{"id":5665,"date":"2017-03-23T05:13:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T05:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/23\/keep-calm-and-ostrichize-on\/"},"modified":"2017-03-23T05:13:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T05:13:58","slug":"keep-calm-and-ostrichize-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/23\/keep-calm-and-ostrichize-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Calm and Ostrichize On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">George Neumayr&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/keep-calm-and-propagandize-on\/\">piece<\/a>&#0160;begins:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">In 2006, Melanie Phillips wrote a book called <em>Londonistan: How Britain Is Creating a Terror State Within<\/em>. She argued that Britain was a sitting duck for Islamic terrorists, owing to its idiotic embrace of political correctness, multiculturalism, and religious relativism.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">And ends:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Keep calm and propagandize on \u2014 that\u2019s the attitude in Sadiq Khan\u2019s London, where terrorism, as he put it last year, some months after his election as mayor, is \u201cpart and parcel of living in a big city.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Khan&#39;s attitude is defeatist. Was terrorism &quot;part and parcel of living in a big city&quot; twenty years ago? There are plenty of stateside defeatists too, and some call themselves &#39;conservative.&#39; But we got lucky last November &#0160;and the deplorable Hillary went down in defeat, and with her the then-regnant mentality of Barack Hussein Obama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">It may be too late for the UK and Europe. 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She argued that Britain was a sitting duck for Islamic terrorists, owing to its idiotic embrace of political correctness, multiculturalism, and religious relativism. 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