Headline Style Rules At The Taipei Times “Newspaper”

Rule #1: The inventor of the Islamic religion is universally-recognized as the final messenger of the One True God™, and must therefore always be referred to as the Prophet Mohammed.

(That's prophet, with a capital "P"!)

Rule #2: Doubt must always be cast upon the possibility that a member of the Religion Of Peace™ can ever engage in terrorism.

A Muslim slays two policewomen by slashing them across their throats, then shooting them in the head with their own guns? He then slays a civilian man passing by with said guns, drenching the victim's own mother with her son's blood? And all the while crying, "Allahu Ackbar"?

At the Taipei Times, that's not terrorism. Why, no, no, no. To the Islamapologists at the Taipei Times, that's merely "terrorism".

 Sneer quotes in such cases are always de rigueur

Religion Of Peace Decapitates French Priest

At fault is surely not Islam, the Master Faith (and most blameless of all religions).

No, as Father Bauer of Taiwan's China Post admonishes, we must look elsewhere for the root cause. And clearly that reason cannot be Original Sin or Man's hubris or even demonic religious doctrines, but in France's appalling lack of blade licensing and sensible knife control.

ISIS Sympathizer At The China Post: “Leave ISIS Alone!”

If there's a murderous, anti-Western, anti-democratic government to be found, Joe Hung will be there to lick its boots. Or sandals, as the case may be.

Barack Obama should stop his Crusade against ISIS now, demands Hung:

Obama still has time to reconsider [his] new Crusade, lest he should repeat President Bush's folly by getting the United States mired ever more deeply in the Middle East quagmire.

A competent historian would never say Obama was engaged in a Crusade, for the simple reason that Obama's not trying to recover formerly Christian lands in the Middle East.

(It helps, when one accuses another of launching a Crusade, to have some familiarity with the actual DEFINITION of the word…)

Moving along, ISIS's grotesque little apologist in Taipei asserts the Islamofascist group cannot be fought because it's invincible:

Even supposing the new Crusaders succeeded in toppling the IS caliphate, suicidal terrorism could never be stopped. Caliph al Baghdadi has ordered a jihad. There would not be any lack of mujahideen. Hundreds of thousands of his followers are willing and ready to die in a holy war against the Western imperialists who they believe are launching the new Crusade.

No, 'fraid not. A caliph's religious and political legitimacy rests necessarily upon his control over TERRITORY. Remove his control over land and his legitimacy vanishes. After which, the orders of a phony caliph carry no weight.

Speaking of al-Baghdadi's legitimacy, supermajorities in Middle Eastern countries have a unfavorable opinion of ISIS and regard al-Baghdadi's self-proclaimed position as illegitimate. Read into it what you will that an agnostic Confucian like Joe Hung finds al-Baghdadi more legitimate than the vast majority of Muslims do.

Chart showing ISIS support among Arabs in various Muslim countries.

(Chart showing 85% of all Middle Easterners regard ISIS with disfavor.)

Finally, Joe Hung suggests that because ISIS is invincible, it should be left alone to bring peace to the region, the way the Ottoman Caliphate did in years previous:

There was no trouble in the Middle East while the caliphs of the Ottoman Empire ruled it for more than 400 years.

This is all highly unconvincing, since according to Islamic law, a caliph is REQUIRED to wage at least one war every year against Infidel nations.

An ISIS caliphate is therefore likely to create A GREAT DEAL of trouble outside the Middle East, regardless of what happens inside. (Just as the Ottomans made incessant war on Eastern Europe and the Balkans.)

And as for his fanciful prospects of ISIS pacifying the Middle East, Joe Hung forgets the presence of 6 million Jews and many more million Shiites in the region, whom ISIS is unlikely to leave unmolested.

Joe Hung of Taiwan's China Post: 'Allahu ackbar, O Children of Pigs and Apes! My favorite parts of ISIS’s Mohammedan program are the rapes, genocide, torture, decapitations, immolations, crucifixions, slavery...and probably the rapes!'

Um, you said "rapes" twice.

6 Yazidi women cower in a corner in fear from 2 ISIS terrorists. Below, Joe Hung of Taiwan's China Post says: 'Hey, you two! Quit hoggin' all that moist Yazidi slave cooch!'


POSTSCRIPT: Joe Hung invents "facts" to satisfy his narrative:

As a matter of fact, one result of the Crusades, during which Jews were massacred by Crusaders in a pogrom, was the birth of Zionism, which finally triumphed with the creation of Israel. [Emphasis added]

Comrade Historian is apparently unaware that Zionism (like many other forms of nationalism) was largely a product of the 19th century.


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Is That You, Bevin Chu?

"The Paris attacks were an inside job!" bellows crazed Palestinian imam from his pulpit.

Note how this nutjob rants that Islam's been falsely blamed for the murder of Frenchmen…and then later calls upon his foul deity to exterminate every living Frenchman.


UPDATE (December 1, 2015): Is that you, Bevin Chu? Another Muslim cleric claims the Paris attacks were a false flag operation.

How Many Terrorists Can Be Expected Among Syrian Refugees?

There's been a certain amount of hyperbole on this blog of late regarding refugees from Syria. This has been somewhat unavoidable, given the fact that virtually every day over the past week some monstrous new outrage has been perpetrated by Muslim radicals somewhere across the globe.

So it must be said that, of course, not every Muslim is a terrorist. But it must also be admitted that Western nations will not merely be accepting "widows and orphans." It is therefore inevitable that there will be some finite number of terrorists mingled within the cohort of refugees that are granted asylum. So the question is: How can we estimate this number?

Fortunately, this poll from the Doha Institute can give us a general idea. The following chart illustrates the number of Syrian refugees who have a favorable view of the Islamofascist group known as ISIS:

Chart showing ISIS support among Arabs in various Muslim countries.

(Image from page 19 of "The Military Campaign Against The Islamic State In Iraq And The Levant: Arab Public Opinion")

As can be seen, 13% of Syrian refugees have a favorable or partly favorable view of ISIS. If America accepts 10,000 Syrian refugees, 1,300 of them will view the terrorist group favorably to some extent. I contend that, at the very least, such views will not be conducive to good citizenship among these thirteen hundred people.

(Obviously, the situation faced by Germany is far worse, which can expect 104,000 of 800,000 Syrian refugees to have somewhat favorable views of ISIS.)

However, only 4% of Syrian refugees view ISIS with full approval, so America can expect to receive only 400 hardcore ISIS supporters. (While Germany faces the nightmarish prospect of receiving 32,000 ISIS partisans concentrated within a far smaller geographical area — a veritable small invasion force, should it ever be so motivated.)

But most likely, support for ISIS will not translate into action for the vast majority of even hardcore supporters, so only a small fraction of America's 400 (or Germany's 32,000) can be expected to turn to terrorism.

I'm tempted to put that fraction at 1%, but that would simply be a wild guess.


POSTSCRIPT: The above analysis makes a number of assumptions:

1) There are no ISIS infiltrators mingled in with genuine refugees. I believe there will most certainly be a few, but I have no basis whatsoever for estimating their number.

2) The refugees have zero support for other terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda or al-Nusra. It is clearly nonsensical to suppose so, but the poll did not ask refugees whether they supported other terrorist groups, and more importantly, the refugees were not asked about their support for ALL terrorist groups in general.

Given that al-Qaeda & al-Nusra is said to be more popular that ISIS among Syrian refugees, I think it reasonable to add 25% to the final numbers (425 hardcore terrorist supporters in the U.S., and 40,000 in Germany).

(If I was hyping the numbers I suppose I could double them, but it must be remembered that a large number of ISIS supporters will most likely view al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups favorably as well. Due to the considerable overlap, the stated additional 25% seems more reasonable.)

3) Governments are completely ineffective in screening against ISIS supporters. An indeterminate number will no doubt be weeded out, should members of the bureaucracy be inclined to do so.

However, I'm left with a disquieting thought: In some PC quarters, firebrands and holders of extreme views are thought to represent a more "authentic" (and therefore, more desirable) type of Islam. And so I ask: Is it possible that portions of the bureaucracy might in fact positively select IN FAVOR of individuals predisposed to conducting terrorist acts against their newly adopted countries?


UPDATE (November 21, 2015): Greek security forces insist discerning terrorists from legitimate refugees is almost impossible.


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House Of Representatives Votes Overwhelmingly To Suspend Obama’s Syrian Resettlement Plan

Including 57 Democrats. Interesting.

But my working assumption is still that Obama will get his way, regardless of public opposition.

Barack Obama with extended middle finger: 'Those 57 Democrats are UN-AMERICAN. If only we had a COMMITTEE to investigate their activities...'


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In America, First You Kill The Kuffar, Then You Find The Slave Market, Then You Buy The Women

Don't blame him for the crimes of his evil twin.


POSTSCRIPT: I know nothing about the provenance of these photos, and some skepticism is in order. But even assuming the worst (ie: that they're faked or exaggerated), the larger point that terrorists wish to gain entry into America still nonetheless holds true.

Only 28% Of U.S. Population Agrees With America’s Messiah

The rest of you have angered Him greatly. Report immediately to local indoctrination camps for mandatory sensitivity training and frontal lobotomies:

Fifty-three percent of U.S. adults in the survey, conducted in the days immediately following the attacks [by Muslim death squads in Paris], say the nation should not continue a program to resettle up to 10,000 Syrian refugees. Just 28 percent would keep the program with the screening process as it now exists, while 11 percent said they would favor a limited program to accept only Syrian Christians while excluding Muslims…

Summing up American views of Obama's Syrian refugee relocation plan:

  • 53% — want Obama's plan killed outright
  • 11% — want only Syrian Christians to be eligible
  • 8% — no opinion
  • 28% — want Obama's plan implemented

Increasingly isolated (even within his own party) and with only 28% popular support for his terrorist importation scheme, little wonder Barack Obama's rhetoric has become so strident of late.

Barack Obama extending middle finger: 'Given that only 28% of Americans agree with me, I can only conclude that the other 72% are UN-AMERICAN.'


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Poor Syrian War Widow Pleads For Refugee Status In U.S.

Photo of terrorist Hayat Boumeddiene. She's a fairly pretty brunette (without makeup) and has dead, terrorist eyes.

"Children of pigs and apes! I'm just a harmless widow, with nowhere else to turn. I solemnly promise not to slaughter you the way my late, beloved husband did during the heroic Charlie Hebdo attacks. By Mohammed's beard, I swear it!"


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