The cast of characters in the alleged cartoon plot

Mark Steyn has some thoughts on the latest arrest of men allegedly plotting revenge killings in Denmark for the Mohammed cartoons.

Two U.S. residents, one an American citizen, one a Canadian citizen, educated and assimilated, and enjoying a nice enough living to be able to afford to fly to Denmark to kill a couple of guys over a cartoon. In the long run, Afghan cave-dwellers and Waziristani goatherds are less of a threat than fellows like Messrs Headley and Rana. The company name — "First World Immigration Services" — is a rather droll jest.

But if present trends continue in the First World, (if the time is not already here), one will not be able to write about such people in our midst in a candid, frank, factual way, either because people will fear for their lives and property or because government censorship boards masquerading as "human rights" commissions will impose draconian fines and lifetime speech bans for telling the truth.

I think we have to ask ourselves "assimilated to what?".

If we have people coming to North America from any background and they are only assimilating to a shell culture of materialism, western clothing and music and a choice of porn channels and entertainment masquerading as news, then we're going to reap the consequences.

Integration and assimilation needs to be into something that has more of a civilizational core than the ability to make a fast buck and to choose our individualistic pleasures.

Without our Judeo-Christian foundations we're toast. Our biggest enemies are within, the ones who have adopted an alien aggressive secularism laced with Marxist platitudes and utopianiasm.