56 Replies to “They’d Rather Pretend It Isn’t Happening”
The truth is that everyone still feels too safe to speak up in masses and try to stop this nonsense. The countrysides in this country are virtually free of new immigrants and people in the city (since the new immigrants stick to their new monocultural neighbourhoods) aren’t much affected by immigrants either. By the time we figure out that there is a real threat to our way of living, it will be too late. It is always fear of movement and change that brings people to the brink of huge change and huge war.
larben, you never cease to amaze. “Condell’s religious view is not unlike… Oriana Fellacci (sic) in her death throes. They are cowards whose only claim to fame is that they pick on those least likely to fight back.”
Oriana Fallaci was a miracle of courage. She took a bullet in Mexico. She tore off her veil in the presence of the Ayatollah Khomeini in the immediate aftermath of the Iranian revolution. She spent her last years fending off predatory lawsuits for refusing to be silenced. But you hate her because she wasn’t a Catholic.
I don’t think she was a Jewish atheist, you know, so there’s no need to totally freak out.
Perhaps I shouldn’t comment, as I’m not 100% sure. But I think, Black Mamba, that what larben was saying, was that it’s Christopher Hitchens who was attacking Oriana Fellacci and that it’s Hitchens who’s the coward picking on “those least likely to fight back.”
Mea culpa if I’ve misread larben’s intentions, but that’s how I read his comment.
batb – I don’t happen to think either Hitchens or Condell are cowards either, although I can certainly see how Hitch has gone out of his way to offend Catholics. But it seems to me that larben was including Fallaci in his list of cowards, whereas she was, to quote Mark Steyn, “almost insanely brave”.
Did Hitchens insult Fallaci (who as an atheist standing up to the islamization of the West shared a fairly narrow ideological niche with Condell and Hitch) when she was dying? I never heard of it.
I guess we’ll only know what larben’s intentions were if he replies to our queries.
I certainly don’t consider Oriana Fellacci a coward; she was brave and fierce, and I admired her.
The only atheists I have a problem with are those who slag Christianity and people of faith. That I have a problem with and although I greatly admire Hitchens’ smarts and his defense of the War in Iraq, I’m pretty annoyed with him for his out-of-hand dismissal of God and his derogatory comments about religious like Mother Teresa. I’d like to see him spend his life in the teeming, filthy streets of Calcutta with the dispossessed and dying, day in and day out.
I suspect he couldn’t last a few hours without his Scotch and the many opulent comforts his writing career affords him.
Too stupid and complacent? The Western Press?
Nawwww…that’s not it. Try cowardice.
The truth is that everyone still feels too safe to speak up in masses and try to stop this nonsense. The countrysides in this country are virtually free of new immigrants and people in the city (since the new immigrants stick to their new monocultural neighbourhoods) aren’t much affected by immigrants either. By the time we figure out that there is a real threat to our way of living, it will be too late. It is always fear of movement and change that brings people to the brink of huge change and huge war.
larben, you never cease to amaze. “Condell’s religious view is not unlike… Oriana Fellacci (sic) in her death throes. They are cowards whose only claim to fame is that they pick on those least likely to fight back.”
Oriana Fallaci was a miracle of courage. She took a bullet in Mexico. She tore off her veil in the presence of the Ayatollah Khomeini in the immediate aftermath of the Iranian revolution. She spent her last years fending off predatory lawsuits for refusing to be silenced. But you hate her because she wasn’t a Catholic.
I don’t think she was a Jewish atheist, you know, so there’s no need to totally freak out.
Perhaps I shouldn’t comment, as I’m not 100% sure. But I think, Black Mamba, that what larben was saying, was that it’s Christopher Hitchens who was attacking Oriana Fellacci and that it’s Hitchens who’s the coward picking on “those least likely to fight back.”
Mea culpa if I’ve misread larben’s intentions, but that’s how I read his comment.
batb – I don’t happen to think either Hitchens or Condell are cowards either, although I can certainly see how Hitch has gone out of his way to offend Catholics. But it seems to me that larben was including Fallaci in his list of cowards, whereas she was, to quote Mark Steyn, “almost insanely brave”.
Did Hitchens insult Fallaci (who as an atheist standing up to the islamization of the West shared a fairly narrow ideological niche with Condell and Hitch) when she was dying? I never heard of it.
I guess we’ll only know what larben’s intentions were if he replies to our queries.
I certainly don’t consider Oriana Fellacci a coward; she was brave and fierce, and I admired her.
The only atheists I have a problem with are those who slag Christianity and people of faith. That I have a problem with and although I greatly admire Hitchens’ smarts and his defense of the War in Iraq, I’m pretty annoyed with him for his out-of-hand dismissal of God and his derogatory comments about religious like Mother Teresa. I’d like to see him spend his life in the teeming, filthy streets of Calcutta with the dispossessed and dying, day in and day out.
I suspect he couldn’t last a few hours without his Scotch and the many opulent comforts his writing career affords him.
Too stupid and complacent? The Western Press?
Nawwww…that’s not it. Try cowardice.