What is separationism? Lawrence Auster explains:
I subscribe to the now tiny but, I believe, some-day-to-be prevalent Separationist School of Western-Islamic Relations. We separationists affirm the following:
- Islam is a mortal threat to our civilization.
- But we cannot destroy Islam.
- Nor can we democratize Islam.
- Nor can we assimilate Islam.
- Therefore the only way to make ourselves safe from Islam is to separate ourselves from Islam.
(An earlier version of the above statement, along with a key excerpt from my article “The Search for Moderate Islam,” is posted here.)
Auster wrote this ten years ago. Mildly prophetic.