Mark Steyn: Wake up and listen to the muezzin

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 11/29/05 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[lawgirl]

i heart mark steyn bump

[denydenydeny]

unsustainable sloth

LOL!

[TexanToTheCore]

I wonder if anyone has taken the trouble to calculate the total indebtedness of those cities that have hosted the Olymics over the last thirty years or so. It must be very large numbers indeed.

[Rummyfan]

By the time that Olympic mega-mosque is open for business, you'll be surprised how well it fits in.

Wow! Does anyone else notice the dreary albeit accurate future Mr Steyn has been predicting lately?

[RonDog]

"Forget Kyoto and the problem of "unsustainable growth";
the crisis that Britain and most of Europe faces is unsustainable sloth." - Mark Steyn

ping

[Billthedrill]

By the time that Olympic mega-mosque is open for business, you'll be surprised how well it fits in.

Just finished Theodore Dalrymple's Our Culture, What's Left Of It and this statement is more chilling than funny.

[RonDog]

Wow! Does anyone else notice the dreary albeit accurate future Mr Steyn has been predicting lately?

The rapid development of current events is a large part of his pessimism.

See also, from:

Mark Steyn: Wake up, Europe, you've a war on your hands
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | November 6, 2005 | Mark Steyn
Posted on 11/06/2005 3:14:50 AM PST by Puzzleman

Ever since 9/11, I've been gloomily predicting the European powder keg's about to go up. ''By 2010 we'll be watching burning buildings, street riots and assassinations on the news every night,'' I wrote in Canada's Western Standard back in February.

Silly me. The Eurabian civil war appears to have started some years ahead of my optimistic schedule...

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

[Tallguy]

When it's a bet between reality and delusion, bet on reality.

I'll be borrowing this little nugget for my tagline! Take heed, Democrats.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Yet somehow the "Toxic Texan" (everybody) has managed to outperform Canada on almost every measure of eco-virtue.

Canadians are surprised that Americans are not nearly as in awe of Canada's moral stature as Canadians are.

[RonDog]

Meanwhile, Tablighi Jamaat, the Islamic missionary group, has announced plans to build a mosque next door to the new Olympic stadium.

The London Markaz will be the biggest house of worship in the United Kingdom - Mark Steyn

See also, from www.danielpipes.org/blog:

Weblog
The London Markaz
November 27, 2005

The London Markaz The Sunday Times (London) has an article today with an update on plans by Tablighi Jamaat to build a gigantic mosque complex, called the London Markaz, on a 10-acre site in Newham, a mere 500 yards from the site of the 2012 Olympic games. The Markaz' size and ambition are as noteworthy as Tablighi Jamaat's agenda is dubious.

The project's backers hope the mosque and its surrounding buildings would hold a total of 70,000 people, only 10,000 fewer than the Olympic stadium. Its futuristic design features wind turbines instead of the traditional minarets, while a translucent latticed roof would replace the domes seen on most mosques. The complex is designed to become the "Muslim quarter" for the Games, acting as a hub for Islamic competitors and spectators.

With a built area of 180,000m2, the site is 1km in length and sits on the banks of the Channelsea River in proximity to the London 2012 Olympic sites.

The east London complex would have by far the largest capacity of any religious building in Britain. The biggest at present is the Baitul Futuh in Morden, Surrey, which holds about 10,000 worshippers. Liverpool's Anglican cathedral, the largest Christian place of worship, has a capacity of 3,000.

The three-storey mosque will be designed to accommodate more than 40,000 worshippers. Its sweeping roof is intended to evoke tented cities. The complex would include a garden, school, library and accommodation for visiting worshippers. Islamic calligraphy would cover the walls and ceilings, the washing areas would have cascading water to mimic a stream, and the complex's buildings would be adapted to allow extra worshippers during festivals such as Eid, accommodating a further 30,000 visitors...

[ghost of nixon]

Yet somehow the "Toxic Texan" (everybody) has managed to outperform Canada on almost every measure of eco-virtue.

this makes sense - true eco-virtue costs money, and we've been making a lot more than Canada. I would be interested in seeing the statistics that back this up, however. Anyone?

[mylife]

if you object to that, the question is: what are you willing to do about it?

Mr Steyn is just trying to slap us all squarely upside of the head.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

There's one image of the Second World War that sums it up: in London, the morning after a night of Luftwaffe bombing, Churchill would walk through the ruins; in Berlin, Hitler never visited bombed-out areas and, just in case the driver should take a wrong turn, he drove through the streets with his car windows curtained.

If you can't bear to pull open the curtains, chances are you're going to lose. When it's a bet between reality and delusion, bet on reality. What does the European political class really know of today's challenges? We mock the Islamists for wanting to turn the clock back to the eighth century. But, if it's a choice between eighth-century reality or 21st-century fantasy, it's not such an easy call.

By the time that Olympic mega-mosque is open for business, you'll be surprised how well it fits in.

Brilliant!!

[FreedomPoster]

>>Does anyone else notice the dreary albeit accurate future Mr Steyn has been predicting lately?

I hope you didn't miss the column on France and demographics.

He made me revise my estimate for the Fall of France to Islam by a couple of decades.

[The Red Zone]

The project's backers hope the mosque and its surrounding buildings would hold a total of 70,000 people, only 10,000 fewer than the Olympic stadium. Its futuristic design features wind turbines instead of the traditional minarets, while a translucent latticed roof would replace the domes seen on most mosques.

The Moose answer to the Crystal Cathedral

[Continental Soldier]

If hosting the Olympics causes great debt, why do cities compete to do so? Why do cities build huge stadia and develop equally huge support facilities, such as, restaurants, hotels and transportation systems? Cleary, somebody is making mega-bucks on the Olympics! The question is, why do local governments who have to sustain the debt climb so readily on-board? Who is making the huge profits? And why are citizens expected to pick up the debts?

[Gritty]

BTTT

[mylife]

Thanks for the book tip.
It looks like a must read