I don’t know if there is a more fuddy-duddy publication than Newsweek (unless it’s Time). Now they are tut-tutting those Europeans who have the temerity – in the post-cartoon riot world – to be concerned with protecting free speech and other Enlightenment values through new immigration standards that encourage assimilation. Not surprisingly the Newsweekies title their article The End of Tolerance ^[1], meaning Europe’s, of course, not those Sharia-bound Muslims whose tolerance is legendary. Here’s how the authors (there are three) sum it up near the end:

Until such double standards can be abolished and a new equality established, Europe’s new toughness will feel like forced integration. “It’s a form of creating a second-class citizenship,” says Tariq Modood, director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship in Bristol. “All the burden of change is placed on the immigrant.”

Oh, I get it. It’s time for those atheistic Dutch and Danish to meet their Islamic guests mid-way. They should be half-misogynist and half-homophobic. Is that the kind of culture Newsweek really wants? Of course not. They’re just lying phonies and poseurs. They continue, slightly further on:

It’s an open question whether Germans, Dutch, or Danes will ever truly accept a multiethnic, multireligious “Germanness,” “Dutchness” or “Danishness.”

Open question? Maybe so, but I’ll tell you a closed question – whether Saudi Arabia could ever accept Germans, Dutch or Danes living among them. Or sanctimonious Newsweek writers, for that matter. Enough already.

UPDATE: Here’s anothe reason never to trust the media ^[2], myself included. [You never fake polls.-ed. That's because I can't afford to hold them.]