Radical Islam Continues Its March

Auf dieser Website ist ein exzellenter Text von Bruce Bawer über 9/11 erschienen. Ergänzend zu seinem Buch „While Europe Slept“, beschreibt er nun die Unterschiede zwischen Europa und den USA im Hinblick auf die Integration muslimischer Einwanderer und das Aufkommen des Islamismus. Auch er kommt zum Schluss, dass die Integrationskraft der amerikanischen Einwanderungspolitik der europäischen überlegen ist und dass die Freiheit in Europa immer geringer geschätzt wird:

Ever since the Muslim influx began some decades ago, European countries have encouraged the newcomers to retain their cultural identity, to live apart from mainstream society, and to become clients of the welfare state. America, by contrast, has traditionally expected immigrants to learn English, to get a job, and to obey the law, and if they do so they’re every bit as American as anyone else. I didn’t argue in While Europe Slept that America was invulnerable to Islamization, but I did suggest that — thanks to this very dramatic difference both in the general public’s attitudes toward immigrants and in government immigration policy — America stood a far better chance than Europe did of seeing Muslim newcomers turn into loyal citizens rather than enemies within. …

I do feel, however, that there’s one very important difference between America and Europe when it comes to resisting cultural jihad, and that is this: that in America, a large proportion of the people who recognize the threat of Islam and who are determined to resist it are consciously fighting for freedom — for, that is, the principles articulated in the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. In many parts of Western Europe, this kind of certainty and unanimity about freedom — simple freedom – as a first principle can be discouragingly hard to come by. (pdf)

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