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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