We just started reading Bat Ye’or’s scholarly and disturbing work, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis. The opening paragraph contains a quote from Oriana Fallaci,

In her forceful book, La Forza Della Ragione (The Force of Reason), Oriana Fallaci ponders the steady Islamization of Europe, noting, “it was all there for years and we didn’t see it.” This “all there” relates to burning questions. Why have generations of Europeans been taught in universities to despise America and harbor an implacable hatred for Israel? Why has the European Union (EU) proposed a Constitution that willingly renounces and even denies its Judeo-Christian roots? Has the 1930s-World War II alliance of Arab Jihadists with European Nazis and fascist trends been resurrected today? Is the European Union’s coverts war against Israel, through its Palestinian Arab allies, the secret schadenfreude fulfillment of an interrupted Holocaust?

The American Thinker picks up the thread with Sharia developments in Britain.

But Labour now has a new voting constituency, a vast, uncontrolled influx of Pakistani Muslims into London and other cities. Some of them come right from the tribal badlands of Waziristan, and they are fundamentalist Muslims to the core. They have brought along their own Wahhabi imams, paid for by the Saudis, who are now planning to build the biggest mosque in London to overshadow Westminster Cathedral. It’s all part of Britain’s jolly multicultural suicide.

That is why the Mayor of London, “Red Ken” Livingstone, is now publicly taunting Jews and Israelis at election time, and Labour uses anti-Semitic subway posters of (unclean) flying pigs with Jewish Tory faces. Prince Charles occasionally parades in Bedouin garb, and the Archbishop of Canterbury drops media bombs attacking America and Israel. The Labour Party has seen financial scandals, always with Jewish names attached to them, as if the Saudis are not buying massive political influence with their billions in pocket change for donations and other levers. No doubt the Mullahs aren’t far behind. After all, Saddam showed us all how it’s done with his UN Oil-for-Food money, allocated to help Iraqi children. The Oxford Union debated whether Israel should be allowed to exist, but not whether homosexuals or lesbians should be allowed to attend Oxford University. Shari’a law will have a lot to say about that soon enough.

What astonished Americans don’t understand is that Oxford students know perfectly well that Britain no longer exists as an independent country, as it is quickly being dissolved into the European Union. Why should Israel be any different? It will simply be drowned in the rising Islamic Caliphate of the Middle East.

This past week the head of the Church of England proclaimed that, yes, Britain would have to learn to live with shari’a law, because after all, it would “help social cohesion.” Just recently the Archbishop called for anti-blasphemy laws to punish “cruel and thoughtless” speech. He did not explain how shari’a ghettos in all its major cities would make Britain more cohesive. Nor did he come out to defend honor killings, death for practicing homosexuals, black tents for women to wear, and other oddities of the shari’a code, not to mention supporting jihadi suicide bombings for the sake of Allah.

The Bishop of Rochester, born in Pakistan but a Christian, is more honest. He recently said,

“There has been a worldwide resurgence of the ideology of Islamic extremism … One of the results of this has been to further alienate the young from the nation in which they were growing up and also to turn already separate communities into ‘no-go’ areas where adherence to this ideology has become a mark of acceptability.”

The Left immediately denied there were such things as ‘no-go’ zones for non-Muslims in Britain. And the Bishop of Rochester himself reported that he was quickly inundated with death threats, thus making his point quite unmistakably.

Muslims will correctly interpret the Archbishop’s words to signal his readiness to surrender. Shari’a law does not view itself is just another facet of Britain’s grand multicultural mosaic. It is a religious monopoly to end all other monopolies, just as the Catholic Church was in the age of Henry VIII. While the Archbishop is no doubt complimenting himself on his ecumenical tolerance for all religions, and the Labour Party is heaving a sigh of relief that London’s Muslims are going to vote for the surrender party, that little guy in the turban is running around with his dripping knife, ready to cut off Ringo Starr’s ruby ring, along with his finger and any other body parts, if needed.

Spain has its own problem with Pakistani Muslims plotting the reconquista of Andalusia.

As the terrorism suspects congregated in the largely Pakistani neighborhood here over the past few months, they were joined by a young man who called himself Asim. He had come from the Pakistani borderlands where the leadership of Al Qaeda is said to have regrouped.

The suspects, he later told Spanish investigators, envisioned a wave of spectacular attacks: Coordinated suicide bombings would start in this city’s vast subway system and then sweep through Portugal, Germany, France and Britain if certain demands were not met.

Asim had been sent to Spain to be a suicide bomber, but he also was an informant for French intelligence working in the no man’s land of Waziristan in Pakistan. After he got word to his handlers of an impending attack, Spain’s military police swooped into the neighborhood of Raval in the early hours of Jan. 19 and arrested 14 men. Now the officials unraveling the case say it demonstrates the growing threat of terrorist activities migrating to Continental Europe from Pakistan.

The largely Pakistani cell formed quickly in Barcelona with support, and perhaps direction, from the tribal areas of Pakistan, the authorities said. According to the arrest warrant in the case, three suicide bombing suspects arrived in Spain within the last four months and the bomb making suspect had recently spent five months in Pakistan.

With Spain preparing for elections next month, the suspected plot was an eerie echo of the March 11, 2004, Madrid transit bombings, which killed 191 people just days before the last election.

What would Oriana Fallaci say?