Atlas Shrugs

Saint Martin’s Christian festival abolished out of “consideration for the Muslim refugees”
Why?  These migrants are coming to our countries from failed, devastated cultures. When and why was it decided that we have to mute and censor our traditions and mores for theirs — a failed society that suffocates and destroys?  They are running from devastation and failure; why adopt that?  Want to facilitate the “integration of refugees” some daycare supervisor rename the Saint Martin’s processions in “Festival of Lights”. Others reject such a proposal strictly.

Obama’s “Most Trusted” “Favorite” Foreign Leader Erdogan: “Can’t Condemn” ISIS Downing of Passenger Plane

President Erdogan is President Obama’s most trusted and favorite foreign leader. Show me your friends and I will show you who you are.  Turkish President Erdoğan: I can’t condemn the Islamic State for shooting down the Russian airplane as it is the natural outcome of Putin’s support for Assad,” AWD News, November 1, 2015, (thanks to The Religion of Peace):  According to the Emirates News Agency (WAM), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has raised eyebrows around the world capitals by justifying ISIS terrorists who brought down a Russian passenger plane in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula early saturday, killing all 224 people aboard.  “The Russian airplanes are targeting Mujahidin in Syria and partisans...

Pamela Geller, Breitbart News: Facebook, Sky News Pay Jizya to Migrants for Every ‘Hate’ Post; Bild Publishes Lists of ‘Hate’ Posters

There is a new initiative in Germany that donates one euro for every “racist” (Islam is not a race) anti-migrant comment on the Internet. The “Hate Helps” propaganda campaign is organized by an NGO called Demokratische Kultur (ZDK), otherwise known as the Orwellian “Center for Democratic Action” in Germany. And it’s being funded by Facebook and Sky Germany. They will pay 1€ (euro) for each negative post about immigrants.  Sky Germany is not the same entity as Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News, although Rupert’s son, James...

NYPD undercover officer foiled jihad bomb plot in NYC

This story quotes a Muslim professor saying that “for an undercover to be seeded in a community for that long without a specific target raises some deeply troubling questions about the direction of policing in our city.” What should really raise some deeply troubling questions is that this program was ended by Mayor “Red Bill” de Blasio, and that when it was ended, it was widely reported that it had not resulted in the foiling of a single plot, and only now is it revealed that this undercover agent exposed a jihad bombing plot in the city.  Islamic groups and their running dogs on the left decried the “surveillance of innocent Muslims.” Were the Muslims surveilled in this program and indicted in...