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Winning Heads and Minds
Steyn Online ^ | 26 September 2014 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 09/29/2014 1:33:58 PM PDT by Lorianne

Colleen Hufford was born in 1960. Life is full of grim twists and cruel vicissitudes, but in mid-20th century America it would not have occurred to anyone that one needed to worry about going to work and being beheaded by a colleague. Yet that's what happened to Ms Hufford on Thursday: She turned up for her job at at the Vaughan Foods food processing plant in Moore, and Alton Alexander Nolen decapitated her.

Why would he do that? Well, as the initial reports were at pains to assure us, it's nothing to do with terrorism. That's true, in the sense that Mr Nolen is not a card-carrying member of an officially credentialed state-recognized terrorism-provider such as ISIS or al-Qaeda. It's true in the sense that he's not on any official US Department of Homeland Security terror watch list, because, under the geniuses running American national security, that honor is reserved for my fellow Hillsdale cruiser Steve Hayes. And, of course, it's also true in the sense that Mr Nolen is a recent convert to Islam and, as David Cameron and Barack Obama and many others are ever more eager to emphasize, terrorism is nothing to do with Islam. Mr Nolen had the Muslim greeting "As-salamu Alaikum" - "Peace be upon you" - tattooed upon his abdomen. And he'd tried, without success, to persuade his co-workers at Vaughan Foods to convert to Islam. So he wasn't just mildly Islamic in the nothing-to-do-with-terrorism sense, he was super-Islamic in the really-totally-no-terrorism-to-see-here sense.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: colleenhufford

1 posted on 09/29/2014 1:33:58 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Born the same year as my oldest daughter.


2 posted on 09/29/2014 1:36:10 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Lorianne

3 posted on 09/29/2014 1:37:18 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Lorianne

Everyone should read the whole piece. Steyn is right on target, as usual.


4 posted on 09/29/2014 1:41:28 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Red Badger

String the bastard up with a rope coated in bacon grease.


5 posted on 09/29/2014 1:46:39 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: Lorianne

Politically correct delusions regarding Islam are very dangerous. Any Westerner who travels to a Muslim country, however well meaning, is at severe risk. It would seem also that the fraud of “multiculturalism” and non judgmental “tolerance” is slowly becoming apparent to the American people.


6 posted on 09/29/2014 1:49:13 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Arm_Bears

This is clearly a Muslim thing. No American ever was taught to behead anyone or even thought of doing so before this evil religion that was invented by a caravan thief and child molester of young girls. From a pervert comes a perverted religion.


7 posted on 09/29/2014 2:02:53 PM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: Lorianne
His last point is of course right on target. No surprisingly, these idiots are not very good at beheading which makes it a prolonged and extremely painful process.

Back in the days when beheading was a method of execution in the West it was customary for the condemned to give the executioner a purse. The purpose was to pay him to accomplish it in one blow.

Henry VIII paid for the best executioner in France to behead Anne Boleyn because he could do it in one swing of his sword, which was considered a great act of mercy on his part.

Where is the anti-torture crowd? The anti-capital punishment crowd?

8 posted on 09/29/2014 2:05:28 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Lorianne
Crosslinking to the beheading in England referenced and linked in the Steyn article
9 posted on 09/29/2014 2:11:44 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: prairiebreeze

Thank you


10 posted on 09/29/2014 2:12:21 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

My Sharia ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tXrIGT4hMI


11 posted on 09/29/2014 2:33:05 PM PDT by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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