We should fear Holland’s silence

Islamists are stifling debate in what was Europe’s freest country, says Douglas Murray

"Holland — with its disproportionately high Muslim population — is the canary in the mine. Its once open society is closing, and Europe is closing slowly behind it. It looks, from Holland, like the twilight of liberalism — not the “liberalism” that is actually libertarianism, but the liberalism that is freedom. Not least freedom of expression.
All across Europe, debate on Islam is being stopped. Italy’s greatest living writer, Oriana Fallaci, soon comes up for trial in her home country, and in Britain the government seems intent on pushing through laws that would make truths about Islam and the conduct of its followers impossible to voice."

Douglas Murray in Sunday Times yesterday on his closing speech at a Pim Fortuyn Memorial gathering. You must read it to face the grave situation in Europe. Click headline.