Bent Notes

Two of the Mumbai terrorists were British Muslims.

Do you have any doubt about who did this?

What is the common thread in the last few posts here at BN - Hizbollah’s smackdown of Lebanon’s ineffectual “official” government, the attack on the Ashkelon shopping center, and Ahmadinejad’s latest threats - as well as this news item from Jaipur, India about near-simultaneous bomb blasts that killed 61 and injured 216?

Go to the front of the class if you said “radical Islam.”

Anybody who thinks Western civilization is jauntily rolling along save for the occasional random challenge of a law-enforcement nature is sadly and willfully ignorant of what is going on.

Occasionally, commenters here at BN respond to posts in the various dhimmitude categories with remarkds along the lines of “Oh, lighten up.  These isolated instances aren’t making any serious transformations of our culture.”  How pathetically blind.

It’s way past time to see the pattern in all the “diversity” / multiculturalism programs in our educational system, the Muslim-women-only days at public fitness gyms and swimming pools, the British prison toilets turned to face Mecca, the Anglican archbishop’s acceptance of the encroachment of sharia into British law, the bathing of the Empire State Building in green light for the end of Ramadan, and so on - and on and on and on.

Let me be blunt.  It doesn’t look like our way of life is going to make it.  We don’t have the will to resist the above violations, dilutions and affronts, much less rockets or nuclear bombs. 

The degree of resolve it would take to seriously address what we face would require a shift in our mindset that I’m not sure we can accomplish.  I don’t know that I’m blaming anyone - us, collectively, or any one group or individual.  It’s probably just a natural result of the veil of normalcy that’s still draped over our daily lives, which, for all the high fuel prices and economic uncertainty, are still pretty cush by worldwide standards.  The worst stuff is still happening “over there.”

I think such canaries in the coal mine as Robert Spencer and Mark Steyn look like skunks at the garden party to the major swath of our populace that still preoccupies itself with pop culture and personal ambition.  We’ve seen this set of circumstances before in history.  Is it just the nature of things for an ominous threat to be just beyond the periphery until a sudden moment when it appears center stage?

The investigation into the murders of the Bible publishers in Turkey - two of them converts from Islam to Christianity - turns up some disturbing possibilities.

Watch the video at this link.