Islam and Western Culture -what to read

I recently spoke to a friend about Mark Steyn's new book, America Alone, and recommended another book, which I had read about a year ago called While Europe Slept by an American free-lance journalist who has lived in Europe for the past 15-20 years named Bruce Bawer. Bawer is no right-wing hack, but is now being pilloried by the liberal book world for this book, which they are calling "racist." The book has just been nominated for a prestigious award and that appears to be what is getting all these libs in a twit. It is well worth reading and anticipated Steyn's warnings about what Europe will soon look like if the multi-culturalists don't begin to insist that "tolerance" is supposed to be a two-way street. Europe's problem with their Muslim "citizens" stems largely from the premise for the Muslim emigration to Europe in the first place - jobs (and a cultural xenophobia) - jobs Europeans were not willing to do being done by people Europeans didn't really want as neighbors, or friends, or colleagues- hence their indifference to whether these newcomers were asked to assimilate at all. We reap what we sow, I guess. I, personally, am delighted to welcome the legal immigrants from Mexico and Latin America and the Caribbean. They come to the U.S. with a desire to be part of America, it's only when they get here that we insist that they keep using their native languages and keep themselves apart. We still have time to learn our lessons from Europe.