"When the Allahu Akbar boys opened fire, Paris was talking about the
climate-change conference due to start later this month, when the
world's leaders will fly in to "solve" a "problem" that doesn't exist
rather than to address the one that does."...
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11/13/15, "The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates," Mark Steyn
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"When the Allahu Akbar boys opened fire, Paris was talking about the
climate-change conference due to start later this month, when the
world's leaders will fly in to "solve" a "problem" that doesn't exist
rather than to address the one that does. But don't worry: we already
have a hashtag (#PrayForParis) and doubtless there'll be another
candlelight vigil of weepy tilty-headed wankers. Because as long as we
all advertise how sad and sorrowful we are, who needs to do anything?...
Visiting the Bataclan, M Hollande declared that "nous allons mener le combat, il sera impitoyable": We are going to wage a war that will be pitiless.
Does he mean it? Or is he just killing time until Obama and Cameron and Merkel and Justin
Trudeau and Malcolm Turnbull fly in and they can all get back to
talking about sea levels in the Maldives in the 22nd century? By which
time France and Germany and Belgium and Austria and the Netherlands will
have been long washed away.
Among his other coy evasions, President Obama described tonight's
events as "an attack not just on Paris, it's an attack not just on the
people of France, but this is an attack on all of humanity and the
universal values we share".
But that's not true, is it? He's right that it's an attack not just
on Paris or France. What it is is an attack on the west, on the
civilization that built the modern world - an attack on one portion of
"humanity" by those who claim to speak for another portion of
"humanity". And these are not "universal values" but values that spring
from a relatively narrow segment of humanity. They were kinda sorta
"universal" when the great powers were willing to enforce them around
the world and the colonial subjects of ramshackle backwaters such as
Aden, Sudan and the North-West Frontier Province were at least obliged
to pay lip service to them. But the European empires retreated from the
world, and those "universal values" are utterly alien to large parts of
the map today.
And then Europe decided to invite millions of Muslims to settle in
their countries. Most of those people don't want to participate actively
in bringing about the death of diners and concertgoers and soccer fans,
but at a certain level most of them either wish or are indifferent to
the death of the societies in which they live - modern, pluralist,
western societies and those "universal values" of which Barack Obama
bleats. So, if you are either an active ISIS recruit or just a guy who's
been fired up by social media, you have a very large comfort zone in
which to swim, and which the authorities find almost impossible to
penetrate.
And all Chancellor Merkel and the EU want to do is make that large
comfort zone even larger by letting millions more "Syrian" "refugees"
walk into the Continent and settle wherever they want. As I wrote after the Copenhagen attacks in February:
I would like to ask Mr Cameron and Miss
Thorning-Schmidt what's their happy ending here? What's their roadmap
for fewer "acts of violence" in the years ahead? Or are they riding on a
wing and a prayer that they can manage the situation and hold it down
to what cynical British civil servants used to call during the Irish
"Troubles" "an acceptable level of violence"? In Pakistan and Nigeria,
the citizenry are expected to live with the reality that every so often
Boko Haram will kick open the door of the schoolhouse and kidnap your
daughters for sex-slavery or the Taliban will gun down your kids and
behead their teacher in front of the class. And it's all entirely
"random", as President Obama would say, so you just have to put up with
it once in a while, and it's tough if it's your kid, but that's just the
way it is. If we're being honest here, isn't that all Mr Cameron and
Miss Thorning-Schmidt are offering their citizens? Spasms of violence as
a routine feature of life, but don't worry, we'll do our best to
contain it - and you can help mitigate it by not going to
"controversial" art events, or synagogues, or gay bars, or...
...or soccer matches, or concerts, or restaurants...
To repeat what I said a few days ago, I'm Islamed out. I'm tired of
Islam 24/7, at Colorado colleges, Marseilles synagogues, Sydney coffee
shops, day after day after day. The west cannot win this thing with a
schizophrenic strategy of targeting things and people but not targeting
the ideology, of intervening ineffectually overseas and not intervening
at all when it comes to the remorseless Islamization and
self-segregation of large segments of their own countries.
So I say again: What's the happy ending here? Because if M. Hollande isn't prepared to end mass Muslim immigration to France and Europe, then his "pitiless war" isn't serious. And, if they're still willing to
tolerate Mutti Merkel's mad plan to reverse Germany's demographic death
spiral through fast-track Islamization, then Europeans aren't serious.
In the end, the decadence of Merkel, Hollande, Cameron and the rest of
the fin de civilisation western leadership will cost you your world and everything you love."...
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