Managing Jihad

So proud we are of our fundamental values
as progressive, tolerant and inclusive societies
prepared to welcome into our increasingly
pluralistic-inclined hearts of indiscriminate
welcome all who seek a better way of life
that we stand committed to sharing freedoms
and social justice with all who seek us out.
The gradually inverse conversion of our
population base from one of cohesively shared
values, justice and equality stealthily undercut
as we barely notice, too busy congratulating
ourselves for our foresight in absorbing those
who have been suffering under the vicious
weight of tyranny and enriching ourselves with
their grateful presence. Somehow managing
to overlook the gradual diminishing of our own
culture in the overwhelming clamour of celebrating
those of others whose presence, we tell ourselves
enriches us beyond calculation. That presence
gaining the status that comes with weight of
presence nudging the overturning and abandonment
of the very liberties we take as a symbol of an
advanced society, where it now becomes a
criminal offence to state an opinion, even one
based on the observation of reality. Those who
had been refugees from the statecraft of theistic
aggressively-threatening governance anxious
to escape its soul-destroying dominance have
nonetheless carried their baggage of religious
intolerance and bigotry with them transforming
by sheer weight of numbers and appeal to the
fairness of democratic social justice to undermine
and replace the bulwarks of social democracy
achieving through infiltration what the violence
of Islamist jihad cannot itself quite execute.