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To the Slaughter - British lions come up lambs in Woolwich. (Mark Steyn)
National Review Online ^ | May 24, 2013 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 05/25/2013 8:50:06 AM PDT by neverdem

On Wednesday, Drummer Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, a man who had served Queen and country honorably in the hell of Helmand Province in Afghanistan, emerged from his barracks on Wellington Street, named after the Duke thereof, in southeast London. Minutes later, he was hacked to death in broad daylight and in full view of onlookers by two men with machetes who crowed “Allahu akbar!” as they dumped his carcass in the middle of the street like so much road kill.

As grotesque as this act of savagery was, the aftermath...

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Consider how that will play when these guys’ jihadist snuff video is being hawked around the bazaars of the Muslim world. Behold the infidels, content to be bystanders in their own fate.

This passivity set the tone for what followed. In London as in Boston, the politico-media class immediately lapsed into the pneumatic multiculti Tourette’s that seems to be a chronic side effect of excess diversity-celebrating: No Islam to see here, nothing to do with Islam, all these body parts in the street are a deplorable misinterpretation of Islam. The BBC’s Nick Robinson accidentally described the men as being “of Muslim appearance,” but quickly walked it back lest impressionable types get the idea that there’s anything “of Muslim appearance” about a guy waving a machete and saying “Allahu akbar.” A man is on TV dripping blood in front of a dead British soldier and swearing “by Almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you,” yet it’s the BBC reporter who’s apologizing for “causing offence.” To David Cameron, Drummer Rigby’s horrific end was “not just an attack on Britain and on the British way of life, it was also a betrayal of Islam. . . . There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act.”...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: islam; marksteyn; steyn; woolwich
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What hath Western Civilization wrought? Left wing nonsense is suicidal...
1 posted on 05/25/2013 8:50:06 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

And a Mullah goes on TV to praise the bravery of the perps..in the meantime they jail about 10 people for posting anti-Islamic rants on twitter.


2 posted on 05/25/2013 8:55:16 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: neverdem

Resisting leftwing bullsh*t is fast becoming a matter of survival. We’d better all start stepping up.


3 posted on 05/25/2013 8:55:38 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: neverdem

Well, you aren’t allowed to defend yourself, so it’s a cinch that you also can’t defend someone else.

When attacking your own attacker might get you sent to gaol, why would you risk attacking someone who isn’t attacking you?

You can’t carry any sort of defensive weapon at all.


4 posted on 05/25/2013 8:56:44 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: skeeter

In Canada we can’t carry concealed or really at all, but I’m tempted to do it anyways, I don’t want to roll over for the enemy.


5 posted on 05/25/2013 9:00:01 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: neverdem

Weekly Jihad report May 11th-17th
Jihad attacks-52, Allah Akbars-9, dead bodies- 311, critically injured- 893 source http://t.co/4tIpoIVkx3


6 posted on 05/25/2013 9:06:43 AM PDT by yank in the UK ( A liberal mocking Christianity. I asked "why don't you mock Islam?" he replied "Muslims are violent)
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To: Bulwyf
Same in California.

Carrying without a permit means you'd probably come out of any encounter with a criminal in good shape, but wouldn't fare so well in an encounter with a peace officer (see Erik Scott).

Dunno about anyone else but I find this really ironic.

7 posted on 05/25/2013 9:07:44 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: neverdem

Monthly jihad report April 2013. Jihad attacks-202, countries- 25, dead bodies-957, critically injured-2403


8 posted on 05/25/2013 9:07:50 AM PDT by yank in the UK ( A liberal mocking Christianity. I asked "why don't you mock Islam?" he replied "Muslims are violent)
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To: neverdem
Here's a link to the article without strange character jibberish:

To the Slaughter British lions come up lambs in Woolwich

9 posted on 05/25/2013 9:08:40 AM PDT by Orbiting_Rosie's_Head (argh)
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To: neverdem

10 posted on 05/25/2013 9:12:37 AM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: neverdem

What’s the arrest count up to now? Eleven Brits arrested for ‘raciss’ twitters. This is the model the statists look up to here. This is what Mayor Nutter wanted when he sicked the Human Relations Commission on Philadelphia Magazine. The Brits should be burning their police stations.


11 posted on 05/25/2013 9:12:50 AM PDT by kreitzer
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To: neverdem

Further thoughts (that you are not supposed to notice):

It took the police 20 minutes to show up - probably because that was the closest armed unit.

The terrorists hung around and attacked the police car. Mr. Muhammed Machete got within one metre before he was shot. Mr. Muhammed Rifle had taken aim but was shot. It was pretty clear they didn’t expect bobbies with guns.

(Names changed to protect the scumbags).


12 posted on 05/25/2013 9:13:11 AM PDT by RossA
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Most people are ill-equipped to suppress a cleaver-wielding maniac. But it shouldn’t be the case for an armed society.


13 posted on 05/25/2013 9:13:16 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: neverdem; xzins

Reminds me of the scene in The Time Machine where everyone sat around passively while the girl Weena was drowning in the river.

The British have become the Eloi.

It has just happened 800,000 years earlier than HG Wells had predicted.


14 posted on 05/25/2013 9:14:04 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: yank in the UK

Is that for real??

Where can I get on a list to get that report, that’s very interesting.


15 posted on 05/25/2013 9:14:19 AM PDT by DanielRedfoot
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To: yank in the UK

Oops, just noticed the link, sorry


16 posted on 05/25/2013 9:16:07 AM PDT by DanielRedfoot
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To: skeeter

Which means people have to get organized. the Left is way, way ahead of you. I just looked up ‘activist training camp’ on Bing. Try it. Leftist training camps are all over the place, summer camps time. ‘How to put pressure on your representatives (this is for people who are fighting heterosexism, racism, ableism, yada yada), how to deal with the media, how to present your views to your high school principal’, and on and on.

code Pink has a summer training camp, all in how to invade other organizations, how to swing the organization your way...look it up.

And so where are the concervative summer training camps?

This is how they took over the Boy Scouts.


17 posted on 05/25/2013 9:16:41 AM PDT by squarebarb ( Fairy tales are basically true.)
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To: neverdem

Islam is simply the expression and mobilization of the Arab world view. Pride-based, it keeps a personally consuming running score of who is winning and losing, who is standing tall and who is trampled underfoot. The most shameful thing in the world is to be defeated, and the only thing that matters is being the winner. Hence, their consuming hatred for Israel.

Liberals have adopted the submissive, feminine posture in response. The Islamists have noticed.


18 posted on 05/25/2013 9:17:51 AM PDT by lurk
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To: Bulwyf

Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.


19 posted on 05/25/2013 9:18:48 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: neverdem

In many parts of the US (like Texas, OK, etc.), the onlookers would have killed the perps long before police arrived.


20 posted on 05/25/2013 9:19:20 AM PDT by umgud (2A can't survive dem majorities)
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