Mark Steyn, writing on page 62 of his new book (the perhaps unfortunately titled “America Alone”) observes that “an insurgency that lurks within a religion automatically has a global network … ” and that “… modern man is disinclined to go after any faith except perhaps his own.”

He goes on:

But Islam is not just a religion. Those lefties who bemoan what America is doing to provoke “the Muslim world” would go bananas if any Western politician started referring to “the Christian world.” When such sensitive guardians of the separation of church and state endorse the first formulation but not the second, they implicitly accept that Islam has a political sovereignty too. There is an “Organization of the Islamic Conference”: it’s like the EU and the Commonwealth and the G-8 — that is, an organization of nation states whose heads of government hold regular meetings. It’s the largest bloc on the new UN Human Rights Council, which explains why that pitiful joke of a council does nothing for human rights. Imagine if someone proposed an “Organization of the Christian Conference” that would hold summits attended by prime ministers and presidents and voted as a bloc in transnational bodies. And Islam is also a legal code. There is no “Christian law”: indeed, English Common Law and France’s Napoleonic Code are very different philosophically.

So it’s not merely that there’s a global jihad lurking within this religion, but that the religion itself is a political project — and, in fact, an imperial project — in a way that modern Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism are not.

I say that the book is perhaps unfortunately titled “America Alone” because Steyn’s accessible, funny and incisive writing on the serious subject of what he correctly describes as the “global jihad” deserves wider exposure outside of America — and it’s not going to get it with a title like that. Of-course Regnery (the publisher) was thinking of U.S. book sales.

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