Why the Left is doomed

 Have you experienced an incandescent light glowing brightly just before it burns out? Sometimes, just before breaking, the filament may briefly arc or surge, which appears as a flash of extra brightness. As fanciful as it sounds, so too might the progressive movement burn out in a blinding flash of light when we least expect it. The fall of the Soviet Union happened with little warning. Whether it does so or not largely depends on the actions of but a few of us. While it is not a sure thing, today's conditions are a perfect setup for the left's demise. 

*While capitalists and legions of individualists can point to thousands of years of successful nation-building, socialism and communism cannot point to any nation or culture that prospered.

Why the Left is doomed - American Thinker

Remembering Rayan Al-Najjar

 Yet another young Muslim girl – one of the few that we know of among the many such victims – has become the victim of an “honor” killing in the world of Islam.

This time it is 18-year-old Rayan al-Najjar in the Netherlands, murdered by her father Khaled and two brothers Mohammed and Mohaned, for “dating, refusing to wear a hijab and living a Western life.” For bringing this “shame” upon her family – and for wanting to be free – Rayan’s brothers kidnapped her, gagged and bound her, and threw her into a swamp to drown.

Rayan’s father has admitted the murder, but has escaped to Syria. The brothers are now on trial. When taken into custody, they told police that killing their sister was simply “part of their culture.”

Part of their “culture” it surely is – Islamic culture, that is. The Qur’an and Islamic law provide a foundation for honor killing and sanction it – and that is precisely why honor killings are so widespread across the Islamic world.

Robert Spencer is one of the world’s leading experts on Islam’s abuse of woman, and his new book, Holy Hell: Islam’s Abuse of Women and the Infidels Who Enable It, reveals how Islamic theology inspires, enforces and justifies honor killings – as well as the myriad other ways Islam tortures, maims and subjugates women. Everyone should read it.

Anyone who has the courage and integrity to face what Islam truly teaches, understands why 18-year-old Rayan al-Najjar had to die. It’s the same reason why Aqsa Parvez, Amina and Sarah Said, the Shafia sisters, Shaima Alawadi, Noor Almaleki, Shafilea Ahmed, and so many other Muslim women and girls, all of whom cannot unfortunately be listed here, had to be sacrificed on the altar of Islamic ideals.

When reflecting on the horror that Rayan al-Najjar had to endure at the hands of her Muslim family, and how this horror represents the fate and suffering of millions of Muslim women and girls across the Islamic world, one can’t help but wonder: Where are the howls of moral indignation coming from Western feminists on behalf of Rayan and Muslim women in general?

Where are the Women’s Studies Departments across U.S. campuses? Where are the panelists of ABC’s The View? When will Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin speak on this issue? When will they invite Robert Spencer and Anni Cyrus on their show to discuss and explain why Rayan al-Najjar is no longer with us?

This is, of course, nothing new. There has always been a Western feminist silence about the suffering of Muslim women under Islamic gender apartheid. I confront and document this issue in my new forthcoming book, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas.

This is a leftist phenomenon. The West’s leftist feminists always respond with an apathetic heartlessness and deafening silence to the suffering of Muslim women. Anyone who discerns what the Left really is understands why it is totally logical and expected for leftist feminists to behave in this shameful and inhuman manner.

Indeed, in the world of leftist feminism, it is politically correct and cutting-edge to wail and scream with seething rage about a woman’s right to an abortion, but to actually care for – and come to the defense of – a female victim of an honor killing, acid attack, gang rape, forced marriage or some other heinous crime under Islam is unthinkable.

This is because admitting the true nature of Islam, and the theology and institutions on which it is based, and denouncing it, violates the central code of the “progressive” leftist faith: anti-Westernism and cultural relativism. No culture can be said to be worse than any other – unless it is Western culture, which is always fair game for derision and condemnation. But to criticize any Third-World culture in general – and an adversary culture in particular – is to surrender the political cause and faith.

Western leftist feminists couldn’t care less about real actual breathing women; they care only about their own ideological beliefs and agendas – which are founded upon the goal of destroying their own host capitalist-democratic society.

For leftist feminists, the victims of Islamic gender apartheid can be easily forgotten and dismissed for the sake of their ultimate goal: to aid and abet the West’s totalitarian enemies and to wreak destruction upon their own free societies, which bestow the individual liberties and rights that they despise and abhor.

To actually care for Rayan al-Najjar, and to stand up for her, would necessitate leftist feminists admitting the true nature of Islam, and admitting that it is vicious and barbaric, and inferior to Western Judeo-Christian culture. Admitting such a thing would then lead to admitting that Western culture is better and superior and, therefore (and here comes the kicker) worth defending and protecting. This is simply anathema to the Left, whose entire purpose is, again, to destroy our Western society.

It is crucial to understand that deep down the Left loves the Islamic forced coverings on women. Leftist feminists long for the burqa/niqab — though this longing is subconscious on many levels in many of them and they, at certain stages, want it initially enforced only on other women rather than on themselves.

All of this is connected to why the Left has always had a love affair with unisex/desexualized dress. I have documented the Left’s romance with Maoist unisex clothing in United in Hate, which is linked to the Left’s current romance with forced veiling under Islam, as well as with the Covid mask.   

This is the key: forced covering satisfies in leftists their morbid pining for enforced sameness. It is crucial, in their world, to erase physical as well as emotional differences and attractions between people. In the utopian endgame, humans must all be replicas of each other and be completely devoted to the cause, the revolutionary state, and to its all-knowing administering of “equality” and “social justice.”

Thus, leftists adamantly support women’s sexual “self-determination,” for instance, if it enables their war against their own host democratic-capitalist societies — and if it can hurt the Judeo-Christian tradition. But if a totalitarian adversarial society is stifling women’s rights in this context, then leftists vehemently support that oppression, since they worship that particular tyranny in question, and gleefully welcome the threat it poses to their own host society.

Longing to submerge themselves into a totality where even their own choices will be negated, leftists are always drawn to a totalitarian entity within which they can lose themselves. And it is in this twisted paradigm that these lost individuals – who suffer from an immense feeling of alienation – finally feel connected to something. They finally belong.

The leftist enterprise has always been a death wish – a self-loathing suicidal odyssey to shed oneself of one’s own unwanted self and in that process to blur oneself into a collective totalitarian whole. And it is in this despotic hell that they find their purpose, meaning and sense of belonging.

This is ultimately why the Italian cheerleader for Hamas, Vittorio Arrigoni, ended up being murdered at the hands of the Islamic terrorists that he venerated throughout his life. As I have revealed, Vittorio Arrigoni went to Gaza hoping to die. It is the typical narrative of the fellow travelers and political pilgrims that sociologist Paul Hollander has documented.

And so this is why leftist feminists will never shed a tear or utter one word of concern or protest when witnessing 18-year-old Rayan al-Najjar drowning while gagged, with her hands bound behind her back and her ankles taped together, in a swamp.

So don’t ever hold your breath waiting for Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin to discuss why Ryan had to die – and to discuss it honestly with scholars of Islam such as Robert Spencer and Anni Cyrus about all the reasons why.

There is too much hatred, self-hatred and darkness in the heart of the Left for that to ever become a realistic scenario.

Remembering Rayan Al-Najjar | Frontpage Mag

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Ken Burns Is Completely Wrong About the Iroquois

 The Iroquois confederation wasn’t even a democracy. Leaders were selected by women elders, whose status was hereditary.

Ken Burns Revolutionary War Documentary Is Completely Wrong About Iroquois | National Review

Grace Community Church accused of ‘aiding and abetting’ alleged child abuser: lawsuit

 A new lawsuit alleges that Grace Community Church of Sun Valley, California, a prominent nondenominational church once led by John MacArthur, aided and abetted a child abuser.

A plaintiff identified as Jane Doe and three minors identified as “J.J.,” “A.J.,” and “R.J.” filed a complaint for damages against GCC and an individual named Clinton Jung in the Superior Court of the State of California in Sacramento County back in September.

According to the complaint, a copy of which was provided to The Christian Post on Nov. 17, Doe was married to Jung and had reported to Grace Community leaders in early 2021 that he had sexually abused their toddler-aged daughter.

Doe alleges that GCC leadership attempted to conceal Jung’s abusive behavior despite being legally required to report such abuse to authorities and told her to “submit” to Jung’s authority as he continued to abuse her and their children.

“At numerous points, the Church colluded with Clinton to force Plaintiff to remain in the home with him and under his control despite knowing he had engaged in domestic violence and was likely to do it again in the future,” the complaint claims.

“Clinton was emboldened to repeatedly engage in his conduct, including by sexually abusing his toddler again and again — conduct that a single report by the Church to proper authorities, at any of the numerous points during which the Church became aware of suspected abuse, could have prevented.”

Additionally, according to the suit, when Doe and her children finally left Jung, church leaders testified on his behalf in support of being allowed weekly supervised visitation.

On one of these weekly visits, Jung allegedly forced J.J. to touch his penis. While at another visit, he allegedly took J.J. to a hotel bathroom and forced her to look at his penis.

The complaint alleges childhood sexual abuse, negligence, domestic violence, and aiding and abetting domestic violence, and demands a jury trial for the proceedings.

Following what the complaint called “a lengthy investigation,” a district attorney could not file charges against Jung “due to an inability to prove intent beyond a reasonable doubt.”

The lawsuit also cites a 2023 letter from the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office to investigating officers, which involved rebuking the church over the alleged incident.

“[T]he pastor and elders at Grace Community Church muddled what could have been helpful evidence as to [Clinton’s] intent,” states the letter, which is quoted in the suit.

“Their arrogance in attempting to handle such a delicate — and potentially criminal — matter, in house, and without the due diligence that certainly would have triggered their mandatory reporting edicts, hinders our ability to use the prior events to ascertain the suspect’s intent.”

Shounak Dharap, an attorney and partner at the San Francisco, California-based Arns Davis Law, who is representing the plaintiffs, told CP in an interview on Friday that the complaint was in the process of being served to GCC.

Grace Community Church accused of ‘aiding and abetting’ abuser | Church & Ministries

X revealed the fake accounts pushing anti-Israel propaganda

 Although WWII is fast (and dangerously) becoming a misty memory, it’s probable that most people still know about the infamous “Tokyo Rose” (actually a collective of English-speaking Japanese women) who would broadcast reports intended to demoralize troops fighting the Japanese. In England, Lord Haw-Haw (another collective) broadcast false news intended to demoralize troops fighting the Nazis. Indeed, Wikipedia has a long list of famous fake-news spouting propagandists during wartime.

Today, propagandists don’t use radios; they use social media, but the tactic is the same: disseminate false material to demoralize the enemy. Yesterday, X, whether intentionally or not (I’ve seen conflicting reports), allowed people to see the countries of origin of tweets. Imagine everyone’s surprise to learn that some of the most vile anti-Israel propaganda during the Gaza war came from anywhere but Israel. Well, maybe that wasn’t so surprising given the world’s interest in seeing Israel destroyed.

What was probably very surprising, though, was to learn that tweets that purported to come from disaffected Republicans who support the Nick Fuentes/Tucker Carlson/Candace Owens faction of virulent antisemites and Israel-haters weren’t from Americans at all. These tweets were also from foreign accounts.

In other words, there is no serious Republican civil war over Israel. There is a strong fringe of antisemites (as is always the case during unstable times), but most of the Republican party lives where it has always lived: Supporting Israel, because it recognizes that the tiny nation is America’s frontline in the war against radical Islam, sparing America uncounted deaths and destruction.  

That’s the premise. Here’s the proof. Faerie, a pro-Israel account, amusingly summed up what was happening:

X revealed the fake accounts pushing anti-Israel propaganda - American Thinker

Mamdani’s Numbnut Voters

 “Numbnut” is derogatory American slang, sometimes used for humor, to mean a “slow-witted, unresponsive, or inept person.” But no humor exists in the fact New York City (NYC) voters, always on the edge of numbnut-osity, went over it by electing socialist/communist Zohran Mamdani mayor.

A majority (50.4%) of NYC voters demonstrated unbelievable incomprehension, as would be expected from slow-witted, inept and—by choosing to ignore numerous red flags about Mamdani—unresponsive constituents. As the proverb goes, they will now have to “reap what you sow.”

Mamdani’s campaign was a blank check of promises providing all sorts of things. These included free bus fare, government-run grocery stores (already a $29 million failure in Kansas), free high quality child care, freezing rents, maintaining abortion rights, opposing President Donald Trump, increasing the minimum wage to $30 by 2030, etc. Prior to the election, Trump forewarned a Mamdani victory could well result in the loss of federal funding to NYC wherever it could legally be done.

Thus, Mamdani may well face having to fund a lot more than he anticipated to make good on his blank check promises. It will be interesting to see from where such money comes to do what his campaign claimed it would do to make NYC life more affordable. He made clear some of it will come by way of increased taxes for the wealthy and corporations, which is already leading to an exodus. (A recent Daily Mail poll reported over 760,000 New Yorkers would “definitely” leave the city if Mamdani won while another two million indicated they would seriously consider it.)

Labeled a communist by Republicans, Mamdani denies it, calling himself a democratic socialist. He has been a longtime member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) which does not claim political party status—undoubtedly for the tax benefits gained as a political non-profit organization. It has given both Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib political life as members of Congress. And, it provided Mamdani with enormous support during his campaign, adding yet another ideological soulmate to government.

While DSA members argue they are not communists, they fail to look in the mirror. Their espoused strategy mirrors that of the Communist Party in seeking the same objective—i.e., America’s destruction as a democracy. It is run by a group that parallels the Communist Central Committee. A majority of DSA committee members are openly communist, having come from openly communist groups within the U.S., to which democracy is anathema.

Interestingly, during his election victory speech, Mamdani felt compelled to quote a socialist five-time U.S. presidential candidate of the early 1900s—Eugene Debs. Mamdani proclaimed, “I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.”

Mamdani’s speech was notable for another reason as well—i.e., he made no effort to use it as a call for political unity in working together to solve the city’s problems. He dismissed his main political opponent, Andrew Cuomo, with the statement, “Let tonight be the final time I utter his name.”

Calling for the protection of illegal immigrants, he challenged Trump to come through “all of us” to get to them. It was not the same Mamdani who had demonstrated a more conciliatory persona during the campaign—it was his radical doppelganger finally taking off the mask to set the tone for his term.

At one point during Mamdani’s victory celebration, the massive screen at his campaign headquarters was hacked to portray the message “Trump is your president.”

Mamdani gamed voters too with his Islamic religion, claiming that being a Muslim was to sacrifice safety. NYC hate crimes against Muslims is only a fraction of overall crime, while the vast majority in 2023 (88%) were against Jews, of whom he made no mention.

Evidence of NYC voters’ numbnuttiness was further evidenced by the fact they elected a candidate committed to defunding police, using $600 million that could provide a safer city for residents, instead to create a new agency to replace the depleted ranks of the police force. Subsequent to George Floyd’s death in police custody, Mamdani repeatedly called for slashing NYPD’s funding, and even dismantling the force altogether.

Mamdani plans a $1.1 billion program to carry through on this effort with an initiative to replace police with social workers on 911 calls. He fails to grasp that doing this will only increase crime as criminals confront unarmed mental health professionals supposedly trained to defuse non-life-threatening incidents instead of experienced and armed law enforcement officers. This totally ignores the fact that oftentimes what may initially appear to be a non-life-threatening situation can quickly turn violent.

Mamdani’s Numbnut Voters - American Thinker