A Twinge That Could Stop a Catastrophe
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Posted:
28 Nov 2015 10:01 AM PST
In Gavin de Becker's
book, The Gift of Fear, he points out that many
times a victim of rape intuitively knows something isn't right — and
sometimes knows it in time to do something about it — but the rapist often
plays on her kindness, so she ignores her intuition, writes off her own
twinge of fear as ridiculous because after all, he's such a nice man.
One of the examples de Becker uses is a woman who was carrying groceries up the stairs to her apartment when a friendly man offered to help her. She had an immediate twinge of fear (what de Becker calls a "survival signal") and she said, "No thank you." But he insisted and when she hesitated because she didn't want to hurt his feelings, he added a little "typecasting" to set the hook. Typecasting is one method manipulators use to influence people. It's a slight insult designed to cause the victim to prove that the insult doesn't apply to her, and in so doing, she makes herself more vulnerable. Read more about it here. So she overrode her survival signal and accepted his help. She was raped in her apartment, and if it weren't for the fact that she listened to her second twinge of fear, she would have been murdered that night. There are orthodox Muslims who are using the same manipulative techniques with non-Muslim countries: Appealing to their kindness and typecasting them by implying that if they prevent Muslim immigration, they're racist Islamophobes. Their goal is to get more Muslims into our non-Muslim countries. And as they gain a greater percentage of the population within our countries, they push for more and more concessions — getting the host culture to yield to Islamic standards one small increment at a time. This is what Raymond Ibrahim calls Islam's rule of numbers. As their numbers grow, their political power grows. Then politicians can no longer ignore this voting block and the push for concessions grows more insistent and demanding. The country is gradually converted to Islamic law. Almost every non-Muslim country is on this track, yet still in a position to save itself, and some people within each country — more all the time — are listening to our survival signals. Our twinges of intuition are correct: Islam swallows up cultures. In the end, nothing is left but Islam. That's just what it does. Our twinge is a gift. A warning. Here's the message, clarified into English: "Don't let them in." |
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Posted:
28 Nov 2015 10:00 AM PST
In Gavin de Becker's book, The Gift of Fear, he describes several
indicators that a predator is trying to gain control of a woman (to rape,
rob, or murder her). One of these indicators is "typecasting."
Here's how de Becker describes it:
A man labels a woman
in some slightly critical way, hoping she'll feel compelled to prove that his
opinion is not accurate. "You're probably too snobbish to talk to the
likes of me," a man might say, and the woman will cast off the mantle of
"snob" by talking to him. A man tells a woman, "You don't look
like someone who reads the newspaper," and she sets out to prove that
she is intelligent and well-informed. When Kelly (an example de Becker was
using) refused her attacker's assistance, he said, "There's such a
thing as being too proud, you know," and she resisted the label by
accepting his help.
Typecasting always involves a slight insult, and usually one that is easy to refute (in our case, the insults include Islamophobic or racist). But since it is the response itself that the typecaster seeks, the defense is silence, acting as if the words weren't even spoken. If you engage, you can win the point, but you might lose something greater. Not that it matters what some stranger thinks of you anyway, but the typecaster doesn't even believe what he says is true. He just believes that it will work. The Gift of Fear is an excellent book with many useful insights into our resistance against the manipulative attempt to Islamize our countries.
Read full lists of
manipulation methods from the book:
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