.... what we are seeing in the cities of the West is what commentator Daniel Pipes calls the “separation of civilizations” — Muslim-only enclaves where Sharia laws pertaining to matrimony, education, economics and even calendar time hold sway.
This augurs ill for the future. The West has imported the conditions that allow for the emergence of the kind of religious conflict that Hobbes warned against in Leviathan.
The question, of course, is whether westerners will shed the illusions of multiculturalism and reject the Islamist effort to impose medieval religious laws antithetical to a modern liberal society. Unless they do, the result may well be what Hobbes most feared: a war of all against all. [Ottawa Citizen] Read more
