Mark Steyn: We are falling under the imam's spell

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 01/13/04 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

[gcruse]

Message: this behaviour is unacceptable in multicultural Britain.

But not unexpected in country wherein truth is no defense against libel.
Let that sink in.  Truth is no defense.

[Cuttnhorse]

"...the Times's Clifford Longley nailed it very well. Surveying the threats from British Muslim groups, he wrote that certain Muslim beliefs "are not compatible with a plural society: Islam does not know how to exist as a minority culture. For it is not just a set of private individual principles and beliefs. Islam is a social creed above all, a radically different way of organising society as a whole."

At the risk of being politically incorrect...what a great summary...worth keeping.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Great post and an even better tagline.

[Snake65]

"The Jewish question"

I think the Imams would like to see a final solution to the Jewish question.

[Tax-chick]

To fire a British talk-show host for criticising Saudi policies is surely over-reaching even for the notoriously super-sensitive Muslim lobby. ... But apparently not.

Reality is stranger than fiction ...

[McGavin999]

So when are people going to get fed up enought to start doing something about this?

[Moose4]

"Islam does not know how to exist as a minority culture. For it is not just a set of private individual principles and beliefs. Islam is a social creed above all, a radically different way of organising society as a whole."

Lord, I wish that fit into a tagline. That's the best summary of Islamism I have ever seen.

}:-)4

[Dog Gone]

Political correctness, especially in defense of radical Islam, will be the death of us all.

[Steel Wolf]

I find your response to be demeaning to the Islamic culture and I am greatly offended. I demand that your posting privilages be revoked, and that you are banned for your lack of sensitivity.

(Man, being despotic is really easy! No wonder it's the leftist / Islamofascist weapon of choice)

[expatpat]

I don't know about you, but this "multicultural Britain" business is beginning to feel like an interim phase.

I hope Steyn is not up to his usual accurate predictions on this one!

[onedoug]

According to Frank Gaffney, Grover Norquist is still regularly getting Islamists into the White House.

[chiller]

Comfort in numbers....we're not the only crazy ones. The Brits have a deathwish, like many libs over here. Payback for their/our lack of resolve and common sense will be hell. So sad. So dangerous.

[NutCrackerBoy]

When Cincinnati Muslims complained about the local theatre's new play about a Palestinian suicide bomber, the production was immediately cancelled: the courageous transgressive arts guys folded like a Bedouin tent. -Mark Steyn

Political correctness, especially in defense of radical Islam, will be the death of us all.

We need more straight talk. Put Steyn in the New York Times!

[philetus]

How bout "France is now ruled by an Imam in Cairo."

[shaggy eel]

,,, BBC is also heavily lamenting the fall of Communism in the former Soviet Union.

[gcruse]

.We need more straight talk. Put Steyn in the New York Times!

Never happen.  But why hasn't he been on Fox News all along?

[Shermy]

#6

Here's the BBC lines

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/2481623.stm

"...Tom Paulin's passionate rhetoric puts him firmly in the great - and varied - tradition of Irish dissenters, whether they be Jonathan Swift, James Joyce or Ian Paisley.

Now his polemical, knockabout, style has ruffled feathers in the US, where the Jewish question is notoriously sensitive...."

Swift and Joyce would use Nazi-like terms like "Jewish Question?"

Ian Paisley?

Strange.

[Brian Allen]

<< When Catholic groups complain about things like Terrence McNally's Broadway play Corpus Christi [In which a (Sodomist misrepresentation of) Jesus (perpetrates simulated "sex") with Judas), the arts crowd says a healthy society has to have "artists" with the "courage" to "explore" "transgressive" "ideas" etceteras. But when Cincinnati Muslims complained about the local theatre's new play about a Palestinian suicide bomber, the production was immediately cancelled: the "courageous" "transgressive" "arts" "guys" folded like Bedouin tents. >>

[The camp bastards]

The false-fuerher-following death cult we know of as "islam" is not a "religion."

It's a hostile metastasizing invasion and unassimilable colonization of the Civilized World.