[Pokey78]

[Interesting Times]

When the space aliens ask me what writer best describes our planet, I plan to direct them to Steyn.

[TheSpottedOwl]

As usual, Steyn is right on target. Disturbing article, though. The British had better wake up.

[facedown]

BTTT

[NovemberCharlie]

Unexerpted, and un-Q'ed. Bravo.

[Guillermo]

One of the reasons Arab nations are in the state they're in is because of the inability to discuss Islam honestly.

Soon this will be the case in the West.

Already, anyone who says anything negative about Mohammedanism is branded a hatemongering bigot.

[ConservativeConvert]

This sentence shimmers like a highly polished gem:

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

But who is he quoting here?:

"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."

Does anyone know?

[spodefly]

Non-excerpted BTTT.

[Peter Libra]

Nice work Mark Steyn. I have my treasured paper back. The River War,by a 24 year old Winston Churchill. Yes, after the terrible massacre of 10,000 Egyptian troops and six British officers 13 years before, revenge was taken. The slaughter of 20,000 fanatical horsemen at Omdurman was well recorded. Even Churchill demured at the absolute carnage of the Dervish Islamic Army. Lord Kitchener got a little miffed too- at Churchill.

The disease of politically correct cowardice is well noted by Mr Steyn. A correspondent asked a policeman, why do you not lay charges under the law regarding hate. The Bobbie told him "F... Off, or I will arrest you".

There is something rotten abroad in my native country and in Canada also. People are being prosecuted for unwise remarks against Islam or other minority cultures under the hate laws. Then the fanatics who use Islam as a cover, sneer in peoples faces, protected by the cowards. Let me name one group. The Ontario Human Rights Commission. Be on guard.

[FierceDraka]

Churchill: "Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog..."

Seems I'm not the first one to have made the comparison between the Islamic mind and the mind of a rabid dog. (Hydrophobia = Rabies, in the modern parlance) Sir Winston made the realization 100 years before me. Go figure.

[Prysson]

Whenever I read some story about some stupid liberal law like the one steyn is referencing I become more and more convinced that under every leftist is a self loathing idiot on a suicide mission.

[jordan8]

The issue is immigration, not Blunkett's law. Law or no law, mass Muslim immigration will destroy Britain, and scratchings on pieces of paper won't make the least bit of difference.

[Rummyfan]

As for "Our Children Our Future", when it comes to children, the imam certainly has the future all mapped out: as he has said, "Israelis might have nuclear bombs but we have the children bomb and these human bombs must continue until liberation."

A clearer statement of Islamofascist intentions I have not seen. Thanks Pokey.

[Rummyfan]

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."

Words even truer today.

[Undertow]

It was Valentine's Day 1989, you'll recall, when the Ayatollah Khomeini issued his extraterritorial summary judgment on a British subject

All about the love, those Muslims.

[third try]

Ping - Love that Churchill quote!

[knighthawk]

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