Salman Rushdie’s knighthood has provoked a predictable reaction from Islamists who have been led to believe by “well meaning” leftists that the world will tolerate their violent thuggery and ideological barbarism out of “multiculturalist” respect for their backward vision of civilization. The knighting of Rushdie was a courageous stance against the creeping Islamifacation of England that has been embraced by many British subjects enamored with the totalitarian decadence of Islamist society. That the future King of England may in fact be one of these people, that he sees Islamifacation as a way to recapture the true power of the monarchy, makes the Queen’s stance even more courageous.

Muslims are burning the Queen in effigy, demanding Rushdie be killed and claiming that the Knighting of Rushdie will cause Islamophobia. They say this without a hint of irony. As Flemming Rose points out, Islamists seem to think Muslim religious sensibilities being offended is comparable to murder. They believe they’re perfectly justified to threaten the entire west because they don’t like a book Rushdie wrote in the 80s and think that the Queen of England should snub him because of it. Doing otherwise is interpreted as Islamophobia. But let’s be clear, it is Muslims, not Rushdie or his Knighthood, that cause Islamophobia.

Are we to watch mobs of violent savages riot around the globe every time they feel slighted and not develop a healthy sense of Islamophobia? Are we to accept that the “religion of peace” has some sort of divine right to rape and pillage and murder but curb our fear and loathing of its adherents? Should we allow people from countries that routinely burn churches and synagogues to immigrate here and not be worried about what they’re going to do here?

I am leery of Muslims. I am consistently shocked by the depravity and horrors they are willing to unleash on our precious world, and more horrified still that they’re willing to defend these things as good. That Muslims tried to justify the dragging death of Sandra Hall shocked me. The discovery that Muslims post snuff films on YouTube shocked me. After 9-11, seeing Palestinians dancing in the streets shocked me. And with every shock I began to realize more and more that radical Muslims are not just fanatics, they are evil.

Good Muslims are a persecuted minority in a world of darkness, their ranks thinned every day by beheadings, bombings and burnings. Soon the so called radicals will be the only Muslims, they will be the mainstream and those that dare speak up for free speech will be the radicals. Why shouldn’t non-Muslims be fearful? Why shouldn’t we be watchful? Why shouldn’t we be ready to fight the Muslim world, the entire Muslim world, when it is so painfully obvious that the Muslim world is ready to attack us for any perceived slight?

If Muslims were concerned about Islamophobia they would hold peaceful protests, they would refrain from burning churches and killing civilians. But they don’t. They gladly spread fear and discord but are unwilling to accept the consequences of that fear. Muslims are the root cause of Islamophobia which is no longer a petty bigotry unfortunately, but the embracing of reality.