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November 21, 2015

Manufacturing “Islamophobia”: Runnymede Trust, Euro-Humanists & The Pseudo-Liberal Pseudo-Left

Posted by franc under cults, disinformation, humanism, hyperreality, media, middle east, moral panic, propaganda, pseudo-history, pseudo-humanism, social engineering, social justice warriors, yellow journalism | Tags: , , , |
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson – the only person to have ever explained Critical Theory coherently.

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.” — Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“… if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”– ibid.

“It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims” — Abdulrahman al-Rashed, BBC News

Our language has been having rocks thrown in its gearbox for close to a century now. First, from the Critical Theory1 fucknuts that sprang up in the decadent nightclub culture of the rapidly failing Weimar Republic in the interlude between the two World Wars. One would assume it was a schizoid hyper-reaction to try and come to terms with, and explain, the brutish idiocy of the Nazis they were allowing to waltz in and seize society in a totalitarian death-grip with barely a murmur of protest. (more…)

 

May 3, 2013

Kabul Dreams

Posted by franc under art, culture, islam, middle east, music | Tags: , |
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I have previously written of Taqwacore in a blog post that has vapourised. I also briefly mention it here. Primarily Pakistan based, but it has spread elsewhere, as have the various bastard strains of metal. Music is a revolutionary force – you can have all the military interventions you want, but they will never seed social change like angry young folks with guitars. Deny it all you want, but the Sex Pistols did change the world.

Afghanistan has a little known rock subculture too. While not Taqwacore per se, Kabul Dreams echo the sentiments. Three Afghani kids from three separate tribes that spend most of their time butchering each other. There is hope. They have released an album.

Last.fm. Tardbook. WasteOfSpace.

Buy

There are worse things to throw a few bucks at.

 

January 13, 2013

A desperate plea from an ex-muslim [external content]

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“In despair I decided to make this video and I know almost no one will listen.”

— Aly Aly at the conclusion of the video

Well, we’ll see about that. I’m just going to leave your words as they are. They say all that needs saying –

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Direct video link – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8LaNTrLeKU

References / links –

  • Aly Aly’s Youtube channel –

https://www.youtube.com/user/alyraly

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September 22, 2011

The Conjoined Twins of Gender Feminism And Islamism

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Indignation cafeteria

I no longer find it possible to differentiate the methodology of the catastrophist misandrist fairy tales and hate propaganda of Watson / Greta Christina et al. from that of radical islamists that have a thing about cartoons.

Both do backwards somersaults to tenuously manufacture crises out of irrelevant trivia; hyperbolise the hurt that they suffer (much like Chinese professional mourners); demonise dissenting voices that tell them to stop behaving like spoiled children; and enforce their own fascist brand of faux morality on the world whilst simultaneously demanding the right to spout whatever nonsense they please with absolute impunity.

Similarly, I see no difference between the embarrassing segments of the self labeled “liberal” and “humanist” left that throw around the accusation of islamophobia at any hint of criticism in lieu of rational discourse and the Watsonistas abuse of baseless accusations of misogyny for the same reason – mindless vacuity. As Harlan Ellison eloquently put it – (more…)

 

September 7, 2011

Islam, Feminism, Humanism

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What can you say about Richard Dawkins’ response to Becky Watson’s violated nun routine in Elevatorgate other than it was genius? Pity he subsequently spoiled it by attempting to explain and mollify. Dawkins no doubt knew he was dealing with maniacs, but I suspect he grossly underestimated the extent of the derangement he was dealing with. There was no point Dick – we’re in Jyllands-Posten territory here. You cannot negotiate with terrorists.

Depressingly, the outrage at Dawkins Muslima riposte was not confined to the Watsonista hordes. A non-exhaustive list of non-fembots that lined up to take pot-shots at Dawkins for daring to show disrespect to the holy yoni included –

 

February 23, 2011

Whither now the Dust Bowl?

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The Middle East exists for a reason. To remind pudgy, malcontented white folks to be grateful for what precious little life has dealt them and to consider themselves lucky they weren’t born there.

Aside from a few tourist oases for kebab lovers, the place is basically a shithole, and there is a perverse logic that the religions of dust were all born there. Ever heard of a self-flagellating monotheism from a tropical island? No, didn’t think so.

It is the pure serendipity of the cosmic lottery that the Middle East has somehow ended up with the bulk of the planet’s petroleum resources1, and with this lever, they have succeeded in making the whole planet miserable for the best part of a century. Spare a thought for the much maligned western diplomat – (more…)