Advocates of 'proportion' are just unbalanced

BY MARK STEYN
SUN-TIMES

'Disproportion' is the concept of the moment. Do you know how to play? Let's say 150 missiles are lobbed at northern Israel from the Lebanese village of Qana and the Israelis respond with missiles of their own that kill 28 people. Whoa, man, that's way 'disproportionate.'

But let's say you're a northwestern American municipality -- Seattle, for example -- and you haven't lobbed missiles at anybody, but a Muslim male shows up anyway and shoots six Jewish women, one of whom tries to flee up the stairs, but he spots her, leans over the railing, fires again and kills her. He describes himself as 'an American Muslim angry at Israel' and tells 911 dispatchers: ''These are Jews. I want these Jews to get out. I'm tired of getting pushed around, and our people getting pushed around by the situation in the Middle East.''

Well, that's apparently entirely 'proportionate,' so 'proportionate' that the event is barely reported in the American media, or (if it is) it's portrayed as some kind of random convenience-store drive-by shooting."
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