First They Came For Piglet (Mark Steyn On Creeping Dhimmitude In UK Alert)

Orange County Register ^ | 1/26/2008 | Mark Steyn

[goldstategop]

My favorite headline of the year so far comes from the Daily Mail in Britain:

"Government Renames Islamic Terrorism As anti-Islamic Activity' To Woo Muslims."

Her Majesty's government is not alone in feeling it's not always helpful to link Islam and the, ah, various unpleasantnesses with suicide bombers and whatnot. Even in his cowboy Crusader heyday, President Bush liked to cool down the crowd with a lot of religion-of-peace stuff. But the British have now decided that kind of mealy-mouthed "respect" is no longer sufficient.

So, henceforth, any terrorism perpetrated by persons of an Islamic persuasion will be designated "anti-Islamic activity." Britain's Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, unveiled the new brand name in a speech a few days ago. "There is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorize, nothing Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief," she told her audience. "Indeed, if anything, these actions are anti-Islamic."

[goldstategop]

Today in the UK... its verboten to call Islamofascism by its right time. Multiculturalism is a sign of creeping dhimmitude in the UK. A country afraid of standing up for Western Civilization is a country that doesn't have much of a future. If you have to hide the identity of the enemy, what else is left to be said? The first thing multiculturalists do is throw freedom of speech out of the window. They have already done that in Mark Steyn's own Canada. Now the UK is their next target. Too bad for Piglet.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[BenLurkin]

BUMP!

[Flintlock]

Hooo-Kay!
Them Islamonazis are now to be termed: ANTI-ISLAMIC!
Our enemy has a name now.
So, let’s fix bayonets and get on with it.

[muawiyah]

A small objection here ~ Canadians have never known freedom of speech in their own country.

[kalee]

bump

[rellimpank]

—another Steyn classic—

[ecomcon]

Islam as an ideology must be ruthlessly fought against. Just the same as Nazism and Communism.

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[Dog Gone]

It is somewhat amazing that the west would describe terrorism as anti-islamic when we don’t hear that from muslims.

As infidels, I don’t think we’re even entitled to make such a pronouncement.

This is proactive surrender.