A quote from Pat Condell on YouTube, 5 February 2010:

 

A quote from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in The Daily Telegraph, 13 June 2008

Notes printed in Berlin have more currency for bank customers who fear a 'value crisis.' Ordinary Germans have begun to reject euro bank notes with serial numbers from Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal, raising concerns that public support for monetary union may be waning in the eurozone's anchor country.

Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper says bankers have detected a curious pattern where customers are withdrawing cash directly from branches, screening the notes to determine the origin of issue. They ask for paper from the southern states to be exchanged for German notes.

A quote from Deutsche Welle, 27 January 2010

An American judge on Tuesday granted asylum to a German couple who wanted to homeschool their children, bringing international attention to the debate in Germany over the rights of parents to freely educate their children.

The American columnist Diana West, author of the book The Death of the Grown-Up and Vice President of the International Free Press Society, reviews my book Defeating Eurabia, which is now available in a cheaper printed version and can also be found online:

A quote from Israel National News, 6 January 2010

The Cardinal of the Czech Republic, Miloslav Vick, is concerned about the fate of Christianity in Europe. He argues that Europe must return to its roots, if not the fate of the continent will be to become Islamic.

"Medieval Muslims tried to conquer Europe but Christians expelled them,” he said. “Today there is a similar war but with spiritual weapons. However, Europe lacks the tools and ability for a spiritual struggle while Muslims are well equipped," he says, adding that 'the fall of Europe is close at hand.”

 

Via Snaphanen: Two very different takes on the ongoing Islamization of Europe. Pamela Geller from Atlas Shrugs paints a picture that overlaps with the views expressed in Bat Ye'or's book Eurabia and my own book Defeating Eurabia. The clueless French writer Justin Vaïsse from the magazine Foreign Policy pretends that the entire problem simply doesn't exist.

A quote from Paul Belien in The Mail on Sunday, 3 January 2010

There is ominous symbolism in a Belgian ruling the EU. During the Second World War, Churchill called the Belgians ‘the most contemptible of all – a nation which vainly hoped to stay out of this war, no matter what they owed to those who had saved them in the last war’. Yet the Belgian political model has since then stealthily conquered Britain, turning Brussels, not London, into the centre of power from which decisions are imposed on the British people.

 

What do Members of the European Parliament do during a
financial crisis? Give themselves more money of course, what else?

A quote from Mark Steyn in the Orange County Register, 11 December 2009

Oh, come on. Herman van Rompuy. He's some Belgian cove who was recently appointed "president" of "Europe," whatever that means. He's hardly a household name, even in the van Rompuy household. I'm not sure if Belgian TV has a "Belgian Idol" or "Dancing With The Belgians," but, if so, he'd be knocked out in Round One.

A quote from Christopher Caldwell in The Weekly Standard, 21 December 2009

Over the past couple of decades, Flemish and Belgian conservative parties erected what they called a cordon sanitaire around the Vlaams Belang to keep it out of government, citing its position on immigrants as xenophobic. Whether this was good politics or not, today it looks increasingly unfair, as all Belgian parties, left and right, Flemish and Walloon, come to the realization that reforms of immigration policy will be necessary to protect the Belgian school and social-service sector. Gerolf Annemans, the VB's leading intellectual, says that the cordon sanitaire is "purely political." Most of his opponents would agree with him, although they do not say so on the record.