{"id":5897,"date":"2017-01-02T15:59:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T15:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/02\/barbarians-within-the-gates\/"},"modified":"2017-01-02T15:59:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T15:59:33","slug":"barbarians-within-the-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/02\/barbarians-within-the-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbarians Within the Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecatholicthing.org\/2017\/01\/02\/the-future-of-the-past\/\">Robert Royal<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-8\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<article class=\"pad_v_20 pad_h_40\">\n<div class=\"post-29513 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-10038 category-s5-columns\" id=\"post-29513\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" id=\"post-content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Some European newspapers have reported lately \u2013 very quietly \u2013 that, according to police in Germany\u2019s North Rhineland\/ Westphalia region, from 2011 to 2016 there were 3500 cases of vandalism\/desecration of Christian churches. About two per day in only one region of Germany, every day for the past five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">That&#39;s the bad news. &#0160;The good news is that Trump defeated Hillary who would have continued Obama&#39;s ostrichism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Change and hope for 2017!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Royal again:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-8\">\n<article class=\"pad_v_20 pad_h_40\">\n<div class=\"post-29513 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-10038 category-s5-columns\" id=\"post-29513\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" id=\"post-content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">We, of course, can coexist with Muslims who want to coexist with us. But the presence of jihadists \u2013 essentially an amorphous armed force within our society \u2013 is going to drive us quite close to religious tests for entry into the country and perhaps more.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Royal is assuming that Islam is a religion like any other. &#0160;Not so. &#0160;It is a hybid religious-political ideology that promotes values inimical to the West and its flourishing. &#0160;Sharia and the West do not mix. &#0160;Muslim immigration ought to be curtailed because of Muslims&#39; destructive Sharia-based political values. &#0160;They have no right to come here, and we have no obligation to let them in. There is no net benefit to their immigration when you factor in the destruction, which is not merely physical, wrought by jihadis. The Europeans are learning this the hard way. &#0160;May they learn their lesson well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">No one should be allowed to immigrate who is not prepared to assimilate. &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">No comity without commonality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">While diversity is good, it is good only up to a point. &#0160;A diversity worth wanting presupposes a unity of shared principles.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">A good part of the problem here is the silly liberal conceit that &#39;deep down&#39; we are all the same and want the same things. False! There really are crazies ought there who want to disembarrass you of your head because you differ with them on some abstruse point of theology. &#0160; Leftists, who cannot take religion seriously, think that no one else really takes it seriously either so that what motivates terrorists are things like &quot;lack of jobs&quot; &#0160;as the foolish Obama once said. &#0160;A very stupid form of projection!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">But we will soon be rid of the feckless fool.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-8\">\n<article class=\"pad_v_20 pad_h_40\">\n<div class=\"post-29513 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-10038 category-s5-columns\" id=\"post-29513\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" id=\"post-content\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">That being said and rejoiced in, Happy New Year! &#0160;By OUR calendar.&#0160;<\/span>&#0160;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Related articles<\/span><\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; 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About two per day in only one region of Germany, every day for the past five years. That&#39;s the bad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/02\/barbarians-within-the-gates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barbarians Within the Gates&#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":[180,119,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-islamism","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897","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=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}