And to be honest, it makes me vomit to see people holding these Princess Dianified candlelit vigils, and using the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie, I am Charlie, and in effect appropriating these guys’ sacrifice for this bogus solidarity. It makes me sick to see all these ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’ cartoons that have appeared in newspapers all over the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Australia, everywhere, from other cartoonists, again expressing solidarity with these very brave men, but not doing what they did. And I would have liked, these guys are dead, because back in 2005, these Danish cartoons were published in an obscure Jutland newspaper, and a bunch of fanatics went bananas and started killing people over them. So a couple of publications on the planet, including mine in Canada, and Charlie Hebdo in Paris, published these cartoons. And as a result, Le Monde didn’t, and the Times of London didn’t, and the New York Times didn’t, and nobody else did. And as a result, these fellows in Charlie Hebdo became the focus of murderous rage. If we’d all just published them on the front page and said if you want to kill us, you go to hell, you can’t just kill a couple of obscure Danes, you’re going to have to kill us all, we wouldn’t have this problem. But because nobody did that, these Parisian guys are dead. They’re dead. Hillary Clinton is sitting in the Book of Mormon, the big hit Broadway musical, laughing her head off and giving a standing ovation to the most obscene provocations against Mormonism. What’s the difference? ...you almost get the impression now that the Western appeasement crowd are in fact willing to be Islam’s enforcers in the West. And that’s very dark and very disturbing, and bad things will flow from that if we cannot even honestly talk about this. And that calls into question, I think it does call into question as to whether Europe, in allowing Islam to nest within Western pluralistic democracies, has actually placed an existential question over its future. That’s a real question for France today. Mark Steyn, it’s always a pleasure, especially on a day when the 1st Amendment is on the table.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 16:54:59 +0000
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