[goldstategop]

What's the world's hottest global export today? Primitivization. The head hackers want to replace our civilized niceties with a pornographic infusion of beheading. This is the contribution of the global jihad to distant corners of the planet and it shows no signs of abating. The only question is whether the West's vapid multi-cultural states are equipped to resist it.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[RusIvan]

The only question is whether the West's vapid multi-cultural states are equipped to resist it. ==

The multi-cultiral state isn't equipped to resist it. We need to admit that some cultures are not compatible with us. SO we should expel those incompatible cultures from our countries. It is only solution.

[NutCrackerBoy]

In Britain, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and elsewhere, second- and third-generation Muslims recognize the vapidity of the modern multicultural state for what it is -- a nullity, a national non-identity -- and so, for their own identity, they look elsewhere. To carry on letting Islamism fill it is to invite the re-primitivization of the world. -Mark Steyn

How can a Renee Montagne babble on about the need for more generous social programs and not see before her eyes that the real weakness is the vacuum of cultural will?

[metesky]

Non-porno Steyn bump.

Somebody wake up the Mods!

[JoeGar]

Excellent piece!

[Candor7]

in Somalia it may have gained a nation>>>>>>>>>>>>

To call Somalia a nation is to name what you find in a garbage can, a complete meal.

The Somalis will simply kill each other off to the point that only a few starving women, children and crippled old men are left.

Thank you prex-i-dent Clinton for not sending in tanks when you should have. I am remnded what a POS Clinton really is every time I read about Somalia.

[Paladin2]

1st:

Zarqawi found himself on the receiving end of 500 pounds of U.S. ordnance justice(heeh, heeh, W said "justice").

2nd:

'Rats need to start marching around with "Stop Jihad Now!" signs.

[exnavy]

There are some very astute and well spoken concepts contained herein that need more voice in the media.

[gotribe]

And, even though the number of Ontarians prepared actively to participate in the beheading of the prime minister is undoubtedly minimal, the informal support of the jihad's aims by many Western Muslims and the quiescence of too many of the remainder and the ethnic squeamishness of the modern multicultural state provide a big comfort zone.

This is the only reason there are still terrorists for us to fight.

[alwaysconservative]

Excellent find, and thanks so much for posting an unexcerpted Steyn. I also liked the "gem" you quoted in starting this thread; it was core to the idea of the article.

[frankiep]

ping

[Pokey78]

ping.

[redgolum]

We can win this militarily. But we can not win this with the media and Congress screaming "war crimes" all the time.

If we truly want to win, there are tried and true tactics to use against guerrilla warfare in general and islamists in particular. Look up the Philippine insurrection and Gen. John Pershing for ideas.

[DCPatriot]

Mark Steyn is simply repeating what Ann Coulter said two days after 9-11...

Invade...kill their leaders...convert them to Christianity.

[fso301]

bump

[mylife]

Writing about the collapse of nations such as Somalia, the Atlantic Monthly's Robert D. Kaplan referred to the "citizens" of such "states" as "re-primitivized man." When lifelong Torontonians are hot for decapitation, when Yorkshiremen born and bred and into fish 'n' chips and cricket and lousy English pop music self-detonate on the London Tube, it would seem that the phenomenon of "re-primitivized man" has been successfully exported around the planet. It's reverse globalization: The pathologies of the remotest backwaters now have franchise outlets in every Western city. You don't have to be a loser Ontario welfare recipient like Steven Chand, the 25-year-old Muslim convert named in the thwarted prime ministerial beheading. Omar Sheikh, the man behind the beheading of the Wall Street Journal's Daniel Pearl, was an English "public" (i.e., private) schoolboy and graduate of the London School of Economics.

Theres the rub.

Steyn gets it, while the liberals discuss grand cultures and the glories of multi culturism, Mr Steyn sees what is obvious to conservative eyes:

Liberals believe in the Good of all men, while conservatives believe in God and know that mankind is one step away fom returning to barbarism.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"It's reverse globalization: The pathologies of the remotest backwaters now have franchise outlets in every Western city."

And yet, The West slumbers on...

[Dialup Llama]

What's nutty is that, half a decade on from Sept. 11, the Saudis are still allowed to bankroll schools and mosques and think tanks and fast-track imam chaplaincy programs in prisons and armed forces around the world

The only thing nuttier is that 5 years after 911, we don't have a secure border and the open network of document forgers apparent in every city still haven't been rolled up.

[kayak]

Oil isn't the principal Saudi export, ideology is; petroleum merely bankrolls it.

Very interesting, and perceptive, comment.

We are not shedding the blood of America's finest over oil but to try to stop an ideology that wants to destroy the civilized world. And we must win!

[knighthawk]

scholar; Bullish; linear; yoda swings

[Tax-chick]

bttt