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From: LindyBill4/11/2008 12:18:04 AM
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Mark Steyn Lunch [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Some highlights (with thanks to fast-typing reader Peter):


When my children are my age, I want Western Civilization still to be in business and this is now looking increasingly unlikely.

My favorite Islamic supremacists are the Islamic Supreme Council of........Ireland. It makes you wonder why the Protestants and Catholics bothered fighting each other all those years.

Is there an argument for controlling so-called hate speech? Would constraints on free speech in Germany have stopped the rise of Hitler? Well, the Weimar Republic actually had such laws and aggressively prosecuted them. And a fat lot of good it did them.


Re: society's concern with various 'phobias' (Islamophobia and homophobia) and its unequal energy in opposing them:


If it's a choice between 'Heather Has Two Mommies' and 'Heather Has Two Imams', bet on the Imams every time.

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