[uncitizen]

"Stay quiet and you'll be okay:" Those were Mohammed Atta's words to his passengers on 9/11. And they're what all the nice respectable types are telling us now.

As usual Steyn nails it so many ways in one article that it's tough to decide on the money quote.

I noticed he used the phrase "those who" THIS or THAT twice in two consecutive sentences. Wonder if he was being sarcastic or just playing along with the absurdity of it. Why suddenly do we hear and read "those who whatever" in almost every article about Islam? It's such a wierd, almost archaic sounding expression. Don't know why it bugs me, but it does.

[Norm Lenhart]

It’s a literary device mainly/overall. A setup. You broad brush a subject with ‘those who’ and then narrow it down to specifics. That way the reader is taken on a journey from place to place/point to point in a logical order.

At least that’s one way of using it. For a lazy writer or propagandist it’s a way of hedging bets and leaving them selves an out.

“You misunderstood my golden words. I wasn’t talking about X, I was talking about Y.”

[ScaniaBoy]

It was well worth to read the piece all the way to the end (and it wasn't hard) but that line burned, seared, etched the message that has to get through to those But(t) Boys:

"Stay quiet and you'll be okay:" Those were Mohammed Atta's words to his passengers on 9/11. And they're what all the nice respectable types are telling us now.