[Clive]

ping

[anniegetyourgun]

"He's saying Muslims are wogs, savages, they know no better, what do you expect?"

An apt description of their dead, so-called prophet too.....

[wideawake]

Roy Hattersley, the Labour Party's deputy leader, attempted to split the difference by arguing that, while he of course supported freedom of speech, perhaps "in the interests of race relations" it would be better not to bring out a paperback edition. He was in favour of artistic freedom, but only in hard covers -- and certainly, when it comes to soft spines, Lord Hattersley knows whereof he speaks.

Mark Steyn rules. Full stop.

[TomGuy]

The question is: Who wins in a fa[r]t-wa[r]?

[Petronski]

Steyn is brilliant as usual.

Death to jihadi: give the people what they want

[fporretto]

Deroy Murdock has proposed that we bury all terrorists, or whatever bits of them we can find, wrapped in pigskin and soaked in lard. As the punchline of a raunchy joke goes, I believe I'd pity the poor pig. However, as an antidote to Islamist violence, it has a lot going for it. Remember: these people are so mentally primitive that they follow a religion that says that the actions of another person can deprive you of your ticket to Heaven.

Steyn, as usual, rocks. How he can be so consistently incisive and wildly funny at the same time is beyond me.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit The Palace Of Reason: http://palaceofreason.com

[GirlShortstop]

Rushdie... suddenly turned up on a Muslim radio station in West London one night and told his interviewer he'd converted to Islam.

can you say LOOOOH-SER?

[xp38]

Time for a ping!

[xp38]

I only have one quibble with this. I don't think David came up with the Islam is peace stuff while writing for President Bush.

[sam_paine]

the silence of the "moderate Muslims"

One might expect silence if indeed their are no "moderate Muslims." r maybe they're just lazy Muslims.

[rudypoot]

Maybe it's time we play Cowboys and Muslims...

[maica]

Steyn is such a great teacher. He pulls facts together and really connects the dots.

" Rushdie's precious lit. crit. crowd mostly opposed the fatwa on the grounds of artistic freedom rather than as a broader defence of western pluralism. That was a mistake.

In the Fifties and Sixties, Nasserism attempted to import Soviet socialism to the Middle East: it never really took. A generation later, the Ayatollah came up with a better wheeze: export Islamism to a culturally defeatist West. Everything that has become pathetically familiar to us since September 11th was present in the Rushdie affair: "

[1rudeboy]

. . . that the Prophet Muhammad would have been happy to take the winner of Miss World for his wife.

This is incorrect and contrary to the teachings of the Holy Qur'an. The Prophet Muhammed would have been happy to take all of the Miss World contestants as wives.

I declare fatwa against all of you!

[dead]

Rushdie's precious lit. crit. crowd mostly opposed the fatwa on the grounds of artistic freedom rather than as a broader defence of western pluralism. That was a mistake.

Great point.

[swarthyguy]

BUmp for Steyn for standing up for Rushdie.

[Gritty]

Another GREAT one!