In the Washington Post, Paul M. Barrett reviews Bruce Bawer’s new book, Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom:
Forgoing the temptation to dismiss Bawer’s latest work as a polemical retread [of his previous book, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within] (because most of it actually deals, again, with events in Europe), one might focus on his depiction of Muslims in America. “Surrender” ‘s cover, after all, advertises a book about the United States, and the author expends considerable energy extolling the First Amendment in contrast to less tolerant-sounding words from the Koran. Training his gaze on the United States, Bawer produces a muddled picture. He neglects to take note of the fact that, on average, the American Muslim population is better educated, better off economically and better integrated socially than its Western European counterparts. Not surprisingly, American Muslims have been implicated in far fewer terrorist plots since 9/11—and no successful ones.
Read the full review here.