We are, make no mistake, deep into Orwellian territory here. (See also Phyllis Chesler: French Funnyman Dieudonne Talks to Carlos the Jackal. )
As Westerners doze, radical Islam continues its march.
The America I knew doesn't exist anymore. The Europe I sought doesn't either.
Just as it once did with the dangers of Stalinism and Hitlerism, the New York Times is doing its best to whitewash the threat of Islam.
Vaclav Havel died today at age 75. As Bruce Bawer wrote in 2008, the courageous playwright who destroyed Communism in Czechoslovakia could teach us much about the need to defend Western freedoms against totalitarian Islam. (Read more from Michael Ledeen at the Tatler.)
PJM Oslo: Once an oasis of tolerance, Europe is slowly but surely succumbing to Islamization. "Sharia law may still be an alien concept to some Westerners," writes Bruce Bawer. "But it's staring gay Europeans right in the face -- and pointing toward a chilling future for all free people."
As Barack Obama overtakes Hillary Clinton in the Iowa polls, Bruce Bawer --who "wants to want him as president"-- read the candidate's personal memoir and found some troubling elements that made it difficult to climb on the Obama bandwagon.