Note from Robert Spencer:
An acknowledgement of where jihad terrorists are recruited and formed from an unlikely source: Spain.

Monitoring the mosques all over the non-Muslim world, of course, is a tall order. And a very expensive one, added to all the other huge expenses incurred in the campaign to make Infidel lands safe from the very people who are, paradoxically, still allowed in when should have been clear to all who had bothered to study the doctrines of Islam, and the history of Islamic rule over non-Muslims, as to what was to have been expected.

These costs, including those for the local police to monitor individuals, and the lawyers and judges who must give their time to approving, or explaining, taps and search warrants and suchlike, and the extra costs of guarding power plants and LNG terminals, and ports, and airports, and marshalls on planes, and ...on and on. Economists need to figure out just what the cost of this internal security against Muslim terrorist threats actually is. It would be instructive for taxpayers to know this: what is the real cost, in terms of all this monitoring and societal anxiety, and the constant need to worry about the latest demands (for a prayer room in schools, or a lawsuit demanding that a Muslim woman be shown with her face completely covered for her driver's license, or all the other demands, big and small, ludicrous and plausible, that are made by Muslims who do not believe in pluralism (except insofar as in the West, and only until they attain sufficient numbers, they must use it to their own advantage), nor the idea that power should flow from the expressed will of the people, not the codified will of Allah in the shari'a, nor equality of the sexes, nor individualism, nor in free and skeptical inquiry. Indeed, it is hard to see how, in what way. Muslims who are believers share any of the beliefs that are essential to, and defining of, our civilisation. Why then do we so blithely allow ourselves to welcome those who do not wish us, our ideals, our society, our own beings, well? What sort of nonsense is this?

But, coming back to our moutons, those little European lambs whose throats are slit in the streets at Eid al-Fitr, just how are those mosques going to be monitored? Will there be tapes? Will full-time agents have to visit every mosque, for every sermon? Will they wear wires, in the spirit of the The Sopranos or Tommasso Buscetta? How much will it all cost, all this visiting, and taping, and monitoring, and reporting, and checking, and re-checking? How much expense are the countries of Western Europe, how much trouble, are they prepared to go to?

Once upon a time, one could argue that workers were needed, and Moroccans, Algerians, and so on were eager to come. And so they were, but they had other ideas. They did not jettison their ideological baggage when they arrived in the ports of southern Europe -- no, that baggage became ever more precious and important and defining in their lives. The European elites refused to see, or refused to listen to those who warned, that Islamic tenets had to be taken seriously. Now they are in the fix that they do not quite know how to address straight on.

But there is a way. First, limit all future immigration to people from Eastern Europe and Russia. Those from Eastern Europe are, after all, officially now part of the EU; they deserve to be allowed to migrate, and to take those jobs. They will not be thegreat security risks that Muslim immigrants will be, and thus their actual cost will not include the hidden cost, as yet unknown, of monitoring them. Or allow in Filipinos, Chinese, Hindus and Sikhs from India, people from Latin America -- none of whom would require the khutba-monitoring, the taps and the tapes and so on, that would be necessary, from now on, for Muslim immigrants.

And do what can be done to sever the ideological links with the most virulent promoters of hostility. The Europeans should support any American effort to put permanently out of commission the Arab satellite stations (and the satellite itself); they should monitor not only the mosques, but of course all radio and television stations aimed at Muslims within their countries, and not shirk the duty to shut them down if there is the slightest evidence of hostilty being encouraged against non-Muslims of any kind.

That is a beginning. But it requires a real understanding of Islam, and how, as a system of thought-control, and total regulation both of the individual, and of the Believer's relastions with all Infidels, there is nothing quite like it in the dangers it poses.

It would be interesting to know how the Turks, at least under Ataturk and Inonu, monitored the mosques, which ones they closed down outright, and how, before the age of tape-recorders, they ensured that the content was, if not anodyne, at least not full of rants against the Infidel. Given that the Qur'an and the hadith are so full of such rants, it is fascinating to consist out of what material any khutba can be constructed, if the manichaeism essential to Islam -- Muslims being Good, and Infidels being Bad -- is deliberately proscribed. If the right of Islam to conquer can't be mentioned, if the need to "struggle in the path of Allah" (the Jihad) is given only a psychological interpretation, if the natural law by which "Islam must dominate and is not to be dominated" cannot be invoked, why then it is hard to see what is left? And as for inspiring tales of Muhammad from the hadith and the sira, given that he was a political leader and warrior, and fought 78 battles, and was involved in killing hostages, and ordering the assassination of all sorts of people, including a Jew who was over 90 (or was it 100?) years old, and that his favorite wife Aisha was nine when he consummated his marriage to her, well it is hard to see out of what acceptable material Muhammad's life can be told. Possibly it will all come down to chanting over and over again the 99 epithets attached to Allah. If many find it boring, and begin to look for that oldtime religion in other places, that would be, from the Infidel point of view, highly desirable.