'Sensitivity' can have brutal consequences

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

[hershey]

In a nutshell.

[theBuckwheat]

The deadly fruits of border-less multi-culturalism. It is just best if people not be allowed to come into a country unless they have the intention of assimilating.

The advocates of multi-culturalism have be very quiet of late. Of course had any FReeper predicted what we are seeing today would be the natural consequence of multi-cultural policies, they would have been denounced as narrow-minded, bigoted and maybe even racist. Worse, they would be 'culturalist'!! Only ignorant people believe that one culture is any better than any other.

After all, the only reason that people in the Middle East are poor is because of oppression by the US.

[Dark Skies]

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[Loyal Buckeye]

Is it not incumbent on the MSM to print the pictures and not hide behind the sensitivity and diversity arguments? Fox showed the cartoons as part of a news story.

[siunevada]

Even if you were overcome with a sudden urge to burn the Danish flag, where do you get one in a hurry in Gaza?

It takes many months of planning and hard work to be "spontaneous". People have to be persuaded that they are "outraged". Financial arrangements must be made.

Gee, gas prices went up again, didn't they? (There's no connection.)

[BenLurkin]

" 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."

[backhoe]

" 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."

Yep, it's Bizzaro World.

Without information, a free society perishes.

People really need to see this stuff to believe it.

Take a look at Michelle Malkin's video at her blog:

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VIDEO: AND THEN THEY CAME FOR THE EMBASSIES...

By Michelle Malkin   ·   February 04, 2006 08:30 PM

You've seen the pictures of Syrian Islamists torching the Norwegian and Danish embassies.

Now, listen and watch as they scream "Allahu Akbar!" during their Stone Age mob rampage. Over what, exactly? Oh, yeah. A bunch of cartoons. Cartoons.

Download and watch the video (Windows media .wmv file).

[Fruitbat]

God Bless you Mark Steyn indeed!

And on the other hand are folks who do not accept the give-and-take, the rough-and-tumble of a "diverse" "tolerant" society, and, when one gently raises the matter of their intolerance, they threaten to kill you, which makes the question somewhat moot.

One day the British foreign secretary will wake up and discover that, in practice, there's very little difference between living under Exquisitely Refined Multicultural Sensitivity and Sharia. As a famously sensitive Dane once put it, "To be or not to be, that is the question."

Perfectly summed up!

Islam is incompatible with civil societies, that's all there is to it.

[Slings and Arrows]

Thanks for the ping! Every shot on target.

[meema]

Amen!

[finnman69]

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[Convert from ECUSA]

Mark Steyn ping!

I like this guy! He has some chutzpah (in the complimentary sense of that wonderful word)!

[timsbella]

Just what part of "Islam will Dominate" do the media/liberals/secularists not understand?

[Canadian Outrage]

Unbelieveable that this would be allowed at ground zero. How the mighty West has fallen!! They should be arrested on the spot!!

[Canadian Outrage]

This "sensitivity" CURSE will be the undoing of our countries. The once mighty North America is becoming another "Euroweenie Union"!!

[Alexander Rubin]

Thanks for the ping, passing on the love. STEYN!