Quote:May want to check our immigration rate. Although as this mass shooter was an American it's hardly relevant.
yes, this person was an American. He was the natural born son of afghan immigrants. A few months ago an Afghan woman was dragged and beaten to death in the streets for allegedly leaving the faith while the entire crowd watched and cheered. I am sure that he was taught the most rigorous brand of tolerance and inclusion in his household.
I have to say that something like this is a tragedy, beyond all comprehension. I an only imagine the trauma of those that survived this episode and i can't begin to fathom the bravery of the officers that had to go into an active situation that is a physical manifestation of hell on earth. No matter how tough i think i am, i will always hold my manhood cheap compared to those who put their lives on the line in service of others.
Having said all that... Huhhhhhh. Here we go again. In France in honor of the European Championships (Soccer i know) they created an APP that alerts you to the location of any active terror location (I wish i was kidding.) There's even a special feature that provides multiple alerts if you have massive concurrent attacks at multiple locations. Just think about that for a second. This isn't some third world banana republic. This is one of the crown Jewell's of western Society being forced to go to these lengths. Are they doing this because the Westboro Baptist Church shot up a magazine? Did something something faith of our lord kill 150 people there last year? No of course not.
We now know that the shooter in question phoned 911 to make sure that there was no ambiguity that he was doing this in service of the Islamic State. What is the Islamic state, it's the largest most concentrated terrorist state in the history of the world. Anyone attempting to draw a moral equivalency to a domestic religion is going to have to show me where A group of wacko Christians took over a land mass the size of Texas and started drowning people in cages while recording it for propaganda purposes. It is plainly absurd.
Moreover, it's been 15 years since 9-11. 15 years. We still haven't had a meaningful conversation in this country about what Shariah Law is, what a caliphate is, what Jihad is, etc. There were people on this very board going through mental legal and financial gymnastics to come up with a way to make mortgages SHARIAH COMPLIANT.
The great flaw with the modern incarnation of multiculturalism is that it really doesn't require you to know anything about culture. All you have to do is hang an intellectual open for business sign on your front door that everyone is exactly the same who am i to judge and you are accepted. It doesn't require any real level of discernment or understanding of other cultures. It doesn't require any analysis. It just requires a devoted sense of moral relativism and abra cadabra you are seen as the enlightened.
If you take the time to actually examine the culture in middle eastern Islamic countries you would see that there are no Gay pride parades. They don't have public gay night clubs that everyone knows about that are safe and free from oppression.
In America, people who have strongly held beliefs against homosexuality pass Rfra laws so that we don't have to bake cakes, we might even oppose an expansion of an HRO here or there if it's not football season. The left calls THAT fascist. Real fascism exists in those countries that throw Gay people off buildings, stone them, or just pretend that they don't exist.
Contrary to popular belief, the History, tradition, and culture (based on the quran) established in Muslim ruled countries has a lot more to do with what is and is not Islamic than what the president or the left pronounces. ISIS is the most successful Caliphate in the modern history of Islam. This designation is built almost solely on their ability to HOLD AND OCCUPY LAND. As long as there are black flags flying over large parts of Syria Iraq and the like it would be the equivalent of someone walking on water. That's what generates this groups inordinate credibility, not LABELING THEM ISLAMIC.
The most disturbing thing about San bernandino and Orlando is the destruction of the generally accepted terrorist model. We are now seeing women involved in radicalization and we are dealing with solidly middle class individuals that are willing to throw away what were seemingly good situations in service of a demonic ideology. That's a fundamental departure from the jobs for jihadis view of terrorism as an extension of poverty for an oppressed minority.
There are efforts within the global muslim community to reform the ideology, culture and provide better context for the history of the faith and a brighter vision for how it can be expressed moving forward. The only way that we can support that positive change is to admit that it is necessary. That's why its important that in times like this we don't just hand out 1.6 billion get out of jail free cards to a religious and political ideology that is quickly becoming the potential evil of the 21st century.