This time, no fatwa was necessary. Two decades after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for Salman Rushdie’s murder, U.K. authorities no longer need instructions in Shariah law. In pre-emptive submission to Islamist sensibilities, Britain barred Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders last Thursday from entering the country and speaking at the House of Lords. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123482476050494869.html
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Wilders, now branded a threat to “public security,” had lunch in the House of Lords in December 2008. If he is dangerous now, he was dangerous then. So why ban him all of a sudden? Did the home secretary seriously think that any danger to public security would come from non-Muslims? From women, perhaps, whipped up into a frenzy at the sight of Geert Wilders’ hairstyle? Of course not. She believed it would come from Muslims, ten thousand of whom Lord Ahmed threatened to muster when the screening of Fitna was first advertised. This attitude assumes that the reaction of Muslims is a given, like a force of nature, about which we can do nothing and to which we must simply accommodate ourselves. The decision is the equivalent of telling women that they must not venture outdoors because to do so will lead, as night follows day, to rape. http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/geert-wilders-respects-muslims-british-government-doesnt/2/
