Ultimate Multi-Culti

In the aftermath of the thwarted airline terror attack, people are concerned about loss of civil liberties in the US, that our government will take away our freedom in fighting terrorism. Those among us who have libertarian sympathies are not happy about increased government intrusion. And we well remember the Clinton administration and its Nixonian methods, using the IRS to bludgeon conservative groups, and of course, how can we forget Hillary and the raw FBI files that were somehow "lost".

But think again. What are we facing? A pan-Islamism, not bound by borders, not limited by religion. Mark Steyn:

And that indifference to the state can be contagious. Lebanon's Christians may think of themselves as "Lebanese," but most of Hezbollah's Shiite constituency don't. Western analysts talk hopefully of fierce differences between Sunni and Shiite, Arab and Persian, but it's interesting to note the numbers of young Sunni men in Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere in recent weeks who've decided that Iran's (Shiite) President Ahmadinejad and his (Shiite) Hezbo proxies are the new cool kids in town. During the '90s, we grew used to the idea that "non-state actors" meant a terrorist group, with maybe a few hundred activists, a few thousand supporters. What if entire populations are being transformed into "non-state actors"? Not terrorists, by any means, but at the very minimum entirely indifferent to the state of which they're nominally citizens.

We are facing not a loss of civil liberties but a loss of western civilization---falling to a multi-cultural jihad. Terrorists make a compact with liberals' disdain for the foundations of our democratic state, and their worship of multiculturalism.

It's not a "civil war" in Iraq we should be worried about. Iraq is yet another front in the war on terror continuum. Sunni (Al Qaeda) and Shia (Iranian, Hezbollah, Hamas) terrorists alike are our enemies. And Israel's war is now, more than ever, our war.

We have to win this war. We have to fight the good fight at home as well as abroad. We have to fight the culture war.

We need to honor the true freedom America represents, and defend it against the pull of a merciless jihadist ideology that sweeps away civil societies and revels in death and destruction.

Correction: Hamas is Sunni, though Shiite Iran has given them financial aid, which illustrates Steyn's point.