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IN HIS BOOK The West's Last Chance Tony Blankley paints a bleak picture of a future "Eurabia" where fundamental Islam has achieved considerable political influence. Classical statues and paintings are covered or destroyed. Islamic codes of conduct are strictly enforced. We see Europe returning to Calvin's Geneva of a half millennium ago, only orthodox Muslims, not Protestants, are in charge.

Blankley has earned the title of doomsayer and a scaremonger, but today Islamic countries are working through international organizations to place curbs on free speech, a liberty considered heretical in many Islamic nations. And they have many supporters in the West -- and not just from Europe's Muslims. Recently, the Organization of the Islamic Conference pushed through a resolution condemning "defamation of religion" at the UN Human Rights Commission in -- where else -- Geneva.

Europe spent the last century battling nations and groups that wanted to do away with liberal democratic values. But in the end -- with no little help from the U.S. -- Fascism and Communism were defeated. Political Islam is but another totalitarian ideology that would stamp out liberal democracy, and yet because it is disguised as a religion of peace it has more Western defenders than Stalin, Lenin, and Mao combined. If Islam truly were a religion of peace, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

* Geraldine Ferraro

Christopher Orlet is a frequent contributor and runs the Existential Journalist.

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