International Day to Combat Islamophobia

United Nations designated March as “International Day to Combat Islamophobia"  

On March 15, 2019, an armed Australian man, Brenton Tarrant, entered two mosques in New Zealand and opened fire on their Muslim worshippers; 51 were killed and 40 injured.

Well...What about the fatal 'mostly peaceful' Muslim attacks on Christian churches:

• Sri Lanka (Apr. 21, 2018): Easter Sunday, Muslim terrorists bombed three churches and three hotels; 359 people were killed and more than 500 injured.
• Nigeria (Apr. 20, 2014): Easter Sunday, Islamic terrorists torched a packed church; 150 were killed.
• Pakistan (Mar. 27, 2016): Following Easter Sunday church services, Islamic terrorists bombed a park where Christians had congregated; more than 70 Christians — mostly women and children — were killed. “There was human flesh on the walls of our house,” recalled a witness.
• Iraq (Oct. 31, 2011): Islamic terrorists stormed a church in Baghdad during worship and opened fire indiscriminately before detonating their suicide vests. Nearly 60 Christians — including women, children, and even babies — were killed (graphic pictures of aftermath here).
• Nigeria (Apr. 8, 2012): Easter Sunday, explosives planted by Muslims detonated near two packed churches; more than 50 were killed and unknown numbers injured.
• Nigeria (June 5, 2022): Pentecost Sunday, Muslims attack and open fire on a packed church; more than 50 killed, dozens injured.
• Egypt (Apr. 9, 2017): Palm Sunday, Muslims bombed two packed churches; at least 45 were killed, more than 100 injured.
• Nigeria (Dec. 25, 2011): During Christmas Day services, Muslim terrorists shot up and bombed three churches; 37 were killed and nearly 57 injured.
• Egypt (Dec. 11, 2016): An Islamic suicide bombing of two churches left 29 people killed and 47 injured (graphic images of aftermath  here).
• Nigeria: (Apr. 20, 2012): Muslims slaughtered 20 Christians inside their church during Sunday worship.
• Democratic Republic of Congo (Jan. 15, 2023): Muslims bombed a church during a Sunday baptismal ceremony. At least 14 Christians were blown to pieces — the Islamic State, which claimed the attack, said 20 — and 63 were seriously wounded.
• Indonesia (May 13, 2018): Muslims bombed three churches; 13 were killed and dozens injured.
• Egypt (Jan. 1, 2011): Muslim terrorists bombed an Alexandrian church during New Year’s Eve mass; at least 21 Christians were killed. According to eyewitnesses, “body parts were strewn all over the street outside” and “were brought inside the church after some Muslims started stepping on them and chanting Jihadi chants,” including “Allahu Akbar!”
• Philippines (Jan. 27, 2019): Muslim terrorists bombed a cathedral; at least 20 were killed, and more than 100 injured.
• Indonesia (Dec. 24, 2000): During Christmas Eve services, Muslim terrorists bombed several churches; 18 were killed and over 100 injured.
• Pakistan (Mar. 15, 2015): Muslim suicide bombers killed at least 14 Christians in attacks on two churches.
• Germany (Dec. 19, 2016): Near the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, a Muslim man drove a truck into a Christmas market; 13 were killed and 55 injured.
• Egypt (Dec. 29, 2017): Muslim gunmen shot up a church in Cairo; nine were killed.
• Egypt (Jan. 6, 2010): Following Christmas Eve mass (according to the Orthodox calendar), Muslims shot six Christians dead as they exited their church.
• Russia (Feb. 18, 2018): A Muslim man carrying a knife and a double-barreled shotgun entered a church and opened fire; five people — all women — were killed, and at least five injured.
• France (July 26, 2016): Muslims entered a church and slit the throat of the officiating priest, 84-year-old Fr. Jacques Hamel, and took four nuns hostage until French authorities shot the terrorists dead.

"The above list is hardly comprehensive. In Nigeria alone, where one Christian is slaughtered every two hours, Muslims have destroyed or torched some 20,000 churches and Christian schools. How many undocumented souls perished in those largely unreported terror attacks?

Nor does the above list of fatal Muslim attacks on churches include any of the many that were botched, for example, an attack on an Indonesian church during Palm Sunday service (2021), where only the suicide bombers — a Muslim man and his pregnant wife — died.

At any rate, based on the above list, Muslims have massacred well over 1,000 Christians who were otherwise peacefully worshipping in their churches."

From Raymond Ibraham: ‘Combat Islamophobia Day’ Exposes UN’s Rank Hypocrisy - Coptic Solidarity

What about a Combat Christianphobia day?

Top 50 places for Christian persecution | World Watch List | Open Doors US

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

. L. Mencken,

City Journal’s Stu Smith wrote an excellent piece about the recently updated DSA platform. It’s as extreme as one would suspect of a group that still believes that true socialism has yet to be tried.

Smith wrote that its radicalism “gives a glimpse into how the equivalent of the DSA’s board of directors—some of whom have appeared to moderate—actually think about politics.”

They explicitly want to overthrow the Constitution to create what they call “real democracy.”

This isn’t the old “free and fair regular elections” democracy that most Americans have grown fond of, it’s more of the “two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner” type democracy that the Founders fretted about.

To summarize, the platform called for replacement of “the president and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress,” the abolition of prisons, the Department of War, the Electoral College, and amnesty for all illegal aliens.

The Democratic Socialists of America Just Adopted a Radical New Platform

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

Jonathan Swift

“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.”

H. G. Wells

In light of the recent wave of Democratic Socialists, the Green Movement, and Islamization in the United States, (Red Pill, Green Pill, Black Pill), It is worth examining reason, rational thought, and education. It appears that Critical Thought is lost and has been replaced by Critical Theory. The essence of critical theory is to create victims and perpetrators.

e.g. 

Critical disability theory  

Critical legal studies

Immigration studies

Critical finance studies

Critical management studies

Critical international relations theory

Critical race theory

Critical pedagogy

Critical consciousness

Critical university studies

Critical psychology

Critical criminology

Critical animal studies

Critical social work

Critical ethnography

Critical data studies

Critical environmental justice

"Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion."

Jonathan Swift

I pledge allegiance

"should be rendered by standing at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. When not in uniform men should remove any non-religious headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Persons in uniform should remain silent, face the flag, and render the military salute."

1892 Version "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

1923 Version "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

1954 Version "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

...the pledge was part of a push for “Americanization.” Bellamy was one of many Protestant Americans of northern European heritage who believed that new immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, many of them Catholic, were harmful to the “American” way of life, and that they needed to assimilate.

Why Eisenhower Added 'Under God' to the Pledge of Allegiance | HISTORY

As nations become corrupt and vicious

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

Benjamin Franklin

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Augustine of Hippo

I made a comment to someone after reading how Christianity saved civilization.  I had just finished reading the book (How Christianity Saved Civilization... And Must Do So Again: Mike Aquilina, James L. Papandrea). The immediate response was, in a sarcastic, dismissive tone, "how many people died in the Crusades?".

That started a journey into the Crusades, Christianity, Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, and history.  

Nothing is as it seems.

For those that know me, I don't take things at face value.  Take any news story and even if I agree based on my knowledge, I examine it closely. I look at different points of view.  We, as a whole, have lost the ability to execute critical thinking. Think critically, question assumptions and beliefs,take away the propaganda, look for the truth, and maybe wipe away the education of a Second Grader (or worse) and start on the path to wisdom.

In case you want to know - Estimated to be 1 to 1.5 million casualties and deaths.  Of course, it is way more complicated.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

When a man stops believing in God

`Every day watching or reading the news, especially during this political season...My brain keeps repeating:

When a man stops believing in God he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.

GK Chesterton

More here: When Man Ceases to Worship God

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Quotefish was retired & bobbing around (for awhile).  Now that I have the time available and I'm back on land. Tied up at the dock, Maybe, I can post now and again.  

We'll see....

Endless lockdown

8 weeks in lockdown.  Some sanity from Illinois Judge McHaney’s recent ruling:

Since the inception of this insanity, the following regulations, rules or consequences have occurred: I won’t get COVID if I get an abortion but I will get COVID if I get a colonoscopy. Selling pot is essential but selling goods and services at a family-owned business is not. Pot wasn’t even legal and pot dispensaries didn’t even exist in this state until five months ago and, in that five months, they have become essential but a family-owned business in existence for five generations is not.

A family of six can pile in their car and drive to Carlyle Lake without contracting COVID but, if they all get in the same boat, they will. We are told that kids rarely contract the virus and sunlight kills it, but summer youth programs, sports programs are cancelled. Four people can drive to the golf course and not get COVID but, if they play in a foursome, they will. If I go to Walmart, I won’t get COVID but, if I go to church, I will. Murderers are released from custody while small business owners are threatened with arrest if they have the audacity to attempt to feed their families.
These are just a few of examples of rules, regulations and consequences that are arbitrary, capricious, and completely devoid of anything even remotely approaching common sense.

The defendant in this case orders you to stay home and pronounces that, if you leave the state, you are putting people in danger, but his family members traveled to Florida and Wisconsin because he deems such travel essential. One initial rationale why the rules don’t apply to him is that his family farm had animals that needed [to be] fed. Try selling that argument to farmers who have had to slaughter their herds because of disruption in the supply chain.
When laws do not apply to those who make them, people are not being governed, they are being ruled. Make no mistake, these executive orders are not laws. They are royal decrees. Illinois citizens are not being governed, they are being ruled. The last time I checked Illinois citizens are also Americans and Americans don’t get ruled. The last time a monarch tried to rule Americans, a shot was fired that was heard around the world. That day led to the birth of a nation consensually governed based upon a document which ensures that on this day in this, [or] any American courtroom tyrannical despotism will always lose and liberty, freedom and the Constitution will always win.