While Europe Slept

[erudito]

Bruce Bawer’s While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within is a cri d’coeur from an American gay writer who found the sanctuary of tolerance he had thought he had found in the Netherlands and Norway to be not so

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[jordan179]

Having fled, amongst other things, the American Religious Right, he found that Europe had a far worse-more violent, more dangerous, more ruthless-Religious Right. One, moreover, whose claims were much less publicly contested than the Religious Right in the US’s were. Worse, whose claims were ignored or excused by Europe’s cosy (indeed claustrophobic) elite. What made them worse and far less contested? This Religious Right was Muslim.

... and the really scary thing, from a gay, feminist or Jewish perspective, is that the European Left establishment has more than once shown itself only too willing to turn on its former allies in order to appease the Muslim Right. The European establishment no longer believes in "natural right," and from a short-term political POV the main consideration is that gays, Jews and feminists will not riot if rebuffed, while the Muslims will.

Of course, from a long-term perspective, the European establishment is being abysmally stupid. The Muslim Right does not respect the European establishment at all, and

[anonymous]

I haven't read this book, but I'm going to add it to my reading list.

Ellen R. Sheeley, Author
"Reclaiming Honor in Jordan"
http://www.redroom.com/author/ellen-r-sheeley

Read your blog

[erudito]

I have linked to some of your blog posts and stories you linked to here. Various of my recent posts have mentioned the issue.