[NCjim]

Once again, Miranda gets it...

[knighthawk]

In Britain for instance, she says, there is growing pressure from "moderate" Muslims that Sharia law be adopted into British law and cites demands from the Muslim Council of Britain last week for all schools to "ban 'un-Islamic activities' like dance classes, teach contact sports in single-gender groups, allow Muslim children to wear all-encompassing garments while swimming, and to limit certain school activities during Ramadan including science lessons dealing with sex, parents' evenings, exams and immunisation programs". There have also been calls for Muslim holidays to become British national holidays.

Islam-list

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

[Mount Athos]

I have been buying this book as gifts for friends.
She is coming out with a revised edition in June.

[facedown]

Londonistan, she said, was a "term of abuse coined by the French for a Britain that had allowed itself to become the European hub of al-Qaeda".

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

[SandRat]

You Seen This???

[happygrl]

Unlike a controversial previous guest of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council, Professor Raphael Israeli, whose planned appearances were quickly cancelled after he made comments about the danger of having too many Muslim migrants, Phillips said she did not advocate limits on migration.

"We say [to Muslim migrants] you have much to offer ... as a community of faith ... as long as you wish to be treated like any other minority."

My question increasingly is, why do these immigrants really come to the West ?

Certainly for the opportunities afforded financially and the freedoms not found in their own countries.

But are these immigrants really willing to embract the West as their own, willing to sacrifice for it as our own ancestors have done, willing to die for it ?

I doubt it, with some exceptions.

[JoeFromSidney]

Phillips is at pains to distinguish between those moderate Muslims who "merely draw upon Islam for spiritual sustenance" and those who despise the West and believe in the ideal of Islamic world domination.

Let's correct this. She's distinguishing between those who already take the Koran seriously, and those who haven't yet done so. "Sudden Jihad Syndrome" can hit any Muslim who decides to do what the Koran instructs all Muslims to do.

A "moderate" Muslim is simply one who hasn't yet "gotten religion."

[GOPJ]

Phillips, who was in Sydney last week, contends in the 2006 bestseller that Britain and much of the West is in denial about the threat of radical Islamism, is engaged in "galloping cultural surrender" and has become so weak and decadent it seeks "not only to appease but [to] believe and absorb the ideas and assumptions of the enemy that intends to destroy them".

Phillips "gets it".