Mark Steyn: Racism is bad - so is self-delusion

Anti-dhimmitude from Mark Steyn on the Australian "race" riots. From the Telegraph, with thanks to Olivia:

These days, whenever something goofy turns up on the news, chances are it involves a fellow called Mohammed. A plane flies into the World Trade Centre? Mohammed Atta. A gunman shoots up the El Al counter at Los Angeles airport? Hesham Mohamed Hedayet. A sniper starts killing petrol station customers around Washington, DC? John Allen Muhammed. A guy fatally stabs a Dutch movie director? Mohammed Bouyeri. A terrorist slaughters dozens in Bali? Noordin Mohamed. A gang-rapist in Sydney? Mohammed Skaf.

Maybe all these Mohammeds are victims of Australian white racists and American white racists and Dutch white racists and Balinese white racists and Beslan schoolgirl white racists.

But the eagerness of the Aussie and British and Canadian and European media, week in, week out, to attribute each outbreak of an apparently universal phenomenon to strictly local factors is starting to look pathological. "Violence and racism are bad", but so is self-delusion.

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No one gives a stuff about their childhoods, lots of us had bad childhoods, and haven’t waged a jihad over it. A bad childhood does not give lebs the right to terrorize Cronulla and Sydney or any western country they reside in.

John Howard will be voted in until islamic problems are under proper control. Iemma member for lakemba and NSW Premier will surely be voted out.

First islam asked us to agree it was a few freaky terrorists in the middle east, then they were in the mosques through out the west, then they were local born islamists blowing up London’s buses, now they are local gang suburbs of islamists in Paris/Sydney.
And they still ask us to accept it. crazy if they think we will.

European countries are now deporting islamists. We will here as well very soon .

Stuff the victim game and stuff sharia. People are sick of interfaith and community talks about islamists and their suffering. We all know what the deal is.

Well said meredith!!

I was told the following today:

The way that they are clamping down on nonMuslims really implies that they are very scared of white vigilantes taking over and that they do recognise the Muslim problem but wish to deal with it in their own legal way.

We will see if this is true when it all calms down in the next few weeks.

Then there should be substantial arrests of violent muslims............end

If they do not do something about the violence from thse groups then they should beware. There is a growing cold anger rising in this country against such as these and it will NOT go away.

I talk to many people on a daily basis and even old ladies in their 80s blind and deaf know what the problem is and who is to blame. This will not go away if the violence continues and it will.

Make certain that you have enough insurance cover.

What a splendid piece of writing! Mark Steyn says it all with wit,humour and tongue in cheek.
Bravo. And he is certainly right about the self
delusion of crazy leftist/marxist Journos.

Mark Steyn's writing is bracing and always funny. It's a shame he's leaving The Telegraph soon.

Gotcha. White youths egged on by white supremacists. You can't make a racist omelette without egged whites.

Where is he going?

Meredith wrote:

"We all know what the deal is."

Everyone here, perhaps. But far too few where it really counts. Too many journalists, politicians, and educators don't know "what the deal is", or they deny it or obfuscate it.

Sympathetic journalists parrot the views of ignorant politicians and agenda driven educators to an average audience kept in a perpetual fog of disinformation.

How many of my neighbors will ever read the Telegraph or this latest of Steyn's fine articles?

That is a problem.

Mark and others are so correct, Mu,Mohammed is such a role model after all these years. There are more each day that adopt that name. There are many persecuted Mo's in our prison system. Using MSM logic declares the name of Islam's finest is synonomous with persecution. Well, they are almost right except persecution flows outward from that name.......

Another excellent column today is by Thomas Sowell:

"Those who banish the symbols of a civilization often undermine that civilization in other ways as well. People who warn us against being "Eurocentric" are often totally Eurocentric when it comes to condemning the sins of the human race as if they were peculiarities of "our society."

"These are not just isolated foibles that we can laugh at. No society can survive in the long run without the allegiance of its people. Undermining a sense of the worthiness of a society undermines that allegiance — and, without allegiance, there is no defense.

"In the international jungle, made more dangerous by terrorist networks that circle the globe, anything that it is not defended is in jeopardy — which means we are all in jeopardy, and so are our children and our children's children."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell.html

Of course we know that Muslims are not a race. But if we to use racism in an extended sense, I’d conclude the following:

Islam is Racism

It is certainly a supremacist ideology. What more need we say to condemn it?
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The Telegraph without Steyn? Where's he going?

Where's Mark S going? Not sure. But he said in The Spectator that he was leaving the Telegraph. I think so, anyway. It would be good if he changed is mind, or they did, whichever it is.

Hmmmm. We get Steyn in the New York Sun because of their relationship with the Telegraph. The Telegraph just seems like a natural home for him. Perhaps he’s negotiating … he’s earned it!

Steyn leaving the Telegraph? The entire Brit press will be poorer for it, I fear.

Granny, Steyn's being tongue-in-cheek is all. Its his writing style. Nary has any column of his gone by without inspiring some heart warming laughter and refreshed insight into issues! Whatever the folks at the Telegraph are paying him, its not enough...

It's time to call Islam on this. Everytime we have a syndrome of MBB (Mohammeds' Behaving Badly), they scream "racism" without fail! Islam is theoreticaly open to everyone, but the religion is so Arab dominated that attacks on non-Arab Muslims, like blacks in Sudan is completely rationalized and/or ignored.

Posting here too in hope you will see it - Hal

Hal here Hugh, thanks for answering - No, hugh! We are not deceived by anyone, and we are fairly well read - from Pope Paul 6 to John Paul 2 to Benedict - they all say nice things about the Musbots and their "Living, thinking, Mighty Book, which can reach out to kill anyone and their families who dare critcize it. But, perhaps we have not read widely enough. Can you recommend sources where we can see that the Pope does not consider that Allah to be the same God we worship? We hope so. But we believe Jesus is God, hence Allah=Jesus! What else? Jesus is not even mentioned in the Koran by any name that even remotely resembles the name "Jesus". The name they use is the same as Esdra - and this guy's mother is not named Mary - why even believe the Koran's mention of Jesus other than Allah, which the Church says is just another word for God? (Jesus = God) We are looking at all the official stuff, from Vat 2 till now, and all we can find is glowing discriptions - very distressing for us who have been following the Musbots progress for years now! We don't mind being wrong, we hope we are. However, we are unable to find information that you have found - would greatly appreciate having such - Love, Hal

"How many of my neighbors will ever read the Telegraph or this latest of Steyn's fine articles. That is a problem.
-- posted by PRCS

There is a growing consciousness in the West about Islam's true nature.

Trouble is, that consciousness reverberates within a tiny echo chamber that's growing at about 1% per year. Hell, your average Moslem stud can breed up genuine new Moslem babies faster than that.

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Why are the anti-Dhimmis so terrified of marketing and PR? Are they afraid that they'll be held accountable for the fetid squalor that is Islam? Are they askeert of a nasty lawsuit?

If not them, then who?

I have a hunch, and I hope that I am wrong, that by Spring, 2006 Mark Steyn will be writing about riots in the US by Mo-the-Enflamed-Muslim and his friends. They will provoke some incident in Michigan or New Jersey, their strongholds, and with the help of the press, turn events into another "racism" event, like Australia and France. Politicians will rush to the nearest microphones to declare their sympathy pains for the Muslim community. And, in the end, the Muslims will make more inroads into the political process, with academics and with the media. And, as Mark Steyn wrote, the self-delusion will continue.

What ever part of the world Mohomeds go they create problems. The past 25 to 30 years Mohomeds in the the western nations have been creating all sorts of problems.

I've come to the conclusion that Islam is a pathological mental disorder masquerading as a religion. Why do we pander to these lunatics?

ARAKIS,

If Islam weren't 1400 years old, we'd view it the same way we do the KKK. There's this weird mental thing that people have, however, that since it's so old it must be OK at some level, hence the whole religion of peace BS.

So, again, if Islam was only

I dont CARE!!!
What the muslims think
What the muslims FEEL
What the muslims dream about...

I Stopped caring a long time ago...

While the liberals fall over themselves
rushing to their Islamic masters.
Eager to Gain influence by being the first inline to SELL OUT AMERICA...


I say We will NOT bow down to the Death Cult of Islam...

Period put that into your pipe and smoke it..
Just make sure you light it with a page from the Koran...

The situation in NSW is a textbook example of the misapplication of the "race card". You have two racially similar or identical people, Lebanese Arabs. Some are Christians, some are mahometans. The Christians are productive and highly successful members of Australian society. Then, they get their Christian churches burned down by the mahometans, who also harass and rape Australian women, riot, steal, deal drugs, and in all other respects follow the foul footsteps of their vile "prophet". It ain't about race, folks. It's about a wicked cult, a sore on the backside of humankind, that has been allowed to fester and putrify for far too long.

Open Eyes:
It is not that fact that Islam has been around for 1400 years that has made people believe that it is must be acceptable. It is simply that Islam has been declared a religion.

Religeous beliefs are above the law in this era of multiculturalism and that what needs to be countered. Unfortunately, it only seems to be non-muslims in general that give religions other than their own that respect.

Infidel33,

I always refer to the riots as the "multicult riots" i don't use the word racist and won't untill the islamists are publically (MSM)held to accountability, as the racism actully came from them not us Aussies. We just lost our temper one arvo.

PRCS

Yes thats so true, we know what the deal is but most people don't. I am relying on the effects if islam in Western society to either drive people to a point where they may not get it but they have had enough or drive them to reserch what the hell this islam is all about.

Part of me belives the very nature of islam will be the spade digging tis own grave... who will give them the final shove has yet to be seen.

I have a very close friend who is a xtian armenian and her husbaand a xtian Egyptian, they think islam will stay and suck the West dry, but never quiet manage to bring us down.

Massive multiplying Demographics of Muslims and their philosophy is world domination with absolute Islam, a dogma, an agenda, that runs with a sword on a one-way street.

AN article on the Victoian persecution of Danny Nalliah and Daniel Scott (who had a death sentence for his Christian beliefs imposed on him in Pakistan).
http://www.brookesnews.com/051912bracks.html

"The disgusting Stalinoid behaviour of Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal perfectly mirrors the behaviour of communist parties. Those who dissent from the party line are ordered to attend a meeting of party members where they are then humiliated and verbally abused. This continues until the victims submit*."
Spanish Inquistition- Victorian Style!

Robert, you're losing your touch.

You forgot to say "read it all."

"Balinese white racists"


.....Now that was funny. Oh, my fellow Hindus of Bali.


"But the eagerness of the Aussie and British and Canadian and European media, week in, week out, to attribute each outbreak of an apparently universal phenomenon to strictly local factors is starting to look pathological. "Violence and racism are bad", but so is self-delusion."

The same can also be said about India's Media, it constantly keeps itself in a self-denial of the reality which is facing the Subcontinent of India.

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I resent that, I love my bacon.


-Cheers

Miss Moneypenny sez:

"...No society can survive in the long run without the allegiance of its people. Undermining a sense of the worthiness of a society undermines that allegiance — and, without allegiance, there is no defense.

I love you for for that! Moneypenny, did you write that?

Priceless!!!