Mark Steyn, in discussing the laughable expectations the West has for the Islamic world, hits on a point which is really something about which we need to have a conversation about as a civilization.

We are gradually losing our Western identity, and losing the support of those who really ought to support it, largely because we have abandoned any pretense of believing in our principles. Western civilization has become flaccid and indecisive. We can’t even decide whether marriage consists of a man and a woman.

If we are to survive, we must again develop a muscular, vigorous Western intellectual movement. We must not be afraid to say that, yes, Western Christian civilization is better than the civilization of say, Somalia. And we ought to aim to keep it that way. That this is the case is obvious on its face, but we have shied away from saying so, for fear of offending someone. We can no longer afford to indulge in this sort of prissiness.

In order to do this, we must first act at home. Let us unashamedly defend Western tradition, and defeat the intellectual terrorists who inhabit academia. We must recognize them as domestic enemies, as they certainly recognize us. Do not cower before their Fabian tactics; throw political correctness and hypersensitivity in the trash can where it belongs.

We conservatives and traditionalists must stand together, or, as Benjamin Franklin remarked, we shall surely hang separately.