The bell tolls...

The left-wing of politics are so consistently wrong in their attacks and in their predictions on everything from 'climate change,' to terrorism, to economics, it is a miracle that they are still taken seriously. The fact that they are only betrays the notion that facts are not important in ideological terms...only being in the right 'tribe' or 'appearing' to be the right 'type' is.

I have experienced this even from people I have thought were friends. They will not change their allegiances no matter what the facts are before them. This I cannot understand other than to believe that such thinking belongs at best to a misguided Utopianist view of the world or at worst to pagan tribalism.

The attached declaration from the much maligned George W Bush has proved its accuracy over time as have so many other 'conservative opinions' (I think in Australia of Cory Bernadi). However, no matter how accurate these commentators may have been there is never ever even the inkling of an apology from the press nor from the politicians who have slimed these people and their reputations.

Worst still are the gullible populations of the West who have swallowed the lies and manipulations of these snake-oil carpetbaggers, who when the you-know-what hits the fan cry: "Oh dear, I never considered that!" It will be too late.

"In September 2001, little more than a week after Islamic terrorists killed nearly 3000 people in attacks on New York and Washington, US President George W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress.

“Americans are asking ‘Why do they hate us?’” Bush said. “They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.”

For his accurate statement, Bush has ever since been ridiculed by sophisticated types who don’t buy into such simplistic formulations.

“‘They hate our freedoms’ was possibly the dumbest, most insulting piece of bullshit ever to escape the lips of an American president,” wrote US leftist Matt Taibbi in his book The Great Derangement. “The United States is a symbol of domestic freedom and democracy, but that is not why Islamic terrorists – and others – hate us,” claimed lightweight historian David Wallechinsky. “The longer the American people delude themselves into thinking that Bush’s explanation is sufficient, the longer it will be before we can seriously begin to reduce terrorism. The real reasons why they hate us are more complex and varied.” Australia’s Jeff Sparrow denounced Bush’s “braying jingoism” as “phoney and crass”.

Well, we’re now nearly 14 years on from Bush’s statement and Islamic extremists are still doing and saying everything they possibly can to prove him exactly right. Two weekends ago, Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia spokesman Wassim Doureihi told an audience of 200 or so in Lakemba that Islam’s struggle against the west was “a struggle to resist the imposition of values like freedom and democracy.”

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Last week Hizb ut-Tahrir held another anti-freedom rally, this time before a crowd of around 800. The numbers aren’t great for Hizbie gatherings, possibly because much of the movement’s support base is presently occupied in a large-scale Syrian soil enrichment program. Also, previous Hizb ut-Tahrir Lakemba rally attendee Man Haron Monis was unavailable due to being dead. On Friday night, speaker Sufyan Badar told his followers:

“We rejected freedom yesterday, we reject freedom today and we reject your freedom tomorrow.”

They really do, as Bush said, hate our freedoms. Badar continued: “Freedom is the smokescreen with which Western politicians and media conceal the underlying issues. In reality free speech is one of the many political tools that are used to maintain dominance over the Muslims.”