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Muslims Lean on Wikipedia

Another front in the cultural war against jihad.

As Daniel Pipes and Mark Steyn  never tire of pointing out, the War on Terror is only one aspect of the conflict between the West and Islam. There is a legal, nonviolent sharia movement, too, which seeks to impose its values and mores on the West. And as Pipes and Steyn have documented at some length, that movement seems to be winning, from welfare payments for the wives of (almost entirely Muslim) polygamous men in Britain (delivered to the husband, naturally, not to the wives) to public foot-baths to demands that Wikipedia remove images of Muhammed.
George Wiegel, writing about the conflict, mentions an often forgotten component of victory: deserving to win, i.e. having enough confidence in our culture and our institutions that we are willing to defend them. Wikipedia isn’t exactly the Hagia Sophia, but we should not give an inch, online or anywhere else.

Kevin D. Williamson is a former fellow at National Review Institute and a former roving correspondent for National Review.
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