Monday, April 22, 2019

Taqiyya for Easter

As always, Mark Steyn says it best.

Let's say a fire breaks out at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris at the start of Holy Week, and just after two of the city's other most prominent houses of worship - St Sulpice and the Basilica of St Denis - have been attacked and vandalized.

Well, I think we can all confidently say as the first flames are beginning to lick the ceiling that it's undoubtedly an accident. Cigarette butt. Or maybe computer glitch. Probably just an overheated smart phone. We don't need to get in there and sift through the debris. We can just announce it.

Read the whole column here.

7 comments:

  1. lady red - the Steyn essay was good with respect to the Sri Lanka thing. Which is insanely horrible; that level of coordinated attack is also a carefully coded message advertising a certain kind of capability (namely coordination and scale.)

    The location is part of the code. Whatever faction of AQ (some variant seems overwhelmingly likely to me) did this has a brain. This smells of the same analytic mindset that did 9/11. They didn't do Sri Lanka because it was easy. They did it because it would cause the most cultural damage.

    OTOH I think Steyn is off the mark on Notre Dame. That's software. That's on us. Again I don't know for sure, but even in a forest of vandalism, that particular tree looks like a computer problem. Again. (Still scowling at Boeing.)

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    1. Lewy: I don't think Steyn was saying that it was not possible that the Notre Dame fire was an accident. He is just commenting on how, before the smoke had cleared or anyone was even able to go in and investigate, officials were able to sit down at their Ouiji boards and declare that the fire was caused by an accident. Meanwhile, someone could shout "allahu Akbar" and kill dozens of people but weeks later officials will still (appear to) be scratching their heads saying "Oh gosh-a-rooney we have no idea why this person did that."

      The DC Sniper was a disgruntled white male, M-13 members are white supremacists, and the Notre Dame fire was an accident. But we should put this accidental fire behind us by turning Notre Dame Cathedral into a multi-denominational worship center complete with a minaret.

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    2. Here's what I understand about the fire: the alarms went off, but signaled that the fire was in a different part of the church.

      That was information that was available early, and it was a reasonable piece of info to be out there early in terms of _oh hey wtf just happened_?

      Could be a mis-configuration or bad installation, which then gets blamed on software (this happens). But this should have been caught in testing: again, bad engineering.

      Given that (imo) this info was widespread, I was disappointed to see Steyn play this angle.

      It's fine to play it when it's legit, which it often is. I feel like he was hiding the ball here.

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    3. Had not heard this before. Interesting, at least. It gives a reason why the fire was not stopped earlier, but does not give a reason for it starting in the first place

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    4. True, but small fires that get caught right away happen often, and most often don't make the news - and are poor terrorism plans.

      Odds are it was just some damn thing. Imho, of course.

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  2. The truth hurts the narrative, so of course none of the media will report the truth.

    "The lights are going out on the most basic of journalistic instincts: Who, what, when, where, why. All are subordinate to the Narrative - or Official Lie. All day yesterday and into today, if you had glanced at the telly, switched on the radio or surfed the big news sites of the Internet, you would have thought the Tamil Tigers were back "with a vengeance", as The Economist put it - even though with one exception (the 1990 police massacre) the death toll was higher than any individual attack the Tigers had ever pulled off.
    Meanwhile, back in that fast shrinking space known as the real world, from the very first hours the headline of this story was completely straightforward:
    Islamic Suicide Bombers Slaughter Three Hundred on Easter Morning
    But apparently that can no longer be said."

    Lewy, I've heard nothing about a computer glitch (really?) causing the Notre Dame fire. Maybe I'm just not reading the right sources (I still watch no TV) but essentially it has fallen completely off the news I do see

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  3. Computer glitch? Really? And they knew that within hours of the blaze starting? Okaay.

    At this point, even if it's true, most Christians won't believe it.

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