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How Societies Commit Suicide Scots and Italians Surrender to Islam
City Journal ^ | Aug. 17, '07 | Theodore Dalrymple

Posted on 08/23/2007 3:44:49 AM PDT by T.L.Sink

In an effort to assure that no Muslim doctors ever again try to bomb Glasgow airport, bureaucrats at Glasgow's public hospitals have decreed that henceforth no staff may eat lunch at their desks or in their offices during the holy month of Ramadan, so that fasting Muslims shall not be offended by the sight or smell of their food. This kind of absurdity is what happens when the highly contestable doctrine of multiculturalism becomes a career opportunity for the semi-educated and otherwise unemployable products of a grossly swolen university system. Meanwhile, the highest court in Italy was confirming an appeals court's acquittal of the father and brother of a Muslim girl, whom they beat and locked up for becoming too Westernized - that is to say, for having a Western friend. The court ruled that, though they had undoubtedly beaten her and locked her up, this was not because of any culpable ill-feeling toward her. It was, rather, because of "her lifestyle, which did not conform to their culture." The sound of a civilization committing suicide can be heard in these stories; for civilizations collapse not because the barbarians are so strong, but because they themselves are so morally enfeebled. No hospital board, as far as I am aware, has advised that one should not eat pork in front of Jews, or beef in front of Hindus.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: dalrymple; eurabia; italy; jihadineurope
"Civilizations die by suicide, not from murder." Arnold Toynbee
1 posted on 08/23/2007 3:44:51 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

Jaw-dropping idiocy.


2 posted on 08/23/2007 3:47:21 AM PDT by RightOnline
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To: T.L.Sink

Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.


3 posted on 08/23/2007 3:47:45 AM PDT by ought-six ("Give me liberty, or give me death!")
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To: T.L.Sink

“Old” Europe is doomed. “New” Europe may fight back, though. Somehow I can’t see Poland surrendering to the vileness that is islam.


4 posted on 08/23/2007 3:50:31 AM PDT by ought-six ("Give me liberty, or give me death!")
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To: T.L.Sink

Sounds like a bad case of “bend over and drop trou”.

LLS


5 posted on 08/23/2007 3:58:31 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: ought-six

Well, there’s plenty of people in the ‘Old Europe’ that are fighting back too. Problem is that those guys are moral descendants of the type of folks we had to rescue ‘Old Europe’ from in ‘41. Need the normal folks to wake up, or, we’ll one of these days have to decide if Europe’s Muslims are worth rescuing along with Democracy there.


6 posted on 08/23/2007 4:01:36 AM PDT by farlander (Try not to wear milk bone underwear - it's a dog eat dog financial world)
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To: ought-six
“Old” Europe is doomed. “New” Europe may fight back, though. Somehow I can’t see Poland surrendering to the vileness that is islam.

That is because Poland has not killed off its religion. In order to accept an idiotic or violent cult, one first has to have no moral compass.

Niech Was Bóg błogosławi, Polska!

7 posted on 08/23/2007 4:01:43 AM PDT by Gorzaloon (Food imported from China = Cesspool + Flavr-Straw™)
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To: ought-six

Couldn’t have said it better myself...


8 posted on 08/23/2007 4:05:52 AM PDT by captjanaway
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To: ought-six
Maybe we are going to have to actually see some country drop before we manage to get a clue.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

9 posted on 08/23/2007 4:10:58 AM PDT by expatguy (New and Improved ! - Support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia")
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To: T.L.Sink

Not the Scots!

“You can rape our goats and you can stone our women but, you can’t take away our FREEDOM!”


10 posted on 08/23/2007 4:14:16 AM PDT by wolfcreek (2 bad Tyranny, Treachery and Treason never take a vacation...)
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To: T.L.Sink
This one is going down the tubes, fast:

Britons Quit Country In Record Numbers

11 posted on 08/23/2007 4:20:03 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: expatguy
Maybe we are going to have to actually see some country drop before we manage to get a clue.

Libs don't get the clue, so as long as there are more libs in our government, we are in danger from many fronts.

12 posted on 08/23/2007 4:23:40 AM PDT by YellowRoseofTx
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To: farlander

we’ll one of these days have to decide if Europe’s Muslims are worth rescuing along with Democracy there.

Whether it is a question of rescuing Old Europe from Islamism or Muslims from Old Europe, the answer is the same: NO!!!


13 posted on 08/23/2007 4:29:14 AM PDT by piytar
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To: T.L.Sink

Have read all of his books and they are terrific.


14 posted on 08/23/2007 6:23:06 AM PDT by Chickensoup (If it is not permitted, it is prohibited. Only the government can permit....)
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To: piytar

‘Whether it is a question of rescuing Old Europe from Islamism or Muslims from Old Europe, the answer is the same: NO!!!’

Who’s going to rescue America? Whilst most of europe turns increasingly to right-wing policy and government, America elects the Democrats into both houses! Perhaps you have a cunning plan we don’t know about? :)


15 posted on 08/23/2007 7:36:30 AM PDT by britemp
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