One would also surmise that if we’re following along in Europe’s cultural and political wake, we would be following even more closely in Great Britain’s footsteps.  Again, politically, that looks to be shaping up, as the Brits are in their twelfth consecutive year of Labor Party rule, and we’re entering a minimum sixteen-year Donk swerve at the presidential level and a like congressional hegemony that could well outlast the previous sixty-year dynasty.

However, if our cultural destiny is similarly linked, we are in desperate, desperate peril:

The Bishop of Stafford, Gordon Mursell, said that by failing to face up to the truth about climate change, we were - like Josef Fritzl - denying our children a future.

He stressed that he was not accusing those who do nothing about global warming of being child abusers, but said that shocking analogies were needed to force people to face up to the threat to the future of mankind.

In a pastoral letter distributed in parish magazines throughout the Diocese of Lichfield, the Bishop wrote: ‘Josef Fritzl represents merely the most extreme form of a very common philosophy of life: I will do what makes me happy, and if that causes others to suffer, hard luck.

‘In fact you could argue that, by our refusal to face the truth about climate change, we are as guilty as he is - we are in effect locking our children and grandchildren into a world with no future and throwing away the key.”

Oh, yes, he WAS accusing those who refuse to be browbeaten into meek acceptance of the Sovietization of the First World economy via mythological pagan apocalypticism of being child-abusers.  The global warming hoaxers long ago dropped any pretense of scientific validity, or they wouldn’t resort to hysterical pseudointellectual thuggery.  They’ve lost the argument on substance, so now they resort to rhetorical terrorism to bludgeon their opponents into silence and submission.

But, I hear you asking, how is that measurably worse than An Inconvenient Truth’s depiction of “the oil industry, represented by a decrepit old man in a George Bush [mask?  costume?], forcing baby Gaia to bear his incest babies in a dungeon“?  I’ll see you that one, and raise you a dhimmi:

The preachers, both ministers in Birmingham, were handing out leaflets on Alum Rock Road in February when they started talking to four Asian youths.

A police community support officer (PCSO) interrupted the conversation and began questioning the ministers about their beliefs.

They said when the officer realised they were American, although both have lived in Britain for many years, he launched a tirade against President Bush and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan…

“He said we were in a Muslim area and were not allowed to spread our Christian message. He said we were committing a hate crime by telling the youths to leave Islam and said that he was going to take us to the police station.”…

West Midlands Police, who refused to apologise, said the incident had been “fully investigated” and the officer would be given training in understanding hate crime and communication. [emphases added]

Compare that to the long-established traits of dhimmitude:

Institutionalized apartheid. In Shari’a law, there are official discriminations against the Dhimmi, such as the poll-tax or jizya.

No legal rights. Jews may not testify in court against a Muslim and have no legal right to dispute or challenge anything done to them by Muslims. There is no such thing as a Muslim raping a Jewish woman; there is no such thing as a Muslim murdering a Jew (at most, it can be manslaughter). In contrast, a Jew who strikes a Muslim is killed.

Humiliation and vulnerability. Jews and Christians had to walk around with badges or veils identifying them as Jews or Christians. The yellow star that Jews had wear in Nazi Germany did not originate in Europe. It was borrowed from the Muslim world where it was part of the apartheid system of Dhimmitude.

Conditional protection. The protection of the Dhimmi is withdrawn if the Dhimmi rebels against Islamic law, gives allegiance to non-Muslim power (such as Israel), refuses to pay the poll-tax, entices a Muslim from his faith, or harms a Muslim or his property. If the protection is lifted, jihad resumes. For example, Islamists in Egypt who pillage and kill the Copts do so because they no longer pay their poll-tax and therefore are no longer protected.

Has the British city of Birmingham been placed under sharia rule?  Sure sounds like it’s headed in that direction.  And we’re about to elect as the next president of the United States a man who won the endorsement of Hamas.

It almost makes me sad that I’m probably going to live long enough to see the demise into which my country is headlong flinging itself.  But at least I’ll die (at least somewhat) old, and die a martyr.

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