Part of me says, "good." This will bring it all to a crisis point. Europe has to wake up to the absurdity in its midst.

I'm not sure that it will, but there are interesting parellels between what's happening in formerly "Anglo" America and formerly "Christian" Europe.

I'm not anti-Hispanic at all ("Vote for Pedro") but we've been sleepwalking through a "reconquista" for years now because of hopelessly lax border control and the flood of illegal economic immigration it has brought. What do we have as a result? Racist hate groups like M.E.Ch.A., and an "anti-hate speech" PC mentality on our university campuses that operates to stifle freedon of thought and expression.

The Europeans ARE worse off because in their case the flood of immmigrants also happens to have a religion with a poor history of "peaceful coexistence." Indeed, Al Quaida considers Europe a great new battleground, and their best "Second Front." There was a really frightening "Frontline" about this not too long ago.

I like to think that American society is better equipped to deal with the major cultural and demographic shift that is taking place here, but we'll just have to see. I'd rather be here dealing with our problems than in Europe dealing with theirs.

Looks like the Netherlands has woken up. This is why you see the rise of people like Jorge Haider; the elites of Europe are terrified to talk about Islam & immigration

I'm not sure I can see drawing a connection between illegal immigration to the U.S.. and campus speech codes.

Anyone ever thought of trying Muhammed posthumously for the hate speech in his great work, Al Quran?

They say the thing which makes man better than the animals is the opposable thumb. I can't help but wonder about the manifold blessings of having the American Constitution.

Europe has a history of not waking up until it's so late that someone else has to go in and bail them out. I don't think this time will be any different.

How sad that someone who fought fascism 60 years ago now has to face it again in an altogether different form.

You can't talk cancer into remission. I am so suprised that Europe, with its history of oppression, hatred and bigotry (no we didn't get that patent) hasn't figured out that these issues need to be excised from the body politic AND society as a whole.

Good for Ms Fallaci. Europe needs to step out from the skirts of the imams, grab itself by its collective nutsack, and find courage to stand up to the people who wish to hijack its culture.

Europe will discover the First Amendment about two seconds after it discovers common sense.
Which should be sometime around the second tuesday of Never!
We're talking about the cotinent that was the same place societally 500 years ago that the Middle East is now - and they call it "the enlightenment"...
'Nuff said!

"I'm not sure I can see drawing a connection between illegal immigration to the U.S. and campus speech codes."

Point taken, and I concede the connection isn't exactly linear :-(. What I was trying to say is that illegal U.S. immigration has helped bring about a huge change in our demographics, as millions of impoverished, third-world "people of color" settle here. We now "embrace diversity" in a way that was unimaginable a few decades ago, part of which is reflected in campus speech codes that require language not offend anyone's ethnic sensibilities. But I can't say that the former "causes" the latter.

I guess I'm just an immigration attorney who's been to one too many ACLU type immigrants' rights meetings, where one must refer to the clientele as "undocumented workers," put up with loud simultaneous translations that make it impossible to hear the speakers in English, and hear Alice-in-Wonderland rhetoric that the Government shouldn't have the right to remove (deport) people who are here illegally. "The real tragedy is that it's legal for the Governmment to do this," as one spokesman said.

Keep the illegal aliens - deport the ACLU ;-).