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 ...
Islam has no place in Western society, and is not welcomed here.
Instead, the killer isn’t representative of anything at all.
I'd say the killer was representative of something, but sadly, many are too unwilling to admit it even in the face of overwhelming evidence.
The killer filmed his murders of the Jewish schoolchildren (above victim Miriam Monstango, 8 years old). 
Israeli burial officials prepare the bodies of Toulouse shooting victims for their funeral after they arrived to Israel, at a morgue in Jerusalem, Wednesday, March 21,
With progressives its all about destroying whats in place and worrying about what will take its place it later.
The progressives share equal responsibility for every one of these attacks.
Final sentences in Steyn’s prophetic prose say it all:
“A society that becomes more Muslim eventually becomes less everything else. What is happening on the Continent is tragic, in part because it was entirely unnecessary.”
That’s the point of Mr. Steyn’s piece. It’s worth the click.
I only wish the bastard had been taken alive so he could have been tried, found guilty, and guillotined (I know the French dropped that practice a long time ago, but for this animal it could have been reinstated.)
Is it too late to blame Sarah Palin?
Yeah, I know...got in a hurry and didn’t finish my thoughts.
Mark Steyn ping.
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I thought the first comment to the thread at NRO was pretty good
Gregory of Yardale
You know, Mr. Steyn, it's just too bad there isn't an entire country run by Islamic clerics. Because if there were such a place ... a country governed by no one but scholars of Islam... then we could look to that country as the pure example of the political expression of Islam. If such a country... if it existed... were peaceful, and generous, and humane and tolerant in its treatment of non-believers and minorities, then it would be fair to conclude that the political expression of Islam resulted in peace and compassion.
If, on the other hand, this thoroughly imaginary country ran by Islamic scholars and holy men, were to engage in international terrorism, belligerently threaten its neighbors, brutalize non-believers and minorities within and outside its borders... we might then be able to draw quite a different conclusion about the relationship of Islam to terror and oppression.
If only such a land existed, then only the most simpleminded and stubborn would be able to deny the true nature of political Islamism.
“A society that becomes more Muslim eventually becomes less everything else.”
There was a lengthy debate on FReeRepublic in August, 2006, in which the question “Can a good Muslim be a good American?” was addressed:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681793/posts
I am not sure the question was answered definitively, but my experience since 2006 is that the world has become more Muslim and less everything else.
Steyn has a firm grasp of the obvious!
He should have bee guillotined the way the Gestapo did it in France. Face up.
BTTT
So on to Stage Two: Okay, he may be called Mohammed but he’s a “lone wolf.” Sure, he says he was trained by al-Qaeda, but what does he know? Don’t worry, folks, he’s just a lone wolf like Major Hasan and Faisal Shahzad and all the other card-carrying members of the Amalgamated Union of Lone Wolves. All jihad is local.
Ping
I’m with you - I’m impressed!
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...first comment to the thread at NRO was pretty good
Gregory of Yardale
You know, Mr. Steyn, it’s just too bad there isn’t an entire country run by Islamic clerics. Because if there were such a place ... a country governed by no one but scholars of Islam... then we could look to that country as the pure example of the political expression of Islam. If such a country... if it existed... were peaceful, and generous, and humane and tolerant in its treatment of non-believers and minorities, then it would be fair to conclude that the political expression of Islam resulted in peace and compassion.
If, on the other hand, this thoroughly imaginary country ran by Islamic scholars and holy men, were to engage in international terrorism, belligerently threaten its neighbors, brutalize non-believers and minorities within and outside its borders... we might then be able to draw quite a different conclusion about the relationship of Islam to terror and oppression.
If only such a land existed, then only the most simpleminded and stubborn would be able to deny the true nature of political Islamism.
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