Bruce Bawer: Submission in the Netherlands?
Ref: City Journal, Winter 2009, vol 19, no 1. Jan 22nd, 2009
“a court in the Netherlands—a nation once famous for being an oasis of free speech—has now decided to prosecute a member of the national legislature for speaking his mind. By doing so, it proves exactly what Wilders has argued all along: that fear and “sensitivity” to a religion of submission are destroying Dutch freedom.”
Bruce Bawer: The Times, It Ain’t a-Changin’
Ref: Pajamas Media,
“The Times should have learned a valuable lesson or two from its past. But it’s making exactly the same mistakes today with Islam in the West that it did with Stalinism and Hitlerism, ignoring and discrediting the testimony of honest observers while giving legitimacy to tyranny’s sympathizers and apologists.”
Bruce S. Thornton: Epistle to the Muslims
Ref: City Journa, Winter 2008, Vol 1, No. 1
“the letter professes “that in the past (e.g. in the Crusades) and in the present (e.g. in excesses of the ‘war on terror’) many Christians have been guilty of sinning against our Muslim neighbors,””
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Wages of Appeasement
Ref: Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2004
“Our failure was never due to a lack of the necessary wealth or military resources, but rather to a deeply ingrained assumption that we should not retaliate–a hesitancy al Qaeda perceives and plays upon.”
Ref: slate.com, June 25, 2007
“Rage Boy keenly looks forward to anger, while we worriedly anticipate trouble, and fret about etiquette, and prepare the next retreat. If taken to its logical conclusion, this would mean living at the pleasure of Rage Boy, and that I am not prepared to do.”
Theodore Dalrymple; Barbarians at the Gates of Paris
Ref: City Journal 4 2002
Theodore Dalrymple visits Paris before the outbreak of the Banlieu riots.
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