Portstewart, Northern Ireland - Everywhere one looks in Europe there are
signs that free people are prepared to surrender without a fight to those
who would place them in bondage.
In England, a new government-backed study has found that British schools are
dropping the Holocaust from history lessons. Teachers are afraid to teach
about the Nazi atrocity because Muslim students might take offense.
The study also discovered resistance by teachers to cover the 11th-century
Crusades, when Christians fought Muslims for control of Jerusalem, because
the lessons contradict what Muslim students are taught in mosques. The
sacrifice of truth in favor of propaganda for fear of violence is the first
step on the road to enslavement.
It gets worse. A new survey by the respected YouGov organization has found
most Britons want to scale down their country's involvement in world affairs
at a time of great international challenge. Fifty-five percent of
respondents said they oppose Britain "punching above its weight," trying to
have more influence in the world than its military and economic strength
would seem able to support.
Sixty-five percent of respondents say Britain is already overextended and
should reduce its overseas commitments, spend less and not have as much
military influence in the world as it now has. Worse, 69 percent say they
would not want their son entering the armed forces and 75 percent oppose
their daughter entering the military. Free people won't long remain free if
people are unwilling to fight for freedom against those who would take it
from them.
Joining in the surrender syndrome is the once-respected BBC. A headline in
the London Daily Telegraph reads, "BBC Approves Dumbing Down' At Expense Of
Current Affairs." Senior BBC bosses think their current affairs programming,
including its award-winning "Panorama" show, is too dull. The BBC is
beginning to favor more entertainment while current affairs programming has
fallen to its lowest prime-time level in more than 50 years. More rock stars
in rehab and other distresses; fewer programs about the growing threat to
Britain from Islamists; more bottom feeding, less brain food. In this, the
BBC is emulating American television.
In Belgium, a newspaper has published a copy of the Koran in French and
offered free coupons for a Flemish language translation of Islam's holy
book. The paper also published a book called "Islam Now," which presents a
history of the religion up to the modern era. I haven't seen it, but would
be willing to bet it contains little, if anything, about the terrorism
carried out in the name of Islam by fanatics.