'Sensitivity' can have brutal consequences

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn05.html ^ | Mark Steyn

[mal]

I long ago lost count of the number of times I've switched on the TV and seen crazy guys jumping up and down in the street, torching the Stars and Stripes and yelling ''Death to the Great Satan!'' Or torching the Union Jack and yelling ''Death to the Original If Now Somewhat Arthritic And Semi-Retired Satan!'' But I never thought I'd switch on the TV and see the excitable young lads jumping up and down in Jakarta, Lahore, Aden, Hebron, etc., etc., torching the flag of Denmark.

Denmark! Even if you were overcome with a sudden urge to burn the Danish flag, where do you get one in a hurry in Gaza? Well, OK, that's easy: the nearest European Union Humanitarian Aid and Intifada-Funding Branch Office. But where do you get one in an obscure town on the Punjabi plain on a Thursday afternoon? If I had a sudden yen to burn the Yemeni or Sudanese flag on my village green, I haven't a clue how I'd get hold of one in this part of New Hampshire. Say what you like about the Islamic world, but they show tremendous initiative and energy and inventiveness, at least when it comes to threatening death to the infidels every 48 hours for one perceived offense or another. If only it could be channeled into, say, a small software company, what an economy they'd have.

[chasio649]

Is this his latest??

[mal]

Yes, for some reason they pulled it 5 minutes ago.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"One day, years from now, as archaeologists sift through the ruins of an ancient civilization for clues to its downfall, they'll marvel at how easy it all was. You don't need to fly jets into skyscrapers and kill thousands of people. As a matter of fact, that's a bad strategy, because even the wimpiest state will feel obliged to respond. But if you frame the issue in terms of multicultural 'sensitivity,' the wimp state will bend over backward to give you everything you want -- including, eventually, the keys to those skyscrapers."

G-d bless and keep Mark Steyn!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Mark Steyn PING!

[Peach]

Steyn is right on target. I see governments capitulating without a shot being fired.

See tagline.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Mark Steyn scores another home run. Excellent piece!

[backhoe]

Everything I have found about The War of the 12 Cartoons ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Pic, and scroll backwards:

[Loud Mime]

One day, years from now, as archaeologists sift through the ruins of an ancient civilization for clues to its downfall, they'll marvel at how easy it all was. You don't need to fly jets into skyscrapers and kill thousands of people. As a matter of fact, that's a bad strategy, because even the wimpiest state will feel obliged to respond.

Unless it's run by liberals.....

[rvoitier]

Love these two points because it trumpets the courage & bravery of the Military and why they're 'over there' doing what they're doing which is protecting our freedom while contrasting them to the ultra-hypocritical cowards on the Left who constantly bash them..

Thus, NBC is celebrating Easter this year with a special edition of the gay sitcom "Will & Grace," in which a Christian conservative cooking-show host, played by the popular singing slattern Britney Spears, offers seasonal recipes -- "Cruci-fixin's." On the other hand, the same network, in its coverage of the global riots over the Danish cartoons, has declined to show any of the offending artwork out of "respect" for the Muslim faith. Which means out of respect for their ability to locate the executive vice president's home in the suburbs and firebomb his garage.

And the "sensitivity" of the Dutch film director Albert Ter Heerdt, who canceled the sequel to his hit multicultural comedy ''Shouf Shouf Habibi!'' on the grounds that "I don't want a knife in my chest" -- which is what happened to the last Dutch film director to make a movie about Islam: Theo van Gogh, on whose ''right to dissent'' all those Hollywood blowhards are strangely silent.

[Chickensoup]

It's not pulled, it's there.

[bill1952]

January 2006, ground zero, NY

[son of caesar]

as i have stated and been bashed on other threads for so doing, you have to give islam credit. they are relentless and very creative. of course having the west being so very quick to back down helps islam a great deal.

[Moshikashitara]

Brava!

Well said, and spot on! I will now go visit his site!

And am I the only one who snickered at it a few times? (Probably not :))

~Moshi-chan

[MedicalMess]

We have found the enemy's soft underbelly!

DRAW MORE CARTOONS!

[don-o]

The Money Shot:

has declined to show any of the offending artwork out of "respect" for the Muslim faith.

Which means out of respect for their ability to locate the executive vice president's home in the suburbs and firebomb his garage.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Thousands of self-identifying targets exposed and no command to engage?

[doctora]

[goldstategop]

God save us all from the Politically Correct curse called "sensitivity." Its the last refuge of the weak and cowardly.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[doctora]

See #18