Warnings Nobody Wanted to Hear

Writers who warned Europe in the mid-2000s were mocked. Twenty years later, look at what happened to the people they were worried about.

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September 20

Writers who warned Europe in the mid-2000s were mocked. Twenty years later, look at what happened to the people they were worried about.

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Day 10 — September 20

Warnings Nobody Wanted to Hear

Writers who warned Europe in the mid-2000s were mocked. Twenty years later, look at what happened to the people they were worried about.

In the mid-2000s, a handful of writers started warning, in detail, about the risks a rapidly growing, unassimilated extremist current posed to Europe.

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What's striking, looking back, is what else was being published at exactly the same time: confident, celebrative books arguing that Europe's.

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September 20

Writers who warned Europe in the mid-2000s were mocked. Twenty years later, look at what happened to the people they were worried about.

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Triumphalist titles: Jeremy Rifkin, The European Dream (2004); T.R. Reid, The United States of Europe (2005); Mark Leonard, Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century (2005)
Decline titles: Bat Ye'or, Eurabia (2003); Melanie Phillips, Londonistan (2005); Mark Steyn, America Alone (2005); Sylvain Besson, La conquête de l'Occident: Le projet secret des Islamistes (2005); Ralph Ghadban, Tariq Ramadan und die Islamisierung Europas (2006); Bruce Bawer, While Europe Slept (2007)
Panel discussion theme: Melanie Phillips, Bruce Bawer, Rifkin, Leonard

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