"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
IBTP bump!
Nicholas Berg came to Iraq, unarmed, seeking to help rebuild the cell phone infrastructure. He had done such work in remote parts of Africa where he taught villagers how to build their own antennae towers. To Al Qaeda, Berg’s humane instincts may have seemed more a threat than had he been a soldier. His murder was videoed and put on the internet to warn anyone else with a peaceful mission.
We need to celebrate our commonality before it’s too late. Immigrants need to embrace America and what she stands for. If legal immigrants wanted to live within their native culture 100% of the time, they should have stayed in their home country. People come here for a better life than the one they left. Multiculturalism will be America’s downfall. Stop the slide before it’s too late.
Steyn really is brilliant and always sees through the bs.
What? You mean this is more complex than just profiling people of Middle-Eastern descent?!?
I really like this column. He made two insightful statements on the dangers of moral relativism:
1. “Because they understand that when you raise a generation in the great wobbling blancmange of Deval Patrick-style cultural relativism – nothing is any better or any worse than anything else; “
2. “We should beware anyone who seeks to explain 9/11 by using the words “each other”: They posit a grubby equivalence between the perpetrator and the victim – that the “failure to understand” derives from the culpability of both parties. “
Patrick.... along with Kennedy, Kerry, Frank, what is wrong with the voters in Massachusetts?
At least three of its alumni – including another native German convert – have been killed fighting the Russians in Chechnya. Fritz was hoping to kill Americans. But that's one of the benefits of a multicultural world: There are so many fascinating diverse cultures, and most of them look best reduced to rubble strewn with body parts. Fritz and a pal, Atilla Selek, had been arrested in 2004 with a car full of pro-Osama propaganda praising the 9/11 attacks. Which sounds like a pilot for a wacky jihadist sitcom: "Atilla and the Hun."
Deadly serious column, but as usual Steyn manages a world-class zinger pointing out the absurdity.
How many people in any society think like Deval Patrick? That's the calculation to make if you want to figure out its long-term survival prospects.
Too many unfortunately - and I mean more than one is too many! Meanwhile, let's open more publicly-funded arabic language and culture charter shcools! Any school board that supports such lunacy should be .... well, I can't say it - I'd be banned!
Maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems awfully inappropriate to say that those on the planes, and those in those buildings, were not "loving" and "understanding" people.
What will it take for people to understand that we are not just fighting an evil subset of TROP™?
Deval Patrick is an utter fool. Talk about an empty suit.
A nice plug for Howie Carr as well.