The Glamor of Evil ... Mark Steyn

Steyn Online ^ | 5 Feb 2015 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

On Tuesday the Islamic State released a 22-minute video showing Flight Lieutenant Muath al-Kasasbeh of the Royal Jordanian Air Force being doused in petrol and burned to death. It is an horrific way to die, and Flt Lt al-Kasasbeh showed uncommon bravery, standing stiff and dignified as the flames consumed him. And then he toppled, and the ISIS cameras rolled on, until what was left was charred and shapeless and unrecognizable as human.

King Abdullah's response to this barbaric act was to execute two ISIS prisoners the following morning, including the evil woman who was part of the cell that blew up the lobby of my favorite hotel in Amman, the Grand Hyatt.

President Obama's response was to go to the National Prayer Breakfast and condescendingly advise us - as if it's some dazzlingly original observation rather than the lamest faculty-lounge relativist bromide - to "remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ".

[Servant of the Cross]

Steyn ping ...

[goldstategop]

The decline of the West continues apace.

FR’s Russophobe crowd has attacked me for pointing out how muscular and assertive the Russians are.

But they have no answer for Western spineless, flabiness and decadence.

Any one of them want to sign up for trauma counseling in Kiev?

[Dqban22]

ON OBAMA'S CHRISTIANOPHOBIA

Former Muslim, Brother Rachid - Schools President Obama on Islam Youtube.com ^ | 2/6/15 | The Indicrat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnkPmeF3fSY

Excellent Speech. Brother Rachid addresses President Obama about ISIL and Islam; he explains to him how ISIL is imitating the prophet Muhammad in every detail they do. ISIL represents Islam.

ISLAM RELIGION OF THE SWORD

Beheading is Islam M.O., That’s Why Mohammed Owned a Sword Named “Cleaver of Vertebrae”

[Roses0508]

Bump

[Servant of the Cross]

Steyn is awesome and this article is magnificent.

[GeronL]

Like pictures of Che Guevara assassinating unarmed civilians, this will turn ISIS into heroes of the left.

[GeronL]

Putin is acting just like Hitler.

[BigEdLB]

Equivocator in Chief. Disgusting.

[bolobaby]

I would have rather the pilot turn around and moon ISIS just as they were going to light the flames.

I know that sound ridiculous, but it would have been an act of defiance that would have given them no usable video. Or, if they kept the video, the world would have seen the pilot defying his tormentors.

It’s like the way the Japanese when they photoshopped Jihad John. You’re going to die anyway - make a mockery of their production.

[Slings and Arrows]

Of possible interest to your list. Devastatingly on-target.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Equivocator in Chief. Disgusting

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I think it was a classic non sequitur fallacy. As I understand this is the president's logic: Premise A: ISIS is killing people. Premise B: Christians used to kill people a long time ago. Conclusion: ISIS’s killing are justified. There is no connection between the premises presented to reach the conclusion.

[aquila48]

One of Steyn’s best.

[Slings and Arrows]

You give him too much credit. It was a classic Chewbacca Defense.

[LucyT]

The Glamor of Evil ... Mark Steyn

Check out article.

Thanks, Slings and Arrows.

[GOPJ]

... Islamic State has slipped free of even these minimal constraints. They advertize their barbarism to the world, because what's the downside?

Let's say the guys who burned Flt Lt al-Kasasbeh are one day captured by Americans. They can look forward to a decade or two of a soft, pampering sojourn in the US justice system, represented by an A-list dream-team that'll string things along until the administration figures it'll cut its losses and ship them to Qatar in exchange for some worthless deserter.

Iran's letting ISIS soften up the rubes...this could get much worse.

[beelzepug]

At the risk of sounding like 0bama (I’d rather drink Drano), I wonder if anyone in Japan is realizing the irony of the outrage over the muslim beheadings of their two citizens when that method of barbarity was commonly used on prisoners of war by their own military during WWII? And many other equally horrible ways of dispatching prisoners, I might add?

[laconic]

I couldn’t possibly sum it up better than Steyn: “Obama knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”.

[lavaroise]

by the way, Soviets and Maoists too have been boasting about genocide in ways Hitler did not even, but the NYT Che Gevara liberals loved it.

This is coming full circle as a rhetoric of the new acceptable... and not just in the mideast, but in a shariah genital mutilation neighborhood near you.

[lavaroise]

indeed, the nihilist dictator with near zero attention span.

How did this guy even get to college or graduated high school, unbelievable. A total robot