Speaking of “preferential patrilateral parallel cousin marriage” – and I don’t know about you but by the time I’ve said it I’m too exhausted to do it – but I hope everyone’s read Stanley’s take on Dinesh D’Souza, which is by far the best critique of The Enemy At Home that I’ve read.

Dinesh’s argument that America’s worthless porno-sodomite-lapdance culture is the root cause of jihad has one very big hole in it: He speaks in praise of “traditional Islam” and notes that most of the world’s people also live in “traditional societies” who are as revolted by our pop culture as your average imam. But how then do you account for the very problematic relationship “traditional Islam” has with other “traditional societies”? In Nigeria, in Sudan, in southern Thailand, etc.

It’s hard not to conclude that if America plus the fleshpots of, say, Amsterdam were all vaporized at twenty past three, at 3.21 the Islamists would simply shake off the dust and get on pursuing their grievances with the rest of the planet.