http://www.andrewsullivan.com/

"SOME BRITISH MUSLIMS LEAVE FOR WAR: In the English town of Luton, the call to Jihad is real and strong, especially among some of the young. This report from the Times of London is deeply chilling. Here's Mohammed Abdullah, a 22-year-old accountant, in his own words: "There are people leaving all the time. Not just in Luton, but all over Britain. We, as Muslims, don't perceive ourselves as British Muslims. We are Muslims who live in Britain. All we want to do is go to Afghanistan to defend the honour and sanctity of Islam." The British government has now said that such individuals, if they returned to Britain, would be tried for, among other things, treason. Good for Blair. Meanwhile, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph, a poll of 500 British Muslims between the ages of 20 and 45 found that, "an overwhelming majority - 91 per cent - believed the war was between the Christian West and Islam, while 98 per cent would not fight for Britain. In marked contrast, 48 per cent said they would fight for bin Laden or for Islam." Okay, if that is not a fifth column, could someone please tell me what is? "

*** As I've said it's time to stand for us or against us. And face the consequences.
"So, what's it gonna be boy, yes or no?" Meatloaf

http://www.andrewsullivan.com/text/main_article.html?1
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"In most Western countries, anti-Semitic divagations on Jewish history, religion, and literature are more than offset by a great body of genuine scholarship... In modern Arabic writing there are few such countervailing elements." So why did I look the other way? Why did I discount this anti-Semitism on the grounds that these are alien cultures and we cannot fully understand them, or because these pathologies are allied with more legitimate (if to my mind unpersuasive) critiques of Israeli policy? I guess I was thinking like John Rawls. We in the West simply do not want to believe that this kind of hatred still exists; and when it emerges, we feel uncomfortable. We do everything we can to change the subject. Why the denial, I ask myself? What is it about this sickness that we do not understand by now? And what possible excuse do we have not to expose and confront it with all the might we have?"

*** An excellent essay. We do not want to face the unpleasent fact that there are some very evil values widespread in Muslim culture. Nope, we'd rather do fluff pieces on NPR and Oprah that pretend that this widespread pervasive, kill the Jews and the infidels thinking is not there.

-philw (reality has a nasty habit of suddenly intruding when you ignore it)