I found this story heartening in the midst of watching Antifa punks play at street thuggery in the US.
This family reacted with strength, helping others and getting under cover with real villains pouring fire into innocents on the street.
“I was very proud of how my wife and three boys reacted. They were urgent, but not panicked. There are people panicking everywhere. One lady with a baby fell down, and my son helped her up. Then another lady fell down and hit her head, and I helped her up,” he notes
Good on ya.
Good on them for keeping cool and reporting the facts about the attack.
Reacting with grit and fortitude can often minimize the damage. I would know.
A year after 9/11 I was on a LAX-JFK flight and openly identified to American Airlines personnel my concerns about two Muslim youths boarding the plane in front of me. I didn’t care about accusations of profiling because after living in the financial district of NYC for 12 years, I was in no mood to practice political correctness.
I was ignored but lived in pure fear for 6 & 1/2 hours and paced up and down the aisle, glaring at them and hanging on to the only weapon security would allow me to carry on board- my mascara wand.
We landed at dawn and two sky marshals came on board and lifted these two men right out of their seats before any of us were allowed to disembark.
I was right and I knew it.
Years later, I was happily wandering the Christkindlmarkt in Vienna buying antique Christmas ornaments and gingerbread cookies when I spotted a Muslim youth gang roving the area. This was as subtle as a blonde American woman with no burqa visiting Mecca so I immediately alerted a couple of die polizei on site. The gang disappeared and people surrounding me were patting my back and speaking kindly to me (I think) in German. Unfortunately, my beloved Vienna has become as ripe a target as Paris and London.
And finally, I won’t tolerate the presence of Muslims in my own community as so many of you know. There is an agenda with this inaccurately described “religion” and it isn’t a peaceful one.
With that said, many kudos to the brave American family who stood up for Western values even as they were visiting abroad and could have run for their lives.
As an addendum to this post and just so y’all don’t think I’m even crazier than I am, I used to fly EL AL airlines quite often in the 80s for business. I learned a lot about “tells” in those years and never forgot them.
Profiling is a very important aspect of security and one agent at Ben Gurion informed me I was an “easy” pass and gave me a short lesson on who isn’t.
“Profiling” is the heart of detective work. You look for a suspect, honing down his characteristics until you can find the single one you are searching for.
So if a perp is a woman, there is no reason to look at males, and there is good reason to look at females. If the perp is of a particular race, then other races are not interesting.
PART of our overall problem is that we have, at least among the white elites, white guilt. Part of it is that we have this whole crazy racial “system” which actually defies definition. ?Since when is an Indian from Mexico a “hispanic”. He speaks a version of Spanish, but not one anyone from Spain can understand. I know – I watched one of my Puerto Rican Guardsman try to talk to Spaniards in a restaurant. We ended up ordering via my Serbian, as that was closer to something they could understand.
Dev, you must explain how you managed to communicate in a Slavic language somewhat related to Croatian in Spain.
The formal name is Serbocroatian. It is one language, not two. It’s a little like English from Boston, Georgia, or Melbourne – all the same language but different accents and some variation in vocabulary.
It seems the Mediterranean region has some basic grasp of language around there. I could say things in Serbian and we would pick and choose roots and communicate. Sgt.Gonzales OTOH didn’t seem to be able to make himself understood in his PR version of Spanish – at least in Seville.
I had a similar experience in northern Italy. Went to a little restaurant in a small town one evening with the rest of the flight crew. The pilot spoke Portuguese and I spoke Serbian and we had a great meal. The other two were just Americans. Hand movement helps. Some day I’ll tell you the story of how we got dessert there. And it only cost us $20 US each – and the maitre d, who I believe was also the owner, was ecstatic with the money.
There must be no accommodation of Islam. At all.
I think, Mike, the real question ought to be why we haven’t been actively combating islam yet. Much of the battle is an intellectual one. Showing it to be a defunct ideology, full of hate and desolation, ought not to be difficult.
Agree with both of the gentlemen above but first and foremost, Westerners have to come to terms with the fact that Islam is not a religion at all; it is a political and cultural ideology vehemently opposed to Western values.
As my personal heroine Ayaan Hirsi Ali explains, the prophet Muhammed was a con artist who convinced millions of ignorant people that pedophilia, polygamy, honor killings, and useless martyrdom in the name of advancing his military agenda was all in the name of “Allah.”
Anybody ever read such things in the Talmud or the Bible?
What a relief the American family were able to get to safety – if I recall correctly, the American man who was killed on the Westminster Bridge in London was also celebrating his 30th wedding anniversary with his wife. These fiends must be stopped.