The Kindness of Strangers

Mark Steyn, Sun Times, RCP, read it all, but here's this:

The invaluable Brussels Journal recently translated an interview with the writer Oscar van den Boogaard from the Belgian paper De Standaard. A Dutch gay "humanist" (which is pretty much the trifecta of Eurocool), van den Boogaard was reflecting on the accelerating Islamification of the Continent and concluding that the jig was up for the Europe he loved. "I am not a warrior, but who is?" he shrugged. "I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it."

Too many of us are only good at enjoying freedom. That war-is-never-the-answer 25 percent are in essence saying that there's nothing about America worth fighting for, and that, ultimately, the continuation of their society is a bet on the kindness of strangers.....

Of course it was in the tolerant Netherlands where the filmmaker Van Gogh (yes a descendent of Vincent) was knocked off his bike and had his throat slit. You see, he had made a film protesting the vile treatment of women in the name of Islam.

Liberals--hoping for a kinder, gentler jihad.