Thinking About Dhimmitude

Mark Steyn in the Chicago Sun-Times (Toon-deaf Europe is taking the wrong stand) writes:

From Europe's biggest-selling newspaper, the Sun: ''Furious Muslims have blasted adult shop [i.e., sex shop] Ann Summers for selling a blowup male doll called Mustafa Shag."

Not literally "blasted" in the Danish Embassy sense, or at least not yet. Quite how Britain's Muslim Association found out about Mustafa Shag in order to be offended by him is not clear.

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If I were a Muslim, I'd be "hurt" and "humiliated" that the revered prophet's name is given not to latex blowup males but to so many real blowup males: The leader of the 9/11 plotters? Mohammed Atta. The British Muslim who self-detonated in a Tel Aviv bar? Asif Mohammed Hanif.

Steyn names quite a few more exploding Mohammeds and then goes on to bemoan the fact, quite rightly, that we in the West are rolling over all too easily each and every time some Muslim expresses their “outrage” at this, that, or the other. The Brits seem to be leading the retreat; witness the Burger King flap, the Piglet flap, and the ridiculous Piggy Banks affair. Want more? Bookmark, and read, Dhimmi Watch.

We in the US don’t seem to be over-reacting (read that: capitulating) to radical Islamic demands to abandon freedom of speech and “respect” Islam. However, if protesters like these ever show up on our shores…

…we need to act forcefully and quickly. What you see here isn’t protest, it’s incitement, if not open insurrection. What would I do? I’d give ‘em a little time to think about it, like a mandatory 90-day prison sentence for the first offense. If that didn’t work, then I’d deport the SOBs to the Islamic paradise of their choosing and confiscate everything they owned. That wasn’t my immediate reaction; I thought about it a bit. Shooting them on the spot just doesn’t seem right. Gratifying, to be sure, but not right.