Drummer Rigby’s murder by an Islamist lunatic in the streets of London last week was horrific enough in itself, but the eerie reaction of the bystanders made it doubly so. Just because this neighborhood is named “Woolwich” must its residents behave like a flock of sheep?!
 
Mark Steyn aptly captured the episode’s sense of surrealism: Bystanders in their own fate ~

… there is a disturbing passivity to this scene: a street full of able-bodied citizens being lectured to by blood-soaked murderers who have no fear that anyone will be minded to interrupt their diatribes. In fairness to the people of Boston, they were ordered to “shelter in place” by the Governor of Massachusetts. In Woolwich, a large crowd of Londoners apparently volunteered to “shelter in place,” instinctively…

…(The crowd’s passivity set the tone for what followed. In London as in Boston, the politico-media class immediately lapsed into the pneumatic multiculti Tourette’s that seems to be a chronic side-effect of excess diversity-celebrating: No Islam to see here, nothing to do with Islam, all these body parts in the street are a deplorable misinterpretation of Islam.

 
It seems the behavior of Woolwich flock is not that atypical in London these days. They’ve been conditioned into complacency by that bane of Western civilization; multi-culturalism. And unfortunately the phenomenon is spreading.
 
Steyn’s article continues ~

For the past week, Stockholm has been ablaze every night with hundreds of burning cars set alight by “youths.” Any particular kind of “youth”? The Swedish Prime Minister declined to identify them any more precisely than as “hooligans.” But don’t worry: The “hooligans” and “youths” and men of no Muslim appearance whatsoever can never win because, as (Prime Minister) David Cameron ringingly declared, “they can never beat the values we hold dear, the belief in freedom, in democracy, in free speech, in our British values, Western values.” 😯
 
Actually, they’ve already gone quite a way toward eroding free speech, as both Prime Ministers demonstrate. The short version of what happened in Woolwich is that two Muslims butchered a British soldier in the name of Islam and helpfully explained, “The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day.” But what do they know? They’re only Muslims, not Diversity Outreach Coordinators.

 
Hard to believe the Woolwichers are descended from not just Richard the Lion-Heart and the Crusaders – but from a people who stood up to the Nazis just a few short decades ago. Now they cower in the face of the religion-that-must-not-be-named.
 
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Glenn Beck was a bit less sanguine than Steyn in his assessment of the tragedy ~