Europe Enslaved By Islam

We want to make sure all of our readers see this article published by Reason Magazine last month, so we are archiving the entire article here. It details the repeated failure of European culture to withstand the onslaught of radical Islam. Here is a sample:

European culture leaders should smack down fanatical Islamists. Instead, they’re
bending over for them.

It’s been a tough year for freedom of expression in Europe….

We urge you all to read

Tolerance or Death!

Math professor extraordinaire Larry Braden also has his own weblog, The Braden Files.

1. HHW says:
   December 13th, 2005 at 12:52 pm

   Whether or not one should depict Mohammed pictorially is not important, and there is no point debating this issue. On the other hand, the ability to present facts about the state of women in the Muslim communities is
   essential to freedom of speech. If the facts turn out to be wrong, they can be corrected. This is how a democratic society operates.

   The tragedy is that in year 2005, some communities still live in the 8th century and want to impose 8th-century rules on the world as they used to do back then.

2. RAR says:
   December 13th, 2005 at 1:07 pm

   HHW wrote “The tragedy is that in year 2005, some communities still live in the 8th century and want to impose 8th-century rules on the world as they used to do back then.

   “On the *world*”? Not quite, not even the Western world, though it has been a close call. They got stopped at the Pyrenees on the west by Charlemagne, and on the east and south by a fitfully enduring Byzantine empire for 600 years or so. When rolled back to Africa in the west in the 15th century they were at the same time, as Turks now, not Arabs, menacing Europe from the east, finally getting stopped at Vienna in 1683, then gradually rolled back to the Middle East by 1918. Weak as it was, Europe didn’t lose its nerve in those early years, as it is doing now. One hopes Osama Bin Laden has finally awakened it, and us.

   It is a pity the enemy is so ill-defined, not just now, but always. There are always those who tell us we are making a mistake, and should go more gently. I even heard them in 1941, when America couldn’t be persuaded to war against Hitler himself, until the attack on Pearl Harbor followed by Germany’s declaration of war ON US could no longer be presented as subjects for understanding and compromise.