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Showing posts with label Extremists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Extremists. Show all posts
August 18, 2021
April 5, 2021
The Bombs Will Fall On Iran’s Nukes
Since Iran has rejected any new negotiations or participants to the Iran nuclear deal, we must assume that the flaws of JCPOA will not be resolved and that Iran’s existential threats remains unabated. Further, Iranian elections this coming June 2021 are forecasted to bring more dangerous Iranian hardliners to power. Therefore, regardless of whether the US reenters the deal with Iran now, it will only mean a short term stopgap for restrictions placed on the Iran’s dangerous program for weapons of mass destruction. The end game for the Ayatollahs has not changed in gaining nuclear destructive capability and threatening Israel, the Sunni Muslim states, and the western world with this.While reentering the Iran nuclear agreement buys the world some time, and not that much frankly, the US, Israel, and other key allies will need to continue planning in earnest for what comes after the failings of the JCPOA deal, and that will most assuredly bring us back to the massive and devastating bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities with the Mother of All Bombs (MOABS) and other highly advanced weapon systems fitted for this.
August 6, 2020
We Are Comm-unity!
July 17, 2020
Homemade Self-Defense
This is what the future for protection of innocents in this country looks like?
If you take away legitimate police and their efforts to protect citizens then this will force people to buy, build, and use even more weapons in their own self-defense.
Anarchy, chaos, lawlessness, and the wild west will be sure to take over as the new normal.
We don't need more out of control gunslingers, gangs, and vigilantism battling for our streets.
Reform the police, protect the innocent people, and put the bad guys away. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
June 12, 2020
Defunding The Police Is STUPID!
This time to defund or dismantle the police!
While I am completely against corruption, racism, and police brutality, it is a BIG and STUPID mistake to hyper-generalize from some bad actors to the overwhelming number of good people that serve in law enforcement, who put their lives on the line to protect us everyday.
As with the health workers that protect us from Coronavirus and other horrible illnesses, so too with our police, we should be grateful for their protection and that they ensure some semblance of law and order and security in our society!
Yes the bad apples should be weeded out and punished, absolutely!
Also, after the latest incident with George Floyd, certainly reform is needed in terms of training and additional protections for the public.
But going alt-left crazy with proposals to defund and disband the police is completely over-the-top, irresponsible and destructive.
Hopefully, all the "normal" people out there will see the progressive folly for what it is and support the police in doing their critical mission, while also holding them accountable to do it with the integrity that they must. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
January 27, 2020
Life Equated With Hate
Does anyone get this sign from the Pro-Life rally last week?
Pro-Life is Pro-Hate
But equating Pro-Life with hate doesn't add up.
It actually seems the opposite that if you want to sanctify and protect life that you are loving people, not hating.
Sometimes to make a point, people will just say anything.
It's related to "gaslighting" where they want to manipulate you into questioning your own beliefs, values, and sanity.
Perhaps, throwing around terms like hate just dilutes the real meaning of it similar to making other false accusations against people.
We need to argue the issues, and not attack each other. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 2, 2019
Nike Is A National Disgrace
And they did it right before Independence Day this Thursday.
NIKE is a national disgrace!
Nike, should be standing strong to proudly display the American Flag, but rather they are like the Evil Axis, Iranians, that put it on the heel of their shoe--step on it and spit on it.
This is what we get as a nation when patriotism is turned on it's head, and people that want to bring down this country and destroy it are instead elevated as spokespeople and even fraudulent politicians for it.
Who would've thought after 9/11 that America would self-destruct from enemies within rather than from without. :-(
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
March 9, 2019
A Disgrace On The Democrats
They have become the new hate-mongering party!
Progressives no way.
Their bigotry, racism, and hatred are taking us backwards.
Their members' attack friends, allies, and patriots of this country.
And these bigots are worshipped and placed on the cover of Time Magazine.
To the 3,000 that were killed on 9/11, it is a disgrace.
To this great nation, it is bringing us down from being a light unto nations to ushering in darkness and prejudice.
Shame on Pelosi and Schumer and the other democrats who are allowing extremism and hate to dominate their agenda.
First they hated on Trump
(Ilahn Omar even hated on Obama!)
Then they hated on Israel and the Jews.
Who are they coming for next America?
(Source Graphic: Adapted from Time Magazine By Andy Blumenthal)
March 8, 2019
Democrats and Anti-Semitism
Please see my new article in The Times of Israel, called "From Belgium To The Democratic Party."
There are terrible anti-Semitic events happening in parallel in Europe and right here in America. This past week, Belgian hosted mocking and hateful caricatures of Orthodox Jews in their carnival procession. And right here in Washington, D.C., the Democratic Party made a complete farce of the handling of one of its own, anti-Semites, Rep. Ilhan Omar. Omar continues to vent her hared against Israel even going so far as to denounce its supporters as having "dual loyalty."
It is so disheartening to see the Democratic party reverting back to its ugly days and roots of hate just like during/after the Civil War when they were the party of "opposition to civil and political rights for African Americans."
The question is how far down this evil path will things go again? ;-)
February 21, 2019
-25,000 Jobs NYC
...Others like NY Representative, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are busy destroying jobs from her city.
After a grueling competition for the Amazon HQ2 with 200 cities offering incentives to land one of two 2nd Headquarters for Amazon, the winners were Arlington, VA and Long Island City, NY.
These lucky cities were to divide 50,000 new jobs and $5 billion in investment by technology and e-Commerce behemoth, Amazon.
Instead of thanking G-d for their good fortune and celebrating their win under the political savvy of New York's Governor, Andrew Cuomo and NYC's Mayor, Bill de Blasio, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez railed against the "corporate welfare" and basically killed the deal.
What should be critically noted is that incentives for Amazon were based on meeting their performance benchmarks for NYC and Arlington and were not corporate charity or handouts.
What Socialist, Ocasio-Cortez failed to understand is that Capitalism is successful precisely because of competition and incentives for performance, and that capital is ideally allocated to where it can get its highest return.
In short, New York and Virginia weren't giving away the farm, they were competing for great jobs and investment in their cities--and that's what 200 cities recognized from Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.
Aside from AOC's blatant bigotry and Anti-Semitism so far, she has goofed with a Green Deal that promised income security (socialist handouts) to those "unwilling to work" and sought to get rid of everything from "farting cows" to Airplanes, and now she's lost 25,000 jobs in NY.
Voters in NY and Democrats in Congress should be paying attention to their new Socialist champion and one of its extremists in chief.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
February 11, 2019
The New Faces Of Hate
"It's all about the Benjamins baby".
"They forget what country they represent."
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated about Israel's defending their sovereign border with Gaza amidst terrorist organization, Hamas-led violent protests, terror attacks, and infiltrations into Israel:
"This is a massacre. I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such. No state is absolved of the mass shooting of protesters."
"Silence" around the Palestinian cause "has been a little interesting to me."
Perhaps, the most concerning thing is where is the Democratic Party leadership in calling out these anti-Semitic hate-mongers in their ranks?
August 19, 2017
Between A Liberal Rock and A Conservative Hard Place
On the ultra-conservative right--Neo-Nazi and White Supremacists.
And in the middle (regardless of political beliefs)--good people of faith and integrity with seemingly nowhere to turn.
________
{And I don't know what this is, but this is what I am hearing...}
Behold and fear a great fear.
Evil and violence will soon be upon you.
The forces of crushing hate will collide and spread throughout the face of the earth.
And the people will suffer a very great suffering.
And they will call out to the L-rd, and they will repent from their misguided wayward ways.
And the L-rd will see their judgement and he will cause a great stirring in man.
Great weapons will be released and a very great cleansing of man's hearts will occur.
I say to you redemption is upon you.
Redemption first by great pain and suffering, and then by great joy and exaltation.
And peace and morality will be restored on Earth.
Here this and hear it well, the time is short and good people must ready.
Gather yourselves together and prepare for the end of days and the beginning of days.
Those that are good and gathered will see peace and survive the onslaught before my mercy while many others will perish.
{Then the streaming tapers off...}
________
I don't understand the call for a gathering--aren't we safer perhaps spread out?
Perhaps the gathering refers to G-d's promise to gather His people from the four corners of the Earth.
- And they will walk the sacred middle ground through the Red Sea to the promised Holy Land.
The liberal left and conservative right have been overtaken by violent nutty extremists and radicals.
They have "split" from normal thinking and doing the correct thing--they have gone over the top!
A new righteous center--driven by faith and a moral compass --desperately needs to emerge now.
Hopefully, this will bring us to a new peace and prosperity--because the current isn't working. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
August 13, 2017
Derangement Of Conscience
They represent the worst of what human beings have to offer--hate, bigotry, and violence.
The event was culminated when a car driven by one of these hate-mongers apparently intentionally slammed into a crowd of anti-protester and killed a 32-year old woman and injured 19 others--what a sick, sick soul!
This miserable event just 2 days shy of 2-months from when Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA) and 4 others were shot at a baseball field in Alexandria, VA by another nut job from the alt-left.
Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) said it right when he stated on national TV last evening:
"The hate and division must stop, and it must stop right now."
But as we face large, looming enemies on the international scene -- like dangerous Axis of Evil, North Korea and Iran -- with weapons of mass destruction aimed at our shores and cities, all we can do is hate and fight internally.
What is wrong with this country now -- when so many seem to have abandoned personal integrity and national unity -- and shoot verbally and physically at each other instead of at the real enemies that seek to lay waste to our beloved homeland of the free and the brave?
Soon the missiles will reign down and the hate will smelter in the derangement of conscience.
(Source Photo: Twitter)
June 1, 2017
Is Our Democracy Failing Us?
Before that was Stephen Colbert uncool, profanity-laced barrage against the President.
Even Madonna lost her sh*t and threatened to blow up the White House at the mass women's march earlier this year.
But all this is still only the tip of the iceberg, as liberals "resist" him and extremists even riot and commit acts of violence; the investigators look to impeach him; the mass media lynches him daily; witches try to cast a mass spell on him; and even late night comedians make him into the butt of every joke and asses wisecrack.
No respect anymore.
No genuine dialogue.
No negotiation.
No compromise.
No problem-solving.
No putting the nation first.
The glove are off as tempers and politics are boiling over in Washington, D.C. and all across the nation.
As liberals and conservatives battle it out for the direction of our country.
Some may say that this is what democracy is supposed to do...
But at this extreme, this is how nations self-destruct, not govern!
Who is laughing?
Certainly those that would threaten our way of life: Russia. China. North Korea. Iran. ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
Only sane Americans are crying out for leadership to stop killing each other and instead coalesce--irrespective of right and left--and to move this nation forward stronger in the world--militarily, economically, and socially.
As we continue to beat each other senseless with new revelations of debauchery and corruption every 5 minutes on TV, our politicians are black and blue, their agendas are dead on arrival, their proposals are torn to shreds, their votes are filibustered, the parties are deadlocked, the government nearly shutdown again, and progress is nowhere to be found.
As some states talk of succession, some nutty people out there are advocating for violence to our elected leaders, and others are even calling for civil war, should it come to it.
As many have commented, civility is gone from political discourse, and instead angry and violent discord rules!
This is not a healthy democracy, but a political system being torn apart by extremists and haters.
How do we get the destructive abnormal new normal back to a fruitful normal is normal again?
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
November 19, 2015
Vetting The Refugees--Do You Think It'll Work?
But now 31 States have come straight out refusing to take these refugees post the terror attack that happened just last week in Paris--where at least one of the terrorists was...
Guess what?
That's right! A fake refugee from Syria.
But what about the "intensive vetting process" that is being promised for these 10,000 refugees?
Well what can be more intensive than the vetting that the American government does on employees working for highly sensitive agencies like the CIA, FBI, and NSA?
So how has that worked out?
Probably not too bad, but the problem is that no vetting no matter how thorough is foolproof, hence major spies have infiltrated these organizations for years or even decades and caused immense harm to national security:
Robert Hanssen (former FBI--spied for the Soviets for 21 years)
Aldrich Ames (31-year veteran of the CIA, compromised 2nd largest number of CIA agents after Robert Hanssen)
Edward Snowden (leaked classified information from the NSA on our surveillance programs)
The point is that no matter how well we vet 10,000 or more refugees from Iraq and Syria, with ISIS vowing "to strike America at its center in Washington"--there certainly can be some errors in the screening and final adjudication process.
Again no vetting process is perfect--especially when the refugees themselves are admitting that fake ideas are being given out to them like candy in a candy store.
So that's the dilemma we now face:
HEART--do what our heart tells us to and help people in need by taking in the refugees.
OR
HEAD--follow our heads not risking another one or more potentially devastating terror attacks on the U.S. homeland.
The choice is heartbreaking or headache producing! ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
November 17, 2015
When Terror Strikes--We Do What?
Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal today writes compellingly about how tolerance for terror (or what he calls tolerance for intolerance) is allowing it to happen.
For example, Jews are getting knifed, stoned, and intentionally run over almost daily in the Holy Land and not a peep from anyone, except to blame it on settlements, even though this extreme barbaric violence was happening long before there ever was a single settlement.
It has become okay to use violence--even terrible sickening and brutal violence against civilians--and as much of it as one can muster--if you have a perceived gripe. Shall we talk burning victims alive, running over live bound victims with tanks, throwing gays off of the roofs of buildings, beheadings and crucifixions, serial killings and mass graves, abducting young girls as sex slaves, use of chemical weapons and indiscriminate bombings and shootings, and more.
So what do we do?
- We tolerate the intolerable by excusing absolute insufferable violence against innocent men, women, and children, because some are feeling upset or aggrieved--so we show maybe misplaced compassion, where we should be expressing outrage at inhumane acts of murder and barbarism.
- We negotiate to try and appease the terrorists, but they couldn't care less about deals when blood is the only thing that will quench their thirst for Jihad, power, and a new Caliphate.
- We use bold but empty phrases to placate the public and victim's families--such as we are at war or we will be merciless and we will destroy them. and then we perform another single bombing run and drop 20 in retaliation (on perhaps empty buildings as the enemy claims) after the U.S. has already run 6,000 bombing runs previously.
- We are afraid to name the enemy, with democratic candidates at Saturday's night debate even refusing to use the term "radical Islamists"
- We are afraid to fight the good and necessary fight--after the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, some are "war weary," or perhaps pacifists to an out of bounds extreme--where we are willing to risk another major attack on U.S. soil rather than appropriately defend ourselves and bring the fight to the enemy.
WAKE UP USA, EU, NATO, AND UN.
This problem is not going away--it is not "contained"--the war is not won--far from it. ;-)
(Source Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)
October 11, 2015
Imagining The Unimaginable
What if extremists in Iran stopped hating Israel and the United States, and instead liked or even loved us?
Not because of the recent agreement on nukes and lifting of sanctions, but actually in spite of it--because as the Ayatollah has said, he prohibits any further negotiations and often refers to the U.S. as it's enemy (the only thing missing is the usual Iranian chants of "Death to America!").
But today, I saw the Iranian family again the I referred to in a Sept. 27 blog post, where the father had a stroke and the son comes on the weekends from Texas to help his father with physical and occupational therapy to recuperate.
Well today, I saw the daughter too, and both she and the son where in the pool trying to help the father in every way to move and walk again. They swarmed around him in such loving-kindness, I couldn't believe the amazing display of love and devotion to any parent or disabled person. They were all there for him!
And my heart opened up, and I couldn't help thinking what if the Iranian leadership could be moderated by average normal people who just want to care for their families, earn a living, and worship and live in freedom?
What if the Iranian leadership could learn to forgive and love again those who they have hated for so long and so much--the USA and Israel?
If the U.S. can forgive Iran for the hostage crisis that took 52 American diplomats and citizens hostage for 444 long days and the bombing of the Beirut barracks that killed 241 marines, and Israel can forgive the endless Hezbollah terror attacks, the bombing of the Argentinian Jewish Center that killed 29 and wounded 250, the Holocaust denial, and threats of maniacal genocide...then surely, Iran can forgive the U.S.'s role in the 1953 coup that brought the Shah to power and can forgive Israel for merely existing!
As a son of Holocaust survivors, I am a die-hard for the defense and security of the Jewish people, so maybe today I am just being naive, foolish, or letting my imagination run wild.
But I feel that Hashem is putting the words on the screen through my fingertips...what if Esau can stop hating Jacob? What if Iran can stop hating the USA and Israel and there can be peace and not war?
This is a fantasy, but perhaps it can become a reality.
Instead of the cycle of hate, the sponsorship of terror, the secret building of nukes, and aggression escalating until ultimately major devastating military strikes...instead imagine abandoning the old hateful and belligerent ways...imagine forgiveness for the past transgressions and affronts...imagine peace!
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
February 27, 2015
Reform The Movement
Sheik Ahmend al-Tayeb, a grand imam in Cairo said "corrupt interpretations" of the Koran and of Muhammad was leading to a rise of Middle East-based terrorism.
This to hopefully stem the flow of what is now being reported as 20,000 foreign fighters flocking to join ISIS.
What is amazing here is that good Muslim people are recognizing the problem with radicalization, extremism, and violence and are speaking out.
Yet, many of our own leaders in the Western world still refuse to say the dirty words "Islamic terrorism."
The President saying instead: "No religion is responsible for terrorism--people are responsible for violence and terrorism."
So perhaps, according to this "logic," no movement is responsible for what their people do--only the individuals are?
And therefore, accordingly, the Nazis would not be responsible for the Holocaust, nor America for Slavery, nor Communism for political purges, oppression, and violation of human rights, etc. etc.
...in which case, there would be no apologies, no regrets, no reparations, no museums, no memorials, nothing--because this was just some individuals doing some bad things and those individuals are may no longer even be here with us.
Doesn't this ignore the very basic and fundamental fact that when the masses follow a movement's (genuine or distorted) ideological teachings of hatred, racism, and discrimination, and the people act act nefariously on this, then does not the movement itself hold some responsibility for the murderous and evil actions committed based on their doctrine?
The Sheik who denounced terror and called for changes to the education in the Muslim community is recognizing what apparently many of our own leaders refuse to, which is that they--and we--are responsible for what is taught and tolerated in our communities.
As Peggy Noonan recently wrote, "The reality is that the Islamic State is...very Islamic.
Currently, we are fighting a war on radical Islamic terrorism...whether that terror is committed on Charlie Hebdo, a Jewish grocery store, or the World Trade Centers.
That does not mean that tomorrow, we are not fighting against some other movement's treachery.
This is why good people everywhere must stand up and speak out when they see religions, governments, institutions, or other movements preach and teach lies, hatred, and terror.
Bad (or hijacked good) movements drive bad actors...so we must not only go after the bad guys, but also hold the movements themselves to account.
We must demand that the lies and distortions be called out for what they are and that truth and virtue be held up in its place. ;-)
(Source Photo: here with attribution to Front Page Magazine)
February 12, 2015
Dancing Around Anti-Semitism+
The Washington Post yesterday stated that the President "suggested that the January attack at a kosher supermarket in Paris was in fact [just] jihadists 'randomly [shooting] a bunch of folks in a deli.'"
Hmm...are we having a difficult time being totally honest about important issues these days?
Maybe just a few examples would include, not calling:
- An anti-Semitic attack, anti-Semitism.
- A terrorist, a terrorist--such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, which are now merely an "armed insurgency."
- The fight against terrorism committed by Islamists, a fight with "radical Islam."
- ISIS for them to be destroyed anymore, only that we will "defeat them."
- Syria on the use of chemical weapons initially, saying only that if they did, "they would be held accountable" (remember that vanishing "red line").
- Iran a serious threat to nuclear non-proliferation and global peace saying, "It is not a nuclear power."
- Russia annexing Crimea, a threat to Europe and NATO, branding it just a "regional power" play.
What can we expect in terms of blind hatred, racism, discrimination, anti-semitism and future terrorist attacks and war around the globe, when we can't even call a spade, a spade, anymore. ;-)
January 9, 2015
Cuddles Versus Lashes
On one hand, we have people in the West looking for a hug and cuddle (even if oddly, they think they have to pay for one).
While on the other hand, Islamist extremists are giving 1,000 lashes (the first 50 of which were proudly given today with more to come in the following weeks) for "opposition" blogging, and terrorists are killing hostages in a kosher grocery store in Paris and gunning down satirists making comics for Charlie Hebdo magazine.
Seems like somehow we just aren't mentally getting it (or maybe we can't stop "getting it" from the bad guys)!
Cuddles and lashes will never go together.
You cannot cuddle a terrorist!
Yet, we ostensibly have terrible difficulty even calling them Islamist terrorists and extremists, even though that is what they are.
They are killing people with AK47s in Paris and bombings in London, hijacked airplanes targeting the World Trade Center and Pentagon, beheading journalists and gassing civilians in Syria, kidnapping women and children in Nigeria, and slaughtering schoolchildren in Islamabad
However, we are and will unfortunately continue to get our lashes from them, as the threats are not gone or dissipating, and the war is not won or maybe has barely even begun--although we are "war weary".
We must awake from our cuddling stupor and realign ourselves to the mentality of 1000 lashes.
Appeasement will keep failing as the false thinking and broken promises of those who teach hatred and kill indiscriminately and barbarically will somehow just stop--they won't.
Sadly, be ready for the enemy upping of the ante with bolder, more daring, crazier, and deadly attacks.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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