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  • Advocates Of "Proportion" Are Just Unbalanced (Mark Steyn On Jihad Denial Syndrome Alert)

    08/06/2006 4:58:15 AM PDT · by goldstategop · 96 replies · 2,375+ views
    Chicago Sun Times ^ | 08/06/06 | Mark Steyn
    "Disproportion" is the concept of the moment. Do you know how to play? Let's say 150 missiles are lobbed at northern Israel from the Lebanese village of Qana and the Israelis respond with missiles of their own that kill 28 people. Whoa, man, that's way "disproportionate." But let's say you're a northwestern American municipality -- Seattle, for example -- and you haven't lobbed missiles at anybody, but a Muslim male shows up anyway and shoots six Jewish women, one of whom tries to flee up the stairs, but he spots her, leans over the railing, fires again and kills her....