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Totalitarianism, its encroachment and opposition to it.

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Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 12

"a boot stamping on a human face, forever." — George Orwell.

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 11

“The matter is summed up for every person alive: either submit, or live under the suzerainty of Islam, or die… Such, then, is the basis of the relationship between the infidel and the Muslim. Battle, animosity and hatred—directed from the Muslim to the infidel—is the foundation of our religion.” AQR

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 10

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day-by-day and minute-by-minute. History has stopped.”

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 9

Newspeak, propagandistic language characterised by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings. Coined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-four. Newspeak, “designed to diminish the range of thought,” the language of Big Brother’s enforcers. —Britannica (excerpt).

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 8

Arbitrary control is the conditio sine qua non of totalitarianism. All you need to do is point your finger, utter “Islamophobia”, and it is done. When we agreed to create “hate speech,” we conceded that our thoughts and emotions must be policed. This has always been the business of totalitarianism.

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 7

Whether class struggle that must inevitably lead to the dictatorship of the proletariat, or “No one comes to the Father except through me,” or “until all worship is for Allah alone," the idea is the same: we act in accord with our purpose, the only way to real human happiness.

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 6

You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behaviour. In these people the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible.

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 5

Were they not in such a parlous state, they would see that Zemmour is their very last hope to stop the slide towards the stark alternatives of either civil war or barbarism

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 4

An easy way to assess how Orwell “speak[s] to us in our own time with great urgency and topicality,” is by looking at the way we regard Islam, and to discern whether the decay of thought and the negation of being that Orwell sees in the civilisational breakdown we call fascism, is present in us.

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Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 3

Islam will come to Germany, whether you like it or not. Your daughter will wear the hijab. Your son will have a beard. We multiply relentlessly. We have seven or eight. On top of that, we take four wives, then we have twenty-two children, against your one child and a small dog. That’s how it is.

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Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 2

Shari’a is evil, Islam is evil, the Qur’an is evil, Muhammad is evil: husbands may imprison, rape and beat their wives; parents may kill their children; men may rape children; a dhimmi may not defend himself against a Muslim; a divorced woman must be pimped out before her marriage can be restored…

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 1

Free people slinked into the darkest crevasse, and there made themselves comfortable. George Orwell and Martin Luther King’s lives overlapped like father and son, and from the heart of darkness we know as Black Lives Matter, these two beacons shine from a Golden Age when truth was still spoken.

Totalitarianism

1948 and the Nazis of the Nile*

We were sitting over a book by Anjuli Pandavar, a South African born former Muslim, who writes about the struggle of man against Muslim in every Muslim and Muslim against man in every man brought up in Islamic culture.

Editorials

Editorial

Murtadd to Human

Atheism/religion

There's free will, and then there's Muslim free will

A few days ago, I had the unedifying experience of an exchange with multiple denizens of the comments stratum of Thought Adventure Podcast that I viewed for the first time on YouTube. The attraction was a discussion to which the four hosts had invited Ridvan "Apostate Prophet" Aydemir. The topic

Propaganda

Evolution, children and murderers*

Many people have noticed the love tyrants have for a photo-op with small children; there are books that show ties between fanatical ideologies and brutal programs of child-indoctrination from the cradle, of raising children to become murderers.

Atheism/religion

Saudi Arabia: Oil, Shari'a and the pursuit of happiness

"Our constitution is the Qur'an… We are bound to implement the Qur'an in some form or another …inclusive of everybody. …But in social and personal affairs, we are only obliged to implement stipulations that are clearly stated in the Qur'an.” — Mohammed bin Salman

Totalitarianism

“If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes.”

Thus the famous line by Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s 1982 film, Blade Runner. If we could but see what our enemies see when they look at us. Even when looking with our enemy’s eyes, we still see only what our eyes see, never what their eyes see. “Eyes wide shut,” is another fitting metaphor.

Reviews / Previews

"Four Horsemen and a Wonderful Apostate"

There is a lacuna in Islam critique that stems directly from political correctness, Western misconceptions about Muslims and good old-fashioned spinelessness: critique of Muslims as people. Islam cannot be properly understood while it is maintained that Muslims as people must never be criticised.

Totalitarianism

"I've come to collect my Bachelor's degree."

"Here, have a diploma, instead." A sudden law change about university degrees sets off something the Chinese government did not expect. Why don't Chinese people rise up? They do! Only to be met with the most brutal of punishments. With thanks to laowhy86.

Totalitarianism

"Everybody knows"*

And everybody knows that. This is what they hear, this is what they talk about. In this version there are no missing pieces, everything tallies and gives a feeling of national pride, of historic justice. It doesn’t offend, it doesn’t demand thought, it feeds cognitive dissonance with tasty morsels.

Editorials

Editorial

Murtadd to Human

Dissidents/Ex-Muslims

George Orwell’s Columbian mistake*

Nations yearning for freedom look with envy at the democratic states. However, those who managed to escape tyranny look with astonishment and horror at the paradox of our times. Democracy is putting a noose around its own neck.

Israel

Happy Birthday, Israel: A wake-up call to remain asleep

On 14 May 1948, part of the erstwhile Eretz-Israel was finally restored to the Jewish people as the State of Israel. 14 May 2021 was the august occasion of the modern nation’s 73rd birthday. The equally august Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, was five days earlier, the occasion for a rude awakening.