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Austrian MP Excoriates the Tolerance Romantics

For decades, we have seen a spurious “tolerance” used to help undermine Western traditions and transform Western nations. Under this phony “tolerance,” Western symbols are banished and non-Western symbols exalted. “Tolerance” views with suspicion any expression of national sentiment by Westerners, while indulging all expressions of such sentiment by non-Westerners. “Tolerance” also demands unlimited non-Western immigration into the West and decries any effort to assimilate non-Westerners. Thus, “tolerance” leads to crucifixes being removed from European classrooms even as minarets begin dotting Western skylines and to formerly European cities becoming Islamic enclaves even as Islamic nations continue to harass and persecute Christians.

One European who is fed up with this phony tolerance is Austrian MP Ewald Stadler, who seemed to embody the spirit of Eugene of Savoy in responding to the Turkish ambassador’s criticism of Austria for failing to treat Turkish immigrants with sufficient “tolerance.” Those who are interested in Stadler’s spirited denunciation of the Turkish ambassador and European “tolerance romantics” can find a video of Stadler’s speech to the Austrian parliament with English translation here.

The Quran at Fahrenheit 451

By the end of this week, the air was so thick with pieties about the need for tolerance and respect for all creeds that one yearned for the Rev. Terry Jones, mutton chop whiskers akimbo, to toss those Qurans in the burn barrels outside his Gainesville church in Florida and torch them on this year’s anniversary of 9/11