Prince Charles converts to Islam and ascends the throne.

While I agree that there is something truly sad about a child’s future being decided based on identity politics; I am also baffled by would-be parents who by-pass equally needy children living in their own country.

I know couples who have ‘shopped’ (and are currently shopping) around to see which countries have the easiest and most affordable adoption procedures, who have compared the health ‘quality’ of the children available for adoption, debated which country’s children are most deserving of being saved, etc. When the Iraq war began, I predicted that the Middle East would become the next adoption hot spot once rebuilding was well underway.

It is clear that many of these couples (the ones I know) like the idea of acquiring a child (I should say, explicitly a baby) who can be stripped of its history–very little chance that the Chinese, or Thai, or Guatemalan, or Russian, etc., etc., biological mother or father or siblings may one day appear on the doorstep–an increasing likelihood when adopting in the US.

In this sense, I can understand some of the concerns of adopting countries regarding whether the child will have some notion of their cultural heritage made available to them–which is very different from saying that I support the case described. Clearly there is a huge divide between educating a child about their ancestry versus dictating how a child will be raised.

Still, the whole foreign adoption process reduces children to commodities in ways that are unsettling to me. I guess I wish, as far as adoption goes, it would become trendy to “buy American” and consider older children, not just infants or toddlers.

I think they came over to practice their own form of religious intolerance.

The future is a rapidly-growing immigrant by-and-large militant Islamic population with a thin overlay of politically correct governance. That governance will come tumbling down, either crumbling under failed legitimacy due to assaults like this, or more radically.

It is hard to imagine how things don’t “end” with blood in the streets.

Maybe that is why the historic British population has been disarmed — it makes things less messy in the end state.