SENSITIVITY, STUPIDITY OR SERVILITY?
Catholic Sensitivity
In California, Muslim community leaders have applauded the decision of the Catholic high school in San Juan Capistrano to change the name of its football team from the Crusaders to the less culturally insensitive Lions.
Meanwhile, 20 miles up the road in Irvine, the Muslim Football League's New Year tournament will bring together some of the most exciting Muslim football teams in Orange County: the Intifada, the Mujahideen, the Saracens and the Sword of Allah.
That's the spirit.
I can't wait for the California sporting calendar circa 2010: the San Diego Jihadi vs the Oakland Sensitives, the Malibu Hezbollah vs the Santa Monica Inoffensives, the Pasadena Sword of the Infidel Slayer vs the Bakersfield Self-Deprecators.
... I'm amazed that we can still win anything, given the palpable urge of the Western world's elites to abase themselves in the name of multiculturalism.
-Mark Steyn, The Spectator, 13/20 December 2003.
Religious Sensitivity
In the wake of 9/11, the government created a new offence of `religiously aggravated threatening behaviour', which can be used against anyone who challenges the anti-Western outbursts of Muslims. Indeed, an Exeter man, Alistair Scott, was sentenced to 200 hours community service in October 2002 on just such a charge, after he had a row with a Muslim neighbour who called bin Laden a great man, 9/11 a `glorious day' and Mr. Scott a `Zionist pig'. Inevitably the Muslim, Mohammed Hudaib, was not prosecuted. -Leo McKinstry, The Spectator, 1 November 2003.
Police Sensitivity
[In Sydney] In many of the key areas that were experiencing rapid rises in Middle Eastern crime, these new [police] leaders became more concerned with relations between the police and ethnic minorities than with emerging violent crime ...To senior police in the area, it was more important to give the impression that local ethnic relations were never better.
-Tim Priest, Quadrant, January-February, 2004
Judicial Sensitivity
On 21 January, the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reported that the court of appeals in Eidsivating had acquitted a Middle Eastern immigrant of raping a retarded woman on the grounds that he had only lived 12 years in Norway and so could not be expected to understand her condition. The man was 22 years old.
-The Spectator, 22 February 2003
U.N. Sensitivity.
In air-conditioned offices, guarded behind rolls of razor wire, (UN) officials wrote memos on gender balance in local councils and held seminars on human rights. Beyond the perimeter fence, the Somalis established sharia courts and were always happy to saw off malefactors' limbs in front of journalists.
-Matthew Leeming, reviewing The Zanzibar Chest by Aidan Hartley (The Spectator, 19 July 03)
TALKIN' TURKEY
· "Thanks to your democratic laws, we will invade you. Thanks to our religious laws, we will dominate you." - Muslim leader to Turkey's Catholic Archbishop Giuseppe Bernardini. (The American Conservative, December 15, 2003)
· “Mosques are our barracks, the minarets our bayonets, the domes our helmets and the believers our soldiers” - Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkish Prime Minister (in 1998 when mayor)