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Sunday, November 06, 2005


It's been over three years since I first blogged Mark Steyn's polemic about Muslim immigration in Europe [link dead: here's the article]. Here's his latest piece.
French cynics like the prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, have spent the last two years scoffing at the Bush Doctrine: Why, everyone knows Islam and democracy are incompatible. If so, that's less a problem for Iraq or Afghanistan than for France and Belgium.

In the current issue of City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple concludes a piece on British suicide bombers with this grim summation of the new Europe: ''The sweet dream of universal cultural compatibility has been replaced by the nightmare of permanent conflict.'' Which sounds an awful lot like a new Dark Ages.
Well, does it? I know what he's trying to say, and so far, no one seems to be listening. The civilizations of the West continue to ignore their borders and allow a flood of immigration from the 3rd world; it's the same in America. So why is it that no one care here, either?



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