The War of Civilizations
Is it on?
David Warren, writing about the Islamist creation of grievances over the Danish cartoons, warns that it is:
Even after the experience of the Great War, and the Depression, people on the eve of the Hitler war could not appreciate what was coming. It is only in retrospect that we understand what happened as the 1930s progressed — when a spineless political class, eager at any price to preserve a peace that was no longer available, performed endless demeaning acts of appeasement to the Nazis; while the Nazis created additional grievances to extract more.This is precisely what is happening now, as we are confronted by the Islamist fanatics, whose views and demands are already being parroted by fearful “mainstream” Muslim politicians. We will do anything to preserve a peace that ceased to exist on 9/11. Not one of our prominent politicians dares even to name the enemy.
He claims things are moving too quickly. Quickly or slowly, they are moving somewhat insensibly, as in the famous “boiled frog” syndrome. If you throw a frog into boiling water, he jumps out. But if you put a frog into warm water and then turn it up to a boil, he will stay there and die. This seems a better analogy to me. Twenty years ago, no one in the West countenanced the Islamist “grievances” against Salman Rushdie. Today, there are plenty in the West who prefer to appease the Islamists on the cartoon question.
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