Ayaan Hirsi Ali…..

…….reviews Lee Harris’s book ‘The Suicide of Reason’ in the NYT. This is todays must read.

A couple of quotes:

But he distinguishes himself by going further than most of his counterparts: he considers the very worst possibility — the destruction of the West by radical Islam. There is a sense of urgency in his writing, a desire to shake awake the leaders of the West, to confront them with their failure to understand that they are engaged in a war with an adversary who fights by the law of the jungle.

Her conclusion is optimistic.

To argue, as Harris seems to do, that children born and bred in superstitious cultures that value fanaticism and create phalanxes of alpha males are doomed — and will doom others — to an existence governed by the law of the jungle is to ignore the lessons of the West’s own past. There have been periods when the West was less than noble, when it engaged in crusades, inquisitions, witch-burnings and genocides. Many of the Westerners who were born into the law of the jungle, with its alpha males and submissive females, have since become acquainted with the culture of reason and have adopted it. They are even — and this should surely relieve Harris of some of his pessimism — willing to die for it, perhaps with the same fanaticism as the jihadists willing to die for their tribe. In short, while this conflict is undeniably a deadly struggle between cultures, it is individuals who will determine the outcome.

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Where Are the Watchmen?

from… The Islamist Challenge to the U.S. Constitution

“In August 2004, a local planning commission in Little Rock, Arkansas, granted The Islamic Center for Human Excellence authorization to build an internal Islamic enclave to include a mosque, a school, and twenty-two homes.[3] While the imam, Aquil Hamidullah, says his goal is to create “a clean community, free of alcohol, drugs, and free of gangs,”[4] the implications for U.S. jurisprudence of this and other internal enclaves are greater: while the Little Rock enclave might prevent the sale of alcohol, can it punish possession and in what manner? Can it force all women, be they residents or visitors, to don Islamic hijab (headscarf)? Such enclaves raise the fundamental questions of when, how, and to what extent religious practice may supersede the U.S. Constitution.”
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The Islamic Center for Human Excellence may seek to segregate schools and offices by gender. The enclave might also exercise broad control upon commerce within its boundaries-provided the economic restrictions did not discriminate against out-of-state interests or create an undue burden upon interstate commerce. But most critically, the enclave could promulgate every internal law-from enforcing strict religious dress codes to banning alcohol possession and music; it could even enforce limits upon religious and political tolerance. Although such concepts are antithetical to a free society, U.S. democracy allows the internal enclave to function beyond the established boundaries of our constitutional framework. At the very least, the permissible parameters of an Islamist enclave are ill defined.”

Hordes of self-righteous illegal mexicans parade like so many pompous little Napoleons while chanting insulting demands, supported by the liberals and the media and a president who apparently has neither the will nor wisdom that conservatives foolishly ascribed to the man. While the Mexican make their claim upon our land, Muslims are appropriating our country. They know the lay of the land, the threats to make, the alliances to grease. They are a cancer mutating through our government, our prisons, our universities and our communities, culling leagues of political sycophants, networking like the most adept American sales pro, bartering lies for concessions, embraced by a body of politicians whom I can only describe as decayed in will, spirit and mind; a passel of febrile and castrated men whose convictions are dry rotted – shredding at the merest wisp of a breeze – unable to support an ideal nor a promise.

I’m weary with the reading of it and the writing of it. Conservatives have to move against all the existing limitations and encroachments on free speech being imposed under so called hate speech laws. Any and all other convolutions of the law that the priesthood of liberal judges can conjure up to suppress opposition have to be firmly routed and defeated. If we can’t gain that ground back, we lose it all.
We have to be free to lawfully monitor every frigging land deal, every local election, every elected or nominated member on school boards, every bit of curriculum our kids see. We have to somehow raise enough awareness of the kind of deals and concessions that are being made and put these subterranean Muslim political machinations above the radar so that all of us know that a mosque is proposed or state-church law is to be violated , or 8 weeks of Islamic studies have been placed in the curriculum.

We have got to take the battle back to them and by them I mean the left and Islam. Be it Soros or Socialists or John Dean or Sheik Mo-frigging-hammad – they will destroy America. The riots that we see in France by a lazy pathetic and cowardly populace will soon be our plight. Maybe by then the American flag will be completely banned. Should it come to the point where we allow that to happen then we don’t deserve to fly her any longer. There is no courage or vision left in government and all of the men worthy of leading this country are being killed in Iraq.

For what?

So the rest of us can just continue to get our teeth kicked out by libs and muslims and their trained media flunkies? They fight and we sleep.
But to tell you the truth, I don’t sleep all that well these days anymore.

We need watchmen on the walls folks.

Where Are the Watchmen?

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What Are We Doing About It?

It could be said that the Islamic appetite to devour freedom is insatiable. Given the gigantic strides they have made in trashing free speech in England, as demonstrated by the BBC’s Pavlovian suspension of Kilroy, one would expect to witness some of the joyous exuberance they demonstrate when seeing the blood and guts of a murdered Jew or American. But no, they enjoin their minions to further berate the BBC for taking an entire three days to accomplish this latest act of censorship. Then they proceed to be appalled for us Zionists [ed:Link dead] defending against their onslaught.

And I say the fault is our own. We are warned again and again and we witness CAIR’s duplicate behavior here and we all blog and bellow but, are we organized against it? Do we raise our voice every time CAIR does? Do we confront them in court every time they attempt to convict someone via new pc legislation? Do we defy them at our school boards when they insist on Islamic studies in public schools?

“…This reality is denied by western secularists obsessed with political correctitude. The old liberal-secular antipathy to Christianity has converged with the new PC movement and the therapeutic society to produce a climate wherein it is easy for the Muslims to lie about the true nature of Islam. Defense against such lies is difficult when it is deemed “insensitive” to respond to them with facts and in plain language.

“I am more afraid of the radicalization of Europeans than the radicalization of Muslim immigrants,” says Stefano Allievi, a sociologist who specializes in immigrant communities and who has published a book to rebut Oriana Fallaci’s Anger and Pride from the pro-immigrant, liberal point of view. “Given Europe’s aging population and declining birth rates, immigration is both inevitable and desirable,” Allievi says, and argues that “Europe must find ways to speed integration of immigrants, and one solution is to build more mosques.

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Voices of dissent are few, and under pressure. One of them belongs to a Pakistani-born Anglican who now lives in Great Britain, and who grew up as a Muslim, and who warns that, historically, Islam has never learned to live as a minority and simply cannot reconstruct itself in Western societies.

My own feeling is that what will happen in the British society”I am waiting to see whether it will happen in the U.S.”is Muslim societies will emerge within Western countries where they will develop their own patterns of social sharia [Islamic law]. In Britain today, where Islam controls the inner cities, we have major social exclusion and the development of sharia. We have had churches burned, Christians attacked and a mission center destroyed. The media has deliberately kept everything off the air….”ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN ITALY: SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

I ask this again and again. What are we doing about it?Do you want to do something about it? If you could, would you?

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