Saturday, February 8, 2020
Would you like a bagel with your decappuccino...?
I was going to go back to my recent 3-part posting on Katie Hopkins and Dave Rubin and like a pat of butter into a knife-sliced croissant just insert a note therein about how Katie earned another counter-jihad brownie point recently when her UK Twitter account was suspended, according to a recent Jihad Watch report, apparently because of “violating the site’s hateful-conduct policy, which bans the promotion of violence or inciting harm on the basis of race, religion, national origin or gender identity”.
On closer inspection of the article, however, I found another wrinkle worthy of another posting in its own right, reflecting one of myriad subtopics of the problem of the problem (of the problem): namely, the subtopic of Jewish Leftists in one way or another enabling the Muslims who murderously hate them. In this case, one of the main players in getting Katie's Twitter account suspended was, apparently, Rachel Riley, some UK celebrity I don't know from Eve. What caught my eye was that she's also reported to be agitating to have Jeremy Corbyn's Twitter account suspended -- Corbyn who is (among other anti-Western stances) pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel. Then I learned that Rachel Riley is Jewish (and an atheist) and has been an activist opposing anti-Semitism for years. Her opposition of Katie Hopkins, therefore, situates her in the Leftist Jewish camp that for various reasons is obscenely blind to the fact that Islam -- in its holy texts, in its history, in its culture, and as evidenced in daily news (does Rachel Riley never spend time educating herself at the Memri.org website?) -- is monstrously anti-Semitic.
And the rich irony here is that, as I documented in my recent 3-part posting on Katie Hopkins and Dave Rubin, Katie is on record insisting that most Muslims are decent moms & pops like the rest of us:
Dave Rubin: Muslims who are people -- the vast majority who want the same exact things that you want and I want and everybody else. How big of an issue do you think this battle between the ideas Islam and the West is? Or did I even frame that properly?
Katie Hopkins: No, I think it's fair the way you frame it and I think it would be a great thing if we were able to in our daily lives I'm talking about in the UK if we were able to separate those two things out nice and neatly so that it was about Islam and the ideology and a criticism of that versus regular Muslims living in the UK many of whom are working very hard many of them, have been here for generations and just want to crack on and do the same as the rest of us, which is look after our families, work hard and try and be ... healthy and happy as much as we can.
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