Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43498 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-11
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Customer Reviews

Bigotry disguised as an impartial review
There is definitely a big problem with fundamentalist Islam in Europe, but if anybody thinks that they will glean anything of use from this book then they'll be quickly disimbued of that view.

Bawer tends to write in generalities, a point of view he accuses europeans of having, but claims that americans are taught to think for themselves. Thus in Bawer's world there are only fundamentalist Muslims - no moderates - and no differences between any european nationalities.

Bawer makes many sweeping statements, claiming for example that all europeans are brainwashed by their authoritarian governments, that europeans are frightfully ignorant of what is happening outside Europe and so on. Americans are classed as independent-thinkers, cognescent of foreign events to a high degree - despite all the research pointing to a completely different conclusion - welcoming etc. Muslims, needless to say, just wish to kill all non-Muslims according to Bawer.

Bawer makes some extraordinary statements in his book: Reagan and Schwarzenegger are original thinkers; everybody in Europe admires George W. Bush; Silvio Berlusconi has been excoriated by the press because he's a businessman, not because he's a crook and has legislated to avoid prosecutions.

In another place, Bawer claimes that 70% of inmates in french jails are muslims, but doesn't give any sources, leaving one to take this as just his personal opinion.

By the end one feels that if Bawer hates Europe and europeans so much why didn't he leave after the first day and go back to that paradise which is America.

Impartial writing is needed when writing on the problems with religion; perhaps Bawer knows somebody who could write such a book.

A Voice in the Wilderness!
Being a European myself - a Dane - I can certainly vouch for the truth of Bawer's statements as far as Denmark is concerned. It is sadly true that our press is vastly tendentious and strives to educate, rather than enlighten people. In Denmark, this objective is made piece-of-pie easy by the fact that more or less all news passes through the same tendentious news agency. The result is a predominantly anti-American atmosphere that is very ill-founded on facts.
Other reviewers have gone into detail, so I'll stop here with the wish that Bawer's book be read in European schools and put a stop to this insanity a.s.a.p.

This book Should be Compulsary Reading for all Europeans
The uneducated and stupid liberals deserve all that is coming to them. The real criminals in this whole tragic saga are the Politicians who have allowed this mess to happen. The whole of Europe will one day be another Balkans and thats not a scare story. It does not take an Einstein to work that out. This book will scare the living daylights out of you. I could not sleep because of the anger it provoked at how a whole Continent is being destroyed in the name of Political Correctness. The populace of France once stormed the Bastille when conditions provoked them to say enough is enough. It's time now to do the same to the European Parliament and rid us of these ridiculous freeloading pigs feeding at the trough of tax payers money. We are taken for a ride by these lunatics. Time to wake up and say no more. ONLY THE FAR RIGHT IN SWITZERLAND WINNING THE RECENT ELECTION GIVES ME SOME HOPE. But until the far right of other country's take control no hope. If you believe in democracy then sure as night follows day. With the ever increasing birth rate all from Islamic immigrants then they will eventually have the majority vote. Then god help all. You will all be dhimmi's a most suitable name for so many dim Europeans who do nothing. READ THIS BOOK IT'S A MUST.
Muslims will complain about this review. Because that's what they are told to do to fool the stupid and naive. Of these their are too many.