Book description
Why has Europe's half-century of mass immigration failed to produce
anything resembling the American melting pot? Deadly terrorist attacks
and rioting in Muslim neighbourhoods have now forced Europeans, caught
up in a demographic revolution they never expected, to question its
success and to confront the limits of their long-held liberal values.
By overestimating its need for immigrant labour and underestimating
the culture-shaping potential of religion, has Europe trapped itself
in a problem to which it has no obvious solution?
Christopher Caldwell has been reporting on the politics and culture
of Islam in Europe for over a decade. In his provocative and
unflinching book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, he
reveals the anger of natives and newcomers alike. He describes asylum
policies that have served illegal immigrants better than refugees. He
exposes the strange interaction of welfare states and Third World
traditions, the anti-Americanism that brings natives and newcomers
together, and the arguments over women and sex that drive them apart.
And he examines the dangerous tendency of politicians to defuse
tensions surrounding Islam by curtailing the rights of all.
Based on extensive reporting and offering trenchant analysis,
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe is destined to become
the classic work on how Muslim immigration permanently reshaped the West.
Christopher Caldwell is a columnist for the
Financial Times
, a contributing writer for
The New York Times
and a senior editor at the
Weekly Standard
. He lives in Washington, DC and travels regularly across Europe. He has
been described by Matthew d'Ancona as 'one of the best journalists in
the world' and has been reporting on the politics and culture of Islam
in Europe for more than a decade.
