Piggery and Mosque

"As Lord Carey put it: "We are living in dangerous and potentially cataclysmic times". It is a time made perilous not only by the absence of moderate voices within Islam but by the even more conspicuous absence of any leadership among Western politicians. It is a failure which will sooner or later lead to what military historians call a "meeting engagement" in which two forces, each possessed of its own momentum, blunder into each other with catastrophic results. A false kind of tolerance has abolished the fence between the piggery and mosque, the adult video store and the cathedral, the flaming match and the stick of dynamite and called it progress. It is no such thing. It is called stupidity. [ Welcome to the Tinfoil Apocalypse. We have violated the Prime Directive in a very big way, all the worse for our dogged admiration of the scenery as we relentlessly cruise the proverbial river in Egypt... -ed. ] "

UPDATE: Wretchard gets a long-lived bump.