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 *''Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Can Europe be the same with different people in it?'' Allen Lane, 2009
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-*''[http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?dse=true&sortBy=gadatearticle&queryText=Devon+Cross&page=5&y=0&x=0&id=040213004277&ct=0 With Friends like these]'', FT.com, 13 February 2004.
+*''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090327064827/http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?dse=true&sortBy=gadatearticle&queryText=Devon+Cross&page=5&y=0&x=0&id=040213004277&ct=0&nclick_check=1 With Friends like these]'', FT.com, 13 February 2004.
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 :Unlike Europe, however, America will not be flushed down history's drain. At least not yet. For one thing, America "has not yet had any mass immigration of Muslims" and "scale matters." In addition, America has retained the moral fiber that Europe has lost. It is more Christian and more convinced that Christianity is morally superior to Islam. It is also less squeamish about using force to defend itself abroad (Iraq, Afghanistan) or at home. When Caldwell remarks that "a quarter of the prison inmates in the world are held in the United States," he means this not as criticism but as praise. Reflecting on U.S. "policies that are distasteful to most Europeans," such as the death penalty, he observes that such toughness means that "American cities and suburbs are extremely inhospitable places for immigrants who are criminally inclined." This is one of the principal ways in which America, unlike Europe, "exerts Procrustean pressure on its immigrants to conform." Most important, the United States believes in itself, while "Europeans are confused about whether they are citizens of the world or citizens of their own nations."...Unlike the post-nationalist Europeans, Americans remain willing to write history in the letters of blood. Not Christ-like concern for the weak and the marginalized but readiness for organized violence is presumably why America's culture strikes the editors of the Weekly Standard as less drab than Europe's...But thanks to America, equivalent dreams of patriotic (even "racial"?) glory have not entirely vanished from the West. Despite its sometimes-tawdry consumerism, America is pumped for war and is therefore well-positioned to take on the Islamic threat.<ref>Stephen Holmes, [http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=chicken_little_goes_to_europe Chicken Little goes to Europe], ''The American Prospect'', 28 August 2009</ref>
-===Europe'shope for survival===
+===Europe's hope for survival===
 As Holmes notes, Caldwell has not entirely abandoned hope for Europe.
 :While Europe's elites despise their own culture, the average, love-it-or-leave-it, tabloid-reading man in the street believes correctly that "Islam itself" is "dangerous" and understands simple truths, such as: Muslims living in Europe make life crummier. The "smoldering rage among working-class voters," moreover, suggests that at least these Europeans have not yet been drained of moral vitality.<ref>Stephen Holmes, [http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=chicken_little_goes_to_europe Chicken Little goes to Europe], ''The American Prospect'', 28 August 2009</ref>

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 ===Adrian Michaels===
 The group foreign editor of the [[Telegraph Media Group]] wrote two articles on 8 August 2009 characterizing Muslim Europeans as a 'demographic time bomb', who he claims will constitute one fifth of the population by 2050. For his more outrageous claims [[Adrian Michaels]] used Caldwell as his key source. <ref>Adrian Michaels,[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/5994045/A-fifth-of-European-Union-will-be-Muslim-by-2005.html A fifth of European Union will be Muslim by 2050] , ''The Daily Telegraph'', 8 August 2009</ref><ref>Adrian Michaels, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/5994047/Muslim-Europe-the-demographic-time-bomb-transforming-our-continent.html Muslim Europe: the demographic time bomb transforming our continent], ''The Daily Telegraph'', 8 August 2009</ref> In the article he lamented:
-:Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants, including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond recognition over the next two decades, and almost no policy-makers are talking about it.
+:Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants, including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond recognition over the next two decades, and almost no policy-makers are talking about it.<ref>Adrian Michaels, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/5994047/Muslim-Europe-the-demographic-time-bomb-transforming-our-continent.html Muslim Europe: the demographic time bomb transforming our continent], ''The Daily Telegraph'', 8 August 2009</ref>
 Muslims, he argued, 'represent a particular set of issues beyond the fact that atrocities have been committed in the West in the name of Islam.'
-:Whites will be in a minority in Birmingham by 2026, says [[Christopher Caldwell]], an American journalist, and even sooner in Leicester. Another forecast holds that Muslims could outnumber non-Muslims in France and perhaps in all of western Europe by mid-century. Austria was 90 per cent Catholic in the 20th century but Islam could be the majority religion among Austrians aged under 15 by 2050, says Mr Caldwell.
+:Whites will be in a minority in Birmingham by 2026, says [[Christopher Caldwell]], an American journalist, and even sooner in Leicester. Another forecast holds that Muslims could outnumber non-Muslims in France and perhaps in all of western Europe by mid-century. Austria was 90 per cent Catholic in the 20th century but Islam could be the majority religion among Austrians aged under 15 by 2050, says Mr Caldwell.<ref>Adrian Michaels, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/5994047/Muslim-Europe-the-demographic-time-bomb-transforming-our-continent.html Muslim Europe: the demographic time bomb transforming our continent], ''The Daily Telegraph'', 8 August 2009</ref>
 ===Dwight Garner===

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 ==Endorsements==
-Despite the overtly Islamophobic tone of Caldwell's book, it has garnered endorsements from several figures in the mainstream besides such usual suspects such as [[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]] and [[Niall Ferguson]]. Caldwell has been given mainstream respectability through interviews with Andrew Marr on Start the Week and on Radio 3's cultural flagship Nightwaves. In his full-page review for the Observer, Prospect editor David Goodhart calls Caldwell 'a bracing, clear-eyed analyst of European pieties' (although he describes part of the book as 'a rather cartoonish polemic about the potential Islamic takeover of Europe') and that 'compared with most literature on migration, so often dull and cliché-ridden, this book pulsates with ideas'.<ref>David Goodhart, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/17/christopher-caldwell-immigration-islam Do we need more people in Europe?], ''The Observer'', 17 May 2009</ref>
+Despite the overtly Islamophobic tone of Caldwell's book, it has garnered endorsements from several figures in the mainstream as well as fellow neoconservatives such as [[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]] and [[Niall Ferguson]]. Caldwell has been given mainstream respectability through interviews with Andrew Marr on Start the Week and on Radio 3's cultural flagship Nightwaves. In his full-page review for the Observer, Prospect editor David Goodhart calls Caldwell 'a bracing, clear-eyed analyst of European pieties' (although he describes part of the book as 'a rather cartoonish polemic about the potential Islamic takeover of Europe') and that 'compared with most literature on migration, so often dull and cliché-ridden, this book pulsates with ideas'.<ref>David Goodhart, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/17/christopher-caldwell-immigration-islam Do we need more people in Europe?], ''The Observer'', 17 May 2009</ref>
 The Guardian's Martin Woollacott likewise dispenses praise, calling Caldwell one of the 'more urbane and interesting' neoconservative voices, and concludes by noting:
 :But he is right to argue that immigration on the scale that Europe has experienced constitutes a risky experiment to which we need not have submitted ourselves, and of which the final result is not yet clear. He is right that we frequently talk about it in stupid and dishonest ways. If his book sharpens a so far sluggish debate, it will have served an important purpose.<ref>Martin Woollacott, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/13/christopher-caldwell-revolution-in-europe Europe's risky experiment], ''The Guardian'', 13 June 2009</ref> However, these writers have still voiced some reservations. Other have openly championed Caldwell's extreme positions include:

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 However, Caldwell is not always hostile, he also finds things to admire. Stephen Holmes notes:
-:Caldwell feels more at home with Muslim values than with the values of contemporary Europe -- as, he says, would Dante. And Caldwell also values women's chastity more than women's autonomy because chastity (not to mention virginity) "can further dignity, responsibility, and self-respect." You may think that burqas and niquabs demean women, he ironizes, but what about "jeans that cinch halfway down the bum crack"?
+:Caldwell feels more at home with Muslim values than with the values of contemporary Europe -- as, he says, would Dante. And Caldwell also values women's chastity more than women's autonomy because chastity (not to mention virginity) "can further dignity, responsibility, and self-respect." You may think that burqas and niquabs demean women, he ironizes, but what about "jeans that cinch halfway down the bum crack"?<ref>Stephen Holmes, [http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=chicken_little_goes_to_europe Chicken Little goes to Europe], ''The American Prospect'', 28 August 2009</ref>
 ===On Muslim Cuisine===
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 ===On Clashing Civilizations===
 For Caldwell the values of Islam and Europe are irreconcilably at odds. In his book he writes:
-:the conditions unifying Europe culturally have not been better for decades, and Islam is part of the reason why. Renewed acquaintance with Islam has given Europeans a stronger idea of what Europe is, because it has given them a stronger idea of what Europe is not.
+:the conditions unifying Europe culturally have not been better for decades, and Islam is part of the reason why. Renewed acquaintance with Islam has given Europeans a stronger idea of what Europe is, because it has given them a stronger idea of what Europe is not.<ref>Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Allen Lane, 2009, p.247.</ref>
 In conjuring Europe's Muslims immigrants as a civilizational threat Caldwell erases their subjectivity to present them as a coherent force, constituting a hostile organism eating at Europe from within. He writes:
-:Europe finds itself in a contest with Islam for the allegiance of its newcomers. For now, Islam is the stronger party in that contest, in an obvious demographic way and in a less obvious philosophical way. In such circumstances, words like ‘majority’ and ‘minority’: mean little. When an insecure, malleable, relativistic culture meets a culture that is anchored, confident and strengthed by common doctrines, it is generally the former that changes to suit the latter.<ref>Perry Anderson, [http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090828/REVIEW/708279968/1008 Portents of Eurabia], ''The National'', 27 August 2009</ref>
+:Europe finds itself in a contest with Islam for the allegiance of its newcomers. For now, Islam is the stronger party in that contest, in an obvious demographic way and in a less obvious philosophical way. In such circumstances, words like ‘majority’ and ‘minority’: mean little. When an insecure, malleable, relativistic culture meets a culture that is anchored, confident and strengthed by common doctrines, it is generally the former that changes to suit the latter.<ref>Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Allen Lane, 2009, p.286.</ref>
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 :And the cultural malady that allowed the Muslim invasion, as Caldwell sees it, goes back even further than postwar guilt. The true source is "Europe's spiritual void," the product of "ideological secularism, which aims to break every link between religion and public life, shepherding people out of religion altogether." As Europeans lost their Christian faith, they also lost their "anchor" (one of his favorite words). Skepticism eroded the moral justification for cultural self-preservation because "all European cultures depend for their stability on certain ethical survivals of Christianity, and would have a difficult time defending their 'values' without them."
-:Readers may be forgiven for feeling lost at this point. Isn't Christianity one of the cultural sources of humanitarian universalism? After all, Christ allegedly died for all mankind.
+:Readers may be forgiven for feeling lost at this point. Isn't Christianity one of the cultural sources of humanitarian universalism? After all, Christ allegedly died for all mankind.<ref>Stephen Holmes, [http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=chicken_little_goes_to_europe Chicken Little goes to Europe], ''The American Prospect'', 28 August 2009</ref>
 ===On 'Honour Killings'===
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 ==On Europe==
 Pankaj Mishra has also noted Caldwell's 'shaky' grasp of European history
-:Italy, he tells us, is like Sweden in being "without an important colonial history". Approvingly quoting Ernest Renan's and Hilaire Belloc's scaremongering about Islam as a threat to "white civilisation", he seems to be unaware that these two writers also described Jews as inferior "aliens" in Europe.
+:Italy, he tells us, is like Sweden in being "without an important colonial history". Approvingly quoting Ernest Renan's and Hilaire Belloc's scaremongering about Islam as a threat to "white civilisation", he seems to be unaware that these two writers also described Jews as inferior "aliens" in Europe.<ref>Pankaj Mishra, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/15/eurabia-islamophobia-europe-colonised-muslims A Culture of Fear], ''The Guardian'', 15 August 2009</ref>
 He chastised Europeans of opposing American wars and even in countries that did support the war, he accused Europeans of encouraging Muslims to be anti-American:
-:When Muslims marched in anti-war demonstrations, after all, their secular and Christian fellow citizens marched alongside them.
+:When Muslims marched in anti-war demonstrations, after all, their secular and Christian fellow citizens marched alongside them.<ref>Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Allen Lane, 2009, p.212.</ref>
 He also decries European women's infertility:
-:The closer one gets to European culture, the farther one gets from family and its raison d'être, children.
+:The closer one gets to European culture, the farther one gets from family and its raison d'être, children.<ref>Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Allen Lane, 2009, p.186.</ref>
-By allowing Muslims to immigrate, writes Caldwell, 'For the first time in centuries Europeans are living in a world they did not, for the most part, shape.'
+By allowing Muslims to immigrate, writes Caldwell, 'For the first time in centuries Europeans are living in a world they did not, for the most part, shape.'<ref>Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Allen Lane, 2009, p.269.</ref>
-Immigration, writes Caldwell, 'is not enhancing or validating European culture; it is supplanting it.'<ref>quoted in Carr</ref>
+Immigration, writes Caldwell, 'is not enhancing or validating European culture; it is supplanting it.'<ref>Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Allen Lane, 2009, p.17.</ref>
 Stephen Holmes adds:
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 ==Manipulation of Sources and Statistics==
 Ziauddin Sardar notes Caldwell's 'crude' manipulation of statistics:
-:Birth rates among European Muslims are falling, not increasing. In Austria, recent research has shown Muslim birth rates to be far below those of people without religion, and below even those of Protestants. If we consider Austrian "natives" to be exclusively Catholic, then the "native" population of Austria will indeed be overtaken by 2051, yet exceeded not just by Muslims, but by the rest of the population, too, including Protestants and the biggest majority of all - people without religion. Caldwell fails to consider the consistent upward mobility of Muslim women throughout Europe, as well as countless examples of successful integration. And he simply ignores the many surveys that show Muslims to be exceptionally loyal to their respective European countries.
+:Birth rates among European Muslims are falling, not increasing. In Austria, recent research has shown Muslim birth rates to be far below those of people without religion, and below even those of Protestants. If we consider Austrian "natives" to be exclusively Catholic, then the "native" population of Austria will indeed be overtaken by 2051, yet exceeded not just by Muslims, but by the rest of the population, too, including Protestants and the biggest majority of all - people without religion. Caldwell fails to consider the consistent upward mobility of Muslim women throughout Europe, as well as countless examples of successful integration. And he simply ignores the many surveys that show Muslims to be exceptionally loyal to their respective European countries.<ref>Ziauddin Sardar, [http://www.newstatesman.com/non-fiction/2010/02/europe-islam-muslims-caldwell Welcome to the Taliban-sur-Seine], ''New Statesman'', February 2010</ref>
 Commenting on Caldwell and Bruce Bawer (another proponent of the Eurabia myth) Eliot Weinberger writes in the London Review Blog, 'there are two sets of population statistics: those of the Islamophobes and those of everyone else'.
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 Lalami adds:
-:But recent studies show that birthrates among European Muslim women are declining sharply; for instance, the fertility rate in the Netherlands for Moroccan-born women fell from 4.9 to 2.9 between 1990 and 2005. Turkish-born women had 3.2 children in 1990 and 1.9 in 2005. Similar patterns have been observed in France and Germany. Martin Walker, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, points out that, "broadly speaking, birthrates among immigrants tend to rise or fall to the local statistical norm within two generations."(Lalami, op.cit.)
+:But recent studies show that birthrates among European Muslim women are declining sharply; for instance, the fertility rate in the Netherlands for Moroccan-born women fell from 4.9 to 2.9 between 1990 and 2005. Turkish-born women had 3.2 children in 1990 and 1.9 in 2005. Similar patterns have been observed in France and Germany. Martin Walker, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, points out that, "broadly speaking, birthrates among immigrants tend to rise or fall to the local statistical norm within two generations."<ref>Laila Lalami, [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091214/lalami/single The New Inquisition], ''The Nation'', 24 November 2009</ref>
 After acknowledging that Muslims constitute a minority of 3.6 percent, Caldwell writes:
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 :But he is right to argue that immigration on the scale that Europe has experienced constitutes a risky experiment to which we need not have submitted ourselves, and of which the final result is not yet clear. He is right that we frequently talk about it in stupid and dishonest ways. If his book sharpens a so far sluggish debate, it will have served an important purpose.<ref>Martin Woollacott, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/13/christopher-caldwell-revolution-in-europe Europe's risky experiment], ''The Guardian'', 13 June 2009</ref> However, these writers have still voiced some reservations. Other have openly championed Caldwell's extreme positions include:
 ===Sam Tanenhaus===
-[[Sam Tanenhaus]], the editor of the New York Times Book Review and the biographer of Whittaker Chambers, put a glowing review of Caldwell's book by the neoconservative Orientalist Fouad Ajami on the front page of the Sunday Review (the book had already been reviewed in the pages of the New York Times).<ref>Dwight Garner, [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/books/30garner.html?ref=books&pagewanted=all A Turning Tide in Europe as Islam Gains Ground], ''New York Times'', 30 July 2009</ref> He has himself spoken approvingly of Caldwell's book in an interview with the author in which he described Muslim immigration to Europe as a 'crisis'.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/books/review/Ajami-t.html?ref=review Sam Tanenhaus interview with Christopher Caldwell], New York Times (Book Review Podcast), 30 July 2009</ref>
+[[Sam Tanenhaus]], the editor of the New York Times Book Review and the biographer of Whittaker Chambers, put a glowing review of Caldwell's book by the neoconservative Orientalist [[Fouad Ajami]] on the front page of the Sunday Review (the book had already been reviewed in the pages of the New York Times).<ref>Dwight Garner, [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/books/30garner.html?ref=books&pagewanted=all A Turning Tide in Europe as Islam Gains Ground], ''New York Times'', 30 July 2009</ref> He has himself spoken approvingly of Caldwell's book in an interview with the author in which he described Muslim immigration to Europe as a 'crisis'.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/books/review/Ajami-t.html?ref=review Sam Tanenhaus interview with Christopher Caldwell], New York Times (Book Review Podcast), 30 July 2009</ref>
 ===Fouad Ajami===
 On July 29, 2009, Caldwell's book was lauded in the New York Times Book Review by neoconservative Orientalist [[Fouad Ajami]] in an article entitled 'Strangers in the Land'. He called the author 'a meticulous journalist' and his book 'subtle', 'honest and forthright', and the 'most sustained and thoughtful treatment' of the subject. As an example of Caldwell's subtlety Ajami offers this statement: '[Islam] is in no sense Europe’s religion and it is in no sense Europe’s culture'. 'It hadn’t taken long for Islam to make its new claim on Europe', writes Ajami. 'The European welfare state', he writes, 'has tempted and aided the new Islamism'. The neoconservative bogeymen of 'moral relativism and tolerance' come in for ritual denunciation; Muslim immigrants are described as 'desperate wards or determined invaders' and anyone who thinks otherwise is engaged in 'works of evasion and apology'. He adds:
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 ===Adrian Michaels===
-The group foreign editor of the Telegraph Media Group wrote two articles on 8 August 2009 characterizing Muslim Europeans as a 'demographic time bomb', who he claims will constitute one fifth of the population by 2050. For his more outrageous claims [[Adrian Michaels]] used Caldwell as his key source. <ref>Adrian Michaels,[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/5994045/A-fifth-of-European-Union-will-be-Muslim-by-2005.html A fifth of European Union will be Muslim by 2050] , ''The Daily Telegraph'', 8 August 2009</ref><ref>Adrian Michaels, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/5994047/Muslim-Europe-the-demographic-time-bomb-transforming-our-continent.html Muslim Europe: the demographic time bomb transforming our continent], ''The Daily Telegraph'', 8 August 2009</ref> In the article he lamented:
+The group foreign editor of the [[Telegraph Media Group]] wrote two articles on 8 August 2009 characterizing Muslim Europeans as a 'demographic time bomb', who he claims will constitute one fifth of the population by 2050. For his more outrageous claims [[Adrian Michaels]] used Caldwell as his key source. <ref>Adrian Michaels,[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/5994045/A-fifth-of-European-Union-will-be-Muslim-by-2005.html A fifth of European Union will be Muslim by 2050] , ''The Daily Telegraph'', 8 August 2009</ref><ref>Adrian Michaels, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/5994047/Muslim-Europe-the-demographic-time-bomb-transforming-our-continent.html Muslim Europe: the demographic time bomb transforming our continent], ''The Daily Telegraph'', 8 August 2009</ref> In the article he lamented:
 :Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants, including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond recognition over the next two decades, and almost no policy-makers are talking about it.
 Muslims, he argued, 'represent a particular set of issues beyond the fact that atrocities have been committed in the West in the name of Islam.'

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 ===Rod Liddle===
 From the right, Times and Spectator columnist [[Rod Liddle]] has showered the book with praise, calling it 'scabrous and excellent'. After endorsing Caldwell's thesis of a demographic threat -- 'Muslim majority is possible in some European countries within the next 50 years...you will see the advent of [[Eurabia]]' -- Liddle adds this observations:
-:...it would be nice if the incomers sort of liked us and didn’t find almost everything about our culture—equality for women, freedom of speech, rights for homosexuals, freedom of conscience—repulsive.
+:...it would be nice if the incomers sort of liked us and didn’t find almost everything about our culture—equality for women, freedom of speech, rights for homosexuals, freedom of conscience—repulsive.<ref>Rod Liddle, [http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/oct/01/00041/ Continental Drift], ''The American Conservative, 1 October 2009</ref>
 Liddle then proffers a quote allegedly from the Qur'an: 'kill the one who is doing it and the one to whom it is being done'. (There is no such quote). He also offers this insight: 'Muslim incomers to Great Britain have values very similar to the British lower classes of 1,500 years ago'. Liddle also laments '
-the painstaking care with which the Western countries have ensured they pick the very worst, most dangerous Muslims to whom they will pay welfare benefits to and later, as a form of thanks, be blown to smithereens by.'<ref>Rod Liddle, [http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/oct/01/00041/ Continental Drift], ''The American Conservative, 1 October 2009</ref>
+Liddle then proffers a quote allegedly from the Qur'an: 'kill the one who is doing it and the one to whom it is being done'. (There is no such quote). He also offers this insight: 'Muslim incomers to Great Britain have values very similar to the British lower classes of 1,500 years ago'. Liddle also laments 'the painstaking care with which the Western countries have ensured they pick the very worst, most dangerous Muslims to whom they will pay welfare benefits to and later, as a form of thanks, be blown to smithereens by.'<ref>Rod Liddle, [http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/oct/01/00041/ Continental Drift], ''The American Conservative, 1 October 2009</ref>
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 As Holmes notes, Caldwell has not entirely abandoned hope for Europe.
-:While Europe's elites despise their own culture, the average, love-it-or-leave-it, tabloid-reading man in the street believes correctly that "Islam itself" is "dangerous" and understands simple truths, such as: Muslims living in Europe make life crummier. The "smoldering rage among working-class voters," moreover, suggests that at least these Europeans have not yet been drained of moral vitality.
+:While Europe's elites despise their own culture, the average, love-it-or-leave-it, tabloid-reading man in the street believes correctly that "Islam itself" is "dangerous" and understands simple truths, such as: Muslims living in Europe make life crummier. The "smoldering rage among working-class voters," moreover, suggests that at least these Europeans have not yet been drained of moral vitality.<ref>Stephen Holmes, [http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=chicken_little_goes_to_europe Chicken Little goes to Europe], ''The American Prospect'', 28 August 2009</ref>
 Caldwell's solution for stemming 'the implantation of Muslim culture' in Europe? Holmes notes Caldwell's three proposals:
 :One is deportation, an option that he broaches when he asks about rioters in the French banlieues who shout "Fuck France!": "Ought these people, assuming they are noncitizens, be put on the next plane out of the country?" A second possibility is conversion: "It no longer seems unreasonable to demand that immigrants who want to stay in Europe give up the ways of their parents." About the third possibility, Caldwell does not speak so directly, but he raises it in a parable about the fate awaiting guests who overstay their welcome: "The most spectacular illustration history offers of the kinship of hospitality and mistrust is that of Captain Cook, who was feted, flattered, and worshipped for a month by the Hawaiian islanders in Kealakekua Bay in 1779. When he and his crew returned on an emergency visit to repair a broken mast, they were massacred."
-:I do not suppose Caldwell is seriously encouraging Europeans to return to their venerable tradition of mass murder. But readers may be forgiven for wondering what he really thinks about writing history in letters of blood.
+:I do not suppose Caldwell is seriously encouraging Europeans to return to their venerable tradition of mass murder. But readers may be forgiven for wondering what he really thinks about writing history in letters of blood.<ref>Stephen Holmes, [http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=chicken_little_goes_to_europe Chicken Little goes to Europe], ''The American Prospect'', 28 August 2009</ref>
 ==On Enoch Powell==