Heroin Junkies Are Less In Denial!

Western politictians, the Left
and liberal media:
sleepwalking us all to an Islamic hell!

An article by Daniel Greenfield.
The Western elites, who fancy themselves more intelligent and more enlightened than the wise men and prophets of every religion, and who base their entire right to rule on that intelligence and enlightenment, are not in the habit of admitting that they are fools. The Arab Springers who predicted that the Muslim uprisings would bring a new age of secularism, freedom and an end to the violence between Islam and the West, are busy writing up new checks. *Thomas Friedman is penning essays explaining why the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood will mean regional stability and peace with Israel (and if it doesn't, it will be our fault.) They invested heavily in the illusion of a compatible Islamic civilization. Those investments, whether in Islamic immigration or Islamic democracy or peace with Islam have turned toxic, but dropping those investments is simply out of the question for them now 
The Brotherhood's victory discredits the Arab Spring, which discredits the bid for Arab Democracy, which discredits the compatibility of Islam and the folks on Fifth Avenue. Follow the river back along its course and suddenly the Clash of Civilizations becomes an undeniable fact. It's easier to give up and let the river of denial carry them further along; until, five years from now, they'll find themselves explaining why *Al-Qaeda ruling Libya is actually a good thing for everyone!  (Friedman has probably got the draft already written, being the arch NYT wanker that he is - my italics)
In 1991, Israel cut a land-for-peace deal with a greasy Egyptian bloke named Yasser Arafat. The Cairo-born Arafat would turn his gang of terrorists into a government and police force, and rule over an autonomous territory, in exchange for ending the violence. Over two decades of terrorism have not shaken the belief of the American or Israeli establishment in the "Two-State Solution", which has solved absolutely nothing.
Meanwhile...ask a Eurocrat about Muslim integration into Europe. Oh, it's going swimmingly; much like the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the Arab Spring. It's going like a house on fire, not to mention a bus, a lot of cars and those two towers on 9/11 on the other side of the Atlantic. And whatever problems there are, as with the peace process and the spring process, they are undoubtedly the fault of someone who isn't a Muslim!

Ground Zero.

The Western elite and the liberal media cried: dis-empowerment was the cause of Muslim violence and that, conversely, empowerment was the solution. Give the poor dears some weapons, a country, a ballot box, free and open elections, and they'll be less likely to blow themselves up while seeking 72 virgins on the downtown express. 
What is lost on the Left and other deluded wishful thinkers is: if Abdul is beheading people when all he has to work with is a sword then, if you give him a gun, he will start shooting them instead. If he's blowing up buses when he only has a terrorist group, he will blow up countries when he has a country.
Empowering Abdul does not diminish his grievances; because his grievances are a function of Islam and it's endless capacity for violence. Increasing his capacity will increase his grievances until the entire world is on the wrong end of his empowerment scimitar.
Most insidiously, the Left likes the imaginary world that it has created. The multicultural utopia with jolly Pakistanis adding spice to London, Saudis putting up little mosques on the Canadian prairie and sassy Shiites bringing diversity to Dearborn, isn't just propaganda; it's the imaginary world that they want to live in! Just as The Newsroom created an imaginary world in which the Left won every debate in the last two years, the new world order that they have imagined of a friendly multicultural democratic Islam, is their imaginary world, created and maintained at our expense, and in the face of all reality and reason.
No matter how (unintegrated by choice) Muslims in Europe are, most Western politicians, the Eurocrats and the Left must insist that, aside from a few exploding bumps in the road, everything is going according to plan...and any day now, a lesbian Imam will be preaching the virtues of secularism in Finsbury Park Mosque. It must be that way, because the alternative is unthinkable for them. (C) Daniel Greenfield (Photos: Copyright Control)

Daniel Greenfield is a popular New York City based writer and freelance commentator, whose special emphasis is the threat to Western civilization posed by the rise in world terror.