Reflections on the Revolution In Europe Quotes

“Typical was the French polymath Ernest Renan, who wrote in 1883: Those liberals who defend Islam do not know Islam. Islam is the seamless union of the spiritual and the temporal, it is the reign of dogma, it is the heaviest chain mankind has ever borne. In the early Middle Ages, Islam tolerated philosophy, because it could not stop it. It could not stop it because it was as yet disorganized, and poorly armed for terror.…But as soon as Islam had a mass of ardent believers at its disposal, it destroyed everything in its path. Religious terror and hypocrisy were the order of the day. Islam has been liberal when weak, and violent when strong. Let us not give it credit for what it was merely unable to suppress.”
― Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West

“If the spread of Pakistani cuisine is the single greatest improvement in British public life over the past half-century, it is also worth noting that the bombs used for the failed London transport attacks of July 21, 2005, were made from a mix of hydrogen peroxide and chapati flour.”
― Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West

“arrived veiled, as compared to 639 the previous fall. Chirac ordered that the hundredth anniversary”
― Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West