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Bawer: An Anatomy of Surrender

Sun, Apr 27, 2008

Bruce Bawer has an excellent piece at City Journal on “creeping sharia,” the cultural and legal front of the global jihad—and it isn’t only happening in Europe: An Anatomy of Surrender.

Islam divides the world into two parts. The part governed by sharia, or Islamic law, is called the Dar al-Islam, or House of Submission. Everything else is the Dar al-Harb, or House of War, so called because it will take war—holy war, jihad—to bring it into the House of Submission. Over the centuries, this jihad has taken a variety of forms. Two centuries ago, for instance, Muslim pirates from North Africa captured ships and enslaved their crews, leading the U.S. to fight the Barbary Wars of 1801–05 and 1815. In recent decades, the jihadists’ weapon of choice has usually been the terrorist’s bomb; the use of planes as missiles on 9/11 was a variant of this method.

What has not been widely recognized is that the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1989 fatwa against Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie introduced a new kind of jihad. Instead of assaulting Western ships or buildings, Kho meini took aim at a fundamental Western freedom: freedom of speech. In recent years, other Islamists have joined this crusade, seeking to undermine Western societies’ basic liberties and extend sharia within those societies.

The cultural jihadists have enjoyed disturbing success.

From:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/29760_Bawer-_An_Anatomy_of_Surrender/comments/#ctop

Some comments from lgf:

This “stunning whitewash of radical Islam,” as Little Green Footballs blogger Charles Johnson put it, “helped keep the British public fast asleep, a few weeks before the bombs went off in London subways and buses”
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Canadian readers will be familiar with the success of so called "human rights" commissions which have been aiding in the jihad against freedom of speech. I cant figure out whether they're stupid or evil, but then i figure, hey, why choose?

Instead of assaulting Western ships or buildings, Khoameini took aim at a fundamental Western freedom: freedom of speech.

And their ally is Political Correctness.

The police are constrained by three things: law, practicality, and politics. It must absolutely suck to be the police in Britain right now.