Mark Steyn: Whatever you do, don't call it a hate crime

National Post ^ | July 09 2002

[2sheep]

>I'll call it:, "America for Dhimmis"

Right.  The light has gone out in more than just Georgia.

[Brian Allen]

Mr Steyn forgot to note that LAX/ElAl's terrorist murderer had sent his family out of the country before his grab for the virgins.

Maybe the FBI didn't notice too?

Perhaps that explains that sad, painfully-politically-correct and Peter-Principled feral bureacracy's difficulty in finding this latest islamanazi terrorist's motive?

[NorthernRight]

I feel like writing a guidebook for Judeo-Christians in the U.S. I'll call it:, "America for Dhimmis"

Quote of the week!

[sleavelessinseattle]

Maybe they were lost in the corporate downsizing, or maybe the Saudi princes gave their orders to lie/law enforcement so that Muslims get to play by different rules. I feel like writing a guidebook for Judeo-Christians in the U.S. I'll call it:, "America for Dhimmis"

Same for black on white crime...its invisible...good post!

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey.

Thanks for the post, knighthawk.

[JohnHuang2]

Mark Steyn PING!!

[Bullish]

....I star as the world's most eligible bachelor unable to choose between Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz....

He picked two of the dumbest of the dumb in hollywierd.

So let me salute those Muslim Pakistani police currently searching for three men wanted for carrying out the gang-rape to which an 18-year-old girl was sentenced by a Punjabi tribal council.

There's no hope for any muslim that would tolerate this. Not in this world, or Gods'. And these guys think they're religious???

[Bullish]

Perhaps that explains that sad, painfully-politically-correct and Peter-Principled feral bureacracy's difficulty in finding this latest islamanazi terrorist's motive?

Nice, it's like prose. I like it.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mark Steyn: Whatever you do, don't call it a hate crime

Excerpt:

Credit where it's due. Between September 11th and July 4th, there were no terrorist attacks on American soil. That's a longer period of peace than the British ever managed in the 30 years it took them to surrender to the IRA. Much of this 10-month calm is due to increased vigilance but some of it is also due to al-Qaeda's preference for hiring morons. If their glorious Fourth was really the follow-up to 9/11, then I'd say that's the worst-performing sequel since Dudley Moore made Arthur II.

But let's take the Feds at their word when they insist there's "no connection" between the LAX killer and any terrorist organizations. In its way, that's even more disturbing. Mr. Hadayet doesn't fit the poverty-breeds-desperation-breeds-resentment routine: He lived in a prosperous L.A. suburb and ran his own business. America had been good to him, at least when compared with the economic basket-case he emigrated from. On July 4th, he had plenty of reasons to get out the bunting and firecrackers. Instead, he went Jew-killing.

Osama and al-Qaeda are a small problem, which since September 11th has been managed about as well as can be expected. But the broader culture of "intolerance" in certain unassimilated communities is a potentially much bigger problem. You win wars not just by bombing but by argument, too: Churchill understood this; he characterized the enemy as evil, because they were and because it was important for the British people to understand this if they were to muster the will to see the war through. In Vietnam, the U.S. lost the rhetorical ground to Jane Fonda and co., and wound up losing the war, too. It's critical that the same thing does not happen here. The organizations that purport to represent Muslims in North America and Europe have their own excuses for turning a blind eye to the torrent of hate from respectable sources within the Muslim world -- mosques, media, government. There's no reason why the FBI and other U.S. agencies should sign on to their fictions.

In the meantime, spare a thought for Thursday's victims, Victoria Hen, 25, and Yaakov Aminov, 46. Mr. Hadayet successfully orphaned eight children -- and a ninth on the way. Congratulations to another heroic Islamist martyr!

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[Mark de New Brighton]

Thanks for the ping! Steyn is such a necessary corrective for the crap we get fed from other sources.

[thucydides]

The sort of irrational denial of reality that is the subject of this great article seems at first inexplicable. It appears that our government officials are having great trouble adjusting to the new world of Islamic terrorism, because if they do, it opens up many troublesome areas. If we are to focus our resources on those most likely to be responsible, that is to say, those who have a much higher statistical incidence of involvement, then where does that lead? Young black males are overwhelmingly more likely to be involved in violent crime than the rest of the population, but politicians run like crazy from focusing resources on them ("racial profiling"). Democrats sit still, hoping to hang on to the black vote which is the only thing that keeps them competitive. Republicans sit it out, not wanting the media arm of the democrat party to smear them as racist. The rest of us suffer from increased risk due to misallocation of scarce security and enforcement resources to avoid hurting anyone's feelings. So in the airports, searches are wasted on people who clearly not risks, and on the streets law enforcement actually avoids stopping blacks for fear of facing false race allegations.

[aruanan]

Hmm. Egyptian Muslim kills Jews on American national holiday. Best not to jump to conclusions. Denial really is a river in Egypt. "It appears he went there with the intention of killing people," said Richard Garcia, the Bureau's agent in charge. "Why he did that we are still trying to determine."

Hey, Dick Garcia, to quote either Ronny or Donny Blume from Rushmore, "Pull your head out of your ass!"

[Prodigal Daughter]

Same for black on white crime...its invisible...good post!

Thanks for reminding me. Same for black on black crime, women on men crime and much of women on children crime is often invisible too.

[wardaddy]

Hate Crimes .....I don't much care for the principle behind them and the disparity in application is appalling.

[Lent]

Good ping. Another good one from Steyn.

[knighthawk]

He keeps coming with better stuff each time. How does he do that?

[Smile-n-Win]

Republicans sit it out, not wanting the media arm of the democrat party to smear them as racist.

Correct. Republicans need to learn to ignore the media. It doesn't really represent popular opinion. As long as Republicans keep doing what the media tells them to, the RATs will continue to have the upper hand--after all, the media serves the RATs.

When Republicans start laughing into the face of those obnoxious journalists, and say: "Well if the liberal media is so mad at us, we must be doing something right," then the Leftist press will be revealed for the ridiculous buffoons they are, and the RATs will soon find out what Napoleon must have felt like the day after Waterloo!

[Smile-n-Win]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey.

This stunning development seems to have completely disoriented the FBI. I quote from The New York Times headline: "Officials Puzzled About Motive Of Airport Gunman."

One cop to another: "Gosh, why on earth could this Muslim have killed these Jews? Could it be ... ummm ... you know ... the thing we are not supposed to think of?"

[Askel5]

By the way ... I very much appreciated your post on the other thread but it will be the weekend probably before I get back to it. My brain takes a while to digest but both your comments and Cornelis's on pragmatism are working on me in the background. =)

[JohnHuang2]

Mark Steyn is the best in the business, far and away.