Promoting European Greatness: Why Europe’s Left Finds Trump’s Warning Unacceptable

<![CDATA[One of my first assignments for PJ Media, back in 2007, was covering the American Freedom Alliance’s “The Collapse of Europe?” conference at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. Distinguished panelists such as Mark Steyn, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Daniel Pipes, and Philippe Karsenty discussed the troubling trajectory of the continent, particularly its rapid Islamization. Although I titled my article “Finding Comedy in the Collapse of Europe” because Steyn observed that laughter is the West’s trump card—since Ayatollah Khomeini once said, “there are no jokes in Islam”—the topic was very serious. As I wrote, “Not one of the distinguished panelists wanted to write off or dismiss Europe. Instead, they all hoped that the imperiled continent could be saved.”]]>