Kurt Westergaard and Lars Hedegaard - President of the International Free Press Society - were on Michael Coren's show tonight in a pre-taped interview. Most of what Hedegaard and Westergaard said is found in various other interviews, some on YouTube. But in this particular interview, one thing stood out for me.
Hedegaard, discussing the ambushed Western world by Muslims, started talking about the unique circumstances of our age when non-Muslim countries are being forced to adhere to Islamic principles and laws.
I've always thought that it was strange that the Danes were forced to follow Islamic mandates, and had to fight to publish their own stories (and images) in their own papers and books, in their own country. How could a Western country be under the thumb of Islamic laws?
Well, that is exactly what Hedergaard commented upon, giving examples of other harsh representations of Mohammed in, for example, Dante's Inferno. This depiction never unleashed the kind of furor we see now. The point is, in that era, Muslims did their own thing in their own regions, as did the European countries. The two regions were as far apart geographically as culturally.
The problem now is not that Europe (or America and Canada) is especially aligned, or close, to Muslim countries; there is still a big disconnect. The problem is that Muslims have entered Europe (and the Americas) in such large numbers that they are dictating the rules of the game. They are turning Western countries into their own.
Sharia is thus no longer confined to Muslim countries, but is being forced upon non-Muslim countries as well, with, of course, the full intention that these non-Muslim countries become Muslim eventually.
The problem is serious, but the solution is simpler. Rather than continuously confront the determined Muslims within their own countries, Europeans, and North Americans, need to find ways to reduce their numbers and their strength so that sharia doesn't become an overriding (or competing) reality. The more Muslims there are, the stronger they become, and the more demands they will make on their host countries to embrace their culture, society and religion. The cause and effect is quite logical, really. Now, it is time to do something about the cause.