Mark Steyn in “The Silence of the Artistic Lambs” in Maclean’s writes that “Most writers and filmmakers ignore today’s epic cross-cultural war. It’s safer that way…”:

Western Europe is undergoing a remarkable transformation, and it’s hardly surprising that Daniel Silva should want to novelize it. In my own more prosaic way, I published a book a year ago on the same theme which the executive honchos at Maclean’s were pleased to excerpt in these pages as a cover story called “The Future Belongs to Islam.” The title is not overstated: given the demographic wind behind Islam, insofar as Germany and France and Britain and the Low Countries and Scandinavia have a future, it will be principally determined by the mediation between a resurgent Islam and a declining ethnic European population, and also by the mediation between so-called “radical Islam” and so-called “moderate Muslims.” As the late Mr. van Gogh and the late Mr. Selam might tell you if they could, the cross-cultural exchange doesn’t always go as well as it might. But, even when it’s not homicidal, it’s still arresting, and transformative. Let me give you a small example, from last week’s Evening Standard:

An insightful and - as usual - darkly amusing essay - read it all here.