A quote from Stephen Pollard at the Spectator blog, 14 February 2008

I hate to link to the Brussels Journal again, but I think a recent post there is a pretty typical (and typically obnoxious) example of what we are in for. […] Now if you think the piece itself is bad enough, have a read of the comments – comments which the Brussels Journal is clearly happy to have.

In September 2005 the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a series of twelve Muhammad cartoons (some of them quite innocent – see them all below). Muslim fanatics announced their intention to kill the cartoonists and/or punish Denmark. The radical Islamists do not make unsubstantiated threats. They know that if they do not do take revenge for what they consider to be blasphemy they will lose face. The Muslim god does not forgive, he demands submission, also from the infidels.

Hence, it does not come as a surprise that last Tuesday the Danish police arrested three terrorists – one Dane from Moroccan descent and two Tunesians – for plotting to kill Kurt Westergaard, the artist who depicted Muhammad with a bomb in his turban. For several months now the 73-year old artist and his wife have been living in hiding, protected by the Danish police.

A quote from the Italian press agency AKI, 13 February 2008

The head of the New Italian Immigrants Party, Mustapha Mansouri, has predicted the immigrant vote will be crucial in the upcoming national elections. […] "During the (parliamentary) elections on April 13, over 200,000 new Italians will vote, while in the administrative elections, other 400,000 foreign residents could vote," said Moroccan-born Mansouri. According to the party's calculations, about 200,000 immigrants have acquired Italian citizenship in the past five years.

A quote from Mohammed Salim’s neighbour in News of the World, 10 February 2008

There is something very wrong with a society that allows this to happen.

If I had been asked two months ago “Which Western country runs the greatest risk of electing a Muslim-born leader and how soon do you think this is going to happen?” I would have bet on the Netherlands somewhere in the next decade. Today, it looks as if the first Western country with a Muslim-born leader might very well be the United States next year, when President Barack Hussein Obama enters the Oval Office.

Pas de liberté pour les ennemis de la liberté! No liberty for the enemies of liberty has always been the revolutionary principle, ever since Saint-Just (“The Angel of the Terror”) pronounced the phrase in Paris in 1793. Because Islam is now widely seen as an existential threat to liberal values the speech by the Archbishop of Canterbury last week, saying that the introduction of sharia law was both inevitable and desirable, and that idea of a sovereign state with a single law for all was “problematic” because it is not pluralist and tolerant enough, has inevitably caused a storm.

My preceding post dealt with the resignation (or axing, depending on how you look at it) of David Martinon from the candidacy for mayor of Neuilly, to be replaced by an UMP party ticket with the names of Jean Sarkozy (the son of Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president), Arnaud Teullé, and Marie-Cécile Ménard. The French municipal elections are set for Sundays March 9 and 16, in two rounds, as is customary.

One of the dafter assertions is that if you can remember the sixties, you weren’t there. Some of us who managed to get through them without ever having one’s mind bent or consciousness altered by drugs remember them all too clearly, often with little affection. Others, however, were definitely not there or were definitely too young to notice. Rod Liddle comes to mind.

A quote from Spengler in The Asia Times, 12 February 2008

Violence is oozing through the cracks of European society like pus out of a broken scab. Just when liberal opinion congratulated itself that Europe had forsaken its violent past, the specter of civil violence has the continent terrified. […] Europe may not have war, but it already has violence: its political authorities cringe and scurry and evade and lie in the face of actual or threatened violence by its Muslim communities.

A quote from The Daily Telegraph, 11 February 2008

Firefighters are being subjected to an increasing number of violent attacks despite Government claims to the contrary, new figures show. Crews are regularly being spat on and pelted with bricks, bottles, burning wood and stones as they try to save lives across England and Wales.