The other day, a spokesperson for ISIS was quoted to the effect that material advancement is not important, that only religious advancement is. So these fanatics are not only mass murderers but also are opposed to material prosperity. They not only wish to take everyone back to the religion of the Middle Ages, they would be perfectly happy for everyone to wallow in the material standards of living from those times as well. ISIS makes the Iranians look like moderates.

The West is not ready for the ideological struggle involved. Our elites are so invested in the multicultural heresy they are unable, indeed unwilling, to defend the intellectual, philosophical, and religious heritage that made the West. So afraid to hurt someone's feelings, we censor our own. So adverse to disrespecting anyone's culture's intellectual history, we ignore our own. So wary of using our liberty in the face of those viewing such as perversion, we restrict ourselves.

And worse is coming. It has been estimated that, at present birth and immigration rates, Britain will become a majority Muslim state by 2050. Does anyone believe such will not have profound cultural, philosophical, intellectual, and even material effects?

Our ancestors resisted invasion from Muslim conquerors for 1,000 years, then, with enormous sacrifice and mis-steps, created the intellectual and philosophical framework that has lifted billions of peoples of all races, religions, and beliefs from poverty, creating the freest, most prosperous, healthiest society in human history. And we are now busily throwing it away in a generation to the new barbarians because we are too lazy to defend what we are.