{"id":5454,"date":"2017-06-06T07:48:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T07:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/06\/dalrymple-on-creative-appeasement-candles-and-teddy-bears\/"},"modified":"2017-06-06T07:48:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T07:48:19","slug":"dalrymple-on-creative-appeasement-candles-and-teddy-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/06\/dalrymple-on-creative-appeasement-candles-and-teddy-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalrymple on Creative Appeasement, Candles, and Teddy Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iwf.org\/blog\/2804044\/Dalrymple-on-\">Here<\/a>:&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">They perceive ours as a candle-and-teddy-bear society . . . We kill, you light candles.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">And so acts of terrorism are not expressions of nihilism or desperation, but reasonable, methodical steps to topple a society that has become too weak and decadent to have the will to defend itself even though it has the means to defend itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Next stop: dhimmitude.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Am I wrong? I hope so!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">And I hope we Amis learn something from the feckless Brits.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Had enough yet? If not, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/run-hide-blame-trump-15240.html\">here<\/a> is Heather Mac&#39;s latest.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here:&#0160; They perceive ours as a candle-and-teddy-bear society . . . We kill, you light candles.&#0160; And so acts of terrorism are not expressions of nihilism or desperation, but reasonable, methodical steps to topple a society that has become too weak and decadent to have the will to defend itself even though it has the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/06\/dalrymple-on-creative-appeasement-candles-and-teddy-bears\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dalrymple on Creative Appeasement, Candles, and Teddy Bears&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}