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Lather, Rinse, and Repeat
NRO ^ | 22 mar 2012 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 03/22/2012 6:30:16 AM PDT by rellimpank

The killer of French schoolchildren and soldiers turns out to be a man called Mohammed Merah. The story can now proceed according to time-honored tradition:

Stage One: The strange compulsion to assure us that the killer is a “right wing conservative extremist,” in the words of NRO commenter ExpatAsia, echoed by Chrisman and Galt’s Bain. Up north, this view was shared by Canada’s most prominent establishment Jew and the Liberal Party attack poodle Warren Kinsella (whom NR readers may recall from my free-speech cover story, which mentioned the groveling apology he was forced to make to “the Chinese community” after an unfortunately sinophobic cat joke). The insistence that the killer was emblematic of an epidemic of right-wing hate sweeping the planet is, regrettably, no longer operative. Instead, the killer isn’t representative of anything at all.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islam; jihad; marksteyn; merah; mohammedmerah; steyn
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To: zeugma

We know a tree by it’s fruit.


21 posted on 03/24/2012 2:49:39 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat-Media Complex - buried stories and distorted facts... freeper 'andrew' Breitbart)
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To: rellimpank

jihad bump


22 posted on 03/29/2012 7:04:51 PM PDT by Dajjal ("I'm not concerned about the very poor." -- severely conservative Mitt 'Etch-A-Sketch' Rmoney)
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To: Dajjal

Dang, I was beginning to think you got fatwah’d!


23 posted on 03/29/2012 7:10:58 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if...")
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To: papertyger

LOL!!! No, I’m around, though I post less than I used to.


24 posted on 03/31/2012 12:54:16 AM PDT by Dajjal ("I'm not concerned about the very poor." -- severely conservative Mitt 'Etch-A-Sketch' Rmoney)
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