Demos' chilling uncertainty

Wednesday, 16th July 2008

There's a post at Harry's Place by a rep from Demos. It's very revealing. The writer clearly thinks he is being persuasive, but it's actually chilling. Here's his last paragraph:

We need to take the values we, and so many Muslims and non-Muslims, share as liberals and wage a battle against those values that make us deeply uncomfortable. If ours are as resilient as we hold them to be, then they will prevail.

I'm not sure I've ever read a more terrifying sentence from a mainstream think tank. Demos, remember, claims to be about 'everyday democracy'. And yet the best thing the writer can muster is a hope that our values are resilient.

Does he doubt they are? I'm not surprised, since Demos itself is happy to work in tandem with genocidal theocrats.

The writer seems utterly ignorant of the scale of the threat. Or is he simply ambivalent about khillafa dhimmi?

 UPDATE: Unbelievable. I don't think I have ever read a worse defence of a case. 

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