Dude,
I don't think Islam is going to exist much longer in the West.
Either that, or I don't think the West is going to exist much longer. Period.
I agree with your comment and with your tagline. The British Tories now have a chance to display some backbone.
I am not quite there yet, but I am heading in your direction.
Islam thinks the West is weak.
They think that they can both decry freedom of speech to "insult" their prophet while exploiting our freedom of speech to make terroristic threats.
It is up to the West to make clear in a most muscular manner that such a dichotomy is not only hypocrisy, but criminal. And that those who are unwilling to at least co-exist with the values of their host countries are no longer welcome there.
The West can still make that condition, and I see signs that the West is realizing that this is a stand that has to be made.
And if the West is not willing to make that stand, then the next step will be a defensive step like you postulated.
This is the opening salvo of that battle.
Either that, or I don't think the West is going to exist much longer. Period.
Pig ignorant Islam. Like the guy halfway through his weight-training program going out and shoving around people twice his size - people who are only temporarily into this real hip pacifism schtick.
If they had any brains and patience - they would wait like coiled snakes until they had the absolute numbers necessary to truly make a play at taking each country from the inside. But then, they wouldn't be followers of a primitive 7th century death cult religion that has a history of swaggering miscalculation.
The froth-mouthed Islamofascists, and the thundering silence of the "moderate" Muslims (who sit back and take all the benefits of the appeasements of western governments) will result in them being decimated as a whole.
So, "moderate" Muslims, time for you to save your own miscalculatin' posteriors. If you have any doubt about that, ask yourself if any of the civilians in Hiroshima, Tokyo, Dresden and Berlin actually had a personal hand in Pearl Harbor or the invasion of Poland.
"Dude,
I don't think Islam is going to exist much longer in the West."
I hope you're right. I hope that this is where the tide of multiculturalism will turn to selfish self-protection. I hope that the West begins to not just stop allowing unabated immigration from Islam, but starts to send them back where they belong.
It's ironic that it could be caused by something as simple as a cartoon in an obscure Danish periodical.