Londonistan Author on British IslamoTreason

Melanie Philips has some observations on the thwarted terror plot and its underlying causes in a Newsweek interview. She is the author of Londonistan, a book that got little media coverage as it does not conform to the see-no-hear-no-yaddayadda the MSM prefers when the subject concerns the atavistic primitive religious attack on western civilization known as Islamic Fascism. Melanie starts out with a couple of quick jabs:

we need to do more than just defeat plots and break up cells. We need to target the people who incite them. We should say that we respect Islam as a religion, and we respect peoples’ right to practice it, but if that practice and preaching includes things like hatred for the West, incitement to violence, anti-Semitism, etc, then we won’t stand for it. We will prosecute people, get rid of them, and throw them out of the country. It’s not Islamophobia to say this.

I would add throw the riffraff in jail, but upon reflection, good riddance to bad rubbish and out of the country they go. Send them to France, where they can live in the banlieux. As for moderate Muslims? They are scared to DEATH:

...moderate Muslims are, I think, in fear for their lives, literally, if they speak out in public. Our government hasn’t supported them, hasn’t given them money and worked with them to make sure they are heard. In fact, the whole definition of "moderate" has become skewed. Officials think that a "moderate" is someone who is not committed to mass murder. We’re pathetically grateful just for that. But a lot of people who are called moderates still believe in things like an international Jewish conspiracy, or the idea that the CIA was behind 9/11, or that sort of rubbish. These people may not be violent themselves, but they are the sea in which those who are violent swim--they make the violence possible.

The US has, or used to have, a RICO law to confront syndicates and rackets dedicated to criminal activities. Does mass murder qualify as a criminal activity? And what do the British officials employ against this sort of RICO activity?

I think there’s still a lot of denial about the nature of the problem. The authorities still won’t admit that we are dealing with a religious war. That’s because religious wars are a truly fearsome prospect. We know from history that they are difficult to fight, and messy, and go on for a long time. For a liberal society, that’s anathema. And, Britain is by nature an appeasement culture--it springs from colonialism. We think that by talking to and dealing with the parts of the community that are slightly less extreme, we can somehow "turn" them all [to our way of thinking].

Yes, that is perfidious Albion's other kinder cheek, the one that believes that getting slapped is salutory to an extent and that somehow by "muddling through" that things will work out in the end.

Just look at the historical examples of Cyprus, India/Pakistan/Burma, Iraq, the Twice-Promised Land that Lord Balfour foisted on Lloyd George, there are otherexamples of the ultimate outcome of just letting things run their course in the British colonial historical closet. But what about the USA? Do you think the United States is doing a better job of grappling with extremism than Britain?

Well, I don’t see U.S. authorities doing enough to stop radical imams preaching in prisons, for example. You have a president who sometimes says the right things, sometimes not. But the problem is different, because the demographic is different. There are fewer Muslims [as a percentage of population] in the United States, and they come from different places.

I understand your book has been better received in the United States than in Britain…

Well, it took me three years to get published here. And then, only by a small publisher [Gibson Square]. In the U.S., my book has been almost totally ignored by the mainstream media. But I’ve gotten a lot of attention on talk radio. And I’ve gotten many responses from Americans who say, “you wrote this book about the U.K., but you are really speaking to us as well.” In fact, it’s been the same in Britain--the media and the intelligentsia don’t like it, but ordinary people have been very supportive. They understand that the government’s attitude of appeasement towards radicals is cultural suicide.

The media and intelligentsia don't like it, alright! The lemminglords just revel in the idea of "cultural suicide," as the New York Times and its lemming buddies in the MSM reveal on a daily basis. Try to humiliate and destroy strong leaders and let the academics and those wise media moguls take the steering wheel for a while. Bush and Blair are strong, which is the antithesis of what the MSM desires in a leader. They want a Jimmy Carter, or a Billy Jeff, or a French-fry lookalike Kerry instead!
Let's hear the truth from Melanie one more time:

The authorities [read the intelligentsia, media, academicide victims, liberal cowards] still won’t admit that we are dealing with a religious war. That’s because religious wars are a truly fearsome prospect. We know from history that they are difficult to fight, and messy, and go on for a long time. For a liberal society, that’s anathema.