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The Dutch, who are in some ways on the front line of the war, are starting to figure out that, as Anglospherian Jim Bennett has said, "Democracy, immigration, multi-culturalism--pick any two."
“I see developments in the Arab world as very promising,” says Paul Scheffer, a journalist who is one of the leaders of an ideological movement that wants to counter Islamist extremism by putting more emphasis on the rule of law and less on accommodating differences.
Taking his cue from America's political right, he hails the fact that in some Middle Eastern countries ordinary people have challenged old elites and theocracies. In Europe, he reckons, traditional leaders who presume to speak for Muslim immigrants have it too easy, because governments pander to them out of a misplaced respect for cultural diversity.
Posted by Rand Simberg at April 05, 2005 06:28 AM
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