Abasement and Surrender

In the U.K, young British muslims are getting more radical.

Forty per cent of Muslims between 16 and 24 said they would prefer to live under sharia law.  One in eight said they admired Al Qaeda and other groups prepared to fight the West.  Thirty six per cent said they believe that a Muslim who converts  to another religion should be 'punished by death'.

While Bernard Lewis, the pre-eminent Middle Eastern and Islamic scholar said the Muslims seem about to take over Europe.

Instead of fighting the threat, he elaborated, Europeans had given up.

"Europeans are losing their own loyalties and their own self-confidence," he said. "They have no respect for their own culture." Europeans had "surrendered" on every issue with regard to Islam in a mood of "self-abasement," "political correctness" and "multi-culturalism," said Lewis, who was born in London to middle-class Jewish parents but has long lived in the United States.

The threat of extremist Islam goes far beyond Europe, Lewis stressed, turning to the potential impact of Iran going nuclear under its current regime.

The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons they had targeted at each other, would not apply to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran, said Lewis.

"For him, Mutual Assured Destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement," said Lewis of Ahmadinejad. "We know already that they [Iran's ruling ayatollahs] do not give a damn about killing their own people in great numbers. We have seen it again and again. If they kill large numbers of their own people, they are doing them a favor. They are giving them a quick, free pass to heaven. I find all that very alarming," said Lewis

UPDATE.  What Ayaan Hirsi Ali said to the Council of Racial Equality via Deroy Murdock at the National Review
“Human beings are equal; cultures are not.”
"A culture that holds the door open to her women is not equal to one that confines them behind walls and veils,”
“A culture that encourages dating between young men and young women is not equal to a culture that flogs or stones a girl for falling in love.
"A culture where monogamy is an aspiration is not equal to a culture where a man can lawfully have four wives all at once."

“Unfortunately, it is this culture that is under threat today,” she told CORE’s guests. “Many of those born into it take it for granted or, worse, apologize for it.” As Ayaan Hirsi Ali asked: “Let’s join together to protect this culture of life, this culture of liberty, this culture of ladies first.”