Tolerating Intolerance: The Challenge of Fundamentalist Islam in Western Europe

Partisan Reviews ^ | 24 jul 02 | Bruce Bawer

[Savage Beast]

All of these predictions are fantasies.

[Savage Beast]

"Liberal" rhetoric is Orwellian: "diversity" means "conformity"; "liberal" means the very opposite.

You're right.

"Liberals" are not advocates of liberalism, liberty, freedom of thought, free exchange of ideas, justice, or diversity of opinions--though Orwellianly they profess to be. They are intent on control, conformity, and the suppression of unwelcome ideas, very much like Islam. They do not want justice; they want the redistribution of injustice.

In their eagerness to annihilate Christian fundamentalism--or perhaps, as you suggest, Judaism and Christianity--"Liberals" embrace Islam.

There are disturbing similarities between "Liberalism" and Islam. Obviously the intent of "Liberalism" is the eradication of those bothersome Judeo-Christian values. Obviously, the intent of Islam is the eradication of Judaism and Christianity. The costs and consequences are of little consideration or importance.

But maybe "Liberals", weak minded as they tend to be, just want to swap the familiar for the exotic, a common tendency of those who struggle to emulate their intellectual superiors.

Or maybe they've been watching too many old Mae West movies and, dullards as they are, misconstrued Mae's immortal words:

"When I'm faced with the choice between two evils, I take the one I haven't tried yet."

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

What Europe needs is more Jorg Haider(s) in positions of power.