Political leaders of the 1930s may be accused of blindness to
danger in their failed attempts to appease totalitarian aggression,
but no one doubts they believed they were doing so to preserve
their way of life. In contrast, Raphael Israeli suggests that
twenty-first century appeasement of Islamists, wherever it occurs,
is different. Appeasement in the advanced modern states of this
century--in Europe, Australia, Canada, and even in parts of
Asia--is characterized by what amounts to a self-inflicted
humiliation, in misguided efforts to slow the advance of a rising
Islamist tide. Such appeasement surrenders core aspects of
sovereignty, turning non-Muslim populations into second- and
third-class citizens in their own countries.
Disturbing warning signs first emerged in Europe, but were
either not noticed or denied. They extended to the periphery of the
Muslim world, but their development in Western countries were
unnoticed or denied, until they hit also the peripheral areas of
the Muslim world. Canada and Australia, and to some extent the
countries of Asia, fell into a syndrome of denial, which persisted
until they were forced to listen, often at a price in human lives
and carnage. In Europe, the core of the Muslim presence developed
in countries like Britain, France and Germany, which lacked
law-enforcement against terrorists because the executive and
judiciary emphasized human rights and apparent safety over
defensive measures to protect their citizens and way of life.
Both the United States and Great Britain needed a traumatic
jolt before they moved to act. In the United States, it would be
the watershed event of September 11, 2001; in London, the July 7,
2005 bombings. And there were events in other countries: in Spain,
the March 2004 Madrid train bombings; in France, the violent riots
of 2005; in Amsterdam, the van Gogh murder; in Asia, the Bali
horror; and finally in Scandinavia, the Cartoon Affair. These jolts
shattered the tranquility of populations who had believed in
peaceful coexistence with Muslim immigrants and in the feasibility
of their integration into national societies. This study fills a
large void in the examination of the consequences of new migrations
of Muslim populations into advanced and modern societies throughout
the world.
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