January 22, 2007: There'll always be an England - maybe not

Don't miss Brendan Bernhard's excellent analysis in the NY Sun of two new documentaries on the rise of radical Islam in Britain. He concludes:

Is this, as Muslim spokesmen have charged, media sensationalism? Have their remarks been taken out of context? It's hard to imagine what context could possibly render them benign. Like CNN's "The War Within," the BBC's "Undercover Mosque" is in some ways most remarkable not for what is said, but for what is shown: The growing number of neighborhoods, towns, and cities where veiled women and bearded men proliferate while the pale British faces of yore recede. Neither program touches on one great irony: Having largely turned their backs on Christianity and embraced secularism, the British (like most Europeans) must now grapple with another, far more fierce religious ideology, and this time someone else's - on their own land.

I have watched some of "Undercover Mosque" on YouTube and, despite knowing exactly what to expect, found it blood-curdling. I have not seen "The War Within" because I understand it features Christiane Amanpour. Perhaps in another world, Allah permitting.

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Christiane Amanpour: which side is she on? But I forgot myself for a moment. How low rent of me. Of course...she's above taking sides. Better that, better to watch your whole world succumb to an implacable enemy, denying denying denying to the very end that there even is such a thing as an implacable enemy; because that would be, that would be *gasp* declasse!

Posted by: ricpic at January 22, 2007 5:21 PM

Speaking of taking sides, sometimes I consider getting a bumper sticker that says something like: "I Am Pro Civilization."

Then I realize that, given my geography, this would be mistaken for some kind of ironic jab at the eeevil Rethuglicans.

There is not enough space on the surface of my car to inform people of what the Koran demands and how people are obeying those demands.

Posted by: Bostonian at January 22, 2007 5:45 PM

Come now, Christiane apparently explains that all the Muslim hatred of England and the English is solely due to the War in Iraq.

It's all Bush's and Blair's fault, and if we would only pull out of Iraq, everything would be just peachy in Albion...

Posted by: kpom at January 22, 2007 9:51 PM

I understand that the people that do these dispatches are as left wing as the left wing can get. If they see the threat, it means it's probably worst. It seems that while slowly, they are coming to realize they (seculars) have more to loose under an Islamic England.

Is it possible that we could have an influx of Europeans running for their lives writhing a few decades? People being persecuted for being Christians, Jewish?
It would not be the first time.

Posted by: Lem at January 23, 2007 10:50 AM

Poor Blairistan. Tony and the Missus have been busily deconstructing that place laughingly called the UK their entire adult lives; he even coming close to slapping Liz II on the bum at the Millenium Dome. Is this what they hand in mind? No, they won't have a country of old maids on bicycles, that's for sure. They won't have a country at all. Events dear boy, events.

Posted by: Rhod at January 23, 2007 1:21 PM

What is that line about people who no longer believe in God don't believe in nothing but instead will believe in anything? Or get stuck with anything. Try to imagine American communities of not just veiled women and bearded men but tall, spindly minarets blaring recorded calls to prayer throughout the day. Yipes.

Posted by: Dick Stanley at January 24, 2007 7:12 AM

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