{"id":19610,"date":"2015-01-07T12:13:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=19610"},"modified":"2015-01-07T12:13:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:13:04","slug":"je-suis-charlie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/07\/je-suis-charlie\/","title":{"rendered":"Je suis Charlie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JeSuisCharlie\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(Via Never Yet Melted<\/a>)<\/p>\n

And what Larry Correia said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All the years since 9-11, I’ve scrupulously avoided and condemned the jingoistic notion that all Muslims are fanatics and terrorists. There’s a billion of them and most are pretty much like you and me. But. The strain of barbarism poisoning the Arab\/Muslim world is growing more putrid by the moment. <\/p>\n

Since the slaughter at the World Trade Center, I’ve been waiting and wondering when the peaceable moderates of Islam would rise up, condemn, shun, defund, and de-legitimize the monsters among them. Well, those moderate voices have been way, way too moderate — when they’ve spoken at all. And they’ve been 100% ineffective. The savages are triumphant. <\/p>\n

Now we have these obviously well-planned, expertly (and ruthlessly) executed murders at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Over cartoons. Over satire. Over free speech<\/i>.<\/p>\n

And every sign says that the murders were perpetrated by Islamic terrorists.<\/p>\n

Governments have proven utterly incapable of protecting people against these murderous loons. Our own government repeatedly categorizes slaughters by Islamist nutjobs as mere “workplace violence.” Now, believe me, I don’t want governments to go looking for terrorists under every rock — partially because we’re already seeing how ugly that kind of society looks and partly because … well, in the U.S. “the authorities” find it more politically correct to go after militia members and guys in NRA hats than after people who post “Allahu Akbar!” on their Facebook pages before going off to kill their neighbors and co-workers. I assume other countries would also choose convenient non-Islamic targets. And it would be as wrong as ever to consider all Muslims to be potential terrorists.<\/p>\n

But these barbarians must be stomped into the mud and muck of history, and I think the primary people responsible for doing it are … other Muslims. Yes, yes, I’m aware that Islam is a distributed religion. It has no pope. It’s as fragmented as U.S. Protestantism. It has no mechanism for acting from one central source, or even to act reliably in concert. Nevertheless, we’ve got a world full of well-trained Islamist thugs who increasingly believe they can simply cut down (sometimes literally) anybody who disagrees with them. And IF most of those tens of millions of other, innocent Muslims — and their imams and their ayatollahs and their cultural, intellectual, and military leaders — really, truly are against this savagery, if they really, truly believe in the rights of their fellow human beings, then it’s time for the whole Muslim world to bring all its philosophical, economic, social, and moral might down — hard! — upon the putrid savages within their midst. <\/p>\n

Individual Muslims aren’t to blame. But their religion is. It fosters savagery. They need to address that.<\/p>\n

Meantime, a world of innocent people — not to mention those who were already as much at risk as the Charlie Hebdo<\/i> editors, cartoonists, and writers — ought to be getting better armed — even if nobody gives them permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Via Never Yet Melted) And what Larry Correia said. All the years since 9-11, I’ve scrupulously avoided and condemned the jingoistic notion that all Muslims are fanatics and terrorists. There’s a billion of them and most are pretty much like you and me. But. The strain of barbarism poisoning the Arab\/Muslim world is growing more putrid by the moment. Since the slaughter at the World Trade Center, I’ve been waiting and wondering when the peaceable moderates of Islam would rise up, condemn, shun, defund, and de-legitimize the monsters among them. Well, those moderate voices have been way, way too moderate…<\/p>\n

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