Dialogue with Islam?

In tomorrow's London Times there are several letters expressing pique about the Muslim response to the Pope's words last week. You can read them all here. (If you do so soon!)

I bring excerpts from two to your particular attention, because I think they are symptomatic of our essential misunderstanding of Islam and its goals:

"Whatever its origins, Islam remains a noble religion with a noble message. But those who claim to speak for Islam do their faith no favours by seeking to silence all criticism absolutely, as opposed to meeting it with reasoned, measured debate.

The day that Muslims worldwide display the same concern for Western susceptibilities that we are currently obliged to display for theirs will be the day that serious dialogue between the two can begin."
--PHILLIP McGOUGH Nottingham

"Nonetheless, we must keep in check our base impulses and together work to build a global culture of solidarity that restores hope in the future to the young."
--PAUL KOKOSKI Hamilton, Ontario

The writers assume respectively that "serious dialogue" between Islam and the West, and "working together" is what Muslims desire. They are frustrated that the Muslims are delaying that happy day by their uncivilized behavior.

But these assumptions are false. Muslims want no dialogue or mutuality with the West. They want to subjugate it, rule it, control it, own it. They are not seeking "serious" or any other kind of "dialogue" with us. They do not want to work with us in solidarity, or brotherhood, they want to kill or convert us.

How many times do the Mullahs have to shriek that message before we believe it?

And the fiction of Islam being a noble religion with a noble message has outlived it's usefulness. This invention of Islamic Jihadists fronts like CAIR is now threadbare, and belongs on the trash heap.

The Gunslinger