Your good news story of the day:

It came at the same time Nicolas Sarkozy was making a case in France for greater opportunities for minorities that also contained an admission that the French notion of equality “doesn’t work anymore.”

But there was a difference. If judged on the standard scale of caution in dealing with cultural clashes and Muslims’ obligations to their new homes in Europe, the language of the Dutch position paper and Lilianne Ploumen, Labor’s chairperson, was exceptional.

The paper said: “The mistake we can never repeat is stifling criticism of cultures and religions for reasons of tolerance.”

Government and politicians had too long failed to acknowledge the feelings of “loss and estrangement” felt by Dutch society facing parallel communities that disregard its language, laws and customs.

Newcomers, according to Ploumen, must avoid “self-designated victimization.” (…)

Ploumen insists, “The success of the integration process is hindered by the disproportionate number of non-natives involved in criminality and trouble-making, by men who refuse to shake hands with women, by burqas and separate courses for women on citizenship.

Did you know that some experts claim Russia will be majority Muslim by 2050, or that its army will be majority Muslim by 2015?

I’ve excerpted my new article for FrontPage at my Examiner.com site.

UPDATE: Islam expert Andrew Bostom emails me to say:

Islam began imposing itself (via jihad of course) on parts of Russia (like Dagestan) already by the 7th/8th centuries. Many other waves of jihadism would follow…

He recommends this piece of Sufi Islam he wrote for American Thinker for more information.

Bostom adds that he is not a fan of Murawiec’s hypothesis about the links between Russian revolutionaries, Marxism and Muslim terrorism.

Fouad Ajami on Who Are We: The Challenges to America’s National Identity :

He wrote in that book of the “American Creed,” and of its erosion among the elites. Its key elements — the English language, Christianity, religious commitment, English concepts of the rule of law, the responsibility of rulers, and the rights of individuals — he said are derived from the “distinct Anglo-Protestant culture of the founding settlers of America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”

Critics who branded the book as a work of undisguised nativism missed an essential point. Huntington observed that his was an “argument for the importance of Anglo-Protestant culture, not for the importance of Anglo-Protestant people.” The success of this great republic, he said, had hitherto depended on the willingness of generations of Americans to honor the creed of the founding settlers and to shed their old affinities. But that willingness was being battered by globalization and multiculturalism, and by new waves of immigrants with no deep attachments to America’s national identity. “The Stars and Stripes were at half-mast,” he wrote in “Who Are We?”, “and other flags flew higher on the flagpole of American identities.”

Maybe irony did really die on September 11…

Relatives of those who died aboard United Airlines Flight 93 want the Bush administration to seize the land needed for a memorial where the plane crashed in Shanksville, Pa., in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The Families of Flight 93 sent a letter earlier this month asking President George W. Bush to empower the Secretary of the Interior to take the land in dispute from a homeowner who had been in negotiations with the National Parks Service, said Patrick White, vice president of the families’ organization.

“I think the rest of the family members and I feel there is no point at which we will stop,” White said. “Whatever it takes. As long as it takes. Whoever it takes. To do anything less would be doing a disservice to those that we love.”

The Black Informant writes:

Both examples here prove to me one thing — when it is all said and done, tolerance and diversity are code words that set the stage for the next exclusive non-White male group to be the next king of the mountain. While tolerance and diversity signals a sense of equal sharing, make not mistake about it. The group with the largest head count wins this competition.

“Guy White” writes:

Likewise with facial and chest hair. Some women have it and some men don’t.

Never mind that it’s not a normal condition. To liberals, it’s proof that no gender exists.

But it’s all a theory that is only used by college professors in their classrooms, away from all reality.

If this same professor’s daughter suddenly begins to develop facial and chest hair around the age 13, he won’t tell her, “Look, half the people have facial hair and half don’t. Some of them are men and some are women. It is perfectly natural for you to grow a beard.”

Instead, he’ll take her to see a doctor to try to regulate her hormones.

Then, after “fixing” his own daughter, he’ll go back to class and teach that there are no genders.

Guy who made up Holocaust love story explains why he did it:

“I wanted to bring happiness to people. I brought hope to a lot of people. My motivation was to make good in this world.”

Of course, the real reason was: he loved the attention and praise he received from gullible people eager to believe in fairy tales. Sound familiar, Bernie Farber and every other liberal do-gooder on earth?

“I was frolicking in the autumn mist when little Jackie brought me my usual strings and sealing wax. He slipped in the daily paper, and I roared when I read what this Saltsman nitwit had done!”

He angrily blew smoke out of his nostrils. “Honah Lee is a magical land of inclusion, as stated in Constitutional Amendment 4 concerning non-discrimination. If I ever see that mooncalf, I’m taking him out sailing and only one of us is coming back, you know what I’m saying?”

Damian Thompson reports:

On three separate occasions, Murray has found himself on a panel with Tory spokesmen. And, each time, the Tory has told him off for using the phrase “Islamist terrorism”. The approved word is “criminality”. As Murray told me: “It’s as if they can’t see the difference between stealing a handbag and setting off a car bomb outside a nightclub.”

Is the fact that not a single citizen had the guts to beat him up.

A teenager has been sentenced to four days in jail for smearing peanut butter on the forehead of another youth he knew was allergic to peanuts.

The boy did not suffer an allergic reaction, but told police he had suffered a severe reaction to peanuts in the past.

Hey, remember that (white) university janitor whose (black) co-workers complained because he was reading an ANTI-Klan book at work (cuz, like, it had the word “Klan” on the title. Also “vs” and “defeated”?)

Anyway, now you can email the woman in charge of his punishment!

Cuz Jennifer Lynch could use a (one day) break from our (well deserved) abuse.