It looks, from Holland, like the twilight of liberalism
Douglas Murray who reported from a conference in the memory of Pim Fortuyn, which was about freedom of speech, Islam and Europe, (and needed his OWN security and pseudonym) tells us the TRUTH
Every word of this needs to be digested.
But american papers and media continue to fail to stand up for freedoms.
The event was scholarly, incisive and wide-ranging. There were no ranters or rabble-rousers, just an invited audience of academics, writers, politicians and sombre party members. As yet another example of Islam’s violent confrontation with the West (this time caused by cartoons) swept across the globe, we tried to discuss Islam as openly as we could. The Dutch security service in the Hague was among those who considered the threat to us for doing this as particularly high. The security status of the event was put at just one level below “national emergency”.Are we coming through? What american media has reported on this?
Where is Tom Brokaw? Where is the great Dan Rather? Where is Cronkite? Where are those to whom the ability to voice dissidence is the pre eminent virtue of freedom... Katrina Van Den Heuvel? Where are Schumer and Clinton? Where are the philosophical descendents of FDR?All across Europe, debate on Islam is being stopped. Italy’s greatest living writer, Oriana Fallaci, soon comes up for trial in her home country, and in Britain the government seems intent on pushing through laws that would make truths about Islam and the conduct of its followers impossible to voice.
Those of us who write and talk on Islam thus get caught between those on our own side who are increasingly keen to prosecute and increasing numbers of militants threatening murder. In this situation, not only is free speech being shut down, but our nation’s security is being compromised.
Why don't we hear McCain? Where are Bush and Condi?
Even university professors are under protection.Europe is shuffling into darkness. It is proving incapable of standing up to its enemies, and in an effort to accommodate the peripheral rights of a minority is failing to protect the most basic rights of its own people.
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