I have been off 'air' for a while, moving jobs and countries. While I have been otherwise engaged, the horrific attacks on Charlie Hebdo were perpetrated by Islamists who in turn were hunted down and killed by French police and security forces. The temptation was to immediately rush onto the airwaves and rant and rave (again) about the evil being perpetrated in the name of Islam, etc.. However, I thought maybe a period of reflection might serve me better. You judge.
Not for the first time, in the last 100 years, French Jews are under attack and being sacrificed at the hands of their fellow-countrymen. In 2013 French Jews were killed by an Islamist in Toulouse and now we see again, with the attack on the kosher supermarket in Paris, that Jews have been specifically targeted (also at Chalie Hebdo, so it seems). In the 1940's it was Vichy French that handed over Jews to the Nazis, to suffer at Drancy and extermination camps in the East and today it is the French who again offer-up the Jews - this time to murderous Islamists. Just as with the Nazis, so with the Islamists, making victims of the Jews won't ultimately save the French!
So we had the big march in Paris, showing solidarity with the victims of Charlie Hebdo. The BBC, amongst many news organisations made much of this event. Many words spoken about the right to free speech and expression, as was exemplified by the writers at Charlie Hebdo. Then, later in the week, Charlie Hebdo released a latest issue of their magazine and lo and behold, it carried a cartoon on the cover that featured Mohammed and was sure to anger Ismalists. True to form, the fine words spoken by the assembled mass media, just a few days earlier, didn't translate to many of them and their editors having the courage to display the cartoon in question. I tip my hat though, to Britain's Guardian which did. I usually hold this newspaper in contempt but here at least they let their actions match their words. Bravo!
However, before the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo hit the news-stands, we we treated in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and at the Paris march, to speeches from politicians and world 'leaders'. All spoke of the importance of the right of free speech and how this must be protected. Then, with the ink not dry on the editorials which commented upon the speeches and the march, the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was telling the organizers of the now weekly Pergida marches in Dresden and other German cities, that it would be best if this week's marches were canceled. I cannot be alone in seeing the complete contradiction in marching for free speech on Sunday and then advising against it, on Monday! I lack a thesaurus but there has to be a words stronger than rank hypocrisy to describe such actions.
And think of the consequences of this. Yet further reinforcement of the actions that have gotten us into this mess. We mustn't offend, we must appease!
The biggest problem facing Europe, and increasingly America, Canada and Australia, is the failure of multi-culturalism. Let's be very clear, Muslim immigrants in those countries are not assimilating. No one is saying that they cannot practice their religion but they need to adopt certain of the host country's values. Tolerance of other faiths, freedom of speech, the host country law being the only law, learning the language, etc.. Absent this, then these immigrants must be considered as a fifth column and a threat to the peace and stability of the host country and they must be expelled, just as you would do with any other threat.
The leftist policy of multi-culturalism has brought us to this and now we have to stand-up and say enough and then we need to do something about it and carry on doing something until multi-culturalism is consigned to the same dustbin of history where one would find Marxism and Communism. Let's hope though that the victims that suffer during the ridding of multi-culturalism do not number anywhere near the 10's of millions that suffered and died under those other failed ideologies.
I have just re-read the above and wonder who will take-up the cudgels on this? In Britain the main parties pay lip-service to a need for change. The Conservatives just maybe might do something. Labour spouts about the need to do something about immigration but them having been the ones that threw the immigration floodgates, wide open, they won't because of their need for its ethnic, client constituencies. UKIP says it would but I really can't see them as a realistic electoral success story.
While Barack Hussein Obama is President of the USA, don't expect any push back. This is the man that says that the Islamic State murderers are not Islamists! Those people who are killing Yazidis and Christians, in the most barbaric fashion claim to represent Islam. The people who carried out the attacks in Paris, and those caught-up in yesterday's shoot-outs in Belgium claim to represent Islam. Yet still Obama shames America by claiming the contrary. Perhaps he did the right thing by not attending the Paris march. Though he wouldn't have been alone in sounding hypocritical with his words, his presence would have been an embarrassment. Never forget, Obama wrote ' when the winds change and turn against Islam, I will stand with the Muslims' So his loyalties are clearly known!
Not for the first time, in the last 100 years, French Jews are under attack and being sacrificed at the hands of their fellow-countrymen. In 2013 French Jews were killed by an Islamist in Toulouse and now we see again, with the attack on the kosher supermarket in Paris, that Jews have been specifically targeted (also at Chalie Hebdo, so it seems). In the 1940's it was Vichy French that handed over Jews to the Nazis, to suffer at Drancy and extermination camps in the East and today it is the French who again offer-up the Jews - this time to murderous Islamists. Just as with the Nazis, so with the Islamists, making victims of the Jews won't ultimately save the French!
So we had the big march in Paris, showing solidarity with the victims of Charlie Hebdo. The BBC, amongst many news organisations made much of this event. Many words spoken about the right to free speech and expression, as was exemplified by the writers at Charlie Hebdo. Then, later in the week, Charlie Hebdo released a latest issue of their magazine and lo and behold, it carried a cartoon on the cover that featured Mohammed and was sure to anger Ismalists. True to form, the fine words spoken by the assembled mass media, just a few days earlier, didn't translate to many of them and their editors having the courage to display the cartoon in question. I tip my hat though, to Britain's Guardian which did. I usually hold this newspaper in contempt but here at least they let their actions match their words. Bravo!
However, before the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo hit the news-stands, we we treated in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and at the Paris march, to speeches from politicians and world 'leaders'. All spoke of the importance of the right of free speech and how this must be protected. Then, with the ink not dry on the editorials which commented upon the speeches and the march, the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was telling the organizers of the now weekly Pergida marches in Dresden and other German cities, that it would be best if this week's marches were canceled. I cannot be alone in seeing the complete contradiction in marching for free speech on Sunday and then advising against it, on Monday! I lack a thesaurus but there has to be a words stronger than rank hypocrisy to describe such actions.
And think of the consequences of this. Yet further reinforcement of the actions that have gotten us into this mess. We mustn't offend, we must appease!
The biggest problem facing Europe, and increasingly America, Canada and Australia, is the failure of multi-culturalism. Let's be very clear, Muslim immigrants in those countries are not assimilating. No one is saying that they cannot practice their religion but they need to adopt certain of the host country's values. Tolerance of other faiths, freedom of speech, the host country law being the only law, learning the language, etc.. Absent this, then these immigrants must be considered as a fifth column and a threat to the peace and stability of the host country and they must be expelled, just as you would do with any other threat.
The leftist policy of multi-culturalism has brought us to this and now we have to stand-up and say enough and then we need to do something about it and carry on doing something until multi-culturalism is consigned to the same dustbin of history where one would find Marxism and Communism. Let's hope though that the victims that suffer during the ridding of multi-culturalism do not number anywhere near the 10's of millions that suffered and died under those other failed ideologies.
I have just re-read the above and wonder who will take-up the cudgels on this? In Britain the main parties pay lip-service to a need for change. The Conservatives just maybe might do something. Labour spouts about the need to do something about immigration but them having been the ones that threw the immigration floodgates, wide open, they won't because of their need for its ethnic, client constituencies. UKIP says it would but I really can't see them as a realistic electoral success story.
While Barack Hussein Obama is President of the USA, don't expect any push back. This is the man that says that the Islamic State murderers are not Islamists! Those people who are killing Yazidis and Christians, in the most barbaric fashion claim to represent Islam. The people who carried out the attacks in Paris, and those caught-up in yesterday's shoot-outs in Belgium claim to represent Islam. Yet still Obama shames America by claiming the contrary. Perhaps he did the right thing by not attending the Paris march. Though he wouldn't have been alone in sounding hypocritical with his words, his presence would have been an embarrassment. Never forget, Obama wrote ' when the winds change and turn against Islam, I will stand with the Muslims' So his loyalties are clearly known!
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