we imagine that the horrible killings by cannabis-crazed drifters, of Lee Rigby here and of Nathan Cirillo in Canada, are evidence of some vast secret Islamist conspiracy masterminded from a cave by a robed villain with a beard …Nonsense. There are state sponsors of this, chief among them Iran.
Having destroyed Saddam Hussein’s secular state in Iraq …It was not secular; anything that is “pan-Arab” is automatically antisemitic to boot. Mining sources like Salon for “facts” sends one astray. And Hitchens mocking what happened in Ottawa destroys his credibility, never mind calling Islam a “religion” in any capacity.
I like what I’m reading because in the end Hitchens says our policy in the region in addition to not controlling soverign borders is leading to the demise of Western nations.
He has certainly got that right and he also has it right that the leaders of Western nations are fighting some fake phony war against the IS while allowing borders to be porous at home with immigration of Muslims.
The killers of Rigby and Cirillo were loners and crazy people. Addicts are crazy people.
The area of debate in this column is over the value of cannabis (marijuana, weed, ganga etc.).