Conservatives Just Hate Muslims

9:33 am EST March 9th, 2007 | News | 11 Comments

Thats the real takeaway from this review of the factually challenged Mark Steyn’s “America Alone”:

When the figures fail him, Steyn falls back on urban mythology. After the 9/11 massacres, in his Daily Telegraph column he repeated as fact preposterous claims that Muslim children all over New York had warned their favourite teachers not to go to the World Trade Centre that day. Here, he says, “On the night of September 11th Muslim youths in northern England rampaged through the streets cheering Islam’s glorious victory over the Great Satan. They pounded on the hoods of the cars, hammered the doors and demanded the drivers join them in the chants of ‘Osama Bin Laden is a great man.’” There is no record of these events on Lexis-Nexis; Steyn has not replied to a request for the source. He says variously that “the old flag” of St George is now “unflyable” in England, and – with shades of Enoch Powell’s untraceable “grinning picanninies” – claims he knows “an English lady” who wears a headscarf every time she steps outside to stop Muslims harrassing her. As somebody who lives in a Muslim area, everybody I know who lives here finds this preposterous. But this is Steyn’s way with evidence: the extremely atypical is presented as universal, and the urban myth is presented as damning fact.

For too long progressives have engaged cons as if they had something worth debating. They just hate, and we should say it.

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11 Responses to “Conservatives Just Hate Muslims”

  1. SpiderJ says:
    March 9, 2007 at 9:54 am

    Oh my, this must be fun for Steyn. “And…they eat human flesh! The flesh of little children, in fact! And they cast no shadows or reflection, and they can turn into wolves, and, and, and…they so EEEEEEEVIL!!!!”

  2. Repack Rider says:
    March 9, 2007 at 10:36 am

    Goebbels wpould be so proud of Steyn.

  3. Repack Rider says:
    March 9, 2007 at 10:36 am

    “would”

    Preview is your friend.

  4. deus_ex_machina says:
    March 9, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    They just hate, and we should say it.

    That is just the half of it. They are blatant liars as well.

  5. GravyPan says:
    March 9, 2007 at 12:09 pm

    We also eat children, too.

    Haven’t you heard?

  6. Nimrod Gently says:
    March 9, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    It’s a sweeping statement put like that, but current mainstream Conservative thinking (in the USA) is anti-Islamic on general principles. In my experience and that of many other people.

  7. Rheinhard says:
    March 9, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    We also eat children, too.

    Gravy – Considering your statement (and ignoring the redundancy) and looking at the appearance of some conservatives, from Denny “The Fridge” Hastert to Darth Cheney to Dafydd ab Hugh, I would say that it is self-evident.

  8. Duros62 says:
    March 9, 2007 at 2:27 pm

    Watch it, Rheihard, we don’t want another flame war over here like they had at Sadly,No! about fat jokes, do we?

  9. william says:
    March 9, 2007 at 3:52 pm

    That’s right. Nobody cheered when the trade centers went down. Nobody. It never happened and they certainly weren’t muslims.

  10. Duros62 says:
    March 9, 2007 at 3:53 pm

    Well, that seems to be the only thing he was being honest about, William.

  11. drydock says:
    March 10, 2007 at 3:09 am

    Johann Hari reviews Steyn. He’s less than impresssed.

    http://www.johannhari.com/index.php