Posted on 02/10/2006 6:12:17 AM PST by conservativecorner
"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder." -- Arnold Toynbee
As Danish embassies and European Union offices smolder in Beirut, Damascus, Gaza and Tehran -- the result of a junior varsity jihad -- the time could not be more apt for Bruce Bawer's "While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within," due out at the end of this month. Bawer is a gay American with a flair for languages who moved to Europe in 1999 to escape what he perceived to be the narrow-mindedness of the Christian right in America.
The move changed him. It also afforded a front row seat at the clash of civilizations now flaring into flames. If American Christian conservatives seemed intolerant to Bawer, they were cream puffs in comparison with the Islamofascists who are multiplying in Europe. Theo van Gogh produced a film about the mistreatment of women in the Islamic community and was assassinated by an unrepentant Islamist who defiantly told the dead man's mother, "I cannot feel for you because I believe you are an infidel." A rumor swept the Muslim world that American soldiers in Guantanamo flushed the Koran down a toilet, and violence erupted worldwide. European newspapers published cartoons insulting to Mohammad, and death threats poured in, embassies were set ablaze, and red-faced Muslims now vow jihad throughout the world.
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Gee... ya think?
If all these lefty moonbats had a brain cell among them they'd realize they'd be the first ones beheaded.
Let's remember the whole truth here. A US "News" organization, Newsweek, PUBLISHED this unsubstantiated rumor. They STILL have not apologized. Considering their willingness to publish THIS lie, one wonders WHAT else Newsweak is lying to us about?
They simply don't get it. Jews/Christians are disliked but tolerated by Muzzies. Pagans (AKA Western Leftwing Secularists)are the REAL enemy to all Muzzies. Just utterly stupid on the Hysteric Left's part to accept the fact that the Muzzies are the enemies of EVERYTHING the Political Left claims to care about!
Thank you.
Every time I see the burning Twin Towers, my heart sinks again.
...The heart of Bawer's book is not to replow familiar demographic ground, but to probe the political, moral and psychological aspects of Europe's response to this existential threat. The depressing answer, all too often, is that they capitulate. Bawer recounts how Amsterdam police, responding to a complaint by Muslims, dismantled a street mural erected on the site of van Gogh's murder that said "Thou Shalt Not Kill." Some leftist academics in Norway have suggested establishing sharia courts for Muslim citizens. Britain's Channel 4 canceled a documentary about abuse of girls in the Muslim community because the police cautioned that it might "increase community tension."
That self-censorship was exactly what the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten was attempting to expose with its cartoons. That impulse — to assert the value of free speech despite threats and violence — is the best evidence to surface in quite some time that there is some life spirit left in sagging old EuropeClick HERE to purchase it at a discount. (Sales help fund JWR.).
Nailed It!
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You get the sense that if the moonbats lefties were on the hijacked planes, they think they would have been given parachutes and allowed to bail over Philly. After all, they are on the side of the terrorists and America was asking for it..
I was just reading an article about the WTC jumpers and how the taboo of the media on showing them has had a deleterious effect on identifying them. It was heartbreaking.
Newsweak lie? You mean the Newsweak who has a red diaper baby as one of its managing editors? Evan Thomas, grandson of one of the leading lights of the American Socialist Party, a disciple of Eugene V. Debs, and a co-founder of the ACLU, Norman Thomas?
Norman Thomas who said: "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
And his grandson is one of the editors of Newsweak. Newsweak lying to us? Never!
Thanks TB! I did NOT know that about Evil Thomas at Newsweak. Really explains why their coverage is so rabidly far left wacko all the time
"Will Europe become Eurabia?"
Only if they don't heed the message of danger the cartoon thing is sending. They now have one final chance to live: Join us and the UK or be rolled over by the islamofasists.
Oh my.
I will never forget.
For the rest of my life I will be haunted by the faces of these murdered Americans. And I won't forget who did this and who supports it, both domestically and globally.
I love your tagline, by the way!
"will Europe become eruabiaa?"
No. It already HAS BECOME eurabia. Accession to demands of mad muslims already has them fitting for burqas.
Thank you for so graphically putting things into perspective.
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Great point!
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