As a citizen of the UK, whose armed forces are fighting and dying alongside your guy's ( including my cousin who is a Royal Marines Commando who has served in both Iraq and Aghanistan). I would just like to say that inspite of the articles about the Islamisation of Europe. Many of my friends, work colleagues would all fight to the death rather than see this happen to our country. The problem is our politicians are blinkered to the dangers that ultra high levels of political correctness encourages.

I salute your armed forces and those of the UK with pride; God Bless America and the Queen.
Many Thanks for allowing me to make a post on your web site.
 

 Sometimes we miss the big picture because we fail to take a step backward,
> take a deep breath and look. Martin Luther King Jr. said," It doesn't
> matter if we can see the whole stairway, so long as we take the first
> step."
> But I think we should at least know where the stairway ends, before
> mounting
> the stairs.
>
> Brandy
>
>
> And Shariah For All?
> By Diana West
> Saturday, September 15, 2007
>
>
> The story of the week wasn't Gen. David Petraeus' testimony on Iraq,
> although it dominated the headlines. The story of the week wasn't the
> sixth
> return of Sept. 11 since the jihad atrocity of 2001, although it inspired
> many public statements and ceremonies. The week's biggest story garnered
> little press and few comments. But, in a significant way, this overlooked
> story -- an outrageous display of police force in Brussels on Sept. 11,
> 2007
> -- symbolizes the missing link in our flawed comprehension of both Iraq
> and
> Sept. 11.
>
> There, in the so-called capital of Europe, 200 people marked the day with
> a
> protest against the Islamization of Europe -- a civilizational shift
> which,
> as Europe increasingly accommodates Shariah (Islamic law), is shockingly
> advanced. Indeed, Middle East expert Bernard Lewis has already predicted
> Europe will become Islamic by century's end. Absent a reversal of
> Islamization (which remains possible) I'm guessing sooner than that.
>
> The assembly, sponsored by Stop the Islamization of Europe (SIOE), was
> wholly peaceful -- at least until Belgian police showed up. With a chopper
> above, water cannon nearby, they didn't break heads, exactly -- nothing so
> kind as that. In a photo that should be titled The New Face of Fascism
> (see
> it at www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2441), we see black-clad Belgian
> policemen brutalizing a man in a light-colored suit and tie. His hands are
> cuffed behind his back, his right elbow is clasped in what is known as an
> arm-bar hold, and he is also being subjected to a genital hold -- a
> vicious
> grip that, a retired cop friend of mine tells me, would get any American
> policeman thrown off the force.
>
> The man under arrest was Frank Vanhecke, president of the Flemish
> secessionist party Vlaams Belang and a member of European Parliament. Also
> arrested and beaten was Filip Dewinter, who, as the leading politician of
> Vlaams Belang, Belgium's largest opposition party, has personally garnered
> 25 percent of the electorate. (You can find a picture of Belgian police
> forcing Dewinter to the ground online at kleinverzet.blogspot.com.)
>
> These men are invariably described as "far-right" politicians, as though
> "far-right"-ness alone (whatever that means when totalitarian police
> tactics
> are considered tolerant left) is rationale enough for harsh treatment.
> I've
> met both men and know them as free-market, small-government conservatives
> who deeply believe Western civilization is worth defending against the
> Islamization that occurs with the entrenchment of Shariah. Indeed, they
> are
> bravely trying to prevent Europe's Islamization, practically by
> themselves.
> I say "bravely" because in Europe these days, as we know from the
> Islam-motivated murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh, such beliefs can
> get you killed.
>
> Maybe so, a reader might say. But what does protesting Shariah in Europe
> have to do with either American policy in Iraq or Sept. 11?
>
> The answer is everything. What were the attacks of Sept. 11 all about? Al
> Qaeda's terrorist plot was designed not only to strike at the United
> States,
> but also to advance the cause of establishing an Islamic caliphate -- a
> world government ruled according to Shariah, which, among other things,
> forbids criticism of Islam. Polls indicate that sizable numbers of Muslims
> (solid majorities in key countries), regardless of their opinion of Al
> Qaeda, share this same goal of a Shariat-based, Islamic caliphate. This is
> a
> highly significant overlap between the goals of Islamic terrorism and what
> we think of as mainstream Islam.
>
> Meanwhile, though, in our childish, PC wisdom (accepted across the
> political
> spectrum), we have let Islam off the hook when it comes to terrorism,
> sticking to the story that our whole problem is with a Tiny Band of
> Extremists That Hijacked Islam, not the jihadist teachings of Islam
> itself.
> To make the story stick, we also seem to ignore the impetus behind Islamic
> terrorism -- the imposition of Shariah, what with its ultimate
> institutional
> denigrations of non-Muslims and women, and its denial of freedom of
> conscience and expression.
>
> This blinkered view of Islam explains how even in our commemorations of
> Sept. 11 we ignore the ongoing threat to liberty posed by the spread of
> Shariah across the West, which the SIOE was trying to protest. It even
> helps
> explain our confusion over Iraq, where, ignoring the formative influence
> of
> Shariah on the native culture, we are stumped by our failures to remake
> Iraq
> in our own Western image.
>
> There is another consequence of our blindness: a terrible indifference to
> cultural allies in Europe who are fighting its Islamization -- a cataclysm
> for the liberty-based West.
>
> We ignore them at our peril.