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The One-Stop Shop for All Your Terror-Sentimentalizing Needs ... Mark Steyn
Steyn Online ^ | 24 March 2016 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 03/24/2016 8:07:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Earlier this month, some, er, high-spirited youths got a bit out of hand in Melbourne and Andrew Bolt wrote about it under the following headline:

Why Did We Import This Danger?

That could be the headline on every one of these stories: Brussels, and Paris, and Copenhagen, and the Cologne rapes and Charlie Hebdo and all the rest. But no matter how high the pile of corpses climbs the question never gets asked - nor does the natural follow-up: Why do we continue to import it?

Instead, as Douglas Murray writes in a blackly brilliant piece, we react to mass slaughter by asking only "questions that address no major points":

So in the UK the government's Communications Data Bill will get quite a lot of mentions... Everywhere on the media people will start to talk of 'radicalisation' as though it is something you can get from the water, and experts will claim insight into the 'paths to extremism'. Nicky Morgan will announce that the Prevent agenda should be extended to encompass pre-kindergarten. A year later she will close some Quaker-run nursery.

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brusselsterrorattack; steyn

1 posted on 03/24/2016 8:07:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

I saw the headline and immediately thought: “This is going to be great.”

I wasn’t disappointed.


2 posted on 03/24/2016 8:15:12 AM PDT by henkster
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To: Rummyfan
Poland is 0.1 percent Muslim, most of whom are from a long-settled Tartar community, Britain is 5 percent, France 9 percent and Brussels 25 percent, and those numbers are growing.

At some point sympathy starts to diminish. The real tragedy is that the people principally responsible are well-guarded and will be the very last to pay for their folly.

3 posted on 03/24/2016 8:24:20 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Rummyfan
Today, Belgium's army has only two brigades and six infantry battalions, some 3,000 bayonets in all. That tiny force would have trouble exerting control over even one bumptious Brussels neighborhood in the event of serious crisis.

How long before it is all over?

4 posted on 03/24/2016 8:24:58 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: henkster
I saw the headline and immediately thought: “This is going to be great.”

Indeed. The tip-off is the name "Mark Steyn". I'd love to see him brought into a Trump or Cruz administration as an advisor on how to deal with islamofascism.

5 posted on 03/24/2016 8:27:38 AM PDT by zeugma (Vote Cruz!)
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To: henkster

Call “Sad-Mart”, the one-stop shop for all your useless solidarity gestures!

That’s great!


6 posted on 03/24/2016 8:28:10 AM PDT by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: henkster
I saw the headline and immediately thought: “This is going to be great.”

I wasn’t disappointed.

I saw the by-line and thought, "This is going to be great!"

I wasn't disappointed.

7 posted on 03/24/2016 8:28:19 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: zeugma

I’d like to see Steyn as Press Secretary.


8 posted on 03/24/2016 8:29:14 AM PDT by henkster
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To: zeugma
"Mark Steyn". I'd love to see him brought into a Trump or Cruz administration...

After the screams Trump got for naming Walid Phares the other day I really have to agree. There'd be veins a-popping...

9 posted on 03/24/2016 8:30:04 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: henkster

Since the state already controls the lottery, mebbe they should create some new games. They could use the proceeds to “raise awareness” and “celebrate diversity.”

How about these contests:

— number of deaths in the next jihadi attack (not including attackers)

— Date of next attack (multiple fatalities required; domestic violence not eligible)

Probably need to design a quickpick method as there may not be time to manually fill in the boxes - no entries allowed after first media report.

Prizes could include teddy bears, floral arrangements, and a CD of John Kerry singing with James Taylor.

#JeSuisMuzzieMillions


10 posted on 03/24/2016 8:34:23 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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“...Brussels 25 percent,...”
Un-fricking-believeable!


11 posted on 03/24/2016 8:35:36 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
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To: RightGeek

It’s all over but the shouting for Europe.


12 posted on 03/24/2016 8:36:33 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: FirstFlaBn

I’m surprised Las Vegas doesn’t already let you make these bets.


13 posted on 03/24/2016 8:42:42 AM PDT by henkster
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To: henkster
I’d like to see Steyn as Press Secretary.

Brilliant. We would have MSM heads exploding as breaking news every day.

14 posted on 03/24/2016 8:48:06 AM PDT by Bearshouse
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To: Rummyfan

Mr Obama, here is your opportunity to come home for a teaching moment for some of your most ardent supporters. Time to fly the safe spaces whiners on college campuses to Europe and have them sit next to a Syrian refugee with a rather large suitcase in a European airport while they watch on the big screen your lecture on the discriminatory practice of profiling as it relates to one of the world’s largest and most peaceful religion. Islamic terrorism, humbug!


15 posted on 03/24/2016 8:55:22 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: henkster
I’m surprised Las Vegas doesn’t already let you make these bets.

Put me down for a dime on the Netherlands. They've recently deployed F-16's to bomb ISIS and have a substantial muslim population.

16 posted on 03/24/2016 9:03:59 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: zeugma

I’d like to see Mark Steyn, Ralph Peters, and Alan West.


17 posted on 03/24/2016 9:45:42 AM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: Rummyfan
In 2008 Front Page Magazine published a piece about how the Islamic population asserts itself based on their percentage of the population:

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness.

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. (United States ).

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris –car-burnings) . Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam – Mohammed cartoons).

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning.

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare

With Brussels at 25% they shouldn't be at the chronic terror attack phase yet but they are exceeding expectations now.

18 posted on 03/24/2016 10:18:07 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: Rummyfan

Laughing so you don’t cry.


19 posted on 03/24/2016 10:46:16 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Justice and judgment are the foundation of His throne." - Psalm 89:15)
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To: Rummyfan

Mark Steyn’s book America Alone should be required reading in every home and school. If you haven’t read it, get it.

I bought two used copies for my adult children for $2.50 apiece so there is no excuse for not becoming aware of the demographic ‘bomb’ that is undermining Western civilization and will depopulate all the countries of Europe of their native stock. America is barely holding its own in maintaining our population.

In a few decade, it will be America Alone against Europistan.


20 posted on 03/24/2016 11:14:08 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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