The realists understood that the survival of Western civilization
was at stake. The dreamers understood that the success of the ideal of
tolerance was at stake. The realists understood that the West was the
victim of 9/11. The multiculturalists understood that Muslims were the
victims (or soon would be) of our racist society’s Islamophobia.

Hard evidence validating realists’ fears continues to mount across
the West, while no evidence has materialized to justify the dreamers’
fears.

In 2006 there were 8,000 hate crimes reported to the FBI in the
United States. By far, the most — 2,640 — were directed against blacks.
Gay males suffered 747 hate-motivated cr...

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The realists understood that the survival of Western civilization
was at stake. The dreamers understood that the success of the ideal of
tolerance was at stake. The realists understood that the West was the
victim of 9/11. The multiculturalists understood that Muslims were the
victims (or soon would be) of our racist society’s Islamophobia.

Hard evidence validating realists’ fears continues to mount across
the West, while no evidence has materialized to justify the dreamers’
fears.

In 2006 there were 8,000 hate crimes reported to the FBI in the
United States. By far, the most — 2,640 — were directed against blacks.
Gay males suffered 747 hate-motivated crimes. Only 156 incidents
involved Islamophobia, a trivial figure in a population of 300 million.

Islamophobia amongst Western non-Muslims is highly exaggerated, but
anti-Westernism amongst radical Muslims is not. Trouble is, the
evidence of jihadism in our midst is deemed inadmissible by the
dreamers who preside over the court of public opinion. The dreamers’
strategy is to brand realists as Islamophobes, while promoting an
unnecessary and unseemly Islamophilia.

This Islamophilia is urged upon us by omission and commission, and
in ways both benign and wicked: from CBC’s intelligence-insulting
series, Little Mosque on the Prairie, to the singling out of Muslims
from other religious groups for government outreach programs, to — most
perniciously– indulgence by our human rights commissions of hate-filled
anti-Western rhetoric by imams, while demonizing heritage Canadians who
“offend” Muslims with facts and statistics.

One assiduously realistic witness to the truth about Islamism is
Bruce Bawer, Oslo-based author of the newly-published book, Surrender:
Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom. He spoke in Ottawa Monday; he’ll
be speaki...

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This Islamophilia is urged upon us by omission and commission, and
in ways both benign and wicked: from CBC’s intelligence-insulting
series, Little Mosque on the Prairie, to the singling out of Muslims
from other religious groups for government outreach programs, to — most
perniciously– indulgence by our human rights commissions of hate-filled
anti-Western rhetoric by imams, while demonizing heritage Canadians who
“offend” Muslims with facts and statistics.

One assiduously realistic witness to the truth about Islamism is
Bruce Bawer, Oslo-based author of the newly-published book, Surrender:
Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom. He spoke in Ottawa Monday; he’ll
be speaking tonight in Montreal, and tomorrow in Quebec City. (See http://www.pointdebasculecanada.ca
for details.) Bawer is a gay activist who abandoned what he considered
a homophobic U. S. in 1998 to breathe progressive Europe’s more
“tolerant” air. Instead what he found there was an Islam based
homophobia far more menacing than anything he’d experienced in
Christian America.

His eyes now opened to the effects of an increasingly Islamified
Europe, Bawer became the poster boy for the proverbial liberal mugged
by multicultural reality. The epiphany resulted in his first book,
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from
Within, a withering critique of Europe’s pusillanimous submission, in
the name of multiculturalism, to virulent misogyny, anti-Semitism and
homophobia.

Today Bawer is recognized as one of the most persuasive members of a
small but courageous band of politically incorrect brothers and
sisters: brilliant writers like Bat Ye’or (Eurabia), Andrew Bostum (The
Legacy of Jihad), Melanie Phillips (Londonistan), Claire Berlinski
(Menace in Europe) and Canadians Mark Steyn (America Alone) and David
Solway (The Big Lie), to name but a few. These Cassandras have
difficulty finding uncowed publishers willing to back them. They risk
libel suits and even physical harm, but they soldier on in the name of
truth and Western survival.

There is hope that some influential dreamers are waking up from
their eight-year nap. None of the books ...

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Today Bawer is recognized as one of the most persuasive members of a
small but courageous band of politically incorrect brothers and
sisters: brilliant writers like Bat Ye’or (Eurabia), Andrew Bostum (The
Legacy of Jihad), Melanie Phillips (Londonistan), Claire Berlinski
(Menace in Europe) and Canadians Mark Steyn (America Alone) and David
Solway (The Big Lie), to name but a few. These Cassandras have
difficulty finding uncowed publishers willing to back them. They risk
libel suits and even physical harm, but they soldier on in the name of
truth and Western survival.

There is hope that some influential dreamers are waking up from
their eight-year nap. None of the books mentioned above was reviewed by
The New York Times, including Bawer’s first book. But his new book,
Surrender, was given a positive review this summer. The review began
with these words: “There is no more important issue facing the West
than Islamism … and there is no more necessary precondition to
countering that threat than understanding it … But before we do any of
that, we have to agree that the threat exists.”

The review ends: “Surrender is, at times, hard going … [because]
Bawer is unquestionably correct, and that fact is quite simply
terrifying.”

Just so.

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