Religion of Peace
The Saudi psychiatrist who plowed through the Christmas Market in Magdeburg, killing an infant and an estimated ten other human beings, must be either a bad Muslim or a secularist who knows nothing of Islam which an American President, speaking for the government, the media and the academy, described as a religion of peace.
Besides, as everyone knows, all true Muslims revere Jesus Christ and respect Christians as children of the book. I learned that in sixth grade and we all know know that textbooks and teachers would never lie.
Usually when a Muslim takes his religion seriously enough to carry out its tenets, he is described ad a deranged loner. But surely, despite their high suicide rate, sexual attacks on patients, and the bizarre voodoo they espouse, psychiatrists cannot really be craz? It’s a real dilemma.
There is a reason why AfD did so well in the elections in Saxony, Thuringia, and of all places, Brandenburg. Red Brandenburg, of all places! It was also younger voters below forty and especially below thirty who voted for AfD in the largest percentages per age group. There is a sea change going on and the German establishment is scared. Good. No one in Europe except elitists and extreme leftists ever wanted these aliens in their midst and now increasingly people want them sent back to their own countries. This true Muslim scumbag who should be lynched in the street is only helping to fuel the flames of discontent and hatred for the regime and the desire to be rid of his kind. Condescending and insulting mentions by the establishment of “trains rolling” and other references to the forties are only making people that much more angry. There always comes a time when a victim gets fed up with the guilt trips that his oppressor uses against him. Now with the stupidly engineered economic collapse caused by the idiotic sanctions regime, all Europe is reaching the brink of rebellion. And the Yanks need to go home.
Would it be safe to suspect that psychiatry, as a profession, would have to attract manipulators and gas lighters into it’s ranks like flies to honey? Narcissists and psychos of various kinds would find it attractive, would they not? Then add a psychopathic cult to the mix and what do we get? Of course the cult is the only ingredient necessary to cause what he did, but the other ingredients may have helped.
Perhaps he wanted to emulate the head choppers running amok in Syria right now.
As Chesterton put it, Mohammed instructs his minions (emphasis mine):
… “Break up the mountains where the hermit-folk can hide,
And sift the red and silver sands lest bone of saint abide,
And chase the Giaours flying night and day, not giving rest,
For that which was our trouble comes again out of the west.
We have set the seal of Solomon on all things under sun,
Of knowledge and of sorrow and endurance of things done,
But a noise is in the mountains, in the mountains, and I know
The voice that shook our palaces—four hundred years ago:
It is he that saith not ‘Kismet’; it is he that knows not Fate ;
It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Godfrey in the gate!
It is he whose loss is laughter when he counts the wager worth,
Put down your feet upon him, that OUR PEACE be on the earth.”
Can the West rise again? Are the rumblings here and there just the grumblings of the helpless discontent or the beginning of a tectonic shift? While our Don may not be a bastard, he seems like less than half the man of Don John of Austria – will it be enough? The cynic in me says one thing. The angel on my other shoulder suggests that stranger things have happened. It is, for better or worse, an interesting time to be alive.
This poem might be a prayer; for those who care to learn it.
I should have responded earlier but we were driving to North Carolina. In fact, the post was done sloppily on my phone in a motel room in Winchester, Kentucky. Whatever the reality, the official line has decided on the crazy psychiatrist explanation.
One little question: If the man were strongly motivated to attack Islam, as the news stories claim, why did he pick on Germans in a Christmas Market. Surely, they don’t mean to suggest that Islam is so potent a spiritual poison that those who rebel against the religion are still cursed by its influence? At any rate, isn’t this event an example of a logical argument of the “exception that proves the rule” variety? Suppose we were to argue that on the whole, Muslims are so morally insane that the only ones we would permit to enter our country would be rational scientists and doctors, but then it turns out that even Muslim rationalists can be terrorists?