{"id":7347,"date":"2015-11-13T17:50:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T22:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7347"},"modified":"2015-11-14T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T17:53:10","slug":"food-for-thought-for-militant-islamists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7347","title":{"rendered":"Food for thought for militant Islamists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, at least <del>60<\/del>\u00a0<del>153<\/del> <del>127<\/del> 128 people are dead in Paris tonight, as a result of multiple attacks. I am sure militant Islamists are rejoicing.<\/p>\n<p>But here is some food for thought. You do this often enough and soon, the voices of moderates like myself will be drowned out. Soon our protests, &#8220;But most Muslims are not like that! Most Muslims just want to live in peace like anyone else!&#8221; will fall on deaf ears. Nationalism, xenophobia, racism will prevail. And do\u00a0you know what will happen then?<\/p>\n<p>Simple. <em>Dar al-Islam<\/em> will be turned into a radioactive desert.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RNYe_UaWZ3U\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Seriously. If you doubt what Westerners\u00a0are capable of, learn about the two World Wars in Europe. Look what they did <em>to their own kind<\/em>. Learn about the Holocaust. And then check the number of active-service nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the world&#8217;s two greatest nuclear powers, both targets of militant Islamism. Here is something to think about: The only reason we are not the worst murderous bastards on this planet right now is because we&#8217;ve been to the abyss and looked down, seeing our own selves staring back.<\/p>\n<p>Do not mistake the West&#8217;s restraint for weakness. For now, people like myself have a voice. Soon, we will be branded traitors or\u00a0worse, and then the unscheduled sunrises will follow.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7347' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, at least 60\u00a0153 127 128 people are dead in Paris tonight, as a result of multiple attacks. I am sure militant Islamists are rejoicing. But here is some food for thought. You do this often enough and soon, the voices of moderates like myself will be drowned out. Soon our protests, &#8220;But <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7347' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-25-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7347"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7359,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions\/7359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}