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Neither did these parents:
In the 1760s, Massachusetts commissioners invited some local Indians to send a dozen of their children to attend free at Harvard. The Indians replied that they had sent some of their young braves to study there years earlier, but on their return, the boys proved absolutely “good for nothing, being neither acquainted with the true methods for killing deer, catching a beaver, or surprising an enemy.”
The Indians offered instead to educate a dozen or so white children in the ways of the Indians and “make men of them.” To my knowledge there were no takers.
Is it possible the Indians could see that men were vanishing from Harvard as early as the 1760s?
Precious in the sight of the LORD Is the death of His godly ones.
Psalm 116:15
Rod Dreher asks, "I don’t understand why the government doesn’t deploy the army and shoot rioters until they stop. Philippe Lemoine, a Frenchman, says it’s not that simple."
Excerpt:
"We have let things rot for so long that, at this point, relying primarily on force to restore order would require a degree of violence far greater than what people realize and what is politically feasible.
It's possible to contain a riot using only moderate force when the number of police officers is high relative to the number of rioters, but when riots are so widespread and involve so many people because you have allowed this kind of things to happen for so long, that's just not possible and you have to use extreme violence to make up for the lack of manpower.
I know people on the Internet will say that it doesn't matter and that we should just do it, but the reality is that most of the people in charge are not prepared to use that kind of force and neither would most ordinary people if they saw ...
Even Marine Le Pen’s recent statements track this line: personal Islamic practice is compatible with the Republic; replacing French law with Sharia is not. French Muslims who are simply citizens practicing their "religious faith" “have no reason to worry” about a Le Pen election victory.
But can one be a practicing Muslim without demanding and practicing Sharia?
