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'Sensitivity' can have brutal consequences
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| Mark Steyn
Posted on 02/05/2006 2:28:43 AM PST by mal
I long ago lost count of the number of times I've switched on the TV and seen crazy guys jumping up and down in the street, torching the Stars and Stripes and yelling ''Death to the Great Satan!'' Or torching the Union Jack and yelling ''Death to the Original If Now Somewhat Arthritic And Semi-Retired Satan!'' But I never thought I'd switch on the TV and see the excitable young lads jumping up and down in Jakarta, Lahore, Aden, Hebron, etc., etc., torching the flag of Denmark.
Denmark! Even if you were overcome with a sudden urge to burn the Danish flag, where do you get one in a hurry in Gaza? Well, OK, that's easy: the nearest European Union Humanitarian Aid and Intifada-Funding Branch Office. But where do you get one in an obscure town on the Punjabi plain on a Thursday afternoon? If I had a sudden yen to burn the Yemeni or Sudanese flag on my village green, I haven't a clue how I'd get hold of one in this part of New Hampshire. Say what you like about the Islamic world, but they show tremendous initiative and energy and inventiveness, at least when it comes to threatening death to the infidels every 48 hours for one perceived offense or another. If only it could be channeled into, say, a small software company, what an economy they'd have.
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: denmark; intifada; jihad; marksteyn; mohammedcartoons; religionofpeace; rop; steyn
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To: mal
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posted on
02/05/2006 4:49:38 AM PST
by
hershey
To: mal
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.
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:13:54 AM PST
by
Dark Skies
("The sleeper must awaken!")
To: mal
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.
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To: mal
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.)
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posted on
02/05/2006 6:00:27 AM PST
by
siunevada
(If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
To: 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."
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posted on
02/05/2006 7:05:12 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: 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."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:
VIDEO: AND THEN THEY CAME FOR THE EMBASSIES...
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).
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posted on
02/05/2006 7:11:51 AM PST
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: mal
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.
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posted on
02/05/2006 7:19:55 AM PST
by
Fruitbat
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Thanks for the ping! Every shot on target.
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posted on
02/05/2006 8:30:31 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("Ooga Chakka, Hooga Hooga, Ooga Chakka, Hooga Hooga" --D. Hasselhoff)
To: Fruitbat
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:41:55 PM PST
by
meema
(I am a Conservative Traditional Republican, NOT an elitist, sexist , cynic or right wing extremist!)
To: mal
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posted on
02/06/2006 6:50:31 AM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
To: Alexander Rubin; timsbella; Canadian Outrage
Mark Steyn ping!
I like this guy! He has some chutzpah (in the complimentary sense of that wonderful word)!
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posted on
02/06/2006 11:29:03 AM PST
by
Convert from ECUSA
(Not a nickel, not a dime, stop sending my tax money to Hamastine!)
To: bill1952; Convert from ECUSA
Just what part of "Islam will Dominate" do the media/liberals/secularists not understand?
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posted on
02/06/2006 11:59:34 AM PST
by
timsbella
(Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada!)
To: bill1952
Unbelieveable that this would be allowed at ground zero. How the mighty West has fallen!! They should be arrested on the spot!!
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posted on
02/06/2006 1:48:52 PM PST
by
Canadian Outrage
(I want Western Canada to SEPARATE - Western Canadians CANNOT win in a corrupt system)
To: goldstategop
This "sensitivity" CURSE will be the undoing of our countries. The once mighty North America is becoming another "Euroweenie Union"!!
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posted on
02/06/2006 1:50:37 PM PST
by
Canadian Outrage
(I want Western Canada to SEPARATE - Western Canadians CANNOT win in a corrupt system)
To: Convert from ECUSA; Pokey78
Thanks for the ping, passing on the love. STEYN!
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posted on
02/06/2006 2:18:54 PM PST
by
Alexander Rubin
(Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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