[new feudalism] we've laid ourselves open

Ian Parker puts it like this:

Dead countries almost always give birth to dictatorships. Remember that old one about for evil to prosper, all that's needed is for good men to do nothing?

Well, thank you, the nation's teachers and education authorities. Fine work over the past thirty years or so, during which your left wing all shall have prizes and let's not teach British history 'curriculum' has so successfully disenfranchised the younger half of the electorate. Brilliant. Fucking brilliant. Lenin must be so proud.

This apathy and ignorance scares the hell out of me.

It was not always thus.

I would like to add some notes to this.

Williams' assertion that adherence to sharia "assumes the voluntary consent or submission of the believer" is symptomatic of what has happened in Europe and raises the question of either his naivety or his complicity.

It ignores one simple point - societies now Islamic are in the House of Peace and societies not yet Islamic are in Dar al-Harb. There is a do-gooder spirit, much lauded in the west, which says 'let's all love one another' but ignores simple realities. It's allied with PoMo relativism.

Multiculturalism is nowadays affiliated with a postmodern outlook. The pivotal ideas of this vision of life are relativism (cultural relativism, in particular), a negative attitude toward Western political tradition, the cultivation of collective guilt for the transgressions of the colonial past, and other real or presumed black pages in Western history.

What worries me about this relativistic - or rather, nihilistic - position is that it makes Western societies easy prey for the ideology of radical Islamism.

The Left not only refuses to acknowledge but actively propagates the idea that there is no Christian basis to western society and in particular - Europe. Therefore:

If Western societies think they have no core values important enough to fight for (by peaceful means), then there is no reason for immigrant minorities to accept them. If the dominant ideology in Western societies is that democracy, the rule of law, and human rights have no specific quality that makes them superior to theocracy, dictatorship, and authoritarianism, there is no need to oppose the radical assault directed at Western democracies by the teachers of hate.

Is hate too strong a word? Here is the Iran Daily on Magdi Allam, the Italian journalist who has achieved some notoriety for his statements:

The way he earned such reputation is by means of relentlessly and viciously slandering Islam and its beliefs, a task that he carries out diligently every week--when not every second day--from the pages of Italy’s biggest newspaper, usually by splashing shocking headlines on the front page. The ideas he expresses in his articles and interviews are so outrageously biased and grotesque that the Italian journalists’ guild ought to reprimand him, at the very least.

Here is yet another example:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somalian-born member of Parliament from Verdonk’s VVD party, used to be a Muslim. After 9/11, however, she renounced a religion from which she was already estranged, and has now become one of its most uncompromising critics. In return, Islamic fanatics want her dead.

So the West, aided and abetted by cynical men and women of the old money have been in bed with the marxists in destroying everything from the judiciary to education in the last four decades but far worse is that by crippling Christianity and not allowing social values most strongly espoused by Christianity, e.g. standing firm on principle and treating ones' brother as oneself and by replacing it with a false dictatorship of the proletariat model of brotherhood, bereft of the key element love, European society has been laid open for takeover.

And they know it very, very well.

Caroline Fourest, herself of the Left, prefers to see it as naivety and refers to 1979 in Iran:

“Back then, a group of Marxists made a big mistake. They thought it would be possible to form a partnership with Islamists in the fight to topple the Shah,” said Caroline Fourest in her controversial presentation at the recently concluded international Islamism conference at Århus University. “Today, we see coalitions and partnerships between Islamist groups and progressive leftwing movements that we would not have expected five years ago.

We can argue all night about whether it's intentional or not but the simple fact is that the Left is assisting in the destruction of society as the west once knew it.

If we persist with the delusion that the EU state is not marxist in nature and funded by the stateless and unscrupulous old money, then there's very little basis for debate. This unholy alliance has put any person or persons who dares speak out against it in great danger.

Read about Redeker to see this alliance illustrated:

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and centrist intellectuals, including Pascal Bruckner, Alain Finkielkraut, André Glucksmann, and Bernard-Henri Lévy, also issued an appeal on Redeker’s behalf and in defense of France’s “most fundamental liberties.” But the vast majority of responses, even when couched as defenses of the right to free speech, were in fact hostile to the philosophy teacher.

This is a standard Leftist ploy - to pretend to be interested in freedoms of the individual. Yes we are but ... always the but.

And none of them would ever have got a leg-in if Europe had adhered to it's Catholic and Protestant codes of conduct, if not its practices.