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The Fire Rages
Steyn Online ^ | Mark Steyn

Posted on 01/08/2015 6:23:19 PM PST by Lorianne

In 2008, when the Canadian Islamic Congress attempted to criminalize my writing, we heard a lot of the usual hooey (courtesy of that eugenicist crackpot Oliver Wendell Holmes) that there was no right to shout fire in a crowded theatre. On the very last day of the trial in Vancouver, my old friend Julian Porter, QC summed up thus: Against the argument that you cannot cry fire in a crowded theatre: Oh yes you can — you must, if in your considered view there is a fire. In that case there is a duty to cry fire.

The satirists of Charlie Hebdo thought there was a fire, and therefore considered they had a duty to cry fire. And they were right: There is a fire - in the expanding no-go areas of les banlieues, in the routine Jew-hate on the streets of Paris and Toulouse and other French cities, in the ranks of "mentally ill" "lone wolves" yelling "Allahu Akbar!" while mowing down pedestrians and stabbing policemen...

So they cried fire and were killed. And because they were rewarded for their honesty and bravery with death, more craven types in the politico-media class will find it easier to opt for cowardice and dishonesty. And so the fire will rage on, until it consumes us all.

I discussed some of that with Megyn Kelly on Fox News. You can see the interview here. As Breitbart News noted, I was not impressed by the so-called solidarity with the dead:

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: marksteyn; rop; terrorism
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1 posted on 01/08/2015 6:23:19 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

“banlieues”

French suburb regions.


2 posted on 01/08/2015 6:28:47 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: Lorianne

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3976684425001/mark-steyn-charlie-hebdo-cartoonists-were-brave/?#sp=show-clips


3 posted on 01/08/2015 6:29:55 PM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: Lorianne

BTTT. The man is right as usual.


4 posted on 01/08/2015 6:33:41 PM PST by uncitizen (2015 Here we come!)
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To: Lorianne

bump


5 posted on 01/08/2015 6:33:46 PM PST by GeronL
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To: ifinnegan

It seems history is repeating its self and we will need a NEW CRUSADES or “submit”, the muslim meaning of islam. Myself, I don’t plan to submit.


6 posted on 01/08/2015 6:34:47 PM PST by MtnClimber (For views of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: JLS

Steyn ping.


7 posted on 01/08/2015 6:35:31 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Clapping the Blues" - http://youtu.be/0bmAJHHqfIw)
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To: Lorianne

Let’s not get carried away, Mr. Steyn. The satirists of Charlie Hebdo were garden variety Pinko creeps. Not defenders of civilization in any way, shape, or form.

But those are the kinds of people who a free society protects — because not to do so would be worse for society than tolerating their poisonous drivel.

When the Muslims get around to beheading the likes of Jon Stewart — it won’t be because Stewart and his ilk are among the ranks of the good guys.


8 posted on 01/08/2015 6:40:04 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: MtnClimber

I will not submit.


9 posted on 01/08/2015 6:41:12 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: MtnClimber
I don’t plan to submit.

Nobody here does but in the muslim/Christian war, declared by the muslims, the muslim slime is on the offensive, just as in the black/white race war, declared by black slime, blacks are on the offensive and white people are reduced to playing defense all of the time. You don't win wars that way.

No, I don't have an answer.

10 posted on 01/08/2015 6:44:22 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Much violence and crime can be explained by the Bell Curve (Bing it))
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To: Lorianne
- Immediate ban on immigration, asylum, travel, and student visas from all Muslim nations

- Immediate end to all foreign aid to Muslim nations

- Immediate travel ban to all Muslim nations - any American in violation would have no recourse from the government

- Measured withdrawal (based on internal benchmarks from top military generals) of all U.S. troops from the Middle East

- End to all mosque building in the U.S.

- Non-recognition of Sharia Law

- Any future attacks on American soil would be met with overwhelming force, with nuclear weapons on the table

11 posted on 01/08/2015 6:46:03 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GO PACK GO! GO PACK GO!)
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To: MtnClimber

>> or “submit”

Hey mohammed, you satanic bitch... I got your “submit” right here, in 12 gauge 00.

Come and get it, you filthy sack of excrement. If you like, bring along some of those feral “panthers” you’re so fond of proselytizing. We’ll have a party.


12 posted on 01/08/2015 6:48:41 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: Lorianne

If there were a hundred Mark Steyns in this world most of the recent insanity would disappear.


13 posted on 01/08/2015 6:49:26 PM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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To: Graybeard58

>> muslim slime is on the offensive, just as in the black/white race war, declared by black slime, blacks are on the offensive

For the same reasons. And they serve the same master. Not by accident are many blacks converting to the Jew- and Christian-hating “religion” of evil.


14 posted on 01/08/2015 6:51:34 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: Lorianne

Mark is very bright.


15 posted on 01/08/2015 6:52:00 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Lorianne

I will not submit.


16 posted on 01/08/2015 6:54:04 PM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: Nervous Tick

Allah = Satan.


17 posted on 01/08/2015 6:54:46 PM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

God Bless Mark!


18 posted on 01/08/2015 6:55:03 PM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: MtnClimber

The only history repeating itself is France is doing the same thing with the Muslims in their country that they did with the German Nazi’s......they’ll do nothing but appease them and accomodate them.

I laughed when I saw their cartoons showing Pens flying through the air toward a Jihadist fully armed with a machine gun..and the same for holding up their pens in their massive crowds and candllight vigils.

The French people don’t get it at all...and they never will...it’s not about them it’s about those who are hell bent at killing them and they still can’t see it!

Social media was full of all this unity with moderate muslims and lets protect all our citizens from the after effects. They hide like the cowards they are and then when it all takes over they will wait...just as they did in WW11 for the US and other nations to rescue them.

This time they’re going to have to go it alone...and they haven’t a clue that is what it will be!


19 posted on 01/08/2015 6:56:52 PM PST by caww
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To: Biggirl

>> Allah = Satan.

Exactly. (See my tag line.)

Pray that the scales fall from more eyes and more and more people understand Islam for what it really is — satan’s clever invention to gain for himself worship that rightfully belongs to Creator GOD.

Jealousy over the honor and glory and worship paid to GOD was why GOD drove satan out of Heaven in the first place.


20 posted on 01/08/2015 6:59:58 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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