Mark Steyn: Wake up and listen to the muezzin

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

[RobFromGa]

Bump for Mark Steyn-- he is the king!

[The Red Zone]

How would they get that many Mooses in there for a prayer, and back out before it's time for the next prayer?

[RonDog]

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

By comparison, the entire Temple Square complex in Salt Lake City -- international home of the Mormon Church -- is only 10 acre (40,000 m²):

[Irish_Thatcherite]

LOL!!

[listenhillary]

Environment summit's blushing host

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1132960212646&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795

[marron]

I would say that developers and contractors do quite well, the contractors building infrastructure and generally spiffying up the town, and developers as business overall is attracted to the city.

Mayors and city councilmen have to figure out where the money will come from, but its not their money, and like as not the bills come due after they've left office.

[teawithmisswilliams]

Dalrymple is great. One of my favorite Dalrymple observations is that political correctness creates a society of "emasculated liars."

Steyn is definitely neither emasculated, nor a liar.

[mylife]

Thats a very astute observation.


Does anyone ever post Dalrymple's work on FR?

[Cyber Liberty]

T4TPing!

[Tax-chick]

Someone's got a ping list and an archived articles list for Dalrymple, but I don't recall who. Try a keyword search.

[mylife]

Thanks

[mylife]

Its freeper Tolik who holds the Dalrymple ping list

Thanks again

[teawithmisswilliams]

Does anyone ever post Dalrymple's work on FR?

Not that I know of...it's good idea, though.

[SuzyQue]

Even an all-star double bill comprising a joint Service of Apology to Saddam Hussein followed by Ordination of Multiple Gay Bishops in Long-Term Committed Relationships (Non-Practising or Otherwise, According to Taste) seems unlikely to fill the pews...

So sad........so true

[ops33]

Best suggestion I heard for the Olympics is move them to Greece and let them stay there.

[RonDog]

Here is an IMPROVED version of that post, with SMALLER images, for the benefit of the bandwidth-impaired. :o)

The Moose answer to the Crystal Cathedral

While the entire Crystal Cathedral "campus" DOES include several additional buildings:

...the (HUGE) Crystal Cathedral itself can only hold about THREE THOUSAND people:

Click on this SMALL image above
to see a LARGER image

Bottom line:

A mosque that can hold 40,000 people would be GI-NORMOUS!!!

[daviscupper]

I believe Los Angeles actually turned a profit; however, they relied on the private sector for enormous infusions of cash. It was too commercialized. The tragedy of it all!

This was no mean feat because it was a bit phony in that many of the real athletes (Russians and Eastern bloc countries) were boycotting in retaliation for our boycotting the Moscow Olympics.

Peter Uberouth did fine job.

[RichInOC]

Brutal. Just brutal.

When I grow up, I want to write like Mark Steyn.

P.S....I remember the Montreal Olympics, and I'm pretty sure early forties is not late middle age. Heck, I think I vaguely remember watching some of the Munich Olympics (the actual sporting events, I'm not sure I saw any of the troubles). I'd heard Montreal went in the hole for their games. I didn't realize it was thirty years deep.