MARK STEYN – On Rush Limbaugh’s Friday program, fill-in host Mark Steyn reminded listeners  of Limbaugh’s Tuesday comments  predicting the media would “circle the wagons” for Islam if it turned out  that the suspects in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing Muslims, saying that the  prediction will come true.

As it turned out, the suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were  indeed Muslims, and Steyn, author of  “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon,” said the media wagon-circling would begin “any moment now.”

“As we now know, these guys are Muslim,” Steyn said. “One of them was Muslim.  He’s dead — he died in the early hours this morning. The other guy, still on the  lam, is Muslim — Muslims from Chechnya. And so, as usual, any moment now we’ll  start to hear, ‘Oh well, these are just lone wolves,’ as Rush said. ‘They’re not  typical of anything.’ None of these guys are ever typical of anything.”

Steyn reminded his listeners of the media reactions to other terrorist  attacks tied to Islam, including U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who was  accused in the November 2009 shooting of 13 people and wounding of 29 others;  the so-called “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted to  detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear on Christmas in 2009; and  the Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad, who was a Pakistani-American citizen  arrested for an attempted May 1, 2010 car bombing.

“None of these guys, none of these lone wolves, none of these lone wolves  stretching as far back as the eye can see, are ever typical of anything,” Steyn  said. “We don’t know that any of these lone wolves belong to the United  Amalgamated of Lone Wolves and Isolated Extremists. They’re all just one-offs — all jihad is local.”  (read more)