“I just wanna be MEEEEeeeee!”

Lawrence Auster comments on Melanie Phillips’s idea that all we need for there to be harmony in Western lands is a Muslim change of heart:

[According to Ms. Phillips,] British leaders and institutions must stop approving of the Muslims' immoral attitudes and require that Muslims conform themselves to Western morality. The problem with this idea is that Muslims cannot conform to Western morality without ceasing to be Muslims, and therefore the change of heart Phillips expects and hopes for can never come about.

Reading this, I’m reminded of a witty speaker at an AA meeting I attended years ago. “It’s easy to get sober,” he said. “All you have to do is quit drinking and change your whole personality.”

"The unreformable Islamitude of Muslims, and why Melanie Phillips doesn't get it." By Lawrence Auster, View from the Right, 10/20/07.