Last weekend in the ‘Weekend Australian’ appeared an article by associate editor Chris Kenny which revises the points I have been proclaiming for some years. The article was entitled ‘Dance With An Enemy We Dare Not Name’ and here is a condensation –

” The Islamist extremists are winning. Victory is unlikely and, in any event, a long way off but their immediate aims are being achieved, if not in the battlefields of Iraq and Syria, then at least in the democracies of Europe and the Western world.

The signs are ominous in Australia, where 15 years after the Bali bombings this is the enemy whose name we are too often too timid to mention. The extremists have us second-guessing the cultural superiority of our Western Liberal democratic model and have conjured a collective and misplaced guilt among us about the treatment of Muslims.

From the fundamentalist preachers to the bloodthirsty terrorists, the ultimate goal of Islamist extremists is simple: global islamic dominance. To achieve it they need to weaken and harm the West, fuel Muslim grievances and assert their cultural power through demographic changes and political influence.

They loathe our tolerance, freedom of expression and plurality. Yet skilfully use these Western strengths against us as they subvert our ways by convincing many of us that we are to blame for their atrocities. We  can see the Islamist success in shaping this narrative around us.

The Palestinian cause is used as a constant irritant. Just this month…. we saw the UN General Assembly vote by an overwhelming majority to condemn the US for recognising the obvious reality that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. And after I argued last week that Melbourne’s Flinders Street horror was an Islamist terror attack – – because that was the motivation sited by the Afghan-Australian attacker – anglican priest Rod Bower described my comments as “poison” that could “drive fragile psyches over the edge”. See what he did there – it is always our fault  ……

After the Martin Place siege in Sydney and the Flinders Street attack,  police and media downplayed terrorism but talked up mental health issues ….

As bollards go up in our cities are we to believe this is to protect us from the mentally ill or the drug addicted? ….

But if the attack is perpetrated by a Muslim immigrant who specifically sites Muslim grievances, the public ought to be told immediately that there are indications of a terrorist motive ….

When Curtis Cheng was assassinated in an Islamist killing at Parramatta the police hierarchy told the public … that there was nothing to suggest terrorism yet the attacker had yelled “allah akbar” at the scene before he was shot dead.   …

The triumphalist and resentful elements of the faith that are shared by the mainstream but taken to violent ends by the extremists… This is the core of the debate … do we need to accept that the islamist  aim of disrupting our society by targeting infidels and innocents cannot be truly defeated until the ideology itself is exposed, confronted and eradicated ? “

I think most of us can see that the state is hiding from the facts and cannot face up to the problem which is apparent all over the world. Most Muslims desire peace and play down the Koranic texts which inspire violence and terrorism, but they are there, and that is the problem, but the real reason that the West is experiencing this in our midst, is found in the Bible, in the book of Leviticus, 26:14,16. ‘But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments…I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror…’   We have rejected God’s Laws, even denied God exists, and we are paying the penalty.