How Turkey was lost

Michael Rubin:  Turkey, from Ally to Enemy

Ref: Commentary Magazine, July/August 2010

“The fact is that Turkey has changed. Gone, and gone permanently, is secular Turkey, a unique Muslim country that straddled East and West and that even maintained a cooperative relationship with Israel. [...] Turkey is now more aligned to Iran than to the democracies of Europe. Whereas Iran’s Islamic revolution shocked the world with its suddenness in 1979, Turkey’s Islamic revolution has been so slow and deliberate as to pass almost unnoticed.”

Who’s asleep more deeply?

Bruce Bawer: Who’s Sleeping More Deeply — Europe or America?

Ref: Pajamas Media, September 30, 2008

“I don’t know exactly how to characterize or understand this mass self-deception, this determination to cling to an illusion of the West in which the ongoing Islamization of Europe simply is not a factor; it would appear to be rooted partly in confusion, partly in cowardice, partly in careerism — and partly, I think, in a perhaps not entirely conscious conviction that some truths are just too sensational to speak without sounding hysterical, too repulsive to be honest about without sounding (to some ears) vulgar and bigoted, and too challenging to face without being utterly overwhelmed by the scale and the horror of it all.”

Barbarians at the Gates of Paris

Theodore Dalrymple; Barbarians at the Gates of Paris

Ref: City Journal 4 2002

Theodore Dalrymple visits Paris before the outbreak of the Banlieu riots.