1    See Frits Bolkestein, ‘On the collapse of the Soviet Union’, a speech at the Liberal International Conference in Lucerne, Switzerland, 6 October 1991; and Frits Bolkestein, ‘De integratie von minderheden’, De Volkskrant, 12 October 1991.

2    See Frits Bolkestein, Breakthrough: From Innovation to Impact, ed. Henk van den Breemen, Owls Foundation 2014, p. 221.

3    Paul Scheffer, ‘Het multiculturele drama’, NRC Handelsblad, 29 January 2000.

4    Survey carried out in 1998 by Paul M. Sniderman and Louk Hagendoorn and included in their book When Ways of Life Collide: Multiculturalism and its Discontents in the Netherlands, Princeton University Press, 2007, p. 22.

5    De Islamisering van onze cultuur: Nederlandse Identitieit als Fundament, Pim Fortuyn, Karakter Uitgevers BV, 2001 edn.

7    Heard by Jort Kelder; reported in Ian Buruma, Murder In Amsterdam, Atlantic, 2006, p. 100.

8    Conversation between the author and Hans Teeuwen, Amsterdam, 12 March 2016.

9    Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Caged Virgin, The Free Press, 2006, p. ix.

10    Ibid., p. 76.

11    Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel, The Free Press, 2007, p. 32.

12    Ibid., p. 287.

13    Ibid., p. xii.

14    ‘Germany investigating Imam who urged God to “destroy the Zionist Jews”’, Haaretz, 23 July 2014.

15    See Oriana Fallaci, Interviews with History and Conversations with Power, Rizzoli, 2011.

16    See, for instance, Riccardo Nencini, Oriana Fallaci: I’ll Die Standing on My Feet, Edizioni Polistampa, 2008, pp. 18 and 28.

17    For a discussion of this trend at an earlier stage of her life, the content of Oriana Fallaci by her exasperated would-be biographer Santo L. Arico, Southern Illinois University Press, 1998, is instructive.

18    Oriana Fallaci, The Rage and the Pride, Rizzoli, 2002, p. 22.

19    Ibid., p. 57.

20    Ibid., p. 85.

21    See, for instance, ibid., p. 116.

22    Ibid., p. 129.

23    Ibid., p. 98.

24    Ibid., pp. 137–8.

25    See Fallaci’s own unapologetic discussion of this in The Force of Reason, Rizzoli, 2006, p. 53.

26    ‘Brigitte Bardot unleashes colourful diatribe against Muslims and modern France’, Agence France Presse, 12 May 2003.

27    ‘Calling Islam stupid lands author in court’, The Guardian, 18 September 2002.

28    See Fallaci, The Force of Reason, p. 287.

29    Ibid., p. 56.

30    Oriana Fallaci intervista Oriana Fallaci, Rizzoli, 2004.

31    Pope Benedict XVI’s address to the University of Regensburg, 12 September 2006.

EARLY-WARNING SIRENS

1    See especially Bruce Bawer, While Europe Slept, Doubleday, 2006, and Surrender, Doubleday, 2009.

2    Jeffrey Goldberg, ‘Is it time for the Jews to leave Europe?’, The Atlantic, April 2015.

3    ‘Tories attack Islamic terrorism “rebranding”’, The Daily Telegraph, 18 January 2008, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1575925/Tories-attack-Islamic-terrorism-rebranding.html.

6    Fraser Nelson, ‘Woolwich was a case study in the banality – and the idiocy – of evil’, The Daily Telegraph, 23 May 2013.

7    Dan Hodges, ‘Woolwich attack: confusing, horrific, bizarre – the horror that made literally no sense’, The Daily Telegraph, blogs, 23 May 2013.

8    Simon Jenkins, ‘Woolwich attack: This echo chamber of mass hysteria only aids terrorists’, The Guardian, 23 May 2013.

9    Salman Rushdie and Sam Harris, ‘Abandoned to fanatics’, The Los Angeles Times, 9 October 2007.

10    ‘Turkish Prime Minister says “assimilation is a crime against humanity”’, The Local, 11 February 2008.

THE TYRANNY OF GUILT

1    France 24 Arabic TV, 17 March 2015.

2    Anon., ‘Swedes will compare this to the Holocaust’, The Local, 20 April 2015.

3    ‘Migrant crisis: British student drives Syrians to Munich’, BBC News, 6 September 2015.

4    ‘Refugee crisis: Danish yachtswoman smuggles refugee on her boat from Copenhagen to Malmo’, The Independent, 8 September 2015.