This article offers some ancient insights into the current posture of western Europe, and inevitably the U.S. In a nutshell, today's parasites become tomorrow's predators.

 

In my view, the entire media complex keeps us focused on events like those in Belgium this week, and persistently avoids illuminating the big picture. The really big picture.

 

For those of you who might assume an ancient poem offers us nothing today, here's the concluding last three paragraphs of the article (not The Odyssey):

 

"The compulsion not to offend with words the people who offend us with actions overrides the desire to speak truthfully. But until Westerners identify with volume and clarity the source of the decades-long attack on its civilization, wise actions remain thoughts scattered about.

 

Great books such as The Odyssey define the West. So, too, does Christianity, which not coincidentally celebrates its foremost religious holiday five days removed from the Brussels attacks. But forgetting who we are we means we can’t begin to defend our civilization. A people who stand for nothing get stepped upon by those who stand for something, even a bad thing.

 

We wonder why they attack us. We rarely get around to pondering what, precisely, we seek to save, beyond people and property, from the onslaught."

 

Do we as a country, or civilization, stand for anything anymore? And I'm not referring to the platitudes offered by our current crop of politicians.

 

And one more thing: when our President stood up this week and declared "ISIL doesn't pose an existential threat to us" that was your big clue. That's exactly what it poses.

I don't wonder why they attack us.  Either violently (Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels, New York, etc) ...... or as an attack on our culture... mass immigration intended to overwhelm our civilization over a long period of time.  They do it because non-believers are to be killed or subjugated.  It's a religious edict.

 

I'm not sure who's President he is.  I'm pretty sure my President wouldn't denigrate my country while standing on foreign soil. I'm also pretty sure my President wouldn't allow the culture of my country to be marginalized.

 

People struggle to understand why these people, like Obama, do the things they do.  They said, "It makes no sense that he would do that.  I just don't understand why he would do that."  .... It makes perfect sense.  He didn't become President to lead America.  He became President to render America irrelevant.

 

And in order to defeat our enemies, it's not required that we know why they attack us or why they hate us.  We just need to know they need to be defeated.

 

And as far as Democrats or invaders taking control of our political system... I think this quote is significant.

 

"Democracy isn't two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner."

I don't wonder why they attack us.  Either violently (Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels, New York, etc) ...... or as an attack on our culture... mass immigration intended to overwhelm our civilization over a long period of time.  They do it because non-believers are to be killed or subjugated.  It's a religious edict.

 

Well, it is a religious edict to burden the non-believers. One can debate how far one takes that. One can also argue that by the very edict on how to treat non believers in your midst there is the implication that forcing them to choose your belief or death is not really how it is supposed to go. 

 

That being said, I have witnessed a number of interactions that raises a question I have yet to find a good answer to. Which is that there area whole heck of a lot of muslims who are here because they wanted religious freedom to practice their beliefs in a manner that was not tolerated back where they come from. And then the kind of scum who have turned religion into a weapon come here and take over their mosques and these people become upset and despondent. My question is how the fuck does this happen? I've never gotten an answer. But go look at christianity, and this pattern largely doesn't occur. Sect A may hate sect B, and one of  them may be militant loony toons, but they  usually open up a franchise of their own down the road and try to poach a portion of the congregation. You also don't see catholicism coming along and taking over the smaller churches just becuase they have more members in total. The pattern with christianity is similar to patterns you see in other religions as well. 

 

It's weird, and I don't get it, and having read one translation of the koran, I don't see where it stems from in the teachings. The suppression yes, but the capitulation no. Nor the absence of suppressing the newcomers to your established mosque. 

 

In order to defeat our enemies, we DO need to know who they are and where they are. Systemically, I don't think we have a grasp on those two items. 

Our grandchildren will live under Sharia. Our government has become a religion, and adjudicated our moral rules, not simply our criminal law. And participation in the state religion is mandatory. Sharia likes this. All the pieces are in place and simply waiting for the next leadership. And nobody can stand up to Islam in the US, so the end is predetermined.