Millennial Couple Bikes Through ISIS Territory to Prove Humans Are Kind...get killed!
08-17-2018, 11:31 AM
Lots of people don't mind paying the eloi tax.
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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: U.S. Couple Murdered by ISIS Fell Victim to Left’s Fantasy World
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The story has invited more derision than sympathy for the victims: a couple that ridiculed the idea that “the world is a big, scary place” was murdered by Islamic State (ISIS) jihadis while biking through Tajikistan. But those who are mocking Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan for their naivete are being too harsh.
The responsibility for their deaths lies not just with ISIS, or with this starry-eyed couple, but also with the Leftist world in which they moved and lived. The Left’s leaders constructed a fantasy world, because Leftist ideas are dead on the drawing board without it.
In their fantasy world, Islam is peace. Borders and nation-states are unwelcome relics of a bygone age, because people are good everywhere — with the exception of Donald Trump and the “far-right.”
Austin, an employee of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Geoghegan, who worked at Georgetown University, decided two years ago to leave their jobs and go on a bike ride around the world. They kept a blog about their journey, on which Austin wrote last April:
You watch the news and you read the papers and you’re led to believe that the world is a big, scary place. People, the narrative goes, are not to be trusted. People are bad. People are evil. People are axe murderers and monsters and worse.
I don’t buy it. Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own — it’s easier to dismiss an opinion as abhorrent than strive to understand it. Badness exists, sure, but even that’s quite rare. By and large, humans are kind. Self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes, but kind. Generous and wonderful and kind. No greater revelation has come from our journey than this.
Yes, Austin and Geoghegan were unwise to carry this Pollyannish philosophy into Muslim Central Asia, but they didn’t originate it. In this sad episode, ISIS is not the only one with blood on their hands.
Where did Austin get the idea that “evil is a make-believe concept? Perhaps in today’s universities, which are saturated with moral relativism, contemptuous of absolutes, and dogmatically convinced that there is no dispute between people that can’t be settled by mutually respectful “dialogue.”
This perspective dominates contemporary culture, and is taken for granted even at the highest level. When Barack Obama and John Kerry entered into negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, they were working upon the assumption that it was wrong to think that people “are not to be trusted” and that “people are evil.” Obama and Kerry were essentially embracing the idea that “evil is a make-believe concept.” That the mullahs were perhaps “self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes,” but ultimately good-hearted. The Leftist intelligentsia was and still is unanimous in applauding that initiative.
Likewise, it is a matter of dogmatic certainty for the Left that Islam is a religion of peace, and that only racist, bigoted “Islamophobes” think otherwise. Why should Austin and Geoghegan have had any reason to be concerned about bicycle riding through the Muslim-majority countries of Central Asia?
After all, those who don’t believe that “evil is a make-believe concept” are subject to furious and concerted demonization. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — and the establishment media that treats the SPLC as if it were a reliable source — sees only one group of genuinely evil people in the world. Those who recognize that there are evil forces in the world that are set against the United States, and who want to protect Americans against Islamic jihadists, criminal migrants, and more, are the only evil ones. Austin and Geoghegan no doubt had nothing but contempt for such “intolerance” and “hate” manifested by foes of jihad terror and unrestricted illegal immigration.
The Left forces people to believe these fantasies, lest they be charged with “hatred” and “bigotry.”…
Quote: (08-17-2018 05:02 AM)Simeon_Strangelight Wrote:
Quote: (08-16-2018 02:37 AM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:
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1. Women getting raped/killed in countries like Haiti - notable case this one that got raped on a roof by an "oppressed" black man as she screamed that she read Malcolm X
Happens constantly in Africa. Africa is all safe and fine until it isn't. Even supposedly stable and safe countries like Botswana have through-the-roof rape, murder and kidnapping rates.
2. Women who travel to Palestine because they feel with the poor oppressed Palestinians. There are hundreds of women who entered the area, were then forcibly married to a local men and were never again allowed to leave or even contact their family back home.
Read recently an article on the topic, because of how often it happens. It's sometimes literally a few dozen miles away from the oppressive state of Israel and they are set to live in captivity for the rest of their lives.
3. Women who marry enlightened oppressed Muslim men - hundreds of thousands of Western women doing it in the West. They know nothing about Islam when usually converting. 10% of the marriages are happy and fine, often because the Muslim is very secular, extremely loving or an undercover Ex-Muslim. The divorce rate however is approaching 80% (if they can divorce living in the West).
The foundation Estera helps women get out of those relationships safely and has some stats compiled. The death rate of women is at times approaching their chances of being happy in a Muslim marriage. The number of women who get their kids taken away to a Muslim country is somewhere around 15-20%.
Most of this is based on simply indoctrination about the true nature of the religion. They usually find out about it until it is too late and they are married with a child on the way. Standard fare - before conversion given a book by Rumi (who was killed by Muslims btw), afterwards find out that Rumi's teachings did not have much to do with Islam at all. (Wine drinking Persian mystic was more a Zoroastran than Muslim.)
4. Women get constantly raped and murdered in the West now as they embrace the lovely refugees. There are so many cases of refugee aid workers who experience violence, that we could cite dozens of articles.
5. Couples traveling in dangerous location in their blue-eyed pacifist equalist mindset.
I can think of this one here, but also the one in Africa who got shot by some warlord group and even put on the internet.
Of course those things can change over time, but a wise man calculates his chances with each endeavor. Travel, bangs - certainly marriages have to be put on a risk-reward ratio.
What the couple did was the equivalent of an 80yo rich Gamma male marrying a 21yo woman whose last 2 husbands died mysterious deaths. If the woman had been biking alone through Marocco and Egypt, then she would likely already be dead. They were safer as a couple until they met a more believing Islamic group of men.
This could have happened to them in some areas in Egypt or Lebanon - nothing special about it.
It's really funny if you think about it that the average liberal woman is being told lies about mostly harmless things:
+ rape culture in colleges - especially White frat boys
+ Hollywood moguls and powerful men sometimes badly flirting with them while fucking them can sometimes bring great dividends (almost all of those encounters were just calculated bangs for profit and not rape)
+ evil Trump supporters and male supremacist "pro-rape" groups like us - they are literally Nazis
Harmless and oppressed:
- Muslim refugees
- ghetto blacks in rough parts of town - they are just exciting bad boys (cultured educated black men are almost as bad as those terrible white privileged men)
- Anyone brown and not White anywhere in the world - even if it's a violence infested country where killing someone for 100$ is legit
So the women in the West are literally brainwashed to fear those who could protect them and embrace those who might rape and kill them at a much higher rate. It's bizarre how good their propaganda works.
Quote: (08-23-2018 02:21 PM)Aurini Wrote:
One of my rules is that, if you're going to put yourself under my protection, then I expect you to follow orders immediately and without question. This seldom comes up (I am not a bully) but when it does, I cannot risk you wavering, any more than I can deal with a rider on the back of my motorcycle who leans against the turns.
Thinks can escalate faster than most people realize, and few have developed the instincts for this. Most of the time with North Americans, they'll freeze up - wait for the authorities to deal with things, try not to escalate by admitting that the surface friendliness is gone - they don't trust their own instincts anymore, they instead trust their socialized training.
But if that's the case, then don't put yourself under my protection. Get off the back of my motorcycle, and call an Uber. Because now you're just going to get both of us killed.
Quote: (08-23-2018 02:45 PM)debeguiled Wrote:
@Aurini
Long ago, when I was in a relationship based on equality (yeah, I know), and I didn't even really know the woman was under my protection or that I expected her to follow my rules (because equality), she did something really stupid while we were travelling which could have been dangerous to not only to us, but her kids. She explained what she had done, trying to downplay it, and I repeated it back in horror, knowing I would have to act immediately to remedy it. She started in on trying to make it my fault (But you said. . . .) and I did something I had never done before in our gender equal relationship.
Quote: (08-23-2018 11:05 PM)Aurini Wrote:
Quote: (08-23-2018 02:45 PM)debeguiled Wrote:
@Aurini
Long ago, when I was in a relationship based on equality (yeah, I know), and I didn't even really know the woman was under my protection or that I expected her to follow my rules (because equality), she did something really stupid while we were travelling which could have been dangerous to not only to us, but her kids. She explained what she had done, trying to downplay it, and I repeated it back in horror, knowing I would have to act immediately to remedy it. She started in on trying to make it my fault (But you said. . . .) and I did something I had never done before in our gender equal relationship.
Now I want to know the details.
Quote: (08-24-2018 01:36 PM)renotime Wrote:
Jeez, SS, way to condemn a woman for stepping in to save a German kid's life.
That cunt Merkel's the one to blame.
And I think the Muslim is only getting charged with attempted manslaughter and at tops is getting 10 years because he's only 17. He should be sent back to Syria.
Quote: (08-24-2018 05:59 PM)renotime Wrote:
I don't think screaming for help in Germany would help. All the men there are fags. In fact, her boyfriend was with her.
So if you are to believe Wikipedia, she was in a grocery store with her boyfriend and she broke up a fight between two Syrian immigrant relatives, which is fucking stupid. And her man was even dumber for allowing it to happen. They then ran into the Syrians again on the street with the 17 year old in tow and that's when the girl got stabbed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Burgw..._note-:3-9
So you are probably right when you say she is refugee loving. I thought she was trying to protect some 14 year old German kid from getting stabbed, while brave is also dumb. So my mistake.
And these stabbings seem to getting more and more common. And a lot of them have been young women.
Quote: (08-17-2018 01:43 PM)renotime Wrote:
I'd bet any of you money that Colombia is far more dangerous than Tajikistan, but that hasn't stopped plenty of dudes on here from going down South.
These people just got stupidly unlucky.
Quote: (08-25-2018 01:56 AM)renotime Wrote:
One of the cartels' main moneymakers is kidnapping and extortion. I'd much rather take my chances in Tajikistan than in Juarez.