"The Red Green Alliance"

The Marxist/Communist view the islamist as fellow travelers in the intersectional identity politics of the left, they both have similar goals, to take down what they call the patriarial west, so both will use the other, but to know who is the stronger, remember when there was a protest in New York last year? when the islamist marching "with the global Infadia " and there was a Trans/LGBT parade and at the same time, guess which one won and the other one went away?...yep the "Free Palestine" one won....That one is the more powerful.  It is a precursor to what is to come.  and the modern left don't see the forest because of the trees.  If the West is to fall, they will be the first ones lined up against the wall and shot.

   I ripped this off farcebook....the 2nd cartoon came from my "stash"

I thought I understood the Red-Green Alliance. At least in a general sense of what it was — leftists and Islamists finding common ground in some kind of oppositional politics. I filed it under “things I know enough about.” Then this afternoon, out of morbid curiosity, I actually sat down and read about it.

It’s not just a strange marriage of convenience. It’s a case study in how movements with completely opposite end goals can work together long enough to do serious damage, and how the weaker partner in that arrangement almost always ends up destroyed by it.

Here’s the basic structure, which most already know. But it sets the stage.

“Red” refers to the radical left: Marxists, socialists, movements rooted in communist ideology. “Green” refers to political Islam: Islamist ideology, movements inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood, the Iranian Islamic Revolution.

On paper, these two groups should have nothing in common. One wants a classless secular workers’ state. The other wants a global Islamic caliphate governed by religious law. Those aren’t compatible visions. Not even a little.

And yet somehow, some way, they keep finding each other.

The first major example happened in Iran in 1978 and 1979. Leftists, liberals, communists, and secular progressives all joined forces with Ayatollah Khomeini to bring down the Shah. They weren’t completely naive about his extremism.

Many of them knew his politics were reactionary. They just convinced themselves he didn’t have the ability to actually take over. They thought they could use him, or at least outlast him.

They were wrong. Obviously.

After the revolution succeeded, the Islamists consolidated power and turned on their former allies. Executions. Purges. The leftists who helped bring Khomeini to power were among the first casualties of the state they helped create.

What makes that history even more damning is what was happening in the West at the same time.

When Saddam Hussein expelled Khomeini to a suburb of Paris in October 1978, Western journalists suddenly had access to him.

Over three months, Khomeini gave 132 interviews. He was portrayed as a pious reformer, maybe even a progressive figure. Intellectuals across Europe bought it.

Michel Foucault, one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, traveled to Iran and wrote glowingly about the revolution in progress, describing it as a new form of political spirituality. He wasn’t some outlier. He was the voice of the Western intellectual left, and he got it catastrophically wrong.

That’s the historical lesson. And it’s mindblowing that it hasn’t been learned.

Right now in the West, you can watch this weird version of a tango play out.

The Democratic Socialists of America simultaneously advocate for transgender youth healthcare and call for globalizing the intifada. University protesters march under banners that combine socialist slogans with Hamas ones. Groups with names like “Queers for Palestine” exist, apparently without any awareness of what Hamas actually does to gay people in Gaza.

Philosopher Judith Butler, a prominent queer theorist, has publicly described Hamas and Hezbollah as part of “the global Left.”

This isn’t happening at the edges or in back alleys. It’s happening in mainstream progressive spaces, on major university campuses, in prominent activist organizations.

And we already know it’s not spontaneous. Qatar has spent hundreds of millions of dollars funding academic programs at American universities, including Georgetown and Northwestern, that promote postcolonial frameworks which happen to align with both progressive and Islamist critiques of the West. Al Jazeera and its digital outlet AJ+ push the same talking points to Arabic and English-speaking audiences simultaneously. Iran and China have used bot networks to flood social media with antisemitic content, particularly since October 7. These aren’t coincidences running in parallel.

They’re deliberate pressure on the same fractures. Ouch.

The violence this produces…In May 2025, Elias Rodriguez shot and killed two young Israeli embassy workers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, outside a Washington DC event. He was captured on video chanting “Free Palestine” after the murders. His social media was full of socialist declarations and open contempt for the United States.

Days later, Mohamed Sabry Soliman threw incendiary devices at Jewish marchers in Boulder, Colorado. His online presence was wall-to-wall Muslim Brotherhood content.

Two attacks, two different ideological roads, the same targets.

Here’s what I find genuinely disconcerting.

The leftists in this alliance aren’t secretly Islamist. Most of them are sincerely progressive people who believe they’re fighting imperialism. The problem is that their energy and moral credibility are being put to work for a movement that would, if it got what it wanted, demolish everything they claim to stand for. Women’s rights. Gay rights. Secularism. Free speech. All of it.

They are, to quote a sadly tired and overused phrase that goes back to Lenin, useful idiots. There are no subtleties as to what happens to useful idiots after the revolution succeeds.

I do want to be clear about something. I’m not saying that everyone who criticizes Israeli policy, or who has concerns about U.S. foreign policy, is part of this alliance. That’s not the argument.

The Red-Green Alliance describes something specific. It’s an organized cooperation between Marxist radicalism and Islamism, aimed at taking down Western liberal democracy and, more explicitly, destroying Israel.

That’s a different thing from ordinary political disagreement, and blurring that line doesn’t help anyone think clearly.

What I am saying is that this alliance is more developed, better funded, and more deliberately organized than I previously understood. I almost wish I steered clear of this rabbit hole. Once again, I realize how unprepared I am to connect all the dots, I’m not a trained journalist.

The progressive left in the West has, in many cases, been too locked into its own worldview to see clearly what it’s walked into. Sadly, most don’t want to listen. At least, not the ones I’ve had conversations with. To them, I’m the brainwashed one. I’m the indoctrinated one. So maybe writing this is more of a catharsis for me. And maybe it’s more of an exploration so that I can deeply understand this phenomenon.

The Iranian leftists of 1979 had some excuse. Khomeini was a relatively unknown figure. They were moving fast inside a revolution with incomplete information. Foucault was writing from Paris, largely in the dark about what was coming.

But man…Western progressives in 2026? They have the complete historical record sitting right in front of them. If they had been paying attention at all to the past, then they should know where this leads in the future.

"I'm a Muslim, I don't support terrorism nor hate other religions, there are thousands like me, yet people always stereotype that Muslim = terrorist?..........."

 We came back from our cruise and it was great!  The ship was big but it didn't feel big, so I wasn't "peopled" out like normal.  I will post a bit about it tomorrow.

     I saw this one on quora while I was at the airport waiting for the plane. I ordered the book.

Mark Roseman wrote the response.

I'm a Muslim, I don't support terrorism nor hate other religions, there are thousands like me, yet people always stereotype that Muslim = terrorist and Islam is (a religion of hatred and not peace). Why is that?

So glad you asked. After the 9/11 attacks, Americans were screaming, Who are these people? Muslims, we were told. President George W. Bush did everything he could to keep the lid on, to prevent a violent reaction against Muslim Americans. But Muslim Americans were strangely silent in their own defense. Oh yes, they said a few perfunctory things about a religion of peace, but it was not with the intensity or conviction we expected, and hardly credible.

Several books came out to help Americans understand Islam. A good one is The Crisis of Islam, by Bernard Lewis. If you are wondering why Americans think Islam is the religion of the sword, and a religion that has not progressed from the Dark Ages, get a copy and find out. Americans were asking themselves, What is a Caliphate? Are these people serious? As the years went by we learned about Sharia law and viewed clips of Taliban enforcers whipping women in the streets. Not exactly good PR for Islam.

While only a small percentage of Muslims may be terrorists, we fear the Muslim community is a breeding ground and a haven for them.

How many Muslims have publicly criticized the barbarity of the attacks against Israel, and I mean the rapes and acts of gratuitous sadism? All we hear are excuses. Where was the outcry from the Muslim community after the Boston Marathon bombing? One of the perpetrators, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was an immigrant who became an American citizen and was later radicalized here. Hey, thanks, buddy. How many more of you are out there looking just as cute and innocent as you do?

He was captured and later explained that had he escaped, he and his brother had planned another bombing for Times Square. If you are an American citizen, how do you commit acts like that against other Americans? It is fair to assume he expected praise from other Muslims.

Maybe you are afraid to speak out? Maybe you don’t want to suffer the fate of Salman Rushdie, living in hiding with a fatwa on his head for writing a book critical of Islam. What is the civilized world to think of Islam when one of its leaders calls for the assassination of a writer—and moderate Muslims don’t say anything?

You wrote, “I don’t support terrorism.” That is not the same as speaking out against it. Do you view acts of Islamic terrorism as murder? If you were on a jury, would you find the terrorists guilty and vote for the death penalty? Anything less tells me you are part of the problem.

Give The Leftist Thugs All The Due Process They Can Handle

 

 I pulled this off "Townhall",   I want to give the sleezebag all the "Due Process" because as much as I am angry at the bigoted piece of crap, he still has rights under our system, the same system that the left tries to deprive us our "rights" under.   I believe that the craphead suffered from, Allah, Snackbar Syndrome,  Black Nationalism, anger at the Rittonhouse verdict which I blame the media for, and don't even get me started on the mental gymnastics the legacy media is doing to avoid mentioning the guys name and race, now if he had been a white dude, the same media would have trumpeted that fact far and wide.

The loathsome anti-pallor rapper known as “Mathboi Fly” is accused of driving an SUV through a parade of pallor people in Wisconsin, and as conservatives we need to aggressively demand that he given every bit of due process he can take. Despite the media’s – if you pardon the expression – whitewash of what seems likely to be a racist vendetta spurred on by the garbage cesspool of Marxist/BLM/CRT lies he swam in, the evidence we have seen seems to point inextricably to this being a racial terror attack by a criminal degenerate.

Which is why is it so important, so transcendently vital, that we make sure this person gets every right due him as an accused.

We want him to have a terrific lawyer who will zealously seek to show that the state has not made its case (unlike the garbage public defenders of the January 6th defendants who appear eager to sacrifice their clients in order to own the Trump).

We want the prosecutor to turn over every scrap of evidence to the defense, especially potentially exculpatory evidence, in a timely fashion and without burying the most important stuff so defense counsel overlooks it. We want the prosecutor not hide witnesses, pull stunts like referring to the accused’s exercise of his right to remain silent, misstate the law, or alter video evidence.

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We want a judge who will lambaste the prosecution if it lies or plays games.

We want a jury that will put aside its preconceived notions and look only at the evidence, apply the law, and come to a true and fair verdict.

If the atrocity that was the Kyle Rittenhouse persecution taught us anything it is the vital importance of due process when a significant portion of the population hates the accused. Look, I’m no fan of this Waukesha guy. The evidence I have seen looks damning. The presumption of innocence means the state must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt; it does not mean that those of us not sitting in the jury box can’t come to our own conclusions (though even we need to be open to evidence that might undermine what we think we know). But we, the normal people who the establishment wants to get rid of due process in order to oppress, must be the most forceful advocates for it.

We need to love due process like Brian Stelter, who is a potato, loves carbs. We need to be as committed to due process as Joy Reid is to her bizarre racist insanity. We need to be bigger fans of due process than President * is of Matlock.

Part of it is self-preservation. Due process keeps the revolutionary justice fans of the left/media cabal from passing their bills of attainder upon us. Did you catch the fury of the haters over the fact that Kyle had a chance to make his case and have it considered by a panel of unbiased citizens instead of him just being hauled away and imprisoned because the consensus of the morons on MSNBCNN was they he was bad? The hallmark of revolutionary justice is that it is not about objective facts but about the narrative – they needed Kyle to be guilty because they could not afford to have normal citizens be allowed to defend themselves against their military wing of criminals and pedo perverts. Due process rejects any criteria except the facts and the evidence, and forces the government to prove individual cases as opposed to decree collective guilt. It is a bulwark – not the kind of Bulwark that involves invertebrate sissies but the kind that means a defense – against tyranny.

And defending due process is also morally right. It is essential for a free people to ensure that everyone gets a fair process to determine guilt. Look, if this degenerate – and his rap sheet shows that he qualifies for that title – is convicted, he is going away forever. The people of Wisconsin, for reasons I don’t understand, chose not to have mass murderers of kids and dancing grannies swing from a gibbet, but they will lock him in a cage permanently. That is a big ask by the government – to take away the freedom of a citizen forever. The government must prove the facts showing guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and we must demand that the accused citizen get every chance to tell his side of the story.

Maybe he doesn’t have one. The evidence looks conclusive, but that is not the point. The point is that we conservatives must be absolutely and unequivocally militant about demanding that this man receive every bit of due process he is entitled to. Concepts like due process matter most when the accused is unpopular, just like free speech matters most when the speaker is an ass. That’s why it was so important decades ago, before it became another woke leftist scam devoted to protecting the Marxist narrative, for the ACLU to defend the Nazis marching in Skokie, Illinois. Everyone hates Illinois Nazis, and that’s the point. As a practical matter, you fight at the fringes, for the rights of the weirdos, losers, and mutations, because if you don’t fight for their rights, then you’re going to be fighting for your own rights.

Just ask American hero Kyle Rittenhouse.

So, let’s stand up for Mathboi Fly. Let’s stand up for his right to an attorney, to his right for the DA to be honest and forthright, to a judge who will guard his rights, and for a jury who will be unbiased and fair. Is he objectively guilty? Is Joe Biden senile? That makes no difference. There is one place the truth must come out – the courtroom, and we must make sure that it is done fairly and squarely. Because when we stand up for the likes of Mathboi Fly, we are really standing up for ourselves.

 

May 22, 2013, British Soldier beheaded in England (5 years later)

A little over 5 years ago, a British soldier was beheaded after he was hit by a car and pinned against a wall, y'all remember this image..?

Yep, this is one of the guys that did it, that is blood from the soldier on his hands and butcher knife,and they did it because he was a British soldier and they were in England and to them it was ok to kill a British soldier in England because the koran told them it was "ok".  I was doing a bit of reading on my blog for older post and apparently I had posted a LOT about islam during my time as a blogger.   I also use an image from Voltaire to make a point..

Apparently I haven't done my due diligence and criticized the religion lately.  Since the election of President Trump, the agitators of islam have been pretty quiet. with the exception of the palestinians, they are always pissed off.  I was reading some of the comments on the newspapers in England and even now they are so cowed by political correctness, you can't criticize islam or face charges in British court. 
     This makes absolutely no sense to me, you can't criticize islam or muslims in England or any EU country or get locked up.  You can criticize the catholic church or the anglican church and it be ok, talk about a double standard.  I did see that here in the United States where the DOJ during the Obama administration would sent lawyers and agents to intimidate people who criticized islam here in the United States, it kinda told me that islam is the unofficial state religion for the United States since it is the only one you can't say mean things about.    

I got this from One of the British Newspapers


Five years ago today, May 22, 2013 had been just a normal day in the News Shopper newsroom.
In the morning we had been covering our usual mix of news, from a noisy dog to two new schools set to open.
Then the day took a dramatic and terrifying turn and it quickly became a day like no other.
3pm
It was just before 3pm when reports about a shooting in Woolwich came in.
A reporter was sent to the scene as it appeared something big may have happened - but the true horror of what was actually going on only began to emerge shortly afterwards.
Police cordons in place 

3.30pm
It was just after 3.30pm when a Met Police spokesman said officers were called to an “assault” on the street in Woolwich.
Disturbing rumours began circulating online, and things took a darker turn when News Shopper spoke to a witness.
The man said: “I heard they were trying to behead someone and were shot by police.”
4pm
After 4pm a graphic tweet from Boya Dee said they had seen a man “with his head chopped off right in front of my eyes”.
Soon photos flooded social media of two bloodied men armed with knives and a cleaver.
Air ambulance landing at the scene 

4.30pm
At 4.36pm news about what happened became clearer after the London Ambulance Service confirmed one man was pronounced dead at the scene.
The spokeswoman added that two other men, who we later learned were responsible for the murder, were taken to hospital.
5pm
It was after 5pm when we discovered more about the murdered victim.
Woolwich and Greenwich MP Nick Raynsford said he understood the victim was a serving soldier (later identified as Fusilier Lee Rigby) and the two men taken to hospital were the suspected killers.
The manager of Mann Food and Wine shop in Frances Street then said a car was used to run down the victim before “they got out and butchered him”.
The brutal attack took place 200 yards from the Royal Artillery Barracks, and at 5.45pm News Shopper reported the incident was being treated as a terrorist attack.
Flowers laid at the scene 

7pm
At 7pm a video emerged of a man with bloodied hands who said: “I apologise that women had to witness this today but in our land our women have to see the same.
“You people will never be safe. Remove your governments, they don’t care about you.”
Just before 8pm News Shopper wrapped up its live blog before more horrific details emerged over the next few days.
To look back at the live blog click here. Warning - graphic images and videos are included.

Later it was confirmed the killers were wounded by police gunshots before they were treated in hospital.
It is now five years since the murder of 25-year-old Mr Rigby, who was off-duty when he was attacked.
Lee Rigby 

In December 2013 Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale were found guilty of murder and were charged to life imprisonment and a minimum of 45 years respectively

Quick post in the "sh!thole" comment

   You know....the people most outraged about this and screaming the loudest about the President and his comment made about "people from a sh!thole country wanting to come here."  This was made by a democratic senator and of course people are offended and screaming "Racist" and other things.  Well a couple of observations....First off, the people that are screaming the loudest already hate Trump, if he walked on water they would grouse that he didn't wash his feet first or something.  second and this is important....those same people have never been outside the United States except perhaps Canada, Western Europe or Japan.  I have been to a quite a few countries that once you get off the airplane and breath the air...well you smell "shit".  It is in the air. 
     Also there is a rush to bring in people from 3rd world countries into this country an and they can't or will not acclimate to this culture, their kids adjust better, but the first generation will not adapt, it is too alien of an experience, the culture gap is too wide.  Also I will go out on a limb, why are we trying to bring in people that will not assimilate into our culture, they insist on keeping theirs and they are perfectly happy using the "public assistance" that we provide and in their eyes it is a "Jizya Tax" or tribute that a lesser culture pays to the dominant culture.  I remember reading a few days ago, that the religion of islam is the 2nd largest religion in the United States...what will happen once the Christian religion is replaced and they implement shaira law.  What then?

Sierra Square......Delta Square...

Big surprise....more followers of that peaceful religion of Islam have blessed the unbelievers again with their attention.   you can get the information from Here

"An eyewitness on London Bridge, told the BBC he saw three men stabbing people indiscriminately, shouting "this is for Allah" in a "rampage".
Police entered bars and restaurants in the Southwark area around 11pm and told customers to get down on the floor amid reports that the incident was still ongoing. People outdoors were told by yelling police officers to run from the area as the atmosphere turned to one of “hysteria”.
Shortly before midnight police said they were attending a third incident in the Vauxhall area."

 It seems that Britain still has a muslim problem like the Manchester concert a couple of weeks ago didn't  already show that.

Terrorist Attack in London

 

This is a scene similar to Berlin where a person from the middle east decided to steal a truck, kill the driver and drive it through a bunch of Christmas shoppers in Berlin.  Now we have the same thing happen in London.  The person that drove the SUV also was a follower of Islam.  He killed 4 people and injured 29 according the the latest count...

The follower of Islam is a local guy, from the pic, has been known to the MI5 and somehow he slipped through the cracks...right...the government and police are soo politically correct that they can't even say the words 'Islamic Terrorist" for fear that it might offend the followers of islam.

Islamic State was last night top of the list of groups thought to be behind the Westminster attack.

As security experts said the brutality of the crime pointed towards the terrorists, IS supporters posted gloating messages online.

On private messaging app Telegram, one user shared pictures of the attacker’s route.

Another post features a mocked-up image of the Elizabeth Tower on fire with the message: ‘Soon. Our battle upon your land. Not started yet. Be upon you. Only waiting.’

According to Ahmet Yayla, senior research fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Violent Extremism, the messages were shared on a ‘credible’ IS channel.

Last night security experts said the attack had the hallmarks of IS. A source added: ‘It would be a fair assessment because of the methodology used – driving vehicles into people in a horrible random attack in a crowded place.’

Just before Christmas, IS released a manual which instructed jihadis to plough a lorry into an outdoor market and inflict a ‘bloodbath’.

The terror group’s Rumiyah magazine said using a vehicle was the most successful in ‘harvesting’ large numbers of non-believers.

It said the tactic was ‘superbly demonstrated’ in Nice when 86 people were massacred by a lorry on Bastille Day last July.

Then in December, a lorry plouged through a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 and injuring nearly 50.

The Difference of Muslim, vs Islamist, vs Salafist vs Takfiri

I shamelessly cribbed this from The Captain, it is a good read and something to think about.

Takfiri vs. Muslim vs. Islamist vs. Salafi

Information Mullet: There are those who want to (rightfully) avoid the fallacy of generalizations (1) in describing the attackers I recommend using the term "Salafist Takfiri" to *specifically* describe militant members of groups such as AQ, ISIS, AQAP, Boko Haram etc. who share a common set of behaviors and beliefs. These behaviors and beliefs are *not* the same as Muslims or even Islamists and understanding the difference is key to working together with our allies in this fight and isolating those who are our enemies.
In 2006 the West Point Center for Combating Terrorism released it's Atlas of Militant Ideology with a very handy segmentation (2) that I roughly reproduce below. (NOTE GRAPHIC IS NOT TO SCALE!!)
Those who believe in Islam are Muslims.
Muslims who believe that Islam should be the basis of the state are Islamists.
Suuni Islamists who believe the Islamic state should be built off of 14th Century principles or the restoration of the Caliphate are Salafists.
Salafists who are willing to break the law of the Koran by declaring another Muslim apostate and kill them are Takfiri.(3)
Takfiri are largely our problem.
Not Salifists.
Not Islamists.
And certainly not Muslims.
AQ, AQIP, AQIM, Al Nusra, Ansar al Sharia, Boko Haram, ISIS, Jemiah al Islamiah, JWT, the Mujhadeen Shura Council....all Salifist-Takfiri, largely influenced by the same Whabbist split of the Salafist creed. (Parphrased elsewhere all Whabbists are Salafists, but not all Salafists are Whabbist.)
There are Shia bad actors as well.
The Shia version of Islamist is a Khomeinist (those who believe Islamic clergy & jurists should run the state on Islamic principles).
The Shia don't really have a version of Salafist/Whabbiest - but their version of Takfiri are groups like Hezbollah, the Al-Sadr Brigades and Shia death squads in Iraq.
I don't expect everyone to know this. The "mafia" that kills Muslims for drawing pictures, those are the Salafist Takfiris. They are *not* Muslims in the broader sense.
And as for "Muslims speaking out" against Salfist-Takfiri militancy I've got a list as long as my arm I can point you too. Each entry itself a major rebuttal or condemnation of Salifi-Takfirism signed by hundreds of prominent Muslim officials and scholars including the Aman Message in 2004.(4)
And to every commentator who gets on a TV show or a radio or a news site and claims that because they have "read the Koran" and suddenly thinks they are an expert on militants or fundamentalists or even Muslims.The book is meaningless in this conversation.
Salifist-Takfiri are prolific writers and readers, and they don't cite the Koran, they cite *scholars* of the Koran. Not unlike politicans today are likely to cite founding father and courts are likely to cite court cases.
Indeed trying to understand what's going on in modern Islamic militant fundamentalism by only reading the Koran book is like trying to understand the history of US politics in the 20th Century by only reading the magna carta.
When creating their militant atlas of ideology, West Point Center for Combating did a citation analysis, looking at over 100 texts of Islamic scholars and then seeing which scholars the ideologues cited and grouping them that way. It would be like identifying American political figures by looking at who cites Jefferson, Madison or Adams most. (And yes, just between those three Founding you can tell a lot about the person citing them if they favor one over the other two as they represent three persistent factions/trends in American political theory.)
Back to the subject at hand - the Whabbist faction of Salafism is indeed named for the scholar Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (18th century) and Salafism itself is named for the Islamic scholar & cleric Ibn Taymiyyah (14th Century).
If folks wish to inform themselves better on this subject I urge to read the executive summary (26 pages) of the Atlas. Its a quick read and not too dense, and a far better source than Bill Maher or commentators who have zero expertise in the subject. If you want to go "deep", the attached Research Compendium, clocking in at over 300 pages, provides a great guide to the scholars, and the nuances of the ideology that form these splits.
https://www.ctc.usma.edu/…/2012/04/Atlas-ExecutiveReport.pdf
(1) Every *legitimate* problem solving method in the world seeks to reduce the scope of the problem by separating wheat from chaff, signal from noise. Almost every form of analysis is an attempt to isolate further, what is the root cause activity that is driving the negative behavior. Because once you find that smallest part...you can focus on it, put all your attention into that part and not defuse any effort by spreading it thin on the uninvolved.
It's a form of logic - given group A and group B, and group B is the root cause of behavior C - no matter how much effort you spend working to modify group A, you will not change group B and therefore not improve behavior C.
Everything bad you could say about Salafist-Takfiri I would accept and add a few more.
This very small subset of all Muslims is punching far above its weight and are a true manifestation of evil on this planet. So why waste our time and resources on the other 1.49B Muslims who *aren't* Salafist Takfiri? This is not about political correctness, this is about utility in target selection.
(2) I call this fractal segmentation and it's based off of statistical self similarity of fractional units, or more easily called "the coastline of britain problem". Stated simply as you increase the fidelity of your measure, and are able to read in ever smaller units of measurement, the figure you are studying literally changes in its shape,dimensions and measurement. The thought experiment which demonstrates this is if you imagine measuring the Coastline of Britain with a 200km stick, it will be one shape and have a distance of 2400km. But if you measure the Coastline of Britain with a 50km stick, it will have a very different shape, and a coastline distance of 3400km.
When someone says "Muslims are the problem" their 'stick' is 1.4B people large. The Salafist Takfiri measurement 'stick' is maybe a few million. The shape and nature of the problem generalists describe is very different than the actual shape and nature of the actual problem. The generalists rough blob of a measure is like looking at a 10,000 piece puzzle after you've spent the night in a mexican bar drinking the worm - it's fuzzy, hard to describe and not easy to work on. The Salafist Takfiri measurement is like picking up a single piece of the puzzle, with clarity, and saying "this...this is what we need to focus on."
In professional (private sector) analytics, the segmentation goes down to micro clusters of 10,000 people and in some cases gets down to the "protocol of one", measuring a problem a single individual at a time. This is fairly new because the computing and instrumentation power to do this simply wasn't available in the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/…/How_Long_Is_the_Coast_of_Britain…
(3) The term Takfiri does not appear in the West Point CTC Atlas of Militant Ideology. It actually was popularly coined (in this usage AFAIK) by David Kilcullen in his book Accidental Guerilla published in 2009. Takfiri is a great moniker because it is theologically more accurate than Jihadi (which can mean many things and is at times a venerated term) to describe Muslims who, outside the law, take it upon themselves to kill other Muslisms. It has the added side benefit of being a grevious insult. ISIS has been known to cut off the tongues of anyone they hear mutter Takfiri in the towns. They want to be Jihadi's, they want to claim that legitimacy, but they are really Takfiri.
For a fuller treatment of Takfiri see Kilcullen's "Note on Terminology" in the preface of his book Accidental Guerrila:
https://books.google.com/books…
(4) After the bombing of a Jordanian hotel during a wedding ceremony, King Abdullah the II brought together an ecumenical council of Islamic religious scholars from around the world to debate what Islam is, and is not. The Amman Messages which came out condemns Takfiri movements in *both* Suuni and Shia denominations as un-Islamic. Overall:
(1)They specifically recognized the validity of all 8 Mathhabs (legal schools) of Sunni, Shi'a and Ibadhi Islam; of traditional Islamic Theology (Ash'arism); of Islamic Mysticism (Sufism), and of true Salafi thought, and came to a precise definition of who is a Muslim.
(2)Based upon this definition they forbade takfir (declarations of apostasy) between Muslims.
(3)Based upon the Mathahib they set forth the subjective and objective preconditions for the issuing of fatwas, thereby exposing ignorant and illegitimate edicts in the name of Islam.
http://www.ammanmessage.com/

Hierarchy or pecking order of muslims....

 I clipped this from Ann's Site.  I don't agree with everything that she says but that how we independents are. we don't always agree but we respect one anther's different opinions unlike the lemmings of the left.  She has good information and this one I thought was pretty good.  I have been reading her site for years before I started blogging, a few years she had problems with the IRS, if memory serves and I wonder if it was a political witch hunt on her for she is up there with Pamela Geller.  I know that the muslims have a "fatwa" on her to kill her for her blasphemy on islam.  I remembered when she withdrew out of the Commodities market after Obama crony Corzine plundered MF Global for 1.6 billion dollars.  I remembered that Obama got a 1.6 billion dollar cash infusion for his campaign, I commented and blogged that Corzine was a money bundler for Obama, and nothing happened to Corzine  This happened before the 2012 elections  Here is her Bio.  I from other books and other sources knew that there was a hierarchy or a pecking order with muslims and Anne explained it pretty well.

 Interesting Intel About Hillary, Huma and Musloid Racism

Huma Abedin has been in the news quite a lot lately.  Yeah.  I’ve been screaming about Huma, who is a high-ranking Musloid Brotherhood operative, for YEARS.  Go to the search box to your right and type in “Huma Abedin”, and block out a few hours for reading.  And since my website remodeling, my archive only begins at January ARSH 2013.  There was even more before then.
I have a correspondent who lives (for work reasons) deep in the heart of the musloid world, and shares all kinds of interesting information with me about the culture and its dynamics.  A while back, we were talking about the racial hierarchy amongst musloids – which is, as you might expect, one of the most wildly racist (in the true sense of the term) cultures on earth.  They all hate each other.  This conversation then led to the citation of Huma Abedin, and that’s when it got REALLY interesting.
So, in case you haven’t been paying attention, Huma Abedin is the daughter of two of the highest-ranking officials in the Muslim Brotherhood.  Huma and her sister have both worked intimately and for YEARS on the Musloid Brotherhood’s propaganda rag, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, which was founded by her father, and then taken over by her mother when he died.  These people are Musloid Brotherhood royalty.  Everyone knows exactly who they are.
Now Huma Abedin’s father was Indian musloid, and her mother is a Pakistani musloid. Remember this.  There will be a quiz later.
Apparently, in the musloid hell-world, the hierarchy of races goes like this:
Caucasian musloids are at the top, and hate EVERYBODY.  This group is basically Persians (Iranians), and Turks.
Next are the Arabs.  The Caucasians hate their guts but tolerate them because they have all of the demonic monuments, and because, awkward… “mohammed” was, according to the fictional backstory, an Arab.  So… yeah.
Next comes the North Africans, who are kinda white, or at least used to be.  But we aren’t allowed to talk about that, because over the last 40 years an entire bullshit narrative about the ancient Egyptians being dark-skinned blacks has been promulgated, and all lies must be swallowed whole, with a big toothy grin. Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco.  All basically caucasoid.
Next in this sad hierarchy comes the East Asians, or as I call them, ‘Da Slants. Shout-out to my Indonesian, Filipino and other rice-eating friends.  But all the musloids listed above hate and look down of the East Asian musloids.
Next on our little world tour, we fly all the way back to Africa, where we find the black-skinned, sub-saharan musloids.  Nigeria, Sudan, etc.
Finally, at the bottom of the list are the SOUTH ASIANS. Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. They are considered a servant class – probably because they have some of the highest inbreeding rates, and their IQ bell curve is skewed very far left.
So, back to Hillary.  You all know my position on American politics, most especially “presidential” elections: IT IS ALL KABUKI THEATER BULLSHIT. I would sooner sit down and have a serious discussion about the latest in Professional Wrestling than this Hillary-Trump farce.  It’s all fake.  It’s all been planned out for YEARS.
So, your “president” Hillary is going to be utterly disregarded and will have ZERO personal authority or gravitas when dealing with musloid leaders – not unlike Obama, except even worse.  And here’s why:
First: Hillary Clinton is a female, and the musloids won’t be keen to bow and scrape to a woman.  I personally CANNOT WAIT for the first time someone asks Hillary what BILL Clinton thinks of X, Y and Z.  Delicious!
Second: Hillary Clinton is a lesbian.  Do you think that these musloids don’t see the same things we see?  The same interviews with Bill’s mistresses, college acquaintances and Arkansas associates, in which Hillary’s lesbianism was a VERY open secret?
Third:  Hillary Clinton’s lesbian concubine is, by all accounts, Huma Abedin.  They basically live together, and have for years, even sleeping together when on the road.  Huma Abedin was literally Hillary Clinton’s Monica Lewinsky analogue at exactly the same time in the late 90’s.  Abedin was placed in the White House as an intern to Hillary in 1996, and they have been together ever since.  Make no mistake, Huma Abedin will be the Edith Wilson to Hillary’s stroked-out Woodrow. And Huma Abedin is Pakistani-Indian.
So not only is Hillary a woman and a lesbian, but her concubine is the lowest-of-the-low on the musloid racist totem pole.
But wait!  It gets even better!
Up until a few hours ago, Huma Abedin was in a totally, 100% FAKE marriage to the single most repulsive, odious, embodying-every-possible-negative-stereotype-about-Jews Jew, Carlos Danger himself, “The Mongoose”, Anthony Weiner.
Weiner is a textbook somatic narcissist, and sex pervert, having been drummed out of Congress and then out of the Mayoral race in New York City for literally sending pictures of his genitals to, well, pretty much anyone and everyone.
But let’s get super-serious for a moment.  In my work on Diabolical Narcissism, what became clear was that ALL DNs are a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO CHILDREN.  All of them.  And by extension, all sodomites and aberrosexuals of EVERY STRIPE, because aberrosexuality is derivative of DN, are ALL, EVERY SINGLE ONE, clear and present dangers to children, including their own children, and close family members.
Well, yesterday it was revealed that Anthony Weiner texted a shot of his erection to some random woman with his FOUR YEAR OLD SON, Huma Abedin’s son, lying next to him asleep in bed.
Huma Abedin knows and has known exactly what kind of a piece of shit Anthony Weiner is all along.  She is Musloid Brotherhood royalty, and married and bred with the single most repellant Jew alive today, and then promptly dumped her prop child in the lap of a man she knew to be a psychopathic sex pervert, so she could go rule the world and rebuild the Caliphate with her lesbian sugarmama, Cankles.
So, yeah.  I, for one, can not wait until Hillary Clinton, on some state visit to Yemen or some shithole like that, gets shuffled off to the side, because, let’s face it, the Bangladeshi slave boy that cleans out the pit toilet outranks her on the social precedence scale.
Here’s a lovely recent shot of Edith and Woodrow Wilson, in matching outfits. Don’t plan on actually digesting your dinner.

Chelsea has two mommies.

Chelsea has two mommies.

"Workplace" violence strikes again...

Yesterday The JV struck in Normandy, I am making humor on a bad situation.  2 radicalized muslims decided to strike during a church service and behead an 84 year old catholic priest.  As I understand it, they made him kneel and then they hacked off his head. They then praised allah from the alter of the church.  Something about showing that their beliefs and god are superior to the Christian God and the belief system of the West.
     The killing in Normandy was the first known attack claimed by ISIS inside a church in the West after compiling a hitlist of places of Christian worship.

It comes as ISIS warned that London and Washington DC are next on the list of target cities, with images threatening major world capitals being posted online. 

Adel Kermiche (pictured right and left, in 2011), 19, has been named as one of the two ISIS knifemen who stormed into a church in Normandy and cut the throat of an 84-year-old Catholic priest Jacques Hamel before being shot dead by police

A French policeman cordons off the area around the body of one of the two knifemen. Parisian prosecutor Francois Molins revealed that the pair were carrying a fake bomb with a timer, a handgun and knives during the attack and said they used nuns as human shields

Father Jacques Hamel had his throat cut in the attack that also left a nun critically injured. He was at the church because he was filling in for the local priest who was on holiday

    I do know that he is considered a "martyr of the faith", kinda like the Christians in the arena in Rome.   I honestly believe that these attacks will cause a crisis of faith in the government to solve the problem in Europe.  The average citizen in France and Germany see their state controlled media spouting the latest round of rainbows and unicorns involving the refugee's and their actual experience is far different.  Many Germans are posting on Youtube stories of the state harassing them if they complain about the refugees and the crime caused by them.  The state treats the citizens as second class compared to the refugees and the average German is getting tired of it.  in France and other countries this is also a hot topic.  The immigration influx is part of the reason for the BREXIT vote.  The people in Europe are seeing the immigrants coming over, enjoying the benefits of living in Europe but refuse to assimilate to the host country culture.  The truth of the matter is that the immigrants view their own beliefs to be superior to the watered down wishy washy secular humanist that is on display in Europe.  They view the benefits they get as tribute and that the west is paying a "JIZYA Tax"  I am seeing the same thing here in the states, although not as bad yet...if we don't get a handle on it, we will see the same thing here.  I do know that if you criticize islam here, you have the risk of the Department of justice, you know those people, they refused to charge Hillary for leaking secrets...yeah those people visiting you since what you are doing is "hate speech" in the standard of the left.

  

     This is part of the popularity of THE Donald, he has been making this an election year issues about not vetting the refugees and making sure that they are not ISIS foot soldiers.  The people pushing for unfettered immigration live in their bubble communities with security, and hang with people like them are not affected by the crimes caused by the immigrants, we in flyover country are.  This is the disconnect between the cloud people and the dirt people and if the cloud people keep pushing the issues, there will be a backlash against them. 

Pledging "Fealty" in the modern age

   I ran across this article Here and it is something to think about.   I have studied medieval history and pledging fealty to a lord or a cause was a lifetime commitment, you are pledging your life, family and whatever assets to your "lord".  it is different and deeper level of pledging to the cause.   It is something to think about especially when the drooling idiots on facebook keep trying to deflect the discussion from Islam to the EBR that is the bane of the leftist antigun crowd.

Word Origin and History for fealty

n.

c.1300, from Old French feauté "loyalty, fidelity; homage sworn by a vassal to his overlord; faithfulness," from Latin fidelitatem (nominative fidelitas) "fidelity," from fidelis "loyal, faithful" (see fidelity ).

Fealty and Modern Terrorism

During his deadly attack on a packed Orlando nightclub where he killed 50 people and wounded many more, Omar Mateen called 911.
On the recorded call, he pledge his loyalty to ISIS.
A day later, a terrorist outside of Paris, used Facebook livestreaming to pledge his loyalty to ISIS while stabbing a police chief and his wife to death.
What's going on?
The answer is that these pledges aren't simply expressions of loyalty, they are expressions of fealty, a much more powerful means of connection.
Fealty is something we haven't seen since the middle ages.  ISIS became capable of employing fealty once it rebuilt a barebones Caliphate and it is using it to transform modern terrorism.
To understand this, let's dig into fealty a bit.

• Fealty is a strict, lifelong pledge of loyalty from a vassal to a lord.  It's public and irreversible.  (If you watch Game of Thrones, it's why everyone hates the Kingslayer, even if he was justified in his actions)
  
• Fealty obligates the vassal to act in the service of the lord, without any need for specific direction.  It also gives the protection of the lord to the vassal (in a religious context, salvation and redemption).
  
• Fealty made it possible to build large, geographically segmented networks in a world without instant communications and rapid travel.   

Fealty allows ISIS to get around some of problems of modern open source insurgency.   For example:

• A potential terrorist shouldn't express fealty until the attack.  Benefit: This prevents discovery during the grooming process.
  
• A public expression of fealty (FB, Twitter..) provides them with instant acceptance by the "lord"  Benefit: this provides them spiritual protection for the attack and maximizes the publicity for ISIS
  
• A Jihadi, or their local network, shouldn't ask for permission, planning, or support.  They should act on their own.  The attack itself is a demonstration of loyalty.  Benefit: this reduces chances of discovery and maximizes the innovative potential of the global network.

The more I think about it, fealty is an extremely useful way of harnessing and directing the power of an open source insurgency (aka, herding cats).

Online Fealty

The ISIS Caliphate is using online fealty as a way to recruit jihadis around the world.   It's a powerful recasting of an ancient concept that goes well beyond modern expressions of loyalty.
The way ISIS has constructed its brand of online fealty makes it globally scalable.  The  only barriers to entry are:  conduct an attack and publicly pledge fealty.  The most common platforms for a public pledge?  Social media, 911, etc.
For example, when Omar Mateen pledged fealty to ISIS during his deadly attack, it provided him with the following:

• It instantly gave him permission to conduct an attack in the name of ISIS.
• It instantly accepted him into the ranks of ISIS as a proven holy warrior.
• It cleansed his previous sins (particularly his conflict over his sexual orientation).

This recasting of fealty is interesting within the context of open source insurgency because it might provide ISIS with a way to construct a globally scalable, segmented network of terror.
That's a very new innovation.  

Unwritten Military Traditions...and some musings

I saw this when I was in the service...certain things are not written of but are lore that is passed down from the crusty old bastards to the new boots.  Before I present the following traditions...there are many that I didn't present..I do have some words for what happened to Paris a couple of days ago.  My prayers go to France after this....France said that they were the United States right after 9-11 when we were attacked by islamist.  This is sad and ironic that this attack happened right "Dear Leader" said that ISIS is contained......He still couldn't say the words "islamic terrorist"..

  To him the biggest threat is "climate Change"...the stuff that only seems to affect the western based societies.  All the others seem to get the pass.....This seems to be the only thing he cares about....

This is Obama/the Democrat's religion..."Global Warming, Global cooling...er....ahh Climate change...To me the "Greens" are the new "Reds"   I call them "Watermelons"..same tired collectivist crap wrapped in a new green packaging since the communist/collectivist/Marxist red packaging seems dated.

     My heart goes out to the French, they still supported us in Afghanistan, and from everything that I read...the French troops over there are very good.   Now to solve the problems with the muslim over there is to basically stop the  invasion immigration encouraged by the Germans trying to commit nationalistic suicide..

..to me it is the ultimate act of penance for WWII.  I honestly believe that that is the goal in Merkel's heart to erase Germany from the map and hand the people and land over to the muslims.  I am of the mindset that we need to leave the middle east to their own devices and let them self destruct.....and prevent their entry to the civilized lands since their belief structure isn't compatible with it.

The U.S. military

is awash in regulations, laws, and official traditions. How troops march and salute, what uniform to wear to what event, or what you are supposed to say when greeting a superior are all examples of “on-the-books” behaviors expected of service members.

And then there are the “off-the-books” traditions. They are the unwritten rules: traditions that go back way before the books were printed. These activities — especially the ones involving hazing — are often frowned upon, but still continue to happen, usually without any official recognition.

Here are eight examples.

1. Fighter pilots (or members of flight crew) get hosed down after their final flight.

 

The “fighter pilot mafia” is definitely a thing in the Air Force and Navy, which is the nickname for the pilot sub-culture within each service. Soon after aviators get to a new unit they will go through an unofficial ceremony of receiving their callsigns, and they usually are not very flattering.

On the flip side is the final flight. Much like a football coach gets a giant cooler of Gatorade dumped over their head at the end of a game, pilots sometimes will get hosed down with water by their comrades. In some cases, they’ll be doused with champagne.

In the case of Maj. Vecchione (shown above), his peers also threw string cheese, flour, and mayonnaise on him. Personally, I would’ve thrown in some ketchup and mustard, but hell, I wasn’t there.

2. At a military wedding with a sword detail, the wife gets a sword-tap to her booty to “welcome her” to the family.

Nothing like a little tradition that allows some dude to tap your brand new wife on the butt. When a service member wants to go through the pageantry of having a “military wedding” — wearing their uniform at the altar and bringing along a sword detail — they can expect that at the end of it all, some random dude will be sexually harassing his wife for the sake of tradition.

It goes like this: On the way out right after the ceremony, the couple passes over an arch of swords on both sides. They go through, kiss, go through, kiss, then they get to the last one. Once they reach the final two and pass, one of the detail will lower their sword, tap the bride, and say “welcome to the Army [or Marine Corps, etc]!”

Here’s the Navy version:

3. When a Navy ship crosses the equator, sailors perform the “crossing the line” ceremony, which frankly, involves a lot of really weird stuff.

 

The Crossing the Line ceremony goes far back to the days of wooden ships and Old NFO's youth. According to this Navy public affairs story, sailors were put through this hazing ritual designed to test whether they could endure their first time out at sea.

These days, sailors crossing the line for the first time — called Pollywogs or Wogs for short — can expect an initiation into the club of those who have done it before, referred to as Shellbacks. During the two-day event, the “Court of Neptune” inducts the Wogs into “the mysteries of the deep” with activities like having men dress up as women, drink stuff like a wonderful mix of hot sauce and aftershave, or make them crawl on their hands and knees in deference to King Neptune. I swear I’m not making any of this up.

In the modern military that is decidedly against hazing rituals, the events have toned down quite a bit. In 1972 a sailor may have expected to be kissing the “Royal Baby’s belly button,” which again, is totally a real thing.

Nowadays however, there’s much less of that sort of thing, and the Navy stresses that it’s all completely voluntary (ask any sailor, however, and they’ll probably tell you it’s “voluntary” with big air quotes).

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

4. Before going on deployment, Marine infantrymen who have never deployed need to shave their heads.

Don’t ask me where this unwritten rule came from or why — other than to distinguish who the total boots in the platoon were — but Marine grunts who have never done a deployment are often told to shave their heads before they move out.

Again, this is one of those “voluntary” you-don’t-have-to-do-this-if-you-don’t-want-to kind of things, .  I am told that such things are "voluntary"......Interestingly enough, those that don't play along were put on plenty of cleanup details and other not-so-fun jobs as a result.

5. When achieving the next rank or earning parachute wings or other insignia, a service member may get “blood-pinned,” though it’s rare these days.

Soldiers who get through five successful jumps at Airborne School in the past could expect to get “blood wings,” but that practice has died down in recent years as the public has learned of it. After a superior pinned their wings on, a soldier would get their new badge slammed into their chest, which often draws blood.

This kind of thing is frowned upon — and prohibited under military regulations — but it still sometimes happens. In some cases, it’s considered a rite of passage and kind of an honor. I personally endured pinning ceremonies that I volunteered for when I picked up the rank of specialist or Sp/4 as it was called back then.  

Volunteer or not, it’s a ritual which the brass has endured plenty of bad press over, so they tend to discipline anyone involved whenever it happens.

6. Some units have mustache-growing contests in training or on deployment to see who can achieve the most terrible-looking ‘stache.

The military regulations on facial hair offer little in the way of good looking when it comes to shaves. Most men are not allowed to grow beards (except for some special operators) and although they are allowed, mustaches are generally frowned upon. Why they are frowned upon usually comes down to how terrible they often look.

Photo: MCB Hawaii

Don’t expect any mustache greatness ala Rollie Fingers; troops usually have to keep the mustache neatly trimmed within the corners of their mouth. Those regulations give way to the terribleness derived from the “CAX ‘stache,” which is what Marines refer to as the weird-looking Hitler-like mustache they’ll grow out while training at 29 Palms.

These contests sometimes extend overseas, especially when junior troops are away from the watchful eyes of their senior enlisted leaders. But whenever the sergeant major is around, you might want to police that moostache.

7. First-year West Point cadets have a giant pillow fight to blow off steam after the summer is over.

Before they become the gun-toting leaders of men within the United States Army, first year cadets are beating the crap out of each with pillows in the school’s main courtyard. The annual event is organized by the students and has occurred since at least 1897, according to The New York Times.

While it’s supposed to be a light-hearted event featuring fluffy pillows filled with things that are, you know, soft, some [blue falcon] cadets have decided to turn the event bloody in recent years. One first-year cadet told The Times in September: “The goal was to have fun, and it ended up some guys just chose to hurt people.”

That quote came from a story that broke months ago after the “fun” pillow fight ended with at least 30 cadets requiring medical attention, 24 of which were concussion

8. Naval Academy midshipmen climb a lard-covered monument for a hat.

Around the same time that first-year West Point cadets are beating each other and causing concussions, 1,000 screaming Navy midshipmen are charging toward a 21-foot monument covered in lard with a hat on top. The goal: Retrieve the first-year “plebe” hat and replace it with an upperclassmen hat, a task which signifies their transition to their next year at the Academy.

Beforehand, upperclassmen hook up the plebes with about 200 pounds of greasy lard slapped on the sides of the Herndon Monument, making their task a bit more difficult. They need to use teamwork and dedication to climb their way to the top, which can take anywhere from minutes to over four hours (Class of 1995 has the longest time 4 hours, 5 minutes).

According to the Academy’s website, the tradition is that the first guy to make it to the top will likely rise to the rank of admiral first. That is if he or she doesn’t get themselves fired first.

Eric Kammeyer removes the “dixie cup” cap from the Herndon Monument, a 21-foot greased obelisk at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, in 1997. Tradition holds that the plebe who replaces the cap with a midshipman’s hat will be the first from his class to attain the rank of admiral. (John Makely/Baltimore Sun)