Math is hard

These quotes from a National Review Online article caught my eye:

Roughly 240 people have been killed in terrorist attacks inspired or directly commissioned by the Islamic State since 2015, according to Reuters. 

 

A Tunisian Islamic extremist killed eleven people at a Christmas market in Berlin in 2016 and a similar truck attack killed more than 80 people in Nice, France that same year. The most costly Islamist attack in France occurred in November 2015, when gunmen killed 130 revelers in and around the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on a Saturday night.

So the NRO writer managed to find just three attacks totaling 221 people killed, plus the four killed in the latest Christmas market shooting, for a total of 225.  Apparently Reuters thinks that there have only been 15 other people killed by IS inspired attacks in the past three or four years?  Either they are delusional or dishonest.  Or they are pulling the typical trick about starting the count after that last big attack.

American leftists like to bandy about a figure on terrorist attacks "since 9/11".  Really makes things look a lot better when you don't count the 3,000+ people who died in that attack.  Perhaps Reuters is pulling a similar stunt to downplay the threat.

Meanwhile, religionofpeace.com, which tracks Islamic inspired terror attacks, claims that there have been 91 already in December, 911 in November 2018, and 34262 since 9/11.  Maybe their numbers are overstated but the difference between Reuters and ROP is pretty significant.  Given the examples listed by NRO, I think it is clear that Reuters is busy downplaying the threat of terrorism.

Religion of peace update

Muslim extremism.

Islamic terrorists.

Just saying.  At what point will we say "hell no", we've had enough.  The FBI should be infiltrating mosques, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) should be denying immigration permission to Muslims coming from any country, and we should be asking our Muslim neighbors to denounce the attacks vocally and often.  I am tired of the so called "vast majority of peaceful Muslims" sitting silently in the wings while their religious brethren commit murder and mayhem.  Meanwhile every Christian is both expected and willing to condemn the slightest offense by his fellow Christians, no matter how idiotic and un-representative of the faith as a whole.

I fully expect these attacks to come to a major city nearby here in the United States and soon.  I happen to live in a small town so probably won't see it here, but if it happens in a restaurant where I am, you can bet your boots that I will be shooting back.  Unfortunately that won't help much against a suicide vest or car bomb but one does what one can.

How convinced do you have to be?

I tell you I believe in violent jihad.

I tell you I want to go to Somalia to the battlefield.

I tell you that individuals who fight for Islam are to be admired

I tell you that sharia should be the law everywhere in the world

I tell you that the Islamic madrassas (school) that I attend is a front for violent jihad

I send you videos supporting the martyrdom of jihadists

I tell you how to lie to the authorities if you are stopped on your way to Somalia

I then lie to the FBI when they suspect I have broken the laws about providing material support to terrorist organizations, including an intent to travel to Somalia to fight in the jihad.

What is the only reasonable conclusion?

You guessed it.  All of this is merely inference and there's no proof that I ever intended to actually do anything.  A $500 fine and three years probation for the charge of lying to a federal officer.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/04/why-elton-simpson-one-of-the-texas-shooters-had-been-acquitted-of-an-earlier-terrorism-related-offense/

Islamophobia? Maybe but...

Every time there is an Islamic attack against westerners, the media and the left immediately start wringing their hands about the possibility of "revenge" attacks.  They bemoan the Islamophobia of the common people, and they rush to condemn the wave of attacks against Muslims in the United States and Europe that "could" occur.

Problem is that the predicted attacks almost never actually happen.  This idea that Americans have an irrational hatred towards muslims and routinely act on it is garbage.  Even when there is an attack against muslims, attacks which make front page news and become the headlines, they are frequently found to have nothing to do with religion or race.  That news, however, is rarely reported.

Two new stories to keep an eye on.

One, muslim hating man kills muslim teenager with his car.

Two, North Carolina murders revive fears of Islamophobia.

So let's start by pointing out that in a nation of 350 million people there are now two instances of alleged Islamophobia leading to violence.  Not exactly a wave of anti-muslim terror.

Let's also mention that there's a good chance, based on past history of the media jumping to unsupported and unwarranted conclusions (remember the Duke rape case anyone?), that at least one of these will turn out to have nothing to do with Islamophobia.

But even if they are, the general condemnation of these acts by the vast majority of Americans puts the lie to the idea that American is Islamophobic.  Meanwhile, in the month of January muslims killed 3998 people in jihad and Islamic inspired attacks around the world. 

Any idea what a "phobia' is?  An unreasoned and illogical fear.  Given the constant barrage of attacks by muslims in the name of Jihad and Allah, I don't know that being concerned about Islam qualifies as a phobia.

Je suis the religion of peace

Je suis couteau.

I am the knife.

Retweeted over 4,000 times during a seven day period following the stabbings by a Palestinian of eleven Israelis on a Tel Aviv bus.

You people are sick.  Your religion is sick.  Your culture is sick.  You disgust me.

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

"Those who are not Muslims, we respect their belief and if it's our belief, you have to respect our belief," he said. "That's all we want. Nothing more, nothing less."

Wait, what?  You respect our beliefs?  Since when?

Attention all Muslims.  It is our belief that every man is free and that the right to free speech is a part of being free.  If you don't like someone's speech, feel free to not do business with them, feel free to not socialize with them, feel free to cross the street when you see them coming.  Killing them, however, is not counted as respect.

Oh, and by the way, we don't have to respect your beliefs.  We will tolerate them (right up to the point where you stone a woman to death for committing adultery or pronounce a death sentence on someone because they decide not to believe in your religion any more) but we don't have to respect you at all.

You don't have to respect our beliefs either, come to think of it.  You can think we are all horrible people who are going to hell in some afterlife, but if you want to live in our countries then you get to accept that it isn't up to you to decide.  You don't get to make that decision for us.  You don't get to decide to put us to death because we don't believe in your religion.  You don't get to enslave us because we don't believe.  We will not be second class citizens in our own countries.  Here it is called freedom of religion and freedom of speech.  We believe that you can live your life but you don't get to impose it on the rest of us.

So if all you want is a little respect, how about vocally condemning Islamic suicide bombers?  How about marching in the streets to protest Islamic terrorists?  How about standing up and saying that it is wrong for Muslims to incite violence against non-Muslims?  How about standing up and calling for the Islamic countries around the world to implement freedom of religion?  How about standing up and calling for and end to fatwah and violent jihad?  How about rejecting that part of the Koran that says that it is OK for you to lie to a non-Muslim?

When you do, I might consider respecting your religion.  In the meantime I will tolerate your right to practice your religion but respect?  I think you are asking a bit much.

When DO we finally get to blame Islam?

Yet another group of Muslim terrorists killing people they disagree with, this time in France.

Yet again the mainstream media falls over themselves to avoid saying the "m" word or the "i" word.  Host on MSNBC even goes so far as to claim that the problem is religious extremists in general, not muslims.  His evidence?  Well, 35 years ago Jerry Falwell sued Hustler and Larry Flynt for defamation.

That's right.  Muslim's kill thousands of people each year over religious disagreements, some by sawing their heads off with a rusty knife, some by blowing them up with bombs, some by shooting them with automatic rifles and rocket launchers; meanwhile Jerry Falwell sues someone thirty five years ago for defamation and the problem is religious extremists, not Islam.

Notice the female host at the end piling on by claiming that we only talk about Islam because "it is much more incendiary and much more controversial to talk about".  Not because they murder thousands of people but because it is more controversial to talk about.  How about a list of the people that Christians and Jews have killed because they blasphemed Jesus or Jaweh over the past hundred years or so (hell, how about the last thousand years)?  Did you know that over the course of the Inquisition (both medieval and Spanish) about 6,000 people were killed?  The inquisition lasted for 500 years by the way, so that's about twelve people a year.  And it only applied to Christians, so if you were a Muslim or a Jew you had nothing to worry about.

Meanwhile, in a game reminiscent of Where's Waldo, try to find the words Muslim or Islam anywhere in this ABC News story.

The religion of peace

Since 9/11 we have been told that Islam is the religion of peace, that the majority of Muslims are not jihadists and do not support the jihad.  We are told that we can't speak out against this sickness, that we have to be tolerant, that we have to accept their differences in the name of multi-culturalism.  We have to accept women having their faces covered in their driver's license photos, we have to accept "honor" killings and sharia law in our towns and cities, and we have to be careful not to criticize, because it shows our intolerance.  Every time a Muslim terrorist kills a Westerner the press rushes to condemn the racist over-reaction of Americans, even though it never actually happens.

So it is refreshing when an actual Muslim tears into a politically correct loud mouthed Canadian senator who had the gall to lecture him about Islam.