Looking straight at the Medusa.

As in the legend of the Medusa, the modern world fears to stare directly into the face of the monster that threatens its destruction.

Were Islam to prevail in the heartland of the West, the ancient ways of those lands and their wondrous freedoms and intellectual accomplishments would wither under an ignorance that, in the 21st century, is almost inconceivable.

The west is threatened with the rule of toads and the elites of the West are somnolent, deluded, or bought off. They are besotted with harebrained notions of the inferiority of their own magnificent cultures and the equal status of cultures that could never conceive of the hula hoop, let alone lawn darts.

One man in Denmark, however, is brave enough to describe the situation there in straightforward terms. Ole Hasselbalch, professor, Doctor of Laws has written a warning for Danes about the danger of Muslim infiltration of their country and asks if they are willing at long last to confront their enemies:

Within the Arabic cultural sphere a feigned anger over an alleged offense is a well-known trait. Last winter there were many reasons to invent such an outrage: Egypt was facing a parliamentary election, and the regime needed a cause to boost their image. Iran needed a diversion from the Western attention to the nuclear ambitions of the country. Syria needed to have the pressure lifted after the involvement in the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister. The negotiations about Kosovo’s future were imminent. The new Palestinian government needed legitimacy. Finally there was a need for tougher blasphemy laws to cap the increasing tendency in the Western European media to occupy themselves with the unacceptable parts of Islam — the British parliament was about to discuss “The Religious Hatred Bill”.

In short, the Mohammed Affair wasn’t set off by an offense. It was created in the expanding Muslim world in use for the conflict with the West.

This conflict is fundamentally about whether a political ideology clothed in a religious mantle will be allowed to force its dogma upon others, and even dictate that this must replace empirical knowledge. If this succeeds, we’re back to the times when Copernicus and Galileo were facing the Inquisition. On such a foundation no decent society can be built.

Prof. Hasselbalch makes these additional points:

• The primary mechanism of undermining the host society is demographic submersion (Gadaffi: “We have 50 million Muslims in Europe. They are a sign that Allah will give Islam victory over Europe — without swords, without cannons, without conquest.");


• A 2006 poll of Muslim immigrants already in Denmark showed that over one-half of them would not "distance themselves from the anti-Danish riots in the Middle-East";


• The number of "moderate" Muslims is insignificant and the moderates will "very likely be silenced in the long run";


• A minority can dominate a majority, as the Bolsheviks did in Russia and Cortez did in South America;


• Muslims invent fictitious offenses against them and stigmatize critics with the aid of Danish collaborators;


• Such efforts to stigmatize and divert attention must be ignored and the focus kept on the "deeply intolerant Middle-East, where in the last 100 years they have virtually succeeded in wiping out the Christian and Jewish societies";


• "Europe is about to be lost" because of European leaders who are either blind to the threat or "dislike taking the unpleasant steps now that will prevent something even worse later on" and so look the other way;


• A Middle-Eastern society with "corruption, nepotism and religious madness" is waiting to infest Denmark;


• Denmark's social structure will collapse when "Muslims’ family structure [and] their views on women’s place" becomes the norm, the consequence of which will be Danes will be a "suppressed minority" in their own land and will not be able to rebuild what they and their ancestors had enjoyed for centuries;


• There is no more time for temporizing and debate without action;


• There is no guarantee that the West will prevail;


• Danes have both a right and a duty to stop this;


• Muslims who do not respect Danish values must no longer be able to acquire citizenship and those who have already acquired it must be encouraged "to strike camp";


• "Eastern culture in the daily life of Danes must be opposed and not supported";


• Danes must understand how much petrodollars have bought and paid for journalists, bureaucrats (including former American ambassadors), and politicians (including an American president);


• Western leaders were unprepared for the scams and tricks behind the Motoons "uproar" and are doubtless just as unprepared today;


• Islam seeks control over others, just as with totalitarian ideologies; and


• "There is thus no basis for a dialogue with Islam, as long as this belief’s practitioners just consider such dialogue as a tool for deception."

There is no basis for a dialog with Islam. Period.

Muslim fanatics and the ummah that supports them or is cowed by them understand only force and the will to use it.

Anything less is just a prescription for more of the same, piled high and deeper: more and more Muslims digging in to Western countries until their numbers are large enough to defeat a West too feeble to protect itself. We are at war with Islam and must fight it with the ferocity with which we have fought our sworn enemies in the past.

Perseus was able to slay the Medusa by looking at its reflection in the shield held by Athena. But he only succeeded in doing so because he was willing to look at his enemy.

"Are We Ready for Confrontation?" Jyllands-Posten, 7/7/06. Translation at Gates of Vienna and comments of Baron Boddisey, 8/10/06.