5 Feet of Fury

Fitzgerald: Islamic dress and the accomodation of Islam

“Those clothes said: I am not merely a Muslim, but a true-blue Believer. As a true-blue Believer, you may hold me to knowledge of, and submission to, the dictates of the Qur’an and the Sunnah.

“When, for example, the Qur’an tells me, as it tells all Believers, ‘do not take Christians and Jews as friends, for they are friends only with each other,’ I must obey, and not take them as friends. When I am told, as a Believer, that I must not to greet non-Muslims before they greet me (as a sign of their inferiority), I obey.”

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“Instead of doing everything to accommodate Islam by changing our legal and political institutions, and social arrangements, Western societies should be reinforcing the barriers to such change, with volunteers supplementing the work of the government, in piling high those sandbags.

“Some may be discouraged from coming to those places where their numbers are not large and the Infidels are now, too early, wary.

“Others may decide to leave, whether to participate in the oil bonanza if they came from oil-states (or can obtain work in the Gulf), others to participate in Jihad (Iraq, Somalia), others simply to remain among fellow Muslims, in a Muslim state, where Islam rules.

“Otherwise there will be more such incidents such as we saw in Mississauga, where a young woman has been murdered by her father for refusing to wear the hijab…”