Socialism leads to Lord of the Flies, Islam leads to divinely ordained, Lord of the Flies. Links 1 on May 21 – 2016

1, Mob burns Venezuelan man alive over $5 as justice fails

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The mob didn’t know at first what Roberto Bernal had done, but he was running and that was enough.

Dozens of men loitering on the sidewalk next to a supermarket kicked and punched the 42-year-old until he was bloodied and semi-conscious. After all, they had been robbed of cell phones, wallets and motorcycles over the years, and thought Bernal had a criminal’s face.

Then a stooped, white-haired man trailing behind told them he’d been mugged.

The mob went through Bernal’s pockets and handed a wad of bills to the old man: The equivalent of $5. They doused Bernal’s head and chest in gasoline and flicked a lighter. And they stood back as he burned alive.

“We wanted to teach this man a lesson,” said Eduardo Mijares, 29. “We’re tired of being robbed every time we go into the street, and the police do nothing.”

2. Massive rioting in Idomeni Greece, vastly underreported by the MSM and what reportage of it there is, seems to use some kind of moral equivalence and even time machine logic. Meaning that it gives the vague impression that if only the Greek police did not use tear gas in response to having rocks thrown at them by muslims as well as the migrants ramming the border with a rail car, then there would be no muslims ramming the border with a rail car or throwing rocks at them.

3. Russia Arrests 4 People Suspected of Ties to Islamic State

Russia’s anti-terrorism agency says its officers have arrested four people it says are connected with the Islamic State group and are suspected of planning attacks.

The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement Saturday the four were arrested in a raid in the southern republic of Ingushetia that also turned up three self-made explosive devices, grenades and firearms.

4. Czech Politician: West Will Have To ‘Crush’ Islam

Islam is a “criminal” ideology which deserves to be ranked with “Nazism, fascism and communism”, is “incompatible with the principles of European law” and, like its totalitarian predecessors, must inevitably be defeated.

So argues Czech lawyer, activist and politician Klára Samková in a hard hitting lecture she delivered earlier this week in the Czech Parliament to an audience including (some rather bemused) ambassadors from Muslim countries – including the Turkish ambassador who, with several others, walked out half way through.

Her speech – translated here by Luboš Motl – is well worth reading because it addresses issues almost never aired in polite circles in Western democracies, which find it convenient to dismiss them as extremist or Islamophobic or needlessly inflammatory.

Is Islam compatible with Western democracy? Is it capable of reform? Can this end happily?

(Xanthippa is looking for more media on this in Czech)

5. Singer of band playing during Bataclan attack in Paris explains how the media has been deceiving the public on the facts.

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They were in the venue early. That implies some staff were in on it.

I got in a lot of trouble for saying that. I know for sure that they were in there early. I remember them staring at my buddy. I just chalked it up to Arab envy. You know what I mean? When a Muslim sees a cocky American dude with tattoos, he stares at him. I realized later it was Abdeslam and he was staring at my buddy because they thought he was a threat. There’s no denying the terrorists were already inside, and they had to get in somehow. During the shooting I went outside and the backstage door was propped open. How did that happen?

Thank you M., Wrath of Khan, Richard, Yucki, Nash Montana, and many more.

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