Mark, you are a serious poster, and I like a lot of what you write.
But, what is the purpose of constant “exposure” of facts that no one is prepared to do anything serious about?
Extirpation of Islam and all of its barbarities, from Morocco to Mindanao and from Kazakhstan to Dar es Salaam requires a war of conquest the size and scope of which the world has never seen. ISIS is the tip of the iceberg.
My preferred solution is isolation of the Ummah and expulsion from the US and Europe of its loyalists. But I have no solution for their savagery conducted in their own savage lands, and the constant elevation of their barbarian chieftains into boogiemen and repetition of their awful deeds has the effect of demoralizing our own people.
By posting these stories, what do you hope will happen?
“By posting these stories, what do you hope will happen?”
There is a huge, well-funded propaganda effort on the part of the various barbarities in the world, whether Islam, gay marriage, pro-illegal immigration, etc. By keeping the barbarities in front of us Mark is helping, grass-roots style, counter the barbarities with knowledge. He will hopefully help otherwise clueless people realize that there is a problem and to define the problem. Defining the problem is half of the solution.
Consider it this way. People buy lottery tickets because the coverage of lottery winners creates the false illusion that you can win. But if you saw a thirty second interview with all the losers and they ran twenty four hours a day it would take nearly a decade (for most lotteries) to interview all the losers. A failure to cover one side or the other results in a false picture of reality.
You rarely see these types of things in the news...they are too busy covering racist, tea-party types shooting theaters...or racist Donald Trump impugning all Hispanics...or too busy covering a stupid television program.
In the 1930s, people ignored the pogrom against the Jews. There was no Internet at that time, so people had to depend upon what the government told them and what the Mainstream News told them.
By posting these articles on FR (where they'll actually get more readership than from their original source), I hope that more people won't be able to say, "I had no idea" when this is all said and done.
What can be done? If you go to church, do you ask your pastor to discuss this every now and again? I don't know about Protestant groups, but with Catholics, we have a "prayer of the faithful" each week...do we, as Catholics, ask our pastors to include a prayer for the Christian martyrs of Syria and Iraq each week?
If you have representation in Congress, are you writing letters? If you never hear about it, chances are you won't think to write your representatives to demand action. Sure, it likely won't do any good, but you can't tell...enough volume can make them think.
We have a Presidential campaign going on. If candidates swing through your area, are you asking them what they intend to do about this?
How about refugee status for Iraqi and Syrian Christians? Øbama has no problem granting refugee status to Muzzies...how about demanding that he cut infiltrating Jihadis off and allow true refugees to come in?
There is plenty that CAN be done. But people have to keep being made aware the fact that there are good people who are being tortured and slaughtered merely for the fact that they are Christian before they're willing to do ANYTHING about it.
Might be Pollyanish on my part, but I would hope that some kind of action would come out of this.
It could well have the effect of spurring them to meaningful action.
So far millions of Americans are still so delusional as to be virtually comatose.
Having drug pushers prey on their children in grammar schools, having Mexican drug cartels take over their national parks, the exposure of wide spread corruption in the federal government, 9/11, the Clinton Scandals, attempts to disarm the American people, the Open Borders and the takeover of the USA by illegal immigrants, the degeneration of the U.S. free press into a propaganda machine, the ubiquitous fifth in American culture, the destruction of the U.S. economy, Waco, Chattanooga, the Boston Marathon, Beslin--the list goes on and on and on!
If these outrages haven't shocked the American people into facing reality--maybe the ISIS atrocities and the recrudescence to the Third Reich will do it.
If not--the American people will require an even greater shock to awaken them. I tremble to imagine what that will be.
But the truth--as shocking and horrifying as it may be--is the only thing that's going to wake up the American people in time to save themselves and their children--if anything will.