The Nation—a magazine founded just after the end of the American Civil War and which is now farther to the left than Stalin—proudly features Mohammed El-Kurd as its “first-ever Palestine Correspondent.”
This from frontpagemag.com.
But El-Kurd must have taken that moniker to mean “Hamas correspondent,” because he has declared hauntingly what the left has in store for us:
We must normalize massacres as the status quo.
El-Kurd said this Saturday at a pro-Palestinian rally in London and was initially defiant when he started getting negative feedback.
He wrote on X:
Lots of ppl reporting this speech to the police. Idgaf. Zionism is indefensible [and] are you gonna arrest me?
When it became clear, however, that getting arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police was a real possibility, El-Kurd abruptly changed his tune, claiming that what he really said, or meant to say, was:
We must not normalize massacres as the status quo.
He attached to his X post what was purportedly an image of his prepared text, where it did indeed say “We must not normalize massacres,” but of course, there was no way to tell whether or not this was really the text he had been using when he spoke and if that was what he meant to say.
Even the available video of his remarks now carries subtitles, despite the fact that he was speaking perfectly clearly and in English, and the subtitles say, “We must not normalize massacres as the status quo” even as he is undeniably saying “We must normalize massacres as the status quo.”
He said, she said, he said. But who gives a damn about the semantics? He’s an Islamist and we know damn well he’s talking about jihad.
"We must de-Zionised because Zionism is a death cult, Zionism is indefensible!"
Palestinian writer Mohammed El Kurd's passionate speech attacking Zionism at today's London demo for Gaza.@m7mdkurd #CEASEFIRE_NOW pic.twitter.com/zv2V8eKUrB
— 5Pillars (@5Pillarsuk) January 13, 2024
In full damage control mode, El-Kurd also wrote on Saturday:
Obviously not an idiot and would never say that. I was clearly saying we shouldn’t be complacent, we shouldn’t normalize massacres. Willfully distorting my words is an indication of your own bankruptcy. I’m allowed to misspeak. Also: idgaf. Call the police! Write a Yelp review!
Sure, he is allowed to misspeak. But whether or not he was really doing so is another matter. There are numerous reasons to suspect that he said exactly what he wanted to say. Foremost is the fact that the call to normalize massacres came at the end of El-Kurd’s speech. After he said it, he paused for a few moments, and then said, “Thank you.”
In western society, an Islamist is within his rights to speak threateningly of jihad. Liberalism, however, will be all over a Christian or a Jew who maligns a moslem in the slightest manner. This is the cultural suicide of the west.
El-Kurd’s history of violent rhetoric also exemplifies he likely said just what he meant to say.
The Washington Free Beacon noted Tuesday that at Princeton University’s Edward Said Memorial Lecture last year:
El-Kurd defended Palestinian violence against Israelis. [Saying:] What else would you do if there is an occupying power in your backyard beating the s**t out of your family?
Also, after Hamas’ Oct. 7 jihad massacre in Israel, El-Kurd dismissed the Hamas atrocities as:
[A] response to weeks and months and years of daily Israeli military invasions into Palestinian towns.
Finally, whatever El-Kurd really meant, there were thousands of people at that London rally who heard him say:
We must normalize massacres as the status quo.
And considering the rising bloodlust among both leftists and their jihadi allies, We the People can be certain many were nodding their heads in agreement.
Final thoughts: Islam in the 20th and 21st centuries insists on moving westward. Why not eastward?
They reached as far as Malaysia and Indonesia centuries ago, but why not eastern China and Japan?
I imagine the jihadi attitude of ‘We must normalize massacres as the status quo,’—unlike in the frightened, disbelieving west—will receive an appropriate warrior response in East Asia.
