Truth, Lies and In Between

Well, back to work.

I am recovering from my knee surgery, which has gone quite well. Thanks be to God. I am recovering quickly and I think that my knee will no longer give me the troubles it did.

I also took the week off from blogging. I needed the break from the news and the constant BS that comes along with following that. Who needs that stress after surgery. I watched maybe an hour of news during the week just to see if America was still there. Other than that, nada.

Looks like Geert Wilders is back in the news. Must be pissing off the Euro-weenies. A case of classic liberal moronic reasoning. Geert tells it like it is. Too bad the political correctness of the Euro-weenies is so ingrained.

Wilders Causes Another Row. Pre-Captivity Stockholm Syndrome
By Thomas Landen

In November 2008 a Dutch journalist, Joanie de Rijke, was abducted by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. She was held captive, raped repeatedly, and released after six days for a ransom of 100,000 euros ($137,000). After her ordeal, she acknowledged that her captors “did horrible things to me,” but added in several media interviews “They also respected me,” and emphasized “They are not monsters.”

In a speech in the Dutch Parliament last Thursday, the Dutch opposition leader Geert Wilders referred to Joanie de Rijke’s case.

“She was raped, but she was not angry. The journalist who went looking for the Taliban in Afghanistan saw her curiosity end in a cruel ordeal of multiple rape. While this would make others angry or sad, this journalist shows understanding. She says: ‘They also respected me.’ And she was given tea and biscuits.”
“This story” Wilders said,

“is a perfect illustration of the moral decline of our elites. They are so blinded by their own ideology that they turn a blind eye to the truth. Rape? Well, I would put this into perspective, says the leftist journalist: the Taliban are not monsters. Our elites prefer to deny reality rather than face it. One would expect: a woman is being raped and finds this unbearable. But this journalist is not angry because the Muslim involved also showed respect. Our elites, whether they are politicians, journalists, judges, subsidy gobblers or civil servants, are totally clueless. Plain common sense has been dumped in order to deny reality. It is not just this raped journalist who is suffering from Stockholm syndrome, but the entire Dutch elite. The only moral reference they have is: do not irritate the Muslims – that is the one thing they will condemn.”

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