Monday, August 17, 2009
Fouad Ajami thinks he is a white European
"I was troubled by the tone of Fouad Ajami’s review of Christopher Caldwell’s “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe” (Aug. 2). Ajami throws his lot with the voices of alarm over the growing Islamic presence in Europe, describing Muslim immigrants as either “desperate wards or determined invaders” and characterizing arguments on the other side as “works of evasion and apology.”..In America, these are the folks “keen to keep their world whole and theirs” — just one example among many to undermine Ajami’s awkward effort to legitimize European isolationism under a mantle of democracy."