Stifling Opinions Amongst Muslims in the West

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One common trait amongst Religious Cults is that dissent is not tolerated. Dare to disagree with the prevailing narrative and you’re kicked out of the cult … or worse. Such has also been the case for several decades with the Cult of Leftism. Though they changed their public moniker to “Progressives”, their core tenets and modus-operandi have not changed, and arguably have gotten much worse. When it came to acts of terrorism from Muslim extremists, a constant horde of “Progressive” talking heads could be readily found to regurgitate the same PC pablum:

  • Islam is a Religion of Peace
  • Not all Muslims are terrorists
  • Anyone who dares to criticize Muslims or their religion is an Islamophobe = Racist + Bigot

Different violent event. More innocent people killed or maimed. Same repetitive talking points to not criticize the perpetrators, their motives, or their religion.
What has not been quite as clear to non-Muslim Westerners is what has been going on within the Muslim community. I a recent Washington Post article, journalist Asra Nomani shed a little light on the subject:

Alongside the honor brigade’s official channel, a community of self-styled blasphemy police — from anonymous blogs such as LoonWatch.com and Ikhras.com to a large and disparate cast of social-media activists — arose and began trying to control the debate on Islam. This wider corps throws the label of “Islamophobe” on pundits, journalists and others who dare to talk about extremist ideology in the religion. Their targets are as large as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and as small as me.
The official and unofficial channels work in tandem, harassing, threatening and battling introspective Muslims and non-Muslims everywhere. They bank on an important truth: Islam, as practiced from Malaysia to Morocco, is a shame-based, patriarchal culture that values honor and face-saving from the family to the public square. Which is why the bullying often works to silence critics of Islamic extremism.

Brave woman for speaking out. It’s beyond reprehensible that her non-Muslim sisters of a Leftist bent continue to sabotage her with their inane ramblings. But they’ve consistently shown that they don’t care one whit about “those” brown-skinned women. Sad.

More Pavilions At Folkfest

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Immigration and Islam: Europe’s Crisis of Faith

Consider Éric Zemmour, a slashing television debater and a gifted polemicist. His history of the collapse of France’s postwar political order, “Le suicide français,” was No. 1 on the best-seller lists for several weeks this fall. “Today, our elites think it’s France that needs to change to suit Islam, and not the other way around,” Mr. Zemmour said on a late-night talk show in October, “and I think that with this system, we’re headed toward civil war.”

Related.

Reader Tips

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Tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips is indisputably “one of the most depressing songs ever recorded.” The original version, as written by Hungarian pianist Rezső Seress — who would later jump to his death from his apartment window — was about the darkness of war; it wasn’t until Hungarian poet László Jávor wrote much bleaker, gloomier lyrics that the ball really got rolling:

As time went on, Gloomy Sunday was connected to a rash of suicides in Hungary. In all, seventeen people died. Two people shot themselves while listening to a band playing the tune. Several others drowned themselves in a river while clutching the sheet music…

That’s the story, anyway. Without further ado, here’s cabaret performer Hildegarde — who, apparently immune to the song’s effects, died just a few months shy of her 100th birthday — singing the appropriately named Gloomy Sunday.
Pip-pip! The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Moose The Most

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During a $750,000 research effort to blame “global warming”…

In response to the dramatic decline of moose in northeastern Minnesota, over 100 moose were equipped with radio-collars that could alert biologists to the moose’s impending death, allowing biologists to account for the deaths of 35 calves and 19 adults. […] 13 calves (37%) calves died due to mother abandonment. Eleven were caused when the mothers abandoned the calve during the act of attaching the collars, 2 were abandoned later.

Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough

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When your health care system has to beg the world for doctors, what kind of doctors do you suppose show up?

The ophthalmologist, another specialist told her later, had implanted the lens in the wrong position, obscuring her sight and puncturing a duct, causing a slow bleed and massive pressure.
“There was so much blood in there, it blew the eyeball out of my head. It was hanging on my cheek,” said Ms. Church, a razor-sharp 83-year-old. “The blood was just dripping everywhere … I was hysterical, the pain was so bad.”
Both incidents point to dangerous breakdowns in the Canadian health-care system. But don’t expect to find any public record of either apparent blunder — or of thousands of similarly harmful and sometimes deadly mistakes that occur in facilities across the country each year.
Most instances of the system hurting rather than healing patients, in fact, are not even reported by staff internally, a National Post investigation has documented. […]
“We do turn a blind eye and walk away,” the nurse admitted. “There is a lot of lying, there’s a lot of cover-up, which turns my stomach.”

The Sound Of Settled Science

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Peer-reviewed pocket-calculator climate model exposes serious errors in complex computer models;

The paper, Why models run hot: results from an irreducibly simple climate model, by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, Willie Soon, David Legates and Matt Briggs, survived three rounds of tough peer review in which two of the reviewers had at first opposed the paper on the ground that it questioned the IPCC’s predictions.
When the paper’s four authors first tested the finished model’s global-warming predictions against those of the complex computer models and against observed real-world temperature change, their simple model was closer to the measured rate of global warming than all the projections of the complex “general-circulation” models…

The link provided for download is broken, you can find it here instead. Click “pdf”.

Classroom Correction

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Professor Judy Haiven’s idea that women should always speak first in classroom discussions and at public events was brought up several times during the forum. Haiven said she already tries to apply this idea in her own classroom… “In the management department, women get to speak first.”

By which the professor means, male students aren’t allowed to speak first.

Haiven’s idea was met by a round of applause.

We Don’t Need No …

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Wellington, Ontario;

A good friend of mine runs a business in the County. He has done so for 40 years. He showed me his electricity bill last week. In December, he spent $770 on electricity. It was one of the least expensive lines on his bill. The global adjustment charge was $4,267.32. There was also a delivery charge, a debt retirement charge and an array of taxes. In total, he spent nearly $10,000 in December–for $770 of electricity. He doesn’t know where this money is going. He is not sure he can keep up. He isn’t alone.
The global adjustment is a catch-all fee that covers the provincial government’s intervention in electricity generating market. It pays for solar generators, industrial wind turbine plants and subsidized exports to Michigan and Quebec. It covers the subsidized rates some chosen industries pay. It pays for the lawyers who battle residents and groups–including the Prince Edward County Field Naturalists–at tribunals and courtrooms across the province.

The Sound Of Settled Science

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The Lukewarmer;

Short version-some people who were (mostly) not scientists and certainly don’t know how to do research properly conducted a series of studies that had foregone conclusions supporting their position on climate policy. For Prall, Cook and Lewandowsky the foregone nature of the conclusions was explicit-they wrote on various websites that they were conducting the studies with a predetermined end. For Oreskes it was implicit, but easy to see, as she structured her research carefully, not to show the breadth of opinion on climate change, but rather to conceal it.

h/t Don B.

Your Moral and Intellectual Superiors

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Recent events in France have finally put the nail in the coffin of the philosophical world view of anyone describing themselves as a “progressive” or a “liberal”. In this conversation (podcast) with Charles Adler, the CATO Institute’s Patrick Basham succinctly dissects the phoniness and all encompassing falsehoods that define Leftism in 2015. Here’s one, of many, brilliant things that Basham said (paraphrasing):

In today’s political climate throughout much of the West, the reaction to what one says is determined, not by the content of one’s words and the substance and significance of what one has to say, but rather by the colour of the skin or the religion that’s practiced by the person speaking those words.

What they’re talking about was the recent TV interview of Rotterdam mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb, which you can watch here.

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