http://www.victorhanson.com/
Readers should go to the above.
The book is Culture and Carnage by Victor Davis Hanson. Let's just say it is not politically correct. But brutally honest. Moderate, rational Muslims should take a look. And those of us who are thinking of giving the radical Muslim an even break should seriously consider breaking a few radical Muslim bones in defence of the freedoms all of us including moderate Muslims seem to take for granted.
Veiled Muslim Women in Britain.
I could not believe the recent controversy in the British media over veiled Muslim women. The short of it is, if you want to wear the veil, in all locations at all times and under all circumstances, go back to wherever obviously and radically less enlightened place it is you came from. Wearing the veil gives you a psychological advantage; you can see me, all of me, my body language and facial expressions all in, whereas depending on the precise shape or form of your full-length clothing I will have difficulty deciphering your body language and it will be impossible to decipher your face (it will be covered). Religion is irrelevant here. You are gaining an advantage that could be critical in some situations of social interaction. To deny it is to deny plain and simple, observable fact.
Does the average veiled Muslim woman in Europe, railing against various European politicians' recent pronouncements on the issue, realise that the Malaysian civil service absolutely bans its civil servants from wearing veils in the performance of duties? And that all Malaysians, good Muslim women included, carry identity cards that - in the case of Muslim women - contain the photograph unveiled of the woman whose identity is stated on the card?
It is a silly argument to use labels such as insensitive, racist or over-simplification. **Totally** stupid if you ask me. Time to wake up to reality. You are living in Britain. One of the world's greatest countries. You could be living in Somalia. Count your blessings.
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I wonder if Europeans could possibly care enough about protecting their rights and way of life from violent fundamentalists. Europe's been growing more and more secular since the world wars. Secularism to a point is great, and necessary to preserve individual choice and dignity. But what is there in a *purely* secular worldview to move them to risk life and limb for their ideals?
I may be wrong, but isn't the most important thing in a purely secular worldview the preservation of a temporary existence? Any consideration of ideals of liberty or personal dignity can only be secondary, because they've got no philisophical or spiritual basis for such ideals, save a vague insistence that people are entitled to certain fundamental rights.
On the other hand, they have an enemy who is willing to die to crush those ideals and impose their own system of thought on others.
Europe has no lasting ideals, and the ones they got are malleable according to the situation. it might seem paradoxical, but Europe's spiritual state seems ripe for radical and violent Islamists to push around.
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