"Extremely Kind, Extremely Gentle"

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He specialized in killing the foreigners. But to make sure that they would remain calm, until the very end, he would prepare them for their close-up over and over again, assuring them it was only a video which would be used to elicit concessions from their countries of origin, and that no harm would come to them, and they should just relax, and not worry, and they did what he said — just the way, all over the Western world, we are assured by Muslims that they, those Muslims, will handle the “handful of extremists” who “have nothing to do with Islam” and who, in any case, are perfectly nice people until the security services start to look at them with suspicion and other non-Muslims do not give Muslims the trust and respect that they so richly deserve.

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2 Responses

  1. I like to think of it as, “killing them softly.”
    Down From Troy,
    Brad Pitt the Elder
    cc Richard Selzer
    Tags: Thank you, Bill Glass, for the book

  2. As Mohammed the deceiver and liar and treaty-breaker himself said: “War is deceit”.

    This is Islam, the smiling mask and the soft, flattering tongue that briefly conceals the merciless murderer who derives pleasure from the sheer terror of the victim when they realize that it isn’t a play, it’s real and the knife is at the neck.

    All those pretty doe-eyed hijabettes who are pretending to be so very, very persecuted because someone – a nameless someone – might have looked at them funny on the bus, are functioning exactly like this smiling jihadi john. They are running interference; they are kaa the snake singing mowgli to sleep before he is crushed in the killing coils.

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