StarAstrologer - Books : While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.697094
EAN: 9780385514729
ISBN: 0385514727
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: February 21, 2006
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: February 21, 2006
Sales Rank: 51791
Studio: Doubleday
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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 “Weimar moment.” 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 continent—in Amsterdam, Oslo, Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, and Stockholm—he encountered large, rapidly expanding Muslim enclaves in which women were oppressed and abused, homosexuals persecuted and killed, “infidels” 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 generally—even criminalizing free speech—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 Europe’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 immigrants’ 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 American’s experience in Europe before and after 9/11, and of his many arguments with Europeans about the dangers of militant Islam and America’s role in combating it. This brave and invaluable book—with its riveting combination of eye-opening reportage and blunt, incisive analysis—is essential reading for anyone concerned about the fate of Europe and what it portends for the United States.
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This book is an easy read. Packed full of easy to understand information about radical islam. This used book was in great shape.
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I've sent this book to several friends. If they're not buying the war on terror from the American right, maybe they'll listen to a gay guy.
Bawer moved to Europe, enamored by "a world that had moved beyond bigotry," where "people's sense of identity and self-worth didn't depend on jobs or salaries," and folks "are appreciative of and satisfied with everyday pleasures." He wanted to love Europe, did love Europe, apparently still does.
All the more powerful, then, his ... Read More
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Bruce Bawer, who is writing from the capitol of Norway, Oslo, is an american immigrant to Europe. He portrays himself as being at first infatuated by the continent, then disillusioned in equal measure, while experiencing the excile`s common rediscovery of the virtues of his land of origin.
He describes all of Western Europe in this book, but he has a particular focus on the Netherlands and Norway/Scandinavia. The Netherlands because it was the first european nation he moved to and mastered ... Read More
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The material Bruce Bawer covers in this volume is similar to the content of Mark Steyn's America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, Claire Berlinski's Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too, and Melanie Phillips' Londonistan. Maybe you don't want to hear the bad news about the Muslim takeover of Europe from Mark Steyn, who is known to be conservative, and a Bush sympathizer. Well, Bruce Bawer is an advocate of homosexual rights, whose last book was a critique of conservative ... Read More
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I can't believe a continent that spawned the Vikings; and the Roman Empire can't handle a few lazy Muslims . Europe just needs to grow a spine and start rounding them up and deporting them, and if they were born in Europe, tough banish them, just take care of them the same way they got there, stick them on jetliners and send them off to the countries they love. Muslim countries. Simple. Right now the europeons are selling their grandchildren into dhimitued (slavery to Muslims) in exchange for not being called ... Read More
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