The silence continues, part 31
[Normal posting has resumed below under Babylon in Berlin]
As I posted in these blog entries, I found it puzzling and disconcerting that none of the top Canadian conservative bloggers (did I promote these seven, [1, 2 -, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], unduly?) have once mentioned Vince Li's escapade in the Greyhound bus in any coherent way and correlated it with some of the top national concerns: immigration, Islam, gun laws, death penalty, insanity as plea for reducing punishment. Enough evidence suggests that at least two - immigration and Islam - can be important players.
Yet another story ties up this incident neatly.
A Chinese welding a knife in the Olympic city of Beijing managed to kill one American and wound another during what the Chinese are calling a "random attack." Yes, waiting around a tourist area with a knife, where Americans are 100% likely to roam around, and then attacking not fellow Chinese but Americans (I think it is significant that he attacked Americans and not other white Europeans) is "random."
Just like the Li incident here in Canada, this was sugar-coated as a chance occurrence, the doings of an insane person, a one-off, etc... Everyone is determined to not let it mar the Olympics. But, like Li's murder, this event is a small, powerful and symbolic indication of what looms underneath this iceberg. Chinese-American relations, the pride of ordinary Chinese inflated by world events - Olympics, world trade, etc., West vs. East, I think they're all in there.
I was going to leave this story alone, realizing the real ineptitude of our bloggers who prefer to continue with their slightly incomprehensible post headings and tired stories rather than pick up on this Story of the Summer, when I realized this morning that Kathy Shaidle is getting quite a lucrative career at Frontpagemag.com, talking about...Jihad in China! With a wonderful image posted at her website with Chinese Jihad supporters in...England! And of course the tired, repetitive news of the "Beijing: Berlin or Munich" sort. Just a small story on Chinese knife-wielding killers murdering white people (certainly not their own Chinese) would have made for a timely and important headline. It is almost as if these bloggers have a knee-jerk reaction not to report on this Canadian news!
I realized a long time ago that there was a lack of discernment within Canadian writers, the only alert one being The Ambler ( who appears to have packed it in.) Still if they don't get it now, no-one will hold it against them. These things are subtle and complicated. At least the most they can do is humbly recognize that they missed it, and lament this time on their own insufficiencies.
But wait for their shock and awe at a future "Muslims taking them out to the Human Rights Commissions" type story. If they had been prepared, over the many years, the Human Rights Commission event would have been a non-story. It's too late to react once the knife has been inserted.
Update:
Damian J. Penny does talk about Tim McLean's funeral, where a group from the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church was threatening to rally in front of the Winnipeg church. Their reason being that Tim McLean's gruesome death was a punishment from God for Canada's lax liberal laws and policies.
Yes, this group may be wacky, but surely one can discuss their concerns without throwing the baby out as well? How did Li get in Canada in the first place, and reach so far in his mental deterioration that he had to kill a young, innocent man?
It is interesting to read that Damian will only write about the wacky Christians of this story, but ignore the wacky Muslim angle.