Mark Steyn: The Free World Fatwas Itself [modified]

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Mark Steyn: The Free World Fatwas Itself[^]

... Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the Ayatollah's fatwa against Salman Rushdie over The Satanic Verses. Two decades on, who needs the mullahs? These days western nations are happy to fatwa their own. It's now a familiar pattern. If you threaten violence, the authorities cave in, and do the mob's bidding in the interests of "public order" — as they did in Toronto on Wednesday, when thugs attacked[^] a Jewish center:

The police demanded that the center itself close down — punishing the innocent and achieving the goal of the mob.

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edit: Oh? Do some persons recognize themselves?

modified on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:29 PM