Winning hearts and minds

From Small Dead Animals comes this item:

A funeral was held on Friday for the man who killed two and injured five in twin Copenhagen attacks over the weekend.

The ceremony for 22-year-old Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein took place at the premises of the Islamic Society of Denmark following Friday prayers.

According to Danish media, some 500 people had gathered for the ceremony.

Until the Muslim "community" loudly, forcefully and sincerely condemns such murderers and until they are shamed by their leaders, the only thing they will understand is force.  Curtis Lemay type unconditional force.

Free Speech and More

Quoted in its entirety from Exurban League:

Not to rain on your free-speech parade, but…

Just about a year ago, the Nigerian Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped, raped and sold into slavery an entire school of 12-15 year old girls, due in large part to their Christian faith.

The reaction from the Obama administration was swift and self-righteous: It immediately asked millions of Twitter users to express their outrage over Boko Haram’s barbarity and show their solidarity with the kidnapped girls by using the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag on Twitter.

And it was a rousing success: People all around the world felt better about themselves, knowing that they had typed eighteen characters into a text box as a way to make a courageous stand against the rape and subjugation of underage girls.

Rosa Parks would be proud.

Shockingly, all of that self-gratification did wonders for the self-esteem of rich white liberals, but did nothing to free the kidnapped young girls. All the girls from the Chibok school are now dead or trapped in the hell of “marriages” to radical Islamists.

And believe it or not, it gets worse than that. Last Friday, while some free speech advocates were talking a stand against shooting editorial cartoonists (and perversely, some professional journalists were taking a stand against free speech), Boko Haram casually, and with malice a forethought, shot up an entire village and killed up to two thousand people.

That’s right, 2000 (or more) innocent lives lost. This is the worse terrorist attack since 9/11, and yet few people have heard about it or seem to care. What is it with Democratic Presidents ignoring genocide in sub-Sarahan Africa, anyways?

I digress.

Getting outraged over the killings at Charlie Hebdo magazine is a good thing, because it’s making people realize the greatest threats to our social freedoms don’t come from some bluenose Puritan Christian carrying a Bible, but rather from an Islamic jihadist with a suicide vest carrying an AK47.

Get outraged, but get active, because when we have foes who would use more than just words to eliminate free speech, free speech must be defended with more than just words.

Words matter.  Actions, even more so.

Calling a spade

Senator Ted Cruz:

Lifted from 90 Miles From Tyranny

Wake up, world

Word this morning that members of the Religion of Peace (tm) demonstrated how peaceful they are in Paris:

BREAKING: Black-clad gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a satirical publication known for lampooning Islam early Wednesday, killing 12 and injuring as many as 15 before escaping, French officials said.

As many as three Kalashnikov-toting shooters were being sought after the attack at Charlie Hebdo, the publication known for challenging Muslim terrorists with a 2011 caricature of Prophet Muhammed on its cover and which recently tweeted a cartoon of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Two policemen and several journalists - including the cartoonist behind the weekly publication's provocative images, were among the dead.

“We’ve avenged the honor of the prophet!” the killers shouted, according to witnesses who spoke to Sky News. The gunmen spoke French without any accent, according to Le Monde.

When will the West recognize that this is not just terrorism, not just random acts of violence, but it is WAR.

Especially telling will be the response of those millions of supposedly "moderate" Muslims.  Silence is assent.

Back

Another break for the OC.  However, the deteriorating condition of the world lately has driven me back to the keyboard.  I know....each year of the Obama presidency we say "How could it get worse?" And The Man never lets us down.  He makes it worse.  Thank God Israel doesn't have a Jewish Obama in charge there.


Anyhow, from Andrew Klavan come these great words:

Fifty-six percent of American women voted for Obama’s reelection, for instance. And today, because of the president’s perfidious surrender of W’s Iraq victory (which closed down the “rape rooms” of Saddam Hussein) women in Iraq are being sold into slavery — sold into slavery — by the Islamist monsters who have taken up the power vacuum Obama left behind. But don’t worry, Iraqi slave ladies. American women have your back and are, even as you are being sold, taking to the streets to protest the fact that Hobby Lobby won’t pick up the check for some of their birth control.

On the Brotherhood

No...in this Christmas season I don't mean the brotherhood of men (cue the soundtrack for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying).  Nope, I mean the Muslim Brotherhood.  From Cairo comes this word:

Egypt's military-backed interim government on Wednesday declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group, criminalizing all its activities, its financing and even membership to the group from which the country's ousted president hails.

When will the US government do the same?  Not as long as The One is still in the White House.  His administration has aligned itself with this enemy of freedom, with some Egyptian media reports saying that Obama is an actual member of the Brotherhood.

Whether an actual card carrying member or not, he's aligned ideologically.  Plus, his inherent hatred of western culture and civilization makes him a natural personal ally of those terrorists.  Will history ever understand how the American people got suckered twice into the self-destruction of having this man as President?

So...the question is:  What does the Egyptian government know that our press and government doesn't?

H/T to Fox News.