The Triumph of Reality

Omar Mateen, a 29 year-old security guard and Muslim fanatic, used two firearms that he purchased

legally to murder 49 people and wound 53 others at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, during the early morning hours of Sunday, 12 June 2016. After starting his murderous rampage, he paused to call 9-1-1 to claim responsibility and pledge his allegiance to ISIS, then continued shooting people before he was himself killed in a gun battle with police. Witnesses report that he repeatedly used racist, misogynist and anti-gay slurs during the attack and at his workplace before the attack, and he was interrogated – and released – three times by the FBI for his connections to Muslim terrorist groups.

Facts are wonderful things. They stare you in the face with cold, unblinking, emotionless eyes.  They don’t change and they don’t care about ideology, the political climate or social justice. They are what they are, and in a horrible moment like this, they can simply be accepted as such to guide future action so that similar incidents can be prevented.  Or, as Priest-King, HRC, the Democrat Party and their Leftist media construct do, they can be ignored because they are inconvenient, because they don’t fit an ideological blueprint or because they don’t advance the right political agenda. Priest-King and HRC talk about “terror” and “hate” and “tragedy” and complain about how easily Mateen bought his guns but they don’t explain whose terror was perpetrated and whose hate was vented nor why Mateen was released by the FBI three separate times, and they dismiss Mateen’s own public declaration of loyalty to ISIS as invalid, as does their amen corner in the Council on American-Islamic Relations. They revert to their shopworn argument that universal background checks would have deterred this massacre when it is manifestly evident they would not – Mateen passed two background checks when he bought his guns and had not been arrested, charged or convicted of a crime – so what they are dog-whistling to the broader audience is the suspension of a person’s Second Amendment rights on the mere suspicion, not simply of criminal activity, but of any activity to which the radical Left objects. (Think Christian bakers who refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding.) They also ignore – again – that Omar Mateen’s one-man jihad was only stopped by the intervention of the Orlando Police Department SWAT team, since apparently nobody in the Pulse nightclub was carrying a firearm themselves, meaning that 102 people were shot before someone had the effective means to shut him down. By strictly controlling the exercise of Second Amendment rights for the law-abiding public, Priest-King and his socialist one-worlders guaranteed Mateen a large, defenseless and target-rich environment and thus are complicit to his gruesome crimes. But though not a word will be said as to their guilt, the facts remain the facts.

Sharia law condemns homosexuality. Another fact that Priest-King chooses to ignore is that the Muslims he has wooed and apologized to and protected the last eight years absolutely detest the depravity of western culture, which includes the flaunting and celebration of homosexuality. Gays are hanged and stoned in Iran and ISIS throws them from rooftops so it’s not hard to imagine a young, angry, small-time loser like Omar Mateen being driven to a homicidal fury by the sight of hundreds of gays, lesbians and drag queens parading themselves in public. If Priest-King acknowledged this fact, he would throw into question the policy he has so ardently pursued during his Presidency and his core beliefs themselves, so he deliberately pushes ahead with the same flawed philosophy that led to Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon bombings, Chattanooga, Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels and now Orlando. More people will die, more lives will be ruined, more destruction and misery will ensue because staring facts in the face would invalidate everything he believes in, he would be proven to be spectacularly and fatally wrong and that thought is simply unimaginable: His support for Islam as a legitimate alternative to Christianity – because Islam doesn’t require personal acknowledgment and confession and repentance for sin, and accepting Jesus Christ as the only source of salvation, unacceptable to the liberal mind – lies at the core of his being. How could he be such a fool? How could he be so naïve? How could he have believed that a religion based on the 7^th century Arab bandit culture of slaughter, rape, pillage and slavery be compatible with postmodern liberal philosophy? These are questions from which Priest-King recoils, he instinctively dismisses violent Islamic ideology as a motive for terrorism, demands the further restriction of guns, blames conservatives for his failures and shifts the debate away from those horrible, relentless facts.

The worst mass shooting in American history reminds us that reality trumps dogma, that the thousands of people killed every year by violent Muslims don’t die because young Muslim men are uneducated, unemployed and poor but because Muslim ideology itself demands their deaths, that Muslim ideology condemns homosexuality and rejects the casual acceptance of deviant lifestyles promoted by the fellow-traveling Left, that it’s not the gun but the fanatic wielding it that’s the threat, and that there is a clear and powerful and unmistakable moral distinction between Islam and the societies Islam wants to destroy. If we cannot together accept and acknowledge and then act on these facts, to deter and finally defeat the march of jihad, then the only people who will profit will be the gravediggers.