The Peace of Submission
4th February 2016
Mark Steyn is brutally blunt.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union funded “peace movements” throughout the west – because for the Soviets “peace” meant “the absence of opposition”.
In our time the new peace movement is Islam. And so we are told today, from the podium of a mosque with “extremist” “links”, that the very word Islam means “peace”. Actually, it means “submission” – ie, the absence of opposition.
The only difference between then and now is that instead of being chanted by scrofulous hippies protesting outside a Nato air base the old line’s being peddled to us by the President of the United States. Odd.
Concise and to the point.
Just to reiterate a point I’ve made before: Two decades ago I met many refugees from Yugoslavia’s descent into civil war – for example, a family from Mostar in Herzegovina. They’d spent months living in the roofless remains of a bombed house eating rats and whatever else they could find. And it showed. They were youngish people but they war-ravaged: sunked-cheeked, slack-skinned, with rotting teeth and clothes that hung off their emaciated bodies. You didn’t need to be told they were refugees from a civil war: They might as well have had a neon sign on their heads. Oh, and they were Muslim, too.
Oddly enough, their co-religionist “refugees” don’t look like that at all. The ones I saw in Denmark and Sweden were well-fed, well-dressed – and fit and muscular, as German women discovered at New Year.