While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
- Bruce Bawer, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within
The struggle for the soul of Europe today is every bit as dire and consequential as it was in the 1930s. Then, in Weimar, Germany, the center did not hold, and the light of civilization nearly went out. Today, the continent has entered yet another â€œWeimar moment.â€ Will Europeans rise to the challenge posed by radical Islam, or will they cave in once again to the extremists?

As an American living in Europe since 1998, Bruce Bawer has seen this problem up close. Across the continentâ€”in Amsterdam, Oslo, Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, and Stockholmâ€”he encountered large, rapidly expanding Muslim enclaves in which women were oppressed and abused, homosexuals persecuted and killed, â€œinfidelsâ€ threatened and vilified, Jews demonized and attacked, barbaric traditions (such as honor killing and forced marriage) widely practiced, and freedom of speech and religion firmly repudiated.

The European political and media establishment turned a blind eye to all this, selling out women, Jews, gays, and democratic principles generallyâ€”even criminalizing free speechâ€”in order to pacify the radical Islamists and preserve the illusion of multicultural harmony. The few heroic figures who dared to criticize Muslim extremists and speak up for true liberal values were systematically slandered as fascist bigots. Witnessing the disgraceful reaction of Europeâ€™s elites to 9/11, to the terrorist attacks on Madrid, Beslan, and London, and to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Bawer concluded that Europe was heading inexorably down a path to cultural suicide.

Europe's Muslim communities are powder kegs, brimming with an alienation born of the immigrantsâ€™ deep antagonism toward an infidel society that rejects them and compounded by misguided immigration policies that enforce their segregation and empower the extremists in their midst. The mounting crisis produced by these deeply perverse and irresponsible policies finally burst onto our television screens in October 2005, as Paris and other European cities erupted in flames.

WHILE EUROPE SLEPT is the story of one Americanâ€™s experience in Europe before and after 9/11, and of his many arguments with Europeans about the dangers of militant Islam and Americaâ€™s role in combating it. This brave and invaluable bookâ€”with its riveting combination of eye-opening reportage and blunt, incisive analysisâ€”is essential reading for anyone concerned about the fate of Europe and what it portends for the United States.
Country USA
Brand Anchor Books
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780767920056
Model 9780767920056
Color Brown
ReleaseDate 2007-09-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780767920056

Country	USA
Brand	Anchor Books
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780767920056
Model	9780767920056
Color	Brown
ReleaseDate	2007-09-11
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780767920056

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within

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