Hate in a cold climate

And here we go.

"At Utoeya, the water is still being searched for more victims," deputy police chief Roger Andresen told reporters.

"We have no more information than... what has been found on [his] own websites, which is that it goes towards the right and that it is, so to speak, Christian fundamentalist."

It’s still only Saturday morning as I start writing this so the truth behind the awful facts of this unforgivable slaughter is by no means clear, but if this part of the report is true, or plausibly held to be true for a media moment, then the evil acts of this individual and any confederates will certainly be used as ammunition by the world’s Islam-coddling Left to defame and smear anyone and everyone who has said anything critical of Islam as it is practiced throughout much of the world. 

You can almost hear their nastist representatives thiking; "At last! An islamophobic hate-crime we can finally get to work with."

Folk like Mark Steyn, Robert Spencer, Geert Wilders, Daniel Pipes, David Horowitz, Melanie Phillips will be held up as the bloody-handed creators of a ‘climate of hate’ against Muslims.  Anders Behring Breivik acted with all this in mind, they will say and that's why they must be made to recant and apologise and finally be silenced.

All this despite none of the above critics of Islam ever having called for, upheld, supported when it occurred (when before today?), suggested or even hinted that murderous or merely thuggish violence against Muslims (other than on the battlefields in Islam’s many current wars against everyone else) was in any way a good idea. Only our side’s words are ever inflammatory… if rather slow acting, thank God.

#  ‘Anti-islamophobia’ measures will be urged even more fervently by all Left-thinking people to censor free speech such as reporting on the thousands of atrocities committed each year by Muslims in the name of Islam according to their holy texts that insist on a permanent war of conquest and oppression against all unbelievers and its founder’s words and deeds and suspicious silences.

# The whole resistance to Islamic terrorism, including, but not limited to, Fox News, the Daily Mail, the EDL, FrontPage Magazine, the American Spectator,  will be ceaselessly slandered and libeled by the BBC and the usual suspects at the Guardian, Independent, New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Posts, et bloody cetera as purveyors of this climate of hate.

Question: if the free world, with its Judeo-Christian inheritance is equally as immoral as Islam, why has it taken nearly ten years since 9/11 for an actual, genuine, smoking-gun Christian Right-winger to murder people due to the ‘climate of hate’? What are we nutty Islamophobics doing wrong to be such slow-coaches? Can our culture be merely tardy, or is there something missing in the make-up of our civilization that makes this kind of unconscionable horror a blessed rarity, and indeed unique up until today since 9/11. Why did we Western jihadist-like killers take so long on the trail of Jihadist attack and vengeful counter-attack get so cold?

# Christianity and Islam will be presented together as morally equivalent and therefore equally harmful and suspect. Remember, the far Left doesn’t actually like Islam, it is just supporting it in order to demoralize the free world by weakening our will to resist the Caliphate and demonizing the faith set up by the person who said this:.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit,

for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they who mourn,

for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek,

for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness,

for they shall be satisfied.

Blessed are the merciful,

for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure of heart,

for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers,

for they shall be called children of God.

Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,

for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

Blood-thirsty stuff, that,  and so it’s easy to see how so many Christians in the past have used these words to persecute outsiders and each other. No doubt, the Left (and Islamists worldwide) will reply that selective choice of texts like the above can’t help explain the fully-justified violence that Islam instructs its followers to use against all unbelievers in perpetuity.

I’d love to see Jesus’ equivalent phrases to the infamous sword verse At-Tawba 5:

…translated into English by the western Islamic Scholar, Marmaduke Pickthall as:

“Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.([Qur'an 9:5]) ”

    Maulana Abdullah Yusuf Ali has translated the verse as:

“But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.”

    Muslim scholar Ibn Kathir's commentary on the verse is:

“Do not wait until you find them. Rather, seek and besiege them in their areas and forts, gather intelligence about them in the various roads and fairways so that what is made wide looks ever smaller to them. This way, they will have no choice, but to die or embrace Islam."

I wonder which of the above translations the 9/11 terrorists thought was the authentic one, or the 7/7 bombers, or the 21/7 would-be bombers or the 2007 London Bombings or the Glasgow Airport self-barbecuing bombers, or the Mumbai attackers, or…

Or thousands of others, not one nor or all of which can ever justify or lessen yesterday’s atrocities.

Stipulate, if Anders Behring Breivik is a Christian and if he acted somehow in support of Christianity or against supporters of multiculturalism, he did so by violating Christianity's essential meaning and by going against the words of its founder and almost all its scriptures (but have fun reading Revelations to find something nasty, if you like.)

He’s a sinner, (if he’s found to be the guilty at all), a murderer, a violator of what most of Christianity has preached (if its leaders for sure did not always practice!) for most of its history and especially today.

If criticism of Islamic terrorism is seen as the ultimate culprit, and the West as similarly blood-thirsty as the constant terrorism of Hamas, al Qaida, the Taliban, Hezbollah,  the good-natured machete-wielding crowd that threatened death to the teacher whose pupils had named a teddy bear after their classmate who was called Mohamed, and if that climate has made many Muslims ‘suspicious’ of the Western world’s motives, ‘unwilling to condemn terrorism’ from their own camp and inclined to support Jihadist attacks abroad, is this evil in Norway its Western mirror image?

Is it the politically-correct, multi-cultural ‘climate’ of supporting Muslims in the West over and above the natives in all disputes, of political show trials that persecute those who dare to discuss and criticize Islam, that denies and disguises the motives of Islamic killers in our own countries, that have created a climate that provoked this man somehow to massacre people in the defence of his (and our), common European civilization? Can he use this persecution to mitigate his crimes perhaps, as Islamic apologists do to fend of condemnations of real-world Islam?

No bloody way.

He’s a free human being

The murders did not ‘happen’ - he decided to kill many other human beings. He’s responsible.

He chose to do murder (if he is one day found guilty),, and chose to put his own beliefs above the lives of rights of others and in so doing . He’s one evil human being and nobody and nothing apart from his own malign conscience prompted him to do murder.

But watch the feeding-frenzy the cultural Marxists are likely to make of this utter horror; freedom’s in for a rough righer ride than ever now.

Picture from here.

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Supplemental.

Yep. As night follows day.

But the suspect, it seems, is no pure nationalist. Instead, he is said to be a right-wing extremist of the kind that police authorities in the West have feared for some time.

Their fear has been heightened by the potentially explosive mix of economic recession and unemployment, increasing racism and an ever stronger anti-Muslim sentiment, according to the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten.

Norway's security police reported a mild increase in right-wing extremist activity last year and predicted that such activity would continue to increase throughout this year.

And

But at the same time, aspects of the far-right agenda have risen to greater prominence on the mainstream political arena, with Expo reporting how the revulsion displayed by the Swedish people during the 1990s is increasingly turning towards a curiosity about toned-down far-right rhetoric.

Similar sentiments have been felt in Norway, where politicians have openly been voicing concerns about how the country's culture might be diluted by immigration from countries with different religions and values.

Following the attacks in Oslo and on Utoeya, it will be interesting to see whether many in the country develop a more sophisticated view of where the greatest threats are coming from, amid a growing realisation that extremism is deadly regardless of nationality, ethnicity or religion.

And

Norway's openness and lack of security is in large part a result of it having such a small, homogenous population. It seems paradoxical that an extremist who appears to have fanatically wanted to protect Norway from intruders and the "dangers" of multiculturalism would himself do such damage to the nation.

Norway is now forced to look at the less attractive facets of its society.

Media reports say the arrested man expressed sympathies for the Progress Party (FrP), Norway's most right-wing mainstream political party. For many years, the FrP has been steadily growing in popularity at the expense of the left-leaning Labour Party and the more moderate Conservative Party, although it is yet to win an election.

There are also citizens' websites like Document.no, where Anders Behring Breivik left racist, extremist right-wing comments along with fellow anti-Muslims, and there were attempts to start up Norwegian satellite groups in support of the English Defence League.

These all represent, with varying degrees of extremism, a section of the Norwegian population which feels that the country's immigration policies are too lax. They feel disenfranchised despite Norway's attempts at distributing fairly its immense oil wealth. Norway might now be forced to deal head-on with this undercurrent of nationalism and anti-immigration sentiments.

PS (Thanks for the spelling correction  on EoL, Quiet Man)

All in all it's just another...

...bloody enormous wall to climb.

The innocent, sage and matchlessly kind Mrs. Northwester had been on the internet yesterday afternoon and had read something about the Fort Hood massacre. Word search the article for a belief system that begins with a capital 'I' and whose practitioners' title begins with a capital 'M' for immediate disappointment.

She remarked; deep-thinking and practical Left-liberal that she is that Nidal Malik Hasan seems to have done it because he was an American and Americans do that kind of thing. She went on to say that in a country as big as the States that contains many guns you'd expect a larger number of madmen using them - we discussed the whole teenage Goth angst high-school massacre thing. To be fair about it she brought up the Dunblane Massacre to prove we can all be at it, but her thought at first was that his religion, Islam, may have had little or nothing to do with it.

I explained that the killer is an Islamist who supported Islamic terrorism and who had been disciplined for preaching Islam at work and that he had published anti-American comments on the internet and praised Islamic terrorists. That was enough for her - Fair enough, he's probably a terrorist. But Mrs. Northwester is the fairest-minded and most logical person I know, and she doesn't let her politics get in the way of facts. This makes her rare as well as lovely.

However, there are many people with her ideological stance who do let their beliefs interfere with the facts and indeed it overcomes them. I don't know which on-line news report she was reading, (probably MSN news or Yahoo! News, given her surfing habits), but she had come away from it none the wiser compared to the way that my readers are wiser and wider read than the average person. Perhaps the on-line journalist concerned had done that whole self-censorship thing.

Fast forward to the evening and a friend visited before to going out dancing with us. We discussed the massacre and I mentioned Mrs. NW's initial ignorance about the motives of the killer. I remarked that he had called out Allah Akbar as he did his killings, and after correcting my pronunciation to Allah Akbar my friend made a remark to the effect that that didn't necessarily prove that he was motivated by Islam. I replied that as he didn't cry out That's the difference at McDonald's you'll enjoy, he probably was motivated by something other than the love of American capitalism. He took the point (he's another fair-minded person who I trust even as I disagree with him), and I was able to go on with the instant-knowledge factoids I had gleaned in seconds from the dextrosphere. Again, Okay that seems to be the case.

But that's the narrative that we can absorb from the managed media and the reflex is the same: decent people who only want to live safely in a good and better world are for some reason unwilling to connect a 1,300-year-old ideology with these horrors. It isn't like they're commies and believe that the underlying structures of economic exploitation force Muslims to believe crazy things and kill us, or ultra-individualist anarchist libertarians who blame the Welfare State, high taxation and oppressive laws as motivations for criminality in the absence of better economic opportunities.

Liberals are kindly and sympathetic in that they look for what we might call 'human' or 'personal' motives for such atrocities, in an attempt at understanding and hopefuly some kind of cure or prevention for the future. But the political isn't always the personal in the sense of psychological traumas or individual disappointments and grudges - or the disgust at 'human rights violations' by the West. Major Hasan is a well-educated American citizen who had all the benefits and comforts that that great country churns out as it does cars and fridges and TVs. Some people just believe stuff because they've been taught it from birth and they respond to that belief by taking it to what they consider to be the logical conclusions.

That's the wall we on the Right need to climb or to knock down - we need to say it loud and clear and often that some peoples' heads are simply filled with ideas that tell them to kill certain kinds of people under certain kinds of circumstances, and no amount of prosperity or freedom or understanding or secure childhoods or vitamins or great sex will distract them from those ideas.

The war is primarily one of ideas.

Liberal stance on violent bigotry 100% consistent

Only joking!

Here we have our philosopher kings’ judgement on keeping convicted terrorists in for longer period: it’ll make them worse.

UP to 30 “high-risk” terrorists — including some of the most dangerous men in Britain — are due to be released from jail in the next year.

More are being freed in the wake of a ruling by Britain’s most senior judges that long sentences for terrorist crimes could “inflame” rather than deter extremism.

It seems that the longer you keep them in, the harder they are treated, the more likely Muslims are to become ‘militants.’

Rahman, a key Al-Qaeda player, recruited disaffected Muslims from northern England to fight British troops in Afghanistan.

The judges stated: “Care has to be taken to ensure that the sentence was not disproportionate to the facts of the particular offences. If sentences were imposed which were more severe than the circumstances of the particular case warranted, that would be likely to inflame rather than deter extremism.”

Got it? The nastier you treat people like this, the sooner their pals will resort to violence and ‘militancy.’ Liberal logic goes: if you make martyrs of Islamists terrorists by keeping them off the street and away from weapons for longer rather than shorter periods, then the more likely their chums on the outside are to become martyrs, and blow up civilians, fight British soldiers, etc.

And anyway, everyone knows that ‘Islamist’ militancy is down to the West’s exploitation of Muslim oil reserves and cheap labour, the illegal war against Iraq, and deep and universal Muslim concern for the human rights of the Palestinians in the occupied West bank, Jerusalem Gaza, and Tulsa.

Besides, early release shows that the West can, under the properly controlled circumstances of having liberals in charge of everything, be a gentle and kindly place for Muslims, and so they forgive us, move on, settle down, and blend in.

Okay, maybe that doesn’t work, but the principle’s fine and goes right back in liberal history to Rosseau and the French Revolution.

Anyway, here are Muslims who have never known the horror of Britain’s oppressive anti-terrorist laws in grateful peaceful protest.

Here they are protesting against the West’s exploitation of Muslim oil supplies and cheap labour:

…on September 11, 2009, a Muslim mob severely injured three Christians and ransacked two churches in Senbete, a town in the western Arsi zone of Ethiopia

Damn those oil-stealing missionaries: damn them to hell.

Here they are showing restraint and compassion in India by activists protesting against violence against men, women and children murdered by Israeli soldiers, only to be beaten back by draconian ‘anti-terrorist’ laws.

Militants often demand food and lodging in nearby villages.

When they forced their way into Miss Kausar’s home, her father Noor Mohammad refused their demands and was attacked.

His daughter was hiding under a bed when she heard him crying as the gunmen thrashed him with sticks.

You can clearly see the connection between caring attitudes towards ‘terror’ detainees and the reduction of militancy at work here.

And here they are remembering that Islam is a deeply peaceful and tolerant faith, from which it requires Wester-originated horrors to get any kind of a rise: let alone violence, as the war against the Iraqi people is carefully analyzed and thoroughly critiqued.

Former Muslim receiving death threats

Sabri Husibi, a former Muslim who is now an atheist, says he has been ostracized and threatened with death since publication of a Tulsa World article Saturday in which he was critical of Islam and all other religions.

God only knows how much worse things would be in Tulsa if convicted terrorists were kept in prison even longer.

But, whereas persecution of Muslims (read lawful imprisonment for terrorist acts following scrupulously fair trials) is the chief cause of militancy, radicalization and loss of community cohesion, it’s important to remove the livelihoods and at the same time leave at liberty knuckle -dragging neo-Nazis who are just waiting to start sending the crammed cattle trucks east.

Members of the British National party could be banned from the teaching profession after Ed Balls today ordered an inquiry into racism in schools.

The very idea of some beliefs being held in private by people who come into contact with children threatens the end of the world.

I suppose that the government’s racist message here is that while white British people can only learn useful lessons from, for example, losing their jobs after committing no crimes at all, on the other hand the ignorant old primitive Muslims, well, they just get ornery if you keep their most sophisticated theologians locked up for trivial and indeed religiously mandated acts of bravery.

Thanks to Vlad Tepes Blog and The Religion of Peace

Obersturmbannführer Nutkin

Three things I know to be eternally true and proper guides to seeking the good life:

1. It does not make her bum look fat.

2. Someone’s already tried to break it – whatever it may be.

3. There’s no peace of mind or rest for the soul to be found in any sentence that contains the word accordion.

There's also a fourth, and though I may be starting to sound like someone with a manifesto here it’s still worth noting:

4. By their death wishes shall ye know them.

Look at these passages about squirrel culling.

They are bigger, stronger and carry a pox that is deadly to their smaller cousins.

Their raids on bird tables have made them a public enemy to some, but the grey squirrel's apparently relentless conquest of Britain may now be over.

Naturalists and landowners are joining forces today in a drive to effectively wipe out the grey squirrel from northern Scotland. It is believed to be the largest cull of a mammal yet seen in the UK, with many tens of thousands of grey squirrels expected to be trapped and killed under the government-sponsored project and shot on sight, legally, by landowners.

Facts from the Telegraph: natural history advisers to the Postman Pat franchise. A cull of at least 20,000 grey squirrels has led to red squirrels making a comeback in many areas of the country, conservationists have said.

Large-scale trapping and shooting of greys began at the start of last year. Most has been carried out in the north of England, the last main bastion of red squirrels south of the Scottish border.

The cull has been criticised by groups like the RSPCA, but those behind it say that their controversial methods are working and that sightings of red squirrels are now increasing. The claim comes as conservationists are planning to create two further "havens" for reds, on the Isles of Scilly and near Ullapool in the western Highlands of Scotland

Last week, it emerged that red squirrel numbers on the island of Anglesey, North Wales, had doubled after a pioneering project which saw the removal of more than 7,000 greys. Many conservationists believe controlling the population of greys is the only way to save the red.

The Government-funded Red Squirrel Protection Partnership (RSPP) says it has killed more than 18,000 greys since January 2007, chiefly in Northumberland. At least 2,000 more have been killed in Cumbria over the same period, while "unofficial" culls are thought to have taken the total number killed far higher.

This is how the Scottish Wildlife Trust describes this process on its website.

Our project aims for the next three years are to:

protect existing red squirrel populations in the Highlands, Argyll, North-East Scotland and northern Tayside

improve and share our knowledge and understanding of squirrel management

increase the involvement of private foresters and woodland owners in conservation efforts for red squirrels

increase our knowledge of the distribution of squirrels in Scotland and maintain a process for recording and disseminating this information

promote the project to the public

The red squirrel needs as much help as possible if it is to survive in Scotland for the future. The amount of funding available to save the squirrel will be a deciding factor on what the project can achieve. Our activities will buy more time for our red friend as we try to ensure red squirrels are part of Scotland's future. Donate NOW and help save red squirrels!

Hoots mon. Talk about the banality of evil. Ein Skwirrel. Ein High Road. Ein Furrier.

And there’s even a heart-warming and cheerful Jamie Oliver moment for all those foodies out there from the Guardian.

A pest controller on a mission to rid the UK of grey squirrels is moving south - to feed the demand for squirrel pie.

Paul Parker, 45, has helped catch and kill more than 22,000 grey squirrels in the past 18 months.

Parker, from Newcastle, said: "We are hoping to move down south. We have asked landowners down there if they need any help to get rid of the greys, to educate them as to our methods and how we catch them, using spring loaded box traps and catch live traps."

"I cannot personally get enough of these grey squirrels, people are eating them. If I was getting a hundred, they would take a hundred each and every day, the demand is so high. They are sold as soon as they hit the counter," he added.

"They are going to top restaurants, butchers, the working man. They are a delicacy and they are really hard to get - especially up this neck of the woods."

For decades the greys, imported from the US by landowners in the 1870s, have slowly spread across the UK, out-muscling red squirrels in their search for food. Already suffering from a loss of their favoured woodlands, red squirrel numbers have plummeted.

Parker said: "Red squirrels are such a beautiful, mystical little creature. The greys are not. They are destructive because they don't belong here; there is no place for them."

Yum, yum!

Now look.

I’m a vegetarian solely because Mrs. Northwester is concerned about animal welfare herself and she never even once as much as hinted she might want me to stop eating meat and you don’t let that kind of respect go unthanked. I personally have no problems with other people hunting or raising animals to kill and eat. And it’s also true that many people perceive the grey squirrel to be a pest that’s extinguishing the ‘native’ red squirrel, and I have no problems with killing pests on the one hand and conserving wildlife on the other. Go for it.

It’s just… Well, given how often and in how many different ways and places our enemies are trying and succeeding to mess up the world, I think it may be worthwhile to see what’s going on here. It’s the small details that can sometimes give us the key to victory, such as the discovery of the smallpox vaccine.

There’s so much to choose from.

First: Class

Here’s the Guardian and a State-sponsored, i.e., government-run ‘nature’ organisation involved in the mass killing of small furry animals. 20,000 dead and counting. They are being shot and trapped by individuals, and on behalf of a quango, that the Guardian approves of.

Would anyone like to guess what the Guardian piece would be like if the hapless greys were being hunted from horseback in southern England, to the merry sounds of the gentry enjoying themselves? Hmm?

Still and all, how about aristocratic landowners and cash-strapped farmers getting Peers and Japanese businessmen in to hunt or trap the Grey Peril. Instant approval from the bien-pensants from Islington to the Scottish Parliament, from Fylingdales to Faslane?

I also like to speculate what its reaction to any purely private effort on behalf of commercial farmers to cull badgers to protect livestock from bovine TB might be, Liberalverse-wide…

And I love this;

They are going to top restaurants, butchers, the working man.

The cultural Left doesn’t object to ‘top restaurants’ any more because they are the core of the political class and so they can afford them, but now that most beloved of the Left’s species designated as groups of special scientific interest - the working man - gets a seat at the table and so we must approve. If the horny-handed sons of labour can tuck into Tufty with impunity then only a boor or a bigot could object.

Second: Race.

Scots and Geordies; WWF-protected Northern mammals up to their armpits in the blood of formerly squeaky fluffballs are portrayed as official Heroes Of Environmental Production, and as such it’s all well and good, but I can’t help but wonder if – you know – the traditional squirrel hunters of some other country were being interviewed and portrayed by the cultural Left there might be mention of indiscriminate fire-power, a certain type of religion, perhaps: and the effects of the squirrel-hunters’ attitude on prospects for World Peace.

Played for laughs, there’d be banjos for sure.

Oh, and this:

They are bigger, stronger and carry a pox that is deadly to their smaller cousins.

You can just hear String of Pearls and In the Mood in the background there can’t you?

Third: Mysticism.

“Parker said: "Red squirrels are such a beautiful, mystical little creature. The greys are not….they don't belong here; there is no place for them.”

You know, as a soppy tree-hugger myself I’ve got to admit to awed admiration for this fellow’s chutzpah.

Red squirrels are mystical?

Okay, so there was Ratatosk who ran up and down the Norse World Tree conveying insults between the eagle at the top and the entropic dragon at the roots. And as an alternative cosmic image to the Big Bang, the Little Bang, the Expanding Universe (let alone any unseemly messing around with turtles or eggs) I’ve long felt that the arrival of a breathless squirrel at the eyrie and gasping out the words of Níðhöggr to the effect of ‘Your mother!’ was at least a colourful metaphor.

Perhaps Parker has a throwing-axe collection, a squirrel-skin coat, and maybe even a nice shiny helmet.

Red squirrels are mystical?

Is Parker a Jedi and thus can see a kernel of the Force in Nutkin’s huge supply of midichlorians? And if greys don’t belong here and there’s no place for them, do they thus truly have to die? Or just, like, go back to Roswell or the Mother Ship or something? The Guardian doesn’t seem to care.

Now, if I was interviewed by the Guardian and I suggested that native British animals were A) beautiful, B) mystical, and C) that the ‘non-native’ ones didn’t belong here, I expect that the Guardian would find it necessary to mention my politics and views on immigration and at the very least refer to my flaxen hair and crazed blue eyes. But the liberal paper of choice seems to relish all this death here. Paul Parker seems to have the key to the liberal killing-with-conscience-cupboard almost as if he has super powers or something.Paul Parker...

Paul Parker? Say, you don’t think…?

Fourth: official dishonesty.

Our activities will buy more time for our red friend as we try to ensure red squirrels are part of Scotland's future. Donate NOW and help save red squirrels!

Translation into English from modern charity-speak; ‘Please send more cash as we need to kill more damn Yankee greys, but we’re just too White Heather Club to mention the killing bit.

You don’t need to know anyway.

You can’t handle the truth.

What is truth?’

Fifth: Darwinianism.

They are bigger, stronger and carry a pox that is deadly to their smaller cousins.

The claim comes as conservationists are planning to create two further "havens" for reds.

"Red squirrels are such a beautiful, mystical little creature. The greys are not. They are destructive because they don't belong here; there is no place for them."

Hey, what happened to the Survival Of The Fittest? To Natural Selection?

The Guardian is Britain’s lead singer in the choir of the First Church of Darwin. So what happened to the argument that goes: since Nature terminates so many pregnancies anyway, what’s all the hoo-har about the NHS doing what comes naturally too?

And if the Reds can’t compete in the wild against the grey, why not just let the Great Mother do her stuff and send Rocky where the dodos went?

I can understand conserving something scarce and endangered on the grounds of its beauty and to preserve bio-diversity - or to put it in an old-fashioned way to respect God’s creation - and also because you never know when Scrat’s DNA might be needed to cure AIDS of to halt Global Warming or something.

But who gets to give the order Bring me the head of Patterwig?

I guess you have to join the special club to learn the secret code to the power of choosing life and death.

The liberal Left’s taste in death differs from the social Right’s.

Boy, does it ever.

The Left favours the deaths of Israeli farmers and wedding-guests and anonymous children (because they never see the light of day); whereas the Right nominates those who deliberately bomb civilians as their target of choice, Afghan ‘wedding-guests’ or those who kill or otherwise deliberately hurt children for the Reaper’s services. We’re funny that way.

To be fair to the Left, they’re very keen on avenging the deaths at Israeli hands of Palestinian children – but only the ones killed by Israeli ordnance – they go all vague about the ones given delivery rounds that don’t involve pizza or newspapers. I suppose it’s considered fair payback to the Right for merely expressing grief once or twice per column or post for IDF-made children’s’ deaths when we point out that these Palestinian children have a tendency to cluster around mortar positions, rocket-launchers, and to mingle voluntarily with armed 'militants'. Good thing we get the blame for that, I suppose.)

So what’s the purpose in pointing these squirrely things out? Well, in the culture wars I have been taught that it’s vital to keep the score between the social left and the cultural Right. ‘Only compare’, as the great Theodore Dalrymple says. Think of it as intel combined with esprit de corps to make a weapon.

Thanatological preferences are a good guide to where conservatives differ from liberals.

Picture from American Israeli Patriot.