Useful Idiots

This week, the longstanding rule of justice, in which the accused has the right to face their accusor in a court of law, was overturned to placate principles of sharia - with the blessing of a feminist lobby group. Conrad Black provides comment on the useful idiots who are helping undermine our democracy:

Non-Muslim leaders should make it clear that we are not prepared to be condescended to as infidels, and that the Judeo-Christian traditions of the West antedate those of Islam (we are all Abrahamists, but Gabriel called on our preceptors first). The widespread mistreatment of Christian minorities in some Muslim countries should produce proportionate retaliation, though not at the expense of the civil rights of our own Muslim minorities. (The Muslim massacre of up to a million Christian blacks in the Sudan, for instance, should have received a much more energetic and righteous response than it has.) The mad idea of a large mosque almost adjacent to the World Trade Center site should never have gained any traction at all. That whole issue makes our entire society look like idiots, with Michael Bloomberg, Maureen Dowd, Katie Couric et al all thoughtfully holding hands as the Islamists’ proverbial “useful idiots.” The exaggerated indulgence of domestic Western Muslim minorities is degrading and foolish, from the trial of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, as he participates in a coalition government to rule that country, to the toleration in Ontario of a Muslim woman giving evidence in a trial with her features completely disguised by her costume. In such matters, the French, who are less squeamish about retaining the right to enjoy their magnificent country and lifestyle, will lead the West.