Comments on: Quiz time!

By: Steve Skubinna

Steve Skubinna — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:39:18 +0000

I am always unmoved when apologists stress that not all Muslims are terrorists. It never occurred to me that we should concern ourselves with the non-terrorists. Puts me in mind of William Burroughs remark about gun controllers, along the lines of “Whenever somebody commits a crime with a gun, the reflexive response always seems to be to punish the people who didn’t do it.”

The reason I don’t quote that more often is because Gibson is hardly the poster boy for responsible firearms ownership.

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Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:35:53 +0000

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By: gaetano catelli, ny, ny

gaetano catelli, ny, ny — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:17:42 +0000

ref: “’most Muslims are harmless and abhor terrorism’. I have never seen a shred of evidence to back up this assertion: it simply must be true, therefore it is, that’s the logic.”

my anecdotal impression is that most Italians are harmless and abhor organized crime. but, perhaps i am illogical.

By: A Van Goes in Brooklyn « The View from Alexandria

A Van Goes in Brooklyn « The View from Alexandria — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:32:29 +0000

[...] 7, 2008 by philo Roger Kimball writes of a red van in Brooklyn, filled with explosive devices and inked to a local mosque. It may [...]

By: Steynian 191 « Free Mark Steyn!

Steynian 191 « Free Mark Steyn! — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:37:16 +0000

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By: Cletus

Cletus — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:14:15 +0000

The green tide is going to sweep over us all, and there will be nothing we can do about it

By: ricpic

ricpic — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:34:28 +0000

It is far more likely that the next horrific muslim attack on the West, in Europe or America, will be met with apologetics than with a counterattack. Translation: they are winning.

By: Hesperado

Hesperado — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:29:43 +0000

Your punchline — “While the picture is in no way indicative of the city’s Muslim population. . . ” — is, as you probably know, repeated as an axiomatic mantra in various ways in innumerable news stories from nearly every mainstream media news source. It is an axiomatic assumption throughout the West today that “most Muslims are harmless and abhor terrorism”. I have never seen a shred of evidence to back up this assertion: it simply must be true, therefore it is, that’s the logic.

Meanwhile, with the metastasizing violence and the widespread indications throughout the Muslim world and Muslim communities within the West of everything ranging from active support to passive enabling of Islamic pathologies including terrorism (as well as abuse of women, children, honor killings, anti-liberal attitudes about free speech, homosexuals, women, Sharia law, etc.), the evidence of a massively endemic cultural pathology among an amorphously large number of Muslims worldwide is mounting.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:34:38 +0000

Give ‘em a break, Roger. This is just one of those sycophantic idiocies that emerge in all cultures and presist until supereded by the next stylish obeisance. They are all obeisances. Every scientific paper published in the Soviet Union or in Mao’s China — let alone every journalistic account thereof — began or provided within its first paragraph a statement on the genius of Stalin, or of Mao, which fully anticipated and made possible the work to be discussed. Likewise, on the other side, Der Fuehrer and the local Gauleiter. All forms of political correctness are really obeisances to POWER. In the present case, “…no way indicative of the city’s Muslim popuation…” is the required arse-kissing, not of Muslims, but of the nice people who have or control (quoting Cornford), “all the money going.” The penalty for failing to exonerate Muslims-in-general is loss of esteem and probably of one’s job.

The interesting question is why the plutocrats who own, e.g., the media, or run universities, or even some great industrial companies, are so eager to exonerate their pledged conquerors or assassins.