March 2, 2007

European Multiculturalism

As is clear from commentary on the Madrid bombings, the riots that seized the Paris suburbs, and the Danish cartoon row, a vocal slice of European intellectuals believes that the millions of devout Muslims living in Europe pose a grave threat to Continental harmony. That point of view was suggested by the Glasgow-born Harvard historian Niall Ferguson, who wrote in 2004, "A youthful Muslim society to the south and east of the Mediterranean is poised to colonize a senescent Europe to the north