One of the greatest books of this century is Mark Steyn’s best-seller: “America Alone” from 2006. Steyn lays out a trifecta of trends influencing world history for the next century and beyond:

Islam adherents are the fastest growing demographic in the world; The tenants of Islam (and especially its extremist ideologies) run counter to the institutions of western democracies and Western democracies offer fewer and fewer reasons for migrant citizens to adopt and support these institutions.

Demographics, freedom and will.

With the recent rash of terrorist attacks I want to call attentions to two important editorials from across the pond which elucidate on these issues

My thoughts first:

The Manchester bomber flew an ISIS flag but no one dared report him for fear of retribution or fine. One of the terrorists in the London attacks had been reported twice but authorities did not make any move. Meanwhile, authorities have fined a 62-year old German woman 1350 Euros for daring to share an anti-migrant mem on Facebook. The story is the same again and again and again.

Citizens and officials have fermented a toxic relationship as multi-cultural dogma dictates that everyone walk on eggshells and never ever call a spade a spade.

Here’s the core sections in this editorial I want everyone to strongly consider:

This censorious flattery of Islam is, in my view, a key contributor to the violence we have seen in recent years. Because when you constantly tell people that any mockery of their religion is tantamount to a crime, is vile and racist and unacceptable, you actively invite them, encourage them in fact, to become intolerant. You license their intolerance. You inflame their violent contempt for anyone who questions their dogmas. You provide a moral justification for their desire to punish those who insult their religion. From the 7/7 bombers to the Charlie Hebdo murderers to Salman Abedi in Manchester, all these terrorists — these Islamist terrorists — expressed an extreme victim mentality and openly said they were punishing us for our disrespect of Islam, mistreatment of Muslims, ridiculing of Muhammad, and so on. The Islamophobia industry and politicians who constantly say ‘Islam is great, leave Islam alone!’ green-light this violence; they furnish it with a moral case and moral zeal.

The pattern is seen again and again.

A second editorial from the same online rag comes from someone who shares the same heritage as Abedi — the young Manchester murderer. After quoting Orwell’s oft-cited description of the British society as a somewhat dysfunctional family — but a family nonetheless — the author notes:

Islamists, for decades, have regarded Britain not as a family, but as a place to eat and sleep on their way to somewhere else. While the privileged wring their hands and wonder what they might have done to offend their exotic guests, those to whom the house belongs are beginning to pipe up and object. Whenever they do — for example, when their kids are murdered at a pop concert — their more sophisticated relatives seem mostly preoccupied with the desire to avoid a scene. Openly discussing Islamism is not an attack on me or any other British Muslim. We are the hostages of Islamism and its vampire preachers who weaponised Salman Abedi and used him to slaughter 22 innocents, in the midst of their joy, out of sheer spite. Speaking frankly and honestly about this horror is the only hope we have of emerging from it as anything resembling a cohesive British family.

If a young British-born lad from a Muslim heritage looks at his choices he identifies much more as a Islamist than as a subject of the Crown. Of course he’ll feed off the public generosity of the Brits as it serves him but every injustice against his ilk is seen as justification for more terrible actions.

These are important and difficult subjects but we need to tackle them.

Consider the consequences. Unless we address this seriously and soberly our past is our future:

Here are the stats from the United States which make up the infographic I cite above.