If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
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A wheelchair bound man has been martyred in the streets of Lyon by three Muslims in gruesome fashion because of his Christian faith
Ashur Sharanya was an Assyrian Christian and had lived in France for decades after fleeing persecution in Iraq
He livestreamed videos discussing faith and sometimes critiquing Islam
Three Muslim young men hacked him to death with a machete yesterday on livestream in broad daylight, stabbing him in the neck and leaving him to die. The attackers could be heard screaming about his faith.
He was the target of previous threats because of hia Christianity.
Emmanuel Macron has not yet commented and it is unlikely that he will, given his silence on previous attacks on churches and Christians.
I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I'm supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.
But we aren't "one people" are we?
The truth is we haven't been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.
We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.
I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a "threat to democracy" for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.
And now the "effect" is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldnโt bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.
I donโt think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.
Itโs not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. Itโs a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.
Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.
And the other side murdered him.
Not because he was โextremeโ or โinciting violenceโ or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.
I donโt want to โstand in solidarityโ with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessnessโฆand that murdered Charlie Kirk.
Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlieโs death.
I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.
I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.
I donโt know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it wonโt be the same as what has happened in the past.
There will be thoughts and prayersโฆCharlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.
But then there will be a reckoning.
My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism...quite the opposite.
So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in UtahโฆI will force myself to watch itโฆand then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.
Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over.
Ours is just beginning.
@PettusWX The camera view is facing south. You actually have it backwards. The plane is approaching from left, the helicopter is approaching on the right. The place was flying north toward the camera.
@SpeakerPelosi This is your party Nancy. You caused this. You told people to rise up all across the country in 2020. Now we have domestic terrorists destroying monuments. This is the democrat America.
@LauraLoomer@JoeBiden Not even a veiled threat.... Shouldn't he be charged for inciting violence? Any other American would be... And supposedly the President is not above the law.
It's either we Israel exists or Hezba-lah exists. This is what Israel leadership understands before full-scale war starts. #1701 is irrelevant and not worth sacrifices.
An entire crowd in Philadelphia chants, โAbu Obaida (Hamas Spokesperson) my love, strike, strike, Tel Avivโ
The man in this video is holding the Hamas flag. The bottom text reads โthank you Al-Qassam.โ
Islamic shia Iranian regime with it's proxy Hezba-lah, including Asad regime are ethnic cleansing Syrian Sunnis, causing them to be refugees in Lebanon and reinhibiting their homes with Shia Pakistani and Afghanis. Now Hezba-lah Hasan Nasrallah is calling to open the Lebanese sea, pushing them to Europe instead of pushing them back home.
Hezba-lah is deceiving people that it really care for Palestinian sunnies in Gaza!? Same type of people who were also butchered by Hezba-lah in Yarmuk refugee camp?
Israel will eliminate this threat from the north and return its citizens sooner or later.
If Hezba-lah, the Islamic Shia Iranian proxy, thinks he can get away with all his aggressions to us in Israel together with the damage causing both Israelis and Lebanese, then he and all his supporters are mistaken. Time will prove for all who will laugh at the end.
This is what we had today above our region.
Long live Israel!
Iranian radical Islamic regime is not good for anyone in this world, not even for Iranians. Definitely, it's an obstacle for peace in the Middle East and a threat for its neighbors, Israel, Europe, USA, and the entire free Democratic world.
@visegrad24
I am Native Christian living in Israel who speaks the language of Jesus Christ.
Most of us 180k Christian Israelis prefer to live under Israel freely rather than under a Palestinian Islamic Authority regime controlling Bethlehem. Israel gives us freedom while living under Arabs has been genocidal for Christians all across the Middle East.
Tucker, I invite you to visit our Aramaic Christian Galilee center. Don't be deceived by collaborators of the Satan.