and of everything that is decent in humanity.
The government must understand that first and foremost this is a law and order issue, and that it cannot tolerate gangs of murderous fanatics killing with impunity.
The government’s first responsibility is to keep all of us safe and secure, and it is failing signally in this task.
This failure is only compounded by the government’s risible claims to have matters under control or that these kinds of assassination'>assassinations are isolated incidents.
Nor is it helpful to point the finger at its political enemies before any kind of investigation has taken place.
Worst of all, when the government feeds the mind-set that people need to watch what they say and write, by questioning what victims wrote or believed, it only emboldens and encourages the killers.
When the police refuse to take action on threats made against LGBT activists, and discriminate against, harass and threaten them themselves, and when they have been utterly unable to bring those who committed such crimes previously to justice, is it any wonder that killers feel safe to target the community with impunity?
The government must uphold the rule of law and safeguard the public.
These killings must stop, and the government cannot rest until they do. No effort can be spared to ensure that all of us are safe from slaughter in our own homes.
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[AA.TR] Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... or anti-Muslim racism is still not even acknowledged as a crime or a motivation for hate-crime in most European countries. In fact we still face a continuing absence of reliable and nation- as well as European-wide data on Islamophobic incidents.
It's only fair -- so often Islam is not acknowledged as a motivation for crime and hate crimes. And so in both cases the actions themselves are judged on their innate criminality.
In 2014, only five states of the 57 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) member states officially reported on hate crimes against Muslims, whereas civil society reported in 21 countries.
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How many deaths are caused by Islamophobia? How may deaths are caused by Infidelophobia by Moslems?
It appears that the latter number greatly exceeds the former. If so outlawing teaching the latter should take precedence over outlawing Islamophobia. No?
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No.
Islam needs to be criminalized, and you should never be able to re-produce. Your kind is too ignorant to walk this planet in civilization.
We should deport all people like you that defend that disgusting piece of shit fake religion to Islamic countries so you may try your hand with being universally stupid there.
Personally I feel that religion (or Political ideology as Islam appears to be) is a CHOICE. Thus should not be protected from criticism, ridicule, or discrimination. Be it Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Athieism, Jedi, or that spaghetti monster religion.
[Observer] In an essay in The Wall Street Journal recently, Thomas C. Reed proposed that, to "stiffen the collective spines of our allies in this time of troubles," American conservatives might think of advancing a military leader for president.
"It’s Eisenhower Time for Republicans" read the headline of Mr. Reed’s essay, in which the former U.S. Air Force secretary described the desperation of the anyone-but-Trump element in the GOP this way: "Republicans, contemplating an avalanche of Donald-detonated losses in the fall, dream of a savior emerging from the Cleveland convention."
These murmurings and hopes might have begun with a small group of conservatives who have become enchanted by the idea of James Mattis, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general who last served as commander of U.S. Central Command, running for president. He is known as the "warrior monk" and is said to have carried with him during deployments a copy of Meditations, a classic tome of stoicism written by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Mr. Mattis has routinely batted down the idea of running for the White House, and said last week he believes that calls for him to do so are symptomatic of a nation that has lost its way. "No, I haven’t given any thought to it," Mr. Mattis remarked during an appearance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It’s like America’s lost confidence and lost faith and rational thought."
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His presence on the ticket would neutralize many of the unfavorable perceptions surrounding the former first lady and Secretary of State.
No, it would not. She would listen to him even less than the current president listens to Joe Biden... though she would parade him in front of the television lights a good deal more -- it's the hot new fashion accessory, donchaknow.
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after reading former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’ Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.
...The same SECDEF Gates who relates in the same book how badly let down he was by his boss' antics but never seemed to find the courage to stand up and tell the nation how bad it was until AFTER he retired?
That Robert M. Gates?
Thanks, but no.
Mike
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An excerpt:
That’s not a knock against Rensin but an observation that it’s remarkable Vox would publish what Smith calls “a precision-guided missile of perspicacity that rose high into the air and scored a direct hit on its own deck.”
Rensin observes that “the smug style has always existed in American liberalism, but it wasn’t always so totalizing.” That’s because liberalism’s appeal has become more selective in recent decades. Sixty years ago, “the smug style belonged to real elites, knowing in their cocktail parties, far from the ears of rubes.” In the ensuing decades, the “rubes” have increasingly voted Republican:
[FrontPageMagazine] I am in awe of The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain. Author Dario Fernandez-Morera, a Northwestern University Professor and Harvard PhD, argues that elite scholars are peddling a myth – that Islamic Spain, c. 711 AD -1492 AD, was a paradise. Fernandez-Morera's job is to expose historical realities. The main text is 240 pages. There are 95 pages of notes, a bibliography and an index. It was published in February, 2016 by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
This book is an intellectual boxing match. The author shreds not just one opponent, but a series of intellectual bigots, prostitutes and manipulators of the common man. Fernandez-Morera's biceps gleam as his lightning footwork and peerless preparedness dazzle. Our hero risks much, from hate mail to non-person status.
The reader is plunged into vast landscapes, international intrigue, arcane customs, and timeless heroism. One envisions veiled women and bejeweled slave girls, the smoking ruins of churches, enslaved, whipped Christians forced to carry their cathedral bells to be melted down to embellish mosques, heartbreaking suffering and eventual victory.
Fernandez-Morera allows the propagandists enough rope to hang themselves. All he has to do is quote them. Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, The University of Chicago, Boston University, Sarah Lawrence, Rutgers, Indiana University, Cambridge, Oxford, The University of London, NYU, Norton, Penguin, Routledge, Houghton Mifflin, the Pulitzer Committee, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Carly Fiorina, children's textbooks, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, PBS, The New York Review of Books, First Things all are in the dock, tripped up in their own false testimony. The inclusion of First Things might surprise; it is a Catholic publication. In it Christian C. Sahner praises Muslims who "exhibited a surprising degree of religious flexibility" because they waited a few decades before razing the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Damascus, rather than destroying it immediately upon arrival. Really. Much more at the link
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And yet, not one word of it will make the slightest difference.
Our "Cultural Elites" (read: Eloi) Will die before admitting to their cultural treason. They will get their wish, sooner and much nastier than they expect.
My only regret is that we will get dragged down with them.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
