Islamic Caliphate

By Mark Steyn

IHC Abstract
Seven percent of British Muslims consider their primary identity to 
be British; 81 percent consider it to be Muslim. By comparison, in 
the most populous Muslim nation on the planet, 39 percent of Muslim
Indonesians consider themselves Indonesian first; 36 percent consider
themselves Muslim first. For more than four years now, an interesting
phnomenon has been observed. It was first encountered in the Muslim
ghettoes of the Netherlands, Belgium and other European countries in
the spring of 2002: Second- and third-generation European Muslims feel
far more fiercely Islamic than their parents and grandparents.

That's the issue: Pan-Islamism is the profound challenge to
conventional ideas of citizenship and nationhood. For Western do-
gooders, it's mostly a pose: the multiculti set have no wish to live
anywhere but in an advanced Western democracy. They may think
globally, but they don't act on it. The pan-Islamists do act. When
they hold hands and sing "We Are The World," they mean it. And we're
being very complacent if we think they only take over the husks of
"failed states" like Afghanistan, Somalia and Lebanon. The Islamists
are very good at using the principal features of the modern
multicultural democracy ? legalisms, victimology ? to their own
advantage. The British at a certain level share the same problem as
their opposite numbers in Beirut: They don't quite dare to move
against the pan-Islamists and they have no idea what possible strategy
would enable them to do so.

So instead they tackle the symptoms. Excellent investigative work by
MI-5 and Scotland Yard foiled this plot, and may foil the next one,
and the one after that, and the 10 after that, and the 100 after
those. And in the meantime, a thousand incremental inconveniences fall
upon the citizen. If you had told an Englishman on 10 Sept 2001, that
within five years all hand luggage would be banned on flights from
Britain, he'd have thought you were a kook. If you'd told an
Englishwoman that all liquids would be banned except milk for newborn
babies that could only be taken on board if the adult accompanying the
child drinks from the bottle in front of a security guard, she'd have
scoffed and said no one would ever put up with such a ludicrous
imposition. But now it's here. What other changes will the Islamists
have wrought in another five years?

Absent a determination to throttle the ideology, we're about to witness 
the unraveling of the world.

The IHC recommends that you read this article in full.


Source: Jewish World Review

www.jewishworldreview.com/0806/steyn081406.php3?

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Source: "Israel Hasbara Committee"
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/i/290820061

Cheers, Steve..

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