I am almost beyond despair for our future as a civilization. Everything I grew up knowing was right is being turned upside down, and commonsense is being strangled. Today in the New York Times Bret Stephens' column was titled, "Bondi Beach Is What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like" and the comments section was dominated by those criticizing Stephens for being presumptuous about the motives of the killers in Australia. We are being told to deny what we see with our own eyes.
The progressive way of dealing with problems like this is to firstly pretend even harder that they don't exist and then to explain that it is all whitey's fault anyway. Since all races/religions are exactly the same, if, worldwide, we see that 90% of massacres of this sort are carried out by one particular Identity, the only possible explanation can be that they are acting out because whitey is not showing them enough love. Oh, and Gaza, yes we mustn't forget about Gaza. The solution is to squash, and eventually replace, those who don't have enough love in them. Then everything will be kumbayah.
Which teaches us what? If the lesson is that 'not all Muslims are jihadis', then one cannot disagree. But it does not follow that mass Muslim immigration is a good idea. Those who would advocate for a total ban on Muslim immigration could point out that if such a policy were in place, the brave Mr. Ahmad wouldn't have been there, OTOH neither would the two shooters, and this massacre wouldn't have happened.
Was the Australian government unable or unwilling to protect its Jewish citizens and visitors? There is a difference although, perhaps, not to the wounded and the dead.
I am almost beyond despair for our future as a civilization. Everything I grew up knowing was right is being turned upside down, and commonsense is being strangled. Today in the New York Times Bret Stephens' column was titled, "Bondi Beach Is What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like" and the comments section was dominated by those criticizing Stephens for being presumptuous about the motives of the killers in Australia. We are being told to deny what we see with our own eyes.
Thank you, Yascha, for your words and for sharing Claire's excellent commentary.
The progressive way of dealing with problems like this is to firstly pretend even harder that they don't exist and then to explain that it is all whitey's fault anyway. Since all races/religions are exactly the same, if, worldwide, we see that 90% of massacres of this sort are carried out by one particular Identity, the only possible explanation can be that they are acting out because whitey is not showing them enough love. Oh, and Gaza, yes we mustn't forget about Gaza. The solution is to squash, and eventually replace, those who don't have enough love in them. Then everything will be kumbayah.
The "civilian" who grabbed the gun from one of the killers has a name: Ahmad al-Ahmed.
Which teaches us what? If the lesson is that 'not all Muslims are jihadis', then one cannot disagree. But it does not follow that mass Muslim immigration is a good idea. Those who would advocate for a total ban on Muslim immigration could point out that if such a policy were in place, the brave Mr. Ahmad wouldn't have been there, OTOH neither would the two shooters, and this massacre wouldn't have happened.
Was the Australian government unable or unwilling to protect its Jewish citizens and visitors? There is a difference although, perhaps, not to the wounded and the dead.