From a Mark Steyn column in Nat'l Review
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As for the gals, I was startled in successive weeks to hear from both Dutch and English acquaintances that they’ve begun going out “covered.” The Dutch lady lives in a rough part of Amsterdam and says, when you’re on the street in Islamic garb, the Muslim men smile at you respectfully instead of jeering at you as an infidel whore. The English lady lives in a swank part of London but says pretty much the same thing. Both felt there was not just a physical but a psychological security in being dressed Muslim. They’re not “reverts,” but, at least for the purposes of padding the public space, they’re passing for Muslim in public."Europe is discovering it has no defense, should one be needed. Its fate might be up to the attitudes of the newer residents.
Me: Europe is discovering it has no defense, should one be needed. Its fate might be up to the attitudes of the newer residents.
Small point living up to honesty: Just wrote this as a comment over at Althouse, and thought: hey, post it.
Larger point about honesty: Most of the left's disdain for sources like National Review is based on the spin given issues that both sides cover. Needless to say I usually disagree with typical left-side put-downs like “dishonest” or “jingoist” or “hegemonistic” or “Cheney-like” or something. But what also attracts me to the conservative writers is their willingness to talk about a whole range of things the left rarely goes near. Like, you know, the situation in Europe. Which seems sort of important.
As for the gals, I was startled in successive weeks to hear from both Dutch and English acquaintances that they’ve begun going out “covered.” The Dutch lady lives in a rough part of Amsterdam and says, when you’re on the street in Islamic garb, the Muslim men smile at you respectfully instead of jeering at you as an infidel whore. The English lady lives in a swank part of London but says pretty much the same thing. Both felt there was not just a physical but a psychological security in being dressed Muslim. They’re not “reverts,” but, at least for the purposes of padding the public space, they’re passing for Muslim in public."Europe is discovering it has no defense, should one be needed. Its fate might be up to the attitudes of the newer residents.
Me: Europe is discovering it has no defense, should one be needed. Its fate might be up to the attitudes of the newer residents.
Small point living up to honesty: Just wrote this as a comment over at Althouse, and thought: hey, post it.
Larger point about honesty: Most of the left's disdain for sources like National Review is based on the spin given issues that both sides cover. Needless to say I usually disagree with typical left-side put-downs like “dishonest” or “jingoist” or “hegemonistic” or “Cheney-like” or something. But what also attracts me to the conservative writers is their willingness to talk about a whole range of things the left rarely goes near. Like, you know, the situation in Europe. Which seems sort of important.
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