Preemptive surrender

A columnist in the London Times is more than a little peeved at the spinelessness of Western "elites" who fall all over themselves grovelling at the feet of Islamic supremacists who perceive any comment about their faith as being an attack on it: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/mick_hume/article4509698.ece. I completely agree with him, but unfortunately, I think that Europe is definitely too far gone in terms of its dhimmitude, and we aren't very far behind in this country. We seem to be incapable of learning from our mistakes--appeasing thugs and terrorists never accomplishes anything.