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Airport News Network is a joke Love it when they expose themselves
Selectively editing clips just their degenerate worldwide
Acosta is a grandstanding piece of shit anywayNot many folks under 35 consume news via these decaying 24hr news channels anyway Social Media is the way forward
These 24 hr news channels are going the way of Hard Copy Newspapers and Radio stations - Extinction
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Great article from Hirsi Ali on Omar and the rise of Muslim anti-Semitism in the west.
Edit - ah it's pay walled. Here it is:
I once opened a speech by confessing to a crowd of Jews that I used to hate them. It was 2006 and I was a young native of Somalia who’d been elected to the Dutch Parliament. The American Jewish Committee was giving me its Moral Courage Award. I felt honored and humbled, but a little dishonest if I didn’t own up to my anti-Semitic past. So I told them how I’d learned to blame the Jews for everything.
Fast-forward to 2019. A freshman congresswoman from Minnesota has been infuriating the Jewish community and discomfiting the Democratic leadership with her expressions of anti-Semitism. Like me, Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia and exposed at an early age to Muslim anti-Semitism.
Some of the members of my 2006 AJC audience have asked me to explain and respond to Ms. Omar’s comments, including her equivocal apologies. Their main question is whether it is possible for Ms. Omar to unlearn her evident hatred of Jews—and if so, how to help.
In my experience it is difficult, perhaps impossible, to unlearn hate without coming to terms with how you learned to hate. Most Americans are familiar with the classic Western flavors of anti-Semitism: the Christian, European, white-supremacist and Communist types. But little attention has been paid to the special case of Muslim anti-Semitism. That is a pity because today it is anti-Semitism’s most zealous, most potent and most underestimated form.
I never heard the term “anti-Semitism” until I moved to the Netherlands in my 20s. But I had firsthand familiarity with its Muslim variety. As a child in Somalia, I was a passive consumer of anti-Semitism. Things would break, conflicts would arise, shortages would occur—and adults would blame it all on the Jews.
When I was a little girl, my mom often lost her temper with my brother, with the grocer or with a neighbor. She would scream or curse under her breath “Yahud!” followed by a description of the hostility, ignominy or despicable behavior of the subject of her wrath. It wasn’t just my mother; grown-ups around me exclaimed “Yahud!” the way Americans use the F-word. I was made to understand that Jews—Yahud—were all bad. No one took any trouble to build a rational framework around the idea—hardly necessary, since there were no Jews around. But it set the necessary foundation for the next phase of my development.
At 15 I became an Islamist by joining the Muslim Brotherhood. I began attending religious and civil-society events, where I received an education in the depth and breadth of Jewish villainy. This was done in two ways.
The first was theological. We were taught that the Jews betrayed our prophet Muhammad. Through Quranic verses (such as 7:166, 2:65 and 5:60), we learned that Allah had eternally condemned them, that they were not human but descendants of pigs and monkeys, that we should aspire to kill them wherever we found them. We were taught to pray: “Dear God, please destroy the Jews, the Zionists, the state of Israel. Amen.”
We were taught that the Jews occupied the Holy Land of Palestine. We were shown pictures of mutilated bodies, dead children, wailing widows and weeping orphans. Standing over them in military uniform were Israeli soldiers with large guns. We were told their killing of Palestinians was wanton, unprovoked and an expression of their hatred for Muslims.
The theological and the political stories were woven together, as in the Hamas charter: “The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: ‘The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The Stones and trees will say, “O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill me.” ’ . . . There is no solution for the Palestine question except through Jihad.”
That combination of narratives is the essence of Muslim anti-Semitism. Mohammed Morsi, the longtime Muslim Brotherhood leader who died June 17 but was president of Egypt for a year beginning in 2012, urged in 2010: “We must never forget, brothers, to nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred for them: for Zionists, for Jews”—two categories that tend to merge along with allegations of world domination.
European anti-Semitism is also a mixture. Medieval Christian antipathy toward “Christ killers” blended with radical critiques of capitalism in the 19th century and racial pseudoscience in the 20th. But before the Depression, anti-Semitic parties were not mass parties. Nor have they been since World War II. Muslim anti-Semitism has a broader base, and its propagators have had the time and resources to spread it widely.
To see how, begin at the top. Most men (and the odd woman) in power in Muslim-majority countries are autocrats. Even where there are elections, corrupt rulers play an intricate game to stay in power. Their signature move is the promise to “free” the Holy Land—that is, to eliminate the Jewish state. The rulers of Iran are explicit about this goal. Other Muslim leaders may pay lip service to the peace process and the two-state solution, but government anti-Semitism is frequently on display at the United Nations, where Israel is repeatedly compared to apartheid South Africa, accused of genocide and demonized as racist.
Media also play their part. There is very little freedom of expression in Muslim-majority countries, and state-owned media churn out anti-Semitic and anti-Israel propaganda daily—as do even media groups that style themselves as critical of Muslim autocracies, such as Al Jazeera and Al-Manar.
Then there are the mosques, madrassas and other religious institutions. Schools in general, especially college campuses, have been an Islamist stronghold for generations in Muslim-majority countries. That matters because graduates go on to leadership positions in the professions, media, government and other institutions.
Refugee camps are another zone of indoctrination. They are full of vulnerable people, and Islamists prey on them. They come offering food, tents and first aid, followed by education. They establish madrassas in the camps, then indoctrinate the kids with a message that consists in large part of hatred for Jews and rejection of Israel.
Perhaps—I do not know—this is what happened to Ms. Omar in the four years she spent in a refugee camp in Kenya as a child. Or perhaps she became acquainted with Islamist anti-Semitism in Minnesota, where her family settled when she was 12. In any case, her preoccupation with the Jews and Israel would otherwise be hard to explain.
Spreading anti-Semitism through all these channels is no trivial matter—and this brings us to the question of resources. “It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” Ms. Omar tweeted in February, implying that American politicians support Israel only because of Jewish financial contributions. The irony is that the resources available to propagate Islamist ideologies, with their attendant anti-Semitism, vastly exceed what pro-Israel groups spend in the U.S. Since the early 1970s the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has spent vast sums to spread Wahhabi Islam abroad. Much of this funding is opaque, but estimates of the cumulative sum run as high as $100 billion.
Thousands of schools in Pakistan, funded with Saudi money, “teach a version of Islam that leads [to] anti-Western militancy,” according to Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy—and, one might add, to an anti-Semitic militancy.
In recent years the Saudi leadership has tried to turn away from supporting this type of religious radicalism. But increasingly Qatar seems to be taking over the Saudi role. In the U.S. alone, the Qatar Foundation has given $30.6 million over the past eight years to public schools, ostensibly for teaching Arabic and promoting cultural exchange.
For years, Qatar has hosted influential radical clerics such as Yusuf al-Qaradawi and provided them with a global microphone, and the country’s school textbooks have been criticized for anti-Semitism. They present Jews as treacherous and crafty but also weak, wretched and cowardly; Islam is described as inherently superior. “The Grade 11 text discusses at length the issue of how non-Muslims should be treated,” the Middle East Media Research Institute reports. “It warns students not to form relationships with unbelievers, and emphasizes the principle of loyalty to Muslims and disavowal of unbelievers.”
The allegation that Jewish or Zionist money controls Congress is nonsensical. The Center for Responsive Politics estimates that the Israeli government has spent $34 million on lobbying in Washington since 2017. The Saudis and Qataris spent a combined $51 million during the same period. If we include foreign nongovernmental organizations, the pro-Israel lobbying figure rises to $63 million—less than the $68 million spent lobbying for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
In 2018 domestic American pro-Israeli lobbying—including but not limited to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or Aipac—totaled $5.1 million. No comparable figures are available for domestic pro-Islamist lobbying efforts. But as journalist Armin Rosen observes, Aipac’s 2018 total, at $3.5 million, was less than either the American Association of Airport Executives or the Association of American Railroads spent on lobbying. Aipac’s influence has more to do with the power of its arguments than the size of its wallet.
Now consider the demographics. Jews were a minority in Europe in the 1930s, but a substantial one, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. Today Jews are at a much greater disadvantage. For each Jew world-wide, there are 100 Muslims. In many European countries—including France, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K.—the Muslim population far exceeds the Jewish population, and the gap is widening. American Jews still outnumber Muslims but won’t by 2050.
The problem of Muslim anti-Semitism is much bigger than Ilhan Omar. Condemning her, expelling her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, or defeating her in 2020 won’t make the problem go away.
Islamists have understood well how to couple Muslim anti-Semitism with the American left’s vague notion of “social justice.” They have succeeded in couching their agenda in the progressive framework of the oppressed versus the oppressor. Identity politics and victimhood culture also provide Islamists with the vocabulary to deflect their critics with accusations of “Islamophobia,” “white privilege” and “insensitivity.” A perfect illustration was the way Ms. Omar and her allies were able to turn a House resolution condemning her anti-Semitism into a garbled “intersectional” rant in which Muslims emerged as the most vulnerable minority in the league table of victimhood.
As for me, I eventually unlearned my hatred of Jews, Zionists and Israel. As an asylum seeker turned student turned politician in Holland, I was exposed to a complex set of circumstances that led me to question my own prejudices. Perhaps I didn’t stay in the Islamist fold long enough for the indoctrination to stick. Perhaps my falling out with my parents and extended family after I left home led me to a wider reappraisal of my youthful beliefs. Perhaps it was my loss of religious faith.
In any event, I am living proof that one can be born a Somali, raised as an anti-Semite, indoctrinated as an anti-Zionist—and still overcome all this to appreciate the unique culture of Judaism and the extraordinary achievement of the state of Israel. If I can make that leap, so perhaps can Ms. Omar. Yet that is not really the issue at stake. For she and I are only two individuals. The real question is what, if anything, can be done to check the advance of the mass movement that is Muslim anti-Semitism. Absent a world-wide Muslim reformation, followed by an Islamic enlightenment, I am not sure I know.
Ms. Hirsi Ali is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
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@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
ICE detention centre attacked, attacker killed.
Now was it a right wing anti-immigrant terrorist or a left-wing social justice warrior bravely trying to put a stop to the US Fuhrer's southern concentration camps?Watched a few clips from the Congressional hearing on this. Was absolutely disgusting. Dems clearly more concerned about their future voting bloc than actually finding solutions to border control (insofar as they even want a border). They'll hand reelected to Trump on this issue alone if an adult doesn't stand up soon.
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@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
ICE detention centre attacked, attacker killed.
Now was it a right wing anti-immigrant terrorist or a left-wing social justice warrior bravely trying to put a stop to the US Fuhrer's southern concentration camps?Well I guess we can expect this to be buried by the press now.
Who would have thought Democrats telling the general public that Trump runs concentration camps would lead to people attacking them?
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Deb Bartley, who told the Times she has been a friend of Willem Van Spronsen's for about 20 years, described him as an anarchist and anti-fascist, and believes his attack on the detention center intending to provoke a fatal conflict.
"He was ready to end it," Bartley said. "I think this was a suicide. But then he was able to kind of do it in a way that spoke to his political beliefs . I know he went down there knowing he was going to die."
She said that she and other friends of Van Spronsen got letters in the mail "just saying goodbye." He also wrote what she referred to as a manifesto, which she declined to discuss in detail, the Times reported.
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@JC It's horrific that we had to get to the point of someone having to die. I wonder if the dems will reevaluate their rhetoric going forward? Surely antifa aren't too far from being recognised as a terrorist organisation (albeit one based mostly in parents basements)
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British article but addresses the stupidity of reparations for slavery and events that occurred hundreds of years ago:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/07/anglo-saxons-deserve-reparations-for-the-norman-conquest/
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I’m enjoying watching the Ilhan “ not a typo” Omar and AOC getting roasted and the dems being silly enough to defend them . I thought Pelosi was taking the smarter option telling them to pull their heads in
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
“2nd-level 4th-dimensional chess.”
Yeah pathetic how easily they were suckered into that . You could see it from mars ffs.
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RNC just dropped a political hit advert on The Squad thirty minutes ago.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
RNC just dropped a political hit advert on The Squad thirty minutes ago.
There’s so many similarities between their tactics and Golly Gs. Also they all display unhealthy levels of narcissism even by the standards of your average politician .
I’m sure the justice Democrats apparently appalling candidates for safe seats in the 2020 election.
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Trapping Pelosi into defending these 4 idiots creates the association in the public's minds (at least some) that they are the values of the Dem party. It's a measure of their power (or a sign of the Dems heavy reliance on their SJW voter base) that Pelosi felt the need for the House theatrics today.
The problem for the Dems, (the BIG problem) is that the SJW progressive base is very strong. Pelosi can't ignore them, but they fuck her with independents. Dem biased media are trying to downplay this deep division while trying to highlight relatively minor divisions in the Republican party (who are far more united)
I think Trump is trying to make the Republicans look like the common sense party in comparison.
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Fact check: True.
I wonder whether CNN and MSNBC are going to be covering this. It’s all too depressing. I reckon they’ll stick to their Racism Narrative.
And in other news, Washington Post reports a majority of Mexicans do not want illegal immigrants in their nation, they want ‘em sent home.
Unauthorized immigrants face public backlash in Mexico, survey finds
I suppose by contemporary “woke” ideology that makes them just like Trump supporters. Deplorable!
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Boom!
House votes against impeaching Trump 332-95
Texas Rep. Green has now brought the resolution to a vote three times
(Three times!!! How many more do-overs do they need???)
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
Fact check: True.
I wonder whether CNN and MSNBC are going to be covering this. It’s all too depressing. I reckon they’ll stick to their Racism Narrative.
And in other news, Washington Post reports a majority of Mexicans do not want illegal immigrants in their nation, they want ‘em sent home.
Unauthorized immigrants face public backlash in Mexico, survey finds
I suppose by contemporary “woke” ideology that makes them just like Trump supporters. Deplorable!
What a bunch of racists.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
Fact check: True.
I wonder whether CNN and MSNBC are going to be covering this. It’s all too depressing. I reckon they’ll stick to their Racism Narrative.
And in other news, Washington Post reports a majority of Mexicans do not want illegal immigrants in their nation, they want ‘em sent home.
Unauthorized immigrants face public backlash in Mexico, survey finds
I suppose by contemporary “woke” ideology that makes them just like Trump supporters. Deplorable!
Lol, a survey conducted by Reforma newspaper.
I’m married to a journalist from Mexico. Reforma apparently the most unreliable, biased newspaper she can think of.
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