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The Veil Descends ... Mark Steyn
Steyn Online ^ | 15 Jan 2013 | Mark steyn

Posted on 01/18/2013 7:18:38 AM PST by Rummyfan

In the summer of 2010, mourners lined the streets of Wales's capital city to pay tribute to a seven-year-old boy killed in a house fire. In fact, Yaseen Ali Ege was brutally beaten to death, and then set alight with barbecue fuel. By his mother. For failing to learn the Koran. Over the preceding months, Mom had used a stick, a rolling pin, and a hammer on her son, but, despite these incentives, he had memorized only a couple of pages. And so she killed him, and subsequently declared she felt "100 percent better."

This month, at Cardiff Crown Court, Mrs. Ege was sentenced and jailed by Mr. Justice Wyn Williams for what he declared "a dreadful crime" that had inflicted "a good deal of pain" on an innocent boy. The judge, however, was discreet enough not to pass comment on more basic cultural questions. He had no view on whether or not being forced to learn the Koran is an appropriate educational priority for a "Welsh" schoolboy, so long as the parental hammer and kerosene remain locked up in the toolshed. Nor on whether a child so raised can be a fully functioning member of Western society. Yaseen's headmistress at Radnor Primary School, Ann James, called him "a delightful little boy and beautifully behaved who always had a smile on his face," and forbore to mention that on the day of his murder he had been kept home from class and the "teddy bears' picnic" because his mother felt he needed to focus on his Koranic studies.

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To: Travis McGee

Is Randall Wallace related to Sir William Wallace?


21 posted on 01/18/2013 8:41:22 AM PST by JerseyDvl (Cogito Ergo Doleo Soetoro, ABO and of course FUBO!)
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To: Road Glide

The question is — what if this had happened in Michigan? Would the mom have gotten the death penalty?

Some of these people are just savages. And if this little child had survived his mother’s abuse, what kind of adult would he become?


22 posted on 01/18/2013 8:46:06 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Rummyfan

One very disturbing note from Steyn (among a host of disturbing revelations) is that 57% of Pakistani Britons are married to their first cousins. In one Brit city it’s 75%. And they wonder why Islam has so many homicidal lunatics.


23 posted on 01/18/2013 8:54:42 AM PST by driftless2
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To: Rummyfan

It’s a good thing we don’t have a problem in this country with our judges and politicians kissing Muslim ass. Oh, wait,... never mind!


24 posted on 01/18/2013 8:59:15 AM PST by Gritty (The 2nd Amendment protects the right to shoot tyrants effectively, not deer-Judge Andrew Napolitano)
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To: Rummyfan

Sad anecdotes. Sad trends. Sad religion.

The Muslims are at the gates, and the West is being all PC about it.

Sad future.


25 posted on 01/18/2013 9:29:23 AM PST by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: Rummyfan

Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary at the outbreak of The Great War, remarked (literally on the eve of the German invasion of Belgium) “The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time”.

He was right.


26 posted on 01/18/2013 9:51:02 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: JLS

Steyn ping!


27 posted on 01/19/2013 11:42:32 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: texas booster
Funny, I don't think that Anderson Cooper ever mentioned the gay beating or the morality patrols during his European adventures

He probably thought it was "rough trade."

28 posted on 01/19/2013 11:49:34 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: TheOldLady; Rummyfan; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; ...

Mark Steyn ping.

Freepmail me, if you want on or off the Mark Steyn ping list.

Thanks for the ping Slings and Arrows.


29 posted on 01/19/2013 12:31:58 PM PST by JLS
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To: I want the USA back; Rummyfan

See tagline.


30 posted on 01/19/2013 1:38:21 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: duckworth

And now with my kids, born in the 80s and 90s, there is no awareness of anyone’s background. So whatever.

&&&&&

Unfortunately, children born after yours are being subjected to serious indoctrination in schools in hopes of resuming this kind of fracturing of a populace. “Diversity” “awareness” is the tool being used.


31 posted on 01/20/2013 6:53:03 AM PST by maica (Welcome to post-rational America.)
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