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The attack in Nice, France – which resulted in the death by crushing of over 80 innocent civilians – has hardly caused a ripple on social media.
After the news had come through the place-name ‘Nice’ trended on Facebook for little more than an hour or so, after which it rapidly tumbled out of the ranking, replaced by such stories relating to the appointment of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary to the UK government, speculation over Donald Trump’s VP choice, and the latest gossip relating to the Palin family.
There have been no diaphanous tricolours draped over the profile pictures of my friends this time around. Few have chosen to mention the incident in a status update, or even to share a relevant news story. And I have been no different.
I just can’t quite bring myself to be angry over this latest atrocity. I am not shocked, frightened, or agitated by it. The news of the attack has hit me rather like a report of sleet in Scotland, or wind in Wales. Terrorism, especially terrorism in France, now seems ordinary, banal, unremarkable.
This attitude (which is largely involuntary) is especially disturbing when one contemplates the gruesome manner in which the victims of the Nice attack perished. Unlike the more professional attack of last November, the victims this time were not put out of their happiness by a painless bullet to the head. They were crushed by several tonnes of metal and rubber; flattened, deformed under wheels. As banal as the observation might be, this must have been a hellish way to die.
But still, I’m not outraged – only bitter and depressed. I want all this to stop, but I really don’t think it will. And if an anti-Islamist blogger is becoming desensitised to terrorism, how on Earth can we expect the average Joe to maintain the required level of interest?
The man suspected of carrying out the Nice truck attack: French-Tunisian – Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel
The official response to Nice has been just as lacklustre as the public reaction. Boris Johnson, (whose appointment as Foreign Secretary must rank as the worst national embarrassment in years), has expressed little more than sadness at the news. In America, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton offered only cheap, hollow solidarity on her personal Facebook page. Even Donald Trump has been more muted than usual.
The only exception to this icy disregard has been (or seemed at one point to be) former US house speaker Newt Gingrich, who used the aftermath of the attack to suggest a very sensible policy by which the US would quiz individual Muslims upon entry to America on their views of Sharia Law.
Unfortunately, if also inevitably, when this commonsensical notion received the usual abuse from the usual abusers, Gingrich promptly drained the idea of its force, over-clarifying the concept to the point of retraction. How pathetic; how telling.
The reaction of the Western media (or at least the UK/US media) was to dampen out any loose sparks of anger that might have escaped the general apathy described. The ever-reliable ‘don’t panic’ libertarian Simon Jenkins, for example, hot-footed it into the Guardian offices to inform us that: “A Nice truck driver does not remotely threaten the security of the French state, any more than such acts do the security of America or Britain. The identification of the nation state with random killings of innocent people has become a political aberration….The implication that leaders can somehow prevent such attacks by armed response is a total distraction from the intelligence and police work that might at least diminish their prevalence. It nationalises and institutionalises public alarm. It leads governments into madcap adventurism abroad and “securitises” the private lives of citizens at home…What has happened in France is tragic and calls for human sympathy. Beyond that, there is nothing we can usefully do – other than make matters worse.”
Though this argument has the flavour of reasonableness, the implication of it is surely that we should do absolutely nothing in response to terrorism; indeed, that we should actively prevent our governments from doing anything about it – on libertarian grounds.
Someone should really inform Mr Jenkins that Western states in fact need little encouragement to under-react to terrorist atrocities. Doing nothing has been standard operating procedure ever since the twilight years of the Bush administration.
I personally have no doubt that Francois Hollande’s bungled security measures (including his declaration of an extended state of emergency) will end up doing more harm than good. Nevertheless, the general preference of the public must surely be for the state to do more to address this threat, not less. Jenkins and his ilk appear obsessed with getting the masses to calm down and to put things in a rational, non-emotional, context. We have been doing that for over a decade. A bit of non-rational rage really wouldn’t go amiss at this point.
French President Francois Hollande
All things considered, Nice has been an unmitigated triumph for ISIS. Not only have the swinish degenerates managed to send dozens of unbelievers to perpetual hellfire, they have also further diminished the life-force and rage-reflex of the continent on which they resided.
(On a side note – It is worth noting that Westerners have not become incapable of getting angry about anything. We are still liable to go ape over the unlawful killing of gorillas and lions. It is only the value of human beings, and of Western culture, that is collapsing. One might justly speculate that if a dog or a cat had been caught under the wheels in Nice the reaction would have been rather more vigorous.)
Europe seems ever more like a wounded animal, yelping and moaning, bleeding and weakening. The old spark, the energy behind colonisation and empire, has been all but exhausted. The deathly prefix ‘post’ is now attached to every formerly noble concept: post-modern, post-national, post-racial, post-Christian etc… Everything is watered down and submissive enough that even the most barbaric challenger can overcome it.
I have nothing original to say about Nice. I will simply close by reiterating that Islam does not belong in Europe and never will. It is backward, violent, boring and false down to the letter. It must be resisted with everything with we have.
If indeed we still have anything at all.
D, LDN
Defend the Modern World 
I think here in the states, we on the opposition team of the current Admin are waiting it out. They have been trying desperately to pull us off-sides. It’ll be an interesting election.
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Hillary’s voting base appears to be diminishing.
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I think one of the worst things is that people are all too quick to reiterate the lies , he didn’t go to the mosque, he wasn’t a good muslim it was a bit like the Orlando guy he wasn’t a jihadist he was a disaffected latent homo People have been so brainwashed and become so non thinking and servile it’s just plain weird I never before realised that these people were So Stupid. In France continuing to have Bastille pop concerts was also heartbreaking have people No compassion whatsoever towards the dead and maimed all innocent people murdered by muslims this has been happening in Israel now for a couple of years No one cares no one mentions it.And of course it just adds to muslim contempt for us.
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Very true. I’ve been hearing that a lot on the TV news. A lot of people would rather the problem be with individuals and not cultures. They are (quite understandably) scared of a cultural war. I don’t want a cultural war either. I just think it’s inevitable as things are going.
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What should we do? Is any country doing the right thing to prevent such attacks from happening? I know there can be no absolute prevention, but, at least, to minimise them?
China has problems with its own Islamic minoritiy (Xingiang, or Sinkiang, Province) ,Russia has its own serious problems, as you know. Perhaps Japan, as some say, is,wisely, not allowing islamists is its territorial borders (I don’t know if this is true).
Probably the most efficient action would be to stand firmly in defense of our own values (Judeo / Christian / Greek / Roman ) and simply deny access to anybody who does not swear to respect them, whatever his (or her) religious faith, or lack of fatih. Would this be lawful? If not, perhaps some laws shoud be modified.
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I think we have the right to demand a certain amount of cultural loyalty from immigrants. We currently ask nothing of them. That said, even if Muslim migrants swear loyalty to Western ideals, their children may not be so keen.
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True, and sad. The extent to which western media and leaders went to demine these events and deflect the attention from islam is unbelievable. Peter Berger of CNN even blamed them on fascism in Europe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DOOyThDLc4. Equally worrying was the way the coup in Turkey was dealt with: Obama defending a government that was ‘democratically’ chosen. My ass. Turkey’s only chance to escape islamism evaporated. However, for the first time I saw people in the comment sections of the social media call for a ban on islam. Not one, or two commenters, but many. If this trend is continuing, our politicians will HAVE to follow
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Yes, many are still claiming the attack wasn’t religiously motivated, or that it wasn’t ‘true Islam’. This no longer surprises me. The truth is obviously too painful for some to take.
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In Australia, in the wake of the Muslim mass murder of French infidels in Nice, a newspaper columnist – one Andrew Bolt, who is seen as a bit of an infant terrible – came right out and stated the screamingly-obvious: that France wouldn’t have a problem with jihad – ‘terror’ – if they hadn’t let a whole lot of Muslims inside the gates.
Two mainstream newspapers – the Daily Telegraph (Sydney) and the Sun-Herald – carried his op ed, which is cool, calm and sensible and proposes – as a matter of public safety – that Australia not admit any more Muslims. Here’s the link so you can read it… along with the avalanche of comments. There were a fair few die-hard dhimmis and Islamophiles trying hard in those comments, but they were being challenged and shot down by a lot of well-informed others. Here’s the link to cheer you up.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/muslim-migration-opens-door-to-terror/news-story/8ee3c985088b9a502ff475b5dbdf74c5
Not anger, but ice-cold rational commonsense: “let’s STOP importing Muslims”.
and it has rung a bell with others; when a commercial TV channel decided to hold an indignation meeting about Mr Bolt’s statements, one of the panellists, a lady named Sonia Kruger, came right out and openly, stubbornly, on-air, declared her agreement with Mr Bolt and her view that Muslim immigration into Australia should be *stopped*. Because people should be able to go to large public events without fear of ending up like the people in Nice; and there should be freedom of speech. Now *that* is putting it in a nutshell.
Here’s the reports on *that*, from news.com.au and from and the ( grovellingly Islamophile) Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/morning-shows/television-personality-sonia-kruger-calls-for-australia-to-ban-muslims/news-story/864b9941d5636e715e357ee6597df9da.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/sonia-kruger-calls-on-australia-to-stop-taking-muslim-immigrants-20160718-gq7uul.html
Now all the Useful Idiots and of course the Muslim ‘community’ are having conniptions, screaming with fury and howling accusations of ‘racism!’ ‘bigotry!’ “Islamophobia”. But in the comments to at least one FB post discussing Ms Kruger – out of several hundred comments the majority of people were just saying Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes and YES to the idea of not. letting. in. any. more. Muslims!
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Excellent. You can always rely on the Aussies to tell it like it is. Pity we don’t have the guts over here.
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Australia’s interesting. Oh, we have loads of dhimmi and Islamophile appeasers and slithery Mohammedans talking out of both sides of their mouths – the worst being Waleed Aly, author of a sly and nasty little tome called “People Like Us”. But we have a lot of people who are starting to ‘break ranks’. Hanson is a bit of a loose cannon, but there she is, in the Senate, probably mostly elected because of having expressed opposition to mosques, sharia and the halal cert scam. *And* we have also elected, into the Senate, a former soldier named Jacqui Lambie (independent) who *also* has some Islamoresistance ‘form’. If they team up to push a non-PC approach to Islam, things could get interesting. Newer counter-Islam parties such as the ALA (Australian Liberty Alliance) didn’t do so well I think because they are still just getting off the ground; give ’em time. Our greatest asset is a formidable scholar – Rev Dr Mark Durie, Anglican priest, linguist and astute analyst of dhimmitude (friend of the formidable Bat Yeor). HIs book “The Third Choice” is brilliant and his other main book ‘Which God?” needs to be given to *every* naive Jewish and Christian cleric who has been fooled by Muslim ‘interfaith’ operatives with their ‘three abrahamic religions’ schtick. he can see right through Islamic doubletalk. It’s interesting however that women seem to be stepping forward in Australia – from Hanson and Lambie (whose gut instincts are correct but who can get into trouble when they encounter the sly sophists of the Islamic and Islamophile gang), to someone like Sonia Kruger who can just see and state the obvious – Got Muslims? Got Jihad – to the much more astute, thoroughly well-informed and unfoolable Vicky Janson, author of “Ideological Jihad” (great book; she wrote it as a sustained riposte to Waleed Aly’s “People Like Us”).
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I think the first state to ban Muslim immigration will be America.
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if Trump wins 🙂
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He will. His speech last night was magnificent.
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There is not much social media comment. I noticed it too!. People are fuming, but are not exhibiting it.
But, I feel the temperature in the kettle has gone up a degree.
Each attack, each atrocity, each special demand to ‘accommodate’ to the ‘Religion of Peace” heats up the kettle some more.
One day, the kettle will erupt.
I think a dirty nuclear bomb attack in a major populated Western city will bring the kettle to a violent eruption.
Either in the streets or in the ballot box(Brexit is an example) and IT WILL get ugly! The leftist enablers will be targeted first.
Then the apologists.
Then the ordinary people.
The Leftists have still some time left.
Repent!
Admit that you useful idiots got it wrong!
Every civilization has a breaking point!
Don’t push the West to that breaking point!
Or, are the leftists are hoping that the demographics change and the population is replaced before this happens.
It’s a race, isn’t it, dear leftists? A race that will end in a disaster for the West ( and the world)
Either, the West wakes up or the West’s population is ‘replaced’, irrevocably before the West wakes up.
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There’s been a fresh attack today in Germany. No-one is talking about it. Acts of terrorism are happening too often. The more they hit us, the less we care. They must be doing this deliberately..
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But yes, there is a powerful rage brewing. It just doesn’t reveal itself clearly. Trump. when elected, may be the trigger for a mass movement in Europe. Common sense is contagious.
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A silent but potent rage is building up in Europe and in the West.
Against the Leftist political and media elite.
You can see how each new terror attack is now being greeted by silence in the social media!
It’s not a banality. It’s a cold anger!
(By the way, the Original ‘Banality of Evil’ by Hannah Arendt about Adolf Eichmann turned out to be a wrong hypothesis: Eichmann was not a banal bureaucrat, but a highly motivated, imaginative and competent man who tried his best and went out of his way to fulfil what he considered his life’s sacred mission of eliminating Jews from Germany (and later Europe and the World)
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Funny you felt that way, I felt like grabbing a pitch fork and make my way to the nearest Muslim quarter.
That picture of the little girl and her doll… No wonder they asked people not to post pictures. They don’t want pogroms.
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It’s difficult to stay angry indefinitely. Terror attacks have become ordinary.
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