Find out whose “wickedness” Mark Steyn is talking about in part two of my interview with him on Hot Air TV. Yes, we talked about sex in part one. But nothing smutty. Just real issues. Remember them?

Update: Apropos of our discussion about the need for feminists rising up to challenge Islam, that Australian imam who referred to immodestly dressed women as “uncovered meat” who are to be blamed if they are raped has been suspended:

Australia’s top Muslim cleric has been barred from preaching for up to three months, after comparing immodestly dressed women to “uncovered meat”.

Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali’s comments, suggesting that women who did not wear a headscarf attracted sexual assault, have caused a storm of protest.

Sydney’s mosque association said the suspension would give the cleric time to consider the impact of his words.

But Australian Premier John Howard said the action was insufficient.

Many people - including some Muslim leaders - have called for the cleric to be dismissed from office.

Sheikh Hilali sparked more controversy on Friday when, asked by reporters if he would resign, he responded: “After we clean the world of the White House first.”

His comments, made outside his mosque in Sydney after Friday prayers, prompted a round of applause from supporters.

He’s just saying what many, many, many like him preach and think around the world. Not a small minority.

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We also discussed the permanent intifada in France. The NYSun editorializes:

Only days after the violence in the Paris suburbs erupted onto the world’s front pages a year ago, these columns described the battles between the Muslim youths and French police, in a November 4, 2005, editorial,”Intifada in France.” We wrote: “If President Chirac thought he was going to gain peace with the Muslim community in France by taking an appeasement line in the Iraq war, it certainly looks like he miscalculated. Today the streets of the French capital are looking more like Ramallah and less like the advanced, sophisticated, gay Paree image Monsieur Chirac likes to portray to the world, and the story, which is just starting to grip the world’s attention, is full of ironies. One is tempted to suggest that Prime Minister Sharon send a note cautioning Monsieur Chirac about cycles of violence.”

The “Intifada” label was dismissed in many quarters. On November 5, John Lichfield in Britain’s Independent wrote “from the centre of the world’s most beautiful city” that “despite the inflammatory rubbish written by some right-wing commentators in the French press about a ‘Paris intifada’, this is not an Islamic insurrection or a political revolution of any kind.” He predicted that the riots “will burn themselves out in a few days, just as they have before.” The Washington Post editorialized on November 8 that “… It’s not the European version of an intifada: Islamic ideology and leaders play no role in the disturbances.” Bernard-Henri Levy wrote on November 9 in the Wall Street Journal that “this is not, thank heaven, a matter of an Intifada wearing French colors.”

Well one year later, the riots are still going on, and the French themselves are now calling it an intifada…

Rich Miniter of Pajamas Media has an interview with another truth-teller who saw the writing on the wall, Paul Belien of Brussels Journal. Watch here.

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