Linda Sarsour In the WaPo: "Islamophobes Are Attacking Me Because I'm Their Worst Nightmare"

Actually, sweetheart, "Islamophobes" are "attacking" you because you're calling for a jihad against the White House and you're speaking taqiyyah ("jihad" should primarily be understood as a spiritual "struggle"--good one, Linda), and because usefully idiotic "progressives" are lapping it up.

Me? I'm "jihad"-ing (and, yes, it's my own personal, internal "Kampf") to understand how stupid some leftists can be.

Update: Jonathan S. Tobin says Jewish "progressives" are "Waking up to a world where [their] political allies are enemies of the Jews."

But are they really "waking up"? Frankly, I don't see much evidence of that.

Update: A "progressive" outfit called Bending the Arc, named one of this year's "50 most innovative Jewish organizations," has donated $10,000 to lippy Linda so she can beef up her security (hat tip: MW). 

Helping protect a woman who is the Jews' avowed enemy--yes, that is innovative.

But not in a good way.

"AUDIENCE: Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump!"

Sorry, but I had to chuckle at how the White House transcript of Trump's speech in Poland made sure to include the peanut gallery's frequent and apparently irrepressible repetition of the POTUS's name.

The cheers--printed right there in black and white--serve a twofold purpose. First, they offer proof of the audience's undeniable enthusiasm. Second, and, from Trump's perspective probably even more important, they provide a much-needed fix for an adulation junkie. (Obama suffered from the same sort of addiction. I wonder: did the official transcripts of his speeches include the audience's reaction?)

Update: More than a few "progressive" pundits are slamming the Poland speech because they have convinced themselves that everything that comes out of Trump's mouth, even a ringing defense of Western civilization, is ipso facto an expression of racism, and a dog whistle for his "alt-Right" backers. Here's how one NR writer unpacks it:

The authors criticizing Trump’s Warsaw address just ignore or downplay the context that Trump gave for his own description of the West. He described it in terms that are alternately emphasized by conservatives and liberals. Faith and family and heritage for traditionalists. Innovation, free-wheeling debate, and female empowerment for progressives. This is the stuff of normal politician-speak, clumsier in Trump’s mouth than from Obama’s, certainly. But it was an attempt to include the political and cultural tribes that feel so much tension between each other now into one settlement — one project that is greater than themselves. 

Trump’s description of Western genius, “We compose symphonies,” has also been singled out by many as a racist dog whistle for white nationalism. This is straining. Symphonies are a compositional form that developed in the West, and that form distinguishes the Western musical tradition from others. And although classical music has fallen in decline, the symphony has been adopted by Westerners of all races. To hear “We compose symphonies” and think of eugenicist lawyers like Madison Grant before thinking of William Grant Still or George Walker, African-American composers of symphonies, may be an accident of one’s education. Or myopia. Readers can decide which.

Funny, but when I heard Trump mention symphonies, I didn't think about eugenics or race at all. What I thought was: I very much doubt that Donald Trump has ever sat through an entire symphony--or can even name one (since his idea of Western civ. runs more toward Playboy, beauty pageants and reality TV than it does to, say, Beethoven's 9th).

But, hey, that's just me.

Three--Count 'Em, Three--People Who Believe Justin Trudeau "Is Doing a Spectacular Job"

1. Donald Trump
2. Omar Khadr
3. Justin Trudeau

How Dumb Are the Likes of Wallace Shawn, Greta Gerwig and Roger Waters for Wanting to Boycott a Play By Israeli David Grossman?

Since the play in question (which is set for a four night run at NYC's Lincoln Center), is by David Grossman, a writer whose ideas re Israel (i.e. that it must do right by the Palestinians and the "occupation") are entirely in synch with theirs, they are really, really dumb:

The point these artists are making is ludicrous on two levels. First, though the play is sponsored by Israel’s Office of Cultural Affairs, it’s an anti-war piece, not simple-minded cheerleading for the state of Israel. David Grossman, the author of the novel from which the play is adapted, lost his son Uri to fighting on the last day of Israel’s offensive in Lebanon in 2006. Since then, writes Judith Miller in Tablet magazine in her review of the play, “Grossman has become among the most outspoken Jewish Israeli voices against war and occupation. He has frequently protested the demolitions of houses in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.” Miller calls the piece “deeply pessimistic,” citing a disquieting image of a mother who stays constantly in motion because she fears that her son will be killed at war and she reasons that if military notifiers can’t find her to tell her of his passing, he can’t be dead. In one scene, Miller adds, the play makes it clear that it’s an act of “supreme insensitivity” toward a Palestinian taxi driver to tell him to drive an Israeli to a military registration, causing the driver to erupt in an “impassioned outburst” about his people’s plight.

The real puzzler here isn't why the likes of Roger Waters, an Israel-despiser from waaay back, would wish to shut the thing down. It is why the Israeli government would want to pay for something that puts Israel in the worst possible light.

Now, that's dumb.

Today's Limerick

The abominable New York Times
Is quick to detail Israel's "crimes."
And quick, too, to blow smoke
When some terrorist bloke
Oozes and slithers and slimes.

Compare and Contrast the Twitter Feeds of (Mom) Barbara Kay and (Son) Jonathan Kay

Barb gets it ; Jon (the former conservative who defends the Khadr payoff)...not so much.

Sadly, in the case of Kays, mere et fil, the apple does fall far from the tree.

So Elusive

Germany's Quest for 'Liberal' Islam

Indigenous Students Demand--Yes, Demand--A Name Change for Toronto's Ryerson U

A cadre of the perpetually aggrieved are at it again:

A student-led campaign at Ryerson University is pushing for the school to change its name out of respect for residential school survivors. 

But the proposal from the Ryerson Students Union and the Indigenous Students Association has prompted considerable backlash from the wider student community, who criticize it as being impractical and disrespectful in its own right.

The downtown Toronto university is named for Egerton Ryerson, a pioneer of public education in Ontario who is widely believed to have helped shape residential school policy through his ideas on education for Indigenous children. 

The school has previously stated that Ryerson's ideas did help contribute to the system that has since been described as a "cultural genocide" and acknowledged the need to commit to respectful relationships with Indigenous students. 

The request for a name change is one of 11 demands the students union posted on its Facebook page on Canada Day under the hashtag .resist150.

And if you think requiring a complete rebranding is a tad over the top, wait'll you hear what else they want:

Others include removing a statue of Ryerson that currently stands on campus, creating an Indigenous-only space for students, and implementing mandatory Indigenous content in all programs.

Seems reasonable--if you're, say, an egregious squish like our socksational prime minister. As an alumnus of this particular institution, however, I'm agin' it for the obvious reason that if you compelled to "rebrand" Ryerson, you may as well "rebrand" the entire freaking country (as Turtle Island). That's the only way to remove all traces of non-indigenous history which, as every uber-virtuous CBC aficionado knows, is inherently and irredeemably racist.

For the sake of comedy, however, I'm willing to entertain some new monikers for Ryerson. How's about, say:

• Whatsamatta U--a name that acknowledges that members of various victim groups are bound to be p.o.'d about something (Zionists, "white privilege," etc.);
• David Suzuki U (a nod to a CBC icon/climate change god);
• Gord Downey U (named for the fatally ill, right-thinking lead singer of The Tragically Hip);
• Pierre and Justin Trudeau U; 
• Indoctrination/Utopia U (a.k.a. IOU, an acronym that alludes to the hefty loans that students will have a hard time repaying, given that they have degrees in such "in demand" sectors as Queer Studies and Human Ecology); and, my own personal fave,
• South Toronto Free University, or STFU (an acronym that's self-explanatory, I trust).

A statue that some hope to topple--

a la Saddam Hussein's.

Mubin Shaikh's "Omar Khadr, Boy Soldier" Mantra Detonated By Tarek Fatah

Yesterday on AM 640, "radicalization expert" Mubin Shaikh told host Kelly Cutrara that Omar Khadr was indeed a "boy soldier" who had no choice but to take part in the field of battle. And because, according to Mubin, practically everyone who's ever met Omar thinks he's an awesome guy, he is most deserving of the $10.5 million--and the apology--that Canada is about to bestow on him.

Re the "boy soldier" rationale, the Toronto Sun's Tarek Fatah, who is also something of a "radicalization expert," has an opposing viewpoint (my bolds):

Mr. Khadr, now 30, was 15 in July 2002 when he lived in an Afghan compound with a group of bomb-building Islamic jihadis planting roadside explosives. Afterwards, U.S. troops stormed the house and this is where a grenade thrown by Khadr killed Sergeant Christopher Speer, a medic who was helmetless and dressed in Afghan clothing.

It is true that at the time Omar Khadr committed his act of terror and murder, he was only 15 years old, but in the context of the war against civilization by Islamic terrorists, be they from the Taliban, ISIS, Al-Shabab or Boko Haram, the vast number of volunteers who have taken up arms and carried out war crimes are in their teens. 

For bleeding-heart liberals whose guilt-ridden frame of mind cannot comprehend beyond the storybook picture of the child soldiers hired by African war lords, this may be a shock, but the ultimate hero of Muslims in the part of the world Omar Khadr was photographed making IEDs, is the 8th century 17-year old Arab invader of India called Muhammad Bin Qasim, and from Kabul to Karachi every child jihadi wishes to emulate the rape and plunder of this Arab jihadi. We are not dealing with the God’s Army in Uganda or the Liberian child soldiers of the 1990s. 

The Muslim boys who go to fight jihad do so not under any pressure, but for the lure of entering Paradise and meeting the opposite gender for the first time. This may sound bizarre to the non-Muslim, but trust me, this is not fiction nor propaganda.

Odd how Mubin, who seemed oddly sympathetic to Omar, didn't see fit to mention any of these facts, no?

Trudeau's "Rehab" Helps No One But the Jihadists

The Toronto Sun's Michele Mandel has a raft of cogent questions re a Canadian citizen who despises Canada for purely Islamic reasons:

TORONTO - Was anyone watching Rehab Dughmosh? 

About a year before she was charged with attacking customers and staff with a golf club and butcher knife at a Scarborough Canadian Tire, Dughmosh allegedly left Toronto in an unsuccessful bid to join ISIS in Syria as a foreign fighter. 

Intercepted in Turkey, she was sent back to her adopted homeland. And now the Scarborough mother stands accused of doing exactly what the terror group has instructed its believers to do — if you can’t join us overseas, strike the infidel with whatever you have at home. 

If she’s alleged to have left Canada to join ISIS in April 2016, why wasn’t Dughmosh arrested a year ago? 

“A decision was made not to charge her at the time,” said federal Crown Howard Piafsky. 

Why not? And since then, has she been under surveillance? Was she on a terror watch list? Did no one take her seriously? After attacks here at home on Parliament Hill and in Quebec and countless more around the world, are we still so naive to think that a lone wolf can’t do damage?

It wouldn't be at all surprising were the answer to every question Mandel poses, save the last one, is "no." ("Yes," we are still so naive as to think that a lone wolf, especially a female one, can't do damage. And who's to say she's a "lone wolf" when it's a safe bet that there are plenty more where she came from?) That's because Justin Trudeau has been quoted as saying that terrorists should never be stripped of their citizenship:

"And I'll give you the quote so that you guys can jot it down and put it in an attack ad somewhere that the Liberal Party believes that terrorists should get to keep their Canadian citizenship," he said. "Because I do. And I'm willing to take on anyone who disagrees with that." 

Trudeau also scored applause after saying that "as soon as you make citizenship for some Canadians conditional on good behaviour, you devalue citizenship for everyone." 

The Liberal leader added that he found it "very, very scary" that a government could strip new Canadians of their citizenship rights because of unlawful actions. 

"And by the way, there are penalties for anyone convicted of… terrorism or an act of war or an offence against Canada," he said. "They end up locked up in jail for the rest of their lives." 

A "plane ticket to Syria" is not the same kind of punishment, Trudeau said.

Indeed. A "plane ticket to Syria" would be so much worse. So would a plane ticket to Turkey. Not that it would have been needed in Rehab's case, since she was already there. 

I'm in favour of "devaluing" traitors by revoking their citizenship if and when they flee Canada and run off to make common cause with ISIS or any other jihadi group. One would have to be a bear of very little brain--a Justin the Pooh--to think that doing so wouldn't amount to a net good for Canada and Canadians; it would also demonstrate the high esteem in which we hold the rights and responsibilities--yes, responsibilities--of citizenship.

The Big Lie Spewed With Impunity By Local Khomeinist At Toronto Al Quds Days Seethe-a-thon

According to this "erudite" Shia cleric, the Jooooz and their sinister financial shenanigans are behind both World Wars as well as a plethora of current crises. For that, they deserve to be, in his word, "eliminated".

It's what Allah promises, after all. And He'd never lie.

Had someone been making similarly genocidal remarks about Muslims, he would have been thrown in the slammer before he even knew what hit him. (What's the line between free speech and hate speech? It's the incitement to kill.) But since it's a Muslim, a member of one of Canada's two most favoured victim groups (Indigenous peoples being the other), he can say whatever he wants about the need to slaughter all the "Zionists," and no one is going to stop him.

Update: Should you have the stomach for it (and, sorry, I don't think I do), Shia TV posts videos of all the Zion-despisers who vented their spleen at this year's Toronto hate-fest. The presence of "Br Manuel Luna" of the "Hugo Chavez Defense Fund" shows A) the general lunacy of speakers; who in their right mind would defend the indefensible Hugo Chavez?, and, B) the nexus between far leftist/Socialist/Marxist loons and the zany Khomeinists.