Friday, February 08, 2008

Anglicans for Sharia   [John Derbyshire]

Innumerable readers have asked me to comment on the Archbishop of Canterbury's remarks about Sharia law in Britain being "unavoidable." I have done so in this weekend's Radio Derb, which will be on-site later.

We live in the Age of Bad Ideas. Mass Muslim immigration into Western nations seems to me a strong candidate to be regarded as the worst of all the bad ideas we are afflicted with, and pretty convincing evidence that the West is in the grip of some sort of collective insanity. From the Radio Derb transcript:

There are fifty majority Muslim nations in the world, covering a fifth of the world's land area. Muslims have plenty of places to live, with national laws and customs that suit them. There is no reason for them to migrate en masse into western countries, and no reason for western countries to let them. Britain is one of the most crowded countries in the world — population density twice China's or Nigeria's. The British are fools to permit mass Muslim immigration.

I get a lot of scorn from the Islamophobes for not minding Islam and not appreciating its intrinsically degraded and beastly nature. I plead guilty as charged. I am fine with Islam, a fine, noble old religion that gives consolation and life purpose to hundreds of millions. But, to paraphrase W.C. Fields, I am also quite fond of elephants — just wouldn't want to have one around the house.

02/08 09:36 AMShare