Melanie Phillips's incoherent call for war by Lawrence Auster

"Melanie Phillips continues to wage war against Britain's refusal to wage war against jihadist Islam. Unfortunately, because she herself hasn't the slightest idea of what such a war would consist of, her position is as incoherent as that of the British government (and the American government) that she criticizes.

She starts a column in USA Today with the words: 'Britain is now fighting a war it dares not name.' What she actually means is that the people she calls 'Islamists,' i.e., radical Muslims, are fighting a war against Britain, and that Britain is not fighting back, but is retreating and even refusing to name the enemy.

Then she says that the real problem is that
the British government is pandering to the refusal by most British Muslims to acknowledge that Islamist terrorism is rooted in their religion and that this is a problem with which they must themselves deal.

Because it is not enough for them to condemn terrorism. They must also repudiate, publicly and authoritatively, those parts of their religion that mandate hatred of the unbeliever and holy war.

Let's analyze this: "

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