Bin Laden "Got" the "Arab Spring" Right Away

As the "spring" was unfolding, and certain Western media types who could not contain their gush were Tahrir Square dancing, Osama in his Pakistan redoubt opined: "These are gigantic events that will eventually engulf most of the Muslim world, will free the Muslim land from American hegemony."

Give that man a posthumous Pulitzer Prize! He was right and Thomas L. Friedman (whose snoozerific books, as far as we know, did not make it into bin Laden's Chomsky-heavy library) was wrong.

Update: Also in the bin Laden library (but as yet unreleased)--a cache of porn. According to one report, however, the stroke flicks may have been put to a more nefarious purpose than mere self-pleasuring:

Some experts pointed out that finding pornography on jihadists' computers had become common by 2011, however, and CNN later reported on a separate case in which al-Qaeda had encoded pornographic movie files with secret documents.

Osama's library: 50 shades of crazy.

Danish Jihadis Continue to Get Unemployment Benefits While Fighting With ISIS in Syria

Nice work if you can get it, no?

Ivy League Discrimination, Then and Now

Minority group subjected to stringent Harvard University admission quotas circa the 1920s: the Jews.

Minority group subjected to stringent Harvard University admission quotas circa today: Asians.

RCMP Puts the Kibosh on the Jihad Travel Plans of 10 Montreal "Yutes"/ISIS Recruits

Oh, well. There's always next time.

British Novelist Ian McEwan Tells Grads to Suck It Up Re Their Sensitive, Precious Feelings, Slams "Cowardly" PEN Boycotters

(Via NRO)

ISIS Jewelry Seized at Ben Gurion Airport

Cool secret decoder rings!

#KillAllWhiteMen Hashtag Could Get School Diversity Head Fired

Then again, she could get a reprieve given that "she can't be racist because she is an ethnic minority woman."

It's a Khomeinipalooza!

So this is happening at the end of the month:



To translate from the Khomeinist: "global injustice" is the situation that prevails when Iran's power-crazed Twelvers do not yet control the globe. Now that they are pretty much the hegemon of the Middle East, their lust for power has grown exponentially, hence the need to couch it in fluffy "social justice" terminology so as to not set off alarm bells among the infidels.


Update: FYI, one of the speakers, Kevin Barrett, has been called "an anti-Semitic con­spir­acy the­o­rist and fre­quent Press TV con­trib­u­tor." He is also the editor of a "new anti-Semitic and con­spir­a­to­r­ial book, We Are Not Char­lie Hebdo! Free Thinkers Ques­tion the French 9/11." Most of the book's essays assert

that the shoot­ings at the Char­lie Hebdo head­quar­ters and at a kosher mar­ket in Paris were a “false flag oper­a­tion” per­pe­trated by any num­ber of cul­prits includ­ing the Israeli gov­ern­ment, the United States gov­ern­ment, and/or the French government.

No doubt he and voluble local Khomeinist Zafar B. will have much to chat about.

The Least Edgy, Most Unprovocative 'Toon Contest EVER

Muslim Comedian Launches 'Draw Your Favorite Islamophobe' Contest (H/t: VR)

There's no down side to it, really. It's not as if the "Islamophobes" are going to take offense and go on to try to slaughter the contestants.

One Word to Describe Obama's "Everything's Ducky" Spin Re ISIS and Iraq

It's "Orwellian."

In a pinch, one could also call it "deranged."

What Is “Resilience” and Why Is It the Cure for Jihadi Youth?

(Here's my latest for The Megaphone.)

Why is it that some young people are susceptible to the siren call of jihad while others are not? That's a question that's engaging a slew of experts, two of whom share their "insights" with us in an Op-Ed piece in the National Post. Michael Ungar and Amaranth Amarasingam claim that the way to go is by studying and implementing "resilience."

What the heck is that?

Well, apparently, "resilience" is the au courant buzzword certain "experts" use when they want to explore the roots of radicalization without having to delve too deeply - or, indeed, at all - in all that messy jihad/Islamic supremacism stuff. In so doing, they can set up the problem in such a way as to absolve Islamic theology and those who purvey it, and proffer a specific "cure" - inculcating "resilience" in young people - that is bound to keep these "experts" employed and in great demand for the foreseeable future.

Thus, we have Ungar, "founder and co-director of the Resilience Research Centre" and Amarsingam, a "post-doctoral fellow in the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University" explaining that "radicalization" does not only occur in Muslim communities even though "it is Muslim communities that endure the most pressure and blame."

Poor Muslims! Good thing they have Ungar and Amarsingam to ease their burden and salve their pain. Oh, not by studying the whys and hows of the recruitment of holy warriors. That would be far too specific, and would only exacerbate the "pressure and blame." No, the way ahead, according to these two authorities, is to ignore "the handful of youth who have become radicalized" and focus instead on "the resilience of youth who choose a peaceful path."

And lest you think that that's sort of like researching, say, schizophrenia by focusing on the majority who don't have the disease, these "resilience" experts are here to set you straight. You see, if only we can figure out why most (generic) youth do not choose (generic) "political violence," we will be that much further ahead in preventing those who are susceptible to (generic) "political violence" from embracing it. "We need to study how they find non-violent ways to have a political voice and fight for what they believe in," they write.

No we don't. We need to understand the jihad and why some young Muslims continue to find it so gosh-darned attractive. Until and unless we do that - until we man up and acknowledge the role Islamic holy writ plays in this "political violence" - our efforts to counter this type of "political violence" (pace the "resilience" buffs, the only type that really threatens us) will be doomed to fail.

As for the newly-minted "resilience" industry, a sector intent on making a living by suggesting feckless remedies to problems it cannot bring itself to correctly identify - if this Op-Ed piece is any indication, the industry may yet prove to be incredibly resilient.