tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29566846.post3891352523174258586..comments2023-11-05T01:45:58.784-07:00Comments on The Hesperado: It's the Violence, StupidHesperadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29566846.post-45343730732257564992017-12-10T11:54:12.895-08:002017-12-10T11:54:12.895-08:00How's this for a "belated" response?...How's this for a "belated" response? This one to Westward Ho above who wrote his comment on May 28, 2014. The obvious response is that a threat of violence is not non-violent, since a threat of violence only works in a context where actual violence has occurred, to telegraph the clear message that, in effect, the Muslims mean business.<br /><br />Secondly, Westward Ho isn't really factoring in my point about full-blooded Sharia, which is not present as a law anywhere in the West, and it is reasonable to suppose, can't, until after that part of the West is forced at gun- and swordpoint. Those who propose the "Creeping Sharia" thesis only have the data of incipient tips of an iceberg, some of which is seemingly benign or only aesthetically objectionable, others of which are objectionable, but not existentially dangerous absent the large-scale violence that could ruin a society (including ours).Hesperadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29566846.post-14889412528551189102014-05-28T22:13:26.633-07:002014-05-28T22:13:26.633-07:00Alarmed Pig Farmer, an astute commenter at JW, use...Alarmed Pig Farmer, an astute commenter at JW, used to say that the "sixth pillar" of Islam is the <b>implicit threat</b> of personal murder. (And the "seventh" is the victim pose.) <br /><br />I think this "sixth pillar" is an especially clarifying formulation of the takeover's dynamics. It's not the violence itself, it's the <b>implicit threat</b>, which is conveyed not by directly making a threat, but by being only seldom violent, or by being terribly violent perhaps in Africa, which subliminally informs every average Westerner of The Message of what Islam's "conciliatory" adherent is very capable of. And unmentioned, it's always there, like a specter, haunting the non-Muslim. That's the special sauce.<br /><br />The human imagination, and the desire to avoid opening a can of trouble that you keep assuring yourself is not *really* lurking - Right?! Right?! Right?! The need to maintain this assurance influences our actions much better, and as it enlists ourselves, we have a *self-maintained* blind spot about it.<br /><br />And staggering inroads are made without a shot, and roadblocks are not put up. Actual kinetic violence has none of this power and leverage.<br /><br />"Osmosis", you mock? The lefties aren't so wrong!<br /><br />It subtlety defies clear recognition even while we acquiesce to it. I think people had this blind spot back in Mo's day when they appeased his threatening bargains, too.<br />Westward Hohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10704895359147693687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29566846.post-39801107526915259272014-05-21T08:01:52.420-07:002014-05-21T08:01:52.420-07:00Westerners QUITE mistakenly believe ('think...Westerners QUITE mistakenly believe ('think' would be too generous a word here) that if Westerners are 'nice' to Muslims, then Muslims will be 'nice' to Westerners. PC MC Westerners have distilled Christianity into a suicidal and homicidal version of the 'Golden Rule' that both simultaneously omits the PRIMARY commandment (1) of the 'Golden Rule' - and artificially elevates the secondary commandment (2): <br /><br />1. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength: this is the first commandment.<br /><br />2. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.<br /><br />P.S. I believe that I am the inventor of the term 'Islam Lite' which I have been using to describe American Islam for years (particularly in the sense that modern black American Muslims have been practicing Islam Lite - for example, without FGM, burqas, etc.).<br />Eggheadnoreply@blogger.com