{"product_id":"while-europe-slept-how-radical-islam-is-destroying-the-west-from-within","title":"While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe struggle for the soul of Europe today is every bit as dire and consequential as it was in the 1930s. Then  in Weimar  Germany  the center did not hold  and the light of civilization nearly went out. Today  the continent has entered yet another Weimar moment. Will Europeans rise to the challenge posed by radical Islam  or will they cave in once again to the extremists?  As an American living in Europe since 1998  Bruce Bawer has seen this problem up close. Across the continentin Amsterdam  Oslo  Copenhagen  Paris  Berlin  Madrid  and Stockholmhe encountered large  rapidly expanding Muslim enclaves in which women were oppressed and abused  homosexuals persecuted and killed  infidels threatened and vilified  Jews demonized and attacked  barbaric traditions (such as honor killing and forced marriage) widely practiced  and freedom of speech and religion firmly repudiated.  The European political and media establishment turned a blind eye to all this  selling out women  Jews  gays  and democratic principles generallyeven criminalizing free speechin order to pacify the radical Islamists and preserve the illusion of multicultural harmony. The few heroic figures who dared to criticize Muslim extremists and speak up for true liberal values were systematically slandered as fascist bigots. Witnessing the disgraceful reaction of Europes elites to 9\/11  to the terrorist attacks on Madrid  Beslan  and London  and to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq  Bawer concluded that Europe was heading inexorably down a path to cultural suicide.  Europes Muslim communities are powder kegs  brimming with an alienation born of the immigrants deep antagonism toward an infidel society that rejects them and compounded by misguided immigration policies that enforce their segregation and empower the extremists in their midst. The mounting crisis produced by these deeply perverse and irresponsible policies finally burst onto our television screens in October 2005  as Paris and other European cities erupted in flames.  WHILE EUROPE SLEPT is the story of one Americans experience in Europe before and after 9\/11  and of his many arguments with Europeans about the dangers of militant Islam and Americas role in combating it. This brave and invaluable bookwith its riveting combination of eye-opening reportage and blunt  incisive analysisis essential reading for anyone concerned about the fate of Europe and what it portends for the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945271193653,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385514727","price":27.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385514729.jpg?v=1769880802","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/while-europe-slept-how-radical-islam-is-destroying-the-west-from-within","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}