Menace in Europe

2006 book by Claire Berlinski

Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too

Author| Claire Berlinski
Language| English
Publisher| Three Rivers Press

Publication date

| 2006
Publication place| United States
ISBN| 978-1-4000-9768-5
OCLC| 62878664

Dewey Decimal

| 940.56/1 22
LC Class| D2020 .B47 2006

Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too is a book by Claire Berlinski about problems and challenges facing Europe, and the consequences of Europe's failure to meet these challenges. Among the phenomena addressed in the book are Muslim integration (and the lack thereof), anti-Americanism, antisemitism, and Europe's violent history.

## Reception

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The book has been cited several times as a segment of "Eurabia literature".[1][2][3]

New Oxford Review, "one can't read [Menace in Europe] and walk away optimistic about the future of Europe.[4]

Conservative think tank writer Fred Siegel wrote, "it's hard to do full justice to the rich material in [Menace in Europe]. Ms. Berlinski...has a fascinating chapter on the Nazi aesthetic of Rammstein, Germany's most popular band. But if [Menace in Europe has] any weaknesses it is the lack of a historical framework.[5]

Clive Davis wrote in Washington Times, "what worries me about books like this is that they risk reducing Europe to a caricature in much the same way as Stupid White Men turns America into one big Wal-Mart with drive-by shootings."[6]

National Review piece reads, "her observation that there is nothing Americans can do to change [Europe], "short of dying politely en masse," suggests that Ms. Berlinski, a lively writer always happy to hype up the snark and the spark of her prose, is taking her readers not to France, or Germany, but to Planet Coulter.[7]

Baltimore Chronicle's John Hickman said that a "better example of the essential emptiness of neo-conservatism than Claire Berlinski's Menace in Europe would be difficult to find...ugly vituperation expressed in sweeping generalizations...Berlinski cherry-picks her evidence.[8]

## Notes

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1. ^ "Tales from Eurabia". The Economist. June 22, 2006.
2. ^ "From Europe to Eurabia?". voanews. October 27, 2009.
3. ^ "Eurabian Follies". Foreign Policy. January 4, 2010.
4. ^ Flaherty, Dan (June 2007). "Briefly Reviewed". New Oxford Review. Archived from the original on 2007-08-20. Retrieved 2008-12-22.
5. ^ Siegel, Fred (February 23, 2006). "The Lebanonization of Europe". New York Sun. Archived from the original on May 26, 2008. Retrieved December 22, 2008.
Siegel, Fred (March 11, 2006). "Muslims, mad and militant, set their sights on a quailing Europe". The Free Lance Star.[permanent dead link] (reprint)
6. ^ Davis, Clive (March 26, 2006). "Extremism in Europe, and questions of what's next". Washington Times.
7. ^ "Euro scare?(Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too)(Book review)". National Review. May 6, 2008. Archived from the original on January 15, 2016.
8. ^ Hickman, John (2007). "The Real Menace is 'Thinkers' Like Claire Berlinski". Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel.

## Further reading

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* Brandon, Bosworth (May 2006). "Literant.(Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis is America's, Too)(While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West From Within)". The American Enterprise. [dead link]
* Steyn, Mark (April 5, 2006). "Wake up, Europe. It may already be too late". Maclean's. Archived from the original on 2009-07-22.
* Steyn, Mark (April 9, 2006). "A continent hurtling toward the abyss". Jerusalem Post. (Reprint of portions of the same article)

## External links

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* "Muslims and the West". The Economist. June 22, 2006.

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