Political correctness and wishful thinking will be the death of them

Patrick Sookhdeo writes in The Spectator (free registration required) that for whatever reason—political correctness, wishful thinking, ignorance—not even the events of July 7 (and the ineffective followup attempt) have awakened the United Kingdom to the fact that Muslims there are aggressively pursuing the Islamification of that country, and that anything goes in the pursuit of that end. Sookhdeo describes the progress:

Muslims who migrated to the UK came initially for economic reasons, seeking employment. But over the last 50 years their communities have evolved away from assimilation with the British majority towards the creation of separate and distinct entities, mimicking the communalism of the British Raj. As a Pakistani friend of mine who lives in London said recently, ‘The British gave us all we ever asked for; why should we complain?’ British Muslims now have Sharia in areas of finance and mortgages; halal food in schools, hospitals and prisons; faith schools funded by the state; prayer rooms in every police station in London; and much more. This process has been assisted by the British government through its philosophy of multiculturalism, which has allowed some Muslims to consolidate and create a parallel society in the UK.

The Muslim community now inhabits principally the urban centres of England as well as some parts of Scotland and Wales. It forms a spine running down the centre of England from Bradford to London, with ribs extending east and west. It is said that within 10 to 15 years most British cities in these areas will have Muslim-majority populations, and will be under local Islamic political control, with the Muslim community living under Sharia.

History conclusively demonstrates that whenever Muslims gain political power in a country, the Islamification accelerates, and all incompatible institutions—government structure, legal system, religion, etc.— in that country eventually disappear or are forcibly changed.

Instead of standing up to this threat, government officials seem desperate to avoid giving offense:

Some in Britain cannot conceive that a suicide bomber could be a hero of Islam. Since 7/7 many have made statements to attempt to explain what seems to them a contradiction in terms. Since the violence cannot be denied, their only course is to argue that the connection with Islam is invalid. The deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Brian Paddick, said that ‘Islam and terrorists are two words that do not go together.’ His boss, the Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, asserted that there is nothing wrong with being a fundamentalist Muslim.

Contrast the above with the assertions of the UK's Muslim community itself:

On 8 July the London-based Muslim Weekly unblushingly published a lengthy opinion article by Abid Ullah Jan entitled ‘Islam, Faith and Power’. The gist of the article is that Muslims should strive to gain political and military power over non-Muslims, that warfare is obligatory for all Muslims, and that the Islamic state, Islam and Sharia (Islamic law) should be established throughout the world. All is supported with quotations from the Koran. It concludes with a veiled threat to Britain. The bombings the previous day were a perfect illustration of what Jan was advocating, and the editor evidently felt no need to withdraw the article or to apologise for it. His newspaper is widely read and distributed across the UK.

In my opinion, such blindness (willful or not) on the part of government officials and other opinion leaders virtually guarantees that Muslim culture will dominate the UK within our lifetime.

NOTE: The larger context of Sookhdeo's article is a dismantling of the notion continually advanced by Muslim apologists that Islam is a "religion of peace". According to him, that description adequately described the religion for only the first dozen or so years of its existence. Since then it has been, whenever possible, a religion of war.