There are several points on which Jenkins’ argument is unconvincing.
They are overlapping, but I count seven or eight. First, the analogies
he persistently draws with the United States are little more than
distractions. Our race riots of the 1960s and 1970s did not involve
foreigners of a radically different religion and culture. Blacks had
been here almost as long as whites; they are as Christian as whites
(except for the hybrid Islam of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam);
they did not attack the social centers but were terrorizing one another
and burning down their own neighborhoods; their celebrity and public
standing was dependent on the indulgence of whites who subscribed to
what...

There are several points on which Jenkins’ argument is unconvincing.
They are overlapping, but I count seven or eight. First, the analogies
he persistently draws with the United States are little more than
distractions. Our race riots of the 1960s and 1970s did not involve
foreigners of a radically different religion and culture. Blacks had
been here almost as long as whites; they are as Christian as whites
(except for the hybrid Islam of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam);
they did not attack the social centers but were terrorizing one another
and burning down their own neighborhoods; their celebrity and public
standing was dependent on the indulgence of whites who subscribed to
what Tom Wolfe aptly described as radical chic; they ended up by being
contained in the urban underclass, abandoned by the great majority of
blacks who are middle-class and largely ignored by the rest of society.
On each point, the black situation in America is so very different from
that of Muslims in Europe that it can carry almost none of the weight
that Jenkins’ argument wants it to bear.

Jenkins seriously understates the religio-ideological challenge of
Jihadism, the belief that every Muslim has an obligation to employ
whatever means necessary to advance the world’s submission to Islam.
This belief is analyzed in chilling detail by, among others, Johns
Hopkins’ Mary Habeck in her book Knowing the Enemy (see my
review in the April 2006 issue). Yes, it is true, as he says, that such
hard-liners are in a minority; hard-line fanatics are usually a
minority. But, of a billion Muslims in the world and thirty million in
Europe, a small minority can do a great deal of damage....Neither of us is on the “need to know” list of the respective security
services. I think I do know what the Jihadists intend to do if they get
the chance.