Quote of the week

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.

West doesn’t merely complain about others who don’t know or who misrepresent our enemy’s identity. She has answers:

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.”

That is damned good, and it leaves the Hansons, the Bushes, the Lowrys, with their “fascism,” their “extremism,” their “it doesn’t matterism,” looking like shuffling dolts unable to think their way out of a paper bag.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 08, 2006 01:26 PM | Send