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The baleful consequences of cultural dogmyopia

The baleful consequences of cultural dogmyopia

The west is like the apocryphal frog being uncomprehendingly boiled in the pot

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Melanie Phillips
Oct 22, 2021
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Destruction, from The Course of Empire; Thomas Cole, 1836

On both sides of the English Channel, the failure to grasp the nettle of Islamist extremism and the frightening consequences of that failure are sounding an urgent alarm for the whole of western society.

Last weekend, a British Conservative Member of Parliament, Sir David Amess, was stabbed to deat…

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