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May 1, 2007

Steyn: Don't Get Even, Get Mad

Orga organized madness is not a pathology to be explained away, but a weapon of war. Mark Steyn explains: Don't Get Even, Get Mad

On the day the Royal Navy's hostages were released, I chanced to be reading a poem from Reflections On Islam, a terrific collection of essays by George Jonas. The verse is by Nizar Qabbani, and it is his ode to the intifada:

O mad people of Gaza,
a thousand greetings to the mad
The age of political reason
has long departed
so teach us madness

Or as the larky motto you used to find on the wall of the typing pool put it: You don't have to be crazy to work here but it helps. For the madness of the intifada and the jihad and Islamist imperialism is calculated, and highly effective. There is, as Jonas sees it, method in their madness.

Do you remember that little difficulty a few months back over the Pope's indelicate quotation of Manuel II? Many Muslims were very upset about his speech (or his speech as reported on the BBC et al), so they protested outside Westminster Cathedral in London demanding "capital punishment" for the Pope, and they issued a fatwa in Pakistan calling on Muslims to kill His Holiness, and they firebombed a Greek Orthodox Church and an Anglican Church in Nablus, and they murdered a nun in Somalia and a couple of Christians in Iraq. As Tasnim Aslam of the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad helpfully clarified, "Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence." So don't say we’re violent or we'll kill you. As I wrote in National Review at the time, quod erat demonstrandum.

But that's a debating society line. Islam isn't interested in winning the debate, it's interested in winning the real fight -- the clash of civilizations, the war, society, culture, the whole magilla.[...]

Posted by Ruy Diaz at May 1, 2007 1:26 PM

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