You give the solution in the post. The Free World needs to enact laws that essentially state the following:
- All citizens are subject to the same laws (no exceptions!), and
- Citizens are only subject to national laws (no foreign laws).
These conditions prohibit the application of Sharia in the West. This is the most substantial part of what needs to be done. The last thing to do is to enforce the existing local laws. That means you don't let Muslim rapists off "because they didn't know" (as happened very recently in Britain), or let Muslims terrorize the media and populace when those people exercise Free Speech rights that are critical of Islam (just as they are free to be critical of every ideology and religion).
Hey fella, you know the Soviet Union died back in 1990 right? The Cold War's over. We've been drinking the authoritarian right kool-aid for quite some time now.
The Soviet Union did spread its ideology to the West (eg. funded many Leftist groups, particularly in academia). While the Soviet Union did collapse much of its points of view are now very fashionable amongst the political elites and academic institutions. The Left is all about equality. That sounds good in theory but in practice it is totally against individual initiative, entrepreneurship, individualism and unorthodox thinking. Equality trumps everything else. The left believe that "discrimination" in any form is a problem - but discrimination is required for discernment. Without discernment everything is equivalent, there is no good and evil, everything is relative. There is no superiority of the Free World over barbaric and inhumane practices because cultural relativity says they are equivalent. Hence, there is no reason to oppose evil in the World because one man's evil is another man's good. This is complete bullshit and is this is why strong and aggressive Islamists (eg barbarians) are able to agitate and bend the West to their will. The Leftist agenda lacks the moral clarity to analyze and oppose the Islamist agenda. In fact, the Left is so determined not to pass discernment/discrimination that they actively aid and abet the Islamists. The Left choose to ignore what the Islamists have been saying for 1400 years - that the Islamist goal is not mutual tolerance but the goal of Islam is to dominate the entire World, sooner or later.
Even worse than the lack of discernment by the Left is their rapid suppression of any dissenting views. They also are completely for conformity to their views and shut down any opposing views, even it factual, through personal attacks (eg. slandering Geert Wilders and the EDL as if they were decendants of Nazis and the KKK, when their agenda is defending individual liberties exactly as the original Left did). The new Left supports the collective over individual rights. The funniest thing is that the new Left basically have the same goals and tactics as the old political Right. It is the new Right (eg. libertarians) who believe in dissenting views, morality over equality and individual rights and the new Left opposes it. Black has become white and white has become black in our crazy world. We also get what used to be the bastion of liberty (the US) no longer promoting liberty but installing and defending opponents of liberty (Islamists, such as the Muslim Brotherhood). The political Left are also much more ideologues (who ignore facts and realpolitik) than the libertarians.
So, with regard to the Islamists the actions of the political Left can be described best by a quote from Winston Churchill
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Appeasement is the policy of the Leftist political elite in the West and of the academics supporting them (and the academic and educational institutions that are inculcating our young with a Left-friendly and Islamist-friendly politically correct agenda). The whole culture of the West is being steeped in appeasement rather than standing up for liberty of all people. The political Left has been sewing the seeds of Western demise for decades. The Left means well but whatever it touches it ruins (well-meaning to support people but introducing massive state dependence instead of individual initiative, and promoting the Big State as the solution to all problems).
It's a shame, because the humanitarian problems in the region are plentiful. If it wasn't for oil, no-one would give a shit about the middle east.
Not true. Oil is part of the Leftist "narrative" and popular in belief but the real reason is that the Middle East always exports its troubles to other countries. The reason for that is the dictates of Islam - but most in the West didn't understand Islam well enough to know that until recently, all they saw was terrorism (actually jihad) affecting the West.
The cowardice of the political Left has caused many thinkers to leave it. For example may ex-lefties like Christopher Hitchens and Pat Condell are sickened by the immorality of the Left's "cultural relativism" and cowardice in the face of those who would strip us of our Enlightenment liberties. Just because you oppose the Left doesn't make you on the Right either. Libertarianism is probably closer to those that champion individual liberty without becoming slightly oppressive like the Christian Right (eg. anti-abortion, anti-homosexual, anti-contraception etc). However, the Leftist-Islamist "Red-Green" Alliance intends to be Big State totalitarian and is far far worse than the mistaken Christian Rightists. That's why it is moral to oppose the Left and stand up for liberty values.
The west doesn't give a hoot about Sharia law cutting people's hands off, or the fact that in Saudia Arabia women are forbidden from driving. It's only painted as an ideological struggle by the thick-as-pigshit servile media.
Alternative media talks about the totalitarian evil of Sharia. Mainstream media *almost never* talks about Sharia - even when Islamist crimes against humanity happen every.single.day. Unfortunately most of the victims of Islam are Muslims, but the left-leaning mainstream media is careful never to criticize (and thereby implicitly enabling the evil to continue). Watch the news, the media usually take great pains to demonize Israel and soften the message from the Islamists (and never, ever link the common cause of the Islamists acting with the same intended goal from Algeria to Indonesia). Here are some *facts* for you to digest:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Especially "The List of Fatal Islamic attacks' (a staggering 20369 attacks from 9/11): http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks
If you believe in individual liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Conscience, Women's Rights, Homosexual Rights etc then you cannot support either Left, Right and absolutely not Islam. The only people who promote and *defend* these rights are the libertarians. I reluctantly came to this conclusion after much research.