Jan 26, 2007 14:20
Rules:
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 122.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag 5 people (Tag, all of you!)
From: "America Alone", by Mark Steyn
(incidentally this is a great book and would encourage all (especially those in the US) to read it)
Few EU leaders have a clue what to do about this, but, as France's headscarf law and Britain's Incitement to Racial Hatred bill underline, mediation between what Tony Blair called (in the wake of the Tube bombing) "our way of life" and Muslim values has already become a central dynamic of European political culture - a remarkable achievement for a minority few Europeans were more then vaguely conscious of before September 11. Meanwhile, across the borders pour not primary suicide bombers or suitcase nukes, though they will come in the end, but ideology - fierce, glamorous, and implacable. Here's the final irony, and perhaps the most distressing of all to European anti-Semites: in one of history's better jests, in this scenario they're the Jews.