TPMS

If your first reaction to the beheading of photo journalist James Foley was to rush to the defense of Muslims or Islam in general, I strongly suspect you need immediate psychiatric help because you are suffering from "Terminal Progressive Multicultural Schizophrenia".  TPMS is a disease of the left whose victims deny reality even when reality has a knife to their throat. 

 

TPMS causes people to believe in fantasy world views and never allow facts or knowledge held by people with first hand experience to affect their opinions. 

 

ISIS aka ISIL aka The Islamic State aka Da'esh  is a demonic monstrosity straight out of the gates of Hell.  Those moral relativists with TPMS who don't believe in evil are about to be shocked because evil is coming after them in ways that their worst nightmares  couldn't conjure up.

 

For those TPMS sufferers who want to ignore this wanton act of savage butchery or ISIS itself so that they can comfortably go back to their I-Pads or Droid phones and pretend that the real world our leaders have created doesn't exist...this is your wake up call!

 

These are not people we are dealing with.  They have abandoned their humanity.  The cannot be reasoned with.  They will not negotiate as normal political entities do.  They must be wiped out like vermin or rabid dogs.  They must be hunted down and put down.  Rights and laws are for humans.  ISIS is comprised of demons.  ISIS  is political Islam in its purest form and as such cannot and should not be contained because it is  political "Ebola" that lives to spill as much blood as it can in the name of Allah.  It must instead be eradicated.

 

Islam should not be defended  because Islam and so called moderate Muslims have allowed this to happen.  Far too many have remained either silent or inactive when it came to cleaning up their own house thereby allowing the cancer to spread.   The truth is that there is very little distance between ISIS and al-Qaeda or Hamas or the Taliban or Boko Haram or al-Shabaab , the Chechens who murdered children in Beslan, the Muslim Brotherhood, Wahabism, Salafism, Hezbollah, Iran and home based groups like CAIR whose major purpose is covering up or excusing atrocities. 

 

Islam in the main and the American/European hard left have been the midwives to this 21st century retreat to medievalism by using PC/progressive/religious rationales to disguise their crime and their guilt. Now it is time to end this madness.

 

 No more "Taqiyya" or saying one thing to the infidel and another to the "Ummah"or fellow Muslims.  No more "Protocols of the Elders of Zion".  No more "Shaheeds".  No more suicide belts.  No more masked cowards in black shouting "Allahu Akbar" after they behead or kill some one.  No more Sharia in place of civil government and Constitutional law.  No more neo-Nazism.  No more anti-Semitism.  No more misogyny.  No more "honor killings" No more "Dhimmitude".  No more killing Christians.  No more pretending they are victims.  No more intolerance.  No more excuses for disgusting  barbaric behavior by their left wing radical allies.

 

ISIS is  the consequence of Political Islam and Progressives coming together to destroy a common enemy...western civilization...Israel...the U.S....individual freedom...us.   It is both disgusting and ominous to see signs reading "ISIS is here" at the protests in Ferguson Mo. last week.

 

Our dysfunctional, gutless, TPMS political system which places party over country and ideologies over even party also shares blame.  We have been fighting a war on terror for over 13 years except for the fact that we never really fought to win a total victory over terror because that would have been a form of military "profiling".   The idea that we are going to treat the slaughter of James Foley as a criminal matter is laughable.  Jamie Gorelick's pre 9/11 "Chinese wall" is now officially back with a vengence.  It is forbidden to even suggest that we are at war with a strain of fundamental Islam that is an existential threat.  What is Holder going to do...send as many FBI agents as he sent to Ferguson to Syria? 

 

TPMS causes people to forget that"Mad dog " ISIS and all their counterparts love death and destruction to serve their Satanic ends.  In Sura 7 verses 16-18 of the Quran,  Satan or Iblis says to Allah  “Because thou hast thrown me out of the way, lo! I will lie in wait for them on thy straight way: Then will I assault them from before them and behind them, from their right and their left: Nor wilt thou find, in most of them, gratitude (for thy mercies).” (God) said: “Get out from this, disgraced and expelled. If any of them follow thee – Hell will I fill with you all.”

 

Too many Muslims have now taken the path of Iblis.  The entire world now needs to be part of  the exorcism of this cancer.  Those with TPMS still want us to believe that no threat exists.  We however all need to remember the famous line from "The Usual Suspects" ... "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist".

 

ERLANDSSON

SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

 

Social Justice has come to mean permission to resort to mob rule, wanton destruction of private and public property,looting, Molotov cocktails, disrespect for the Police and at times physical attacks on and the shooting of others.  The war for Social Justice is a mask covering a war on the Social Contract. The dirty little secret is that this has been going on for a very long time.

 

"No Justice, No Peace"today means that those chanting this don't want justice via the rule of law to prevail.  It has come to mean the demand for  instantaneous preconceived punishment to be applied and the facts and the truth as determined by law enforcement, Judges and juries be ignored.

 

 

We are seeing all of this now in Ferguson Missouri, where the Governor has announced a state of emergency, called in the National Guard and established a curfew which has failed to stop the looting.  To a much lesser extent it also exists in Staten Island, New York.  In each instance two black males died after encounters with a white cop.  Both of the deceased were allegedly breaking the law, albeit in minor ways.

 

That these two ended up dead is a tragedy.  That both situations were seized upon by racial arsonists like Al Sharpton and criminals determined to exploit the racial anger and chaos are also tragedies.  That Barack Obama felt once again the need to interject himself in Ferguson by equating police actions with criminal activity is a third and unnecessary tragedy.

 

Sharpton and his ilk ignore   black on black crime in places like NYC and Chicago and wait in the tree line for "unequal power" events which end with the death of a black "victim".  Victim  in each case is the operative word. 

 

"Victimhood", with all its waivers for personal responsibility, actions and behavior is what people like Al Sharpton sell like a drug.  

 

The politics of "victimhood" has resulted in double standards throughout American life  and the predictable and resultant fraying of the social contract.  "Victimhood" has also been grafted onto certain groups thereby resulting in knee jerk reactions when bad things happen. 

 

In NYC progressive politicians egged on by people like Sharpton and other left wing radicals now want to discard the "Broken Windows" theory of policing because it allegedly unfairly targets victim groups like blacks and other minorities.  The press has started  calling it "controversial" even though it is the reason that former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his first ( and now the  present ) Police Commissioner Bill Bratton were able to make NYC the safest big city in the world. 

 

 "Broken Windows" was first theorized by George Kelling and James Q. Wilson and posited that little signs of disorder in the quality of life lead to bigger ones and eventually if left unchecked, a major breakdown in order such as NYC went through in the 1970s and the 1980s and which Chicago is going through now.

 

We are a nation of laws that protect individual rights.  No person or no group is supposed to be exempt.  Yet that is exactly what far too many "victims" who break the law want.  Non-designated  "victims" don't have a prayer  of getting public sympathy for this position because the prevailing progressive ethos will  not allow that to happen. 

 

The fight to allow anarchy and crime to become the norm is a historic tactic of the left as well as a predictable result of the implementation of Social Justice policies.  The objective is to destroy respect for  law enforcement and the justice system in order to replace the above with a nation of government and not one of law.  The innocents who die when the politicians  handcuff the police are of no consequence to these radicals who believe as Stalin allegedly said " you can't  make  omelettes without breaking  eggs".  For progressives dead victims have more power than live ones.

 

"Victimhood"  must be retained only for those who can be used to help bring down the "system" as Cloward and Piven would have it.  So it is reserved for blacks, Muslims, gays, women, illegal's etc.  Everyone else is the enemy and  can go to hell!   Those promoting "victimhood" want chaos because chaos obliterates the social contract and leaves them in charge.

 

Ferguson, Missouri is currently ground zero for Social Justice where first amendment rights and law and order are in a war with anarchy. Two preliminary autopsies of the deceased, one of which was commissioned by the family of Michael Brown puts into question what some alleged witnesses described at the time of the shooting. Now the family has asked for a third autopsy from Eric Holder who is sending 50 FBI agents to Ferguson ( far more than were sent to Benghazi).  This raises the question as whether the Social Justice crowd will keep demanding autopsies until one fits their narrative.   Saul Alinsky is smiling somewhere over the river Styx to see the turmoil that his acolytes  have produced in the heartland. 

 

Sharpton is also planning a march in Staten Island  which is co-sponsored by the city's United Federation of Teachers.  This has raised the ire of many teachers as well as the Police Unions as Gotham's progressives step up their war on cops.  The UFTs involvement invites the question as to whether the city's children are being taught traditional civics or more Social Justice propaganda.

 

Ferguson,  Missouri and Staten Island, NY  are examples of social justice progressivism at its finest or at its worst depending on from which side you are viewing it.  It is where this President who was supposed to end racial strife and his allies has taken us in the fundamental transformation of America. 

 

However none of the above is to deny or diminish the fact that too many law enforcement agencies in this country seem to have rotten relations  with minority communities. Nor should it minimize or dismiss the real fear of harassment or the lure of the street that many black mothers have, when their sons leave the house.  The real truth is that there is no such thing as their cops or their kids.  There is only our cops and our kids...and they need our help.  A young presidential candidate once said something similar...but he has long since disappeared into the Social Justice swamp which has always been his real home.

 

ERLANDSSON

THE PEOPLE ON THE MOUNTAIN 

The Yezidis are an ancient Kurdish/Arab people with a religion that combines elements of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism and ancient pre monotheistic  devotion to the sun, the moon, water, fire, earth and air.  There were approximately 70,000 Yezidis in  Iraq, mostly in Nineveh Province near Mosul in the town of Sinjar until they were forced to flee from the violence of the Islamic State or ISIS.

Now 40,000 to 50,000 of them have fled to Mount Sinjar, a holy place to them since they believe that this is where Noah's Ark came to rest after the great flood.  The mountain has always been their home in Iraq with the remaining 180,000 Yezidis in the world living in Syria, Turkey, Iran, Armenia and Georgia.

So the question remains as to why the ISIS wants so desperately to commit genocide on a peaceful people with no homeland , who bother no one and who have lived peacefully amongst both Christians  and Muslims for centuries. 

The simple answer is that the Caliphate that Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi is creating in the 21st century belongs in the 7th century.  The IS will tolerate  no one who does not subscribe to their fundamental and violent version of Islam for very long even if they pay the Jizya tax and assume the mantle of second class Dhimmitude.  They also practice "Takfir" which is determining that those thought formerly to be pious Muslims are in fact not  because they do not believe in the Caliph's version of Islam.  This then make them Kaffirs and subject to death as apostates.

The more complicated answer is that the Yezidis have been looked upon by many Muslims and Christians alike to be devil worshipers and thus beyond the pale.  The central figure in their belief system is Malek Taus, the Peacock Angel who is the greatest of seven angels left by God after the creation to look after the world.  The alternate name of Malek Taus is "Shaitan" which is the Arabic name for Satan. 

The story of their faith is further complicated by the fact that the rise to preeminence with God of Malek Taus  mirrors that of the Jinn Iblis in Islam.  Iblis refused to submit to Adam which Muslims believe caused him to fall out of favor with Allah.  The Yezidis believe just the opposite.  Thus Iblis aka Shaitan aka Malek Taus to them is good and not evil.

The story of their persecution is therefore almost a template for modern middle east politics which for far too many Muslims cannot be separated from their religious beliefs and hatreds.

There are Christians on the mountain also.  Mosul was for a very long time a vibrant Christian community with numerous churches and monasteries all of which are now occupied by the IS who already have blown up the tomb of Yunus  or Jonah.  In this act of violent desecration which mimicked what the Taliban did to the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afganistan, the IS attacked not just a figure of Christian or Jewish importance but also a Muslim one.  Sura 10 of the Quran is named Yoonus or Jonah.   

But this was but a mild prelude to the slaughter that came next to both Christians and Yezidis.  The ISIS spared no one.  Catholic Online reported  "There is a park in Mosul," Mark Arabo told CNN during a Skype interview from San Diego, "where they actually beheaded children and put their heads on a stick and have them in the park." 

Other children were gunned down with their bodies left to rot in the sun.  Men were crucified and beheaded, at least one woman was stripped naked , turned upside down, had her throat slit and her blood filled up a bowl beneath her  as if she were slaughtered in an abattoir  under religious law.  We know this because of photos which the ISIS post as well as others to terrorize the population.  Christian and Yezidi wives are also separated from their husbands, raped and forced to be wives to ISIS fighters all consistent with the rules of war established by Muhammed in the 7th century.  On the mountain parents are reportedly throwing their children to their death rather than let them fall into the clutches of ISIS.  

300,000 Chaldean Christians also have fled to Kurdistan or to Mount Sinjar where they beg for rescue.  As late as 2003 there were over one and a half million Christians living in a multi-sectarian secular but murderous Iraq under Saddam Hussein.  Now that number has dwindled to between 350,000 to 450,000 all of whom are  refugees on the run if in the north.

Those who sought sanctuary in Kurdistan under the protection of the Peshmerga are now once again being threatened  by The ISIS forces advancing on Erbil the Kurdish capital with state of the art U.S. made weapons captured from Iraqi soldiers who fled when attacked by the smaller forces of ISIS.  The Kurds are running out of ammunition and need to be re-supplied with every thing up to date that the U.S. has just as Nixon did for Israel during the Yom Kippur War.  The U.S. also has to use overwhelming air power to obliterate this Da'esh army while it is still in the high desert in open convoys.  ISIS and much of the world  believe Obama won't do anything.  They must be proven wrong.

Meanwhile the people on the mountain wait for food and water to survive knowing that if they come down that mountain they will be butchered.  Obama has promised them that help is on the way.  He has inferred that he will use air power if U.S. interests are threatened.  He has promised to avert a humanitarian genocide.  It is right and fitting that he should do all of this.  It was after all, his misguided policies in leaving Iraq that has caused this debacle to occur.  

We all need to pray for the people on the mountain.  Guns and food are essential but only prayer can connect them to us in deeply human ways.  The blood of the innocents and the martyrs  flows like a waterfall in Iraq and Syria today.  ISIS is doing to the infidels what Hamas wants to do to Jews.  Only a Judaic-Christian civilized people with the will to acknowledge evil and then fight it to the death can stop this genocide.  If war is politics by other means then destroying the real devils of ISIS is an exorcism by other means.  Meanwhile the people on the mountain wait to see if they are alone.

ERLANDSSON     

AGAIN...NEVER AGAIN

 

 

Never again has come again.  The Jew haters of the Islamic world, Europe and the "progressive" left of the Democratic Party are all marching in lock step in demanding that Israel stop defending itself and instead lay down and let the "final" final solution of the new Shoah take its inevitable course.

 

 Hamas, hiding behind women and children, with rockets and missiles stored in UN schools, clinics, crowded tenements and terror tunnels beneath hospitals, nursing homes and Mosques,  intends to sacrifice innocent people in order to win a public relations victory aided by an anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic world press.  Their weapons are photos and videos of dead and maimed children and wailing women, who in many circumstances  were not allowed by Hamas to seek shelter after the IDF warned occupants of targeted buildings that they were going to bomb them.   Despite all of this, Obama over and over signals his support for Hamas by the immoral use of moral equivalency  in condemning  the violence. 

 

And then of course there is the simple question of why Hamas who has been attacking Israel for nine years has never built real shelters for the residents of Gaza, whom they rule? 

 

Hamas has said for years that they will ultimately defeat the Jewish state because they love death and Israel loves life.  Thus in the primordial swamp that is the modern Middle East, this logic makes Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, Iran, the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, Ansar el-Sharia, el-Shabaab and all the other savages there and across the globe in their minds, the inevitable winners.  This fanatical belief in victory through holy terror is augmented by the support of western social justice radicals whose moral relativism is so infected with disease that even cutting off the heads of innocent people is ok if it will lead to the destruction of the big and little "Satans". 

 

Add to this those cynical western politicians who publicly profess to support Israel and then do everything possible behind the scene to undermine  their ability and right to defend themselves.  Today polling shows that a majority of Democrats do not support Israel and overall only a bare 51% still support our most important ally in the world. 

 

The US through the FAA declared Ben-Gurion Airport off limits to US carriers thereby handing Hamas a  PR victory.  The feckless Europeans all followed suit save the Brits.  The US continues to fund the PA even with Hamas as a full partner.  John Kerry, who may be a worse Secretary of State than Hillary Clinton, is openly contemptuous of  Israel  joining his boss who has complained to other world leaders about Netanyahu in particular.  Kerry has gone so far as to attempt to force  two cease fires down Israel's throat one of which that was designed by Turkey and Qatar, who are the current principal sponsors of Hamas.  This second cease fire would have allowed Hamas to rearm and regroup, and was vehemently denounced by even the left wing Israeli press.  This in turn made  Kerry both angry and puzzled as to why his efforts were being demeaned and he was being asked to stay home.

 

Subsequent to this it was reported but denied by both Israel and the White House that Obama imperiously ordered Netanyahu via a phone call to immediately cease fire as if the Prime Minister worked for him.  Later in the week his chief advisor Valarie Jarrett and State Department spokes woman Jen Psaki weres critical of Israel, implying that the death of children was their fault and not that of Hamas.

 

Yet on multiple occasions Israel has agreed to stop its incursion if Hamas stops it attacks by rocket and the tunnels are permanently shut down and Gaza is demilitarized.   Hamas however always either refuses or immediately begins new attacks egged on by Iran, Hezbollah, Turkey and Qatar, thereby keeping the anti-Semitic bandwagon rolling on with new scenes of innocent dead.  No one, most of all Israel, wants to see dead children excepting Hamas and their murderous sponsors and allies. 

 

Demonstrations in support of Hamas have occurred both in the US and Europe with the European ones labeling Israel, Zionism and Jews in general as Nazis.  The irony is that many of these same demonstrations have mostly non Muslim participants waving Swastikas and Hammers and Sickles along side one another as if Molotov and Ribbentrop had come back from the dead.  Scratch a progressive and you will find a Fascist...scratch a Fascist  and you will find a Marxist!

 

Since 1948 Israel has been surrounded by 300,000,000 Muslims most of whom want to eradicate it.  They tried in 1967 and in 1973 and in Lebanon.  Peace came with Egypt and Jordan but the Palestinian Authority in the famous words of Abba Eban have "never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity".  The truth is that Israel has never had a true partner for peace.   The truth is also that the so called "Occupied Territories" ( Gaza is not one) of Judea  and Samaria are part of the Jewish Homeland created by the Balfour Declaration.  The so called boundaries that everyone talks about are armistice lines and were never meant to be permanent.  The "two state solution" is a dangerous fantasy first supported by the US in 1973 and by Europe even longer.

 

 

The decades old notion that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a root cause of turmoil in the region is sophomoric and the notion that not having a Palestinian state is the cause of anti-Jewish and now anti-Christian violence in the lands of the Bible is equally naive.  Carolyn Glick in her new book "The Israeli Solution" makes a cogent and reasoned case for a one state solution.  Reality is pushing Israel towards that position particularly with a chief ally as fickle and uncertain as this President who with Europe and the UN prefer to hunker down and continue to defend the indefensible.

 

It is time to take diplomacy out of dreamland.   Israel is where two great religions were born which changed western civilization forever.  Israel is the hope of the Middle East and not the cause of the regions chronic dysfunction and insanity.  Israel in fact is us...everyone who believes in democracy, pluralism, universal sufferage , individual rights, free markets and the qualities of mercy, love, life and peace unstained by hate.  We are all Israelis if we believe in these things and so we all must again say... never again.

 

And thus here Israel and the world are after 11,000 rockets since 2005... 66 years after its independence...over a hundred years after the dream of its restoration...over four thousand years from its ancient origins...a garrison state that is a great democracy in a sea of terrorists, autocrats, theocrats and kleptocrats...a home for any Jew who has none...a refuge for the despised and displaced...a land bestowed by an sacred covenant...a place where an often  cruel history of a noble people allows every Israeli to say "This land is mine...G-D gave this land to me!"

 

 

ERLANDSSON