Mark Steyn: We still don’t get it

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 09/11/04 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

[VadeRetro]

Three years after September 11, the Islamist death cult is the love whose name no one dare speak. And, if you can’t even bring yourself to identify your enemy, are you likely to defeat him? Can you even know him? He seems to know us pretty well. He understands the pressures he can bring to bear on Spain, and the Philippines, and France, too. He’s come to appreciate the self-imposed constraints under which his enemy fights — the legalisms, the political correctness, the deference to ineffectual multilateralism. He’s revolted by the infidels’ decadence but he has to admit it’s enormously helpful: the useful idiots of the pro-gay, pro-feminist Left are far more idiotic and far more useful to him than they ever were to Stalin.

Steyn finds the words behind my unease.

[marvlus]

But he is arousable.

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[GOPJ]

Radical Islamist don't understand -- there's not enough humiliation and weird kinky black outfits for their women to wear, to wash the tons of filth from their evil souls.

These idiots think Allah will smile on the child rapists, the murderers, the evil ones. Will smile if only their stupid women cover their silly heads. And cover their arms and legs and look like bondage nutcases.

Here's a flash -- even if the radical islamist women look like moving piles of black dog poop, it won't wash away the sin of one child rape. Allah hates sin.

[Tax-chick]

Thanks for the ping. Mark Steyn always says everything that needs to be said!

[MEG33]

Tell them, Mark....The elite press thinks we are scare mongers...When will they face the TRUTH!!...and

The French are not our friends.

[eureka!]

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[Carolinamom]

Thanks for the ping. I can't get enough of Mark Steyn, so yesterday I ordered (Amazon) his anthology, From Head to Toe, for even more Steyn.

[Pitiricus]

I believe that when the West will be aroused (and yes, it will happen... after a few hundred thousand are killed by the muslims)... there will be a mass massacre of muslims in Europe à la St Barthelemy...

[awelliott]

But he is arousable

Talk about a 75mph fastball right in the wheelhouse. Still fun to read it though....

[TomSmedley]

Singing ‘Imagine’ is a sure sign of a failure to imagine.

Amen.

[dennisw]

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[goldstategop]

Clinton's sleepiness' is a perfect visual synedoche for the West's inability to come to grips with the rise of Islamofascism. Half of the West would like to pretend the latest evil doesn't exist so they can resume their decadent lives. The other half would like to fight it but finds the division in their society prevents them from really take it to the enemy. As Mark Steyn points out, we still don't get it. Perhaps it may take a thousand Beslans before we do and by then it may be too late. History is not too comforting - the British were sleepwalking through Nazi aggression right through the fall of France. And heaven knows when all of America will get the wake up call since if 9/11 has not changed the Hate America mindset of our Left, its hard to fathom what will. The enemy knows us better than we know ourselves and he is fortified with a fanatical commitment to his cause as much as we are weakened by doubts. We need more arousal and it won't be supplied by another round of Viagra pills. The day we begin to name the enemy for who he is, is the day we will begin to finally win World War IV.

[baseballmom]

Yet ANOTHER Steyn home run.

[GretchenM]

This is absolutely frightening.

Within 72 hours of the atrocity, voters sent a tough message to the Islamists: ‘We apologise for catching your eye.’ Whether or not Madrid is Rome, Berlin, etc., it certainly isn’t New York. At least in the two and a half years between 9/11 and 3/11, there was always the possibility of Europe stiffening itself. Now America lives with the certainty that it won’t, and can’t, until it’s too late.

[Popman]

there will be a mass massacre of muslims in Europe à la St Barthelemy...

I think you are way too optimistic.

Europe will lay down and submit. They are all but already there.

You are probably basing your assumption that there is still active energized Christians in Europe. There are churches still, but for the most part are filled with old people.

[Popman]

Love your tagline!

[Ronzo]

By contrast, what have we learned? According to the Associated Press, last Sunday, at the Bercy stadium in Paris, Madonna dedicated her performance of ‘Imagine’ to what the AP reporter was still calling ‘the Russian hostage crisis’, even though by then the ‘crisis’ was over, as were the lives of the hostages. Madonna ‘urged fans to think about what happened in Russia and Lennon’s lyrics’. Okay:

‘Imagine there’s no heaven It’s easy if you try ...’

Not what I would want to hear if my kid had just been shot dead by a terrorist. More importantly, if Madonna is advocating global secularism as the answer to terrorism, she’s backing a loser. For the fellows pulling the martyrdom routines, heaven is a brothel. In Madonna terms, it’s ‘Like A Virgin’ times 72.

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