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What can be said of the kind of people who make a rock star out of a terrorist? And why should we care?
“Banality of evil” is a phrase that has become almost a cliche. How many times do we see interviews with neighbors and acquaintances of murderers, or other violent criminals, who express shock and dismay because they thought “he was just a quiet, nice guy”.
But there’s something more disturbing. And that’s when allegedly ‘normal’ people decide to get a tingle up their leg over someone they know is committing evil.
A Yemeni fighter with terrorists on a hijacked ship has gone viral for being the “hot Houthi pirate” — and even he is disgusted at the focus on his movie-star looks rather than his anti-Israel militancy.
While the Houthis capture ships in the Red Sea, 19-year-old Rashid Al Haddad has been capturing hearts on social media,
I know this is serious business but Yemeni Abercrombie model there.. https://t.co/LTossn4y8e pic.twitter.com/OAuyC8DiYn
— (@_cashcarstar) January 15, 2024
All the facepalms are not enough to cover this kind of sick adoration based on little more than tossled hair and brooding looks.
And haven’t we been here before?
Let’s consider the word glamour for a minute and it’s connection to evil. Regardless of contemporary culture’s fascination with fantasy creatures like elves, the world of the Fey was not the stuff of Tinkerbell. Glamour was a spell that was cast to hide the true and sinister nature of a faerie, an exciting and seductive veil to trick the weak minded.
You know, like the idiot people who saw a Boston terrorist as Jim Morrison or an Iranian puppet as Timothy Chalamet.
As if either one of them would give a second thought to slitting the throats of any of their kafir admirers.
Biden and the Democrats have been reluctant to actually do much at all about the Houthi terrorists, given they cling to making a deal with Iran’s mullahs like hungry ticks on a deer. They haven’t succumbed to evil’s glamour as much as they ignore it in pursuit of more mercenary goals.
One of the old forms of the Catholic ritual of baptism for adults is a line about “rejecting the glamour of evil”. But that presupposes we look into ourselves and learn to recognize both evil and how it pretties itself up.
I fear that kind of moral muscle has atrophied in our current culture.
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Wfjag says: To me, the fundamental question is Weather we have the will to survive?
As to the cultural and media elites, and most of academia, the answer is No.
As to the national political leadership, for many, perhaps a majority, the answer is No.
Hate_me says: I honestly don’t know who Timothy Chalamet is, but I hope this Houthi cabin boy gets intimate with a JDAM real soon. Rashid is no doubt photogenic, and, maybe in a different life, he could have been a movie star. Instead, he chose to be a pirate.
Then again, even James Dean didn’t “leave a good looking corpse.”
Cameron says: Timothy is the lead in the latest Dune movies. And I liked the remark about “getting intimate with a JDAM.”
Cameron says: Let’s consider the word glamour for a minute and it’s connection to evil
True story: As a contractor, I get what I like to call the “Thou Shalt Not” lecture when I go outside of the US. The last time I sat in on a briefing, it was a warning that we were not to use services like Uber or Lyft and instead hire a taxi.
Why was this part of the lecture? Because a woman went out to Mexico and hired an Uber. When she was warned about the danger, her response was “But I looked at him when he got to the hotel. He was cute! He wasn’t going to do anything.”
Scott says: Don’t forget about napalm…
And I hear that runaway nuclear reactions can get pretty warm as well…
GWB says: As if either one of them would give a second thought to slitting the throats of any of their kafir admirers.
Well, they might. I mean, are they rape-able first? Or second?
Short and to-the-point, Darleen. Very good.
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