John Leo has a good piece on the growth of Islamic supremacism in Europe: Islamic Radicals Take Advantage of Western Civilization.

Much of the Muslim assertiveness is an outgrowth of Europe’s disastrous love affair with multiculturalism. In theory, immigrants were to be encouraged to maintain their own identity and traditions in exchange for accepting Europe’s system of shared values. In practice, it has mostly been a plan for hands-off separatism and resistance to assimilation.

Governments offer financial help in building schools and places of worship, and encourage the importing of imams from Arab countries, many of them predictably haters of the West. Raed Hlayhel, an imam in Denmark, for instance, was part of an entourage that toured the Middle East, building rage over the cartoons. He and the other imams took along several fabricated cartoons, one showing Muhammad as a pedophile and another depicting him having sex with a dog. Shouldn’t these provocations earn each of these imams a one-way trip back to the Middle East?

As historian Fred Siegel of New York’s Cooper Union points out, many of the imams have taken a page out of Yasser Arafat’s book, speaking tolerantly in Europe, but calling for blood when on the Arab media. He says Muslim spokesman know how to game Western liberalism, demanding free speech when they deny the Holocaust, then dropping the free-speech argument and arguing that anti-Muslim criticisms and cartoons should be censored on grounds of multicultural sensitivity.