Mick Hartley

Author: Mick Hartley

  • The moral and intellectual failure of the entire American professional class

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    That a leading figure at the dominant legal NGO in America could make this self-evidently deranged claim on national television and expect and receive a respectful reception, to be followed by an appearance before the Supreme Court where the Solicitor General of the United States and three justices parroted similarly unhinged falsehoods about the terrible harms of being forced to go through "the wrong puberty" is a fact made possible by the moral and intellectual failure of the entire American professional class.

  • Ensuring Israel ceases to exist

    ith Israel. He said that this is unacceptable because Israel "cannot exist " in the Middle East, and he argued that Muslims' "focus" must be to ensure Israel ceases to exist regardless of how long it takes, even if this is not achieved in the coming generations. He said that therefore, Israel must never be granted so much as "one inch" of legitimacy. Podcast host Dilly Hussain, a British Islamist activist, expressed hope that the HTS-led regime in Syria will "awaken" with regard to this subject.

    Well yes, that is very possible.

  • Ten trees

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  • Prisoner release

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    I haven't seen any corroboration that Arafat Irfaiya is scheduled to be released. There's a list of some of the Palestinian prisoners being freed at the JC.

    From JFeed (if you have a strong stomach):

    The potential release of Arafat Irfaiya, who brutally murdered 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher after specifically hunting for Jewish victims and showed no remorse while bragging about his actions, raises devastating questions about the true cost of prisoner exchanges as families of terror victims face the possibility of seeing their loved ones' killers set free.

    Five years ago, terrorist Arafat Irfaiya, who set out to commit an attack while wearing a kippah, encountered 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher in an isolated nature area near the Biblical Zoo. Ori loved to spend time alone in nature, drawing and writing.

    Irfaiya stabbed her multiple times and dragged her 150 meters while she was still alive, then raped her. During the rape, he continued stabbing her until he nearly decapitated her.

    This monster in human form, who never stopped smiling throughout his trial, received life imprisonment plus 20 years.

    Here are his disturbing interrogation responses, revealing his state of mind:

    Irfaiya: "I made my parents proud because of what I did."

    Investigator: "How do rape and murder cause pride?"

    Irfaiya: "I didn't just rape someone – I killed a Jew. You can't understand because our thinking is different. If you ask anyone standing at a military checkpoint if they would be happy to kill a Jew… you'll see I did what every Arab dreams of."

    Investigator: "Why didn't you do it earlier if you desired it so much?"

    Irfaiya: "This is what Allah planned for me (laughs). The murder is the best and most important thing I've done in my life. If she had stayed alive, it would mean I failed in what I planned and failed my mission – that would have been the worst feeling in my life."

    He described planning to enter Jerusalem through the forest to kill multiple Jews while wearing a kippah to blend in, but said when he saw "the Jewess" he understood Allah had sent her to him. He waited by her body hoping to surprise and kill more Jewish people, saying he would have been blessed to die as a "shahid" (martyr) in the attempt.

  • The abuses of the academic/activist left

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    Just this week, I learned of two lifelong Dems—social science prof and humanities prof—who've gone full MAGA as a result of what they witnessed or endured.

    I know of many others, myself included, who, while unable to countenance Trump, have gone from loyal Dems to reviling the party. Indeed, a former student, a black man FWIW, reports that he dutifully voted Harris but was surprised to find himself secretly relieved when she lost.

    The wound that the overweening American left has inflicted upon itself, and the empowerment that it has gifted a party which it officially regards as an existential fascist threat, surely amounts to one of history's most egregious own-goals.

    A comment:

    I’m one of these people. I’m mixed race, letters behind my name, 2x Obama voter who thought Republicans were Draculas. This election cycle I donated to Donald Trump and knocked on doors in my small town. The most intriguing thing about my swap over is I’ve been asked dozens of times by conservatives why I came around to supporting Donald Trump but liberals have either stopped talking to me, or just assumed I voted Kamala and told me she lost because everyone is a racist. I think the lack of curiosity for how other people live and think will cause long term issues for leftists and liberals.

  • Exploiting Israel’s weaknesses

    ere's just no alternative. There's no civil society to take over post-Hamas. Unless Israel had decided to take control of Gaza again – which they clearly had no wish to do – then the return of Hamas after the ceasefire was inevitable. The killings of the Hamas leaders was of symbolic significance, but others will just take their place. The destruction of the tunnels and the Hamas infrastructure? It'll all just get built again.

    It's like the Iraq war: the destruction of the Saddam regime was the easy part. Afterwards…nothing…a vacuum which the Iranians were quick to exploit. Syria? There was no possibility of some kind of people's uprising to replace Assad. Civil society had been destroyed. In place of Iran and Russia we now have Turkey and its Islamist proxies calling the shots. Lebanon? Too early to tell, though there are hopeful signs. Maybe there's enough of a civil society left to save the country. Maybe the destruction of Hezbollah is the one positive that emerges from this whole mess. That, and the weakening of Tehran.

    Though I suppose, with Trump coming in, matters may change….

  • No assembly without men

    Meanwhile in Australia:

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  • Pakistan’s sexist culture

    11pt”>In Pakistan, rape culture and the belittling of sexual abuse isn’t just a feature of rural or tribal areas. Former military dictator Pervez Musharraf accused women of ‘using rape for moneymaking’, while Imran Khan, as prime minister, blamed the way women dress and their lifestyle choices for the rise in rape cases across the country. Khan continues to enjoy massive popularity among overseas Pakistanis, including in the UK. His playboy lifestyle during his cricket days – and later political career as a born-again Muslim – is often considered by young Pakistani men as the ideal life template….

    While the failure of the British authorities to protect young girls from grooming gangs is lamentable, there is something currently missing to stop these crimes happening in the future. There needs to be a much greater backlash to these crimes within the Pakistani community. While many progressive and liberal Pakistanis condemn sexist violence at home, when these crimes take place in Britain, they join their predominantly conservative fellow community members in a conspiracy of silence. Ostensibly this is because they are afraid of racism and ‘Islamophobia’. For many of these progressives in Pakistan, upholding the myth of cultural equivalence is more important than providing justice to the victims and prevention of these monstrous acts. It would be far better to speak up against these crimes, instead of looking to pin the blame elsewhere.

    Indeed. Where are these condemnations from within the Pakistani community?

  • Hamas “did not pay a price”

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  • Regressive attitudes towards women

    up to the trans activists.

    There is, surely, a straight line from the dress of many Muslim women here in the UK – wearing not only the hijab, but often enough a niqab face veil with a slit for the eyes – to the rape gang scandal. It's the same mentality that has women not fully covered as like meat left out for cats: irresistible to men. It's the women who are responsible for rape, not the men. The men can't be blamed for following their "natural" inclinations. As we know only too well, this is commonplace throughout the Islamic world, from Iran to the scarcely credible anti-women dictates of the Taliban in Afghanistan. So white girls walking around freely, in a liberalised Britain, are like meat left out for the cats: just asking for it.

    We assumed, reasonably I suppose, that with assimilation this would improve. But the Muslim Pakistani immigrants, especially in the smaller northern and midlands towns and cities, tended not to mix. They weren't interested in assimilation. Even here in London the sight of women in veils is still common – and not just older women. Quite a few younger more stylish Muslim women wear the niqab. Only their husbands at home – their guardians – are allowed to see their faces. And we, out of politeness, out of "respect" for other cultures, don't say anything.

    Still, with brave outspoken women like Kishwer Falkner, there's hope.

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