It has never been more important for America to watch and learn from Europe than it is now. 

Our focus should be on Britain.  It is the first European state to openly confront the twinned issues of immigration and Islam.  Now that the issue has been breached, the continental states of Europe will feel more comfortable in speaking publicly of the problem that has been kept private by marginalizing and criminalizing dissents such as Geert Wilders’. 

The corrective measures will have to be strong because they have delayed action too long.  Let’s not make the same mistake.  We need to take action on the threats to American cultural identity-- immigration and Islam.  Samuel Huntington’s books The Clash of Civilizations and Who Are We? outline the issues. 

If National Socialism and Communism were waves one and two, Islam is the third wave of totalitarianism to hit our country. 

The Islamic wave started thirty years ago, with the Iranian revolution which installed Ayatollah Khomeini.  At that time no one would have imagined what followed.  Even twenty years ago, no one would say that Islamism was a totalitarian wave that would challenge the Western culture of Europe and America. 

 Eight years after 9/11 we have Muslim immigrants demanding that we observe the restrictions of Islamic law when we use a taxi at the airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

The situation in Britain is much farther along.  Sections in the north and east of London feel like hostile foreign countries to native Britons.  Is this where we want to go?

The British National Party is the one national party willing to confront the problems of immigration and Islam and to receive the predictable abuse from the Left.  The BNP’s history of racism and anti-Semitism renders their hide impervious to insult.  Having an impervious hide does not make the BNP position correct.  It is not. 

Islam is not, as BNP leader Nick Griffin says, “wicked and vicious.”  We Western democrats must learn to see Islam as the major ideological competitor to liberal democracy, not as an immoral religion.  Their value system and ours are simply incompatible.  Muslims support their values as we support ours.  That makes them neither wicked nor vicious, but different.

Of course they work to replace our values with theirs.  Because the supremacist part of their belief system encourages  the overthrow of all non-Muslim governments, we need to resist their effort and demand that they reform or leave, not call names in overheated outrage.  America and Europe have plenty of room for different belief systems, but we should not provide our competitors with a base in our Western countries.         

The other national parties (UKIP is an exception) do not admit that immigration and Islam are problems in Britain for fear of the Left.  This sets up a nasty native/immigrant political fight.      

But the issue is not the BNP.  It is the loss of British national identity.  Unless we roll back the effects of uncontrolled immigration and the Islamic cultural challenge, we will arrive at the same situation many Britons now regret.