Programming note: Tonight, Sunday, I'll be back here at SteynOnline with Part Three of our seventy-ninth Tale for Our Time, Sax Rohmer's Mohammedan caper of 1914- The Quest of the Sacred Slipper.
~Meanwhile, welcome to this week's episode of my ongoing audio adaptation of the bestselling America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. Here am I twenty sodding years ago:
Do you remember when that statue of Saddam came down? It proved to be hollow. The Islamists think western civilization's like that: a tough exterior, but empty inside; protected by a layer of hard steel – the US military – there's nothing underneath.
Why would they get that idea? Well, from a million and one little things – itsy-bitsy foot-of-page-37 news items, none too important in itself but cumulatively an avalanche. Take one trivial example: Just before Christmas 2003, Muslim community leaders in California applauded the decision of the Catholic high school in San Juan Capistrano to change the name of its football team from the Crusaders to the less culturally insensitive Lions.
Meanwhile, twenty miles up the road in Irvine, the schedule for the Muslim Football League's New Year tournament promised to bring together some of the most exciting Muslim football teams in Orange County: the Intifada, the Mujahideen, the Saracens and the Sword of Allah.
That's the spirit! I can't wait for the California sporting calendar circa 2015: the San Diego Jihadi vs the Oakland Culturally Sensitives, the Malibu Hezbollah vs the Santa Monica Inoffensives, the Pasadena Sword of the Infidel Slayer vs the Bakersfield Self-Deprecators, the San Jose Decapitators vs the Berkeley Mutually Respectfuls...
In the long run which is the real battlefield? The sands of Araby? Or the football fields of Orange County and a thousand others?
Two decades on, I would hope it is no longer necessary to ask that question: Bush's "war on terror" turned out to be a massive distraction from the war on us. Here is a video currently making the rounds in the remnants of England. The Mohammedans espy a Christian street-preacher in what they designate a "Muslim area" and so call the coppers. But the WPC proves to be made of sterner stuff than any UK Chief Constable:
Muslims try to get a Christian preacher arrested for "hate" and saying this is a "Muslim area",
The police woman said "well have freedom of speech in this country" 🔥
Everyone is sick of them.
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) February 20, 2026
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Don't you love all the vibrant diversity on offer? Diversity is our strength! And fortunately here's a brown man with a beard glaring! And over there's a brown man with a beard glaring! And - whaddaya know - another brown man with a beard glaring! And, just for a change in the rich tapestry of multiculturalism, a brown man with a beard glaring!
Gee, it's almost like they're trying to tell us that the phase that comes after "diversity" is total sod-bollocking homogeneity. Hard implacable uniformity is our strength!
Happily, they appear to have imbibed all those British "values" one hears so much about. As you can hear in the video, just like Labour, the Lib Dems, the Tories and Farage's stellar Reform recruit Nadine Dorries, the scowling Mohammedans appreciate the critical distinction between freedom of expression and "hate speech".
If you're still betting the civilisational farm on "values", I hope you live long enough to be hunted down in the street.
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