Weekend Round up

Oriana Fallaci died this past week. Her passing was not unexpected, but still saddening for those of us who love Western culture. She was a fierce and passionate writer and interview and she stepped on a lot of bunions during her career. During the past few years she was the target of thin-skinned Mohammedans who used the Western legal system in Europe to file lawsuits against her for hurting their feelings. She realized the threats to the West by the Islamic Monster.

Here's an article she wrote in July 2005: Oriana Fallaci --"The Enemy We Treat Like A Friend" (London bombings) .

And here's an appreciation by Mark Steyn:Topical Take .

Christopher Hitchens is, drunk, a clearer thinker and writer than the usual ink stained scribe in the employ of newspapers and periodicals. In fact, the man makes one want to include a fifth of Johnny Walker Red and Camel cigarettes in one's daily diet to plumb the depths of one's own thinking. But that would probably be a bad idea for most of us. Hitchens has an interesting take on the fifth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center by the Islamic Monster: OpinionJournal - Featured Article Note that he, in effect, states that it's just damn silly to even consider building a "9/11 Memorial" until the war is won. Our own take is that to concentrate on the memorial at this time is to build a memorial to a state of victimology instead a memorial to what the West stands for and what it can do.

The Pope said something that angered the Muslims. He quoted a 14th Century Byzantine Emperor. Said Emperor stated, in effect, that Islam was cruel and inhuman. The reaction by the Islamic Monster was the bombings of churches in the Middle East, death threats and demonstrations. These people are apparently the most thin skinned people on the planet. Christians and Jews have been daily denigrated by Islamic and secular leaders and the results have been nothing more than the occasional boycott. Could it be that Christians and Jews are more comfortable in their own religions and skins than Muslims?