"an irrational, unbased fear of Muslims".
When all the patriotic fervour that swept America after these attacks had died down, the intellectuals and the politically-correct -set got to work and glossed over the whole affair. They told us the incident had been carried out by a 'fanatical few' and that any lingering fear of the muslim population here or anywhere else was "Islamophobia".
So a new word was entered into our lexicon. "Islamophobia"
In the past three weeks events have taken place that have had remarkable and permanent effect on public thinking. Let me list them:
The suicide bombing in Beirut that left forty dead.
The destruction of the Russian airlines over Sinai: 235 dead.
The Paris massacre: 130 dead with 300 wounded.
The Mali hotel massacre 30 dead.
All of these attacks carried out by Islamic madmen.
Nobody in Paris is talking politically correct language anymore.
There is a REAL AND PRESENT danger that cannot be charmed away by smooth talk from psychologists. Listen to the French Minister of the Interior this week:
"The VERY IDEA OF FRANCE is under attack and we must win this ideological war or lose our existence as a nation."
Straight talk at last and with 25,000 muslim immigrants arriving on Canada's shores in the next four weeks we had better brace ourselves for our own Lexicon to be changed.
Jubilate.
Ian
