"Islam is the fastest growing religion in Europe. The demographic trends are ominous: Given current birthrates, France could be a majority Muslim country in 25 years, and that is if immigration were to stop tomorrow. Throughout Western Europe, Muslim immigrants show little inclination to acquire the secular and civil values of their host countries, and yet exploit these values to the utmost—demanding tolerance for their backwardness, their misogyny, their anti-Semitism, and the genocidal hatred that is regularly preached in their mosques. Political correctness and fears of racism have rendered many secular Europeans incapable of opposing the terrifying religious commitments of the extremists in their midst. In an effort to appease the lunatic furor arising in the Muslim world in response to the publication of the Danish cartoons, many Western leaders have offered apologies for exercising the very freedoms that are constitutive of civil society in the 21st century. The U.S. and British governments have chastised Denmark and the other countries that published the cartoons for privileging freedom of speech over religious sensitivity. It is not often that one sees the most powerful countries on Earth achieve new depths of weakness, moral exhaustion and geopolitical stupidity with a single gesture. This was appeasement at its most abject."
In an article in truthdig Sam Harris details and describes [read the full article here] what he sees as the realities of Islam - in the light of the "storm" almost everywhere around the globe following on from the publication of those said to be offending cartoons.
Some of Harris' points have merit and deserve to be reflected on....
In an article in truthdig Sam Harris details and describes [read the full article here] what he sees as the realities of Islam - in the light of the "storm" almost everywhere around the globe following on from the publication of those said to be offending cartoons.
Some of Harris' points have merit and deserve to be reflected on....
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