at the moment, it appears that the heathens are
winning. . the world is fussing around with political
correctness and foot-dragging. -- j

Replying to my post:
http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2015/...

"We wait in vain for a leader who acknowledges that Islam, a creed devoted to conquest, remains true to its 1300-year tradition of violence, oppression and treachery. What we get instead are lickspittle political opportunists prepared to betray Western civilisation

.. exactly where in the world can you say that Islamism has been decisively rolled back? Middle Eastern and North African rampages go unabated. Iran builds its bomb. Problems are evident throughout Asia and Southeast Asia. Muslim populations are growing rapidly in most Western countries,.. "

So who is winning?
In a dispute with Austrians, Belgians, Cambodians or Danes, manners should be correct and care taken not to give offense. But with those?

Partly, one group who are 'as dumb as..'.
A few who are smart, the video of the beheading of the captured Jordanian pilot is said to be a very professional effort.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating - they are winning at the moment.

don't you think that they might just be dumb as a fox,
seeking all of the misogynistic men on earth to form
a caliphate where they rule unchallenged? -- j

Like it or not, irrationality works.
Meetings are canceled, a radio station is closed, all examples of giving in to terrorism or even just the threat.
You could argue they are not so irrational as they have thought it through. hmm

making it clear that something is absurd by being
absurd in response? . so, in response to Marie Harf's
suggestion that we should find jobs for ISIS fighters,
we should say that they should also take up knitting? -- j

Robbie an excellent sentiment-
" rarely will I intentionally seek to offend." It is bad manners.
I wish there were some other way to make it clear that we are seriously offended, and are aware we are under attack by beheadings burnings slaughter slavery pedophilia and the rest of it, that we are not going to accept it or take it,.
Sometimes, the correct response to irrationality is irrationality,

I don't know about anyone else, CG, but I am not
controlled by others' ideas of blasphemy;;; I tend
to stick to my own value system. -- j

Don't answer my question to you with an off topic question. And, no.
Now answer my question.

Why would anyone CARE if I was trying to offend them?? My goal isn't to offend anyway...it's to make a point...the point being freedom of speech...what good is it if you don't exercise it, especially when someone is trying to scare you into not using it... Besides, one has to choose to be offended or not. The burden is on them...not me. They like to chose to be offended because that gives them warped leverage in their cause to kill whoever offends them...so potentially they could be offended whenever you blink your eyes..if they deemed it so to further their cause. The question is now...why are you okay with capitulating with evil forces?

"why would you want to intentionally offend someone?"
It depends on if the goal is to promote objectism, i.e. show the communists that communism doesn't work, doesn't get them to where they're trying to go. If the goal is to be mean to people under a self-righteous intellectual fig leaf, communists are a golden opportunity.

"If you have to ask, you ain't never gonna know."

I will paint a picture in words:
Apocalypse of St. Janasuaria

This is a terrible dream of the Lord that came upon me this night. All who face the eastern sun and kneel on their woven mats are not praying to the Lord. It knows not their prayers through the Centuries. That Desert purveyor who was given the words not by a being of Realm, but by the most High Acheron- the Son of the Morning Star. It was he who was cast down in the horrific battle with the Lord and was scarred by his brother the Defender of the Realm.
He has planned his return well. The Son of the Morning Star slumbers though the eons towards restoration by the chanted prayers of his un-aware believers. He will rouse from his slumber and they will call him the Mahdi, the anointed one.
He will gather the faithful and he will show them the Paradise they desire. A Paradise of their blood which he will bless Mecca, Medina and the Dome of the Rock. New things will grow from those places; horrible and dark things. They will fill their mouths with the gore of the Imams and the Clerics.
Those others will fare no better. She, out of Babylon will ride upon the Beast. Her name is most wicked. It was the power of Majick that brought her into the world through the mushroom doorway. They will all bow down on bended knee to her and their blood will flow in the streets.
All who are left will hide in the Caves of the World, as the armies will fight and die. Cities will be raised to the ground. Only the Refuge will remain safe a place, which was old and sacred with the manifestation of the Lord.
A Dream Walker will be the true Light Bringer. His soul filled with holy Rage, enters the heavenly sphere and throws the guardian Melchizedek down the stairs at the Treasury of Light and tears the Vaulted Doors away. The Light of Glory engorges the realm as it roars from its’ prison. Obliterating all that is un-Holy. A Tidal-bore of Glory roars through all the Heavens and storms on the poisoned world. On ruins of Megiddo the Son of the Morning Star and She-Beast will be torn into droplets of molten glass. The Lord’s Light-titanic hammers the all the dark things into the Void. The illumination breaths the World green! Garden has returned!

That's like asking if this blog is offensive to Communists. Some points of view just cry out for us to offend the s__t out of them.

I wonder what ol' Mo is hiding under that chef's hat? (ducks)

Oh yeah. I forgot.

I don't give a flip about offending those who want me dead...nope...can't say that's on my to do list.
Being "offended" is a waste of time..unproductive and whiny cry baby you hurt my feelings crapola.
I am not older than you.