The Alarm Bells Are Ringing.

I rarely write about politics with one great exception, the alarming danger I see in the encroachment of the rights  - freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, the right to vote,  the rule of law, the equality of all men and women before the law  - that have been passed on to us by the generations before us.  I believe we hold those rights in trust and are bound to pass them on to future generations intact.  Those rights recognized in our Constitution and Bill of Rights do not belong to Americans alone but to everyone; they are universal human rights. 

When those hard-won rights are being lost little by little under the guise of multiculturalism and tolerance of 'whatever',  I am greatly alarmed.  Mark Steyn writes So what would it take to alarm you?

Sharia in Britain? Taxpayer-subsidized polygamy in Toronto? Yawn. Nothing to see here. True, if you'd suggested such things on Sept. 10, 2001, most Britons and Canadians would have said you were nuts. But a few years on and it doesn't seem such a big deal, and nor will the next concession, and the one after that. 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.

The war against Islamic jihadism now being fought around the globe is about more than terrorism, fearful and horrific as that is, it is also about the oppression of women.

If you have any doubt watch the video below but not with any children present because it is so graphic.    Weep for the millions of Muslims who are denied the basic rights we take for granted.