Saturday, March 26, 2016

How serious can the frivolous appear to be?

Are you in the mood to look at a situation of high tragedy and see what in it may compel someone to crack up with uncontrollable laughter? If your answer is yes, I invite you to read the latest editorial by the esteemed editors of National Review Online (NRO.) It came under the title: “After Brussels, Time to Get Serious,” and was published on March 22, 2016.

Because a presentation is usually made of two parts – one being the information that's relayed; the other being the logic that weaves the information into a coherent tapestry – it is better in this case to make a clear distinction between the two when discussing the stream of ideas that were strung together by the editors. And so, we put aside for now our preoccupation with the veracity of the information that's relayed, and concentrate on the logic of what's delivered as opposed to what's promised.

The title of the piece makes it clear that the intent of the editors (hence their promise) is to deliver something that is serious. In making this promise, they mean to say that nothing of what was done up to now has been serious, but they have the formula that will change all that, and solve the heretofore insoluble problem.

So we go through the editorial looking for the proposed solution. We find a preamble that prepares the readers for that moment, and then find what the editors claim to be the solution.

First the preamble: “In another part of the [city] are roiling ghettos populated largely by Muslims from North Africa and the Middle East – for example a Belgian-born French citizen of Moroccan descent who was captured last week in Brussels just a few hundred yards from his childhood home … A refusal to require assimilation of immigrants has resulted in cities fractured along ethnic lines … As Brussels officials have admitted: 'It's literally an impossible situation, it's very grave'”.

Now the NRO editors' solution: “Securing our borders is a crucial step. Other measures are necessary. Ted Cruz stated, 'We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.' … Directing limited resources toward certain mosques and community centers. This strategy should entail allying with the Muslims … New York City was engaged in this sort of surveillance program. It should be restarted, and others like it begun … Defeating the Islamic State will require eradicating it in Iraq and Syria. An air campaign backed by American forces on the ground is the way to rip it. This war will require a serious strategy, carried out by leaders serious about keeping America safe”.

This being the logic, we now gauge the veracity of the information that's relayed by the editorial piece. Here is how the editors begin to lay out what they say are relevant facts: “Decades of willful blindness to the problem of ideological fanaticism...” Look closely at that statement, and you'll conclude it is not a factoid but an opinion disguised as fact. It is bogus, and so is everything else that was built on it.

What is relevant to this case is that the terrorist act pulled in Brussels was hatched in the French section of the city and not the Flemish. It is connected to an event that happened in France months before, and to another event that happened years ago. This was the time when young unemployed French-born non-White citizens rioted in Paris and set cars on fire to draw attention to their plight. That incident should have served as a warning sign to the French authorities but was ignored.

Here is the difference between America and Europe. The “new worlds” of Australia and the Americas were populated by immigrants who left their identity and everything else behind to start a new life with strangers. Once settled, these people remained open to accommodating newer immigrants themselves. And the tradition continued with wave after wave of immigrants. By contrast, the migrants who end up in Europe learn that they must contend with indigenous populations which are not as open to accommodating them.

But not all Europeans harbor the same level of rejection for the newcomers. Germany in particular that lived through a sad chapter of racist ideology in the past has now become the most accommodating European nation to newcomers. It has a program of assimilation that is as good, if not better, than any in the new worlds. The other nations display various levels of acceptance or rejection ... the French being the most chauvinistic of all as if to live up to the ideal of Nicolas Chauvin from whose name was derived the word “chauvinism”.

This should lead us to the view that because Muslims started settling in America more than a century ago and turned out to be outstanding citizens, we must take it for granted that they will continue to be outstanding.

If something can change that reality, it will be the moves suggested by the morally bankrupt small men who pander to Jewish groups by provoking young and immature Muslims who will be forced to challenge the system to assert their manhood – or whatever.

This is a decades-old Jewish plan. It was put together by Jews who pretended to be security experts and flooded the media with suggestions on how to racially profile the Muslim population.

They said that a system of this kind was in force in Israel, and we now see the result. They had 250 casualties in 5 months over there, a figure that translates into 36,000 casualties per year for an America that is 60 times larger.

They explain that Israel is undergoing a third intifada that may yet explode full force. Now try to imagine an intifada taking place in America – what will it look like? If you haven't yet imagined, rest assured that Ted Cruz and the editors of National Review Online have … which is why they are drooling with anticipation.