12/6 About "While Europe Slept"
Having recently published an indictment of Christian fundamentalist
intolerance in the U.S. (Stealing Jesus), New York native Bawer
relocated to Europe with his Norwegian partner in 1998 and found an
even more dangerous strain of religious and cultural bigotry ensnaring
Western Europe. A swarming menace called radical Islam, he writes,
rings Europe's cities in smoldering Muslim ghettos, provoking
everything from so-called honor killings and political assassinations
to the Madrid subway bombings and the massacre of school children in
Beslan. Worse, the Taliban-like theocracy Bawer sees looming inside
backward immigrant populations resistant to integration flourishes
under the protective wing of Western Europe's America-bashing,
multicultural, liberal establishment.
\_ Sure, and that's why armed thugs are enforcing burka-wearing
ordinances in Fremont. Oh, wait, they're not? How'd that happen?
Oh, right, because Bawer's a nut and a bigot.
\_ He's gay, and went to the Netherlands to live in a more accepting
place with his partner. He was assaulted at least once by Muslims
who saw him together with his partner.
\_ And on the basis of this he insists that Europe is one step
from Sharia? Cf. "I got mugged by a black man, so all black
men must be criminals."
\_ Fremont is in Europe?
\_ Sorry, misread "Europe's" for "American."
s/Fremont/Amsterdam/
\_ Yeah, go back and read about how the Irish/Italians/Mexicans, etc
would not integrate and were doomed to destroy America. It is the
same old alarmism. It is perhaps true that Europe has a shorter
history of integrating immigrants, so will need to learn, but
same old alarmism. It is perhaps true that Europe has less
experience in integrating immigrants, so will need to learn, but
hardly concievable that a small minority would overwhelm the
majoritarian culture.
\_ Irish/Italians/Mexicans were not Muslim.
\_ And therefor not EEEEEEEEEEVIL?
\_ No, they were Catholic, which was considered even worse.
\_ Yet they weren't blowing people up.
\_ Neither are Muslims. The French riots, 9/11, etc were
all the acts of "students" and "youths".
\_ You are obviously unfamiliar with the history of the
IWW.
IWW. Ever heard of the Haymarket Riot? |
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