Dr Mayerson might want to consider history.

Submitted by Homefront (Australia), Mar 25, 2007 at 23:48

Dr Mayerson,

The strangely comforting nature of your opinion about Islam and the future trajectory that it will follow in the west is tempered by a heightened sense of superiority. Don't forget the Byzantine civilisation had superior technology and inferior numbers in much the same way the entire western world does now. History does tend to repeat itself. The Byzantines even tried hiring Islamic mercenaries to bolster their numbers before the final clash with Islam. The mercenaries in true Islamic fashion took the infidel's money and turned on them. Soon the Byzantine Emperor's severed head was touring the conquered provinces.

I can recall a zealous anti Islamic former muslim who said his greatest challenge was the war against western innocence. Democracy cannot merely stand on its own virtues. It needs powerful protagonists to challenge and defeat its antagonists. For the most part the governments I see around the west appear to be distinctively managerial in character unable and unwilling to do anything other than window dressing of the collossal internacine problems emerging from this neomoorish invasion.

I guess overall the point I'm making is this: when in France and all over Europe muslims after two or even three generations do not speak the official languge of the countries they are in, when they don't need to learn the native language or intergrate on any level because of Balkanisation promoting philosophies that appear to run hand in hand with modern western democracy, when these people are slowly creeping into a majority in many European states then they will cease to be democratic western European states. Already freedom of speech has been replaced by cultural sensitivity to introduce by stealth the anti blasphemy laws that characterise sharia law and used to distinguish it from our law.

The strength of our system does not insure its inevitable success. One need only ponder the old axiom: The price of freedom is eternal vigilence. It's on the nose amongst many neocons like myself since it gets used by the UCLA and CAIR to protect the "rights" of terrorists and enemies but it could evenly be applied to monitoring closely those who would take our rights and our freedoms from us.

Homefront.

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