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November 04, 2005
Is The Era Of Appeasement Over?
It's been just over a year since Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered in broad daylight by a Muslim fanatic. Although the Dutch remain polarized in their opinion on Muslim immigration and assimilation, it seems fair to say the narcotic trance induced by institutionalized political correctness has been broken.
And now the same long-simmering issues have exploded in Paris: the suburban riots have entered their second week. Of course it's too early to tell if any substantial change will take place in France's own policy of "enlightened" multiculturalism; I suspect that it will take a series of events more cataclysmic than these riots to get the French to pull their collective heads out of the sand.
Over at Winds of Change, Cicero is wondering whether the era of appeasement of Islamic terrorists is over, and he frames his question by comparing current events to those leading up to World War II, notable the Munich agreement of 1938 and the agreement's disintegration a few months later.
I don't think the tipping point has been reached--again, I think that (unfortunately) a more devastating event will be required to shatter the hidebound European belief that war can be wished away. That didn't work in 1938 and it won't work now.
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Jeff: You have a "hier" missing a "t" in that second paragraph link...
If the riots do continue to spread into the Paris city center this may be the tipping point after all--they're getting bolder and they torched some cars in the Place de la Republique last night. If they start tearing up the Tuilleries someone is going to have to start paying attention.
It's after midnight there now--wonder what's going on.
Posted by: AcademicElephant at November 6, 2005 03:28 PM
Thanks AE...fixed.
Posted by: Jeff at November 6, 2005 11:16 PM
