Posted by
bbmoe on Monday, December 04, 2006 8:06:29 AM
I had the great privilege and pleasure of meeting Melanie Phillips
recently. I had heard her on the Laura Ingraham Show and was duly
impressed with her articulate views of the Islamisation of Britain. As
interesting as she was on the radio, it couldn't compare with hearing
her speak out at Restoration on panels that discussed the threats of
Islamofascism.
As due reverence was paid to Oriana Fallaci, the
fearless one who coined the term "Eurabia," her heirs settled in to
assess the grim reality of the death of Western Civilization in
Europe. They count themselves lucky, in Britain, who have not yet
experienced the overt political intimidation that is heralded by
assassination. The Netherlands, they are in a really bad way: expected to be majority Muslim in eleven years and no one to pick up the sword of Pim Fortuyn. Even Theo Van Gogh's* collaborator, the parliamentarian, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has fled to the US for safety.
Lucky is relative it seems. After reading most of her book, Londonistan,
I can hardly comprehend the fortitude required of someone living in
Britain who dares to think and speak with such clarity as Ms Phillips.
In her book Londonistan, in 167 pages, she analyzes
concisely, and with considerable wit, the complex forces that are
making the ascendancy of radical Islam a potent force in the politics
and culture of Great Britain. It is a tale of tremendous weakness on
the one hand, where geopolitcal failure bred wholesale deconstruction
of national identity, and the opportunistic ravages of Marxist
reinvention and religious fanaticism.
Americans would do well
to read this book. For those of you who shrink at the notion of taking
on radical Islam, this will be your tonic. When next Stephen Breyer
looks to Europe to inform his decisions on Supreme Court cases, I will
be the first to start a petition to impeach him. When CAIR stages
another victimization stunt, I will be signing every petition that
comes down the pike to fortify businesses, politicians and the public
to resist the special interests of radical Muslims. And when my own
church invites yet another Muslim to explain to us good Christians the
intricacies of the Religion of Peace, I will ask that we be allowed to
speak in a mosque as a good faith sign of reciprocity and in which
place I will gladly introduce the concept of a religion that does not
rule in the secular government and how that freedom is inimical to the precepts of fundamentalist Islam.
Londonistan
is an easy read, a delight in fact, for lovers of the English language,
intellectual honesty and tight reasoning. Emotionally, it's another
matter. For an unrepentant Anglophile, it is very difficult to absorb
that this culture that commands our great and justified admiration here
could be held in such disdain in its own birthplace. Reading
Londonistan is like offering oneself up for a beating, but being afraid
of a beating is the surest way to defeat.
Intreat me
not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither
thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people
shall be my people, and thy God my God...
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* From Wikipedia:
Mohammed Bouyeri assassinated van Gogh in the early morning of Tuesday November 2, 2004, in Amsterdam in front of the Amsterdam East borough office (stadsdeelkantoor) on the corner of the Linnaeusstraat and Tweede Oosterparkstraat streets. He shot him with eight bullets from a HS 2000 (a handgun
produced in 2000 in Croatia), and Van Gogh died on the spot. Bouyeri
slit van Gogh's throat and then stabbed him in the chest. Two knives
were left implanted in his torso, one pinning a five-page note to his
body. The note (Text) threatened Western governments, Jews, Hirsi Ali (who went into hiding). The note also contains references to the ideologies of the Egyptian organization Takfir wal-Hijra.