Trying on a new scale, building explodes in Muslim part of London: Links 1 on January 23 – 2017

It is truly dizzying how fast a good man can turn bad things around.

1, Russia Receives Daesh Coordinates in Al-Bab From US

(How fast can the problem of the Islamic State be solved if the US and Russia work together?)

Russia has received coordinates of Daesh targets in Al-Bab, Aleppo Province, from the US via the ‘direct line,’ the Russian Defense Minsitry said Monday.

The United States has provided coordinates of the terrorists’ targets in the city of Al-Bab in Aleppo province for Russian airstrikes. After the reconaissance check, Russia and two coalition jets have conducted joint airstrikes on the Daesh targets in the region.

(Wild applause. Related🙂

2. UK: Queen’s chaplain who objected to Qur’an reading in cathedral forced to resign

St. Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow featured a Qur’an reading denying the divinity of Christ, a core Christian tenet. Rev. Canon Gavin Ashenden objected. He is being forced the resign. The ones who staged the event ought to be resigning, but they are going strong in today’s brave, new, multicultural Britain, which is, of course, the forerunner of Sharia Britain.

An update on this story. “Queen’s chaplain quits over cathedral Koran reading which said ‘not to worship Jesus,’” by Ross Logan, Express, January 22, 2017:

ONE of the Queen’s Chaplains has resigned amid a row over a passage of the Koran read out at a Glasgow cathedral which denies Jesus is the son of God.

(If memory serves, we featured a video of this man discussing this issue with a colleague a few days ago here at Vlad. It was quite interesting.)

3. Events of the past few weeks have inspired me to event a new scale. It is not formalized yet so there is lots of room for people to refine the idea, add data points and even change the parameters to make it work better, and better reflect reality.

I call it, ‘The act of desperation scale’, or ADS.

The point of the scale is to measure how people or organizations behave as they estimate their cost benefit of out-of-character actions due to changing circumstances.

Less abstractly, when CNN decides that people think they lie already, the ratings are dropping, and they figure they may be headed for the historical dustbin, they may as well make up some whoppers about trump and see if they stick, since they will probably tank anyway so the cost of taking outrageous actions is no longer as high as it was when they had a reputation to protect.

Much like how the closer Obama got to a moving truck, the less his actions concealed his true feelings.

One can’t help but notice this more and more these days, as the world wakes up to the facts of Islam and the left, which has been using islam as one of its principle battering rams against classical civilization, and the left and Muslims feeling their lead slipping, lose caution.

Often people react with horror when they see what leftist groups are doing in the face of a renewed vigour for actual reason. But it may be cause for celebration. It means they are throwing the baby off of the balloon, desperate to get rid of any ballast they can, just to clear the damn tree tops.

Here are a couple of splendid examples:

  1. Dutch PM Rutte makes angry stammering sounds about Migrants who do not like the Dutch way of life should maybe leave. Rather than post that sad, 9.2 on the ADS scale, it seems more appropriate to give you Geert Wilders’ response instead, which has always been consistent, and always on point, and with perfect predictive value:

2. Manuel Valls, the French PM, also making strange clucking sounds, attempting to siphon off some of le Pen’s voters.

Europe cannot take in all the refugees fleeing war-torn Syria and Iraq and the migration crisis is putting the European Union in grave danger, the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Valls added that Europe needed to take urgent action to control its external borders. “Otherwise,” he said, “our societies will be totally destabilised”.

Asked whether the Schengen agreement – the passport free zone on the European continent – was on the verge of collapse as a result of the on-going migration crisis, he said: “No, it’s Europe that can die, not the Schengen area. If Europe is not capable of protecting its own borders.

Of course, Valls and Rutte are as much to blame as Merkel ideologically. Merkel also has tested the waters from time to time and makes reassuring noises, then instantly does nothing about them, continuing her policy of the destruction of the nation state.

Its no wonder Obama’s last call as president was to her.

Keep an eye out for similar events. This scale, once properly refined, may hold great predictive power for large events, as we see individuals and people take larger and larger risks to try and save their momentum or power or policies from the wave of reason that is beginning to sweep the West.

4. Anti-Trump Protestor lights a girl’s hair on fire.

5. BREAKING: Two arrested following explosion at east London block of flats

(I just checked in with a friend who is still up in London who assured me that this part of London was in fact notoriously Islamic)

Two men have been arrested following an explosion at a block of flats in east London.

Police said the two men, who had both been taken to hospital for treatment to their injuries, were arrested on suspicion of arson. No further details on the men have been released.

About 60 firefighters rushed to the scene to tackle a large blaze that took hold in a residential block of flats in Hornchurch after the blast.

At least five people were injured, police confirmed. Four people were taken by London ambulance service to an east London hospital while another person presented themselves at hospital with injuries.

Thank you Xanthippa, M., Wrath of Khan, Gates of Vienna, Richard, Kathy, Malca, Johnny U., Perfect Child, Ava Lon, and many many more who sent in comments, links and observations.

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5 Replies to “Trying on a new scale, building explodes in Muslim part of London: Links 1 on January 23 – 2017”

  1. 4.
    A tragic thing, is to make a fatherless child,
    My neice today has turned away
    Her head in a hemium bag.
    How should a thing for queen and beta-king
    With more riches than I could say,
    Her lifeless limbs now drag?
    A father’s love makes the inside for the above
    Whereas most mothers think men just pay
    For those with the fatherless tag.
    As the first-born rebelled, becoming mentally ill
    Harming herself every day.
    The second, lay still, and was glad.
    This perfect little princess who wouldn’t be wrong
    Had never faced the blame.
    Until the day she was bad.
    Until the day she was bad.

  2. 2. There is a spoof letter doing the rounds:
    http://www.anglican.ink/article/satiric-reflections-glasgow-cathedral-koran-controversy
    “Koranic Kelv again, from the Provost’s Office at Glasgow Cathedral. In the midst of all the international hue and cry about our Islamic Eucharist for Epiphany, I have to say that I have found peace in the storm, the perfect peace of the disciples as they slept at Gethsemane, and of Jonah deep below in the boat. I saw divine kindness in the actions of our wonderful police who promised to lock up all the hateful people who disagree with me. Nothing speaks of God’s love more than reporting those who say things you don’t like. I choose love (and throw away the key). Of course we know that the controversy over the reading at our Islamic Eucharist has nothing to do with something as trivial and minor as Christ’s divinity. The real reason is me – it’s all about me, and the fact I am gay. Or possibly that the lector was female. Had the service been led by a heterosexual cleric and the Qur’an read by a man, there would not have been a single word of protest, not a cheep. No-one would have concerned themselves about it at all. It’s shocking that there are so many homophobes who protested without even knowing that I was gay in the first place. That surely demonstrates how hateful and bigoted they are. There is wonderful work to be done in reconciling all the nice people of whatever faith and I intend to continue it. I cannot believe that moderate churches in the West should follow a policy of appeasement towards those who are Islamophobic. No, my policy of appeasement is in quite a different direction. 2017 is to be a year of celebration and discovery. Having invited our Muslim friends to celebrate Epiphany with an appropriate reading from their holy book, I am announcing that we shall be joined by various faith and communiy groups for our major festivals this year. The proposed programme is as follows:
    Lent:
    the joy of self-denial – a series of Lenten addresses by Pastor Buck Claimitt of the Full Prosperity Mega Church
    Good Friday:
    a reflection on pain and suffering – led by members of the Christian Science Church
    Easter:
    celebrating the Reincarnation with the Hindu community”

    The serious discussion video is here: https://youtu.be/srARNtCPg5I