[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: retrograde evolution

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
retrograde evolution
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1150144115.shtml


   [1]devolution 

   Can evolution reverse itself? According to Mark Steyn, if [2]our
   friends in Saudi Arabia continue their efforts to make man in their
   image, it will

     Writing about the collapse of nations such as Somalia, the Atlantic
     Monthly's Robert D. Kaplan referred to the "citizens" of such
     "states" as "re-primitivized man." When lifelong Torontonians are
     hot for decapitation, when Yorkshiremen born and bred and into fish
     'n' chips and cricket and lousy English pop music self-detonate on
     the London Tube, it would seem that the phenomenon of
     "re-primitivized man" has been successfully exported around the
     planet. It's reverse globalization: The pathologies of the remotest
     backwaters now have franchise outlets in every Western city. You
     don't have to be a loser Ontario welfare recipient like Steven
     Chand, the 25-year-old Muslim convert named in the thwarted prime
     ministerial beheading. Omar Sheikh, the man behind the beheading of
     the Wall Street Journal's Daniel Pearl, was an English "public"
     (i.e., private) schoolboy and graduate of the London School of
     Economics.

     Five years after 9/11, some strategists say we can't win this thing
     "militarily," which is true in the sense that you can't send the
     Third Infantry Division to Brampton, Ontario. But nor is it
     something we can win through "law enforcement" -- by letting the
     Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the FBI and MI5 and every
     gendarmerie on the planet deal with every little plot on the map as
     a self-contained criminal investigation. We need to throttle the
     ideology and roll up the networks.

   Since our govenment considers these backwater troglodytes to be our
   friends and allies, that's not likely to happen. The fact that we call
   the Wahhabis allies and friends is proof that devolution is already
   here.

References

   1. file://localhost/files/whataretheysaying-devolutionofman.jpg
   2. http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn11.html