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Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too
Crown
February 2006
288 pages
ISBN: 1400097681
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
Europe, the charming continent of windmills
and gondolas. But lately, Europe has become the
continent of endless strikes and demonstrations, bombs on
the trains and subways, radical Islamic cells in every city,
and ghettos so hopeless and violent even the police won't
enter them. In Spain, a terrorist attack prompts instant
capitulation to the terrorists' demands. In France, the
suburbs go up in flames every night. In Holland, politicians
and artists are murdered for speaking frankly about Islamic
immigration.
This isn't the Europe we thought we
knew. What's going on over there?
Traveling overland
from London to Istanbul, journalist Claire Berlinski shows
why the Continent has lately appeared so bewildering--and
often so thoroughly obnoxious--to Americans. Speaking to
Muslim immigrants, German rock stars, French cops, and
Italian women who have better things to do than have
children, she finds that Europe is still, despite
everything, in the grip of the same old ancient demons.
Anyone who knows the history can sense it: There is
something ugly--and familiar--in the air.
But something
new is happening as well. Indeed, Europe now confronts--and
seems unable to cope with--an entirely new set of troubles.
Tracing the ancient conflicts and newly erupting crises,
Menace in Europe reveals:
* Why Islamic
radicalism and terrorist indoctrination flourish as Europe
fails to assimilate millions of Muslim immigrants
*
How plummeting birthrates hurtle Europe toward economic and
cultural catastrophe
* Why hatred of America has
become ubiquitous--on Europe's streets, in its books,
newspapers, and music, and at the highest levels of
government
* How long-repressed destructive instincts
are suddenly reemerging
* How the death of religious
faith has created a hopeless, morally unmoored Europe that
clings to anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and other
dangerous ideologies
* Why the notion of a united
Europe is a fantasy and what that means for the United
States
In the end, these are not separate issues.
Berlinski provocatively demonstrates that Europe's political
and cultural crisis mirrors its profound moral and spiritual
crisis.
But this is not just Europe's problem.
Menace in Europe makes clear that the spiritual
void at the heart
of Europe is ultimately our problem too. And
America will pay a terrible price if we continue to ignore it.
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