The Islamist threat to civilization

In a brilliant essay Amit Ghate identifies the essential strategy employed by Islamists in their quest to destroy the West: divide and conquer. We have placed our rights to self defence under the objective control of our Western governments with the understanding that government will defend us if our rights are ever threatened. However, as we saw first with the Rushdie affair and continue to see in the case of the Danish cartoonists, our political leaders are betraying their most sacred trust: they are failing to defend the rights of their disarmed citizens.