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November 30, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/swiss-vote-to-ban-muslim-minarets-in-sharpest-challenge-to-islam-in-europe-yet/

A Sharp Challenge to Islam in Europe

(Robin Shepherd) Robin Shepherd - The move is likely to provoke the kind of mass confrontation that followed the publication of cartoons in Denmark in 2005 which linked the Prophet Mohammed to terrorism. In the months that followed, more than 100 people died in unrest across the Muslim world; Danish embassies and shops were burned to the ground. It looks as though a backlash against Islam in Europe by nationalist forces energized by the failures of multiculturalist orthodoxies is now really starting to take hold. There's more of this to come. You can rely on it. The writer is director of international affairs at the Henry Jackson Society in London.

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