While homicidal suicidal and genocidal jihadists are busy plotting the next soft-target terror attacks on the West docile Westerners are busy shedding cartoon tears and doodling broken hearts on social media.
European artists rushed to fill Twitter and Instagram with images of Belgian comic book character Tintin weeping after vengeful Muslim terrorists left the Brussels airport and subway system buried in rubble and dead bodies.
Residents of the besieged city -- which recklessly opened its doors to mass Muslim immigration and criminalized the vocal dissent of those whove objected over past decade -- meekly protested the Quran-inspired violence by leaving pastel-colored chalk messages pleading for peace no war.
Echoing the Je Suis Charlie and Je Suis Paris rallying cries that followed the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo jihad attack and the November 2015 jihad massacres in Paris and Saint-Denis tens of thousands of people spread the JeSuisBruxelles message with their thoughts prayers and memes.
And of course there will be flags lowered and monuments lit up all over the world this week in the national colors of Belgium to show solidarity with Tuesdays victims of The Perpetrators Whose Religion Shall Not Be Named.
To borrow a useful phrase coined by British journalist James Bartholomew last year we have reached the oversaturation point of post-terrorism virtue signaling: Hashtags avatars and animated GIFs ad nauseam. These are the easy advertisements and maudlin displays of ones resolute opposition to an unidentified something that must be stopped somehow by unspoken means.
Virtue signals are camouflage Bartholomew explained. They are sincere-seeming shows of collective unity that disguise the millennial-age indulgence of publicly patting ones own back for supposed moral courage. No one actually has to do anything he opined. Virtue now comes from mere words or even from silently held beliefs.
Pre-Twitter outraged Americans all donned Never forget magnets and ribbons on our cars and lapels after 9/11. I was one of them. But after 15 years of hapless homeland security theater and bipartisan pandering to terror-coddling Islamophobia shriekers Im so so sick of noble gesture paraphernalia.
Im sick of preening celebrities who tell me to PrayForTheWorld and celebrate diversity while indiscriminate floods of Muslim refugees across Europe and America corrode the pillars of peace and freedom.
Im sick of Silicon Valley moguls who pretend to champion free speech while muzzling the speech of those who use the Internet to criticize the very open door immigration policies that fertilized European and American soil for jihadists.
Im sick of all the same old emasculated politicians who declare that justice will be served this must end and we stand against terror while refusing to take even the smallest baby steps to register and track Muslim refugees already here stop new ones from coming in and tying up our overwhelmed immigration bureaucracy and drain the jihad swamps inside our own borders.
Weve had enough piles of memorial flowers. Weve heard enough hollow lip service paid to resolve. Where is the worlds active resistance to the sharia-imposing soldiers of Allah?
We need Tintin to wipe his nose man up and remember Belgiums once proud history. When German invaders attempted what they thought would be an easy romp through the tiny neutral country in 1914 on their way to Paris resistance fighters who were outnumbered 14 to 1 took a brave stand in defense of their sovereignty. Bracing for an onslaught King Albert addressed his people:
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. In these solemn circumstances two virtues are indispensable: a calm but unshaken courage and the close union of all Belgians. ... It is the moment for action. ... A country which is defending itself conquers the respect of all; such a country does not perish!
How far the West has fallen. Farewell steeled wills. Youve been replaced by an army of sad-faced emojis.
#WesternCivilizationRIP
Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2010).
While homicidal suicidal and genocidal jihadists are busy plotting the next soft-target terror attacks on the West docile Westerners are busy shedding cartoon tears and doodling broken hearts on social media.
European artists rushed to fill Twitter and Instagram with images of Belgian comic book character Tintin weeping after vengeful Muslim terrorists left the Brussels airport and subway system buried in rubble and dead bodies.
Residents of the besieged city -- which recklessly opened its doors to mass Muslim immigration and criminalized the vocal dissent of those whove objected over past decade -- meekly protested the Quran-inspired violence by leaving pastel-colored chalk messages pleading for peace no war.
Echoing the Je Suis Charlie and Je Suis Paris rallying cries that followed the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo jihad attack and the November 2015 jihad massacres in Paris and Saint-Denis tens of thousands of people spread the JeSuisBruxelles message with their thoughts prayers and memes.
And of course there will be flags lowered and monuments lit up all over the world this week in the national colors of Belgium to show solidarity with Tuesdays victims of The Perpetrators Whose Religion Shall Not Be Named.
To borrow a useful phrase coined by British journalist James Bartholomew last year we have reached the oversaturation point of post-terrorism virtue signaling: Hashtags avatars and animated GIFs ad nauseam. These are the easy advertisements and maudlin displays of ones resolute opposition to an unidentified something that must be stopped somehow by unspoken means.
Virtue signals are camouflage Bartholomew explained. They are sincere-seeming shows of collective unity that disguise the millennial-age indulgence of publicly patting ones own back for supposed moral courage. No one actually has to do anything he opined. Virtue now comes from mere words or even from silently held beliefs.
Pre-Twitter outraged Americans all donned Never forget magnets and ribbons on our cars and lapels after 9/11. I was one of them. But after 15 years of hapless homeland security theater and bipartisan pandering to terror-coddling Islamophobia shriekers Im so so sick of noble gesture paraphernalia.
Im sick of preening celebrities who tell me to PrayForTheWorld and celebrate diversity while indiscriminate floods of Muslim refugees across Europe and America corrode the pillars of peace and freedom.
Im sick of Silicon Valley moguls who pretend to champion free speech while muzzling the speech of those who use the Internet to criticize the very open door immigration policies that fertilized European and American soil for jihadists.
Im sick of all the same old emasculated politicians who declare that justice will be served this must end and we stand against terror while refusing to take even the smallest baby steps to register and track Muslim refugees already here stop new ones from coming in and tying up our overwhelmed immigration bureaucracy and drain the jihad swamps inside our own borders.
Weve had enough piles of memorial flowers. Weve heard enough hollow lip service paid to resolve. Where is the worlds active resistance to the sharia-imposing soldiers of Allah?
We need Tintin to wipe his nose man up and remember Belgiums once proud history. When German invaders attempted what they thought would be an easy romp through the tiny neutral country in 1914 on their way to Paris resistance fighters who were outnumbered 14 to 1 took a brave stand in defense of their sovereignty. Bracing for an onslaught King Albert addressed his people:
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. In these solemn circumstances two virtues are indispensable: a calm but unshaken courage and the close union of all Belgians. ... It is the moment for action. ... A country which is defending itself conquers the respect of all; such a country does not perish!
How far the West has fallen. Farewell steeled wills. Youve been replaced by an army of sad-faced emojis.
#WesternCivilizationRIP
Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2010).
