Hari and other parts with sources not cited   To attribute quotes to Steyn or Hari without citing sources is against Wikipedia policy You should reference with links or due diligence references including where and date it was published volume and page number what quotes are attributed to Hari or Steyn Erroneous quotes attributed to a person not backed up by references could be interpreted as libelous and should be avoided httpwwwifexorgencontentviewfull Large quotes attributed to Hari will be deleted as this is a post about Steyn not about any single critic   The following was deleted  According to Hari in November  Steyn circulated a series of conspiracy theories that a huge number of Muslims in New York City had been forwarned of the terror attacks A Muslim student at a Brooklyn high school he claims said to his teacher on  September  See those two buildings They wont be standing there next week   On  September  Steyn further claimed a sixthgrade  NOTE HOW COULD STEYN HAVE CLAIMED THIS ON  SEPT  THIS STATEMENT MUST BE TOTALLY FALSE student of Middle Eastern origin at a Jersey City school warned his teacher to stay away from Lower Manhattan because something bad was going to happen Teachers at schools within sight of the World Trade Center in New York reported that as the towers burned many Muslim students were taking pictures it seemed odd that so many of them happened to have brought their cameras to school on that particular day  Hari commented   Almost no evidence has been offered in support of this claim Steyn cites only the evidence of a disgraced and sacked journalist on a suburban New York paper and even that is for just one of several facts that he cites  Steyn seems to believe seriously that many American Muslims knew about the plan and did not warn anybody  not even the plus Muslims who were murdered in the attack   Steyn himself wrote  In The River War  Winston Churchills account of the Sudanese campaign theres a memorable passage which I reproduce here while Im still able to  How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog there is this fearful fatalistic apathy Improvident habits slovenly systems of agriculture sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement the next of its dignity and sanctity The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property  either as a child a wife or a concubine  must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men  Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen all know how to die But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it No stronger retrograde force exists in the world Far from being moribund Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith It has already spread throughout Central Africa raising fearless warriors at every step and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science  the science against which it had vainly struggled  the civilisation of modern Europe might fall as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome  Is that grossly offensive to Muslims Almost certainly Is it also a rather shrewd and pertinent analysis by one of Britains most eminent leaders I think so