I think the trouble with us Westeners, is that we don’t realise how free we are.
So that we don’t really see the significance of these moves – by the Islamist being made against us, in the UN, etc. We are so lucky that we are born in the free world – that we have trouble comprehending what all the fuss is about in the Islamic world.
But there is also a problem with this, because the Islamists are trying to replace our way of life with theirs – they are attempting to Islamise the world. This is where Westerners need to know that these demands on our freedoms are not harmless, requests, and that they are intended to collectively erode our way of life. In this respect we could be looking back to the dark ages, to a time when scientists, artist, writers and free thinkers were all persecuted under similar religious laws.
Most of us will never venture into a Muslim country and see and really understand how restricted life is there, but we do have to try harder to comprehend our own freedom, in relation to other people’s lack of freedom, particularly in the Islamic world – because our freedoms need to be protected.
