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It isn't Islam alone that is the problem, either there or in Canada or, increasingly, in the U.S. The difficulty is that the way for the most radical form of Islam is paved by multicultural precepts and fanatics who have worked their way into the highest offices in academia and government. These pretend to believe that one culture is to be regarded equally with another but act in practice as if Western culture is inherently oppressive and needs to be deliberately curtailed. Into that gap come radicals whose violence is excused or justified. Of course they're not going to stop under those conditions; why should they?

The problem is not simply a highly organized culture of thuggery that will take whatever it is offered - that, alas, is what has happened to the main current of Islam once oil money purchased a revolutionary movement, and not for the first time in the bloody history of that faith. To the modern observer it seems grotesque to claim that once it was among the more tolerant of religions but once, a very long time ago, it was. No longer.

The difference is that it became tolerant only when its excesses were opposed by force, and that is precisely what multiculturalism has taken on as its signal purpose to prevent. It is a lesson in human behavior that transcends religion: thuggery must be opposed by force. That force must evince itself not only internationally but, and perhaps even more importantly, within a culture that is under prodding for weakness: Europe's cultures and our own only to a slightly lesser extent, and only for the time being. Not to do so is to commit suicide, as near as anyone can tell, the suicide of Western culture is the multiculturalists' holy grail.

If the rule of law - OUR law, Constitutional law, not Shari'a - is not imposed with whatever force is necessary, it is worthless. Here is where multiculturalism is the biggest problem - one law, and not Special Rules For Special People, not law twisted in the favor of someone's illusion of "social justice," to right historic wrongs, to "even the playing field", but one law for everyone. That is the only way we will be able to live with Islam in our society. It, and not we, must submit.

It isn't Islam alone that is the problem, either there or in Canada or, increasingly, in the U.S. The difficulty is that the way for the most radical form of Islam is paved by multicultural precepts and fanatics who have worked their way into the highest offices in academia and government. These pretend to believe that one culture is to be regarded equally with another but act in practice as if Western culture is inherently oppressive and needs to be deliberately curtailed. Into that gap come radicals whose violence is excused or justified. Of course they're not going to stop under those conditions; why should they?
The problem is not simply a highly organized culture of thuggery that will take whatever it is offered - that, alas, is what has happened to the main current of Islam once oil money purchased a revolutionary movement, and not for the first time in the bloody history of that faith. To the modern observer it seems grotesque to claim that once it was among the more tolerant of religions but once, a very long time ago, it was. No longer.
The difference is that it became tolerant only when its excesses were opposed by force, and that is precisely what multiculturalism has taken on as its signal purpose to prevent. It is a lesson in human behavior that transcends religion: thuggery must be opposed by force. That force must evince itself not only internationally but, and perhaps even more importantly, within a culture that is under prodding for weakness: Europe's cultures and our own only to a slightly lesser extent, and only for the time being. Not to do so is to commit suicide, as near as anyone can tell, the suicide of Western culture is the multiculturalists' holy grail.

If the rule of law - OUR law, Constitutional law, not Shari'a - is not imposed with whatever force is necessary, it is worthless. Here is where multiculturalism is the biggest problem - one law, and not Special Rules For Special People, not law twisted in the favor of someone's illusion of "social justice," to right historic wrongs, to "even the playing field", but one law for everyone. That is the only way we will be able to live with Islam in our society. It, and not we, must submit.

I'm keeping a copy of your brilliant post.

Great comments.

The more I think about our War with Islam, the more I believe the "follow the money" comments are the heart of the matter. Oil money has wooed the academics and politicians - "here's the money, now STFU." Looks at Kagan's $20 million bribe and all the PC mulit-culti 'fairness' and 'social justice' crap our kids are fed.

The new battle plan against Islam stars today with a national push for total energy independence. Sarah Palin is right. Starve the beast.

"Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven’t learned enough to dismiss common sense (a prerequisite for power in Washington these days). Help me out, friends! Help someone like me – and the majority of Americans – understand why we would ever kowtow and bow to foreign regimes that hate us, instead of doing all we can to starve the beast of terrorism in our plight for security, prosperity, and peace."