If Cassandra were a liberal by Lawrence Auster

In the passage by Melanie Phillips that I discuss in the previous entry, she considers the opinion

that the human bomb death cult will be brought to an end not by intelligence or defensive actions by its victims--necessary as those are--but by the Muslim world itself reaching into its own theology to cast it out. Whether this is indeed possible is the great issue of our time.

For Phillips, the great issue of our time is not whether the West will finally defend itself from Islam, but whether Islam will reform itself. This explains the very thing I've always criticized about Phillips, her failure to call on Britain to DO anything to turn back the Islamic menace about which she is constantly warning. For her, any self-defensive actions by Britain and the West against Islam are only of secondary importance. For her, the only real way the Islam menace can be removed is if Islam reforms itself and becomes moderate.

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