{"id":130410,"date":"2016-02-04T05:36:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T11:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=130410"},"modified":"2016-02-04T05:38:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T11:38:23","slug":"the-peace-of-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=130410","title":{"rendered":"The Peace of Submission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Steyn<\/a> is brutally blunt.<\/p>\n

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union funded “peace movements” throughout the west – because for the Soviets “peace” meant “the absence of opposition”.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Concise and to the point.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130413,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130410\/revisions\/130413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}