The West:” | Loay Alshareef

	Loay Alshareef لؤي الشريف ⁦‪@lalshareef‬⁩ I am an Arab and I am a Muslim, listen to me: BAN THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD!   31/8/2025, 6:04 pm

Ban the Muslim Brotherhood!

As all the Gulf States and Egypt have done. 

So say many Arabs and Muslims, to the West. These, the “Moderate Muslims” who we’ve been demanding “stand up and against Islamic terror.”

Let us learn from them, at least.

But, will we listen? In the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada? I doubt it. 

The United States has, however. It recently banned the Muslim Brotherhood. Better late than never, I guess. 

By the way, I’ve written a lot, over many years about the Muslim Brotherhood. They really are an insidious, effective and dangerous organisation. Even when you’ve banned them, you’ve not got rid of them. It’s a long and deep battle. 

"This is London" | Visigard24

  

After September 11, 2001, I watched president George W. Bush stand on the smoking ruins of the Twin Towers and declare that "Islam is a religion of peace".   

I didn't know anything about Islam then. 

I wondered though -- surely many people wondered -- how can the people who flew the planes into these buildings, killing 3,000 innocents, how can they represent a "Religion of peace"? How does that work? 

I got me a Koran, and read it cover to cover. This is easier to do than then Bible, for the Koran is quite a slim volume. Since then I've read and reread the Koran (searching in vain for any peaceable content), and read the rest of the main body of Islamic theology: the Hadith, the Sirah of Muhammad, the Umdat of the Sharia. 

I still remember clearly my first reading of that Koran. It sent shivers up my spine. 

I realised, as I read it, that the 911 perpetrators had simply been following what they were told to do, as good Muslims. What they were told they must do, in the sacred text of their Koran. What the Hadith confirmed they must do. What the Sirah described Muhammad doing himself to be their exemplar of “the perfect man”. 

And I thought "If this is what wer're dealing with, we've got a real problem."

Indeed that is what we're dealing with. The ideology as set out, very simply and very clearly, in the Koran and the rest of Trinity of Islam.. The Koran is the “perfect book" given by god, by Allah, via the Angel Gabriel, recited to the "perfect man" Muhammad, an illiterate Arab peasant. 

It is that text, that book, that "perfect book" -- full of inconsistencies and arrant nonsense as it is -- which must be followed to the letter, by every good Muslim. That's all the 911 hijackers were doing. They were following their Good Book. 

This is indeed what we're dealing with. Thus we are indeed in trouble. 

Which I realised way back then. Not earlier than many others, but early enough. 

And yet, noone in the west took any notice of the threat. They remember one thing: "Islam is a Religion of Peace". 

Well, it's only a religion of peace if everyone submits to it. And not even then, to be fair, for in countries that are fully Islamic, they still have arguments and fights over the different interpretations of their "perfect" religion, the most obvious of which are between Shia and Sunni. But that's a whole 'nother issue. The big issue for Muslims is to make the rest of the world, the non-Muslim world, obey their religion. To turn Dar al-Harb (the non-Islamic world) into the Dar al-Islam. 

And that's what they're doing, with remarkable success all over Europe, the UK, and now increasingly Australia and even the United States. 

What Visigard24 and the Apostate Prophet talk about in the video above is all true. I'm rather surprised, tbf, at how calmly they talk about it, given that it's happening all around them, right in front of their eyes. 

I fear it's too late though. I fear the United Kingdom is doomed. To be a slave state of Islam. To become Islamic. What's happened up today --what you see in Tower Hamlets in the video above -- happened much faster than I thought it could, 16 years ago. Much. I expect the full submission to the Will of Allah, by the whole of the United Kingdom, will also happen faster. Probably in my lifetime. Within ten or twenty years. 

And, just to be clear. This is not at all a good thing. Islam is an ideology. It's not "just" a religion. It's a whole of life ideology. And it's not nice. Not at all nice. 

Islam is supremacist, it is homophobic, it is misogynist, it is xenophobic, it is intolerant, it is censorious, it is violently suppressive of all religions other than Islam. 

It is this horrid ideology that is already in the United Kingdom and is on the way to becoming the dominant, the only ideology, the only "religion" in the UK. This is what is coming to what has been until very recently, the fount of tolerance and democracy in the world. It is coming for the rest of the world too. 

Mark my words, ye infidels!

Gloom. 

White Chapel, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong

The Democrats' agenda

The redoubtable, the almost-National Treasure, Victor Davis Hanson, thought the Dems didn't have an agenda, but then decided they did. 

He found Ten Democratic Party agenda items that he sets out in the above clip, which starts tat 17:42. 

My brief summary of them:

1. Trump is Hitler-Mussolini: president Donald J Trump is a dictator and we must oppose him, everywhere, everytime, on every issue, no matter the policy. By extension Elon Musk is equally evil and his achievements in Electric Vehicles, Rockets, Social Media, Satellite Internet, Neuralink, and so on, all these we must ignore. 

2. Open Borders good; policing borders, bad. ICE is wrong. Because Open Borders are right. And so, therefore, are Sanctuary Cities (600 at last count) correct. We support them all. 

3.  Hamas, you go! We love Radical Palestinians and positively hate Democratic Israel. [This is a view now held by 70% of the Dems]. 

4.  Keep on spending like drunken sailors: There should be no cuts in the Federal Budget, no matter the program, and no matter the size of the deficit, currently $1.7 Trillion a year, adding to the $37 Trillion Debt, nearing 130% of GDP. Doge, the cost-cutting agency, must be resisted no matter the program, no matter the waste. 

5.  Keep on warring: Ukraine must be supported to the last Ukrainian. "Whatever it takes". Peace must not be supported unless Putin is driven out of every last inch of land he occupies since 2022. 

6.  Selective Racism: this is a good thing. DEI should never have been cut. We must restore it, even if under a different guise. 

7.  Violence Good: The Democratic Party and its members must be more radical in their opposition to the Trump agenda. We must be more violent. We cheer Gavin Newsom and his recent: "I'll punch the sons a bitches in the mouth". Remember the anti-Tesla violence; wrecking cars, bombing showrooms, torching charging stations… and not a single Democrat called it out. 

8.  New ghetto Party leadership: We love the new ghetto shape shifter Jasmine Crockett as leader of our Party. Our new spokesman. She of the potty mouth and quick slur. 

9. Swear like a bl$@t trooper: Tied to the above: we must use swear words whenever we can. It makes us sound "earthy" and in touch with the common man. 

10.  Chaos, chaos, we love thee: We have to create chaos. Because only by creating chaos will there be a chance to unsettle the Trump agenda, and to reclaim power. Which after all is the aim. To "save Democracy" 

And... To Gain Power! Most of all, to gain power. 

I would add to VDH's list, one more Democratic Agenda item: 

11. Criminals good: Always side with the criminal and never with the victim. 

Look at the Luigi Mangione case. He casually murdered Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. With no cause. But Mangione is flooded with money and sympathy. None for the victim's family. 

Look at the case of Austin Metcalf, the teenage white boy killed by a knife to the chest by a young black boy Karmelo Anthony. A go-fund-me campaign has raised over half a million dollars for thekiller. None for the victim. 

Look at the sympathy for Harjinder Singh the illegal immigrant truck driver who killed a family of three. 

Look at the sympathy for  Kilmar Abrego Garcia,  a twice convicted criminal, gang member, wife beater and human trafficker. 

Look at the resistance to Trump's crackdown on crime in the National Capital, where the Left are incensed that he's managed to bring murder and violent crime rates under control. 

They're openly siding with crime. 

Weird. 

Hong Kong. Discovery Bay North Plaza, last night

Auberge Hotel and waterfront promenade, Discovery Bay 

One feather, one girl. Wow! You can't stop watching...

One also has to wonder: what a thing to spend your life perfecting... 

Arrogance of the elite | Chief Egregore Officer



	Chief Egregore Officer ⁦‪@ChiefEgregore‬⁩ ⁦‪@Babygravy9‬⁩ The higher classes also used to believe in the noblesse oblige. Modern elites are like an arrogant pop-star who shit talks her fan base, thinking herself better than them, when really she is nothing without her fans. The elite have a duty to the lower classes. You get to be   28/8/2025, 9:42 pm

Me, Peter Forsythe: 

It's why I'm a traitor to my class — the elite. 

Like Astro Age Redux, I have come to the understanding that the British view of lower class kids getting raped by foreigners is "that's what they deserve for having the nerve to be born low class".

It's rare I've ever felt such visceral disgust and hatred in my life.

There is a very strong class element at work in British politics and life that it's hard for foreigners, especially Americans, to get. It's why the situation in Britain, in populist terms, won't play out like in the US. Being patriotic is coded in ways that make the middle

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Silos and info bubbles | Katherine Boyle

	Katherine Boyle ⁦‪@KTmBoyle‬⁩ You can forgive people for lacking the bravery to call out the truth. I've gotten over that disappointing fact of life: that the brilliant and the elite are for the most part completely devoid of courage when it comes to confronting evil. But learning that many of these people   28/8/2025, 10:03 pm

More thoughts on what I first wrote about here some years ago: bubbles and vortices. 

What is surprising to Katherine Boyle — and to me — is not so much that some people “lack bravery”. But that many simply have not heard of the opposing view. Not that they don’t want to either support or debate a particular take on an issue. . But that they’ve never even heard of that take. This is more common on the Left than the Right, for reasons I’ve noted before. 

Also:

Koestler on Closed Systems

February 17, 2024 by David Foster

The writer Arthur Koestler (‘Darkness at Noon) was a Marxist believer and a Party member when he visited the Soviet Union in 1932.  Looking back later at his younger self, he was struck by the way in which he’d had a kind of filter, a ‘mental sorting machine’, which allowed him to justify the not-so-nice things that he had seen and to fit everything into his belief about the rightness and beneficiality of Communism.  These reflections led him to thoughts on the nature of intellectually closed systems.

A closed system has three peculiarities. Firstly, it claims to represent a truth of universal validity, capable of explaining all phenomena, and to have a cure for all that ails man. In the second place, it is a system which cannot be refuted by evidence, because all potentially damaging data are automatically processed and reinterpreted to make them fit the expected pattern. The processing is done by sophisticated methods of casuistry, centered on axioms of great emotive power, and indifferent to the rules of common logic; it is a kind of Wonderland croquet, played with mobile hoops. In the third place, it is a system which invalidates criticism by shifting the argument to the subjective motivation of the critic, and deducing his motivation from the axioms of the system itself. Read on… 

Trump goes too far

Trump goes too far. Or is it tactics? 

1. School funding shenanigans 

An Occasional Reader reminded me of the maths genius Terence Tao [1],  a certified prodigy, originally from Oz, now in the US, at our very own UCLA (our son's alma mater).

He was complaining publicly, something he hadn't done till then. It was about the cutting of funding to a maths program. The Trump administration had cut about $110 million of funding to UCLA via the National Science Foundation (NSF) part of larger cuts -- more correctly "suspensions" -- to UCLA for its failure to control the anti-semitism on the campus during demonstrations against Israel's war in Gaza. 

I haven't responded to the OR, but my bias was in favour of the Trump administration. I'd seen the violence of the anti-Jew crowd on the UCLA campus. Jewish students were physically harassed and not allowed to go to class. That's against the school rules and against the law. But the admin did nothing. They let the Hamas-hooligans, the keffiyeh-klad kool kids, hassle and bassle the Jewish nerds. Not good. The School needed to be taught a lesson. 

But I've learned that Terence does indeed have a case. In simple terms, Trump has not gone through due process as required under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. 

I had a long argument with Grok about this, and lost. I don't always lose to Grok, but if it's a matter of my bias versus the facts, and my bias goes against the facts, then Grok is going to win. As it did this time. 

So, I'm convinced that Trump has gone too far on this. He -- his administration -- has gone too far. They needed to get their ducks in an orderly, processed, row. 

Then I thought, after seeing what the "due process" involves [2]: Man, oh man, that would take forever! You can imagine this process being readily manipulated by very practiced academic bureaucrats. The axe would never fall. Or would do so only much later.  So -- maybe is my thinking -- Trump decided to go ahead and do it anyway. To suspend $500+ million of federal funding to UCLA. That shook them up. They took legal action. But the Trump administration has put them on notice: if you don't smarten up, this is what's going to happen. Even if we have to go through a lengthy due process. 

For just as it's true that the Trump administration is over its skis on this one; so it is equally true that the UCLA admin has been incompetent and irresolute against clear anti-Jew actions on its campus.

IOW, the whole process undergone by Trump may have been part of a tactical ploy to make the faculty sit up and take notice. Which they have done. And which they would not have done, had Trump simply "gone through the due process". 

Maybe.

2. Stretching Federalism. 

Trump has brought in the National Guard to help control violent crime in Washington DC. It seems to be working. And it seems to be popular amongst the people it's most aimed at helping: the folks in the most crime-ridden neighbourhoods. The Black community. Who've been interviewed to that effect by all sorts of media, including MSNBC and CNN. 

Now, Trump said he might do the same thing in Chicago and other cities. These others name themselves: LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Oakland, Portland, Seattle, New York. 

On the face of it, I'm in favour. But... there are clear line in the United States. The federal government can't interfere in the internal running of the states, in matters as clear cut law & order. Washington DC was one thing, because it's run by the Feds. The States are another matter. 

So, even though it would be good in theory for Trump to do a makeover same as DC in other cities, that would be going too far. Too far. 

Same for the "Cashless bail" issue. Many Dem states have done away with Villains having to pay any bail at all when they are brought in on a charge. They are now released, without paying a penny in surety, told to come back in a month, and so of course they don't do so. Or they turn up again the next day having committed the same crime, yet again, charged and released without bail. Rinse and repeat. 

This is crazy and has led to a clear upsurge in crime, since it was more widely introduced after the 2020 George Floyd riots.

But for Trump to say that he's going to ban no-cash bail? That's going to far. It's up to the states to decide that. 

Then again.... perhaps this is another case like that above. It may be another case of Trump saying he'll step in, to get the attention of Blue city mayors. "Be aware", he might be saying "if you don't get your act together on this, I'm willing to go to the wall to make you do it". 

If that's the case, good on him. If it's just overreach, then it's not on, because it is very clearly against the Constitution. All that would be doing is giving the Dems more ammunition to say: "Trump is Hitler". 

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[1] Terence Tao is widely recognized as a math prodigy. Born on July 17, 1975, in Adelaide, Australia, he displayed extraordinary mathematical talent from a very young age. By age 2, he was solving arithmetic problems, and by 9, he was taking university-level math courses. At 10, he became the youngest participant ever to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a bronze medal in 1986, a silver in 1987, and a gold in 1988. Tao earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University at 21 and became a full professor at UCLA by 24. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006 for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis, and additive number theory. Often called one of the greatest mathematicians of his generation, Tao continues to make significant contributions to multiple fields of mathematics.

[2]: In the context of the UCLA funding suspensions, "due process" refers to the legal and procedural protections that ensure fair treatment before federal funding, such as NSF grants, is withheld or terminated. It typically includes:

1. Notice: UCLA and affected researchers, like Terence Tao, should have been formally notified of the reasons for the proposed funding cuts, specifying alleged violations (e.g., failure to address antisemitism).
2. Opportunity to Respond: The university and researchers should have been given a chance to contest the allegations, provide evidence, or rectify issues through a hearing or formal review process.
3. Clear Legal Basis: The decision to suspend funds should be grounded in established laws or regulations, with transparent justification tied to specific policy violations.
4. Impartial Review: An independent or administrative process should evaluate the decision to ensure it’s not arbitrary or politically motivated.

Why don’t any of the “End the Occupation” anti-Israel lunatics ever speak about Turkey’s occupation of Cyprus? | Eyal Yakobi

 

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Eyal Yakobi: “Why don’t any of the “End the Occupation” anti-Israel lunatics ever speak about Turkey’s occupation of Cyprus?“.

Coz if the “anti-Israel lunatics” didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all. 

Hypocrisy stalks the globe, like a great big stalky thing. 

Hamas are winning the misinformation war

 

John Anderson was Australia's Deputy Prime Minister back in the 1990s to 2005. When I was also someone. When I was a senior civil servant in the Australian government. And I met him several times. Enough for him to call me by my first name. 

I found him a polite man, thoughtful, caring, not at all an up himself politician. 

His podcast has done well. It's amongst the most serious out there. He has on people who are credible and ready for a deep talk. 

He's right about Hamas winning the PR war. In part because the western media made it easy. Our media wanted to be fooled. They wanted to be told stories that they wanted to believe. That Israel is horrid. That Hamas is a freedom-loving. That they are the "resistance". That they have suffered under cruel occupation for 70 years. That Israel is determined to do genocide on the innocent Palestinians. That they want to kill Palestinian babies. That they want to bomb their hospitals. That the Joooz are up to their usual tricks. Controlling the world and drinking the blood of babies. 

But what can Israel do? I think not much. There's no story that Israel can tell that will gain traction because the prevailing wind so strong against it. 

I say this  without having read John Anderson's piece in the Australian. Because I don't have a sub, and I'm not about to. Perhaps I can find it elsewhere. 

Why don’t any of the “End the Occupation” anti-Israel lunatics ever speak about Turkey’s occupation of Cyprus? | Eyal Yakobi



	Natasha Chart 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 ⁦‪@heterodoxan‬⁩ They can't wait for a caliphate.   28/8/2025, 12:24 am

Eyal Yakobi: "Why don't any of the "End the Occupation" anti-Israel lunatics ever speak about Turkey's occupation of Cyprus?".

Coz if the "anti-Israel lunatics" didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all. 

The simple fact is that hypocrisy stalks the globe, like a great big stalky thing. 

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Leftist lady: "Tell me what MAGA men find attractive so I can wear the complete Opposite"

Click above or here. 

And the answers are: "don't worry, lady, you're doing fine". Heh!

Brian Hirsh (Thor)

@BrianHirsh 

Aug 25

Young lady, just keep doing what you're doing. You don't need to change a thing. That inner ugly permeates everywhere.

Some others:

Kinda cute, even for an atheist

aka: Affluent White Female Urban Liberals. AWFULs.

Cruel? Yeah, I guess. But not as cruel as the Left labelling anyone to the Right of them as Nazis, Fascists, Dictators, Authoritarians, White Supremacists…. Or, if they’re conservative and Black, they’re smeared as “Uncle Toms” or “house negroes”. How dare they?

It’s some ultra-woke women who have ruined legendary companies. Bud Light, Harley Davidson, Cracker Barrel. All of a type. You can really tell them just by looking. Their Rachel Maddow-type glasses, heavy black frames. Blue hair. Nose ring.

Sigh…