Mark Steyn - A fatwa of one's own

National Post (Toronto) ^ | December 5, 2002 | Mark Steyn

[Clive]

ping

[anniegetyourgun]

"He's saying Muslims are wogs, savages, they know no better, what do you expect?"

An apt description of their dead, so-called prophet too.....

[wideawake]

Roy Hattersley, the Labour Party's deputy leader, attempted to split the difference by arguing that, while he of course supported freedom of speech, perhaps "in the interests of race relations" it would be better not to bring out a paperback edition. He was in favour of artistic freedom, but only in hard covers -- and certainly, when it comes to soft spines, Lord Hattersley knows whereof he speaks.

Mark Steyn rules. Full stop.

[TomGuy]

The question is: Who wins in a fa[r]t-wa[r]?

[goldstategop]

If they can't control themselves they should all move to Seventh Heaven. Since they're enamored of mass suicide perhaps the Muslims could all save us the trouble of blowing us infidels up and join their 72 virgins in Paradise all on their lonesome. Then they can finally get out of the nettlesome fatwa business and the rest of the planet can live then happily ever after.

[goldstategop]

Next to a beauty a fatwa's a groaning burden.

[Petronski]

Steyn is brilliant as usual.

Death to jihadi: give the people what they want

[anniegetyourgun]

The only problem with that logic is that I don't think everyone of them drinking Kool-aide will net them their 'martyr' status. That Allah devil demands converts and/or scalps, remember?

[goldstategop]

Yup. Its too bad they never heard of Jim Jones and Guayana.

[livius]

I don't think everyone of them drinking Kool-aide will net them their 'martyr' status.

Yes, I believe they have to take others with them in order to be rewarded by their moon-god. Others who didn't want to go, that is, such as people eating in pizza parlors, riding busses, etc.

[babyface00]

Here's an idea - "virtual infidels(TM)". We could set up all the Jihadists with some 3-d glasses in a bombproof room. They can blow themselves up whilst a virtual bus station, or church or other public place is projected around them. Heck, they can even choose the surroundings.

We get rid of the Jihadists, and they get to think they're taking hundreds of people with them. Its the thought that counts, isn't it?

[anniegetyourgun]

And, poor dears, their god is so capricious that even THAT doesn't necessarily guarantee them a place in heaven.

[fporretto]

Deroy Murdock has proposed that we bury all terrorists, or whatever bits of them we can find, wrapped in pigskin and soaked in lard. As the punchline of a raunchy joke goes, I believe I'd pity the poor pig. However, as an antidote to Islamist violence, it has a lot going for it. Remember: these people are so mentally primitive that they follow a religion that says that the actions of another person can deprive you of your ticket to Heaven.

Steyn, as usual, rocks. How he can be so consistently incisive and wildly funny at the same time is beyond me.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[GirlShortstop]

Rushdie... suddenly turned up on a Muslim radio station in West London one night and told his interviewer he'd converted to Islam.

can you say LOOOOH-SER?

[Rummyfan]

Good idea and the sooner we start the better. The vileness of the 'fatwa' and other acts in Isalm defies any logic. The sooner we start giving them what they want (martyrdom) the sooner it's over and resolved.

[xp38]

Time for a ping!

[xp38]

I only have one quibble with this. I don't think David came up with the Islam is peace stuff while writing for President Bush.

[sam_paine]

the silence of the "moderate Muslims"

One might expect silence if indeed their are no "moderate Muslims." r maybe they're just lazy Muslims.

[rudypoot]

Maybe it's time we play Cowboys and Muslims...