Free Speech, Political Taqiyya, and the Disintegration of Western Culture

What happens when Western liberals stop distinguishing between religious tolerance and political surrender? There was a time when “Never Forget” truly meant something in mainstream circles. Twenty-five years after September 11, in some corners of America and Western Europe, it has become worth asking exactly what we were supposed to remember. The obvious answer was the nearly 3,000 people who were murdered by Islamist terrorists in a brazen attack on the American way of life. But there has been another critical lesson buried in the rubble: Western civilization will not survive if it becomes so afraid of offending people that...