Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium
The suicide bombings carried out in London in 2005 by British
Muslims revealed an enormous fifth column of Islamist terrorists
and sympathizers. Under the noses of British intelligence, London
had become the European hub for the promotion, recruitment and
financing of Islamic terror and extremism - so much so that
exasperated European security agencies mockingly dubbed Britain
"Londonistan."
Melanie Phillips, columnist for London's Daily Mail,
pieces together the story of how Londonistan developed. She posits
that the advance of the global jihad is being facilitated by a
wholesale collapse of western values and national identity within
Europe and in which Britain is taking the lead. Paralyzed by
minority rights and the terror of Islamist violence, Phillips
argues that the British establishment is even now failing to
confront the religious fanaticism in its midst and is choosing
instead to appease it. Meanwhile, the post-modernist onslaught upon
the concept of truth itself has produced such confusion that,
instead of standing up to the ideas that threaten democracy, many
in Britain now subscribe to the false narrative of those who are
laying siege to their society. This disorientation of the
once-implacable British bulldog has major lessons and warnings for
America as well.
MELANIE PHILLIPS is an award-winning columnist for
London's Daily Mail. Educated at Oxford, she won the
Orwell Prize for journalism in 1996 and is the author of All Must
Have Prizes and others books. Her website - - collects many of her essays.
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