.... Their desire to promote a new caliphate, ruled by sharia law, reflects a rejection of the West rooted in a pitiful inability to compete with the West in any constructive fashion. Glorious death represents their highest aspiration.
The relative success of such fundamentalism is a measure of the despair pervading many Muslim societies.
The lessons of history are that we Westerners can do little to change the course of events in the Middle East, and are ill-advised to try.
Meanwhile, here at home we must fight with every weapon in our hands — legal, cultural and educational — to prevent the curse of Islamist militancy from spreading its wholly pernicious influence within our own societies.
What they do within their own regions of the world, it must be their affair to resolve, with such modest support as we can give. But there can be no compromise with such warped doctrines here, in the sorry name of multiculturalism. [Daily Mail] Read more
