A different breed of cat.

Adherence to basic tenets of Islam, vigilantism by security force personnel, official complicity, campaign of terror. The usual ingredients when we look at a majority Muslim country and the status of non-Muslims there:

A member of the minority Ahmadi community, which does not recognize Mohammed as Islam's last prophet, was murdered by a former police sub-inspector. Muslim extremists forbade wife to attend funeral.

A "heretic" of Islam has been killed by a retired Muslim policeman who accused him of being "infidel and of making people infidel". The perpetrator most probably will not even be tried for the murder.

On 1 March, Riaz Gondal, a retired assistant sub-inspector of the Punjab police, shot Muhammad Ashraf point-blank and killed him instantly. Ashraf was a member of the Ahmadi minority. Before firing, Gondal shouted: "You are an infidel, and are making people infidel".

The Ahmadi community describes itself as Muslim but does not recognize Muhammad as the last prophet; thus, it is submitted to persecution by integralists in many Muslim countries including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Such violence goes unpunished by these Muslim majority states that often close an eye even to the most shocking cases.

Note to self: under no circumstances allow Muslims to become a majority of my own society.

Or is that just too much of a logical leap?

If it is, what is there about the way we manage immigration from Muslim countries that even begins to address the presence of this kind of thinking in Muslim immigrants? "Do you advocate sharia, sir?" "You do? Sorry. You're not eligible to come to the U.S." (alternative 2: "You can't stay here any longer."). Ditto for "Do you believe in death for apostasy, sir?"

This kind of thinking is par for the course everywhere there are Muslims, as any reader of The Religion of Peace or Patrick al-Kafi over at Clarity & Resolve will tell you.

A sampling of what's listed over at The Religion of Peace today:

• Palestinians celebrate suicide bombings and Muslims around the world hail and fund the groups that coordinate them. -- "Lost Children Remembered by Fathers ."
• "Islamists Destroy African Church...."
• "Thai Radicals Murder Two Teenage Buddhist Girls...."
• "'Fill' Copenhagen with Islam...."
• "Life Returning to 'Normal' for Egypt's Christians Following Riot."
• "Muslim Communities Shelter Terrorists in Thai South...."
• "13-Year-Old Among Jewish Women Gang-Raped by Muslims."
• "Two Girls Hacked to Death by Family Over Premarital Sex...."
• "Hindu Girls Targeted by Muslim Extremists...."
• "Blogger Receives 4-Year Sentence for 'Insulting Islam'...."
• "Sudan Resumes Arab Genocide of Africans...."
• "UK: Inquest Concludes Muslim Burned His Family Alive for Being 'Too Western'...."
• "'Parallel Muslim Universe' Grows in Germany...."
• "Islam No Laughing Matter as Dutch Comics Live in Fear...."
• "Nashville Cab Driver Tries to Run Down Infidels...."
• "Indonesian Radicals Seek 'Spectacular Slaughter' of Christians...."
• "Cleric Suggests Fitting All Women with Chastity Belts...."
• "New Zealand: Visting Clerics Preach Hate...."
• "California MSA Shouts Down Scholar, Calls for Jihad...."
• "Pakistani Evangelists Beaten by Muslims...."

The governments of each and every Western country and every other civilized non-Muslim countries need to lead a deep and exhaustive debate about whether Muslims are capable of living in their midst and whether it is guaranteed national suicide to permit even one more Muslim to emigrate to their lands and resident populations not to be sent home. Utter frankness is what is called for and not George Bush's la la drivel about Islam, to name but one Western leader.

It is too much to ask of a people to stop what they are doing and begin to study Islam in order to come to grips with the problems created by mindlessly importing vast numbers of them. Americans, for one, have got better things to do with their time and do not need to contemplate the ways in which their legal ideals need to be contorted to serve their inundation as a people.

The Colonel his own sef vastly resents the diversion of his limited mental resources to try to come to grips with this alien, backward, violent, illiberal, hostile, subversive quasi-religion slash doctrine of imperial conquest.

Muslims are different, different, different.

Hindus, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, Copts, Argentineans, Haitians, Chinese, non-Muslim Africans, and Irishmen will come here and be glad to accommodate themselves to the reigning culture and legal system without plotting anthrax attacks, destruction of the power grid, or flying a plane into a nuclear power plant. But if any one of those things were to happen, is there any doubt in your mind that it will have been as a result of a plot hatched by some fruitcake Muslim supported and cheered on by the native Muslim community in which he lives?

You bet. Something in the extant Muslim theology and mindset dictates that Muslims adopt an insufferable arrogance toward infidels.

And . . . follow it up with homicidal acts. What could be more natural, I axe you?

But civilized people cower and worry about expressions of "poppadom."

Alfed E. Neuman, call your office.

"Muslim murders heretic." Asia Times, 3/4/07 <-- "The Religion of Peace."