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Mogwai
2 years ago

An interesting observation by the author of this article, comparing the solidarity and tribalism of the Muslim communities worldwide and the lack thereof amongst Western nations, which is surely to our detriment, especially the way we keep on importing more and more of these people who’s objective is to dominate us, not live peacefully alongside us. ”Why are Muslims around the world — who come from different nations, speak different languages, and have different cultures — so moved by a distant, atrocious event that presumably does not affect or involve them? Simple: because they are Muslim; or rather, because Islam is so inherently tribal that its adherents, no matter how different or apart, maintain a sense of solidarity, one that especially exults when Islam “scores a victory” against infidels, especially those perceived as mistreating Muslims. (That’s why many Muslims also celebrated after 9/11.) Not only is such survival-of-the fittest thinking instinctively appealing, but it stands in stark contrast with Christian virtues, such as humility, which requires cultivation. In this sense, then, when one group of Muslims strike a victory in the name of Islam, including through bloodshed and massacres, Muslims the world over become elated, because it lifts them up, due, again, to Islam’s… Read more »

transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Indeed. I would love to understand where and how this trend started.

Free Lemming
2 years ago

Isn’t it easily explained by faith in God? Muslims not only speak words of faith, but manifest their thoughts and words into actions, which prove they truly believe there is a higher power. The West has either completely abandoned religion – replacing it for other faiths without meaning e.g. vaccines, climate change, LGBTQFUCKOFSIPX+ (more appropriately known a -H) – or held on to it in name only. They have an understanding of the meaning of life and a rulebook to follow. We don’t. The irony being that their pursuit of heaven means they can commit and applaud the most disgusting and inhumane acts. Because, you know, God.

I’ve never been religious, but I am now pondering the possibility that the Bible is a book of moral code that presents meaning, and has historically enforced order in society – often without us understanding the roots of that order. Now, in the West, that has been abandoned. But not elsewhere.

transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Yes, all good points. I am not and have never been religious, but it has seemed to me for a while now that the fading of religious belief and adherence has left a void that we’ve struggled to fill.

Dinger64
2 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Just as in the bible, the Koran speaks of being good and caring to your fellow man, the problem, as in most religions, is who and how it is interpretated!

JeremyP99
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

When a society that has belief takes on one that has no belief, there can only by one winner.

Dinger64
2 years ago
Reply to  JeremyP99

Especially if the west gives that winner a leg up! They must think we are such an easy touch, grief, they’re laughing at the west out loud and we still protect them!

NeilParkin
2 years ago

Prepare for a fresh wave of Covid, health chiefs say

What.?? Colds are trending upwards as we come into winter.? Why did no-one mention this before.?

JohnK
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Not much profit from typical over-the-counter drugs often used against common colds?

The old bat
2 years ago
Reply to  JohnK

I now know of three people who say they have had covid following a recent booster. Well, more fool them for getting boosted, (and they completely fail to connect the two things!) but how do they know it’s covid? Are people really still testing themselves, and why? I didn’t even know testing was still a thing, having never tested myself (or had covid, as far as I’m aware.)

transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Something of a victory in my tiny little world – a colleague of mine who has always been a bit covidian mentioned he “had a cold”.

WyrdWoman
2 years ago

Hoorray! Have also just heard of a multi-jabbed devotee (who had Bell’s palsy after the second one) deciding that they are not going to have any more boosters or the flu jab, ‘because [they] have heard there are lots of side effects’ (deliberately anonymised, not woke!).
Turning the tide, one jabbee at a time.

AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

Good news worth celebrating!

Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago

More good news: –

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/13/pfizer-cuts-earnings-revenue-guidance-as-covid-sales-slump.html

The injections are being rejected on a large scale.

Stuart
2 years ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

Nice one WW. I’ve had a couple of similar small victories recently at work. From my own observations, it seems the ones who were most afraid of Covid are now becoming afraid of the vaccines.

A. Contrarian
2 years ago

Probably he’d tested himself to rule out covid before downgrading it to a cold.

transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  A. Contrarian

Yeah maybe. I think he’d have mentioned it if he had, but perhaps he has got wind of my views and decided to leave the subject alone in my presence. I joined some call a few months ago and my team were chatting bollocks about vaccines etc and mentioned I’d not had any and I was fine. Silence. Then “you must be one of those conspiracy people”.

johnbuk
johnbuk
2 years ago
Reply to  A. Contrarian

No doubt disappointed with the result.

AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

I read a bunch of letters I sent to my parents in the 1970s from school and they frequently mentioned colds and flu. We’re being played big time to believe that normal seasonal ailments possibly due to a lack of Vits C and D are some big threat. Well, I know you know that but it’s interesting none-the-less. Friends (who were jabbed) and people I know have recently said they had another bout of covid but all it is, is a case of the sniffles, sore throat, feeling awful etc. Amazing that no one remembers how colder wetter weather used to affect us.

ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Yes…it’s amazing isn’t it?
Cold and flu cases always increase in the autumn and winter –

except…of course….in 2020/21, when flu disappeared and was miraculously replaced with COVID.

COVID, a master of disguise and duplicity…! LOL!!

A. Contrarian
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

I know – it was a shock last year, and the year before, and I’m sure it will be next year too. I for one miss the old days before covid when no one ever got ill during the winter and the NHS was never in crisis.

Dinger64
2 years ago

“Teacher tells Jewish students to stand in a corner, just as ‘Israel does to the Palestinians”

And some on here still say there will be no bias from Palistinian doctors towards Jewish patients? Pull the other one

ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  Dinger64

…that was me Dinger..and I’ve still to see you show any evidence that any doctor has done so……other than in your head…

Plus I’d rather not jump straight into because A happened B must be true, about a whole race of people….

I will also wait to hear a little more about the above story….rather than ‘some children said…’

I can’t help what you think, and you have your opinion, but please don’t tar me or anyone else with the ‘If the paper says it, it’s true’ brush..thanks….

Dinger64
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

I’m not saying that at all so f off!
I’m afraid ‘eby’ that the world is not as cute and fair as you seem to be making yourself believe!

huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Out of order Dinger. No need for such obnoxious rudeness to a venerable DS member.

Dinger64
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

The clique just gets stronger doesn’t it?

ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Dinger..let’s not fall out…

We can have a difference of opinion..

I know there are evil people..you know nothing about me, so I assure you I have probably seen more of that than you know….

The point is, I don’t have to join them..that’s the important bit to me.

DS99
2 years ago

I wonder if Kevin Bass had not suffered myo-pericarditis he would still be recommending the vaccine for all? Try spotting the sentence that triggered me this morning and appears to have triggered quite a few commenters … as one says, “he still doesn’t get it” although fair play to him for writing the article – it’s a start.

Dinger64
2 years ago

Even the emergency services are becoming part of the big ev cover up! There is no one left we can trust!

AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago
Reply to  Dinger64

No one in authority, that’s true. They’re all co-opted into the big lie with ‘orders’ coming from up high to down low.

WyrdWoman
2 years ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Seems like there isn’t. Geoff Buys Cars has done a pretty thorough ‘citizen science’ analysis, funny too. Some of the comments are worth a read for further detail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-zKTqe19ss

Dinger64
2 years ago

“Israel shouldn’t have had to prove that Hamas slaughtered babies”

Sorry, but I don’t do blind faith no matter who states it! The pictures ive managed to find show body bags with blood on them,they could be dead dogs for all i know! Show people the images, show the truth no matter who it may offend, the human race needs some basic realities to confront not more mollycoddling!

Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Dinger64

In some ways we could argue that it doesn’t really matter. Why should there be a spectrum of depravity? Do evil psychopaths have a limit or an off-switch? I think going by what we’ve all witnessed by now that we can safely say these Hamas barbarians are capable of anything and are a danger even to their own people, therefore should be blasted from all existence. A captured terrorist in this clip tells us what they get up to. This is how much they value human life;

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/hamas-jihadi-admits-that-he-and-his-cohorts-raped-tortured-and-beheaded-israeli-civilians-including-children

THE REAL NORMAL PODCAST

Has Soviet Self Censorship come to Britain?

Fat Pig News Investigates!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIO3fJpnXLE

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Dinger64
2 years ago

“‘Blade Runners’ vow to destroy ULEZ cameras to bring it ’to its knees”

Throwing eggs at them isn’t going to make much difference, slashing it’s tyres might? Not that I condone any form of criminal action!
” that showed em, ugh!”

Dinger64
2 years ago

“because the two sides seemed to be offering too much of the same thing, says David Frost in the Telegraph.”

No!, you don’t say!

porgycorgy
porgycorgy
2 years ago

Kevin Bass strikes me as ‘particularly dim’, for pretty obvious reasons.

WyrdWoman
2 years ago

Lloyds Bank offers 30,000 staff paid BUPA counselling if triggered By Conservative Party conference trans rhetoric ‘fuelling hate’”  and
Nigel Farage to bank with Lloyds after Coutts account closure

Is that stupid HR woman going to write to all 30K staff again to offer counselling for taking on Farage?

ebygum
2 years ago

https://twitter.com/TheRustler83/status/1712861242992239082

Since the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine on 14th December 2020, the USA has had:

675 Million vaccine doses
1.4 Million Excess Deaths
850,000 ‘COVID’ Deaths

Vaccines V Excess Deaths

2020 USA
480,000 excess deaths
360,000 COVID deaths

2021
670,000 excess deaths
480,000 COVID deaths
510M 💉

2022
590,000 excess deaths
245,000 COVID deaths
150M 💉

2023
150,000 excess deaths
50,000 COVID deaths
10M 💉

16 Million COVID ‘Cases’ before the vaccine roll-out
90 Million COVID ‘Cases’ after the vaccine roll-out

If the vaccines worked, why didn’t they work?

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home

ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Ben
@USMortality

98% of Americans have refused to take the new boosters. That’s a win, because they don’t work!

huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

they don’t work”

That depends on who defines “work.”

ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

….Yes..it reminds me of an old meme….”mummy does the vaccines provide immunity….only to the Pharma companies darling….”

LOL!

huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

😀😀

ebygum
2 years ago

LOL..…..the Pharma Companies must be spending billions propping up ‘awards’…(not only the Nobel)…to keep their ‘product’ in play…?

Robert W Malone, MD
@RWMaloneMD

You can’t make this stuff up.
This is a sick, sick world we live in.
The Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) has awarded Peter Hotez the ANTHONY FAUCI COURAGE IN LEADERSHIP AWARD.

ebygum
2 years ago

LOL!! And ALL true!!!

Five Times August
@FiveTimesAugust

Guys. Seriously, stop being ridiculous. There’s no weird global agenda attempting to keep us all fearful slaves you conspiracy nuts.
So what if inside of three years we went from a pre-planned pandemic that attempted to lock down, mask up, and jab up every single man, woman, and child …. to murder hornets…. to racial justice riots… to monkey pox ….to an aids comeback ….to drag queens profiting off perverting children ….to an astronomical spike in overly medicated and confused transgender kids …..to a whole bunch of “unexpected” heart attacks in young healthy people after a miraculous warp-speed vaccine…. to a test run of social credit vax pass compliance apps …..to a brand new war ….. to global warming to global boiling ….to alien sightings …..to another brand new war ….into another plandemic…
THIS STUFF HAPPENS ALL THE TIME AND IS PERFECTLY NORMAL…..

It’s Just life y’all, geez, settle down.

Derek Davis
Derek Davis
2 years ago

Another day, another nine stories at the top of Daily Sceptic’s News Roundup all from a pro-Israel/anti-Hamas perspective, conveniently ignoring the fact that there are very clear, practical, long-standing reasons why two million people trapped in an open-air prison called the Gaza Strip might wish to attack, kill, and take hostages among the people they identify as their jailers. An entire generation of young Palestinians have grown up under a brutal, de-humanizing occupation, and they are ready to risk their lives in this struggle. I expect nothing more than one-sided propaganda from the mainstream media, but I had hoped, perhaps naively, that a web site that prides itself on “questioning everything”, might at least stand up for the rights of those in different countries to express different opinions on this topic, and possibly even allow some of those opinions to be heard here. If Glenn Greenwald can do it, why can’t The Daily Sceptic?

rachel.c
rachel.c
2 years ago
Reply to  Derek Davis

The lack of nuanced coverage is depressing. It’s should not be a question of taking sides but understanding what’s behind all this. I’d like references to discussions such as the one I’m just listening to between Bret Weinstein and Efrat Fenigson at
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F_IAH7PnS_E
She was in Israeli intelligence force so knows a thing or two.

ebygum
2 years ago

Well here’s a turn up for the books..brilliant, good luck to them…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/14/new-zealand-election-2023-results-national-party-labour-

New Zealand voters have delivered a forceful rejection of the Labour government as a surge in support for the National party delivered what analysts described as a “bloodbath” for the government and a new right-leaning era for politics in the country.
The result marked a dramatic change in fortunes for the Labour party, which three years earlier – led by Jacinda Ardern – secured a historic mandate, but saw its support dwindle in the face of rising living costs and the Covid pandemic.

Speaking to a large crowd of party-faithful at his election night event in Auckland, National party leader Christopher Luxon said his party was on course to form the next government with libertarian party Act. “All over this country you have reached for hope and you have voted for change,” Luxon said.

huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

“…you have voted for change,” Luxon said.”

I would say we are at the wait and see point.

rachel.c
rachel.c
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Agree. The Weffers are good at clinging on to power and not changing one bit.

huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  rachel.c

👍👍