Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - A Soapbox Made of Corpses

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May 31, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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A Soapbox Made of Corpses

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	So I'm in the middle of researching a video to demonstrate the Islamic roots of the Islamic State, but I ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole, uncovering the ideological roots of it, and I needed better sources, so I've had to order a few books off Amazon and I'm waiting for them to arrive.
	So that video will probably arrive next week.
	In the meantime, I wanted to address some of the apologetics around Manchester that I've been seeing for the past week, and it's just been incredibly frustrating.
	And I'll use this video from the Young Turks because this little guy from the Young Turks basically sums them all up as concisely as could ever be required.
	This was an evil act.
	Our first thoughts are with the families of those killed and injured.
	Anyone else find it kind of ironic when the Young Turks accuse other people of political mudslinging over a tragedy?
	I do always wonder about the people who go on about political dog whistling.
	Whenever I'm making a serious point, I try to be as literal as possible so there's no room for misinterpretation, or at least minimal room.
	So when they go on about dog whistling, I always wonder, okay, well, if you think me speaking literally is dog whistling, who are you dog whistling to?
	And why aren't you speaking literally?
	You may be familiar with this image.
	Why yes, this is a meme that represents the pattern of behaviour for regressive leftists.
	There's a terror attack, you go on social media and virtue signal by saying hashtag pray for, then you change your profile pic to the overlay of a flag, then life goes back to normal, and then there's another terrorist attack.
	Because you have absolutely no interest in stopping terror.
	You have every interest in being as bourgeois as you can be and saying to other people, well listen, look at me, view me, I'm important and I need your validation.
	It's often seen across social media after a high-profile terror attack with the go-to caption of wake up or step up.
	Yeah, because people died, and it would be better if people didn't die.
	Especially as this wasn't some kind of act of God, it wasn't some kind of divine intervention.
	This was eminently preventable.
	And we know this because our police and intelligence forces prevent dozens and dozens of similar attacks per year.
	But I see a different cycle, and I believe a more dangerous one.
	Really?
	A more dangerous cycle than women and children being blown up at a concert?
	To the tune of what, 22 dead?
	You've got a more dangerous cycle than that.
	Okay, do go on.
	One that replaces terms with blame all Muslims, calls for more innocent bloodshed, and then patiently wait for next attack to exploit for hate-filled political agenda.
	Okay, let's just go through this.
	There's a terror attack, someone blames all Muslims.
	We don't know who this is, and I don't think that anyone agrees with this person, but there's a call for more innocent bloodshed.
	Who the fuck is calling for more innocent bloodshed?
	Apart from the terrorists themselves?
	Apart from- I mean, is this the cycle of the Islamic State that you are quoting at us?
	And then wait for the next attack to exploit.
	You know, I think that people would rather it if there just wasn't another attack to exploit.
	I think that the even the evil right-wing trolls, as you call them, would probably rather it if there wasn't the chance of being blown up at a concert.
	Because with each heinous, vile attack that occurs, the time hate-filled trolls wait to exploit innocent deaths to assert their political narrative shortens.
	Yeah, but you are also one of these political trolls, and you are also asserting your narrative in this very video.
	But you also do it to self-aggrandise on social media straight afterwards.
	It's basically the same thing, it just has a slightly different tint.
	What is it now?
	10 seconds?
	15 seconds after when political mudslinging clouds the space and clogs our timelines, overshadowing the pleas for help or emergency contacts for those in need.
	Don't forget that's a blade that cuts both ways, Francis.
	Because you were on social media minutes afterwards, virtue signaling as much as you possibly could.
	You'll never meet anyone tougher than a Mancunian.
	What do you mean all Mancunions?
	All of them, even the children?
	Hashtag not all Mancunions, Francis.
	Come on.
	The people of Manchester offering a warm cup and a bed to those in need, a reminder of how good people will bind together and endure.
	Yeah, it's not an act of God.
	It's not something that couldn't have been prevented.
	You're acting like a jihadi attack is just a lightning bolt from heaven.
	And retweeting Chenk, every time I think about the Manchester bombing, I feel sick.
	It's depressing what human beings are willing to do to each other.
	Yes, yes, it is.
	And so we should do something to prevent those terrible human beings from doing terrible things.
	But your response to this is advocating against the people who want something to be done.
	But the thing is, politically, you have put yourself in a position where you cannot do a thing about this.
	And I'm not talking about Katie Hopkins' final solution.
	I am.
	You guys can't even admit there is a problem coming out of these communities.
	The Manchester attack was a cowardly, despicable, evil act committed by a whopped perpetrator looking to incite hate and divide.
	Yes, yes, yes, we have morally condemned the man.
	Honestly.
	Although I have to say, I do hate the use of the term cowardly.
	Now, for me, a coward is someone who shies away from doing what they feel that they should do, the right thing.
	And if you're a jihadi and you're blowing yourself up in your battle against the kufar, the unbeliever, because the Quran literally says fight the unbelievers wherever you find them, then I don't think you can reasonably call that person a coward.
	Even if they are attacking soft targets like a concert, that person still had the courage of their convictions, the fortitude in their own beliefs.
	Even if I think that's evil, even if I think that's reprehensible in every way.
	And you know who are the accomplices in this?
	You.
	By saying that this is somehow representative of all Muslims.
	And you say this when you say people want to blame all Muslims.
	No.
	People want to blame the jihadis and the jihadi networks.
	And unfortunately, these jihadi networks operate within Muslim communities.
	And so what we want is to be able to discriminate between a non-Salafist Muslim and a Salafist Muslim and a Salafist Muslim who's going to radicalize and turn on the West and become a fucking suicide bomber.
	But you won't let that happen with your blanket defense of Muslims.
	And I don't care how much trouble this gets me in or who I piss off.
	People like Katie Hopkins, the UK's very own anculter who has used any and every tragedy to crawl her way back to relevance, who demanded a final solution after this attack.
	A term used by Nazis during World War II in regards to exterminating Jews.
	When you saw that, I bet you thought that all of your Christmases had come at once.
	This is perfect.
	Hopkins has said something bloody stupid.
	I can use that.
	People like the idiot Joe Walsh, who could not pick Manchester out on a map and who has most likely never stepped outside the deranged bubble in the States, blaming Muslims calling for an end to Europe and preaching doomsday.
	People like Fox News talking head Geraldo Rivera who immediately demonstrate their ignorance and prejudice by falsely deeming Manchester a hotbed of Islamic radicals.
	I guess if you say it, then that makes it true.
	It doesn't matter that the Manchester Police are currently working against the clock to find the terror network that Salman Abedi was part of.
	Do you feel that Manchester's Chief Constable Ian Hopkins is also one of these people who's just speaking from a position of prejudice when he says the investigation had made significant progress dismantling the network behind Britain's worst terror attack in more than a decade?
	Is he just being a bigger, is he?
	And Mark Rowley, Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer, said that more arrests will follow, and that the police have held two more suspects in dawn raids on Saturday, with 11 men now being questioned.
	The true size and scope of Abaydi's network has still not fully been established.
	But it's not a hotbed of Islamic terrorism and radicalism.
	You've got a narrative to push.
	You've got hashtag all Muslims to protect.
	Which apparently includes those people within a terrorist network.
	Because you would probably rather it if they did no further investigations, wouldn't you?
	Because while evil pulls the trigger, this ideology only survives when hatred and exclusivity become practice.
	What you said was total nonsense.
	I mean, beside the fact that I hate the rhetorical argument of evil pulls the trigger.
	Just shut up, that is totally unproductive.
	But worse still is that you have no idea why this is being propagated, and you're not even interested in finding out.
	I have read almost every book that historian Tom Holland has wrote, and I find him to be a very credible source because I know he goes above and beyond in his research.
	And this is his opinion on why this is happening.
	He says the Islamic State is pretty Islamic to the degree that they consider themselves to be Islamic.
	The mistake that people make is to replicate ISIS's position, which is that there is one true form of Islam, and anyone who deviates from that isn't a Muslim.
	That's ISIS's justification for killing Shia.
	Ironically, the Western leaders who say that this has nothing to do with Islam are doing the same.
	I don't think that that's the business, particularly of non-Muslims, to specify what a Muslim is.
	If people say they're Muslim, they're Muslim.
	Holland believes ISIS represents an existential threat to other Muslims through its weaponization of Quranic verses.
	The vast majority of Muslims are appalled by what ISIS does, but if they're quoting chapter and verse from the Quran, there needs to be a firewall built between the normative practice of Islam and what ISIS is doing.
	And that means there has to be an ideological engagement with what ISIS constitute.
	Otherwise, it's a cancer spreading through the fabric of Islamic ideology.
	He says the genocide has deep historical roots.
	Fatwas were pronounced in the Ottoman period that prescribed exactly what ISIS is doing, that the men should be killed and the women enslaved.
	Just as Nazis justified genocide in terms of racial theory, there are Islamic scholars who justify it in terms of what the Quran says.
	Not to engage with that, to pretend that it's not an issue, is essentially to be complicit in genocide.
	After the Holocaust, Christians had to sit down and say, the way Christianity has portrayed Jews as the Christ killers fed into what happened.
	There was an attempt to cleanse scriptures.
	There is a need by Muslims to do the same with their scriptures.
	It's been put to terrible uses.
	There's an Australian Shiite cleric called Mohammed Touhidi who has recently been making the rounds on the internet because of the things he has been saying about Islam in the West.
	I think that some of his statements are definitely worth paying attention to because he is a Shiite.
	Salafism is an ideology that derives from the Sunni denomination of Islam.
	Needless to say, anyone outside of Salafism is considered not to be a Muslim.
	That includes other Sunnis, and Shiites particularly are considered heretical.
	So it is completely natural that a Shiite Muslim would want to speak out against the creeping Islamization of the country that he lives in.
	I think it's really worth listening to what he says.
	I've had to edit out a bit just because it was quite a long clip, but it doesn't change the meaning, and obviously the link will be in the description.
	When my parents came to this country, they came because of Saddam Hussein's oppressive regime and the mass executions and the problems therein.
	But why did they come to Australia when many Muslim countries were still at peace?
	They could have gone to any other country that had no war.
	Many of the Arab Gulf countries are beautiful as you see them today.
	But my father made the choice, and he was an Imam himself and still is.
	He made the choice to come to Australia because it was a non-Muslim country.
	Now, if we knew that after 30 years we're going to have burqas running around and mosques being erected in every corner and people proposing Sharia law against democracy in this country, we wouldn't have come.
	But since I've been raised here and I drank Australia's water and ate its bread, I am not prepared to stay silent when I see people wishing to change this country and change its values and the democracy within.
	The blame usually is thrown against the Zionists saying that the Zionists are the ones that created radical Islam.
	And that's not true.
	Zionism takes advantage of what is already there.
	There was already a radical scripture that they funded and created an ideology out of.
	I believe that the entire religion needs a review.
	I believe that there are certain books that need to be banned from this country.
	There are books that are regarded as the second book after the Quran.
	And all mainstream Muslims believe in this book, the Bukhari, a very famous book.
	It's present in at least the majority of Muslim homes, at least.
	It's everywhere.
	It's put on the shelf right beside the Quran.
	And every act of terrorism is taught from that book.
	And that book is widely available and sold and published in Australia.
	And sometimes even given to prisoners to tell them that, hey, you have a second chance.
	This happens because of the books that we have, the Islamic scriptures that we have.
	They push the Muslim youth to believe that if you go out there and you kill the infidel, that's how you will gain paradise.
	But they're listening to preachers, if you like, sermons, two or three sermons, by clerics like yourself, radical clerics.
	What do you more moderate clerics do to out your compatriots who are turning these young Muslims?
	Well, it is very hard being a peaceful, moderate person within a society that is infested by extremist Muslims.
	I will not deny this fact.
	We have a large number of Muslims that are extremists, even in Australia, and we see them when they come out in the Sydney riots and we see them attacking the police.
	So we're being infested by radical clerics here in Australia.
	Yes, clerics and followers as well.
	And I've said this to many government authorities.
	And I'd like to show you something.
	I bought this two days ago from a shop within Melbourne.
	This is Al-Qaeda's flag.
	These are stickers that are being sold for a few dollars.
	They have them on their windscreens.
	They have them everywhere.
	Now, I know that these things can be obtained from anywhere, even online or even on the internet.
	But when you have stores openly selling these items with full audacity and creating this jihadi atmosphere.
	So, the question is: how does this relate to Francis's little diatribe?
	Because while evil pulls the trigger, this ideology only survives when hatred and exclusivity become practice.
	To say that it's evil that pulls the trigger completely removes the idea of an ideological backing to this and puts the people who commit terrorist atrocities in the category of animals.
	Insane, unthinking things that can't help but follow a natural inclination.
	And that's simply not correct.
	You can't just denounce them as evil, and it's ridiculous to do so.
	It's such a useless term in this debate.
	But interestingly, he is right in one regard: it is exclusivity that is the problem.
	As Tom Holland says, you can't separate ISIS from Islam.
	You cannot separate the ideology of radical jihadism from what Islam is.
	Because, as Tawhidi says, it comes from the same books.
	It's on every shelf.
	In their attempt to do good, the progressives are actively hampering our ability to actually do anything about this on an ideological level.
	You can't separate ISIS from Islam.

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