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Mark Steyn: First, they came for Piglet
orange county register ^ | January 26, 2008 | MARK STEYN

Posted on 01/26/2008 6:33:25 AM PST by kellynla

My favorite headline of the year so far comes from the Daily Mail in Britain:

"Government Renames Islamic Terrorism As anti-Islamic Activity' To Woo Muslims."

Her Majesty's government is not alone in feeling it's not always helpful to link Islam and the, ah, various unpleasantnesses with suicide bombers and whatnot. Even in his cowboy Crusader heyday, President Bush liked to cool down the crowd with a lot of religion-of-peace stuff. But the British have now decided that kind of mealy-mouthed "respect" is no longer sufficient.

So, henceforth, any terrorism perpetrated by persons of an Islamic persuasion will be designated "anti-Islamic activity." Britain's Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, unveiled the new brand name in a speech a few days ago. "There is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorize, nothing Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief," she told her audience. "Indeed, if anything, these actions are anti-Islamic."

Well, yes, one sort of sees what she means. Killing thousands of people in Manhattan skyscrapers in the name of Islam does, among a certain narrow-minded type of person, give Islam a bad name, and thus could be said to be "anti-Islamic" – in the same way that the Luftwaffe raining down death and destruction on Londoners during the Blitz was an "anti-German activity."

But I don't recall even Neville Chamberlain explaining, as if to a 5-year-old, that there is nothing German about the wish to terrorize and invade, and that this is entirely at odds with the core German values of sitting around eating huge sausages in beer gardens while wearing lederhosen.

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Sooner or later we are going to have to give the Muzzies the jihad they so desperately want. And this time, we'll finish the job.

Semper Fi, Kelly

1 posted on 01/26/2008 6:33:26 AM PST by kellynla
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To: kellynla

I’ve not even finished my morning coffee yet and already I’m about to barf. “They told me ‘Cheer up! Things could get worse!’ So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse.” When will we just stop this pandering!!!!!!
I received this in an email about a month ago and think it’s appropriate right about now: “Political Correctness” is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”


2 posted on 01/26/2008 6:41:50 AM PST by awakened (Remember -- There are no dead atheists.)
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“More ISAF forces from a Christian/Crusader heritage,” she said, “will continue to fuel an insurgency that has been framed as a jihad.”

No, Elizabeth, the Muzzies will either get tired of burying their dead or face total extinction...whichever comes first.

One more 9/11 type terrorist attack in America and every Muzzie swinging dick will have to pack up his koran & family and go back to whatever hellhole they originated from!

Our ancestors didn’t risk life & limb to emigrate to America just so a bunch of camel jockeys could come here, terrorize our women & children and make hamburger out of our families.

Semper Fi,
Kelly


3 posted on 01/26/2008 6:43:01 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla

Sharpening swords here. Ready and willing. Remember the Alamo and the shores of Tripoli.


4 posted on 01/26/2008 6:43:18 AM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: kellynla

“The bullets in my rifle are lubricated in pig grease.”


5 posted on 01/26/2008 6:43:50 AM PST by elcid1970
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To: kellynla
the core German values of sitting around eating huge sausages in beer gardens while wearing lederhosen.

[image of those lovely St. Pauli Girl lookalikes goes here]

Ja, was ist das point?

6 posted on 01/26/2008 6:45:37 AM PST by NonValueAdded (What Would Hobson Choose?)
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To: awakened

“When will we just stop this pandering?”

One more 9/11 type terrorist attack in America and “all bets are off”...
for further opinion check out my previous post.


7 posted on 01/26/2008 6:46:22 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: bboop

What happened on 9/11 was more like Pearl Harbor...
and you remember what happened to Japan in 1945 that ended that war!

The Muzzies are either the dumbest or have the shortest memory. But they obviously haven’t gotten over having their collective arses handed to them in the Crusades.


8 posted on 01/26/2008 6:50:39 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla; Cannoneer No. 4
The PC stuff is going to kill us.

The Pentagon is more concerned with political correctness than protecting the nation.

Crowhopping While Ideologically Hobbled

9 posted on 01/26/2008 6:52:17 AM PST by StarCMC (http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com; http://starcmc.wordpress.com/ - The Enemedia is inside the gates.)
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To: kellynla

“One more 9/11 type terrorist attack in America and “all bets are off”.

I think we can pretty much count on another 9/11 type attack. The problem (other than terrorism itself) is that Americans have such short memories. The flags (both external and internal) disappeared from the car windows so very quickly.


10 posted on 01/26/2008 7:00:12 AM PST by awakened (Remember -- There are no dead atheists.)
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To: kellynla

Newthink.


11 posted on 01/26/2008 7:01:45 AM PST by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: zot; Interesting Times

Steyn ping


12 posted on 01/26/2008 7:03:13 AM PST by GreyFriar ( 3rd Armored Division - Spearhead)
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To: awakened

LOL!


13 posted on 01/26/2008 7:03:59 AM PST by Ditter
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To: kellynla

“Our ancestors didn’t risk life & limb to emigrate to America just so a bunch of camel jockeys could come here, terrorize our women & children and make hamburger out of our families.”

How come so much of America doesn’t know this?????


14 posted on 01/26/2008 7:06:43 AM PST by awakened (Remember -- There are no dead atheists.)
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To: awakened

“How come so much of America doesn’t know this?????”

Because most of America wasn’t affected.

After 9/11, Bush should have gone to Congress and asked for a declaration of war. Foreign Muzzies deported. And Mosques closed.(We didn’t allow German-American Bunds to operate during WWII, why should we allow Mosques to operate today.)

Either we are at war. Or we aren’t.

“Invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
Ann Coulter


15 posted on 01/26/2008 7:17:42 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla
Multiculturalism isn't about showing respect for other cultures. Its about hating one's own.

"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

16 posted on 01/26/2008 7:19:21 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: kellynla

“Either we are at war. Or we aren’t.”

We aren’t then. Not with Islam at any rate. See Afgahnistan and Iraq for evidence.


17 posted on 01/26/2008 7:22:13 AM PST by UKTory
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To: kellynla
But, by insisting on re-labeling terrorism committed by Muslims in the name of Islam as "anti-Islamic activity," Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.

Mr. Steyn is correct; this is indeed Newspeak of the worst stripe.

I have to admit that I thought he must be joshing about this subject, since it seems so outre, but indeed, it does appear that the Home Secretary did do exactly that --- her other great idea as reported in the Daily Mail is 'The Government also wants to hold more "roadshows" of mainstream Islamic scholarship around the country.' (From Government renames Islamic terrorism as 'anti-Islamic activity' to woo Muslims. Predictably, I also found a piece beaming approval of this Orwellian nonsense in the Guardian: Renaming the beast.)

After reading about ASBOs, CRASBOs, and this latest oddity from the U.K., well, it's hard to imagine exactly where the U.K. is headed, but at least some of the directions are not ones that I think are well thought-out.

18 posted on 01/26/2008 7:23:53 AM PST by snowsislander
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To: kellynla

[i] So, henceforth, any terrorism perpetrated by persons of an Islamic persuasion will be designated “anti-Islamic activity.” Britain’s Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, unveiled the new brand name in a speech a few days ago. “There is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorize, nothing Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief,” she told her audience. “Indeed, if anything, these actions are anti-Islamic.” [/i]

References to Orwell’s 1984 are often overdone, but this blatent example of ‘Newspeak’ thoroughly deserves one...


19 posted on 01/26/2008 7:27:15 AM PST by thundrey
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To: kellynla

The terrorists are despicable, but the liberals who kiss up to them are much worse. They are disgusting vermin. They are willingly handing over civilized countries to the jihadis.


20 posted on 01/26/2008 7:28:11 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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