Is the world progressing, as the progressives claim, or is it in fact regressing?
More and more evidence suggests the latter. In fact, in certain respects, the West is increasingly becoming like the quintessential Third World — namely, the Islamic world.
One can cite several examples — the West’s eagerness to ban any Christian symbol, lest it offend, its ban on free speech, lest that too offends (or “blasphemes” against Muslim sensibilities) — but an unexpected one recently surfaced.
On an episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, the host offered the following account (note, especially, the italicized portions):
Josh Denny is a comedian. You may have heard of him. He used to work for the Food Network. He’s also pro-life, personally, and willing to say so out loud. Earlier this month, Denny was preparing to host a comedy show in Rutherford, New Jersey. That’s about a half hour outside of New York, but just minutes after the show was announced, Antifa, a violent, radical group, decided to shut it down.
Hundreds of Antifa-affiliated Twitter accounts started bombarding the venue called the Williams Center. They also went after the chief of police of Rutherford, a man called John Russo, and they threatened violence. Now, at that point, a chief of police who wanted to defend the Constitution, his solemn duty, would have pushed back and affirmed the sacred right of free expression of every American, but that’s not what Chief Russo did. Instead, he caved to the demands of the mob.
He warned the venue that the venue might face civil liability if they let free speech continue, if they allowed the show to go on. Then he said he would shut down the show on “public safety grounds.” So ultimately, the Williams Center had no choice and canceled the show. In the end, the only people who showed up at the Williams Center that night were several police officers, and they were there to make sure there was no comedy taking place, none at all.
Then, to add insult to injury, the next morning, the mayor of Rutherford, New Jersey, Frank Nunziato, bragged about what the city had done. He said it was his decision to use the power of the state to cut down comedy.
“Unbeknownst to the borough,” Nunziato wrote, “an event was planned for this evening at the Williams Center, news of which quickly circulated through social media. Online intelligence led the police department to believe that the event had the potential for confrontation. Therefore,” Nunziato said, “after discussions with the owner, the event has been canceled.” Now notice the blame shifting here, “the potential for confrontation.”
It wasn’t the comedian who was going to confront or threaten anyone with violence. It was the radical left-wing group Antifa. But it was the comedian who was punished.
This entire scenario is a virtual duplicate of what regularly happens to religious minorities throughout the Muslim world. In the preceding few years, I have come across numerous accounts of Muslim authorities shutting down Christian churches on the claim that they are “security threats.” Like the American comedian, these churches, of course, posed no threat; rather, those who dislike them, “radical Muslims” — like those who dislike the pro-life American comedian, “radical Antifa” — were the ones who posed the threats, and engaged in actual violence. Instead of standing against or punishing the “radicals,” in both scenarios the authorities capitulate before them and punish the bullies’ otherwise law-abiding and peaceful victims.
Only recently in Egypt, Muslims attacked a church and its Christians after authorities had given them permission to fix their church’s collapsed roof, which had fallen on and hurt several worshippers. (According to strict sharia, churches must never be repaired but left to crumble over time.) On the following day, the Muslim governor rescinded the church’s permit to fix its crumbling roof. This church is now one of more than 50 churches in Egypt to be closed on the claim that they pose security threats — that is, because Muslims riot at their existence.
In short, whenever Christians throughout the Muslim world attempt to repair, renovate, or build a church — all of which contradict the draconian, anti-Christian dictates of Islamic law — the same events follow: local Muslims riot and rampage, and local (Muslim) officials conclude that the only way to prevent “angry youth” from acts of violence is to ban the church—which is then seen and treated as a “threat” to security.
And now this same “logic” has come to and is operating with impunity in America.
I am ashamed at our cowardice. This is “newspeak”, where cowardice is courage, violence is mostly peaceful protest, free speech is hate, divergent thought is dangerous, boys can be girls, the list goes on and on.
This is a very sad state of affairs, but not surprising. In Scripture Jesus warned that because the world hated him, they will hate his followers too. And much more about the behaviour of the righteous and the unrighteousness – Romans 1:18-32.
I have said ad nauseam that the chaos we are living in is due to most Westerners having rejected God and His moral law and are therefore no longer recipients of His Holy Spirit, which is reflected in their behaviour.
Throughout the ages Islam has never accepted the Living God. Now that Westerners, including our politicians and leaders for the most part, have turned away from God, it is no wonder that they have chosen to kowtow to Islam and sup with the devil.
They will all experience God’s wrath, unless they ‘turn from their wicked ways’ – 2 Chronicles 7:14
I am ashamed at our cowardice. This is “newspeak”, where cowardice is courage, violence is mostly peaceful protest, free speech is hate, divergent thought is dangerous, boys can be girls, the list goes on and on.
I assume Josh Denny tells jokes which make fun of Islam. If so, since Islam is no joking matter. it’s predictable that he would be shut down. The response of the police is also predictable. As I’ve been saying since shortly after 9/11, the only defense against Islam is to keep Muslims out of your country.
This is a very sad state of affairs, but not surprising. In Scripture Jesus warned that because the world hated him, they will hate his followers too. And much more about the behaviour of the righteous and the unrighteousness – Romans 1:18-32.
I have said ad nauseam that the chaos we are living in is due to most Westerners having rejected God and His moral law and are therefore no longer recipients of His Holy Spirit, which is reflected in their behaviour.
Throughout the ages Islam has never accepted the Living God. Now that Westerners, including our politicians and leaders for the most part, have turned away from God, it is no wonder that they have chosen to kowtow to Islam and sup with the devil.
They will all experience God’s wrath, unless they ‘turn from their wicked ways’ – 2 Chronicles 7:14
Same climate inside several businesses
I assume Josh Denny tells jokes which make fun of Islam. If so, since Islam is no joking matter. it’s predictable that he would be shut down. The response of the police is also predictable. As I’ve been saying since shortly after 9/11, the only defense against Islam is to keep Muslims out of your country.
Same climate inside several businesses
Well, KKK have been allowed to impose with violence their own will and believes since 1865 and that did not suprise anyone and no one made much fuss about them, in spite their violent crimes and racist activities, which often result to public executions of innocent people. WHY the actions of an extreme left organisation is now surprising you and you make such a fuss. If we accept that KKK activites are acceptable, then other similar activities by other groups should also be acceptable. Having said the above, that doesn’t mean that I accept any of the activities of either of these groups who are led by hatred and fanaticism.
Actually … the KKK’s violence was no more acceptable than Antifa or BLM violence today. The only real difference is that the resistance to the Demokkkrat’s violent street thugs has an alternative to newspapers and leaflets to spread the message.
Antifa / BLM are really just the Klan-with-a-tan … and as to the top leadership of anti-American criminals – such as Biden, Clinton, Gore – and their donors – they are the same criminals with a new leftier wing.
Thx Dan. Danos is a very bright guy. His take on some of these issues puzzles me.
Well, KKK have been allowed to impose with violence their own will and believes since 1865 and that did not suprise anyone and no one made much fuss about them, in spite their violent crimes and racist activities, which often result to public executions of innocent people. WHY the actions of an extreme left organisation is now surprising you and you make such a fuss. If we accept that KKK activites are acceptable, then other similar activities by other groups should also be acceptable. Having said the above, that doesn’t mean that I accept any of the activities of either of these groups who are led by hatred and fanaticism.
Actually … the KKK’s violence was no more acceptable than Antifa or BLM violence today. The only real difference is that the resistance to the Demokkkrat’s violent street thugs has an alternative to newspapers and leaflets to spread the message.
Antifa / BLM are really just the Klan-with-a-tan … and as to the top leadership of anti-American criminals – such as Biden, Clinton, Gore – and their donors – they are the same criminals with a new leftier wing.
Thx Dan. Danos is a very bright guy. His take on some of these issues puzzles me.
In a Big Picture sense … it’s Satan … or it’s the satanic gene for those who still believe in magic.
But in a very real sense … it’s a deliberate set of ever escalating anti-Christian crackdown launched by the Left, commie-pinkos before them, the Soviet Comintern before them, the Marxists before them, the Freemasons and other secret societies before them, and the Demokkkkrats-defend-slavery-at-all-cost before them, and the Enlightenment before that. … Not that that’s where it began, but we can trace the anti-Christ agenda directly back to the 18th century before getting into the weeds.
I like to add that this is ‘a clue’ because it is. The ‘Atheist’ Establishment has been anti-Christian – in addition to being pro-sex-perversion, pro-slavery, pro-war, and pro-crime since it broke free of the ‘reins’ of organized Christian Churches. Which is to say, when ‘Deep State Church’ and the rest of the Christians parted ways over the last 230 years.
The only thing religion the Establishment hates more than ‘Christian’ is ‘Judaism’ … and that water was muddied by a certain German atheist socialist.
As I wrote – that’s a clue.
God bless.
And thx for this comment as well Dan – we wrestle not against flesh and blood – not to eliminate the need for action – but realizing there are also unseen forces at work.
In a Big Picture sense … it’s Satan … or it’s the satanic gene for those who still believe in magic.
But in a very real sense … it’s a deliberate set of ever escalating anti-Christian crackdown launched by the Left, commie-pinkos before them, the Soviet Comintern before them, the Marxists before them, the Freemasons and other secret societies before them, and the Demokkkkrats-defend-slavery-at-all-cost before them, and the Enlightenment before that. … Not that that’s where it began, but we can trace the anti-Christ agenda directly back to the 18th century before getting into the weeds.
I like to add that this is ‘a clue’ because it is. The ‘Atheist’ Establishment has been anti-Christian – in addition to being pro-sex-perversion, pro-slavery, pro-war, and pro-crime since it broke free of the ‘reins’ of organized Christian Churches. Which is to say, when ‘Deep State Church’ and the rest of the Christians parted ways over the last 230 years.
The only thing religion the Establishment hates more than ‘Christian’ is ‘Judaism’ … and that water was muddied by a certain German atheist socialist.
As I wrote – that’s a clue.
God bless.
And thx for this comment as well Dan – we wrestle not against flesh and blood – not to eliminate the need for action – but realizing there are also unseen forces at work.