Bob Fox

“The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open for them.” In 2009, Christopher Hitchens issued a direct warning that Britain has since ignored at its peril. He urged the British people to resist the encroachments of radical Islam while they still could before the right to voice dissent or even mild complaint was taken away from them. That day has arrived. Hitchens saw how the term “Islamophobia” was already being smuggled into the culture, not as a defense against genuine prejudice, but as a weapon to equate any criticism of Islamic doctrine or its absolutist preachings with racism and bigotry. This rhetorical tactic was advanced by radical Islamist networks, including Muslim Brotherhood affiliates, and enthusiastically adopted by progressive clergy, Christian and Jewish alike, along with the multiculturalist establishment in academia, media, and the bureaucracy. The result is exactly what Hitchens predicted. A de facto alliance between multicultural leftism and Islamist absolutism. One side eroded cultural confidence and free speech norms to hold the gates open. The other is now advancing through the breach. The choice is no longer abstract. Either the West fights to dismantle this alliance and its grip on its institutions, or the people of the West will forfeit their country, their culture, and their civilization. Heed Hitchens’s warning. Resist while you still can.