Notable Quote - Mark Steyn - Granite Grok

Notable Quote – Mark Steyn

Poland and Hungary and Slovakia do not have Islamic terrorism because they have very little Islam

In part, Mark Styn’s thoughts on the Ariana Grande concert terrorism attack and the real sickness about it.  Emphasis mine:

And so it will prove for cafe life, and shopping malls, and pop concerts. Maybe Ariana Grande will be back in the UK – or maybe she will decide that discretion is the better part of a Dangerous Woman’s valor. But there will be fewer young girls in the audience – because no mum or dad wants to live for the rest of their lives with the great gaping hole in your heart opening up for dozens of English parents this grim morning. And one day the jihad will get lucky and the bomb will take with it one of these filthy infidel “shameless” pop whores cavorting on stage in her underwear. You can carry on exactly as before, but in a decade or two, just as there are fewer gay bars in Amsterdam and no more Jewish shops on the Chaussée de Gand, there will be less music in the air in western cities. Even the buskers, like the one in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens today serenading a shattered city with “All You Need Is Love”, will have moved on, having learned that it’s a bit more complicated than that.

I am currently reading Douglas Murray’s fine book, The Strange Death of Europe, which lays out, unsparingly, the central illusion of the last half-century – that you could demographically transform the composition of hitherto more or less homogeneous nation states on a scale no stable society has ever attempted, and that there would be no consequences except a more vibrant range of local restaurants. Mrs May declared this morning on the steps of Downing Street that she had held a top-level security meeting, or what they call in Britain a “COBRA”, which sounds like something scary enough to do battle with SPECTRE; in that sense, it’s a very butch acronym for a bit of bureaucratic furniture labeling (Cabinet Office Briefing Room A). But I’ll bet the mood around the table was one of fatalism and resignation, outside a few micro-adjustments to the budget of counter-terrorism agencies and the number of CCTV cameras and the amount of security checks at “sensitive” “high-value” targets like department stores, and theatres, and restaurants and football grounds and pubs and chip shops and…

But the arithmetic is not difficult: Poland and Hungary and Slovakia do not have Islamic terrorism because they have very little Islam. France and Germany and Belgium admit more and more Islam, and thus more and more terrorism. Yet the subject of immigration has been all but entirely absent from the current UK election campaign. Thirty years ago, in the interests of stopping IRA terrorism, the British state was not above preventing the internal movement within its borders of unconvicted, uncharged, unarrested Republican sympathizers seeking to take a ferry from Belfast to Liverpool. Today it declares it can do nothing to prevent the movement of large numbers of the Muslim world from thousands of miles away to the heart of the United Kingdom. It’s just a fact of life – like being blown up when you go to a pop concert.

All of us have gotten things wrong since 9/11. But few of us have gotten things as disastrously wrong as May and Merkel and Hollande and an entire generation of European political leaders who insist that remorseless incremental Islamization is both unstoppable and manageable. It is neither – and, for the sake of the dead of last night’s carnage and for those of the next one, it is necessary to face that honestly. Theresa May’s statement in Downing Street is said by my old friends at The Spectator to be “defiant”, but what she is defying is not terrorism but reality. So too for all the exhausted accessories of defiance chic: candles, teddy bears, hashtags, the pitiful passive rote gestures that acknowledge atrocity without addressing it – like the Eloi in H G Wells’ Time Machine, too evolved to resist the Morlocks.

WE have an utterly pathetic Political Class that has put itself above those they govern.  Naw, that’s wrong – they’ve proven that they have more in common with each other, even transnationally, than their own countrymen that aren’t part of the clique.  Oh sure, they could stop this nonsense in a flash – but they don’t want to.  After all, they are secure in their lofty positions but we, in positions “below” them are not.  They create the policies – and as the little girls in that stadium found out, the people in San Bernadino, at Fort Hood, at Charlie Hebdo, the Coptic Christians in the bus this week, and others, WE are the ones that suffer the negative results of those policies.

Their tears, for the most part, are crocidilian in nature and for TV presentation.  I say this with great certainty – for if they really mean it, the policies would change.  But they don’t.

Instead, we are the ones accused of being bigots, of being xenophobic, of being Islamophobic, and (irony of ironies) called out for not being charitable according to Christian values by those that believe such belong to a long gone past.

The upside is that they still don’t understand “Trump is President??” nor Brexit.  They think they “got it”.  Maybe, maybe not. But at some point the bear is going to outrun them and sit down to a long painful repast – with them on the menu.

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