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How long can a nation endure the presence within it of people who hate it and everything it stands for? It looks as if we’re going to find out.
Have you ever been to a “Poetry Slam”? I attended one by accident once, when the restaurant where I was having dinner suddenly became filled with bohemian artsy types who got up on a stage and started spouting pretentious prose written in in cut-off lines to look like poetry, railing against Trump, people who think there are only two genders, and the stultifying conservative black-and-white Eisenhower era that leftists like to imagine they’re enduring. It’s a party for leftists spouting leftist nonsense, and that’s what passes for culture in college towns and urban areas all over the country.
In Dearborn Heights, Mich., however, the poetry slams have an even harder edge. One of them recently featured demands for the demise of the “American empire.” The person who called for this was standing, of course, in the belly of the beast, and enjoying all of the benefits of doing so, but appeared indifferent to that inconvenient fact.
The indispensable Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reports that it all happened at “a fundraiser for Middle East Children’s Alliance and poetry night held at the Newora Café in Dearborn Heights,” which was “organized in conjunction with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM).”
One of the attendees declared: “The message for the people of Gaza is going to be more of the message that should be sent to the people here, in that, they have achieved victory, we haven’t done anywhere near enough. And the people here, I promise you, we do feel ashamed. We do feel like we’re not doing enough. We do feel like change needs to come, because change must come. And in the form that it must come is that this empire, the American empire that’s been hurting our people since the beginning, the imperial Western powers that have been hurting our people since the beginning, they must fall.”
All righty. So this fellow thinks that supporters of Hamas in the United States aren’t doing enough for the cause, and that the “American empire” must fall. So, what form does he envision this change that he believes “must come” will take? Does he want an “intifada” and jihad attacks inside the United States? Does he want to see pro-Hamas operatives in the U.S. do what Hamas did in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, when it brutally murdered 1,200 Israelis?
The poetry night attendee continued lyrically: “And inshallah, inshallah, they will fall. And my message to people of Gaza and oppressed people across the world is that there are people here, both young and old, who are going to be willing to fight and are willing to put their lives and everything they can on the line to bring these empires down. Because they must come down.”
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John1 says
Man being interviewed had a hint of a foreign accent, meaning he lied on paper work to enter the USA. Whatever his legal status, he should get the 🥾 boot. Adios Akbar!
Veronica says
Stultifying Eisenhower era? I was alive then and it was pretty peaceful during Ike’s terms. We didn’t even have a war. Imagine that. And a balanced budget too. Oh horrors!
Kevin Kraemer says
Just another guised attempt to spout their desire to have sharia as the law of the land.
OLD GUY says
They will have sharia as the law of the land if we and our government officials don’t act to stop them.
Jack Reynolds says
GAZA AND THE BLITZ – JOHN MATTHEWS
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The matter of why HAMAS did not provide Bomb Shelters for citizens deserves careful examination.
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During World War Two, Churchill provided extensive bomb shelters for people living in London and the surrounding regions. Six million children were relocated to safer parts of Britain.
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Since Oct 7, 2023, we’ve learned of the extensive network of Tunnels constructed by HAMAS for its members.
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That begs a question “Why did HAMAS not build bomb shelters for ordinary citizens?”.
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If you have been following events in GAZA, the answer is clear. HAMAS believes that it benefits when civilians, and particularly children are killed. Videos of kids as young as 7 carrying AK-47s highlight how differently ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS value human life.
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How many times have you heard an Islamic Extremist say that JIHAD is the most noble way that a Muslim can serve ALLAH.
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It is an accident when an IDF bomb kills a kid, but it is HAMAS who bears the responsibility. Children are children, not shields for Hamas.
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https://open.substack.com/pub/scribejohn/p/gaza-and-the-blitz-dce?r=xbq8f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Westman says
Ah, the hormones of youth express themselves in the usual ignorance of actual magnitudes, barely past unfamiliarity beyond the neighborhood. Such stupidity causes events like the Bolshevic, Red, and Islamic Revolutions which the student instigators come to regret, if they live that long.
It is ironic that the US lowered the voting age before sustained adolescence became the norm and acidic foreign influence, whose hand is set against everyone not in its club, was welcomed.
somehistory says
That’s not poetry. that’s terrorism. The goon and all who agree with him, need to be going somewhere. *We feel the **need** for them to go, because they **must go.**
Andrew Blackadder says
This prick is not a born American so should be deported for lying on his Application if he is an Naturalized American Citizen.
Most of these muslims in the USA all have Caucasian American girlfriends that they are using for immigration status and you just have to look at these women to see how fat, obese or just Butt Ugly they all are inside and out.
He should fuck off to his fairy land and fight for it over there.
No country in the World is foolish enough to allow somebody into their country and then defend his right to denounce the country that gave him shelter.
Except one…. That is NOT free speech.. that is hate speech he is spewing…
If a non muslim said what he just said but about islamic Empires they would get busted for inciting religious incitement… Deport this clown and his female followers.
Stephen says
They (idiots) want to abolish “The American Empire”
BUT NOT THE INTERNET (screaming panic)
or cars
or fast food
or free education
or television
or “The police (when they need them)
or Phones
I could go on all week about things “those people” won’t want to do without
They should be sent back to the sixth centuary and have to live with Camels