Appeasement Only Emboldens Them

Victor Davis Hanson gives lucid commentary in the face of glib European criticism. For example:

Now things are starting to come to a crisis, and the Europeans are learning belatedly — after the French riots, the bombings in Madrid and London, the murders in the Netherlands, and the craziness over the Danish cartoons — that their appeasement failed and the radical Islamists hate them even more than they hate us.

Edward Cline is a powerful voice on the same issue:

Europe is reaping the perilous harvest of its decades-long experiment in multiculturalism and tolerance of the irrational, and there is no reason to think that the endemic Muslim violence there will not be emulated in the U.S. Many European countries, especially France, are experiencing a spike in gang rapes of “unveiled” European and “apostate” Mideast women by Muslim men and teens as a form of jihad. European politicians, artists and writers who have spoken out against the dangers of Islamofascism or who have been critical of Islam must have police protection. Many Muslim sections of European cities are “no go” areas to the police. A Turkish Muslim proclaimed in 2003 that Paris, Rome and Madrid were now components of the Islamic world because so many mosques have been erected in those capitals.

Wolfgang Scheide notes:

This then is the logic of appeasement. We now see new demands are made. In France some Muslims now demand that Voltaire be censored ironically over his drama about religious fanaticism where Mohammad is portrayed as a tyrant.