#DO NOT COALITION WITH FAR RIGHT RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS

[fdelopera]

Fuck these idiots for uplifting the queerphobic BIGOTS in Hamtramck just because they hate Jews.

The disgusting FUCK of a mayor in Hamtramck endorsed Trump, after the mayor BANNED THE PRIDE FLAG in Hamtramck because he is a disgusting queer-hating piece of human SHIT.

From the Detroit Free Press:

Former President Donald Trump made a short stop Friday afternoon in Hamtramck, where he called it an honor to have the endorsement of Mayor Amer Ghalib who, in turn, described the GOP nominee's visit to the city as historic. "As you know, President Trump keeps saying that our country is in decline, and the ship is sinking. So sometimes it's wise enough to sail against the wave so we can get to the shore safely under the leadership of President Trump and that's why I endorsed President Trump in this area in Wayne County," Ghalib said at an Oakland GOP outpost for Trump in the city home to the first all-Muslim city council in the U.S.

Here’s something I learned from growing up in the rural Midwest surrounded by Christian far-right extremists who were Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and members of the KKK:

YOU DO NOT COALITION WITH FAR-RIGHT RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS.

You idiot Hamasniks are too young to remember Matthew Shepard. You’re too young to remember when religiously motivated “gay bashings” were commonplace. You’re too young to remember when Reverend Jerry Falwell would go on National TV and say that AIDS was God’s punishment for gay people.

This was the result of religious extremism.

And now you IGNORANT queer morons are platforming Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, which are a THOUSAND TIMES more extremist than Jerry Falwell could ever be.

The antisemitic betrayal by the Queer Community has been DEVASTATING – and even more so because of who they are coalitioning with.

We queers all know that we DO NOT COALITION WITH FAR-RIGHT RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS. This is something that has been drummed into us for our safety and survival.

We do not coalition with the Westboro Baptist Church. We do not coalition with the likes of Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson. We do not coalition with ANY far-right Christian extremist or extremist group who celebrates our deaths and wants more queer people to die.

And yet, many goyishe queer people have shown that they are so filled with Jew-hate that they are willing to coalition with the far-right religious extremists in Hamas, who MURDER queer people by stoning them to death, shooting them in the head, or throwing them off buildings.

These queer Hamasniks are willing to coalition with the far-right religious extremists in the Houthis, who just CRUCIFIED several gay men for being gay.

They are willing to coalition with the far-right religious extremists in the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, who straight up MURDER queer people and MURDER women who show even a little bit of their hair in public.

Let me say this very clearly: These queer Hamasniks are not coalitioning with Hamas, the Houthis, or the Islamic Republic to support the Palestinian people. And many Palestinian activists have told them to STOP THIS. These Hamasniks are coalitioning with these far-right extremists because they hate Jews.

These idiotic queer people have shown that they are quite willing to empower the queer-hating enemy, to the detriment of queer people everywhere, just because that enemy also hates Jews.

Oh, and in case you think this is hyperbole, just look at what happened to the Queer Community in Hamtramck, Michigan when they helped elect a bunch of queer-hating, far-right religious extremists to the Hamtramck city government.

These far-right religious extremists immediately turned around, betrayed the queer people who had coalitioned with them, and started stripping queer people of their rights.

THIS SHIT is what you idiots who are IGNORANT of queer history have brought into the queer community. We DO NOT coalition with far-right religious extremists, and this is why:

And as bad as that is, it’s fucking worse.

Far-right Muslims in Michigan are now coalitioning with far-right Christians to harass and attack queer people.

And far-right Muslims in Michigan are also coalitioning with far-right Christians to ban queer books.

And far-right Muslim teenagers are getting caught harassing queer people and throwing eggs at the Pride Flag.

Oh, and I know you Hamasniks don’t give a shit about Jews, but you should also know that the Mayor of Hamtramck is appointing Jew-haters who say that “The Holocaust was God’s advance punishment of the ‘Chosen People’.”

You functionally illiterate IDIOTS who can’t be bothered to LEARN QUEER HISTORY are making dangerous bedfellows, and all because you hate Jews.

Harvey Milk, a gay Jewish man and one of the leaders of the queer rights movement, did not DIE at the hands of a far-right religious extremist so that you Jew-hating BIGOTS could turn around and coalition with other far-right religious extremists.

How DARE you let these religious extremists into queer spaces, you fucking TRAITORS!

The city of Hamtramck, on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, passed a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution on Tuesday, becoming the first US city to fully support a boycott campaign in support of Palestinian rights. The resolution says that Hamtramck "shall make all best efforts to refrain from purchasing goods and services from any vendor that is the target of a BDS campaign", as well as refrain from investment in the Israeli state as well as "Israeli companies that sustain Israeli apartheid".   It further encourages residents to participate in the boycott and supports student activism on college campuses, and emphasises that support for BDS is not antisemitic since many prominent BDS proponents are Jewish themselves. 

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[will-graham-coded]

I am a young adult who has never been more afraid for my life. I endured a childhood of abuse from my family and now I fear I will face a very brief chance at claiming my own life. Project 2025 WILL ruin innocent lives. If Tr*mp is elected, and Project 2025 is enacted, a country that already has its minorities terrorized will hand us all personalized death sentences. The Supreme Court is already making unconstitutional power grabs in favor of the man that elected them.

Project 2025 will ban abortion in all circumstances. Girls, not even the age of twelve, will face further indescribable trauma or death from pregnancies caused by r*pe. People will be forced to carry non viable or fatal pregnancies. Women are more than their bodies.

The queer community will be further suppressed. Queer people will lose all personal and working rights. An outstanding citizen will be labeled a pervert unable to raise a child because of who they rightfully love. We will lose our jobs and livelihoods. I will lose access to my education because of the removal of anti-discrimination laws.

Suicide rates will rocket. And maybe thats their plan--to place us all in conversion camps until we are beat to death or commit suicide.

The "American Dream" is bullshit. Queer people have always exist and varieties of races and ethnicities will continue to exist no matter the laws enacted. I will not go down quietly.

"If you don't like it here, just leave." With what money? How do abused children, teens, and young adults with no support and no hope escape? How could I somehow leave everyone i love behind, despite situations?

And what's next: travel bans, jail time, house arrest, golden stars pinned to "undesirable" people?

Environmental protection will cease to exist. Non Christians will lose rights to religious practice and working and personal rights. The education system will be destroyed. Kids will be indoctrinated into extremist beliefs instead of being given a non biased education during which they can make their own choices.

CHILDREN WILL DIE. from lack of physical and mental healthcare, support, and protection, kids will die. Children are our future, and we must protect and nurture them.

Read the polices and educate yourself. There are many more terrifying changes to American life that make me cry from reading them.

My life will not be worth some pages of your Bible. These are basic human rights that could be lost. Vote, because lives depend on it.

I am fucking terrified.

Good sources:

TDLR: fucking scroll back up and read at least a paragraph to understand that innocent lives are in danger.

[fdelopera]

Harvey Milk understood intersectionality

… and now the Queer community is SPITTING on his legacy by attacking Queer Jews, and coalitioning with far-right religious extremists

Harvey Milk was a gay Jewish civil rights leader in San Francisco. He was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

On November 10, 1978 (10 months after being sworn into office), Harvey Milk was assassinated by a far-right religious extremist named Dan White.

In the months leading up to Harvey Milk's murder at the hands of a religious extremist, Harvey Milk gave his famous "Hope" speech. In his speech, he talks about the intersectional "Us's" who need to work together to overcome bigotry.

Now the Queer Community is SPITTING on Harvey Milk's legacy by coalitioning NOT with other "Us's", but instead with Hamas, the Houthis, and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

These terrorist organizations are all FAR-RIGHT RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST CULTS.

These cults MURDER queer people.

These far-right religious extremist cults are a thousand times WORSE than far-right religious extremist cults like the Westboro Baptist Church that attack queer people across the US.

Hamas is a CULT that MURDERS queer Gazans. Hamas throws queer people off buildings, stones queer people to death, and shoots queer people in the head.

The Houthis are a CULT that just CRUCIFIED several gay men for being gay.

And the Islamic Republic of Iran is a CULT that TORTURES queer people to death and EXECUTES them for being gay. The Islamic Republic also MURDERS women for the "crime" of showing their hair in public, or even wearing their Hijab "wrong."

And these are the FAR-RIGHT RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST CULTS that the Queer Community is getting into bed with.

These are the FAR-RIGHT RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST CULTS that the Queer Community is uplifting.

And in doing so, the Queer Community is SPITTING on Harvey Milk's legacy.

Harvey Milk, a gay Jewish man, did not GIVE HIS LIFE FOR YOUR FREEDOMS so that you could turn around and attack Queer Jews.

You Hamasniks are PERVERTING the Queer Rights Movement.

You are acting as a TROJAN HORSE, allowing people aligned with far-right religious extremist cults into Queer Spaces.

Here is the text of Harvey Milk's "Hope" speech.

THIS is how you do intersectionality, you bigots.

LEARN FROM OUR QUEER ELDERS. AND WAKE THE FUCK UP.

"Somewhere in Des Moines or San Antonio there is a young gay person who all of a sudden realizes that he or she is gay; knows that if their parents find out they will be tossed out of the house, their classmates will taunt the child, and the Anita Bryant's and John Briggs' are doing their part on TV. "And that child has several options: staying in the closet, and suicide. And then one day that child might open the paper that says 'Homosexual elected in San Francisco' and there are two new options: the option is to go to California, or stay in San Antonio and fight. Two days after I was elected I got a phone call and the voice was quite young. It was from Altoona, Pennsylvania. And the person said 'Thanks'. And you've got to elect gay people; so that thousands upon thousands like that child know that there is hope for a better world; there is hope for a better tomorrow. Without hope, not only gays, but those who are blacks, the Asians, the disabled, the seniors, the Us's; without hope the Us's give up. "I know that you can't live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you, and you, and you, and you have got to give them hope."

[beardedmrbean]

German authorities say they believe there was an Islamist motive behind a knife attack at an anti-Islam rally in the southwestern German city of Mannheim on Friday during which a police officer was killed.

The federal prosecutor, Germany's highest prosecuting authority with responsibility for terrorism, espionage and international criminal law, is taking on the case due to its "particular importance," a spokeswoman said.

She said the suspected attacker, a 25-year-old Afghan national and nine-year German resident who was shot by police and remains in the hospital, is suspected to have wanted to prevent critics of Islam from exercising their right to freedom of expression.

The suspect, who reportedly had no criminal record and was not known to German law enforcement, faces possible charges of murder, attempted murder and five counts of serious bodily harm.

'Clear indications of an Islamist motive'

Justice Minister Marco Buschmann of the Free Democrats (FDP), the junior pro-business partner in Germany's current coalition government, wrote on the social network X, formerly Twitter, that there were "clear indications of an Islamist motive."

He added that "Islam belongs to Germany, but Islamism does not" and said that "the danger posed by religious fanaticism and radical Islamism remains large."

Other FDP politicians demanded that Muslim community groups do more to combat extremism.

"Islamic groups and clergy cannot duck away from the fight against Islamism," Konstantin Kuhle, chair of the FDP's parliamentary group, told German media on Tuesday.

Mannheim: Thousands gather to mourn

Meanwhile, around 8,000 people gathered in Mannheim on Monday to pay their respects to the 29-year-old police officer who on Sunday succumbed to injuries sustained from stab wounds.

The event was organized by a broad cross-section of Mannheim society including Christian, Muslim and Jewish religious leaders and local politicians.

"The death of this young person fills us all with grief, tears us apart and robs us of words," said local Catholic deacon Karl Jung, while Mustafa Aydinli, the imam of Mannheim's Muslim Community, called on citizens to stick together because "God wants us to live in peace."

Scholz to address parliament on security 

After saying on Sunday that he was "deeply dismayed" by the death of the police officer, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is due to make a statement on national security to the German parliament, the Bundestag, on Thursday, according to a Chancellery letter seen by the German DPA news agency.

However, it's unclear whether the subject of Scholz's address will be domestic security in the wake of the attack in Mannheim or foreign policy following his recent decision to allow Ukraine to use German weapons to strike military targets within Russia's internationally-recognized borders.

High alert ahead of European elections and Euro 2024

Domestically, Germany has been on high alert for possible Islamist attacks since the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, 2023.

With European Parliamentary elections on June 9 and football's European Championships kicking off in Germany one week later, the country's domestic intelligence chief warned that the risk of such assaults is "real and higher than it has been for a long time."

German Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) told daily tabloid newspaper Bild that "we must defend ourselves against Islamist terrorism with determination" while Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) urged colleagues not to instrumentalize the attack by demanding tougher migration laws.

"If the aim of extremists, whether far-right or Islamist, is to split a free society, then the answer has to be that we answer together as a society," she said at an event in Düsseldorf organized by the local Rheinische Post newspaper on Monday evening.

"Of course I was deeply affected," she said of the Mannheim attack, but still urged German society and democracy not to allow itself to be "destroyed by hate, violence and murderous intent."

[uboat53]

I've been pretty vocal about how Netanyahu and his extremist allies aren't just fighting a war against Hamas or Gaza or even Palestinians, they're waging a war against other Israelis, doing untold damage in the process. This last week gives us a pretty solid example of that.

In case you hadn't heard, accusations arose in the last few weeks of Israeli soldiers torturing Palestinian detainees at what can really only be described as concentration camps. I know that particular word has some history in Israel that's, shall we say, still raw, but that's effectively what they are.

Anyways, these accusations include using stress positions and restraints on prisoners to the point of causing limb damage that resulted in those limbs being amputated as well as accusations of forced sodomy. Needless to say, this isn't the kind of thing that's acceptable in a liberal democracy that's under the rule of law. The response of Netanyahu's governing coalition, however, was less than ideal. Specifically, take a look at the following exchange (Likud is the name of Netanyahu's party, MK is short of Member of the Knesset, the Knesset is the Israeli Parliament):

MK Ahmad Tibi (TA'AL Party): [Is it legitimate] to insert a stick into a person's rectum? MK Hanoch Milwidsky (Likud Party): Yes! If he is a Nukhba [Hamas militant], everything is legitimate to do! Everything!

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This was just the tip of the iceberg, however, as far-right Israelis, including the Otzma Yehudit Party, which is a member of Netanyau's governing coalition, summoned settlers and other far-right protesters to the Sde Teiman camp where the abuse was alleged to have taken place to protest against the arrest of the accused soldiers. Among those who came were Amihai Eliyahu, a former Member of the Knesset and current Minister for Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage, Almog Cohen, a current Member of the Knesset, both of the Otzma Yehudit Party, and Zvi Sukkot, a Member of the Knesset for the Religious Zionist Party which is also a part of Netanyahu's governing coalition.

As extremist protests tend to do, this one got out of hand and protesters breached the camp, taking control of a good deal of it. Of the elected officials listed above, Sukkot is known to have entered the camp as part of this breach. At this point, none of them are known to have been arrested for their activity, though opposition parties have condemned them.

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In other words, the governing coalition of Israel is now justifying torture, arbitrary confinement, and even murder without due process of law or restriction under the laws of war, putting Israel in the company of the worst dictatorships and human rights abusers in the world. It's getting harder and harder for anyone to credibly argue that Israel shares the values of liberal democracy and is governed by the rule of law when its own government increasingly violates both.

And this is the damage to Israel that will persist long after this current conflict with Hamas is over. If the nation is fortunate, a more ethical and lawful government will come to power and restore some of the damage done, but Netanyahu has stained the reputation of his country in ways that will take a generation or more to wash off.

This is why I say that he's waging a war against Israel and why Israel will not be able to recover or move forward until he and his extremist allies are removed from power.

[texasobserver]

From “The War on Christmas Drag” by Texas Observer Special Investigative Correspondent Steven Monacelli:

As the sun was setting on a cold December day in Grand Prairie, the latest escalation in the war on Christmas drag unfolded outside the Texas Trust CU Theater.

A small group of anti-LGTBQ+ protesters gathered there on December 17 to accost attendees and defenders of a Christmas-themed drag show, who they baselessly accused of being “groomers” and “pedophiles.” As the night went on, the initial contingent of bigots were joined by a series of increasingly extreme groups: Christian nationalists, neofascists, and eventually open neo-Nazis who threw up stiff-armed salutes and wore symbols associated with Hitler’s genocidal regime. But they were not unopposed. The right-wing extremists were outnumbered by a community defense coalition, including the Party for Socialism and Liberation and armed members of the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club. Grand Prairie SWAT police were deployed to the scene.

Brooke Lynn Hytes, one of the performers in the Christmas drag show, remarked about the event on Twitter, “If you don’t have 150 armed protesters, and a SWAT team on the roof, outside your show are you even doing Drag?”

A similar scene had played out in San Antonio just four days prior. Open-carrying members of the FBI-designated extremist militia, This Is Texas Freedom Force (TITFF), protested a drag show alongside members of Patriot Front, a neofascist group with roots in North Texas. Members of a far-right religious activist group that opposes all forms of birth control, the San Antonio Family Association, were also in attendance. They were significantly outnumbered and outgunned by another coalition of community members, including armed members of multiple John Brown Gun Clubs and Veterans for Equality, who joyously partied as a form of resistance.

Read more on our site.

[mariacallous]

(JTA) — Benjamin Netanyahu has signed agreements with the leaders of three far-right political parties that, together with his own Likud party, will form the next Israeli coalition government.

On Twitter, Netanyahu, the incoming prime minister, also released his own list of principles for the next government, including among them indications of the governing partners’ widely known ambitions to reduce the power of Israel’s Supreme Court and bolster “Jewish identity.”

The agreements were a final step required before Netanyahu could be sworn in, and negotiations were underway until shortly before the deadline to reach them. While their contents are not legally binding, the agreements offer a window into the agenda that will drive the country’s leadership for as long as the government holds.

Netanyahu signed deals with three parties late Tuesday and early Wednesday, including one with with the far-right Otzma Yehudit party and its leader Itamar Ben-Gvir. Ben-Gvir, the incoming national security minister, had made a condition of his agreeing to work with Netanyahu that he would get unprecedented authority over the country’s police, and the Knesset passed a law early Wednesday granting just that, though without some of the powers that Ben-Gvir had sought.

Many of the other agreements made among the coalition partners have been reported during the weeks of negotiations, and others are becoming clear as the coalition agreements are published. Legislation is expected to permit more gender-segregated events as the result of Netanyahu’s agreement with the haredi Orthodox United Torah Judaism alliance, for example, and the right-wing party Noam will get 70 million NIS annually (almost $20 million) to create and operate a new “Department of State Jewish Consciousness.” That party’s leader, Avi Maoz, has described himself as a “proud homophobe.”

The alliance between Netanyahu and Israel’s far-right parties has alarmed many, including hundreds of U.S. rabbis who have pledged to block the parties’ leaders from their communities; longtime Jewish leaders who are questioning their unconditional support for Israel; Israeli liberals and moderates who fear that civil rights will be limited; and even the outgoing leader of the Israel Defense Forces, who urged Netanyahu not to insert extremists into the military chain of command.

Aiming to calm the fears of Americans, Bezalel Smotrich, the leader of the Religious Zionist party, took to the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal late Tuesday in a column titled “Israel’s New Government Isn’t What You’ve Heard.” The column was published hours before the Knesset paved the way for Smotrich, who will be finance minister, to take unprecedented authority over construction in the West Bank, his demand to enter a government with Netanyahu.

“They say I am a right-wing extremist and that our bloc will usher in a ‘halachic state’ in which Jewish law governs,” Smotrich writes. “In reality, we seek to strengthen every citizen’s freedoms and the country’s democratic institutions, bringing Israel more closely in line with the liberal American model.”

Netanyahu has also sought to quell the concerns of those, including U.S. leaders, who are alarmed by the coalition that he is firmly in control.

“They’re joining me, I’m not joining them,” he said earlier this month. “I’ll have two hands firmly on the steering wheel. I won’t let anybody do anything to LGBT [people] or to deny our Arab citizens their rights or anything like that.”

Late Tuesday, Netanyahu’s party picked Amir Ohana, a close ally and Israel’s first openly gay government minister, to be the Knesset speaker in the next government.

[kckramer]

Voting third party will not help Gaza.

Period.

If you want to help Gaza, vote for the Democratic nominee (probably Biden, but maybe not).

We know Trump cozies up to authoritarians, we know he will do anything for the evangelical vote (he moved the embassy to Jerusalem, if you remember), and he has neither compassion nor morals (he wanted to launch a pre-emptier nuclear strike on Iran and ordered that assassination). What do you think he’ll do in Gaza? Anything the religious extremists in his camp want- regardless of the cost.

RFK, Dr. Stein, Dr. West- it’ll be irrelevant.

Their supportive base is too small to make anything resembling a difference.

MAGA have a smaller base than Dems, but they are more unified and more dedicated. The Dem base is bigger than MAGA- but they’ve proven to be incredibly vulnerable to the divide-and-conquer strategies that MAGA and the GOP excel at, because it’s a coalition of smaller bases that cannot themselves win the election. Combined- they will nearly always defeat Republicans, but only if they work together.

That is the point of voting, after all, to reach a compromise and consensus against the broadest portion of the population as possible. Yes, it means disappointment, a sense of betrayal, and abandonment at times. That can’t be avoided, but that’s part of what it means to live in a democracy. We can’t all always get what we dream for and we are often called to sacrifice for the good of society.

Look at France for example- see what they did to prevent a far right election win. Hundreds of other candidates dropped out, rival parties made alliances and shared endorsements— they unified in their stand against the far right.

It’s time we did the same.

If Trump wins in November, it won't be because of this weekend. It will be because his people will show up. They will not lose focus. They will vote.

I'm so tired of the defeatist talk. The anti-Trumpers outnumber the Trumpers by a lot. We could win in a landslide if people just showed at the polls and voted for Biden. The problem is that so many people let themselves decide that their vote won't matter or decide to divide the vote for short-sighted reasons. I can already imagine the sheer amount of people who see the events of this weekend, decide that Trump won, and decide that there's no point in voting. NO. Fucking VOTE.

Specifically, vote for Biden. Do not let psyops or idiots convince you to vote for a third party. Third parties do NOT win presidential elections. That is how Democrats have REPEATEDLY lost presidential elections. No, this time will not be different. You need to vote, and you need to vote for Biden. Otherwise, we get Trump in office and you can kiss your rights good bye.

This weekend didn't decide anything. All that matters is who shows up and votes. By the numbers, if people actually vote, the Democratic party will win. That simple.

[simplicius-simplicissimus]

„Project 2025“ - the way of the US to autocracy?!

A little history

The Nazis were in fact democratically elected to power in Germany in 1933 (by forming a coalition with another nationalist party) - but as soon as they had got the power, they gradually dismantled democracy and showed their real face and intention. All administrative, legal, political, economic, social and cultural institutions were gradually forced and integrated under the Nazi narrative - this process was called „Gleichschaltung“ (Synchronization).

How did that work?

All vital positions in society were filled with partisans or people in such positions were forced to tell or serve only the Nazi narrative (e.g. the press). The Nazis determined which books, music, films, art and news were allowed and conform to their ideology.

Why did they do that?

A facade of legality was uphold as they established their authoritarian regime. The Nazis understood the need to maintain the “illusion of a democracy” since they knew that their political agenda was so extreme that a majority of the people would never support it on the long run.

„If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent - for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

-Joseph Goebbels

Goals of Project 2025!

The GOP has already been hijacked and turned into a personal cult by far-right extremists. Project 2025 now aims to consolidate the power of the „new GOP“ by „synchronizing“ the state and society - because they know that their extreme ideology and convictions are not acceptable to a majority. All that paves the way to autocracy. Putin, Orban and Erdogan used similar screenplays as well. If you elect anti-democratic forces into power - they will very likely stay there. Game over!!!

More details about „Project 2025“

A fascist, authoritarian, dictator’s dream:

„The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.“

-Plato

Trump knows Project 2025 - it is the agenda of him and his allies - he just doesn’t want to talk about it publicly:

„Christian Nationalism“- one of the driver behind „Project 2025“! Do you want to live under a religious regime like in Iran?

Comment: See Position 11:11 of the video! The first black American president Barack Obama was a „shock“ for those „Christian Nationalists“ (and their racial idea of white supremacy) and radicalized them even more - because they fear being in the minority in the US and thereby losing power.

Democracy in danger:

“And Again - Christians get out and vote! Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years - you know what: It’ll be fixed - it’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.”

-Donald Trump

The ideology behind “Project 2025” is already a reality at the state level - and this status is protected there by Gerrymandering and voter suppression:

Controlling the independent press:

“Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.”

-Walter Cronkite

Effects on civil rights (abortion):

Effects on environmental protection:

„Awareness is key. In the absence of information, none of us know what is happening and what could be jeopardizing our health, our water supply, and our planet.“

-Erin Brockovich

[jacobsvoice]

Thomas Friedman’s Fury

November 7, 2022 / JNS) New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is distraught. Nothing could be worse, he appears to think, than Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent reelection as Israel’s prime minister. Netanyahu’s new governing coalition, Friedman warns, will comprise “a rowdy alliance of ultra-Orthodox leaders and ultranationalist politicians, including some outright racist, anti-Arab Jewish extremists.”

This “previously unthinkable reality,” Friedman asserts, raises “a fundamental question” that will “roil synagogues in America and across the globe.” The congregants will ask: “Do I support this Israel or not support it?” The issue will also “haunt” pro-Israel college students, “challenge” Israel’s Arab allies, “stress” American diplomats who have “reflexively defended Israel as a Jewish democracy” and send congressional friends of Israel “fleeing” from “such a religious-extremist-inspired government.”

In the worst possible insult, Friedman identifies Netanyahu’s pursuit of “illiberal” Israeli voters with former President Donald Trump’s preference for “white nationalism.” He anticipates that, with Netanyahu’s election, “we are truly entering a dark tunnel.”

In fact, it is Friedman who long ago entered a “dark tunnel” with his relentless hostility towards Israel. As a Brandeis University student, he joined a “Middle East Peace Group” that discounted Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israelis as “clearly not representative of the diverse elements of the Palestinian people”—as though that mattered to murdered Jews.

Hired by the Times in 1981, Friedman was posted to Beirut after Israel invaded Lebanon to halt PLO terrorist attacks. Friedman described a massacre of Palestinians by Christian Phalangists as “a blot on Israel and the Jewish people” that erased “every illusion [he] ever held about the Jewish state.” That Israel did not commit the massacre was irrelevant to Friedman. No matter who did what, Israel was to blame.

Appointed the Times Jerusalem Bureau chief, Friedman found endless opportunities to criticize Israel. Relying on a Peace Now advocate and a liberal rabbi as his primary sources, his main targets for criticism were “rigorously” Orthodox Jews and malevolent Israeli settlers. Palestinian violence was justified as “spontaneous acts of a people being occupied by another people.”

In his book From Beirut to Jerusalem, published a year after his return to the U.S., Friedman concluded that Israel’s stunning victory in the Six-Day War and its “occupation” of “Palestinian” land (i.e., biblical Judea and Samaria) had led to the Jewish state’s moral decline. Dismissing Palestinian terrorist attacks as merely a “poke in the ribs,” he expressed surprise that the words “Palestinian” and “terrorist” were linked, absurdly describing their violent attacks against Israeli civilians as “relatively non-lethal civil disobedience.”

As a Times columnist, Friedman warned that without a two-state solution, “Israel will be stuck with an apartheid-like, democracy-sapping, permanent occupation of the West Bank.” He attacked “far-right settler activists” who were “so arrogant and so indifferent to U.S. concerns” as to announce plans for new settlements. Unless Israel froze settlement activity, Friedman claimed, it could become “some kind of apartheid-like state” led by “scary religious nationalist zealots” who could lead Israel into the “dark corner” of a “South African future.”

In 2015, as a prelude to his current concerns, Friedman asked whether “a Jewish democratic Israel survives” a Netanyahu election victory. It did. Israel’s retention of settlements, he warned, ensures that Israel “could no longer be a Jewish democracy.” It still is.

Friedman’s relentless criticism of Israel is, to be sure, a perfect fit for the Times, which for decades has concocted reasons to lacerate the Jewish state.

Netanyahu’s latest election victory has sent shivers through the halls of the paper of record. Indeed, Friedman’s unrelenting criticism has been embraced by Jerusalem Bureau Chief Patrick Kingsley. Obsessed with Israel’s “occupied territories,” mentioned three times in the first five paragraphs of his post-election article, Kingsley focused on the victorious “far-right alliance” that distresses Palestinians and, clearly, the Times.

The New York Times will never make peace with the existence of a Jewish state in the biblical homeland of the Jewish people. As Thomas Friedman and Patrick Kingsley demonstrate, any opportunity to flagellate Israel is irresistible.

Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of twelve books, including Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel 1896-2016, selected for Mosaic by Ruth Wisse and Martin Kramer as a Best Book for 2019.

[evilmark999]

NO ONE can make it make sense...

For those that don't know, in terms of leadership, all sides are more or less the same in this matter. Don't roll your eyes at me just yet:

The Palestine Authority and the Fatah that "rules" the West Bank has approximately a 30% approval rating. It is religiously based, very much on the far right of the political spectrum, and is absolutely dominated by males. Additionally, it is supported by many of the Arab states in the region...

Hamas, which "rules" Gaza, has approximately a 25% approval rating. It is religiously based, very much on the extreme right of the political spectrum, and deliberately excludes females from its ranks - which number ONLY 20k or so out of a population of more than two million in the Strip. Additionally, Hamas has been absolutely dedicated to the elimination of ALL Jews from ALL of Israel without exception. It is militarily backed by Iran, and it's leader lives like a billionaire in Qatar...

Israel is "ruled" by an extreme right coalition of religious political parties. Its leader is an American high school and college graduate - and is also a former icon of the Jewish people - who organized the current political coalition to remain in power - and to avoid likely criminal prosecution. Sound somewhat familiar? Additionally, the ruling parties are overwhelmingly unpopular now - with Netanyahu, himself, only at a 15% approval rating - and facing unprecedented protests from the Israeli people as well as tremendous scrutiny from the whole world, for its historically hypocritical narcissism...

The peoples of the entire region - including Christians and others, by the way - are being misrepresented by basically two types of religious extremists; moreover, religion is absolutely a dark stain with regard to what the leadership of each group is doing and NOT doing!

Are you still reading this?

If there was a god, common amongst the religions or otherwise, then the lack of a unifying divine presence is absolutely telling. Our neighbors in this region of the world aren't just fools, they're selfish assholes and an embarrassment to much of the rest of us who HAVE to live with them. They've demonstrated for decades, now, that their "gods" are really just on paper as a means to an end...

If the rest of the world truly does care, then it needs to get in there and help the children. Explain to them, educate them, on why it is that they're in the hell that they're in. Then, when they're of age, let them take the reigns on all sides. They'll ABSOLUTELY do better than all of the motherfucking religiously superior assholes currently in power!

Hamas just released its proposal for a permanent ceasefire. Israel has dismissed all of their proposals as “unrealistic” — and that has been echoed across the U.S. corporate media.

Here are the actual proposals from each side.

[qqueenofhades]

If/when they make a Joe/Nicky prequel movie, what are some of the Dos and Don’ts for them, with regards to historical accuracy. Like, what do you think they should include, and what do you think they should avoid?

Oof. This is a GREAT question, and also designed to give me a chance to ramble on in a deeply, deeply self-indulgent fashion. That is now what will proceed to happen. Consider yourself warned. So if they were miraculously to be like “well that qqueenofhades person on tumblr seems like she knows what she’s talking about, let’s hire her to consult on this production!”, here are some of the things I would tell them.

First off, a question I have in fact asked my students when teaching the crusades in class is whether you could actually show the sack of Jerusalem on screen. Like... if you’re making a film about the First Crusade, what kind of choices are you going to make? What narrative viewpoint are you going to uphold throughout the story? Are you actually going to show a slaughter of Muslim and Jewish inhabitants that some chroniclers described as causing enough blood to reach up to the knees of horses? (Whether it actually did this is beside the point; the point is that the sack went far beyond the accepted conventions of warfare and struck everybody involved in it as particularly horrific.) Because when you’re making a film about the crusades, you are also making it by nature for a modern audience that has particular understandings of Christian/Muslim conflict, religious warfare and/or tolerance, the War on Terror, the modern clash over ISIS, Trump’s Muslim ban, and so forth. The list goes on and on. So you’re never making a straight, unbiased historical adaptation, even if you’re going off the text of primary sources. You’re still constructing it and presenting it in a deliberate and curated fashion, and you can bet that whichever way you come down, your audience will pick up on that.

Let’s take the most recent example of a high-profile crusades film: Kingdom of Heaven from 2005. I’ve written a book chapter on how the narrative choices of KoH, aside from its extensive fictionalization of its subject matter to start with, make it crystal clear that it is a film made by a well-meaning Western liberal filmmaker (Ridley Scott) four years after 9/11 and two years after the invasion of Iraq, when the sympathy from 9/11 was wearing off and everyone saw America/Great Britain and the Bush/Blair coalition overreaching itself in yet another arrogant imperial adventure into the Middle East. Depending on how old you are, you may or may not remember the fact that Bush explicitly called the War on Terror a “crusade” at the start, and then was quickly forced to walk it back once it alarmed his European allies (yes, back then, as bad as America was, it still did have those) with its intellectual baggage. They KNEW exactly what images and tropes they were invoking. It is also partly why medieval crusade studies EXPLODED in popularity after 9/11. Everyone recognized that these two things had something to do with each other, or they made the connection somehow. So anyone watching KoH in 2005 wasn’t really watching a crusades film (it is set in the late 1180s and dramatizes the surrender of Jerusalem to Saladin) so much as a fictional film about the crusades made for an audience explicitly IN 2005. I have TONS to say on this subject (indeed, if you want a copy of my book chapter, DM me and I’ll be happy to send it.)

Ridley Scott basically sets it up as the Christian and Muslim secular leaders themselves aren’t evil, it’s all the religious fanatics (who are all made Templars, including Guy de Lusignan, going back to the “evil Templar” trope started by Sir Walter Scott and which we are all so very familiar with from Dan Brown and company). Orlando Bloom’s character shares a name (Balian de Ibelin) but very little else with the eponymous real-life crusader baron. One thing Scott did do very well was casting an actual and well-respected Syrian actor (Ghassan Massoud) to play Saladin and depicting him in essential fidelity to the historical figure’s reputed traits of justice, fairness, and mercy (there’s some article by a journalist who watched the film in Beirut with a Muslim audience and they LOVED the KoH Saladin). I do give him props for this, rather than making the Evil Muslim into the stock antagonist. However, Orlando Bloom’s Balian is redeemed from the religious extremist violence of the Templars (shorthand for all genuinely religious crusaders) by essentially being an atheistic/agnostic secular humanist who wants everyone to get along. As I said, this is a film about the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq made three years after 9/11 more than anything else, and you can really see that.

That said, enough about KoH, back to this presumable Joe/Nicky backstory. You would obviously run into the fact that it’s SUPER difficult to make a film about the crusades without offending SOMEBODY. The urge to paint in broad strokes and make it all about the evil Westerners invading is one route, but it would weaken the moral complexity of the story and would probably make it come off as pandering to guilty white liberal consciences. Are we gonna touch on the many decades of proto-crusading ventures in Iberia, Sicily, North Africa, and other places, and how the eleventh century, especially under Pope Gregory VII, made it even thinkable for a Christian to be a holy warrior in the first place? (It was NOT normal beforehand.) How are we going to avoid the “lololol all religion sucks and makes people do crazy things” axe to grind favoured by So Very Smart (tm) internet atheists? Yes, we have to demonstrate the ultimate horror of the crusade and the flawed premises it was based on, but we can’t do that by just showing the dirty, religiously zealot medieval people doing that because they don’t know any better and are being cynically manipulated in God’s Name. In other words (and the original TOG film did this very well) we can’t position ourselves to laugh at or mock the crusader characters or feel confident in looking down on them for being Dumb Zealots. They have to be relatable enough that we realize we could BE (and in fact already ARE) them, and THEN you slide into the horror and what compels them to do those kinds of things, and THAT’S when it hits. Because take a look at the news. This is happening around us right now.

Obviously, as I was doing in my First Crusade chapter in DVLA, a lot of this also has to spend time centering the Muslim point of view, the way they reacted to the crusade, the ways in which Yusuf as an Isma’ili Shia Muslim (Kaysani is the name of a branch of Isma’ili Shi’ites, he has a definite historical context and family lineage, and hence is almost surely, as I wrote him, a Fatimid from Egypt) is likewise not just A Stock Muslim. In this case, obviously: Get actual Muslims on the set to advise about the details. Don’t make stupid and/or obvious mistakes. Don’t necessarily make the Muslims less faithful or less virtuous than the Christians (even if this is supposed to praise them as being “less fanatic” than those bad religious Catholics). Don’t tokenize or trivialize their reaction to something as horrific as the sack of Jerusalem, and don’t just use dead brown bodies as graphic visual porn for cheap emotional points. Likewise, it goes without saying, and I don’t think they would anyway, but OH MY GOD DON’T MAKE THIS INTO GAME OF THRONES GRIMDARK!!!! OH MY GOD!!! THERE IS BEAUTY AND THERE IS LIGHT AND THERE IS POETRY AND THAT’S WHY IT HURTS SO MUCH WHEN IT’S DESTROYED! AND THE CHOICES THAT PEOPLE MAKE TO DESTROY THOSE THINGS HAVE TO BE TERRIFYINGLY PLAUSIBLE AND FAMILIAR, BECAUSE OH MY GOD!!

Next, re: Nicolo. Evidently he is a priest or a former priest or something of the sort in the graphic novel, which becomes a bit of a problem if we want him to actually FIGHT in the crusades for important and/or shallow and/or OTP purposes. (I don’t know if they address this somehow or Greg Rucka is not a medieval historian or whatever, but never mind.) It was a Major Thing that priests could not carry weapons, at least and especially bladed weapons. (In the Bayeux Tapestry, we have Odo, the bishop of Bayeux, fighting at the battle of Hastings with a truncheon because he’s a clergyman and can’t have a sword). They were super not supposed to shed blood, and a broadsword (such as the type that Nicky has and carries and is clearly very familiar with) is a knight’s weapon, not a clergyman’s. The thing about priests was that they were not supposed to get their hands dirty with physical warfare; they could (and often did) accompany crusade armies, bishops were secular overlords and important landholders, monks and hermits and other religious preachers were obviously part of a religious expedition, and yes, occasionally some priests would break the rules and fight in battle. But this was an exception FAR more than the rule. So if we’re going by accuracy, we have Nicky as a priest who doesn’t actively fight and doesn’t have a sword, we have him as a rule-breaking priest with a sword (which would have to be addressed, and the Templars, who were basically armed monks, weren’t founded until 1119 so he can’t be one of those yet if this is still 1099) or we just skip the priest part and have him as a crusader with a sword like any other soldier. If he was in fact a priest, he also wouldn’t be up to the same standard of sending into battle. Boys, especially younger sons of the nobility, often entered the church at relatively early ages (12 or 13), where it was treated as a career, and hence they stopped training in arms. So if Nicky is actually out there fighting and/or getting killed by Yusuf several times for Important Purposes, he’s... almost surely not a priest.

Iirc, they’ve already changed a few things from the graphic novel (I haven’t read it, but this is what I’ve heard) so they can also tweak things to make a new backstory or a hybrid-new backstory in film-verse. So once we’ve done all the above, we still have to decide how to handle the actual sack of Jerusalem and massacre of its inhabitants, the balance between violence comparable to the original TOG film and stopping short of being exploitative (which I think they would do well), and the aftermath of that and the founding of the new Latin Christian kingdom. It would have to, as again the original film does very well, avoid prioritizing the usual players and viewpoints in these events, and dig into presenting the experiences of the marginalized and way in which ordinary people are brought to the point of doing these things. It doesn’t (and frankly shouldn’t) preach at us that U.S. Invasions Of The Middle East Are Bad (especially since obviously none of the characters/people/places/events here are American at all). And as I said already but bears repeating: my god, don’t even THINK about making it GOT and marketing it as Gritty Dramatic Medieval History, You Know It’s Real Because They’re Dirty, Violent, and Bigoted!

Also, a couple tags I saw pop up were things like “Period-Typical Racism” and “Period-Typical Homophobia” and mmm okay obviously yes there are these elements, but what exactly is “period typical?” Does it mean “using these terms just because you figure everyone was less tolerant back then?” We know that I, with my endless pages of meta on medieval queer history, would definitely side-eye any attempts to paint these things as Worse Than Us, and the setting alone would convey a sense of the conflict without having to add on gratuitous microaggressions. I basically think the film needs to be made exactly like the original: centering the gay/queer perspectives of marginalized people and people of color, resisting the urge for crass jokes at the expense of the identity of its characters, and approaching it with an awareness of the deep complexity and personal meaning of these things to people in terms of the historical moment we’re in, while not making a film that ONLY prizes our response and our current crises. Because if we’re thinking about these historical genealogies, the least we can do (although we so often aren’t) is to be honest.

Thanks! I LOVED this question.

[fdelopera]

The antisemitic betrayal by the Queer Community has been DEVASTATING -- and even more so because of who they are coalitioning with.

We queers all know that we DO NOT COALITION WITH FAR-RIGHT RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS. This is something that has been drummed into us for our safety and survival.

We do not coalition with the Westboro Baptist Church. We do not coalition with the likes of Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson. We do not coalition with ANY far-right Christian extremist or extremist group who celebrates our deaths and wants more queer people to die.

And yet, many goyishe queer people have shown that they are so filled with Jew-hate that they are willing to coalition with the far-right religious extremists in Hamas, who MURDER queer people by stoning them to death, shooting them in the head, or throwing them off buildings. They are willing to coalition with the far-right religious extremists in the Houthis, who just CRUCIFIED several gay men for being gay. They are willing to coalition with the far-right religious extremists in the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, who straight up MURDER queer people and MURDER women who show even a little bit of their hair in public.

Let me say this very clearly: These queer people are not coalitioning with Hamas, the Houthis, or the Islamic Republic to support the Palestinian people. And many Palestinian activists have told them to STOP THIS. These queer people are coalitioning with these far-right extremists because they hate Jews.

These queer people have shown that they are quite willing to empower the queer-hating enemy, to the detriment of queer people everywhere, just because that enemy also hates Jews.

Oh, and in case you think this is hyperbole, just look at what happened to the Queer Community in Hamtramck, Michigan when they helped elect a bunch of queer-hating, far-right religious extremists to the Hamtramck city government.

These far-right religious extremists immediately turned around, betrayed the queer people who had coalitioned with them, and started stripping queer people of their rights.

THIS SHIT is what you idiots who are IGNORANT of queer history have brought into the queer community. We DO NOT coalition with far-right religious extremists, and this is why:

And as bad as that is, it's fucking worse.

Far-right Muslims in Michigan are now coalitioning with far-right Christians to harass and attack queer people.

And far-right Muslims in Michigan are also coalitioning with far-right Christians to ban queer books.

And far-right Muslim teenagers are getting caught harassing queer people and throwing eggs at the Pride Flag.

Oh, and I know you Hamasniks don't give a shit about Jews, but you should also know that the Mayor of Hamtramck is appointing Jew-haters who say that "The Holocaust was God’s advance punishment of the 'Chosen People'."

You functionally illiterate IDIOTS who can't be bothered to LEARN QUEER HISTORY are making dangerous bedfellows, and all because you hate Jews.

When you side with far-right religious extremists who hate queer people, you are signing all of our death warrants.

How DARE you let these religious extremist BIGOTS into queer spaces, you fucking TRAITORS!

where all my queer and trans jews DREADING PRIDE MONTH WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[hg47]

47 Reasons Why I Fear Islam - (Reason 34)

-34-In my opinion, Christianity conquers through LOVE.  In my opinion, Islam conquers through FEAR.  If Machiavelli was right, we are doomed. It’s been a long time since I’ve read THE PRINCE, but I think I still have a copy of it somewhere in my personal library.  I remember at college we argued quite a bit about one of Machiavelli’s central points.  Something to the effect that it is better for a ruler to be feared than loved.  A ruler could control the fear in his subjects, but he could not control their love. ++++------- A quote from Alexis de Tocqueville: I studied the Quran a great deal.  I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. ++++------- http://www.amazon.com/Cruel-Usual-Punishment-Terrifying-Implications/dp/1595551611/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1380310980&sr=1-1&keywords=CRUEL+AND+USUAL+PUNISHMENT+by+Nonie+Darwish In CRUEL AND USUAL PUNISHMENT Nonie Darwish writes about her experiences in the Middle East, about how Muslims have been turned against each other by fear.  Islamic justice is rarely settled in court; but rather through “Street Justice” by “true believer” self-appointed vigilantes all fired-up by the latest fatwa. ++++------- A quote by Dr. Hani Al-Siba’i: “The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law…I’m familiar with religious law.  There is no such term as ‘civilians’ in the modern Western sense.  People are either of Dar Al-Harb [House of War] or not.” ++++------- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-j-stone/how-the-iranian-election_b_216882.html Jeremy J. Stone on how once polls showed that Ahmadinejad would lose reelection in Iran, the Ayatollahs changed the counting of the votes to protect the honor of Islam. ++++------- tweet ~ I am suspicious of any religion which views relations between members and non-members in the context of war. ++++------- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6640297.stm Fascinating article on the bond between Tony Blair and George W. Bush, that seems to have started with Colgate toothpaste, and which lead to a coalition. ++++------- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432304576371771855162448.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Fascinating article on what would have happened If Jews Had Followed the Palestinian Path. Dead-beat Islam versus Entrepreneurial Judiasm. ++++------- http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/the_five_stages_of_islam.html Richard Butrick on the five stages of Islam: 1) Establish a beachhead. 2) Establish outposts. 3) Establish sectional control of major cities. 4) Establish regional control. 5) Brutal suppression of the Non-Islamic. ++++------- tweet ~ I am suspicious of any religion which calls for the death of any member who tries to leave for another faith. ++++------- http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/24/thousands-christians-displaced-ethiopia-muslim-extremists-torch-churches-homes-2057387870/ From the March 24, 2011 article by Diane Macedo: About Muslims in Western Ethiopia forcing thousands of Christians to leave, convert to Islam, or die. @hg47 says – It’s important to realize that ALL the Muslims there want Christians GONE!  The “extremists” are just the front line troops, the “forward attack element” that pretty much has the full support of the “nice and moderate” Muslims, who all want us inferior, detested, and unclean Christians converted to Islam, forcibly evicted (Muslims keep all our property, if Christians try to leave with property they are killed), or murdered.  Muslim preachers fire up the mob and turn it loose.  Party time!  It’s the Muslim version of block party.  Best part?  It’s technically jihad, so if someone dies, POP, straight off to Paradise they go, and they don’t have to worry about that pesky Judgment Day thing. ++++------- tweet ~ I am suspicious of any religion which claims its divine authority must be accepted without criticism, without doubts, without questions. ++++------- http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/the_islamic_republic_is_not_ir_1.html Amil Imani on how the Muslim clergy use promises and threats to keep the Muslim faithful controlled. ++++------- http://islamexposed.blogspot.com/2010/09/terrifying-brilliance-of-islam.html Another thing covered in this article: the obligation for Islam to spread by war, using any and every means, nearly as important as the demand that Muslims pray a minimum of 5 times a day, every day.  Jihad is not optional; jihad is mandatory!  Get with the program, new Muslims! @hg47 – Do you feel yourself subdued by superior Muslims?  Thought not.  Then, sorry, it’s war!  Jihad!  By the way, poor Muslims in the U.S. have such contempt for American law that they see welfare payments as Jizyah.  They think we inferior Christians and Jews are paying them to keep quiet and spare our lives.  In some ways this is actually true.  We are paying them to keep quiet, and leave us alone.  Muslims in foreign countries tend to view U.S. foreign aid as a Jizyah payment, a tribute from an inferior to a superior. Fortunately, total U.S. Foreign Aid is about 1% of G.D.P., so if we are paying a Jizyah tribute, it’s not a very big payment.  The hidden cost of Muslims in “no-go” zones on U.S. soil, not counting welfare, is far more pricey.  Muslims consider these growing Muslim ghettos to be Sacred Land now, property which may never be relinquished to inferior Infidels. ++++------- tweet ~ Islamic holy texts are more anti-Jew than Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF. Islamic text = 9.3% Anti-Jew. Why no anti-Semitism warning sticker? ++++------- http://www.hudson-ny.org/1610/sharia-advancing-in-west Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury on Islamic banking and the fatalism inherent in Sharia law.  Islam is right, everything else is wrong.  “To question a judgment under Sharia [right or wrong] is to question Islam itself and will only bring harsh punishment.” ++++------- tweet ~ Sharia law TweetNotes: Non-Muslims are not allowed to own any type of weapon. ++++------- http://thehayride.com/2010/10/npr-successfully-influenced-by-the-muslim-brotherhood/ Christopher Holton and Sarah Pavlis on how the Muslim Brotherhood used CAIR to get NPR to fire Juan Williams.  Much interesting background information on the connections between CAIR and the Brotherhood, and the tactics CAIR uses to shut up anyone who says anything negatively about Islam. ++++------- http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/08/19/during-the-turmoil-in-egypt-christians-have-faced-continued-violence/ This article has some interesting stats on the hostility between Muslims and Christians in Egypt.  Christians, outnumbered 20 to 1, will soon be completely eliminated from Egypt. ++++------- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/6176457.stm Short stories of real non-Muslims in Iraq: Why it is impossible for non-Muslims to live among Muslims in a Muslim majority country. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +Go-To-35+ +Go-To-Beginning-Of-47-REASONS-WHY-I-FEAR-ISLAM+

[fdelopera]

Bitch, you claim to be "Your favourite Feminist, Queer, Tranny, Punk Ancom who just crawled out the gutter and threw it's teeth at you".

First of all, EW, that's disgusting. Get the fuck out of the gutter, and go see a dentist.

Second, from one Queer to another:

I FUCKING DARE YOU TO GO SHIP YOURSELF OFF TO AN ISLAMIST COUNTRY AND SEE HOW LONG IT TAKES THEM TO MURDER YOU!

MAKE SURE TO WAVE THE PRIDE FLAG AND TELL THEM YOU'RE QUEER FOR AN EXPEDITED KILLING.

Don't believe me? Watch THIS SHIT. This shit is just from Michigan. This is TAME compared to what you would have to deal with in an Islamist country.

And as bad as that is, it's fucking worse.

Far-right Muslims in Michigan are now coalitioning with far-right Christians to harass and attack queer people.

And far-right Muslims in Michigan are also coalitioning with far-right Christians to ban queer books.

And far-right Muslim teenagers are getting caught harassing queer people and throwing eggs at the Pride Flag.

You are deranged with worms for brains.

Israel is the only Queer-inclusive country in the Middle East, and Queer Palestinians will tell you that.

There are many Queer Palestinians who have been granted asylum in Israel because ISLAMISTS WERE TRYING TO MURDER THEM.

You are obviously too young and too STUPID to know ANYTHING about Queer History, but one thing you MUST LEARN is that we DO NOT COALITION WITH FAR-RIGHT RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS.

And Islamists like Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah, and the Islamic Republic are FAR-RIGHT RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS. They are a thousand times WORSE than any far-right Christian bigots we have to deal with today.

And deranged MORONS like you are inviting these RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS into Queer spaces like a fucking Trojan Horse.

So get your head out of the fucking gutter where you threw your teeth and LEARN QUEER HISTORY, YOU FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE JEW-HATING BIGOT.

Jewish lgbt pride flags at pride marches 💖🧡💛💚💙✡️