Posted on 06/04/2008 6:15:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Yes, well perhaps Auster misses Steyn’s central theme, on the importance of cultural pride to retaining control of your own nation.
I think it more likley that Auster is well familiar with it and has moved past it. “OK, I am a proud westerner”, he says. “What should we proud westerners do about all these Islamic immigrants and their unceasing demands, mosques, foot washings, halal foods and all the rest?”
As a proud cultural conservative he long ago identified them (Moslems) and an unassimilatable minority and has loudly championed something similar to the anti-communist immigration tests of 20th century be applied to them, as well as voluntary repatriation for all who want Sharia in the West. Harsh? Yes. Not so good for the Hugh Hewitt / National Review / DC Cocktail party circuit, I suppose.
His complaint about Steyn, the ‘Jihad Watch’ crew, Derbyshire, et. al. is that always avoid getting down to WHAT we are going to do to protect the culture we are so proud of. Keep reading that oh-so-clever Mark Steyn and tell me when you find a suggestion other than “understanding what we are up against”.
Specifically does he favor elimination of futher Muslim immigration to the USA or Canada (his home country). To Europe?
Ping
You say too clever by half, but I say it’s just clever. The guy is good.
With your charges that he ignores America’s real threat, that must mean that any book about Islamification is woefully misguided.
Lawrence Auster was dead-on about George W. Bush. But I think, having read ALL of Steyn's works, that he is overstating Steyn as merely mocking European "cousins".
Implicitly, by so mocking, he clearly is debating and promoting policies to reverse the Islamization. My concern frankly is that Lawrence Auster has lost his sense of humor. If we are to retain the public, we conservatives must not lose that.
The lambs always hope it is so, and congratulate themselves on being so much more civilized than those poor wretched lions.
Oscar van den Boogaard ought to think long and hard about other things than just those things that are long and hard.
He ought to recall and consider a statement by Ahmanutjob who said (paraphrasing) “There are no gays in Iran.”
Got that Oscar? No odd couples tolerated.
I like the cut of your jib, sir.
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