Bruce Bawer and Europe's Response to Its Islamization

For those of you who followed Ayaan Hirsi Ali's visit to the Claremont Colleges and The Claremont Independent's extended coverage of said visit, I would be remiss if I did not point to a rather excellent review of the state of politics in Europe right now. It is authored by Bruce Bawer, a writer for whom I credit with helping me see the crisis that Islam presents to Western Europe. Bawer, for those of you quick to dismiss me as a homophobe, is an openly gay American who has witnessed the Islamization of Europe firsthand as an ex pat. (While we're on the topic of homophobia, I just thought I would also direct you to a hilarious video produced by Steven Crowder on the topic of how Perez Hilton and gay activists try to attack those of us who are a little skeptical of their agenda. Yep, this one is for you, Ross.)

So as I was saying, some years ago -- it was my seventeenth birthday at an Ayn Rand conference, incidentally-- I had the good fortune of hearing Fleming Rose, the editor that printed the cars that showed how tolerant Islam is of free speech. Someone made the error of asking him whether he regretted printing the cartoons and he quipped -- he apparently says it quite often -- that, "Asking me that question is like asking a rape victim if she regrets wearing a short skirt Friday night at the discotheque." 

I often think of that saying when people on campus say, "how can you say that?!" My response to these people is usually, "Well, I just did. Let's talk about what your reaction is to that statement and why it's disproportionate."