Sunday, February 04, 2007

Articles and Bricks

Today we have word of growing threats of a wave of beheadings across Britain, or even a Belsan-style seige. Some Brits may be taking comfort from this piece in the Times (UK), We're Far Too Nice to Muslim Extremists. That's all well and good but I think perhaps the time for tough articles may be coming to an end. What should a society do when threatened by violent extremists? Here are some insightful words from, of all people, Woody Allen. From Manhattan:

IKE (Allen): Has anybody read that the Nazis are gonna march in New Jersey, you know? I read this in the newspaper. (Waving his fist) We should go down there, get some guys together, you know, get some bricks and baseball bats and really explain things to 'em.

JERRY: There was this devastating satirical piece on that on the Op-Ed page of the Times. It was devastating.

IKE: W-e-e-ell, a satirical piece in the Times is one thing, but bricks and baseball bats really gets right to the point down there.

HELEN: Oh, but really biting satire is always better than physical force.

IKE: But true physical force is always better with Nazis, uh ... because it's hard to satirize a guy with shiny boots on.

Replace 'shiny boots' with some other relevant article of politicized clothing and I can imagine this same conversation occurring all over the UK. I'll leave any interpretations to the readers.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

More antidhimmitude in today's British press...

"How she went from devout believer to fearless opponent, from a loyal clan member to being renounced by her family, from Africa to Europe, and from blind faith to unbending reason is the compelling story she tells in her new autobiography entitled, with characteristic bluntness, Infidel

Strictly speaking Hirsi Ali is not an infidel but an apostate, a designation that in the Koran warrants the punishment of death. The distinction is not without significance. In a poll published last week, one in three British Muslims in the 16-24 age group agreed that 'Muslim conversion is forbidden and punishable by death'.

This figure comes as no surprise to Hirsi Ali. She argues that Europe's determination to maintain cultural difference will lead increasing numbers of alienated Muslims to seek the unambiguity of fundamentalism."

FROM http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2005258,00.html

Anonymous said...

Speaking of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, here are two videos of her recent interview with Voice of America:
http://www.judeoscope.ca/breve.php3?id_breve=3141

Anonymous said...

The Times Online is offline (pun intended). Clicking on the links don't get you to the stories.

Anyway, it seems to me that the there are many furious Brits out there who are ready to explain things the bricks-and-baseball-bats way to the muslim recalcitrants, judging by all the comments on U.K. blogs and news sites. Phew! The rage I sense is positively volcanic. The working and middle classes are joining the far-right, white nationalist British National Party in droves. When civil war in the U.K. begins, what will other Western countries do? (a) Take in the muslim refugees and exacerbate the muslim problem in their own countries or (b) hang them out to dry and risk starting nasty civil wars in their own countries between the naive left-wing do-gooders and muslim fifth columnists on the one hand and the anti-illegal immigration, anti-muslim camp on the other hand?