As IF Times

Source: Philadelphia police officer shot in patrol car – CNN.com

There’s a crazy rumor flying around that the shooting of this Philadelphia police officer was rooted in radical Islam.  According to the authorities, this is completely unfounded and the mayor stated categorically that this incident had nothing to do with Islam.  This goofy notion possibly got started because the perpetrator was heard shouting “This is in the name of Islam” while shooting the officer.  But who knows.

The tragedy of the San Bernardino shootings last month also stirred rumors of radical Muslim involvement.  But so far, the public is told that the cache of weapons, explosive devices, tactical military gear and communication with nefarious groups in Syria doesn’t mean anything.  Apparently private emails have them communicating with such groups,  but the shooters didn’t declare it on public social networks, so therefore it doesn’t count.

Meanwhile, at any time that there is a fatal shooting, the entire population of legitimate gun owners are cast as being crazed killers and wing nuts. If the shooting toll on a typical Chicago weekend hits 2 dozen, it implies that it’s the hillbilly, right wing paranoid gun owner in Texas that is to blame and therefore more restrictions are needed on gun ownership.  Anyone with a passing exposure to logic, or over the age of 10,  can see the insanity of the narrative.

So here’s the logic analogy using dogs.  In the first example, a specific breed of dog begins to noticeably bite humans after signaling their intent in dog social media.  But apologists point out that not all of this breed are dangerous and that irrational fear of this breed is unfounded. People are encouraged to get more of these dogs.

In the second example, another very specific breed also bites humans.  But in this case, dog owners of any and all breeds are imposed with ever stricter rules placed upon their ownership and derided publicly for wanting to own any kind of dog.

This brings to mind the old chestnut; there are no bad dogs, only bad owners.

Source: Germany now has North Africas sex crime troubles – Chicago Tribune

Those that have been following the news may have noticed that men from non western cultures do not have quite the same respect for acceptable protocols concerning women as they do in the west.  Of course, that’s kind of like saying Kim Kardashian is a flirt but this realization is dawning upon those that have created policies welcoming new cultures with expectations of easy assimilation.

It shows a naivete that is borne from lack of experience, or much worse, an inability to accept reality.  Outside the PC borders of western societies, men are treated as disposable commodities, much less women.   Imagine coming from a culture in which the exposure of a woman’s ankle is considered unacceptably lurid to being plopped into one in which women frequently dress like Taylor Swift.  What could go wrong?

The naive premise that everyone’s the same and worships the same set of values is as wrongheaded as expecting dogfish to fetch sticks.   There is and always has been a great divide in the view of women’s roles in society between the Judeo Christian/Secular and the Muslim based cultures.  In the 21st century, you’d like to think that death is a bit of an extreme penalty for showing an elbow, or that a display of calf is the same as an open for business signal.  But in some extreme Muslim societies, those views do exist.

In the extreme case of the ISIS group, women are explicitly held to be chattel and in fact, there are codified instruction manuals on rape protocols.  “Well, you can do the mother but not the daughter” or  “Only after prayers, but not before lunch”.  In the news today is an item which claims that an ISIS member executed his own mother for the crime of trying to talk him into leaving ISIS.

It’s no wonder the ISIS men are so savage; they can’t find women of free will to date them. What would be the sales pitch? “Well you can’t come out in the daytime unless covered completely in a designer sackcloth; you can’t speak unless spoken to, you need to do whatever, whenever; you get beaten when the mood strikes and are eligible to be stoned to death if you glance at the plumber…what’s a good wedding date?”.  How do they stop women from flooding in to hook such manly men?

If such behavior were exhibited in western cultures, the man would be in jail as fast as shrimp disappears from the buffet table, or at least be the subject of much squawking on The View.  Apologists are brushing off this behavior as if it was simply a function of religious differences.   What is needed is an end to the appeasement attitude and an acknowledgement that this kind of stuff has little to do with religion.  It is not only illegal in our culture, it’s inhumane and as the Brits say, it’s frowned upon.  Anybody who fears offending ISIS or apologizing for any anti-social behavior in the name of religious sensibilities should be made to live among them.