Mark Steyn-
As I wrote yesterday, I think media coverage of the Sri Lankan Easter massacre marked a further descent on a ever slipperier slope. But it’s worth noting that we’re where we are today because of trends set in motion back when this thing got going. Less than three months after 9/11 – December 1st 2001 – I published the following piece in The Spectator. In the ensuing eighteen years, every fatuous Islamoschmoozing tic of western politicians has expanded beyond parody:
Are you a Western leader of the Judaeo-Christian or Agnostic-Atheist persuasion? Want to issue a public statement on how much you respect and value Islam as a peaceful religion of moderation and tolerance? Take a number, pal. The line’s longer than the waiting-list at a Birmingham hospital. The Queen has spoken of her respect for ‘the Islamic community’, so’s the Pope, and Tony Blair. President Bush does it at least a couple of times a day. A week ago, he hosted the White House’s first ever Ramadan dinner – not a banquet, that would have been insensitive, and the whole point of the administration’s ‘Ramadan public relations offensive’ is, according to The Washington Post , to ‘highlight its sensitivity to Islamic tradition’. At this difficult time, politicians are sensitive about being thought insensitive, so there’s no point being too sensitive about how ostentatiously you advertise your sensitivity. In Canada, the Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien, hasn’t made what one could call a coherent statement on the subject, but he has visited a mosque, as he never ceases to remind people. Ask him about border security or troop deployments or post-9/11 economic issues and he says, ‘I was proud to visit da mosques because dat to me is da Canadian value.’
This is the most sensitive war in history. The President has urged Americans to be especially solicitous and protective of what he calls ‘women of cover’. (If a woman of colour wears a hejab, will that make her a woman of colour of cover? A covered woman of colour? A coloured woman of cover?) He has recommended that each American schoolchild get a Middle Eastern pen-pal, although, with the current anthrax scare, I don’t suppose the US Postal Service is especially eager for a blizzard of envelopes with childlike handwriting from Mullah al-Jihad’s Fourth Grade class at the Sword of the Jew-Slayer Elementary School in Kandahar.
Should the US government be in the business of Ramadan PR? The Republic is founded on the principle of separation of church and state, but, to judge by the unnerving silence from the usually litigious American Civil Liberties Union, the separation of mosque and state is quite another matter. Last time round, FDR interned Japanese-Americans. Not only has Bush no plans to intern Muslim Americans; it wouldn’t surprise me if he interned himself, just to ‘send the right message’. more
Mark Steyn has been out front on the Islamic threat. His book, “America Alone” should be required reading in high school. Not just for pointing out the threat, but for teaching demographics and the problems with falling birth rates in western countries compared with the rabbit like breeding of third world barbarians. Especially when these third world barbarians find their way to a first world, welfare nation that is guilt ridden into suicide.
WE ARE DONE. I am 65 and I enjoy/
thank GOD for every day.Our children
will have a bad life I am afraid.
R.V.H.F..
Is negativety attractive for your age circles?
This AM one of the networks did a long piece on the Sri Lanka massacres. Their focus was 100% on how this might adversely affect Muslims. Not ONE word of sympathy for the victims, except the American little boy DeZoysia (sp?). Nothing about how the Christian community is dealing with being bombed at church. All about Muslim feelings.
Steyn, brilliant as always.
Islam is the heart of evil. Mohammed was a goat-plooking pedophile. Period.
Thankful to see Steyn make the pages here at IOTW… The guy is a true 1st amendment warrior. More please.
/Salute
I could imagine his voice and tone while I read it.
Maybe I’ll develop an app which translates people’s words into their own voice.
Given my tech inability to do even something I hear is simple, creating one of those pictures people attach to their names, I believe app world is safe, for now.
Love Mark – So now we can’t say the J word as well? Thank GOD the X word will always be available.
On 9-11-01 (and months after) the arab embassies on Embassy Row in DC were covered in Police vehicles of almost every type. They were there to PROTECT the rats from being ripped limb from limb.
We need a missile strike on that fucking black rock in Mecca, ESPECIALLY when it is surrounded by thousands of ‘worshipers’ (aka Barbarian savages).
Sri Lanka (300 dead and still counting) and every other country who has been targeted by these savages have the moral authority to do so.
Americans are becoming a people that wouldn’t say “shit” if they had a mouth full of it because someone might be offended. And the islamists keep shoving it down our throats.