A solid program for the Western world

A terrific, detailed posting on what we should be doing about the Islamist problem, by Norwegian blogger Fjordman. Everything's covered -- countering Islamic cultural influence in Europe, energy independence, exploiting the Muslim world's natural divisions, alliances of opportunity with other non-Muslim civilizations facing the same Islamist threat. I note even a well-deserved rebuke of the "libertarian" open-borders lunacy, which stems from the basic fallacy which libertarians, oddly, share with Marxists -- the belief that everything important can be reduced to economics, disregarding the importance of culture. Why can't anyone who's actually running for office come up with something as well-thought-out as this?

Europeans should adopt legislation similar to the First Amendment in the American Constitution, securing the right to free speech. The reason why European authorities are becoming increasingly totalitarian in their censorship efforts is to conceal the fact that they are no longer willing or able to uphold even the most basic security of their citizenry, far less our national borders. Europe needs free speech more than ever.

The Islamic world always has been our enemy and always will be. China and Russia do not have to be our enemies, although our relations will be complicated because of their size and their own Great Power ambitions.

It’s true that in the current political situation, expulsion of sharia-sponsoring Muslims isn’t going to happen. But the current political situation isn’t going to last.

There's far too much good material to quote. Read the whole article.