Steyn Online: One year ago today – January 7th 2015 – two Muslim fanatics burst into the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed a dozen people, including the bulk of the senior editorial staff and some of France’s best known cartoonists. I heard about the attack shortly before I went on that morning’s John Oakley Show in Toronto. Throughout the very bad year for free speech that followed, I have thought often of Stéphane “Charb” Charbonnier, the editor ofCharlie Hebdo and a great cartoonist in the French style. Two years before his death, he said:
It may seem pompous, but I’d rather die standing than live on my knees.
He did. He was an heroic figure, and he paid for it with his life. more
Steyn is dead on the money. Again. The evilness of Islam is on all and open display for all to see and still we get the hummahummas
with the legions lighting candles and holding pencils-how fucking repulsive.
I especially liked the description of the open hate the Protestants and Catholics displayed for each other-neither side was turning away from it. I’ve looked into the eyes of Palestinians in Israel and have seen the hate they have for me. And I returned it ten fold. Now I see I’d get stabbed but in 96 they were still holding their fire.
For some inexplicable reason too many of us aren’t returning the hate. Well you can smile all the way to the cage where they’ll set you on fire I guess. It’s a recipe for the end of western civ. Why did the men of Europe over a thousand years ago recognize the evil & move mountains to fight it and now, with information literally oozing out of every nook & cranny, this evil is ignored? Especially with virtually the touch of a button, we could end this nightmare.
And don’t for a second think if the shoe was on the other foot, that there wouldn’t be craters across our landscape where cities used to stand.
Good luck with that.
Saw this over at Knuckledragging-I can only hope, huh?
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began
pam gellar disagrees:
In the wake of the jihad slaughter of cartoonists at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last January, the remaining employees of the magazine have said a number of outrageous, grotesque, and weak-willed statements. This is, of course, forgivable in light of the horrible jihad slaughter of their editorial staff because of a couple of sophomoric and inane cartoons of the humorless Muhammad.
But in the ensuing months, their spineless posturing and not-so-subtle attacks on those of us who still wouldn’t submit were unforgivable. After jihadists opened fire on our free speech event in Garland, Texas last May, Charlie Hebdo staffers pointed their poison little arrows at us. When asked about our cartoon and art event, Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief Gérard Biard rejected any comparison with his magazine’s work: “The difference between us and these people is that these people are organizing contests, anti-Islamist contests. It’s an obsession … We are not obsessed. We are just obsessed by the news, and by how the world is going on. The difference with Pamela Geller, she is obsessed by Islam. She waits [sic] every morning and thinks, What can I do today to defy these people?”
Hmm, I seem to remember IOTW having a Draw Mohammed Day post and four – – (count ’em) FOUR drawings were submitted among a readership of what – – thousands? Now let’s hear your phoney fucking excuses.
Well I can design the most beautiful leaded glass you’ll ever see but when it comes to figure drawing, I’m a stick people guy.
How’s that?
MM its because the men of today don’t believe in anything much at all.