Let’s consider. For years, persons concerned about the mass [...]]]> The Washington Post cranks out a lot of objectionable ideas, but its Sunday front page story portraying the sharia murder of two young Scandinavian women as an opportunity for the “far right” went way too far on so many levels, beginning with accuracy and fairness.

Let’s consider. For years, persons concerned about the mass immigration of hostile muslims have pointed out that the “religion” of Islam is more correctly understood as an all-encompassing political system. Dutch political leader Geert Wilders lives under 24/7 security because jihadist thugs in Europe have decided he needs to be murdered due to his resistance to the ideology. When Wilders gave a 2015 speech in Garland, Texas, he had a SWAT team of eight well armed men guarding him.

Wilders discussed the political nature of Islam in a 2017 interview, reviewed in Breitbart.com: Geert Wilders: Islam Is Not a Religion, It’s a Totalitarian Ideology:

GEERT WILDERS: Islam as an ideology does not allow freedom. Look at almost all the countries in the world where Islam is dominant — you see a total lack of civil society, of rule of law, of freedom for journalists, women, Christians, or even somebody who wants to leave Islam, an apostate.

You are allowed to leave Christianity or Judaism and become an atheist or the follower of another religion; you are not allowed to leave fascism, you are not allowed to leave Communism. And still today in Holland, in Germany, in the Arab world, the penalty is death if you want to leave Islam.

And let’s not forget the extreme violence, the murders where muslims kill nonbelievers because the koran says to do so in over 100 verses. There are so many examples — like the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3000.

It was so shocking that America pledged never to forget.

But the Washington Post has forgotten that Islam is a historic opponent of the West, and the paper should not condemn those of us who do remember and name the enemies of free people.

Perhaps if the press were not so politically correct in protecting the reputation of hostile Islam, the two young women would have thought twice about a hiking trip in Morocco (99 percent muslim). The media adoration of diversity uber alles does not stand up under scrutiny.

Below, Norwegian Maren Ueland (left) and Dane Louisa Vesterager Jespersen were murdered in Morocco by jihadists.

Murder in the Atlas Mountains, Washington Post, June 21, 2019

In a crime apparently intended to impress the Islamic State, two Scandinavian women were brutally slain in Morocco. The killings were seized on by the far right to attack Islam.

MARRAKESH, Morocco — Their screams must have carried for miles in the thin air of the Atlas Mountains, anguished sounds of a terrorist attack that no one was there to hear, see or stop.

Maren Ueland, 28, and Louisa Jespersen, 24, Scandinavian students who revered the outdoors, were descending North Africa’s highest peak in December when they encountered four men searching for Westerners to kill.

The men waited until after nightfall, then approached the women’s tent with knives and misplaced hopes of becoming Islamist heroes. They attacked Ueland, a Norwegian, and her Danish friend, Jespersen, in their sleeping bags, stabbed them until their bodies went limp and severed their heads in a ghastly sequence recorded on a cellphone.

The December 2018 attack, like so many in this age of mass killings and social media, was an act of senseless and performative violence. The killers, poor and uneducated, became absorbed in a violent Islamist universe they saw on the screens of their cellphones, then sought their own place in it. Their overriding aim was to impress the Islamic State, earn the status of soldiers in its apocalyptic struggle and see their own recording distributed across the group’s propaganda platforms.

Reality didn’t follow that script. The targeting of defenseless women and the abysmal quality of the recording managed to violate the standards of a terrorist group not known for having any. The Islamic State did not distribute the video, refused to acknowledge the attack and to this day has ignored the Moroccans’ pledges of loyalty.

The video went viral nonetheless. An attack that had gone unheard and unseen ended up being viewed millions of times by Islamic State supporters who didn’t share the group’s selectivity, by dark-Web bottom dwellers devoted to gore and by the morbidly curious.

The most alarming audience, however, was one that the attackers had not envisioned. Within days, the one-minute, 16-second recording spread rapidly across networks associated with the far-right and white-nationalist movements. Extremists posted gruesome scenes of the women’s deaths on Facebook, Twitter and other platforms alongside condemnations of Islam and calls for a civilizational clash.

“Look at this video of the one girl being decapitated alive,” wrote a far-right figure in Norway as he posted a link to his Twitter account. “It’s God awakening us Germanic men to action. It’s enough now. It’s enough.”

When officials in Norway and Denmark pleaded with the public to stop sharing the video, that effort was denounced by far-right groups as a betrayal of religion and race — censorship of content that revealed the true nature of Islam.

For families of the victims, the aftermath compounded the pain. Their mothers were inundated with messages on Facebook. Many were expressions of condolences, but some were gestures of astonishing cruelty, saying their daughters deserved to die and attaching links to the video of their slaughter.

The attack in Morocco was not of the same magnitude as the mass shooting that killed 51 people at mosques in New Zealand three months later, or the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka five weeks after that, when more than 200 people attending church services were killed. But all are part of a pattern of violence and viral incitement in which the extremes of intolerance react to and further radicalize one another online.

In the Moroccan case, a video that was created to strike a blow for Islamism was almost immediately repurposed and weaponized by those who consider the religion an existential threat to the ethnic and cultural identity of Northern Europe.

The victims were caught between warring ideologies that they had rejected in life. In the days after the attack, far-right activists scoured the women’s social media accounts and mocked them for their tolerant views.

“It is obvious to point out the naivete of the two deceased, but they are, as all, a product of their upbringing,” said an entry on Uriasposten, a Danish, anti-Islamic website. “Perhaps the eternal struggle against ‘prejudice’ has unpleasant side effects.”

This account of the attack in Morocco and its aftermath online is based on Moroccan court records including statements from the suspects; interviews with officials in Morocco, Norway, Denmark and the United States; and friends and relatives of the victims and of the suspects in their deaths. (Continues)

Politico recently went off the rails in diversity lunacy:

Tucker Carlson couldn’t let that pass, including a hint that [...]]]> How far has the liberal press descended into loony diversity ideology to embrace hostile Islam as a part of America? Don’t scribblers know that the koran has more than 100 verses advocating violence against nonbelievers?

Politico recently went off the rails in diversity lunacy:

Tucker Carlson couldn’t let that pass, including a hint that muslim immigration might not be a good idea from a safety point of view:

Spare audio:

TUCKER CARLSON: In case you missed it over the weekend there was a fascinating piece in Politico with the following counterintuitive title: “America is running out of Muslim clerics and that’s dangerous.” According to the article, the administration’s travel ban — the supposedly fascist one that affects just six out of dozens of majority Muslim countries — is causing a perilous shortage of Islamic clergy in this country. That is terrifying, explains Politico because quote “with no imam to guide them muslims could soon turn elsewhere for direction with possibly radical consequences.”

Huh. It’s kind of a weird thing to say when you think about it. We’ve been told for years that Islamic extremists are just a tiny minority within Islam. Foreign Muslims, our leaders have assured us again and again, are no more dangerous than native-born Americans — probably less dangerous actually because native-born Americans are horrible, as they often point out. And yet, according to Politico, young Muslims may spontaneously become violent if they don’t get the right kind of Imams, even though their faith and culture have nothing to do with violence.

Well, it’s funny how you never hear this same reasoning applied to other faiths. There is, by the way, a shortage of Episcopal priests in this country — have you noticed a wave of Episcopalian terrorism? Has Chuck Schumer demanded we import more Buddhist monks just to make sure young Buddhists don’t murder the rest of us? Probably not. Instead they’re telling us what they’ve always told us: it’s completely safe to admit more Muslims into America and bigoted even to question that assumption. And by the way, if you do question it, Muslim extremists might kill you.

Here’s the Politico article under discussion:

America is Running Out of Muslim Clerics. That’s Dangerous. Politico, November 26, 2017

How Trump’s travel ban worsened a shortage of qualified preachers—and why that’s dangerous.

Abu Marwan’s job has gotten a lot harder since Donald Trump took office. The president of the Masjid Al-Rahma outside San Diego, Marwan has relied on volunteers to serve as imam of the rapidly growing mosque ever since it opened in a strip mall several years ago. But these days, when he turns to those same volunteers, they always have something else to do. Marwan says it’s because they’re afraid of violence against Muslims, which has been on the rise since the 2016 election. As he puts it, “They always say they’re busy, busy. The truth is they just don’t want to do it right now.”

Bringing in an imam from overseas has been just as difficult. Marwan invited one from Egypt to come for the holy month of Ramadan this past June, but the religious leader was unable to get a visa. And so, these days, instead of a regular imam at Masjid Al-Rahma, there is a changing cast of volunteers, students and borrowed imams—and sometimes no one at all—to read prayers to the 300 strong congregation. “Every Friday it is a nightmare to fill in the gap,” says Marwan. “Sometimes I have to call hundreds of people and still I can not find someone. It’s very stressful.” . . .

As America’s Muslim population has grown from 2.3 million a decade ago to a current high of 3.3, according to the Pew Research Center, the number of imams in the country has struggled to keep pace.

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Why must America have a growing muslim population, created by unwise immigration? Not all allah-followers will murder infidels during their lives, but enough do to under the declaration of jihadist war against us to regard them as an enemy of western civilization. Simple prudence requires us to keep them out.

Co-ordinated attacks throughout Paris last November [...]]]> Unwise immigration — particularly welcoming a historic enemy of 1400 years duration — has its consequences. Paris is no longer a safe city because of the number of hostile Muslims in Europe, with one disturbing example being parishioners having their bags checked last Christmas to enter church for services.

Co-ordinated attacks throughout Paris last November killed over 100 for allah, including the people enjoying outdoor cafes like the one below.

Soldiers now guard iconic landmarks like the Eiffel tower.

Sensible travelers are responding rationally by going elsewhere. Paris businesses are suffering as a result, although no reporters have asked owners whether they think diversity is strength.

In addition, France has cancelled numerous public events because of the jihad threat to public safety.

Paris tourism chiefs demand rescue plan as attacks scare off visitors, Reuters, August 23, 2016

Islamist attacks have scared off thousands of tourists from Paris and its top attractions, helping rob the French capital of about 750 million euros ($850 million) in revenues, officials said on Tuesday.

Strikes and floods have also taken their toll, overshadowing a boost from the Euro 2016 soccer championships and leaving the tourism industry in need of massive new investment and a rescue package, representatives of the sector said.

“It’s time to realize that the tourism sector is going through an industrial disaster,” the head of the Paris region tourist board, Frederic Valletoux, said in a statement.

Visitors to the Arc de Triomphe fell more than a third in the first half of 2016 from the same period a year earlier, the tourist board said.

The Grand Palais museum reported a 43.9 percent slump and the Palace of Versailles just short of 20 percent.

“Hotels are already laying off staff though they’re not saying it. This industry is on its knees and it needs relief measures now. Hoteliers need the weapons to fight back,” Georges Panayotis, head of hotel research firm MKG group, told Reuters.

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Hotel revenues were down 15 percent this summer in the Paris region, he said. Wealthier tourists in particular were staying away, with high-end hotels reporting declines of between 30 and 40 percent.

Targeted VAT cuts and other tax breaks could help, Panayotis said.

Tourism typically provides more than 7 percent of France’s gross domestic product.

But it has had to contend with a series of disasters, from Islamic State attacks that killed 130 people in Paris last year to the carnage when a gunman drove a truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in the Riviera city of Nice this July.

“The Nice attack derailed our hopes of a recovery. It’s a dramatic situation and there will be job cuts in the sector if things do not get better by the end of the year,” Christian Navet, head of the UMIH-Paris-Ile-de-France hotel federation, said.

The number of Japanese visitors almost halved in the first half of the year from last, according to tourist board figures. Russian numbers were down by more than a third and Chinese by almost a fifth.

Weak activity in France contributed to a fall in first-half operating profit for French group AccorHotels. Air France-KLM expects its unit revenues to decline in July and August, partly due to the situation at home.

Only massive new investments can help protect jobs, said the tourist board’s Valletoux, urging Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault to meet officials from the sector.

“This is no longer the time for communication campaigns but to set up a relief plan,” he said.

In a message on Twitter, Ayrault said he was adding 500,000 euros to the 1 million-euro budget the state was contributing under a global 2.5 million-euro plan unveiled in March to promote France as a tourist destination.

($1 = 0.8830 euros)