Mark Steyn: The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates

As I write, Paris is under curfew for the first time since the German occupation, and the death toll from the multiple attacks stands at 158, the vast majority of them slaughtered during a concert at the Bataclan theatre, a delightful bit of 19th century Chinoiserie on the boulevard Voltaire. The last time I was there, if memory serves, was to see Julie Pietri. I’m so bloody sick of these savages shooting and bombing and killing and blowing up everything I like – whether it’s the town where my little girl’s favorite fondue restaurant is or my favorite hotel in Amman or the brave freespeecher who hosted me in Copenhagen …or a music hall where I liked to go to hear a little jazz and pop and get away from the cares of the world for a couple of hours. But look at the photographs from Paris: there’s nowhere to get away from it; the barbarians who yell “Allahu Akbar!” are there waiting for you …when you go to a soccer match, you go to a concert, you go for a drink on a Friday night. They’re there on the train… at the magazine office… in the Kosher supermarket… at the museum in Brussels… outside the barracks in Woolwich…

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57 Replies to “Mark Steyn: The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates”

  1. Responsibility For Paris Terror Attacks Remains Unclear- NBC
    “intelligence officials will have to piece together a myriad of clues.”
    Hands over ears, Nah, Nah,Nah,Nah,Nah,.. I can’t hear you!

  2. What’s Canada’s new Prime Minister Care Bear going to do about the Islamic Jihads / barbarians ? increase refugee settlements ? pull out our jets? go to an emergency climate change conference?
    We are doomed!

  3. What’s Canada’s new Prime Minister Care Bear going to do about the Islamic Jihads / barbarians ?
    Well, if he’s anything like his old man he won’t do a damn thing until the muzzie-wugs start targeting the ivory tower set. And even then, I’d bet his first action will be to run over to Mommy’s side of the house for a diaper change.

  4. *
    “steven asks… What’s Canada’s new Prime Minister Care Bear going to do about the Islamic Jihads/ barbarians?”
    well, justy’s actually not that coy about his master plan…
    “Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau isn’t ruling out compensation for Omar Khadr for the time the convicted terrorist served in Guantanamo Bay.”
    “Trudeau said a Liberal government would also repeal the elements of Bill C-24 that give the government the right to strip citizenship from dual nationals convicted of serious crimes such as terrorism.”
    food for thought…
    “Now, if just 1% of Justin’s 25,000 proposed “refugees” are hardcore fundamentalists… he’s parachuting 250 possible terrorists into Canadian cities AND FUNDING THEIR EVERY MOVE.”
    *

  5. show me a Canadian who is prepared to fight back in advance of jihad. reacting to it is not adequate. all of islam should be put on notice that mecca and medina will cease to exist after the very next attack. of course cowards will never take a pro active action.

  6. just think Canada’s boy prince plans on bringing in 25,000 by christmas. Terror coming to a Canadian city near you.

  7. France is “the” shining example of classic Liberal yellowness: the cowardice to admit; the cowardice to discuss, and certainly the cowardice to act. And if anybody thinks for a minute that this is not the case in Canada, here is what our newly elected PM had to say:
    “”It is still very early moments in figuring out what is indeed happening as we speak right now on the ground in France,” Trudeau said. “It’s too soon to jump to any conclusions.”
    Yes indeed, despite ISIS, Cpl Cirillo, the Toronto 18IS, the Kingston Via bombers, Rotherham and Malmo rapists, Charlie Hedbo, and hundreds of other incidents that scream “we are being attacked”, it is apparently too soon to jump to conclusions.

  8. just think Canada’s boy prince plans on bringing in 25,000 by christmas. Terror coming to a Canadian city near you.

  9. No doubt the Paris attacks will embolden our betters to take more of our rights and freedoms away. How has taking away our tweezers in airport lineups worked so far? Time to think the unthinkable – take away the sea that terrorists swim in and allow good citizens to arm themselves.

  10. You have it right in spades.
    Another classic commentary by Mark Steyn.
    The west is going down to defeat with barely a whimper. It is time for the European people to take back their countries from the milksops.
    What a time for Canadians to elect and effete milksop as prime minister.

  11. Last night I listened to sound bites from the Spawn shedding crocodile tears over this atrocity. I have no confidence in this hollow child to cope with the madness of Islamist terror.
    We are on line for an ISIS diaspora in Canada through Spawn’s unvetted migrant flood. There is only one way to point the finger when Canadians start dying in the manner these French citizens are -or when we live under pseudo martial law imposed put a damper on the more murderous reflexes of the Liberals new voting block.

  12. They probably won’t miss M&M after they acquire their new capitol – Jerusalem! They have already made their claim, with the tacit support of the islam-dominated UN.
    But, you say, what about the Jews and Christians? Well, Christians are busy self-destructing in capitulating to every politically correct or progressive perversion, and the only world leader with enough b@lls to stand with Israel is Stephen Harper. Oh, wait…

  13. “Now, if just 1% of Justin’s 25,000 proposed “refugees” are hardcore fundamentalists… he’s parachuting 250 possible terrorists into Canadian cities AND FUNDING THEIR EVERY MOVE.”
    There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. I have no doubt that 99.9 percent of them represent no threat at all.
    But therein lies the rub: even a mere .1 percent of 1.6 billion still gives you 1.6 million jihadists.

  14. “What a time for Canadians to elect and effete milksop as prime minister.”
    I think it’s worse than that, Ken.
    I’m afraid that turdo la doo “is” modern Canada: shallow, stupid, self-obsessed, and cowardly.

  15. In light of these events, if our juvenile Prime Minister rushes in 25,000 Syrians, and some of them commit a terrorist act against Canada, can pretty boy and the government be sued by the victims?

  16. “Liberals” around the western world now need to be rounded up, tried for treason, and hung by the neck in public spaces.
    Instead I guess we’ll be forced to wait for the obligatory civil wars and collect what’s left of them afterwards to stand trial like Nuremburg.
    It’s too bad we couldn’t simply cut to the chase and save more conservative western lives in coming decades.

  17. I was talking about Islamist terrorists – the actual perpetrators of the deeds – not their sympathizers.

  18. Note from PM turdo la doo to Immigration Minister:
    Dear Johhnykins,
    In light of the recent unfortunate incident in Paris, would you please ask your boys and girls to spend 6 minutes instead of 4 checking out our newcomers from Syria. After all, we want to be able to say we took extra precautions.
    Lovingly yours,
    Justin

  19. Not to worry folks. I have heard the our wonderful PM Justine has ordered our winter coat industry to increase production to “full appeasement”
    We’re covered. All bask in his wonderfulness.

  20. So much for another liberal “No Gun Zone”, at least the police showed up eventually to clean up the mess.
    Questions:
    – So why did the Liberal Progressives disarm the public and create the conditions for this slaughter?
    – Why did the Liberal Progressives Open the Borders to massive Third World Islamic Immigration, knowing full well their hatred of the West, again creating the conditions?
    – Why have the Liberal Progressives made it illegal for citizens to defend themselves against the violence forced on them?
    – Why have the Liberal Progressives given the actual perpetrators of the murders more rights and entitlements than their own citizens?

  21. Liberalism killed those people, as sure as any parks gatekeeper opening the cage of a vicious gorilla at a children’s petting zoo!
    Police on scene would first put down the Gorilla THEN they would investigate and arrest the gatekeeper, yes?

  22. This will give the Liberals the excuse to not meet the Christmas deadline for the refugees which was never going to succeed. We’ll still get them, though. Might also continue the bombing of Isis a bit longer too which on the surface would please Obama. Praying Justin doesn’t invite the climate hoax conference to relocate here.

  23. Hollande: “We are going to wage a war that will be pitiless.”
    Finally? Islam has been waging war against the West for … three decades, or for forever.
    Can we hold him to it?
    Chances are he does not mean it. For a pitiless war that would succeed against the islamists would include, not only shock and awe over Syria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, but pitiless mass deportation from the banlieue of France. It would require that France employ the presumption that any muslim in France bears the burden of showing to France’s satisfaction that they are neither a jihadist, nor a jihad supporter or sympathizer—that’s about 30% of them, if their surveys are right—, that they do not intend to impose Sharia law—that’s another … 30%?—, and that they are determined to extirpate those who are from their communities, and to join the project of western civilization. It would require that muslims in France be forever on probation: that’s reasonable given what they have shown us about themselves over the last centuries. It will require, therefore, the pitiless breaking up of families. (We’ve seen the infantile response to that proposition in the Republican party last week over US enforcing its own immigration laws. As if it’s entirely foreign to our culture to jail people, and to thereby break up families, for committing crimes.) It will require that mosques and madrases be shut down on the same presumption, and that their imams are either shot or deported.
    Do you think for a second Hollande has the stomach for that? Merkel? Cameron? Boy Trudeau? (We know Obama has the stomach, but he’s on the other side.) Because it would not be enough that France alone take up these measures. If we want to stop the carnage, these are measure the West must take. If we don’t, we are conceding that the coming bloodbath is an acceptable level of violence in a free and open society. That is, violence waged upon you, and acceptable to your betters.
    There is no living with these people. If not, then it is foolish to try. And worse than foolish, it is murderous of our betters to have imposed multiculturalism upon us, for our own good, doncha know. (Remind them of this. Ask them what good has come to France from the latest carnage.) For some people, living apart—far apart—is the best way to live together.

  24. nick >
    Hollande: “We are going to wage a war that will be pitiless…….Chances are he does not mean it”
    Just weasel words – Radical left Socialists ARE pitiless, and he has been waging war on the French since his election.
    This is about saving his own neck and preventing a social uprising that he can’t contain nor profit from. This blood is on his hands along with countless others in the west.

  25. Even Jr spoke last night on CBC, the ribbon beneath stated he had given “marching orders” to the defense minister to desist with air raids against ISIS. The story still up contains this gem from Jr on UN peace keeping Canada’s new priority.
    “The fact Canada has nothing to contribute to that conversation today is disappointing because this is something a Canadian started,”
    Interesting to ponder how our allies in the G20 meeting will react to his ideas tomorrow.Canada I fear, has truly elected an useful idiot as leader.

  26. Terrorists, terrorists, lay down your arms! Violence is not necessary. Just give the Climate Change conference a chance to negotiate the West into poverty and ignorance, just like you. Then we can all be equal.

  27. *
    “marc says… 1%? I think it’s a bit more than that”
    marc… of course it is. i just picked 1% because it was the lowest possible denominator.
    in actual fact, 250 jihadis is the least possible harmful outcome… the actual number will be horrifically higher.
    *

  28. Knight;
    Threat of a ‘merciless war’ is simply a defection for having to accept any responsibility for the current situation in France. This is what progressives are so good at. When the bulls eye starts to train on their actions they change the dialogue,
    with the aid of the MSM. Accountability has not existed for decades.

  29. I say again that it is time to arm about, oh, 36% of the population of Canada. That, of course would be the conservative voting portion of Canada! Few will know for sure who is carrying but there should be enough of us to deter most of the stupidity, and minimize the damage during the most serious incidents. At least until the cops arrive.
    The conservatives have been looking after these liberal and ndp idiots for decades now and we may as well take on this task as well.
    Damn right I’m serious!

  30. Well, if Hollande says he is going to wage war that will be pitiless will Justin and his Cabal still be supportive as he promised? Justin and company will have to change their whole peacekeeping ideology, grow some gonads and fight for Queen and country as our ancestors did, allowing us to live in freedom and safety.
    Trudeau says his cabinet looks like Canada…..have to ask what does Canada look like? Is this a slur on all those who have served in government previous to his ascension?

  31. neo, If Robert doesn’t mind,
    I will show these numbers again:

    Lets do the math. http://muslimpopulation.com/World/
    2.08 billion Muslims, Most of them reading the Koran,
    and lets say only 1 percent become suicide bombers, airplane hijackers/bombers, murderers.
    That is almost 300,000 suicide bombers, murders,
    not including their millions of ‘religion of peace’ mosque supporters that are listening to their mosque leaders preach,
    ‘Death to the Infidels.’
    If we don’t stop it now, we Will be in a world of shit..

    Former Pres. Bush-
    “In order to be an effective president … when you say something you have to mean it,”
    he said.
    “You gotta kill em.”

  32. Well said Nick, a number of us here have been saying the same thing for the past few years, maybe the message is starting to get out, but I fear it is too late. The liberal progressives would never stoop so low as to protect Canadians they are too busy with their submission to minorities, buying votes. It worked for Pappa Trudeau and the Boy King isn’t about to do SFA to change that, that is how he got elected, pandering to minorities that don’t hold Canadian values. And he’ll prey on other Canadians by appealing to their sense of fair play by intimidating them. The Liberals destroyed one of our famous battalions and the NDP tried to insinuate that our troops had committed war crimes of late. That is how they operate, appease the minorities and castigate Canadians that disagree with them. A wholescale deportation would have taken place in another time, now we’ll all be subjected to more subjugating laws, more gun control, more ID checks, the list is endless.

  33. The left will never admit the truth, that the only way to save western civilization and all the rights and values they so love is to be as pitiless and brutal to muslims as their ancestors were in centuries past. That means no distinctions between jihadist and “moderate”, no special consideration for those muslims who fled to the west and only want peace, because the nature of that religion is such that it will always spawn jihadists, even from among the most peaceful of its adherents.
    Hollande mount a pitiless counter attack? The islamists are laughing, they know better.

  34. For Canada’s Justin Trudeau,
    former camp counselor.

    REPORT: PARIS ATTACKER WAS SYRIAN “REFUGEE” WHO ARRIVED IN GREECE LAST MONTH
    Stade de France suicide bomber identified as would-be asylum seeker by Greek government.
    And Justin shall see 25,000 before Christmas,
    that is gonna make a real bang up New Years holiday.

  35. Trudeau, who is in Turkey to brag about the many Syrian refugees that we will accept here, is strangely silent about the massacres in Paris. The wittiest PM is suddenly speechless.

  36. When Trudeau pulled Canada out of the coalition against ISIS, he as much as caused this attack. In withdrawing Canada’s meager contribution he showed ISIS that there were cracks in the coalition and thus emboldened them. When your opponent show weakness you press the attack. We’re boosting for a whole lot of hurt over the next few years, because Harper was removed from office by a majority of voters who truly believe that we can solve all of the world’s problems by singing kumbaya and sitting around a campfire fueled by pixie dust and unicorn pharts. Reality has a whole lot of learning in store for the majority of Canadians.

  37. “The future of France … is Bosnia.”
    That would make a great T-shirt!
    You could franchise right away and list every other European country from there.

  38. What are our obligations under NATO?
    Seriously, France has been attacked by ISIS. Are we obligated to go to war to help defend them?

  39. Winter coats for sure, imagine the amount of suicide bomb material you can hide under a snow-goose winter parka.

  40. Did anyone else notice how unnaturally calm Trudeau was at last night’s presser? His eyes looked,as the old Pririe saying goes,”like two pi**holes in the snow”.
    I think the guy was in shock and his handlers gave him some Valium to calm his nerves.It worked,looked like he’d had about a 25mg dose just before the one-question news conference.
    After 9-11,I remember seeing GW Bush on TV and thinking,”I’m glad this guy is in charge”. Last night seeing Trudeau on TV my first thought was,”this guy’s stoned”.
    We cannot look to this actor for true leadership, in a real emergency he’ll fold like a cheap tent.

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