18 November 2010

Europe Coming To Its Senses About Islam; American State Department Doesn't Approve

.... Let contempt for America lead to contempt for American statecraft, beginning with the waste in Iraq and Afghanistan (based on a refusal to grasp the meaning, and menace, of Islam), and let the resentment felt at the American arrogance in presuming to lecture Europeans about how they should deal with this most serious threat to their continued existence -- and that invoking of an irrelevant "religious freedom" when Islam is not only, not even mainly, a "religion" in the Western understanding -- make it possible for Europeans of an anti-American bent now to express a well-justified fear of, and hostility towards, Islam, Islam, Islam. [The Iconoclast] Read more