The Death of the West

Submitted by Bill Storey (United States), Dec 26, 2006 at 10:28

Abraham Lincoln once said:

"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the Ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

Mr. Pipes is correct in saying that Islam's peaceful approach, should they choose it, and in conjunction with the complacency, pacifism, and self-loathing of too many westerners, will be our undoing. It will be Lincoln's death by suicide.

We face a moral threat from Islam. The only answer is quarantine, as I have said here for some years. All immigration of Muslims must end, and now. This is a war to the finish, and we are inviting the enemy into our living rooms.

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