[. . . . ] Nature and politics abhors a vacuum. For a generation, Europe -- and Canada -- has been told that nothing is right or wrong, there ought not to be Judeo-Christian morality in public life, and that the philosophical compatibility and integration of immigrants is not important. That may have worked before; but it does not work in the era of Osama bin Laden and al Jazeera. These are not people coming to join things.

They are coming to change things.

Moderate Muslims are too few or too terrified to speak up. True liberals like Fortuyn or van Gogh are assassinated when they do. The secular media that swears by separation of church and state has not yet figured out the threat to liberty comes not from suburban Christian conservatives, but immigrant Wahhabi jihadists. [. . . . ]

Here is Jihad Watch Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald's take on Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's complaint that terrorists are tarnishing the image of Islam:

It's too late for the likes of Abdullah to any longer prettify Islam. Too many people can now read the Qur'an and hadith, for they are on-line. Too many people, finally fed up with the likes of Esposito and Armstrong or the endless propagandists, [. . . . ] those who want us to keep focusing on the putative sins of Israel and the “centrality” of that matter when a glance around the from Beslan to Amsterdam to Madrid to Kashmir to southern Sudan to northern Nigeria to the Balkans to New York, to Washington, to southern Thailand causes us to release that the war against Israel is only a local expression of a world-wide totalitarian belief-system whose adherents firmly believe in the right, as Muhammad says, of “Islam to dominate and not to be dominated.” Naturally the Arabs would prefer that Infidels learn nothing about the tenets of Islam, still less about the treatment of non-Muslims under Muslim rule, over 1350 years, and from Spain to Indonesia, and to keep the high-beams on that little affair of little Israel.

But Infidels are not having it any longer.

[. . . . ] And it is too late, for the Abdullahs of this world, to suppress the accumulated scholarsihp of the past, scholarship of French, English, American, German, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Bulgarian, Rumanian, Greek, Serbia, Spanish, Indian students of aspects of Islamic conquest, or of the Muslim belief-system, or of the remarkably similar treatment, over 1350 years of conquest and subjugation, of non-Muslims under Muslim rule.

[. . . . ] Islam is a totalitarian belief-system. It emphasizes the collective; it refuses the autonomy of individual conscience. Believers cannnot ever leave the Army of Islam -- they must stay as Muslims or face severe punishment, even death. It is a belief-system based on dominance -- of men over women, but even more, of Believers over Unbelievers or Infidels. [. . . . ]

There is a lesson for other western countries, like Canada, to be found in the Netherlands. When you welcome individuals who do not share basic values such as freedom of speech and tolerance, there is a price to pay down the road.

The answer is to be careful with immigration, and stop the direct government funding of multiculturalism that promotes separateness, instead of commonality and equality. [. . . . ]

[. . . . ] (2) A few readers worry that I am giving advice to the enemy in my penultimate paragraph:

Islamist terrorism in the West is counterproductive because it awakens the sleeping masses; in brief, jihad provokes crusade. A more cunning Islamist enemy would advance its totalitarian agenda through Mafia-like intimidation, not brazen murders.

I worried too about this, especially as I know that the Islamists read my articles. But I went ahead with the paragraph (and might write in more depth on the same topic) because I believe the most valuable service I can render in this war is to make anti-Islamists aware of the problem they face.

MIM: The editor of MIM hopes to translate Theo van Gogh's last book "Allah Weet Het Beter"- "Allah Knows Best" into english [sic] to give readers can an idea of what Theo was like as a person and read his views on militant Islam, political correctness, and multiculturalism which he warned against as a prelude to the Islamisation of Holland

At the time of his death Theo van Gogh was working on a film about the murder of Pim Fortuyn who was the first politician to be assassinated in Holland in 400 years. At the trial Fortuyn's killer said he did it "to save Muslims". The Fortuyn murder by a so called "animal rights" and "environmental activist" highlights the connection between the radical left and Militant Islam in what David Horowitz terms, in his new book an " Unholy Alliance". Horowitz's depiction of the parallels between Radical Islam and the American Left provides valuable insights into this phenomenon. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15316 [. . . . ]