December 11, 2007

ANNALS OF PERVERSION

Father killed daughter for not wearing hijab, her friends say
(See American Thinker)

Hattip to Yale Kramer

December 09, 2007

LUST TO KILL

Jihadism, Liberalism and Perversion.

December 02, 2007

OH THOSE MITFORD GIRLS!

Guest blogger, Rita Kramer, discusses the Mitford sisters.

        Please—enough with the Mitfords already! A whole industry has existed for years publishing breathless, admiring books about the delightful, charming, witty Mitford sisters, growing up in between-the-wars England and the Continent, writing books for us and letters to each other, the latest collection of which are reviewed in last Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. Yes, they were clever, those girls, one of whom (Jessica) became a Communist (but lived out her life in the capitalist California sunshine), another (Unity) a fanatic Nazi with such a fevered love for Adolf Hitler that she shot herself in the head when England declared war on Germany. (She lived, but even more brain-damaged than before.) And there’s Diana, the one who left her husband to join British Fascist leader Oswald Mosely in his attempts to rouse the British public in support of Hitler and of good old English-style anti-Semitism. She followed him to jail and defended his positions to her dying day. Yet there is a segment of the reading public that just can’t get enough of the Mitford sisters. Celebrities in their day, they remain so down to the present, due to what the Times’ Caryn James calls “their irresistible appeal.”

        Sorry, but these were horrible people, the Mitfords and their set. Morally blind, to the point of obscenity. The Times reviewer thinks the Mitford archness amusing —OK, no harm in that, just a matter of taste. But these people were friends—friends!—of Hitler. Like other reviewers before her, the Times’ reviewer treats their pro-Nazi positions with a touch of disapproval, almost as though they had voted Republican. They never went back on those views or disclaimed them, even after we all knew about Auschwitz. (Of course Der Fuhrer didn’t really know the details, as Goering said at Nuremburg, and that was the Mosleys’ position.) The most important thing the much-praised author Nancy Mitford ever wrote was a letter denouncing her Fascist sister Diana for what she was--a kind of upper-class British Eva Braun. What a repulsive bunch, what a depressing cache of letters.