Lilla calls for Western surrender to Islam by Lawrence Auster

In January 2006 I wrote that when push came to shove and a European Caliphate was formed, European elites would eagerly surrender to it, since they would prefer to live under the power of Islam than to continue as leaders of their own civilization which they despise. My prediction has been coming true faster than I expected. In a long cover article in the August 19 New York Times Magazine, Mark Lilla, a respected academic who teaches at Columbia University and the renowned Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and has been published widely in neoconservative journals, presents the following argument. Liberalism, with its rejection of religion, a rejection that Lilla supports 100 percent, has nothing to offer against the Islamic religion which liberalism has permitted into the West in the form of tens of millions of Muslim immigrants. Therefore, Lilla concludes, the best that we can do is hope that a moderate form of Islam, such as that proposed by Tariq Ramadan, becomes the dominant belief system of the West. Though Muslims are at present only one percent of the U.S. population, Lilla nevertheless thinks that they are so strong, and we so weak, that we must allow their religion to hold sway in our society. Lilla prefers this outcome to a renewed Western Christian faith that would fight back against Islam.

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