Mark Steyn wonders what would it take to alarm the people who are so blithely unconcerned about the creep of sharia all over western civilization.
It’s hard to deliver a wake-up call for a civilization so determined to smother the alarm clock in the soft fluffy pillow of multiculturalism and sleep in for another 10 years. The folks who call my book “alarmist” accept that the Western world is growing more Muslim (Canada’s Muslim population has doubled in the last 10 years), but they deny that this population trend has any significant societal consequences. Sharia mortgages? Sure. Polygamy? Whatever. Honour killings? Well, okay, but only a few. The assumption that you can hop on the Sharia Express and just ride a couple of stops is one almighty leap of faith.
Never let it be said that the west is irreligious. It’s just that now instead of having a foundation of Christianity, we have a foundation of multiculturalism. I’m sure that’s just as good. What’s a few forced marriages and taxpayer subsidized polygamy and honor killings and female genital mutilations between friends? Those things only affect people born into Muslim families, after all. They have the right to practice their religion, don’t they? Can’t we all just get along?
We can, as long as you’re not a blind person looking for a taxi, or some godless heathen trying to buy a pepperoni pizza or people running a website who choose to display drawings of Mohammed or a publisher under the impression that you enjoy the right to free speech.
Then we might have a problem.
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