Mark Steyn on Charlie Hebdo

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If you don't have a viable solution, shut up and let the adults carry the conversation. The point you don't get is that our policies should be aimed at prying away the moderate support from the fanatical minority, and then jailing the fanatics as we catch them.

Get on a plane and fly to Pakistan, you'll feel right at home there, always seeking that mythical moderate Muslim to finally stand up to the fundamentalists. Fatalistic ambulance chasing, that's all that ever is. Bomb scene after bloody bomb scene, followed by moronic appeals to moderate Muslims that never amount to shit. Book your ticket now. Go!

Unlike you, I've actually lived in Muslim countries, for five years, and know a little about this topic ... from first-hand experience, as well, as opposed to being spoonfed horseshit as is obviously the case with you. Given that, I shall repeat what I said earlier: your prescription would be decisively counterproductive, and is the result of a febrile imagination. Or, as I wrote in a song a few years back, "Simple minds fabricate complex solutions". Just because the idea is emotionally appealing to you and your ilk, it doesn't follow that it is practical, or will work as advertised. You, with your cartoonish knowledge of Muslim culture, would clearly court decisive defeat at the hands of the Law of Unintended Consequences.