Right now they ...ISIS, should be the focus of the world's attention because of the destruction this warped and ruthless outfit is causing plus the fact that they are the ones who have had the temerity to declare WAR on the West.
Rather, our Politically Correct Leadership still refuses to call them by name ..."Terrorists" rather than 'Islamic Terrorists' which is what they are!
Why the word 'Terrorist' can include several twisted ideologies... ISIS, White Supremacists, Black Bloc Anarchists, Anti-Semites... the list goes on.
We need to focus on the worst of the worst since ISIS not only kills and maims and rapes indiscriminately, it also forces us to change our way of living even if our Leaders persist in denying that that is the case.
I am not for a minute giving any extremist group a pass I am simply saying that we in Society have to choose our targets from time to time to root out the worst and right now ISIS and their Ilk are well deserving our full attention. In that regard, it is passing strange that although the world media with the Barcelona Tragedy in a clinical sterile fashion, it saves it greater repulsion for the White Supremacists a bunch of clowns who have trouble tying their shoelaces.
I read an excellent article the other day, written by a Jewish Columnist, that provides an important perspective in regard to the issue of extremism be it on the left or on the right:
Over the past few days I have been astounded by the appalling number of pundits who keep telling me that as a Jew, I have to side with the violent left, over the violent right, as a result of the terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia.
It’s hard to imagine an idea more ignorant of history.
As someone whose Catholic father-in-law was incarcerated in Mauthausen as a “politically incorrigible” enemy of the Third Reich, and whose Jewish father was smuggled out of Russia as a child during a pogrom, allow me to give these folks some advice.
That is, that the violent right and the violent left always end up in the same place, and it never ends well for Jews and other minorities.
Neo-Nazis are scum. Yes, they should have freedom of speech but not freedom from the consequences of their actions.
The murder of Heather Heyer, 32, an innocent counter-protester, when a white supremacist allegedly rammed into the crowd with his car, was terrorism.
Whoever was responsible should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. If there were accomplices, they should be hunted down without mercy.
But do not tell me I must therefore side with the violent, left-wing yahoos who clashed with the white supremacists in Charlottesville.
Do not pretend they were defending Jews, or the freedoms on which America was built.
For anyone who thinks the hard, violent left is a friend of the Jewish people, here’s a fun little assignment.
Next time, let yourself be surrounded by them during one of their riots -- anywhere in the world -- bring out an Israeli flag and start talking about what a great country Israel is.
Watch what happens.
Spare us the drivel, which the liberal chattering classes spout ad nauseam, and which provides intellectual cover for the hard, violent left, that you can criticize Israel without being a Jew hater.
Of course you can criticize Israel, the occupation and its treatment of the Palestinians and not be a Jew hater.
Jews do it. Israelis do it. The respected Israeli newspaper Haaretz, does it. For gawd’s sake, so do former heads of the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, the equivalent of the FBI, just as the foreign security service, the Mossad, is similar to the CIA.
But that’s not how the hard, violent left constantly demonizes and delegitimizes the Jewish state of Israel, while turning a blind eye to greater human rights abuses all over the world, including, to compare apples to apples, in The Islamic Republic of Iran and The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
As a wise rabbi once said, in the ancient world, where religion ruled, Jew haters portrayed Judaism as the worst religion, including the blood libel that Jews kill Christians to use their blood to make matzah.
In the twentieth century, when science ruled, the Nazis set out to prove by “science” that Jews were a uniquely evil race.
In our time, where human rights is the dominant paradigm, Jew haters portray Israel, the Jewish state, as the worst violator of human rights, like apartheid South Africa.
Guess who the most vocal supporters of that view of Israel are today?
They didn’t have to riot in Charlottesville.
They infect our universities and journalism and the chattering classes, and they get way more air time than the neo-Nazis.
So, side with the hard and violent left over the hard and violent right? Really? Go to hell.
It’s hard to imagine an idea more ignorant of history.
As someone whose Catholic father-in-law was incarcerated in Mauthausen as a “politically incorrigible” enemy of the Third Reich, and whose Jewish father was smuggled out of Russia as a child during a pogrom, allow me to give these folks some advice.
That is, that the violent right and the violent left always end up in the same place, and it never ends well for Jews and other minorities.
Neo-Nazis are scum. Yes, they should have freedom of speech but not freedom from the consequences of their actions.
The murder of Heather Heyer, 32, an innocent counter-protester, when a white supremacist allegedly rammed into the crowd with his car, was terrorism.
Whoever was responsible should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. If there were accomplices, they should be hunted down without mercy.
But do not tell me I must therefore side with the violent, left-wing yahoos who clashed with the white supremacists in Charlottesville.
Do not pretend they were defending Jews, or the freedoms on which America was built.
For anyone who thinks the hard, violent left is a friend of the Jewish people, here’s a fun little assignment.
Next time, let yourself be surrounded by them during one of their riots -- anywhere in the world -- bring out an Israeli flag and start talking about what a great country Israel is.
Watch what happens.
Spare us the drivel, which the liberal chattering classes spout ad nauseam, and which provides intellectual cover for the hard, violent left, that you can criticize Israel without being a Jew hater.
Of course you can criticize Israel, the occupation and its treatment of the Palestinians and not be a Jew hater.
Jews do it. Israelis do it. The respected Israeli newspaper Haaretz, does it. For gawd’s sake, so do former heads of the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, the equivalent of the FBI, just as the foreign security service, the Mossad, is similar to the CIA.
But that’s not how the hard, violent left constantly demonizes and delegitimizes the Jewish state of Israel, while turning a blind eye to greater human rights abuses all over the world, including, to compare apples to apples, in The Islamic Republic of Iran and The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
As a wise rabbi once said, in the ancient world, where religion ruled, Jew haters portrayed Judaism as the worst religion, including the blood libel that Jews kill Christians to use their blood to make matzah.
In the twentieth century, when science ruled, the Nazis set out to prove by “science” that Jews were a uniquely evil race.
In our time, where human rights is the dominant paradigm, Jew haters portray Israel, the Jewish state, as the worst violator of human rights, like apartheid South Africa.
Guess who the most vocal supporters of that view of Israel are today?
They didn’t have to riot in Charlottesville.
They infect our universities and journalism and the chattering classes, and they get way more air time than the neo-Nazis.
So, side with the hard and violent left over the hard and violent right? Really? Go to hell.
By Lorrie Goldstein
So where do we stand?
- Hate Mongers on both extremes of the spectrum, and in between, are well deserving of our contempt;
- The immediate threat to civil society is the Islamic Extremists who must be dealt with on a war-like footing; and,
- The Greatest Threat to society is the growth of extremes on the Left as well as the Right. We are not quite there yet but the world is moving in that direction and Donald Trump, dear reader, is not the reason for this but rather a symptom.
As I see it...
'K.D. Galagher'
