Mark Steyn: Don't Worry, They Have Baseball Bats -

National Review ^ | December 5, 2005 | Mark Steyn

[UnklGene]

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[Rakkasan1]

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[Alexander Rubin]

Nails it.

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[STD]

Islam is the Big Lie spoken of in the Bible during the end times.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Go here and click on "Bat Day From 2004"

http://www.thekidfrombrooklyn.com/videos/

[alcuin]

It’s true that the rioters look rather less foreign than, say, the stern young men in the mosques of Peshawar or the training camps outside Jalalabad.

Who can be stern in Paris, save a concierge who needs a ride?

Ah, youth!

[anechoicroom.blogspot.com]

For a minute there, I imagined Charlie and Saddam together on the couch. And then said .... wait a minute, that's Mark writing (not Charlie). Don't know what Mark looks like. And besides, I think Charlie would just slap Saddam silly if'n he had the chance. Of course, doesn't really have anything to do with anything now does it?

[sockmonkey]

On the San Antonio news last week, they showed a murderer being placed into a police car. The young man had murdered his girlfriend in Round Rock, then a security guard in San Antonio.

His final words to the televison cameras was "Allah Akbar". Only one channel (ksat) showed him saying those words, and explained it was an arabic phrase praising God.

None of the other television stations showed the Allah Akbar phrase. And by the next news broadcast which covered the murders, the lone station (ksat) which had showed it had edited it out. I found the editing interesting.

[lone star annie]

I love Mark Steyn!!! He is soooo funny. Thanks for posting this I got a good laugh.

[madinmadtown]

It is very interesting. Thank you for telling the rest of us.

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[Max in Utah]

Mark Steyn produces the antidote to mainstream media.

I've been sending emails with his hardest-hitting columns to friends, trying to get them interested in his work.

[Capriole]

I love Mark Steyn!!! He is soooo funny. Thanks for posting this I got a good laugh. He's not in the least bit funny, at least not in this article, and I hope you were being ironic.

[carton253]

I have him laugh out loud funny in this article. Every bit of it true, but delivered with a wicked sense of humor...

[Schnucki]

I read it again and I still chuckle at some of his comments.

He's deadly serious, I know, but his sarcasm and allusions are a riot and they also make his valid points even richer. =)

[goldstategop]

Mark Steyn's overarching point is not hard to miss. Even as Western liberals are confused are about what they believe in and who they are, their adversary is made of sterner stuff. He has a faith and knows he is a good Muslim. The West, wrapped up in its a shallow materialism is in deep denial. That's why Islamofascists believe the West lacks the will to defend its way of life. Amidst its ease and comfort, what they hear reinforces their conviction that given enough blows, the West will eventually disintegrate. And even if it doesn't fall prey to terrorist attacks from abroad, it will collapse from within from its own pessimism about its own future. Say what you will, its by no means clear the world's future in the next several decades is necessarily a Western one. The writing is on the wall.

(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.")

[tarheelswamprat]

None of the other television stations showed the Allah Akbar phrase. And by the next news broadcast which covered the murders, the lone station (ksat) which had showed it had edited it out. I found the editing interesting.

How much would you like to bet that if the suspect had uttered the phrase "Praise Jesus" every last one of those TV stations would have run that footage, over and over and over?