4.In the Islamicworld, the infidel tax base eventually wised up. You can see itliterally in the landscape in rural parts of the Balkans: Christiantradesmen got fed up paying the jizya and movedout of the towns up into remote hills far from the shakedown crowd. Inless mountainous terrain where it’s harder to lie low, non-Muslimsfound it easier to convert. That’s partly what drove Islamic expansion.Once Araby was all Muslim, it was necessary to move on to the Levant,and to Persia, and to Central Asia and North Africa and India andEurope — in search of new infidels to mug. Don’t worry, I’m not soinvested in my analogy that I’m suggesting the Obama-Reid-Pelosishakedown racket will be forced to invade Canada and Scandinavia. For one thing, pretty much everywhere else got with theBig Government program well ahead of America and long ago figured outall the angles: Two-thirds of French imams are on the dole