That Awful "Moralistic Language Used To Describe Al Quaeda ... After The 9/11 Attacks"
Professor Michael J. Boyle writes in The New York Times -- incredibly -- to chastise us for our mean language about Al Qaeda and other Islam-driven fundamentalist death cults:
PHILADELPHIA -- The beheading of American journalist James Foley by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, has rightly provoked global condemnation of the insurgent group and its horrific tactics. Yet it has also led to a disturbing return of the moralistic language once used to describe Al Qaeda in the panicked days after the 9/11 attacks.In an eerie echo of President George W. Bush's description of the global war on terrorism as a campaign against "evildoers," President Obama described ISIS as a "cancer" spreading across the Middle East that had "no place in the 21st century." Secretary of State John Kerry condemned ISIS as the face of a "savage" and "valueless evil," while Britain's prime minister, David Cameron, called the group "barbaric."
They behead James Foley as easily as most of us step out for a latte. Yeah, that's "savage" and "barbaric" and, yes, "evil."
Boyle favors more of a Barbie's Dream House (with Burkas and beheadings) view of ISIS:
Unlike Al Qaeda, whose dreams of forming a caliphate were little more than mysticism and hyperbole, ISIS now occupies large swaths of Syria and Iraq, administering social services and running rudimentary Shariah courts in its claimed Islamic State. In other words, it operates less like a revolutionary terrorist movement that wants to overturn the entire political order in the Middle East than a successful insurgent group that wants a seat at that table.
Yes, poor dears...just a "successful insurgent group that wants a seat at that table."
And about those Shariah courts, Dave Urbanski at The Blaze writes:
"These militants will return us and our country hundreds of years backwards," Umm Mohammed, a 35-year-old teacher, told AFP, "and their laws are the opposite of the laws of human rights and international laws."
...They decreed in a 16-point document the prohibition of the selling and consumption of alcohol and drugs, smoking, carrying weapons, and gatherings. In addition, women are ordered to wear non-revealing clothes and keep to their homes -- and "shrines" are to be destroyed. In fact all depictions of people are considered idolatrous under their extreme interpretation of Islam, and gunmen have removed some statues from the city, including those of famous poets.
So wait... all I have to do is claim that I'm "administering social services", and then everything I do is A-OK with the Left? Damn! I can go out and shoot a bunch of people I don't like, and I'll tell them that I'm "administering a social service" of ridding the world of undesirables. Shazam!
Cousin Dave at August 28, 2014 6:11 AM
Bad timing, given today's news that IS/ISIS summarily executed 200 captured soldiers.
"it operates less like a revolutionary terrorist movement"
Whoopsie-doodle. Does anyone think Boyle will lose his job? Yeah. Me neither.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at August 28, 2014 6:56 AM
He's on the arts and sciences faculty. With the exception of economists, statisticians, chemists, and some fragment of the biology faculty, these people as service providers are pretty much an optional accessory in today's world. Why not put them out of work?
Art Deco at August 28, 2014 7:35 AM
it's some kind of fetishist derangement syndrome... where things at home are just not exotic enough, so you look for anything far away to idolize.
And then when that group does precisely what they say they will do, eviscerating you with a dull spoon, perhaps only then will you realize that reality is different than you thought.
This is a special case of "The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations"... wherein you have decided the noble savage is great, and is really planning on doing a different thing than they SAY they will, all because you are SO VERY SMART, that you know what is going on inside their heads.
And then when they back up those words with the actions indicated by those words... it's "unexpected."
There are words for this... as I recall they are "useful idiot."
SwissArmyD at August 28, 2014 10:00 AM
"the prohibition of the selling and consumption of alcohol and drugs, smoking, carrying weapons..."
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I did not realize we were talking about New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, District of Columbia, etc.
John A at August 28, 2014 12:04 PM
Malloy: The United States is a no-smoking nation. No smoking, no drinking, no drugs. No women - unless of course you're married. No guns, no foul language... no red meat.
Snake Plissken: [sarcastic] Land of the free
lujlp at August 28, 2014 12:20 PM
From 9/11/2001 until now, the U.S. has been in the first phase of a multi-generational war. Call it the One Hundred Years War that began on 9/11.
We must be willing to fight it or face dire consequences. ISIS will only get bigger and stronger unless we begin now to exterminate them.
A war is never over until your enemy says it is over. This is not the kind of war you fight until you are tired of fighting then go home.
For all of the above, we need real leadership.
Nick at August 28, 2014 1:07 PM
"We must be willing to fight it or face dire consequences. "
Scary!
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at August 28, 2014 6:25 PM
They have $100K+ of gold and silver bullion. They are selling barrels of oil for $25 a barrel to anyone willing to buy it.
There is nothing they want from the western countries. They will kill anyone who gets in their way. There is no make a peace treaty or any kind of deal with them. The only way to to end this is to kill them all.
And when we or whoever does it, it needs to be death to the hilt.
Stack the heads over to the left about 50 feet and the bodies to the right by about 50 feet. Then those left over after you provide medical care. Or the other option -- start using nukes. That is the only solution.
These guys will make Hitler look like a piker.
Jim P. at August 28, 2014 8:36 PM
A murderer is a murderer. I, frankly, see no need to sugar-coat it and try to understand thier motives nor do I give two fucks about the 'language' one might use to try to explain them. Call it what it is. Once we get past that, we can stop pussyfooting around these pricks and maybe, do something about it.
Sabrina at August 29, 2014 9:16 AM
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