Update IV (9/8): Diana West writes:
Five years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, World War II was over, Japan and Germany vanquished. Five years after September 11, we still speculate as to who, or what, our enemy is. We have had a brief fling with “Islamic fascism” — a phrase that, in its 20th-century-European political connotations, is misleading about jihad’s 1300-year-old religious roots. But now, in the president’s just-released “National Strategy for Combating Terrorism,” we’re back to plain vanilla “extremist ideology.” We seem to find a generic comfort in being vague.
Not me — as even the occasional reader of this column likely knows. The “who” are Muslim jihadists; the “what” is Muslim jihad. There is violent jihad (terrorism), and there is “quiet jihad,” the peaceful consequence of the demographic shift of Muslims into the West. Both, however, result in Islamization — the spread of Islamic law. This is a dire threat to what could have once upon a time been summed up by the word “us.”
Emphasis added.
Update III (9/8): A good question from commenter and blogger Big Mo:
“I would like to know why we all went nuts over South Africa’s loathsome apartheid in the 1980s, demanding that they change everything about their society and culture, but we’re seemingly content to bend over and take it from radical Muslims who have absolutely no intention of integrating into Western society. They instead want to force Western society to conform to Islam.”
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I honestly don’t know what’s worse: Muslims and foreigners who want this free and wonderful country to change to suit them, or our tendency to prostrate ourselves before them and concede to their ridiculous demands.
Back in June I wrote about Muslims in Maryland who wanted their religious holidays on the school calendar. Today I had the displeasure of reading about public swimming pool policy changes based on Muslim sensibilities, safety standards be damned.
Utterly stupid, and I don’t often use the word stupid. It’s a lazy way to express frustration, but at this point, I don’t care.
If Muslims had their way, sharia would be the law of the land (think I’m exaggerating?), and homosexuals, for example, might be stoned to death or hanged. The bozo bloggers who complained about an “offensive” sentence in this post would have a lot more to worry about than a black woman blogger who thinks they’re hysterically humorous as well as hypocritical. 
Barbaric Muslim honor killings are taking place in western Europe right now. (Also see Britain examines “honor killings” and Honor Thy Father — Or Else.)
In the United States, taxpayers are supporting Islamofascist sympathizers.
Blogger Debbie Schlussel frequently covers “Dearbornistan” follies in the for-now great state of Michigan. In 2003, 52 of 53 football players at Fordson High School were Muslim. Hmm…an all-American team? I can almost hear PC-supporting doofuses screeching, “So what?” But I find it alarming.
That’s not even a fraction of what’s out there, people. I’ve read stories about public school children reading from the Koran (but not the Bible) and Muslim enclaves in this free and civilized country that want to incorporate sharia into our system of jurisprudence. The nerve of a religious group that still enslaves human beings in this day and age…
No matter what anyone says, never believe that “all cultures are equally valid.” (Intelligent people don’t.)
That is pure BS.
(Newspaper image from Truth and Grace)
Addendum: Another beheaded journalist.
Update: Here’s an amazingly non-liberal post at The Huffington Post.
Update II: From frequent commenter Heliotrope:
A minor point, but it sticks in my craw: When I was still teaching, I had a Muslim student in public school who was permitted to leave the class to offer his prayers. A space was provided for him to store his carpet and to face Mecca.
Meanwhile, the local community got exercised over a group of Young Life kids who ate lunch together. They didn’t like the fact that the kids joined hands and quietly said grace.
I was required to spend time with the Muslim to fill in for any instruction he missed. (He left during tests and could have consulted more than guidance from Allah.)
But the Young Life students were treated as an aberrant force bent on infecting the school community. Finally, they were ordered to pray individually and “discretely.â€
Must Christians adopt the sword and their own form of Sharia law to regain respect?
Another commenter writes:
Another note about the PUBLIC high school, Fordson High, in Dearborn, MI…the cafeteria lunch food is all prepared halal-style (or however it’s properly termed). In addition, I know of a woman who gave birth at Oakwood Hospital which is also in Dearborn. She ended up having a Muslim roommate. She was told her husband could not stay in the room with her and their new baby because it went against the “roommate’s†religion.
I live in another Detroit suburb and have in this past year run across women both at Target and Borders wearing burka’s and walking behind their husbands while shopping. To see that extreme practice close up and in such “all-American public places†is very unsettling…
Darn right it’s unsettling, and I don’t care what any PC hack says about it. What Muslims choose to do in their own homes is their business. But when my country starts to change to accomodate Muslims’ religious sensibilities, while treating Christianity — one of the pillars of western civilization, our whole way of life — like a loathsome disease, it’s time for action.
Enough talk.
