Muslims are not a race.
Criticising Islam is not racist.
Islam remains an unreformed religion and a political project.
"Islamophobia" is a fabricated term designed to shield Islam from scrutiny.
In a free society, NO ideology including Islam, is beyond debate or criticism.
The problem is you think we're ignorant and that knowledge of people and "what matters in US-SA relations" is unknown to us plebs unless we hear it from you and your choice peers in media.
An example: some years ago, it was either @kalliekriel or @ErnstRoets who said point blank in a tweet that they have friends in very high places. They then proceeded to gather an audience with the United Nations, US congressmen, and notable think tanks in the US, all during the Biden administration when your access to those in the White House and The Capitol were more fortuitous. In other words... You aren't the only one who can drink tea with US Politicians.
Fast forward to today and your insistence at either belittling or turning the blind eye to those you deem "far right" in both discourse and coverage has you musing that because you never particularly entertained or had reason to opine on Charlie Kirk, most of us [politically online] South Africans must therefore have never heard of him before this week.
Your arrogance is surprisingly unsurprising against the backdrop of Charlie Kirk's multiple best seller books, a YouTube channel with over 4 million subscribers, TikTok channel with more than 7 million subscribers, X profile with well over a million followers, thousands of appearances across new media (podcasts, YouTube, TikTok, clipped viral content, etc), and his name hitting the top of the worldwide trends list minutes after he was shot.
Get over yourself.
@DavidCSparks1@CherylWroteIt Many, many people mistakenly believe that the Nazis were right-wing. National Socialism, from which Nazi is derived, is leftist.
What will it take to turn around those ill-founded beliefs?
I’m going to say something that many may not like but I believe it’s important:
They didn’t kill Charlie just because they hated him. They killed Charlie because he was that one person they were afraid of more than anyone else. He was able to do something that very very few others had the ability to do.
For decades we’ve heard the term “child soldiers”. For decades, Islamists have been indoctrinating the young to use as weapons of war. The UN through UNRWA schools and education created the next generation of Islamic terrorists not from militant training camps, but from schools, from kindergartens, from universities.
The Nazis were prolific at using children and filling their minds with hate. After World War Two, many former Nazis found refuge in South America and in the Middle East, and they all immediately went to work in propaganda bureaus and the education ministries so as to brainwash and indoctrinate the younger generation. Islamists have perfected it. The Islamic regime used huge child armies to sweep mines and distract enemy soldiers. We see large numbers of child soldiers used by Islamist groups throughout Africa. We know they use them widely in Gaza and across the Middle East.
And we know that Islamists use children for their propaganda. The number one propaganda slogan of the last two years is “The Children”. They use children as human shields to create outrage and shock. They know the west is obsessed with saving the children. Hollywood actors line stages to tell you about the children dying. Social media is flooded with “child murderers!” and fake images of children starving or suffering. Because as humans with emotions it’s the children that move us, that affect us.
When they attacked on October 7, the Nova festival was highlighted more than anything else because it was young innocent people. 250 hostages were taken but none spoken about more than Kfir and Ariel Bibas.
If the police were to go after adult criminals, murderers, shooters, rioters in the streets of the United States, you as the audience would watch the footage and you’d call those adult criminals what they were… criminals.
But it all changes in your mind when the criminals all of a sudden become young students from universities or high schools. Then you don’t look at them as criminals no matter what crimes they commit. You see them as kids. And it affects you in different ways. You feel more empathy. You feel guilt. You feel helpless. And you feel outraged. You’d watch police or the National Guard taking down adult criminals and you’d call the police heroes. But if the criminals were students , you call the police monsters. You accuse them of taking it too far. Of being to aggressive. Your outrage is taken out on those stopping the crimes rather than the perpetrators. As humans, that’s how we’ve all been conditioned.
And terrorists, whether they’re Islamists or leftists or Marxists… they know this. It’s why they teach kids about gender identity and sexuality at the age of 6. It’s why Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood invested so heavily in all the universities. They couldn’t care less about the education. For them they were programming the kids. They were indoctrinating them. They were weaponizing them. Those kids are a more powerful weapon for them than anything else.
And Charlie… well Charlie had that unrivaled ability and power to go to all those institutions and talk to “the weapons”. He had this incredible gift of being able to free some. To break them out of their brainwashing. To make them see sense. To open their eyes. Many looked up to him. Whether they’re agreed with him or not, they loved him. He was the “child whisperer”. The guy who could enter a hall and make kids stop and listen. He was the single biggest threat to our enemies. He was an angel from heaven itself. And they were afraid of him. Afraid of what he represented.
He found their Achilles Heel.
He showed us the way to defeat them. We must finish his legacy.
I hope I'm wrong.
But tonight feels like some sort of invisible line has been crossed that we didn't even know was there. The last time I felt like this was 9/11 when it was clear, without knowing the how and the what, that the world was about to change forever.
Like the rules of the game had been permanently altered and there was simply no going to back to the innocent, peaceful past.
I didn't feel like this when an attempt was made on President Trump's life. If I had to rationalise why I didn't, I guess it's because several US Presidents have been shot at and even assassinated. Somehow it was within the realms of the possible, no matter how awful.
But to murder a young father simply for doing debates and mobilising young people to vote for a party that represents half of America? This is something else.
Charlie's death is a tragedy for his wife, his children and his family. I don't pray often. I am praying for them tonight.
But I fear his murder will be a tragedy for all of us in ways we will only understand as time unfolds.
I hope I'm wrong.
@HermanMashaba@DereleenJ@CyrilRamaphosa That’s right, Herman, latch onto the issues that your arch enemy has raised alarm bells over for goodness knows how long and claim them as your own.
Pathetic!!!
BEYOND PATHETIC!!!
Get a life, Herman. It’s called retirement!!
“Come Join the Counter-Offensive at Pretoria Girls.”
New essay on #schoolcapture - including a crowdfunding campaign for the principal who is suspended without pay.
Any surplus funds will go to litigation against the GDE / the benefit of the school.
https://t.co/vrFgLNJ8M7
@HermanMashaba Your biggest weakness, Herman, is your own desperation. You proved how irrelevant residents of Johannesburg were when you walked out on them.
Your desperation to turn Tshwane into the ‘Cape Town’ of Gauteng isn’t going too well. I can’t wait for the local government elections!!
@HermanMashaba Any idea whose side you and your party are on, Herman?
Seems to me that you and Cyril and your respective parties are not that far apart. 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️