That it has come to this in
politically progressive Norway makes Surrender urgent reading. It also
serves to bolster Bawer’s chief contention: that many in Europe, and to
a lesser extent in the United States, are prepared to roll back
essential civil liberties in order to pacify (or so they hope) Muslim
radicals. Bawer embarks on a broad offensive, counting leading
political, religious, and academic figures among the defeatists.
Mainly, though, he directs his rhetorical fire at the press. In their
eagerness to forfeit the free-speech rights on which they
depend—whether through self-censorship or through craven reporting that
casts avowed Islamists as “moderates”—journalists may presen...

That it has come to this in
politically progressive Norway makes Surrender urgent reading. It also
serves to bolster Bawer’s chief contention: that many in Europe, and to
a lesser extent in the United States, are prepared to roll back
essential civil liberties in order to pacify (or so they hope) Muslim
radicals. Bawer embarks on a broad offensive, counting leading
political, religious, and academic figures among the defeatists.
Mainly, though, he directs his rhetorical fire at the press. In their
eagerness to forfeit the free-speech rights on which they
depend—whether through self-censorship or through craven reporting that
casts avowed Islamists as “moderates”—journalists may present the most
agonizing illustration of Bawer’s theme that, for too many in the West,
surrender is indeed an option.