[ridenrain]

http://en.sevenload.com/videos/DTXyj29- ... h-part-one

One assiduously realistic witness to the truth about Islamism is Bruce Bawer, Oslo-based author of the newly-published book, Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom. He spoke in Ottawa Monday; he'll be speaking tonight in Montreal, and tomorrow in Quebec City. (See http://www.pointdebasculecanada.cafor details.) Bawer is a gay activist who abandoned what he considered a homophobic U. S. in 1998 to breathe progressive Europe's more "tolerant" air. Instead what he found there was an Islam based homophobia far more menacing than anything he'd experienced in Christian America.
His eyes now opened to the effects of an increasingly Islamified Europe, Bawer became the poster boy for the proverbial liberal mugged by multicultural reality. The epiphany resulted in his first book, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within, a withering critique of Europe's pusillanimous submission, in the name of multiculturalism, to virulent misogyny, anti-Semitism and homophobia.

Today Bawer is recognized as one of the most persuasive members of a small but courageous band of politically incorrect brothers and sisters: brilliant writers like Bat Ye'or (Eurabia), Andrew Bostum (The Legacy of Jihad), Melanie Phillips (Londonistan), Claire Berlinski (Menace in Europe) and Canadians Mark Steyn (America Alone) and David Solway (The Big Lie), to name but a few. These Cassandras have difficulty finding uncowed publishers willing to back them. They risk libel suits and even physical harm, but they soldier on in the name of truth and Western survival.

There is hope that some influential dreamers are waking up from their eight-year nap. None of the books mentioned above was reviewed by The New York Times, including Bawer's first book. But his new book, Surrender, was given a positive review this summer. The review began with these words: "There is no more important issue facing the West than Islamism ... and there is no more necessary precondition to countering that threat than understanding it ... But before we do any of that, we have to agree that the threat exists."

The review ends: "Surrender is, at times, hard going ... [because] Bawer is unquestionably correct, and that fact is quite simply terrifying."

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/col ... 2fc413&p=1

[BartSimpson]

A gay man speaking out against Islamist oppression.

Maybe now some of the liberals will start paying attention to this clear and present danger to Western liberties and values.

Maybe.