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The PERMANENT cost of having a significant Islamic population in a Western society
Clair Berlinski writes in the New York Sun:
Last month, en route to the British Library, I strolled past the Tiger Tiger nightclub in Piccadilly. I was on foot because it was a beautiful day and because there is a distinctly creepy mood, these days, on London’s tubes and busses. Signs everywhere remind passengers that they are on CCTV. The police presence is heavy and visible. To be sure, the odds of any one bus blowing up are tiny, but the ubiquitous security prompts the unwelcome thought that there are people about who seek to better those odds. Days later, I flew out of Heathrow airport, where the mood was creepier still. Lines snaked for hours through claustrophobic security screening pens, and passengers stared balefully at the earnest sniffer dogs, wondering how much confidence to place in that goofy spaniel’s nose.And this was before the attempted terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow. In the rest of the article, which is about the historian Walter Laqueur’s new book, The Last Days of Europe, Berlinski simultaneously genuflects to Laqueur and bristles at his indifference to the impending Islamization of Europe, and at his ignoring of her and others’ work on the subject.
In the face of this data, Mr. Laqueur remarks, “One could only hope that the newcomers indifferent to European values or even hostile to them would gradually show more tolerance, if not enthusiasm, toward them or that multiculturalism, which had been such a disappointment, would perhaps work after all in the long run.” The use of the pronoun “one” and the adoption of the conditional voice are presumably intended to suggest his laudable sobriety, or at least lofty academic detachment. But why, exactly, is it considered a virtue for to be sober and measured when considering this data? And is it not curious to find such a tone in a man whose own life has been so profoundly marked by precisely the kind of exterminationist anti-Semitism such radicals promulgate? Yet one wonders, what is the basis for Berlinski’s criticism, since she also in this article, far from raising a battle cry in defense of the threatened civilization of the West, writes about the Islamization of Europe in a mood of resigned pessimism. And why? Because the ONLY way that the Islamization of Europe can be stopped is by removing the Muslims from Europe. And such a thought is inconceivable to intellectuals like Berlinski and Laqueur. So all they have to offer is sobriety and detachment, or pessimism and despair.
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