Truth is busting out all over

I had intended a slow-down at VFR for a couple of weeks, but it’s hard, what with the heightened reality we’re living in since the London bombings, and the amazing things that people keep sending me. Here’s a comment from the weblog “Little Green Footballs” that eloquently puts forward the hard truth I stated last year in my article, “How to Defeat Jihad in America”: that we of America and the West will live for the rest of our lives in ever-increasing anxiety, fear, and loss of our normal freedoms in a massive security state, as long as a significant Muslim population lives and travels freely among us. “In the end,” the commenter writes, “our whole way of life will be changed, Western nations de-stabilised and finally, we will strangle our civilisation just to keep a few million Muslims here. It is far far too high a price to pay.”

A friend had sent the LGF comment to me, calling it a depressing insight. I said to him: “Not depressing, but the liberating truth about our dilemma and the only solution to it.” Even more impressive and heartening is that this intelligently radical statement comes from someone in England. Here’s an abridged version of it, in which I’ve left just the main idea:

At this moment in Britain, the Islamic population are feeling the heat, what with bombings and the rest of the compassionate side of Allah. … [W]hatever the bad press that Islam is getting, Islamists, and here I mean virtually all Muslims, take the long view. And I mean the really long view. In about a 100 years or so, we will see the same thing here in the West, as is happening in Bosnia, Kosovo, Kashmir, Philippines, Thailand etc. The US will not be an exception. In fact the US is the primary objective.

People live and travel in fear, as Muslims living among us are the most likely to be active in terrorism. A whole society (all the West) is terrorised and life made difficult, just to keep Muslims here. The very presence of Muslims in airplanes is a cause for alarm. When is that Muslim man or burqa-clad woman going to explode? It just puts you off your in-flight meal or movie.

Our civilisation is dying right at this moment, as freedoms we have taken for granted, are slowly strangled in the name of security. In the end, our whole way of life will be changed, Western nations de-stabilised and finally, we will strangle our civilisation just to keep a few million Muslims here. It is far far too high a price to pay.

… To defeat the jihad we have to at least start thinking of a separation. Islam and the democratic way of life cannot co-exist. We will destroy civilisation in the attempt.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at July 18, 2005 08:13 PM | Send