18 thoughts on “From Journalism to Jihad in One Easy Lesson”

1. I’m struck by an unusual possible parallel. During WW2 in the Pacific, fanatical Japanese holdouts were very difficult to capture alive. Often they had a hidden grenade, etc., to spare themselves the dishonor of capture. BUT, once they were captured, for any number of reasons, they often did a psychological “flip” and became not only model POWs, but often, collaborators with the Allied effort, even serving as combat translators, coaxing other holdouts from caves and so on.

   The thinking after WW2 was that these men were “dead” in their own minds, at least as far as Japan was concerned. They could never return, having been disgraced by capture. So….if you are dead to your own country, but you find yourself unexpectedly alive, what the heck? A new dawn beckons, a new and unexpected life awaits.

   I wonder if our head shed has explored this dynamic with the surviving suicide bombers, or even the returned ISIS fighters? Have any “flipped?” Recognizing that they are worse than worthless pieces of human debris, they might be useful while they are in this “gift of a new life” phase, and are highly open to clever interrogation tactics.

   • I think the prohibition on surrender and shame on being captured was peculiar to the Japanese. Further, despite the atrocities, following the surrender at the end of WWII, Japan has demonstrated itself to be a model world citizen, and Japanese people likewise. With Japan, the world had to deal with intensified militarism of a civilized people, not with wild desert tribes.

     • Those post-WW2 Japanese holdouts had more honor in the nail on their left little toe than the entire Ummah.

   • Remember Nanking Massacre !!

2. Uh, it’s the Belgian town of Steenokkerzeel, there’s no such province.

   But that’s beside the point, of course.

   Thank you for doing this very good post and beating me to it.

   Meanwhile… it’s clear that the presence of muslims on our soil represents nothing but a financial haemorrhaging of biblical proportions.

   Not only do they consume an overwhelming percentage of welfare, but the financial implications of our security services, police and army being constantly on the lookout, the implementation of Jambon’s “Channel Plan” costing 400 million EUR, sheltering tens of thousands of “refugees” PLUS the lost turnover for thousands of companies, hotels, factories, the delays on our highways, the annulled bookings in hotels the world over (Bruges alone minus 50 per cent)… are unfathomable.

   LUCKY countries like Poland (0.1 per cent muslims) or Japan (even less).

   It has now emerged that the Chief of Religious Police in Raqqa is none less than Hicham Chaib, former lieutenant to Fouad Belkacem of Sharia4Belgium.

   He was one of 11 (ELEVEN) children in a Moroccan family in Antwerp.

   ERGO… with eleven children, I assure you that neither father nor mother had to work, they will have drawn a royal, I mean ROYAL, stipend in child allowances.

   It makes me sick, sick, sick, it makes we want to puke and stop this madness.

   What are we autochtons working for day and night??? We are financing our own destruction!!!

   • In this particular case you take his wife and 11 children and deport them to the nation state where the gentleman in question is fighting against the internationally recognized government.

     So put them on the plane to Damascus care of Assad – and all the extended family as well – dozens of them.

     Rinse and repeat vigorously and the ISIS rat line will vanish along with many other problems you face.

     • One thing you can be sure of is that such a firm, common sense proposal to punish deadly enemies will be dismissed out of hand by the responsible treasonous official. Europe cannot even close a border with Turkey that is a mere 175 miles long.

       It’s a great shame that Dr. Sanity has ceased to write for her blog. Surely such mass lunacy and feebleness has some explanation to the trained mind.

       I believe there is a fatal human weakness in the brain. Like a toy rocket that is placed on the ground horizontally, it will careen forcefully, spectacularly, and unpredictably once the spark of an idea is touched to the fuse. Once the idea catches fire, it does not matter whether it is a ridiculous or an evil idea, only the complete exhaustion of the idea carried to the very limit of the resources of the adherent will stop the flame. It must flame out.

       E.g., Adamites (primal innocence), Diggers (communism), Pilgrims in Massachusetts (socialism), Shakers (celibacy), Khmer Rouge (Western influence), Cuba/USSR/PRC (classless society, socialism, totalitarianism), globalists (open borders, diversity), American blacks (racism, revenge), progressives (elite competence, understanding, and moral superiority), Islam (scientific obscurantism and female/infidel inferiority), and leftists (abandonment of fundamental rights, contempt for law, expediency, violence).

       With healthy people, family, friends, employers, media, law, political or religious leaders, weather, economic necessity, or other aspects of reality moderate the burn or direct the trajectory but if outside influences dwindle in number or influence, the burn (idea) can be destructive and unguided.

       What is different now is the scale of the delusion. And it is a mystery why moderating influences ceased to operate. In the limited instance of chalk markings of “Trump 2016” at Emory University, students went instantly to a pathetic hysteria and adult authorities provided NO moderating counterforce whatsoever. To the contrary, they exacerbated the hysteria. A microcosm of Germany, France, Sweden, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, or Norway.

3. The Danes may have gotten a substantial reduction in these migrants by reducing their benefits. I have not really understood why other countries have not emulated them.

   In addition, it would be reasonable to give no additional benefits to any parent having a second child which they cannot support. Call me heartless if you like but I think I am being liberal. One childbirth should be enough to enable a person to figure out what causes it.

   • Permanent welfare should be abolished for everyone save the elderly, terminally ill, and those so disabled they are unable to function independently at a job. All people in those categories would need to be native or legally settled citizens of a nation to be eligible.

     Permanent welfare does nothing but make people soft, dependent, and ungrateful.

     • And what if there aren’t enough jobs for the able?

       • Your question is excellent. It is because of precisely these homegrown non migrant unfortunates that my semi severity on this matter is as much bark as bite. For the recipients who were here before the migrants a change would have to be gradual. I believe that you understand the state of our economy. It seems to me that a serious bark with a mind for a little humanity is what we need on this.

   • The same happens in the USA some states have generous benefits others bare subsistence , unemployment subsidy, and disability plans, folks migrate there just to hop on the gravy train, cut the funds and the horde will subside.

4. Hmmmm. … his name, fecal, is entirely appropriate.

5. As for the psychological flip, I do remember reading something about that in an ordinary news source which I do not think should have been available to the public. Khalid Sheik Mohammed was said to have been resistant to waterboarding to an extent that he was willing to take credit for and after that became very cooperative.

   This might not exactly address your comment but it may partially confirm it.

   We now call this torture, forbid it, and more often kill suspects by drone than capture or question them.

6. I could only watch about half of this nonsense, before I start feeling total disgust for this (Ok, I’m lying, I hated him before I started watching the video). Notice how his reporting mimics that of the political left. Coincidence? I don’t think so, it’s all the same strategy.

7. why not make them sandwiches of material that will hold for 3 or more hours, deliver at 7 and they can eat them when they like. I see no reason to bow down to the prisoners, and this compromise could work. If not, it’s their own fault if they’re hungry.

8. The UK Press, The Independent report that he has been released for LACK OF EVIDENCE.

   Apparently the cab driver was “mistaken” when IDing him.

   Some folks commented HE MUST BE CIA or MI6.

   • Soon it will all be a false flag. Do not doubt me.

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