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Totalitarianism Featured

Two conditions to end civilisation: one, “wokeness”; two, defeat of Israel. Part 2

Israel and Ukraine (and Taiwan) stand between “a combination of several Fascisms conquer[ing] the whole world,” and the obliteration of “those two conditions” by which “the liberal tradition” is preserved. The alternative is “a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”

Totalitarianism Featured

Two conditions to end civilisation: one, “wokeness”; two, defeat of Israel. Part 1

All three “Fascisms”, Russia, Iran and China, used the Houthis and Hamas, i.e., the Arabs, as their canary in the coal mine. If they survive Trump, we do x; if Trump wipes them out, we do y. To Muslims and communists, agreements are not part of making peace, they are part of making war.

Jihad Featured

International Humanitarian Law: Is it worth the paper it's written on?

Between the extreme of blanket starvation and the extreme of getting your own soldiers killed just to impress an uninterested world with how good you are, it should not be to hard to find a formula that gets Israel something for going to the trouble of feeding them at all.

Propaganda Featured

The ICC attacks, J Street demands capitulation, others call for escalation dominance

Instead of the old hasbara approach of explaining why the Prime Minister is not guilty of war crimes, Dr Lerner and several politicians urge for the exact opposite approach: using the ICC's move to dominate its escalation. Dr Lerner's intervention is enormously encouraging.

Jihad Featured

Israel vs Iran: The targets no one is talking about, Part 2

First a brutal Arab Sunni dictator, then a ruthless Arab Shi'a tyrant, followed by a brutal Iranian Shi'a dictator. Diverse, yes, but they had one aim, to destroy Israel with the ultimate weapon, and a common ideology, Islam.

Israel Featured

Netanyahu's address to the Joint Houses of Congress, 25 July 2024, in context. Part 2

As the longest-serving Prime Minister of Israel, no fewer than sixteen years and counting, there is much that Benjamin Netanyahu could have accomplished that no other Prime Minister stood a chance at.

Israel Featured

Netanyahu's address to the Joint Houses of Congress, 25 July 2024, in context. Part 1

Netanyahu might have added that history shows, over and over again, that no sooner have totalitarians and fascists seized power, than they put their useful idiots up against a wall, and shoot them.

Fourth of July Featured

4 July in the Land of the Free, the Mother of Parliaments and the Only Democracy in the ME, Part 4

7 October defines our lifetimes. We were alive when it happened. Our children and grandchildren are fully entitled to interrogate us about were we stood on this matter, even whether we were complicit.

Apostasy Featured

Had Orwell but known Islam. Part 1

The antithesis of Allah is, therefor, not the Devil, but the kufaar. Muslims hate the kufaar more than they hate Satan, a minor character in Islam. This says something about the relationship between Islam as religion and Islam as totalitarian system.

Jihad Featured

Left, Right and Canary in the Mine*

Among the defenders of old-fashioned liberalism, we are increasingly seeing the faces of newcomers born into tyrannies who understand better than others that Israel is a canary in a mine, that its destruction will mean that the fumes of poison are so strong that they are killing civilisation.

Apostasy Featured

Every single Muslim is responsible. Part 3

Increasing numbers of Muslims are finding that hypocrisy will no longer provide them with comfort. Only by joining the likes of ISIS, on the one hand, or apostatising from Islam, on the other, can a Muslim escape hypocrisy and find honesty, with his or her inner human either dead, or set free.

Propaganda Featured

Muhammad said Muslims are “scum and rubbish.” The October massacre proves him right.

I see in this War Cabinet the makings of a coup to form a new, unelected government around Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot that excludes Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich to outright disenfranchise the Jews of Judea and Samaria. It's what the US demands.

Propaganda Featured

"I don't know why it’s not obvious to everybody."

All of us saw Hamas savages grab a teenager girl from the neck, pushing her into the unknown. That’s your very freedom. That girl represents your freedom. ...I don't know why it’s not obvious to everybody. That the United Nations fail to condemn them.

Jihad Featured

Give the Qur’an to Jews!

"In Hamas’s eyes, Paris and Rome are the next targets, in their view there is no place for either Jews or Christians in the Islamic caliphate that will be established, and you will be condemned to either convert to Islam or be slaughtered."

Israel Featured

Whatever happened to Israeli escalation dominance?

Furthermore, and relevant to Israel, Ukraine achieved escalation dominance not with Western weapons, but with weapons she produces herself. Are we to understand that Israel, the tech wonder of the world, is incapable of producing her own weapons independently of the US?

Totalitarianism Featured

Orwell, Jabotinsky, Fascism and Islam - Part 2

"At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying." — Benito Mussolini

Totalitarianism Featured

Orwell, Jabotinsky, Fascism and Islam - Part 1

The process begins with tainting reality with the mark of the condemned: “2+2=4 reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.” From here it is a small step to 2+2= whatever the architects of Rubel’s mind decide it is today.

Jihad Featured

‘Death to Israel’ – The Iranian Plan to Attack Israel

The Iranians expect Arabs in the Galilee and Negev to carry out actions against the IDF, such as blocking roads, damaging bridges, spilling oil on roads, blocking intersections, damaging high voltage lines and attacking Jewish settlements (“May 2021 on steroids”).

Totalitarianism Featured

One year of Western escalation submission in Ukraine: what lessons?

The power of nuclear weapons lies not in their use, but in their possession, provided you maintain escalation dominance. Conceding escalation dominance reduces you to one of two states: ineffective nuclear weapons; or nuclear war. Unless you are a nihilist, your nuclear weapons become useless.

Holocaust Remembrance Day Featured

Yom HaShoah 2023 series - 3

For three nights, in commemoration of Yom HaShoah on 27 January, Murtadd to Human is publishing a series of articles that draws attention to the rising anti-Semitism around the world. Our third article is Andrzej Koraszewski's critique of the media's reporting on Israel and Palestinian terrorism.

Ukraine Featured

Onward pregnant soldiers

If the IDF is deterred from bombing terrorists for fear of killing civilians, the terrorists are protected and they all declare victory. If the IDF bombs the terrorists, then “Women and children get caught up in the violence,” and the dead terrorists and civilians go straight to Heaven as "martyrs."

Polemics Featured

Msreading Iran

"Women Life Freedom" is not a feminist slogan and this is not a “women’s revolution.” The events unfolding in major parts of the Muslim world mean that after almost 200 years, the 1848 revolutions finally resume: the autonomous individual is far from dead, with a tip of the hat to George Orwell.

Polemics Featured

"Islam is not a religion," Answer to Lloyd de Jongh - Part 4

It might offend Lloyd de Jongh to learn that for Islam, his religion is not important enough to warrant "correcting" its errors.

Jihad Featured

Anatomy of a madness, Part 4

I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.

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