Mark Steyn - Muslim paranoia: Enemies made us impotent!

The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 10-26-03 | Mark Steyn

[Argh]

Who the heck is "Mary Steyn"?...just kidding...

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Oops ...

[Argh]

No problem, I couldn't resist. I, too, am a huge fan of MARK Steyn. :^)

[Samwise]

I know the feeling. The same thing happened to me after shaking hands with Sen. Clinton.

ROTFLMAO

But humor aside,

A handshake-fearing guy with a cell phone is one thing; what happens when the handshake-fearers have cell phones and a suitcase nuke?

This is why we must win the war on terror. Why is this so hard for the media to understand?

[lainde]

Steyn ping!

[prairiebreeze]

Why is this so hard for the media to understand?

I think they understand fairly well. Most of the media and their masters the liberals, want America weak as needy, like many other countries. That way we fit the mold over at the UN much better.

So if a suitcase nuke (heaven forbid) did get thru, the media can scream that the administration withheld information and the public was mis-lead. Even though it's the media that provides info to the public, they can shift responsibility away from themselves.

It's sort of a set-up IMO. All about selling advertising.

Prairie

[Paul_B]

Indeed. The libs will weaken Bush's hand, then blame him when something happens.

[KarlInOhio]

For one thing, a week after the Malaysian Prime Minister told an Islamic summit that their "enemies," the Jews, control the world and got a standing ovation from 56 fellow Muslim leaders, it's useful to be reminded that the International Jewish Conspiracy is comparatively one of the less loopy conspiracies in the Islamic world. That said, they'll probably figure out a way to pin the disappearing penises on some or other agent of Zionism.

Mark, you're falling behind. In another story about this Sudanese problem, Panic in Khartoum: Foreigners Shake Hands, Make Penises Disappear, there is an description of the cause of the problem. In conclusion Abbas wrote: "That man, who, as it is claimed, is from West Africa, is an imperialist Zionist agent that was sent to prevent our people from procreating and multiplying…". Yes, that's right, it's the Jooooos doing it.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

It is, in that sense, the perfect emblematic tale of Islamic victimhood: The foreigners have made us impotent! It doesn't matter that the foreigners didn't do anything except shake hands. It doesn't matter whether you are, in fact, impotent. You feel impotent, just as -- so we're told -- millions of Muslims from Algerian Islamists to the Bali bombers feel "humiliated" by the Palestinian situation. Whether or not there is a rational basis for their sense of humiliation is irrelevant.

That is, it is an urban legend.

One of the things I'd feel humiliated about if I lived in the Arab world is that almost all the forms of expression of my anti-Westernism are themselves Western in origin.

This is of course the crux of things. Western journalists and other insecure lusters after credit for the results of the initiative, ambition, and fortitude of entrepreneurs nourish the primary threats to our security and prosperity. Which coincidentally produces the primary topics of journalism . . .

You can own a cell phone, yet still believe that foreigners are able with a mere handshake to cause your penis to melt away.

You can be intimidated by people who can do things you yourself not only can't do, but can't picture anyone you know doing. Cell phones might have intimidated the framers of the Constitution, after all . . . too far outside their experience.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[mewzilla]

There's something pathetic about a culture so ignorant even its pathologies have to be imported.

Whoa.

Says it all though, really.

[Savage Beast]

"A man from West Africa came into the shop and 'shook the store owner's hand powerfully until the owner felt his penis melt into his body.'"

I hope these people don't figure out how to file lawsuits in American courts. By the time the trial lawyers get through, they'll receive millions in "compensation" for lost penisis, pain, suffering--you name it--and the public will demand malpractice lawsuits against ALL HANDSHAKERS! (Please. Don't anybody let this story reach California.)

[Amelia]

not - even - going - there ..........

[UnklGene]

I know the feeling. The same thing happened to me after shaking hands with Sen. Clinton.

I KNOW the feeling! It happened to me 10 years ago when Co-President Hillary proposed her all encompassing health care program.

[Scenic Sounds]

not - even - going - there ..........

LOL. Good for you, Amelia. I knew you wouldn't! ;-)

[etcetera]

"There's something pathetic about a culture so ignorant even its pathologies have to be imported."

Ouch!

[Celtjew Libertarian]

They probably saw one too many Ron Jeremy movies and weren't able to deal. 8>)

[Travis McGee]

We're going to find out, sooner or later,

If Abdul will pray, to a smoking crater.

[Bullish]

This one nicely illustrates the abject ignorance and stupidity of our Islamic enemies.

Stupid ignorance can be a very dangerous thing.