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Here is a story that neatly encapsulates the threat that the West faces, and the weakness of its response to that threat. In Germany, a critic of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others, Michael Stürzenberger, was stabbed several months ago ... Now, a German court has added insult to injury, convicting Stürzenberger of “incitement to hatred” and fining him $3,800. So it has come to this: what the jihadi began, the German government is now continuing. What will be the effects of this on the freedom of speech in Germany? That’s obvious: if this continues, Germany is...