Is there any way we can make this mayor of Rotterdam president of the US? I mean it's just amazing how many Western leaders cannot bring themselves to express this very simple but absolutely fundemental thought when it comes to Islamism - the West is about empowerment of the individual, the rule of an independent and secular law, and freedom - chief among which is the freedom to say and think what you want - if you're not comfortable with those things then why are you here? If you move to a Western democracy the obligation is upon you to adapt, not for it to start re-writing its traditions and principles and history in order to accommodate whatever backward notions and cultural sensitivities you may have brought with you. Very sad days when the President of the United States for christ sake refuses to be seen as a staunch and adamant defender of a freedom that lies at the very heart of what made America great - never mind that American universities and other bastions of ostensibly enlightened liberalism increasingly seem to have a view of open and free debate more in keeping with Iran's mullahs than the Founding Fathers.
