Melanie Phillips calls for a long twilight struggle against … surrender

Melanie Phillips quotes a document from the Barnabus Fund about the aims of “Muslim communities Western states”:

There can be no doubt that their final goal, according to their published dogmas, remains an Islamic state under shari’a. The tactics will differ and change, but the goal remains the same and the method of attaining it in well defined stages will continue to be used. Most Islamists in the West reckon they have moved past the first stage into the second, that of building up and strengthening their infrastructure while using deception to enter the democratic process so as to gain new positions of power. Once they judge they are strong enough, they will move into the third stage of power when violence will be used, if necessary, to gain total control of state and society.

Phillips comments:

People should read this carefully, and then think about what is currently happening in our society and around the world. It is imperative that we in the west do not listen to those who, in pursuit of various agendas, seek to bamboozle us with ignorant and ahistorical dissembling about ‘moderate’ Islamists. Thanks to our gross ignorance, the jihad has already made enormous inroads in western societies. If we are to survive as a civilisation, we have to resist this siren song of surrender.

Got that? Phillips agrees that the Muslim communities in the West are aiming to take over the West and subject it to Islam, and in response to this threat she calls for us to resist, not Islam, but our fellow Westerners who want us to surrender to Islam!

For the 100th time I ask Melanie Phillips, once we have pushed aside the people who want us to surrender to Islam, what do we do about Islam?

Melanie hasn’t the foggiest, because she’s still a Western liberal defending Western liberalism from Western leftism, rather than a Westerner defending the West from Islam.

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Jeremy G. writes:

You are absolutely right to criticize Melanie Phillips for she is on a senseless path. While she is busy conducting a phony dialogue with leftists who have already made their peace with Britain becoming Islamic, she is completely ignoring the patriotic whites in Britain who want to resist Islam right now. Instead of trying to convince British leftists of their amazing foolishness (which could take generations), she could be helping to organize resistance to Islam today.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 21, 2007 02:25 PM | Send