European Mysticism

American Thinker has a great article Eurabia's Morass Elicits Mythical "Solutions" - by Andrew G. Bostom, the author of the recently published, The Legacy of Jihad,

It begins,

After nearly three successive weeks of rioting in France by predominantly Muslim youths, the violence has ebbed, albeit to an uneasy level in considerable excess of the early October “baseline” before the riots (for example, in terms of vehicles burnt per day see this graph).

The prevailing apologetics regarding these disturbances, which emanate from pundits across the political spectrum, denies or trivializes the role of Islam. For example, although twelve Christian churches were desecrated and/or burned by the overwhelmingly Muslim rioters in France during the intifada, these bigoted acts were barely reported by investigative journalists or bloggers, and ignored altogether by pontificating commentators.

He then goes to explore the Role of Islam and particularly its attitude and treatment of Christians and Jews since the eighth century. He asserts that not only are the solutions "mythical" but the reputed good relations in Andalusia and the Ottoman Empire are also mythical.

Very illuminating.

Posted by Ted Belman at November 25, 2005 10:59 AM