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March 3, 2006
Author Sees Growing Muslim Enclaves Hoping To Rule Europe
Topics: Understanding IslamRobert Spencer points us to another must read, a book by Bruce Bawer, who lives in Norway and has lived in The Netherlands. As Spencer points out, Bawer "has seen the creeping Islamization of Europe in chilling detail, and he has now chronicled it in While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West From Within." This book is essential reading -- where Bat Ye'or's Eurabia "explicates the theory, Bawer shows that theory being put into harrowing practice."
Here's a review of Bawer's book from the Philadelphia Inquirer:
If the ongoing "Battle of Khartoon" (let's give it some historical resonance) proves anything, it's that many otherwise well-educated Westerners remain illiterate about Islam. According to the Wall Street Journal, the editors of Denmark's Jyllands-Posten newspaper didn't understand when they published their visual bombshells that some strains of Islam (but not all) oppose depiction of Muhammad. Consider that just one gap in knowledge that new books like Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept help close....Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept, published this month, provides an extraordinarily timely and incisive complement to such works. His topic is far fresher, one rarely explained to Americans because of our shrinking coverage of Europe: the astounding growth of Muslim communities there over the last 30 years, and how they interact with traditionally Christian societies.
Bawer, a gay, neoconservative American literary critic from New York who has lived in Amsterdam (now more than half non-Dutch) and, since 1997, in Oslo, energetically reports here what happens between the terrorist incidents that prod mainstream American media to brief coverage: the everyday tensions of a Europe that, for the first time in many centuries, must face substantial Islamic populations and ambitions.
In Bawer's view, Western Europe is becoming a "house divided against itself." On the one hand, the educated European elite maintains an unshakable "belief in peace and reconciliation through dialogue," a faith (their only remaining faith) that every issue can be resolved without violence.
As Robert Spencer suggests - Read it all.
In her book, Eurabia, Bat Ye'or showed how an Euro-Arab Dialogue (EAD) unfolded over the past 30-plus years, and how that process relates to the World War II Axis--as well as the historical, 1,400-year jihad. She writes that the EAD renewed and fostered Europe's Axis ties to the Middle East: In the late 1940s and 1950s war criminals fled Europe to Egypt, Syria and other Arab nations. Now, Axis links to Europe have been rekindled through the Middle Eastern policies imported into Europe. The new Europe was built on a unified anti-Israel and anti-American policy.
As Bat Ye'or suggests, America is the last frontier, and the American people MUST take it as their duty to avoid Europe's fate, to which I add, we must help Europe to avoid a fate that they themselves have fostered and allowed to develop - the Islamization of Europe. Reading, absorbing, and heeding the message in Bruce Bawers book is a good start.
Posted by Richard at March 3, 2006 2:24 PM
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