Andrew Sullivan posted one of Thomas Mallon’s provocative questions the other day:

“Are American writers, artists, and thinkers truly prepared to admit that Islamofascism is a real, and even imminent, threat to everything they are accustomed to thinking, saying, and creating?”

I would say the answer is no, judging by the “response” Sullivan received and posted, which referred exclusively to the threat from Islamist-fueled terrorist-generated random violence.

Our societies, cultures and economies are just too strong to be even mildly shaken by this lame bullshit. Just because some gaggle of religious lunatics manages to kill a bunch of westerners once every 6 months, does anyone really believe that “everything we are accustomed to thinking, saying and creating” is under threat? I call bullshit.

The threat of Islamofascism is not the same thing as the threat from Islamist terrorism and nukes. This is Islamofascism, and it’s taking place in Britain, while everyone is sleeping or drugged on our wonderful, pleasurable escapist way of life:

Freedom of speech row as talk on Islamic extremists is banned

A leading university has been accused of “selling out” academic freedom of speech by scrapping a talk on links between the Nazis and Islamic anti-semitism after allegedly receiving emails from Muslims protesting about the event.

Matthias Küntzel, a German author and political scientist who specialises in the threat of Islamic fundamentalism, was told yesterday by the University of Leeds that a talk scheduled for yesterday evening, and a two-day workshop, on Hitler’s Legacy: Islamic Anti-semitism in the Middle East, had been cancelled because of security fears.

Let me repeat myself in case I wasn’t clear—and in case Sullivan and his lazy reader didn’t get what Mallon meant when he said [e.a.] that Islamofascism is “a real, and even imminent, threat to everything they are accustomed to thinking, saying, and creating.”

Islamofascism doesn’t manifest itself primarily as the desire to nuke us, though that would be good for them, too, I suppose. It manifests itself as the threat to shut down our way of life, preferably by persuading us that we are “insulting Islam” when we exercise our hard-won freedom of speech.

I don’t know about you, but that makes me feel like doing nothing but insulting Islam from morning to night, every day, seven days a week.