Postcards From EUrope

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A Plague of Political Correctness
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Fri, 2007-09-28 08:42
A quote from Cal Thomas in The Daily Journal, 25 September 2007
Britons give many reasons for leaving, but their stories share one commonality: life in Britain has become unbearable. They fear lawlessness and the threat of more terrorism from a growing Muslim population and the loss of a sense of Britishness, exacerbated by the growing refusal of public schools to teach the history and culture of the nation. What it means to be British has been watered down in a plague of political correctness. […]
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The Terminal Sickness of EUtopia
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Thu, 2007-09-27 16:12
A quote from Bruce Thornton at victorhanson.com, 26 September 2007
Across Europe the left has found in Islam a convenient ally, since both hate the core political goods of the West, liberal democracy and free-market economies, and both hate Christianity – the same mayor of Brussels who silenced European Christians greeted the death of Pope John Paul II with a call for champagne. Al Qaeda understands this Western self-hatred, which is why bin Laden speaks to us about economic oppression, colonialism, even environmentalism, issues about which he cares nothing but which create common cause with the anti-Western left.
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Does Anyone Still Think Eurabia Is a Conspiracy Theory?
From the desk of Fjordman on Wed, 2007-09-26 11:21
Does anyone still think it is a conspiracy theory to say that there is a coordinated campaign going in Europe to destroy the established nation states and surrender our countries to Muslims?
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The British anomaly: The attempt to abolish England
From the desk of Paul Belien on Wed, 2007-09-26 08:35
Ever heard of the West Lothian Question? West Lothian is the Scottish region immediately to the west of Edinburgh. The question is so called because it was first posed by Tam Dalyell, a Labor member of the British Parliament for West Lothian. Mr. Dalyell wondered how long the English would tolerate the situation in which Scottish members of the British Parliament, such as himself, have a (sometimes decisive) say about issues affecting only England, while English parliamentarians have no say about the same matters in Scotland.
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