https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2012/09/23/a-short-bracing-video-obama-should-see/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 02:28:20 -0400<![CDATA[You know, I had just been wondering what happened to Pat Condell, the British comedian and political commentator who gave give me and my knuckle-dragging, right-wing, politically incorrect friends such pleasure a few years back with his series of scathing videos excoriating the multiple human rights abuses of Islam, the totalitarian movement he now calls “the religion of permanent offense.” I hadn’t heard of him for a while, and over the last week or so, when Muslims attacked our consulate in Benghazi and brutalized, then murdered Chris Stevens,  the U.S. ambassador to Libya, along with three other diplomats,I wondered, &#8220;Where&#8217;s Condell?&#8221; I wondered the same thing when, just last week,  riots broke out across the Middle East — embassies stormed, U.S. flags burned from Tunis to London — all because . . . why? Forget the case of Ambassador Stevens: even the rancid U.S. State Department now admits, sort of, that that was an al-Qaeda operation that had been planned for months.  But what about the other protests? In the fall a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of violence? Not quite.   It was not the season that caused all this frenzied activity, arson, and murder.  No, it was a 13-minute amateur anti-Islamic film that was made by a Coptic Christian living in California.  And that, of course, was mere pretext.  The film had been aired months ago.  But only this month had the requisite number of Islamic wise men gotten together and decided it was time to mount an offense: time to get the crowds out on the streets, chanting, burning, bullying, murdering. Wot larks!]]>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 04:30:58 -0400<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2012/09/23/a-short-bracing-video-obama-should-see-n117082