it's fun to watch religious myth believers persecute and kill each other.
On Friday, December 19, 2014 9:48:00 AM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > *Has the West Lost the Will to Live?* > > Posted By *Mark Tapson* On December 18, 2014 > > When it became too obvious to deny that the hostage crisis in Sydney, > Australia was an act of Islamic terrorism, Prime Minister Tony Abbott asked > Aussie citizens for calm, saying > <http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/12/15/hostage-situation-reportedly-unfolding-in-sydney-chocolate-shop/>, > > “The whole point of politically motivated violence is to scare people out > of being themselves. Australia is a peaceful, open and generous society – > nothing should ever change that. And that’s why I would urge all > Australians today to go about their business as usual.” That’s what a > politician is expected to say. But what he should have said is that the > time for business-as-usual is over. > > Recently my friend Doris Wise Montrose – founder of Children of Jewish > Holocaust Survivors <http://cjhsla.org/> and its related site for > self-defense instruction, Jews Can Shoot <http://cjhsla.org/jewscanshoot/> > – brought to my attention something she found disconcerting. It was a > Facebook post by a very popular Israeli news blogger, a brief update on the > knife > attack > <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/video-cctv-footage-released-of-stabbing-in-israeli-supermarket-9905059.html> > > perpetrated by a young Arab on shoppers in a Jerusalem supermarket. This > update was accompanied by mention of the blogger’s own mundane shopping > trip to a different supermarket, and a photo of the contents of his cart. > > Doris commented to him that connecting the two experiences in the same > breath, in the same tone, seemed oddly cavalier. The blogger replied that > it was simply an acknowledgement that this is the way of life in Israel – > her citizens refuse to be cowed; they proudly carry on even with terrorism > in their midst. Business as usual. > > Last month novelist Jack Engelhard, who writes a weekly column for > Israel’s *Arutz Sheva*, wrote an op-ed > <http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/16006#.VIAUezHF-Sr> > questioning precisely this attitude of proudly taking terrorism in stride. > He noted that in the wake of four rabbis being hacked to death in a > Jerusalem synagogue, for example, Israeli life went on as before. Engelhard > wrote: “Hurray for Jewish bravado,” but > > are Israelis getting too used to this? Is this a case of Israelis proving > that nothing can stop them, or is this a case of Israelis accepting their > fate as sheep doomed to be slaughtered? When will it end… how can it end… > when no matter what happens ‘everything is back to normal’? > > You often hear the cliché that if we let the terrorists change our way of > life, change who we are, then they win. But they *have* changed our way > of life and who we are as a culture. Look at what has become of air travel > in the wake of 9/11 and the bungling Shoe Bomber: passengers shuffling > along like cattle in long security lines, removing our shoes and laptops, > submitting to invasive scans by the useless TSA, etc. This is but one > example of our “new normal,” and as incidents like the Boston Marathon > bombing and the Jerusalem synagogue butchering and the Sydney > hostage-taking become more and more common, they too will become our new > normal. > > The jihadists need not carry out another 9/11 or a nuclear strike in order > to ultimately prevail. Terrorism is a war of attrition, a strategy of death > by a thousand cuts > <http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/11/23/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-2/>. That > means we live with the subtle but ever-present expectation that a so-called > “lone wolf” like the Sydney gunman, or a suicide bomber, or a well-trained > team of merciless slaughterers like the Mumbai or Nairobi terrorists could > strike anywhere at any time: a mall, a café, a market, a school, a > synagogue, a subway, anywhere. > > For the victims of terrorism life doesn’t go on at all, and it is forever > altered for the surviving family members and friends. The rest of us live > with the knowledge that next time, it could be us or our loved ones. The > psychic attrition is incalculable, and it sits in our consciousness like a > cancer no matter how much we tell each other that we must not live in fear. > > In an address > <http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/197232/holocaust-lesson-dont-just-mourn-fight-back/#ixzz3L6nz9euR> > > to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust earlier this year, J.J. Goldberg > of the *Jewish Daily Forward* praised those Jews during the Holocaust who > “fought back by surviving another day in the face of the inhuman killing > machine, and then another day and another. They fought back by maintaining > their humanity and dignity in the face of utter depravity.” > > But that is not fighting back; it certainly is not victory. It’s simply a > dignified surrender. To accept living under the cloud of terrorism while > declaring stubbornly that it won’t change us is a terrible self-delusion. > It is a fatal misconception to believe that simply denying terrorists the > satisfaction of terrorizing us is any kind of a victory at all. Our > humanity and dignity mean nothing if depravity wins, if our civilization > succumbs to a hungrier, more ruthless one, if the world enters a Dark Age > under a totalitarian theocracy. The only victory worth having will come > when we bring the terrorism to an *end*. > > The West is in decline for a number of reasons, one of which is its > cultural capitulation in the face of an ascendant Islamic fundamentalism. > It is as if we, or at least our leaders and elites, have lost the cultural > will to live. We need to get in touch with a sort of cultural rage, a > fierce determination to crush threats to our culture, our values, and our > liberty. We need to demonstrate that our tolerance has reached an end, that > there will be no more coexistence with an ideology openly dedicated to our > destruction. “Never mind *normal*,” as Jack Engelhard put it. To > paraphrase his wish for Israel, for once let our blood “be exceptional and > cause for nausea and trembling” among our enemies. Show the jihadists that > there will be no more business-as-usual capitulation, and that they can > expect us to unleash hell <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc8fqgbU_SU> > in retaliation for a single drop of Western blood. > > We have a President who actually announced to the world that “the future > must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” At the rate > we’re going, it won’t. One thing is certain: the future will belong to the > culture that is not hamstrung by cultural self-doubt, that is not mired in > apologetic self-abasement, that is not burdened by historical guilt induced > through decades of politically correct indoctrination, and that burns with > a will to win, no matter how long it takes or what it costs. 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