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The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates
Steyn Online ^ | 13 Nov 2015 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 11/14/2015 3:49:30 AM PST by Rummyfan

As I write, Paris is under curfew for the first time since the German occupation, and the death toll from the multiple attacks stands at 158, the vast majority of them slaughtered during a concert at the Bataclan theatre, a delightful bit of 19th century Chinoiserie on the boulevard Voltaire. The last time I was there, if memory serves, was to see Julie Pietri. I'm so bloody sick of these savages shooting and bombing and killing and blowing up everything I like - whether it's the small Quebec town where my little girl's favorite fondue restaurant is or my favorite hotel in Amman or the brave freespeecher who hosted me in Copenhagen ...or a music hall where I liked to go to hear a little jazz and pop and get away from the cares of the world for a couple of hours. But look at the photographs from Paris: there's nowhere to get away from it; the barbarians who yell "Allahu Akbar!" are there waiting for you ...when you go to a soccer match, you go to a concert, you go for a drink on a Friday night. They're there on the train... at the magazine office... in the Kosher supermarket... at the museum in Brussels... outside the barracks in Woolwich...

Twenty-four hours ago, I said on the radio apropos the latest campus "safe space" nonsense:

This is what we're going to be talking about when the mullahs nuke us.

Almost. When the Allahu Akbar boys opened fire, Paris was talking about the climate-change conference due to start later this month, when the world's leaders will fly in to "solve" a "problem" that doesn't exist rather than to address the one that does. But don't worry: we already have a hashtag (#PrayForParis) ....

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To: Blennos
Islam is the enemy. It must be named as such and opposed with violence.

Yup.

41 posted on 11/14/2015 7:17:38 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: LS

The best writer on the Internet, period, drop the mic.


42 posted on 11/14/2015 7:22:35 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: LS

The actual purposes of “homeland security” and whatever measures France, Germany, etc. are taking to “defeat terrorism”, is to keep it to manageable levels and to reduce the freedoms of those who would fight it, until it is too late to do anything about it.


43 posted on 11/14/2015 7:25:37 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: Rummyfan

The only way Europe can successfully defend itself against Arab terrorists is to do what Israel does when confronted with its own brand of Arab terrorists, the Palestinians — destroy them before they destroy you.

Yet how can the Europeans crack down against Arab terrorists, when they’ve spent the entire period of Israel’s existence excoriating the Israelis every time they’ve taken action to save their country from Arab terrorists?

In fact, the Europeans have become so anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian that at the very time the French horrors happened yesterday, the European Council in Brussels was enacting a Europe-wide boycott of Israeli goods.

Can a Europe that so hates Israel adopt Israeli anti-terrorism policies, such as mobilizing their entire defense and police forces to crack down on Arab terrorists to the point of killing them just like the hated Israelis do?

It’s hard to imagine such a thing. How would the Europeans continue to be able to attack Israel in the media every time an Israeli shot a knife-wielding Palestinian coming toward him if the Europeans also began to kill murderous Arabs in their midst? It will never happen.


44 posted on 11/14/2015 7:40:13 AM PST by Bluestocking
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To: Rummyfan

I could not agree more. One of the many objectives is to wear us down. WE must all be fatigued now with this constant yapping, sniping, blood letting and death by a thousand small cuts. Our apathy is not being reversed. It is being increased by our weariness. Our response is not complete apathy though. It is having given up on leadership and will be to finally take care of ourselves.


45 posted on 11/14/2015 8:24:22 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: The Antiyuppie
His books are even better. His America, Alone predicted the problems of below-replacement birth rates in Europe, but he didn't go so far as to speculate pro-Islamist Merkels or Obamas would invite the destruction into their countries under the guise of "refugees."
46 posted on 11/14/2015 8:53:59 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: kearnyirish2

They can be burned down.


47 posted on 11/14/2015 9:52:01 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: georgiegirl

Sounds right. Thanks.


48 posted on 11/14/2015 11:04:52 AM PST by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason)
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To: Kartographer

My neck of the woods is defended by Smith & Wesson, Remington, and Colt.


49 posted on 11/14/2015 11:40:58 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: C210N

What stunning Islam-murder stats.


50 posted on 11/14/2015 11:58:20 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence bymeans of language.-Wittgenstein)
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To: TTFlyer

“A speeding truck bomb, and a shared act of courage”

“SAN DIEGO — They had known each other only a few minutes, but they will be linked forever in what Marine brass say is one of the most extraordinary acts of courage and sacrifice in the Iraq war.

Cpl. Jonathan Yale, 21, grew up poor in rural Virginia. He had joined the Marine Corps to put structure in his life and to help support his mother and sister. He was within a few days of heading home.

Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter, 19, was from a comfortably middle-class suburb on Long Island. As a boy, he had worn military garb, and he had felt the pull of adventure and patriotism. He had just arrived in Iraq.

On April 22, the two were assigned to guard the main gate to Joint Security Station Nasser in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, once an insurgent stronghold and still a dangerous region. Dozens of Marines and Iraqi police lived at the compound, and some were still sleeping after all-night patrols when Yale and Haerter reported for duty that warm, sultry morning.”

Finish reading here:

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/29/nation/na-heroes29

Watch them give their lives as many have and many are willing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Bicfc9dp0


51 posted on 11/14/2015 12:27:42 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: TTFlyer
Hate to tell you, but your neck of the woods isn't as special as you think. The only difference I see that in my neck I would add Kalashnikov to your list.


52 posted on 11/14/2015 12:43:38 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Blennos

As long as there is television to vacuum up peoples` minds and emotions, there will be no reaction.


53 posted on 11/14/2015 2:55:02 PM PST by Mmmike
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To: MrBambaLaMamba

What about telling Muzzies they have a choice; convert to Christianity. Pay the tax. Or die. No new mosques. No repairs to existing mosques. No proselytizing islam. Take Constantinople and Mecca. They will come for them. Be ready.


54 posted on 11/14/2015 7:22:03 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: TheOldLady; Rummyfan; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; ...

Mark Steyn ping.

Thanks for the ping Slings and Arrows.


56 posted on 11/14/2015 10:29:00 PM PST by JLS
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To: Gritty

What did he say?


57 posted on 11/15/2015 4:12:39 AM PST by OKSooner
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To: OKSooner
This was Cruz on FOX yesterday morning...

...Ted Cruz...

58 posted on 11/15/2015 5:26:22 AM PST by Gritty (The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates. So screw the candlelight vigil. - Mark Steyn)
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To: Bluestocking
In fact, the Europeans have become so anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian that at the very time the French horrors happened yesterday, the European Council in Brussels was enacting a Europe-wide boycott of Israeli goods.

Probably a boycott of everything from the West Bank.This shows what submissive pukes the Europeans are. Submission to Islam...is a sickness and now we see it can get hundreds killed in Paris on European soil. Karmic blowback for the ways they have harassed Israel for years in order to display their liberal-lefty-socialist peacock plumage. F'n morons!

As far as the eternal Islamic Jihad that the Jews of Israel have had to contend with....the shoe is on the other foot now.

59 posted on 11/15/2015 5:28:14 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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