About that memo concerning the Pope's UK visit

Michael Williams writes at Jihad Watch:

The upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom has been soured--to the point where some Vatican officials have considered calling it off--by a scabrously anti-Catholic memo written by a British civil servant and circulated among senior officials by way of "preparing" for the papal visit. The document suggested that an "ideal" papal trip would include the pope blessing a same-sex union, reversing the Catholic Church's teaching on the ordination of women, opening an abortion clinic, and launching a brand of "Pope Benedict" condoms.

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It later emerged that the author of the memo is Oxford-educated Anjoum Noorani, 31, whose official title was Head of the Papal Visit Team. According to the Daily Mail, "Mr Noorani is understood to be British Pakistani - but colleagues say he is not a Muslim."

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If he is a secularized Muslim, Noorani's case suggests that the "best-case" scenario for Muslim assimilation in Britain is this: Those who give up their aggressive, intolerant faith in Islam will adopt instead the aggressive, intolerant secularism of the British elites--who use "multiculturalism" as a stick with which to beat just one set of institutions: those traditional to the West.

Well, there are stories of Muslims converting to the Catholic faith and worshipping in the empty cathedrals of Europe, but you don't see any news stories about that.

But this story goes to show that those who hope for the revival of Western Civilization's Judeo-Christian foundations have to fight on two fronts. Not only is there the threat of radical Islam, there is also the homegrown threat of secular fundamentalism. While there are the odd times that the secular fundies oppose the Islamists, usually they are in cahoots, acting as useful idiots for each other. But alas, the secular fundies, who don't reproduce at replacement levels, thank God for that, are no match for the muscular faith of jihadists who are ready to kill and die for their cause.

Radical Islam would not be a threat to the West if the secular fundamentalists hadn't eaten away at our civilization's foundations.