IBD:

Last month, we lamented the emergence of “another sign that much of England has given up on being England.” The cause of our grief were reports that Christian preachers in England had been warned by a police community support officer that trying to spread the gospel in a Muslim neighborhood is a hate crime.

While it’s shocking at how far the West will go to avoid offending Muslims, it’s downright discouraging to see how weakly it defends its own culture. It’s as if the developed world is ashamed of its progress and the institutions that formed the foundation of its development.

Worse than a fear of offending a religious group is what appears to be an eagerness to simply give up and accept the fact that Islam is overrunning the West and we can’t do anything about it because it would be intolerant, arrogant, hegemonic, racist and just plain mean to try to preserve our culture.

It was with this sort of effete shrug that Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams earlier declared that “Shariah law is inevitable” in the United Kingdom.

Following Williams’ gingerly trod footsteps is Nicholas Phillips, the lord chief justice of England and Wales. Last week, the day before the U.S. celebrated its independence from Britain, Phillips said that while the severe punishments of Shariah law cannot be “applied to or by any Muslim who lives within this jurisdiction,” he did allow that it was not “very radical to advocate embracing Shariah in the context of family disputes” and contractual agreements.

“There is no reason why Shariah principles, or any other religious code, should not be the basis for mediation or other forms of alternative dispute resolution,” he said while speaking at an East London mosque.

To which we should say “yuck,” but that would only get us in trouble in the British Isles. Well, it would if we were kids and said “yuck” in response to being served an unfamiliar foreign food. We would be labeled “racists” because we had, according to the National Children’s Bureau of England and Northern Ireland, reacted “negatively to a culinary tradition” that is not our own.

Then there’s this, via Rachel Lucas:

For more than two years, Sydney Davis’s house has been under siege from youths throwing stones.

After two hours of bombardment in the latest attack and no sign of the police, the 65-year-old retired builder decided enough was enough.

As a particularly large missile landed in his kitchen, he grabbed a plank of wood from the garden and ran towards the gang to scare them away.

The police arrived just in time - to arrest Mr Davis for possession of an offensive weapon.

He now faces up to six months in prison. Yesterday Mr Davis said he was bewildered by the decision to prosecute him.

He claims objects have been thrown at his house on 700 separate occasions.
His windows have been smashed five times in eight months.

‘Something needs to be done to stop these kids. They are out there every night,’ he said.

‘One of my neighbours even had a seven-month-old in their kitchen when a brick came through the window.