Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”
Someone needs to explain to Patricia Karvelas that conservatives, centrists, in fact everyone to the right of the New Radical Left, do not require "a permission structure" to vote for whoever they want to vote for.
Patty seems to think that everyone thinks and votes like her and her ilk: look around, see what the rest of your herd is doing, follow suit, then congratulate yourself for being morally superior to everyone who did anything else. Because you are so smugly certain that you are in the right herd. The Good Herd.
Australia's centre of gravity is no longer willing to play along with those who enforce political tyranny via blind accusations of bigotry.
"I made reference to the precedent set when @MForstater
won her appeal June 2021 & levelled an accusation to the entire company that they are indirectly & possibly directly, discriminating against all its employees under the protected characteristic of their freedom of belief.
A few weeks ago, the company I work for issued compulsory "training", including statements such as:
“Remember, if Cathi is trans, saying ‘she used to be a man’ isn't accurate. Trans women are women, and they've never not been a woman”.
I shit you not.
So I've waited till today, when the company hosts one of its quarterly meetings with all the top brass across several sites, in person and online, to read out a statement on exactly what I thought of this “training”.
I made reference to the precedent set when @MForstater won her appeal in June 2021, and levelled an accusation to the entire company that they are indirectly, and possibly directly, discriminating against all its employees under the protected characteristic of their freedom of belief.
You could have heard a pin drop. At first.
The result?
HR is now bricking it. The training is no longer compulsory. They're taking matters under review, and I've had so many hugs and messages off support from my female colleagues. My boss shook my hand.
It isn't easy speaking up. I've been very nervous till today. But as @ThePosieParker keeps telling me: if not me, then who? If not now, then when?
I think it was important that someone saw a gay man stand up and defend the women he works with, and send a message that this absurd nonsense has no place being forced upon us.
I've sure I've made plenty of enemies at work today and pissed numerous people off.
And I'm glad. I'd do it all again in a heartbeat because it's simply the right thing to do.
Nadia was kidnapped, raped and sold by ISIS.
Her brothers were killed for refusing to convert to Islam. Her mother was killed for being too old to be a sex slave.
Her event to share her story was canceled in Canada because the local Muslim community deemed it “Islamophobic.”
@sappholives83 deluded.. what he/she has is a gaping hole, probably constructed from colon tissue that will require a dilator to keep it open. Physical se*ual satisfaction definitely not included. Castration fetish treated with amputation of healthy body parts.
One Nation won the seat of Farrer with close to 60% of the two party preferred vote in a democratic election.
Last night the ABC, our $1 billion a year taxpayer funded national broadcaster, implied that One Nation was an illegitimate political party.
This morning on Insiders the ABC allowed commentators to declare One Nation was “at its core” “a racist and bigoted” party.
The “impartial” ABC failed to challenge or even debate the claim.
Other supposedly “impartial” media outlets have published similar articles, dismissing and demonising the millions of Australians who have said they would vote for One Nation.
These people don’t get it. We live in a democracy.
Labor, Liberal, the media, the academics and the lobbyists don’t get to decide who represents Australian people.
No one except the people of Australia get to decide who is “legitimate” and worthy of representing them in Parliament.
On Saturday, the people of Farrer chose One Nation.
@TheRealThelmaJ1 Boomer Banksy made the right call making it blank . So many people weilding so many national flags of causes and nations, blinded by their various ideologies.
@TheRealThelmaJ1 Boomer Banksy made the right call making it blank . So many people weilding so many national flags of causes and nations, blinded by their various ideologies.
New Ngo report: A Green Bay, Wisc. drag queen has been arrested and charged in child s—x abuse case. Daniel Lieburn performed as “Diamond Day" and is now part of a long list of drag queens accused or convicted of child s—x crimes. READ: https://t.co/yA1zTeJzVt
London — Far-left violent extremist and Palestine Action cell member Samuel Corner has been convicted at trial of inflicting grievous bodily harm and criminal damage over an August 2024 attack. He smashed a female officer twice with a sledgehammer, fracturing her spine. Three other cell members were convicted of criminal damage. https://t.co/eruxyD5BQB
Seattle — Surveillance recorded 2 black males ambushing a 77-year-old. Suspect Ahmed Abdullahi Osman was arrested & quickly released. His whereabouts are unknown. The other man was never arrested.
Migrant groups have been urging mayor to ban CCTV cameras.
A woke British Green Party candidate who is advocating for trillions in "slavery reparations" is revealed to be from a Nigerian upper-class family that traded slaves.
Though Arabs and black Africans were instrumental to chattel slavery, leftists only blame whites. https://t.co/ZneSq8tZh6
Leftists and liberals are raging that the new U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy names Antifa and trantifa for the domestic terrorist threats that they are.
Read: https://t.co/kMvaxmGmf7