... and other rainbow colored worlds:
"It would be nice if "Amina Arraf" existed. As niche constituencies go, we could use more hijab-wearing Muslim lesbian militants and fewer fortysomething male Western deadbeat college students. But the latter is a real and pathetically numerous demographic, and the former is a fiction – a fantasy for Western liberals, who think that in the multicultural society the nice gay couple at 27 Rainbow Avenue can live next door to the big bearded imam with four child brides at No. 29 and gambol and frolic in admiration of each other's diversity. They will proffer cheery greetings over the picket fence, the one admiring the other's attractive buttock-hugging leather shorts for that day's Gay Pride parade as he prepares to take his daughter to the clitoridectomy clinic."
Hahahahaha!!! You seriously can't make that kind of stuff up! OH WAIT!
"You can learn a lot from the deceptions a society chooses to swallow. "Amina Arraf" was a fiction who fit the liberal worldview. That's because the liberal worldview is a fiction."
You CAN learn a lot,and it's damned depressing.
Another excellent article by Mark Steyn. Someone should recommend him for the Order of Canada, just for the irony.
I didn't know whether to stop laughing, crying, or guffawing while reading Steyn's column. Talk about BIZARRE!!!
What a hilarious and also somewhat scary situation. I say scary in a "wag the dog" sort of way.
See Mark write. He's the EinSteyn of irony!
Boy, am I glad I agree with him because I wouldn't like to end up on the sharp end of his pen.
Thanks for the link. "Florence of Arabia"! It's going to take me a month to get my coffee off the screen.
It`s true that you can`t make up that kind of stuff - about the liberal worldview. But Mr. Steyn can sure put an ironic shine on it!
All of the above, exactly.
I sure would like to see Mark Steyn have a time slot on Sun Mews TV.
"They will proffer cheery greetings over the picket fence, the one admiring the other's attractive buttock-hugging leather shorts for that day's Gay Pride parade as he prepares to take his daughter to the clitoridectomy clinic."
Is that going to be an episode of "Little Mosque on the prairie" in the near future?
Ugh!
There was some sketch on "Blackadder" about male writers pretending to be female writers in order to get their works sold.
When "Blackadder" did it, it was meant to be funny. These charades are funny but in an unintentional way.
Anyone read the blog? Take a look, if it's still up that is. It's an absolutely ludicrous take on Third World Muslim life that only a liberal could write -- or believe.
I mean, seriously: "Amina" supposedly comes out to her Muslim parents -- and they're not only instantly accepting, but actually delighted! Not only that, but other Muslims give her no trouble either! It seems like everybody in Syria (except the evil gov't regime) is totally cool with lesbianism! "She" also writes reams of bad poetry containing paeans to Islam, rejoices in wearing a hijab, and rejects cultural condescension from white First Worlders 'cause Muslims are totally gonna solve their own problems.
Oh, and "she" passionately hates Israel. That at least would be believable in a bona fide Muslim. But "she" also hates -- Glenn Beck! Hello? This supposed Third World activist is fighting in a revolution to free her country from tyranny, and she's somehow got the time and energy to hate on GLENN BECK?? That alone should've tipped someone off.
Private,
The 'Florence of Arabia' line made me cough up my beverage (a cheeky cabernet) too. We are lucky to have Steyn. Laughter is the best medicine and besides, it really pisses them off.
Steyn at his brilliant best!
Steyn in all his brilliance can't top the the trueisms, a 40 year old college student, now that is funny and sad at the same time. By 40 I had my first house paid for, owned 2 rentals, cottage paid for, 5 kids and all paid for, and owned part of the company I ran. Find this 40 yr old college student a job, puleeze:-))))
Oops. Laughing too hard. That would be Sun News TV @ 1:06.
Oops, that would be Sun News @ 1:06. Laughing too hard to type properly.
Time to go to sleep?
From the article:
"After centuries of disdain for the preferred beverage of imperialists, American officers in the Hindu Kush now drink more tea than the Brits, and they don't even like it. But a charlatan told them to do it, so the tea allowance now consumes 23 percent of the Pentagon budget."
So 23% of the Pentagon budget goes to buy tea? Right. Either Mark Steyn is retarded, or he thinks his readers are.
That's right Alex,tea can be very expensive.
If you go to school or work tomorrow,be sure to let everyone know abour what this Steyn character and the ultra-right wingers believe.
Thanks, but I think I'll share it with my military intelligence buddies when we meet for our morning coffee/smoke. They should get a kick out of it!
I'm sure they will. Let us know their reaction,please.