Comments on: The Battle for America Has Just Begun. A Conversation with Bat Ye’or.

By: Norman Simms

Norman Simms — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:20:21 +0000

Profound in so many ways, this interview, the two of you touching the terrible exposed nerve of the current situation at the centre of our world. How do we move from these words to meaningful action?

By: George Jochnowitz

George Jochnowitz — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:15:34 +0000

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Has she lost her job? She was still listed as a resident fellow there when last I googled her. Is there a problem about her staying in the United States? What is motivating her request for French citizenship?

By: Louis Santacroce

Louis Santacroce — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:25:47 +0000

After reading this interview, I visited my local library to search for Bat Ye’or’s books. SURPRISE! The Mid-York Library System, which carries multiple copies of the pro-terrorism film, “Paradise Now,” as well as a number of books and DVD’s explaining the “benefits” of Islam and the “greatness” of Muhammad (piss be upon him), seems never to have heard of this author, or practically any other who tells the truth about the Islamization of Europe and its encroachment on America (although they DO have a single copy of Phyllis’s “The New Anti-Semitism”). Fortunately, at least in the case of Mid-York, this appears to have been a sin of omission; they have promised to order three of Bat Ye’or’s books. So, now there will be FOUR books that tell the truth about Islam on my library’s shelves, in the face of 30 or so volumes extolling the “virtues” of this religion and its founder. I wonder how long it will take the guy whose car sports the “Stop U.S. Aid to Israel” bumper sticker (and who seems to be in the library every day) to find and trash them!

By: John R

John R — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:02:20 +0000

Note to Burt K: Your last comment demonstrates the unseriousness of your thinking. That you equate devout Christian Americans with the murderous Islamist radical is proof of your defect of thought. Just curious, suppose there were bands of murderous christians bombing indiscriminately across the globe. How quickly would church and government officals come out to denounce it and put a stop to it? So, what’s taking “moderate” muslims so long?

By: Burt Keimach

Burt Keimach — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:49:24 +0000

Some of what Bat Ye’or says is not well founded. For example, Europe is not doomed to some kind of horrendous Muslim takeover. Witness the idiot Archbishop of Canterbury and his inane attempt to concede to aspects of Sharia law for Britain. The reaction against him was across all political and social divides. Calls for his resignation are rife.
Also, France is not an intellectually repressive society. I know. I used to live there. Americans could do well to examine the concept of aggressive secularism favoured by the French system, and later used by Kemal Ataturk to found modern Turkey. Although America, unlike Britain, manages to happily separate Church and State, they need to go further to stop fundamentalists, evangelicals, and others of delusionary persuasions from trying to foist their hallucinations on the wider public.

By: HAROLD RUBIN

HAROLD RUBIN — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:56:46 +0000

Thanks for this lucid message. Can you ‘merchandise/market’ it out to the ‘masses’? It’s a darn good product. (Standing up to one’s fear of the truly fearful is hard to sell, huh?)
Who knows, somebody may be listening and get used to it little by little

By: David Thomson

David Thomson — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:51:19 +0000

“Bat Ye’or hit the nail on the head in explaining a function of terror…”

Bat Ye’or fails to mention something that is very important: the only way to save Western Civilzation is by supporting center-right political parties. The parties of the left are too politically correct to ever get their act together. My guess is that Bat Ye’or prefers left-wing political parties and hesitates to abandon her former allies.

By: George Jochnowitz

George Jochnowitz — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:02:09 +0000

It is true that Islam persecuted Christianity. This remains the case in Saudi Arabia. But today, the big motivating factor is anti-Zionism, the most powerful political force on earth. Europeans, in particular those who once had sympathy with the Marxist-Islamic alliance, are swept away by anti-Zionism and are willing to subordinate their own interests to this cause. In all parts of the world, we can find feminists and gay-rights activists who condemn Israel despite its history and policies and sympathize with Islamists despite the existence of honor murders.

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:55:12 +0000

The PC attack on the Truth is not doomed, unfortunately.

The Intellectual elites are lying to themselves, but they have been doing in huge numbers since: Roe vs. Wade.

Every cell in a woman’s body has her DNA — the fetus has different DNA. To deny the human fetus any human rights protection is to deny the rights of the innocent. The pro-abortion feminists must lie about this. And virtually all elites, like Ayn Rand, are smart enough to know how to lie themselves so that they believe the lie.

Rationalization.

America, Freedom, Democracy, Human Rights — must win in Iraq. Iraqi freedom must win in Iraq. That is the slo motion earthquake which will shake the foundations of anti-Human Rights radical Islam.

(Not even Europe has quite failed, yet, but it’s pretty wimpy.)

By: vb

vb — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:22:04 +0000

I disagree on one small point. Many intellectuals do not want to be loved. They want to be worshipped. Love has to do with a reciprocal relationship between people who recognize one another as individuals. Far too many intellectuals seem incapable of this. They like to put people into groups that they can enlighten and save, thus winning eternal gratitude.