Mark Steyn: They want to kill us all

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 10/19/2002 | Mark Steyn

[tet68]

Steyn hits in the black! Bump.

[Pokey78]

Okey Dokey.

[A_perfect_lady]

Bump... note to self

[Hank Kerchief]

In reality our President knows all of this. That's precisely why he is giving lip service to the muslims. If he again uses the word "Crusade" we would suddenly be at war with all of islam. He is much smarter than that!

Yeah, right. Hope you don't have to much trouble learning Arabic.

[steve-b]

One statistic that is hard to argue with is that the Islamic countries have the lowest AIDS infection rate in the world, by far.

I'm having flashbacks to 1960s pinkos trotting out statistics about all the wonderful things Castro, Mao, etc. are doing for their people.

[wideawake]

I just use the word Muslim instead. They mean the exact same thing, and 'Muslim' is shorter.

[Palladin]

Feh! Is that what you think Muslim women think?

Here's what I think they think every night:

"Ugh...here comes old hogbreath with two weeks sweat stuck to his body and a beard full of bacteria. He's gonna hop on and off, and I'll be pregnant with my tenth brat. God, I wish I were Catherine Zeta-Jones! Or maybe just a lady lawyer".

[m1911]

I really like Steyn - you should jump on the ping list if you like this one.

[A_perfect_lady]

One statistic that is hard to argue with is that the Islamic countries have the lowest AIDS infection rate in the world, by far.

They also are completely free of child sexual abuse. I know this is true because they SAY it is so. And if they say it is so, why, it must be so!

[lady lawyer]

LOL. Maybe some think that. But I often think of a woman I met in the Sudan, Leyla. She is about my age, with three very attractive daughters in their late teens and early 20's. She is a member of the upper classes, with a doctorate, and a large home. She runs a Sudanese women's NGO.

When she learned that I had six children, she got teary. She said that when she was of childbearing age, she listened to the people (mostly Westerners) who said that modern women had small families. She now regrets it.

[null and void]

BTW, when you are asking your friends if one of them will stand up and be counted (and I assume you will). Watch their eyes. As an attorney you are probably a trained observer. I would be curious to know if you see a flash of fear...

[lady lawyer]

Here's another interesting fact about Leyla, which I had forgotten. Her family owned part of the land on which the aspirin factor, bombed by Clinton in Monica's war, was built. She took me there.

There were two things that impressed me about that trip. First, the amazing accuracy of the American cruise missiles. There was a large metal building, and the outside walls were intact. When you opened the door, you could see a bomb crater dead in the center. It was incredible. The whole complex was destroyed. The complex was surrounded by a brick fence, maybe five feet high. On the other side of the fence were undamaged homes.

Second, it was very clear that if there had been any evidence at all that there were chemical weapons or precursors being produced there, we would have known about it. It would have been very easy for someone to get into the complex, after all the buildings were laid open by bombs, and collect the evidence.

[polemikos]

Just as it was Hitler, not us; Tojo, not us; Mussolini, not us; and Stalin, not us — so it is now.

It is Islamic fundamentalism, not us; Arab terrorists, not us; and Middle Eastern dictators, not us.

The problem is them and their unelected and unfree regimes, not us — just as it always is when unelected maniacs take control and hijack an entire country and peoples.

And so it is with Islamism. For 1400 years they have been in a war with the "other" that they declared in the Koran. They fight in Kashmir, Bali, Sudan, Israel, America, the Philippines, Somalia, etc. not because of Western decadence, but because that is where the "other" lives. If the West did not exist, they would still be at war with the "other" because that is what they do. Apparently, that is all they do.

If 9/11 was when we awoke to the reality that we are at war, then we should remember that wars usually end when one, not both sides, win.

[lady lawyer]

These aren't their figures, they are collected by international organizations. If they had an AIDS infection rate like ours, or like Southern Africa's, they couldn't hide it. So many of their hospitals are run by Western organizations.

[null and void]

If the West did not exist, they would still be at war with the "other" because that is what they do. Apparently, that is all they do.

It would be my version of Islam is purer than yours...

[lady lawyer]

There is a great deal of truth to that. As I mentioned earlier, the people I know have been trying to cope with the Islamists for a lot longer than we have.

My view is that the more in-your-face disgusting our society gets, the harder it gets for the moderate Muslims who don't hate the West to win support among their own people.

[null and void]

As recently as last year there were no reported cases of AIDS in China.

Come to find out entire villages have near 100% infection rates due to some really bizarre blood bank practices, such as pooling blood from multiple donors, extracting the plasma and reinfusing the donors with the pooled red cells.

I'm just guessing here, but in a society that has the death penalty for homosexual activity an AIDS victim just *might* be a *little* reluctant to tell anyone...

[null and void]

My view is that the more in-your-face disgusting our society gets, the harder it gets for the moderate Muslims who don't hate the West to win support among their own people.

Then we are doomed. We will never be pure enough...

[Marysecretary]

I agree. He's an excellent writer. Wish we had more like him.