Surrender Appeasing Islam Sacrificing Freedom Author:Bruce Bawer In this powerful follow-up to While Europe Slept, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Bruce Bawer exposes the threat of Islamic fundamentalism to the West?s most cherished values: freedom of speech and freedom of the press. — In 2006, in While Europe Slept, Bruce Bawer sounded the alarm about the dire impact of Mus... more »lim immigration in Europe. Now, in SURRENDER, he reveals that a combination of fear and political correctness has led the media, politicians, intellectuals, and religious leaders, both in the United States and abroad, to appease radical Islam at the cost of our precious rights and liberties.
In a riveting examination of events ranging from the riots triggered by Danish cartoons of Muhammad to the furor aroused by the Pope?s remarks about Islam to lawsuits against authors whose books offend Muslim sensibilities, Bawer shows how the rights of writers, artists, journalists, and students to freely discuss Islam?and look honestly at Islam?s reactionary views on women and gays?have been drastically curtailed.
Fearless and excoriating, SURRENDERis an essential wake-up call for everyone concerned with the preservation of our most fundamental freedoms.« less