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{{data.pair|Text|by [[Bruce Bawer]]: &ldquo;The cultural jihadists have enjoyed disturbing success. Two events in particular—the 2004 assassination in Amsterdam of [[Theo van Gogh]] in retaliation for his film about Islam’s oppression of women, and the [[2006 Muhammad image riots|global wave of riots, murders, and vandalism]] that followed a Danish newspaper’s 2005 publication of cartoons satirizing [[Mohammed]] &ndash; have had a massive ripple effect throughout the West. Motivated variously, and doubtless sometimes simultaneously, by fear, misguided sympathy, and multicultural ideology &ndash; which teaches us to belittle our freedoms and to genuflect to non-Western cultures, however repressive—people at every level of Western society, but especially elites, have allowed concerns about what fundamentalist Muslims will feel, think, or do to influence their actions and expressions. These Westerners have begun, in other words, to internalize the strictures of [[sharia]], and thus implicitly to accept the deferential status of dhimmis &ndash; infidels living in Muslim societies.&rdquo;}}<noinclude>
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<let name=data index=TextShort>&ldquo;...the [[Ayatollah Khomeini]]'s 1989 fatwa against ''[[Satanic Verses]]'' author [[Salman Rushdie]] introduced a new kind of jihad. Instead of assaulting Western ships or buildings, Khomeini took aim at a fundamental Western freedom: [[freedom of speech]].&rdquo;</let>
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<p>The [[cultural jihad]]ists have enjoyed disturbing success. Two events in particular &ndash; the 2004 assassination in Amsterdam of [[Theo van Gogh]] in retaliation for his film about [[Islam]]'s oppression of women, and the [[2006 Muhammad image riots|global wave of riots, murders, and vandalism]] that followed a Danish newspaper's 2005 publication of cartoons satirizing [[Mohammed]] &ndash; have had a massive ripple effect throughout the West. Motivated variously, and doubtless sometimes simultaneously, by fear, misguided sympathy, and multicultural ideology &ndash; which teaches us to belittle our freedoms and to genuflect to non-Western cultures, however repressive &ndash; people at every level of Western society, but especially elites, have allowed concerns about what fundamentalist Muslims will feel, think, or do to influence their actions and expressions. These Westerners have begun, in other words, to internalize the strictures of [[sharia]], and thus implicitly to accept the deferential status of [[dhimmi]]s &ndash; infidels living in Muslim societies.</p>
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