Since 2006, when Bruce Bawer wrote his illuminating book entitled While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within, the situation has worsened tenfold.  Not surprisingly, when his book was first published, Bawer was accused of Islamophobia.  Yet as early as 1998, Bawer noted the widening divisions between the liberal and democratic policies of the Netherlands and the fact that "Dutch Muslims kept that society at arm's length, despising its freedoms[.]" In the late 1990s, Bawer and his male partner decided to live in Amsterdam because it seemed to him to be "the one place [he'd] ever been where homophobia really seemed to have disappeared."  He felt that the Netherlands had moved from the "foolishness of  [American] fundamentalism," and although he loved America "not because of its wealth or power, but because of its culture and values," he wanted to really know what it meant to be an...(Read Full Article)