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The New Mancunians [Steyn on Manchester bombing]
Steyn Online ^ | June 1, 2017 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 06/02/2017 5:52:07 AM PDT by Enchante

As the number of Muslims increase, the number of extremists increase. As the number of extremists increase, the number of terrorists increase. As the number of terrorists increase, so the word "terrorist" has to be defined down so that a beleaguered security state can refine its priorities: There's no time for your nickel'n'dime Isis recruits, brides of Isis, "Islamic Fighting Group" commanders, bomb-makers, embassy-bombing masterminds... When it's an ever more stretched net with ever more gaping holes, everyone slips through.

Salman Abedi did not become a terrorist, a murderer, an "extremist", until the final moments of his life. But it's the 22 years leading up to that last definitive act that foretell the future for Britain and for its social tranquility. All the sophisticates assure us that this isn't an immigration problem because young Mr Abedi was "British". But he lived in no England recognizable to those who came before. He was raised in a world that has already seceded from England - an England after the neutron bomb, where the unlovely sprawl of urban Manchester still stands, but where the troubled girls run off to become brides of Isis, and the good girls work at the mosque and congratulate their brothers on self-detonating their way to Paradise.

What's in it for the existing populace of the United Kingdom in either of those models? Regardless of where Salman Abedi was born, the problem he exemplifies was imported. And the very least the British should demand of their politicians is that they cease importing any more of it.

There is no plateau, no equilibrium, no stablilization, no "acceptable level of violence" here - not in a time of transformative demographic change. The longer free citizens postpone making that very modest demand, the grimmer and more "divisive" the options will get.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: britain; england; islam; jihad; manchester; marksteyn; steyn; terror
Steyn is brilliant on dissecting the lunacies of British and "Western" policies, though of course these idiocies are obvious to us.

Still, there is a lot of new detail here about the bomber and the situation in the UK. Well worth a read!

p.s. I had to look it up, a "Mancunian" is someone in/of Manchester.

1 posted on 06/02/2017 5:52:07 AM PDT by Enchante
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To: Enchante

Apologists keep telling us a high percentage of terrorists are citizens... and therefore there is nothing we can do about it.

Normal people recognize that their citizenship is a fraud, perpetrated not only by the immigrant but by the immigration bureaucracy and the politicians at the top of the food chain.


2 posted on 06/02/2017 6:25:25 AM PDT by marron
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To: Enchante

Mark must have some excellent researchers working for him. This column is chock full of facts about the muslim ‘citizens’ of Manchester. I wonder if the average fellow citizen is aware of these details.


3 posted on 06/02/2017 6:35:27 AM PDT by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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To: Enchante

This should be required reading for all Westerners. Steyn’s biting wit, insight, and willingness to tell the truth are becoming rarer by the day.


4 posted on 06/02/2017 6:55:09 AM PDT by agatheringstorm
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To: Enchante

Bookmarked...


5 posted on 06/02/2017 7:10:32 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: agatheringstorm

Scary stuff. The U.K. seems too far gone and into dhimmitude.


6 posted on 06/02/2017 7:42:21 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: marron

Part of the issue is that you can’t legally distinguish between ‘real’ and ‘fake’ citizens. Once the barbarian is made a citizen, he is a citizen.
And can you imagine the ways a gub’mint would abuse the power to decide who is a real citizen who is not?
I think the only thing we can do is gut a lot of the loonier civil rights provisions and return to profiling as a law enforcement tool. And you can imagine the screaming that would cause!


7 posted on 06/02/2017 10:33:17 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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Nevertheless their citizenship is fraudulent, and the fraud was perpetrated by the government itself.

I get what you are saying, but we need to get back to sanity on immigration and citizenship policy. Immigration should serve the interests of citizens. Candidates for immigrant status should be people who admire us and want to be us (and have something to offer the country by their presence in it). Absolutely no one in government seems to think like this anymore.


8 posted on 06/02/2017 11:45:45 AM PDT by marron
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We have forgotten that immigration must server the interest of the Nation and its Citizens, not the immigrant.

Emigration is arguably a right - you have the right to leave.
Immigration is not a right - you don’t have the right to go where you are not wanted.


9 posted on 06/02/2017 2:42:34 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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Thanks for the article. Can’t beat Mark. Liberals have stripped Brits of free speech and free association. Their totalitarian, mind controling race police are oppressive on the natives. I don’t expect anything but eventual extinction of the natives who don’t leave.


10 posted on 06/02/2017 3:04:30 PM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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"Regardless of where Salman Abedi was born, the problem he exemplifies was imported. And the very least the British should demand of their politicians is that they cease importing any more of it."

I hope Trump's refugee travel ban is upheld by the Supreme Court. Our very survival depends on it.

11 posted on 06/02/2017 9:42:31 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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The longer free citizens postpone making that very modest demand, the grimmer and more “divisive” the options will get.<<

and intil the Muslim "religion" is defined as what it is...a Political Movement..it will get worse... Imagine if the Nazi had called their mission a religion....Who could be against practicing your own "RELIGION"

12 posted on 06/03/2017 4:15:51 AM PDT by M-cubed
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bump for later


13 posted on 06/03/2017 4:19:42 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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