"You cannot ask Americans or Britons to expend blood and treasure to build a society in which a man can be executed for his choice of religion. You cannot tell a Canadian soldier serving in Kandahar that he, as a Christian, must sacrifice his life to create a Muslim state in which his faith is a capital offense."
"At some point we have to face down a culture in which not only the mob in the street but the highest judges and academics talk like crazies."
Nuke the poppy fields and move onto Iran.
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The time has come to withdraw every Western troop from Muslim lands.
And the time has also come to deport every Muslim from Western lands.
Let them live their own way, in their own lands.
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If Islam is a religion one can only convert to, not from, then in the long run it is a threat to every free person on the planet.
Islamics are the BORG, you cannot reason with them, you
cannot relate to them, you can only destroy them or
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED!
Actually, we're not expending blood and treasure on behalf of the Afghans, but on behalf of our own citizens. We don't want another 3000 to die by letting the Muzzzie crazies use it as a training ground.
You know, I am almost to the point I could agree to the proposal to withdraw entirely from all muslim land IF we would also expel them from ours, the First Amendment notwithstanding. They can keep their oil, we'll drill our own. After all, we have machines to use the oil in and continue to grow, while they do not.
Fantasy? Yes, and not well thought out, but not much different a fantasy then thinking the Moslem World will change without our boot on their throat.
I love this guy!
(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.")
You left out the best part:
". At some point we have to face down a culture in which not only the mob in the street but the highest judges and academics talk like crazies. Abdul Rahman embodies the question at the heart of this struggle: If Islam is a religion one can only convert to, not from, then in the long run it is a threat to every free person on the planet.
What can we do? Should governments with troops in Afghanistan pass joint emergency legislation conferring their citizenship on this poor man and declaring him, as much as Karzai, under their protection?
In a more culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee" - the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. Gen. Sir Charles Napier was impeccably multicultural:
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks, and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
India today is better off without suttee. If we shrink from the logic of that, then in Afghanistan and many places far closer to home the implications are, as the Prince of Wales would say, "ghastly."
Steyn has hit it out of the park again. Crystal clear in his thinking and reasoning.