The continent is suffering from what we might call Islamolepsy, the kind of rigidity found in schizophrenia and hypnotic trances, now transposed upon a collective cultural sensibility and reducing it to a condition of social and political helplessness.
It does not know how to fight back; indeed, apart from a few pitiful twitches like banning articles of clothing, it is increasingly incapable of doing so.
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You know that old joke about the tree-lined streets of Paris (cuz Nazis like to march in the shade)?- ‘Remember kids, anal and analog are two exceedingly different things’
- Niall Ferguson, please pick up the lavender courtesy phone…
- ‘When it became clear that no parade was happening, the crowd grew restless and set fire to the grass’