“So it is necessary for more of us to do what Ayaan Hirsi Ali recommends: share the risk. So that the next time a novel or a cartoon provokes a fatwa, it will be republished worldwide and send the Islamic enforcers a message: Killing one of us won’t do it. You’d better have a great credit line at the Bank of Jihad because you’ll have to kill us all.”
Thank you, Mark, for that defiant stand. However, at some point we will have to move from a defiant DEFENSIVE stand to an OFFENSE. The longer we wait to go on the offense in the discussion of ideas then the greater the probability our offense of discussing ideas will have to be replaced with an offense of force.
Otherwise, they will “kill us all”.
The attacks on the subway in the UK, the Spanish train derailment, the thousands of rapes throughout Europe - no jihad, simply the murderous cult stretching it's arms, letting everyone know that it has arrived, and you'd best convert or suffer.
You were a target before writing this, you continue to be a target, simply because you do not bow down to Mecca five times a day. I thought you understood that, Mr. Steyn. You seem to touch upon it constantly, but it doesn't appear that the connection has been fully made within your mind.
Anyone who doesn't bow to Islam is a target. The only difference between you and the deniers is that you choose to write about it, while they think that by avoiding the subject, they exclude themselves from the target pool. They don't; they simply remain within the largest target pool there is: free people.
I suggest a good philosophical first step is to resolve in ones own mind to do two things.
First, make every effort to present oneself as scrupulously impartial, or even slightly favoring the prosecution, so as to be chosen for service should one be called for jury duty.
Second, to privately and secretly refuse to convict anyone being prosecuted by the state for actions taken against Islamists, regardless of the defendant's objective violation of any statute.
Bring back Urban II!