I’ll start this game…how about “Mohammed” (and its derivatives)? (from America Alone by Mark Steyn):
“…Not long after September 11, I said, just as an aside, that these days whenever something goofy turns up on the news chances are it involves some fellow called Mohammed. It was a throwaway line, but if you want to compile chapter and verse, you can add to the list every week.
“A plane flies into the World Trade Center? Mohammed Atta.
“A sniper starts killing gas station customers around Washington, D.C.? John Allen Muhammed (CH: the “Biography” shows the timeline of the murders).
“A guy fatally stabs a Dutch movie director? Mohammed Bouyeri.
“A gunman shoots up the El Al counter at Los Angeles airport? Hesham Mohamed Hedayet.
“A terrorist slaughters dozens in Bali? Noordin Mohamed.
“A British subject self-detonates in a Tel Aviv bar? Asif Mohammed Hanif.
“A terrorist cell bombs the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania? Ali Mohamed.
“A gang rapist preys on the women of Sydney? Mohammed Skaf.
“A group of Dearborn, Michigan, men charged with cigarette racketeering in order to fund Hezbollah? Fadi Mohamad-Musbah Hammoud, Mohammed Fawzi Zeidan, and Imad Mohamad-Musbah Hammoud.
“A Canadian terror cell is arrested for plotting to bomb Ottawa and behead the prime minister? Mohammed Dirie, Amin Mohamed Durrani, and Yasim Abdi Mohamed….
“…when I made my observation about multiple Mohammeds in the news, Merle Ricklefs, a professor at the National University of Singapore and South-East Asian editor of the sixteen-volume Encyclopedia of Islam, remarked sarcastically, ‘Deep thinking, indeed.’ Well, gosh, maybe it’s not terribly sophisticated. But then again, when you’re dealing with fellows who decapitate female aid workers in Iraq and engage in mass slaughter of Russian schoolchildren, maybe sophistication isn’t always helpful. Particularly when sophistication seems mostly to be a form of obfuscation by experts wedded to the notion that Islam is something that simply can’t be understood unless you’ve read all sixteen volumes of their Encyclopedia, or, better yet, written them. For those of us who aren’t professors of Islamic studies, the obvious course is to step back and try to work from first principles: What’s happening? Who’s doing it? The five-thousand-guys-named-Mo routine meets the ‘reasonable man’ test: it’s the first thing an averagely well-informed person who’s not a muticulti apologist notices – here’s the evening news and here comes another Mohammed.”
Well…glad to know SOMEONE thinks I’m a “reasonable man”…
What do you suppose is now the most common baby boy's name in Britain?...
MOHAMMED.
I think it's fitting to throw in another endorsement for sensible Melanie Phillips' Londonistan.
Who’s got another name?
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I've read that the rough translation of the name into English is Michael. That's a fairly popular name here. I distinctly remember of the 12 boys in my 3rd grade class, 4 were named Michael. I'm talking about first names, not including middle names or anybody that may have had Michael or perhaps Michelson as their last name. Michael has of late dropped in popularity amongst most popular baby names in the US though I believe it held the #1 boys name spot for close to 50 years.
Hi Chris, Loving your blog. Do you happen to know Obama's middle name? Rhymes with Saddam. The world hasn't seen anything yet as we march toward that Assyrian of the Old Testament raising his ugly head again and forming that 10 nation confederacy of Psalm 83. It is not a revived Roman Empire but nations with a large number of Mohammeds. Tony B.
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