From what I got from Scruton’s article, he was making the case why Western culture was ‘better’ - because of forgiveness, tolerance, irony, etc. It was like he was saying ‘ours is better’, when, in the eyes of certain strains of Islam, the very fact that we exist as we do is cause to either make us submit to their culture or try to undermine ours. Ours is better in many ways, I agree, but we need to understand that allowing their presence on our turf will demand that we defend it, definitely intellectually, legally and probably physically, at some point...;-))
(Call for action from JimRob)