by Mark Steyn • Oct 26, 2015

Christian bakers have to bake gay wedding cakes, but Muslim truckers don't have to transport alcohol. Gotcha.

I'm sure Anthony Kennedy can explain it, but wouldn't it be quicker just to load America onto the truck and drive it off the cliff?

Then again, if you're a senior bureaucrat with the IRS and you regard conservatives as the spawn of Satan, you have complete freedom of conscience to screw them over as you wish.

~Every day the papers are full of stories that would have seemed extraordinary 20 years ago but are now depressingly routine. For example:

A rabbi and two of his congregants were stabbed outside a synagogue in Marseilles, France.

One of the victims in the Saturday-morning attack was stabbed several times in the abdomen and is in serious but not life-threatening condition, the French daily Le Figaro reported.

Police arrested the assailant, who shouted anti-Semitic epithets at the victims and reportedly was drunk at the time of the attack. According to Le Figaro, the assailant is known to local police and is considered mentally unstable.

Well, maybe. But he shouted "Allahu Akbar!" and "Itbah al-Yahud!" ("Kill the Jews!") So how exactly do you tell the difference between a "mentally unstable" "drunk" and a healthy, well-adjusted Jew-hating Muslim? Ask Germany's "security experts":

Germany's security experts have rounded on the country's leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel, warning that her immigration policy will "produce extremists", and stating that the country is importing "Islamist extremism, Arab anti-Semitism, [and] national and ethnic conflicts of other nations".

For the most part, the Continental media are content to downplay stabbed Jews. But what happens when all the Jews are dead or fled, and there's no one left to stab but Pierre and Fritz?

Oh, don't worry. They're all rigorously processed:

An immigrant who sexually assaulted a woman within two weeks of arriving in Britain is blocking attempts to deport him by claiming he is a Syrian refugee.

Abdulrahman Abunasir submitted a claim for asylum while serving an 18-month prison sentence for the sex attack.

But when immigration officials questioned him, they found he could not even answer 'simple' questions about Syria.

Don't worry. I'm sure the European Court of Human Rights will rule it's grossly discriminatory to ask a "Syrian" "refugee" to name the capital of Syria.

As I say, Europe's daily papers would read oddly to any visitor from the Back to the Future mid-Eighties. Yet the EU's bigshots - Merkel and Hollande - betray no sense of crisis. That's left to the bit players:

Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar said his tiny Alpine nation was being overwhelmed by the refugees -- with 60,000 arriving in the last 10 days -- and was not receiving enough help from its EU partners.

He put the challenge in simple terms: if no fresh approach is forthcoming "in the next few days and weeks, I do believe that the European Union and Europe as a whole will start to fall apart."

Oh.
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