Learning to Accommodate

A quote from Thomas Fleming in Hard Right!, 13 February 2006

I don’t really care what they print in a Danish newspaper, because, whatever they print will not be the truth. For the same reason, I don’t care if Muslims take to burning European newspapers or attacking European diplomats. This is what Muslims do and have always done. They have no argument but the sword and so long as the postmodern postChristian West continues to arm them, coddle them, and allow them the run of their countries, we can expect to hear more and more calls for sensitivity. Today it is the refusal of the America media to run cartoons; tomorrow it may be a ban on skimpy bathing suits in heavily Muslim neighborhoods (an argument already being made in Paris); next week a prohibition on the public consumption of alcohol. Of course, we will never admit we are adopting Sharia, because we in the West refuse to tell the truth even to ourselves, but little by little we are learning to make our accommodation.