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I had another post almost finished for today. I’ll have to leave that draft for next week. The story filling the news at the moment is much more serious.
As you’ll probably be aware, 50 or more US citizens have been murdered and a further 50 or so injured at a Gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. According to the media, the gunman is one Omar Mateen, a 29-year old Afghan-American citizen, described in some reports as a ‘native’ – by which they can only mean American-born. His motive has yet to be confirmed, but we can surely speculate with some confidence.
Florida governor Rick Scott responded to the attack by tweeting the following words – “This is an attack on our people. An attack on Orlando. An attack on Florida. An attack on America. An attack on all of us.”
He is almost correct. The current tragedy is certainly centred on America and the American public. But, as ever with Muslim violence, the intended target is much bigger. This is an attack primarily on homosexuality, a way of life considered sinful by the desert philosophers of Islamic orthodoxy. It is also an attack on the very right to choose how to live. Muslims don’t acknowledge the right to a private life, to private indulgences or secret pleasures. Every individual must live like every other individual. This must be understood if blame for this attack is to be accurately apportioned.
Human garbage – Omar Mateen
How should we react to today’s savagery? I think I know how we will react, but that is something different. We will probably react with hashtags (like the one used by UK Chancellor George Osborne on Facebook – #lovewins). This is worse than meaningless. It is a way of avoiding doing something meaningful.
Others will invert reality by claiming that the ‘domestic’ nature of the Orlando attack proves that Donald Trump’s suggestion of barring foreign Muslims from America will make no difference to national security. Others will claim that mental illness, not religion, is the motivating factor. Still others will claim that since homophobia is a general problem in the United States, equally shared by Christians and Muslims alike, no special blame should be placed on the Islamic religion.
That last fallacy needs to be tackled directly. In no way can one compare the caveman aggression of Muslims to the lazy bigotry of right-wing Christians. One kills, the other does not. Christians are uneasy with issues like bathroom usage, wedding cakes and other trivial matters. Muslims take issue with the existence of minority groups entirely.
President Obama has spoken this afternoon of his shock and sadness at the carnage in Orlando. At no point in his address (which lasted less than ten minutes) was the word ‘Islam’ mentioned, let alone Islamism or Islamic terrorism. This suggests to me that the attack will be framed in one of the ways mentioned above. Figures on the left and centre of Western politics will use it to call for stricter gun control, more investment in mental health services and a renewed effort to ‘integrate’ Muslims into the Western mainstream. All this will fail. The real problem will stay untouched, unaddressed.
The Islamic mentality is not suited to the free world. This has been proven time and time again. In Belgium, England, Scotland, America, Germany, Sweden and many other countries, modern people have been slaughtered or assaulted simply for being modern. Islam and modernity are bitterly opposed.
It feels weird to type words I’ve typed countless times before. No sensible person needs to be reminded of these self-evident truths. But on the off-chance someone deluded has stumbled across this site, I would ask them to reflect on what I’ve said. Islam is opposed to everything we love; everything we enjoy, value and celebrate.
If you like the twenty-first century at all, even a little, please join the pushback against the force threatening to destroy it.
D, LDN
Defend the Modern World 
As a gay man living in the United States, today’s news coverage of the Islamic attack has been a day of reflection. I am not a leftist supporter. The left moved so far from my own sense of proper years ago – and yet it moves further and further. Sadly, among those extremes is the ‘lovefest’ with Islam. A religion that has no other view but hate for me as a gay man. The left seems to be gifted with the means of overlooking the bodies of gay victims of Islam…. I cannot. As I cannot over look the bodies of the other victims of Islam.
Words are hard at times to use well. I will say just a few here. However, I know that I need to speak more plainly that the left is not the friend of gay people, It is not guns that kills – it is people who do. And Islam is who kills gay people. Whether gay or whatever other – Islam IS against everything that makes the world the truly wonderful it can be.
For myself, I know that Islam is evil. And so are the insane left who push it down everyone’s throat. As may come – I will speak more and more plainly that Islam is the reason for this event of horror, and Yes – Islamic terrorism.
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Beautifully put. I think this attack will awaken many LGBT people to the threat Islam poses. They want every single person to live the way they do. They want a boring, squalid, uncreative society. I would rather die than submit.
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Indeed. Between my study of family tree (currently mapping my Lancaster and Yorkist kin) :), I have been reflecting these past several months. I certainly hope many LGBT people consider very well just what the danger of Islam is for them. I know, on my homefront, my partner is completely unaware. Solution? Gun control and Christianity is the evil. Frankly – what a idiot. Oh, he knows my thoughts – but don’t press much with mine.
Something must give on this danger. I rather like what your Douglas Murray says about this. Tired, and wondering why people can’t understand the danger (and problem) of Islam, but yet the need to continue speaking of this danger. Perhaps, cousin Churchill felt like this at times before Poland. Who knows? However, I remain hopeful.
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I know of many anti-Islamist LGBT writers. I think it’s becoming more acceptable in LGBT circles to talk seriously about Islam.
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Condolences from Belgium, but keep the moral high ground. You have many supporters worldwide
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I have a feeling the attack will bring the West together, strengthening it. Terrorists don’t seem to understand the links that bind us together.
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In Oriana Fallaci’s magnificent diatribe “The Rage and the Pride” she includes a description of something she saw with her very own eyes, in Bangladesh; a Muslim public ritual murder of twelve gay guys, in accordance with the sharia. It took place in a football stadium, and was witnessed – approvingly – by thousands of people.
I quote – “…To make you cry I’ll tell you about the twelve young impure men I saw executed at Dacca at the end of the Bangladesh war.
“They executed them on the field of Dacca stadium, with bayonet blows to the torso or abdomen, in the presence of twenty thousand faithful who applauded in the name of God from the bleachers. They thundered “Allah akbar, Allah akbar.”
“Yes, I know: the ancient Romans, those ancient Romans of whom my culture is so proud, entertained themselves in the Coliseum by watching the deaths of Christians fed to the lions. I know, I know: in every country of Europe the Christians, those Christians whose contribution to the History of Thought I recognize despite my atheism, entertained themselves by watching the burning of heretics.
“But a lot of time has passed since then, we have become a little more civilized, and even the sons of Allah ought to have figured out by now that certain things are just not done.
“After the twelve impure young men **they killed a little boy who had thrown himself at the executioners to save his brother who had been condemned to death.
“They smashed his head with their combat boots.** {my emphasis – dda}
“And if you don’t believe it, well, reread my report or the reports of the French and German journalists who, horrified as I was, were there with me. Or better: look at the photographs that one of them took.
“Anyway this isn’t even what I want to underline.
“It’s that, at the conclusion of the slaughter, the twenty thousand faithful (many of whom were women) left the bleachers and went down on the field.
“Not as a disorganized mob, no. In an orderly manner, with solemnity.
“They slowly formed a line and, again in the name of God [sic: ‘allah’ – dda], walked over the cadavers. All the while thundering Allah–akbar, Allah–akbar.
“They destroyed them like the Twin Towers of New York. They reduced them to a bleeding carpet of smashed bones.” END QUOTE.
If anyone reading this lives within travelling distance of Orlando, Florida, and is *angry* about this Muslim mass-murder of happy American gay citizens who were dancing and listening to music (and one must remember that the sharia of Islam forbids nearly all music whether sacred or profane, vocal or instrumental; music and making of music is as much a target of jihad as being-gay is) then I suggest that when the blood and broken glass is cleared up and people start piling up the bunches of flowers and singing sad songs, that you get together a group with a huge banner marked simply “Lan Astaslem” (I will not Submit), and take with you the text of Oriana Fallaci’s The Rage and the Pride, and read together, out loud, selected paragraphs. And bring along wine, and drink a series of toasts – “To freedom! To life! To music! To love! To America! To VICTORY!” Don’t weep. Don’t lay flowers. BE ANGRY. Instead of laying flowers it’s time to – metaphorically speaking – light fires.
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‘The Force of Reason’ is also breath-taking.
My love for Fallaci cannot be described. She was one of the greatest personalities of the post-war era.
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Let’s not even bother to translate “lan astaslem” on that banner you’re talking about. I don’t even want to speak their language, which in itself is also another sign of submission.
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Here are the two passages from Oriana Fallaci’s “The Rage and the Pride” that might be particularly apposite.
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“I am speaking to those who, though not stupid or evil, are wallowing in prudence and doubt.
“And to them I say: “Wake up, people. Wake up!!” Intimidated as you are by your fear of going against the current—that is, appearing racist (a word which is entirely inapt as we are speaking not about a race but about a religion)—you don’t understand or don’t want to understand that a reverse–Crusade [sic: a JIHAD; and perhaps in a public reading this word Jihad should be used, here – DDA] is in progress.
“Accustomed as you are to the double–cross, blinded as you are by myopia, you don’t understand or don’t want to understand that a war of religion is in progress.
“Desired and declared by a fringe of that religion, perhaps, but a war of religion nonetheless. A war which they call Jihad. Holy War.
“A war that might not seek to conquer our territory, but that certainly seeks to conquer our souls. That seeks the disappearance of our freedom and our civilization.
“That seeks to annihilate our way of living and dying, our way of praying or not praying, our way of eating and drinking and dressing and entertaining and informing ourselves.
“You don’t understand or don’t want to understand that if we don’t oppose them, if we don’t defend ourselves, if we don’t fight, the Jihad will win.
“And it will destroy the world that for better or worse we’ve managed to build, to change, to improve, to render a little more intelligent, that is to say, less bigoted—or even not bigoted at all. And with that it will destroy our culture, our art, our science, our morals, our values, our pleasures…
“Christ! Don’t you realize that the Osama Bin Ladens [and I would say, “the Omar Mateens” and the “Al-Baghdadis” – dda] feel authorized to kill you and your children because you drink wine or beer, because you don’t wear your beard long or a chador, because you go to the theater or the movies, because you listen to music and sing pop songs, because you dance in discos or at home, because you watch TV, wear miniskirts or short–shorts, because you go naked or half naked to the beach or the pool, because you fuck when you want and where you want and who you want?
“Don’t you even care about that, you fools? I am an atheist, thank God. And I have no intention of letting myself be killed for it.”…
2/ “….Christ! I don’t deny anyone the right to be afraid. Anyone who’s not afraid of war is an idiot. And as I’ve written a thousand times before, anyone who acts as though he’s not afraid of war is both an idiot and a liar.
“But in Life and in History there are times when one is not permitted to be afraid. Times when being afraid is immoral and uncivilized. And those who evade this tragedy out of weakness or lack of courage or habitual fence–straddling strike me as masochists….”.
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“…So here’s my answer to your question on the Contrast–between–the–Two–Cultures:
“I say in this world there’s room for everyone.
“In your own home you can do whatever you want. And if in some countries the women are so stupid as to accept the chador, or rather the veil you peer out of through a close-meshed net at eye level, that’s their problem. If they are such birdbrains as to accept not going to school, not going to the doctor, not having their pictures taken, that’s their problem. If they are such idiots as to marry some asshole who wants four wives, that’s their problem.
“If their men are so silly as not to drink beer or wine, ditto. Far be it from me to stand in their way. I was raised with the concept of liberty, I was, and my mother used to say: “Variety is what makes the world beautiful.”
“But if they presume to impose the same things on me, in my home…And they do presume it. Osama Bin Laden says that the entire planet Earth must become Muslim, that we must convert to Islam, that he will convert us by fair means or foul, that this is why he massacres us and will continue to do so. And this can’t be pleasing to us. It can’t help but make us itch to turn the tables and kill him.
“But this thing won’t end, won’t [and it has not ] die out with the death of Osama Bin Laden. [nor even if al-Baghdadi and Islamic State are destroyed – dda]
“Because there are tens of thousands of Osama Bin Ladens by now, and they’re not only in Afghanistan or in other Arabic countries.
“They’re everywhere, and the most hardened ones are right in the Western world. In our cities, in our roads, in our universities, in the ganglions of technology. That technology that any dolt can handle.
“The Crusade [sic: The Jihad – dda] has been in progress for some time. It works like a Swiss watch, sustained by a faith and a malice comparable only to the faith and malice of Torquemada when he led the Inquisition.
“The fact is that dealing with them is impossible. Reasoning, unthinkable. Treating them with indulgence, tolerance or hope, suicide. Whoever thinks differently is deluded.” END.
Read *those* passages, out loud, with all due emphasis, with passion and clarity, outside the nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
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Well put!
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Thank you, Greet.
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shared on SIOTW
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Thanks. Sharing helps a lot. I appreciate it.
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If we can’t all get along and be employed (for the left, mostly due to not being able to pass a drug test) then let’s just disarm everyone. Well everyone, except the really bad guys selling drugs, illegal immigrants as slaves, and employing prostitutes. There aren’t enough resources to catch those guys. Besides, what would politicians bitch about if organized crime was actually reduced? How would they make all that kickback money and keep the international import-export bankers happy?
Just keep smokin’ that stuff!! Things are bound to get better! Especially after 4 more years of free school!! We have a future to believe in: STONERS!! (sarc)
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Sorry, as a queer myself, i am still just so angry and disgusted. My apologies for that outburst.
Anyway, thanks for the article DTMW. We who believe in freedom appreciate it.
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No need to apologise. You’re right to be angry.
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http://judgybitch.com/2016/06/13/the-regressiveleft-sides-with-murderous-isis-and-not-gays-why-orlandounited-lovewins/
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Hashtags seem to be the weapon of choice for the Left after terror attacks.
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I’m not a homosexual nor do I agree with their lifestyle. Having said that, if any sane person is on the fence on whether or not to support the delaying action known as Trump, Orlando should be it. I was in, of all places, Mass (I was in Texas for a stepcousin’s wedding over the weekend) and during the petitions the priest said a prayer for those murdered in the attack in Orlando. I thought to myself, “There was a terrorist attack? Who was it? Muslims? White supremacists? (I only add the latter in since Dylan Roof is the first time in my adult life, I’ll be 30 in December, that such an attack has happened; it’s the Left’s favorite boogeyman)”
There was an apologist for Islam earlier on Neil Cavuto’s show today. Stuart Varney, filling in for Cavuto, stopped him dead in his tracks when he told the apologist a copy of his book was found in Marteen’s apartment.
Well put, D. Islam is bitterly opposed to modernity. Jefferson knew this; Charles Martel knew this; Jan Sobieski III knew this. It appears we, the West writ large, are finally rediscovering this for ourselves. I encourage anyone who hasn’t: READ THE QURAN! Then, tell me if it’s compatible with our Western way of life.
Dear Leader will take no action because he either sympathizes with them or is too afraid of offending people. The one nice thing about Trump’s campaign is he has shown how a) rigged the system is b) how worthless most politicians are (concerned more about re-election than doing something meaningful) and c) how most pundits are worthless too.
I can only speak for myself but the vibe I get is our patience as Americans is finally worn through. Condolences to victims and their families. Let’s all hold the line on this one.
PS: D, sorry to hear your new Moorish mayor is banning women’s scantily clad ads in the “name” of body shaming.
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Thank you for your comment. I think Orlando will push many formerly undecided Americans into the Trump camp. Hillary is still in complete denial on the subject. The third – Libertarian – candidate has no experience or ideas to offer. Trump is the only leader willing to protect America from further terrorism.
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I have been so conflicted over the last couple of days. Some of my thoughts have been hard to articulate – commenting here, there and everywhere and reeling from some of the commentary many men & women whom I respect have written.
I am profoundly feel saddened that this atrocity has happened in America, the faulting super-power that has shaped the modern era. The place that first bought the gays from out of the alleys and into legal venues. I remember my first experience in a gay club back in the early nineteen nineties as a teenager – what an epiphany. Men were being men, with men. It was so exciting to see that everything was going to be okay. As I got older, the idea of gay ghettos in inner cities lost its allure as the mainstreaming of gay culture became more accepted. That this murderous rampage happened in such a place, in a known conservative city like Orlando drives home how important gay clubs still are. I am also confused that the young handsome man who carried out the killings was himself confused about his sexuality as has become evident in the last 24 hours is also a mind fuck. Why do I look at his selfies plastered everywhere right now, and think in the back of my mind he is handsome?
The gun factor. Is it still silly to talk about gun reform when there are over 300 million guns in circulation in America, and there is a porous border with Mexico’s organised crime filled northern states? Do I need to get myself a weapon if move to America again? Will I be allowed as a foreigner to carry a gun, where can I conceal it, where must I declare it? Am I okay to kill someone who threatens my life? What happens if that person is not a white male like me, will the punishment differ?
I am confused more and more about Islam. The more I raise the subject with my leftist friends, the more they drop off the radar, singling me out as a racist, Islamophobe blah blah blah blah as someone who is not worth engaging with…Why do the left sing so loud about the religion of peace?
Finally, Trump. While not the most sophisticated and clearly not a politician with thick skin (which is why I admire politicians of all strips: they can dust off the hatred while remaining on message) – he is the only one, even as a one term president before he is indicted, who can shake things up in America.
Thanks for your writings David, I always read with great interest and it always makes me think for the better. Apologies to your more conservative readers who aren’t fans of us fags. I respect our common christian heritage, and the values it has instilled in modern society, and I agree its denigration over the last 30 or so years has been catastrophic for families in the western world, however I value my freedom more than any book.
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Thank you for comment. I can appreciate your frustration. I get the most dreadful looks whenever I raise my views on Islam with liberal friends. Some people just don’t want to face reality. It’s hard to know how one can help them until that changes.
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First of all, I would like to congratulate Martel’s Son for having the courage to speak up in this climate of hate. The left, especially the HARD GAY LEFT takes no prisoners. If they think you are not in lockstep with whatever meme or myth du jour that they are peddling, they will do everything in their power to discredit and destroy you. It usually occurs with a great deal of shouting until no other voice can possibly be heard. It’s bullying, pure and simple. I have seen it and experienced firsthand directed towards myself and others. The look in their eyes can only be described as fanatical— the dead eyes of a zealot. There is no empathy, no desire for truth and certainly no sense of open discourse whatsoever. Ideology “trumps” all—totally “Lord of the Flies”. Frankly, I am frightened by this and the rate at which it has intensified.
I also am gay and come from the same place socially as Martel’s Son and to say it can be difficult is an understatement. I have had to bite my tongue on so many occasions, it’s a wonder that I can even speak. I feel marginalized and a victim of this intense polarization, the likes of which I have never seen in my lifetime, and I am 60 years of age. I do not enjoy feeling like a victim for speaking the truth but to speak out at this point, with emotions running so high can actually be dangerous. I despise the thuggish tactics of the Left and with each presidential election the level of hysteria and paranoia becomes worse. The parallel with islam is clear—one size fits all or you will be eliminated. Conform or die. I’ve lost friends over this, witnessed one too many facebook attacks and meltdowns, and thus have tried to keep my social media comments more or less neutral. I am not wearing my politics on my sleeve and refuse to engage in any discussion related to party politics. I just can’t. The divisiveness and rancor is too much for me. I will avoid all Pride events this week out of choice and out of concern for my own safety.
Perhaps the greatest atrocity after Orlando is the fact that the left and it’s whorish media pundits wasted no time in spinning and fabricating such profound untruths. The endless repetition of lies until they are accepted as truth. Why is it that I can see this but so many don’t? I do have a few fellow travelers, but they are very few. We all are immensely disturbed and freaked out by these developments in just the past few days. I can only hope that this mendacious house of cards being constructed around this atrocity in Orlando will fall and open some very closed minds.
Thank you forgiving me the platform to express this. Such places are scarce or utterly compromised by the wackos.
BTW, Oriana Fallaci is my Delphic oracle of reason in this insane world. Still.
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I suppose it’s inevitable that many LGBT people tend to the left. The left was the only wing of the political spectrum open to them until recently.
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Thank you for your kind words. And yes, it is very sad to witness the oppressive air of many on the left. The left does believe they ‘own’ gay people, and all gays are foot soldiers for the cause. It is a pity to see all the problems of this, and know it generally best to be silence.
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