- Bruce Bawer
Bruce Bawer, (born
October 31 ,1956 inNew York City ), is an Americanliterary critic ,writer , andpoet . His works have appeared in "The New Republic ", "The Nation", "Newsweek ", "The Wall Street Journal ", "The New Criterion ", "The American Spectator " and "The Hudson Review ", among other places. He is also the author of several books, including "A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society", "Prophets and Professors: Essays On the Lives and Work of Modern Poets," and "Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity". His most recent book is "While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within" (ISBN 0-385-51472-7). It was nominated for theNational Book Critics Circle Award for 2006 in the criticism category.In "A Place at the Table" Bawer endorsed a
centrist and mainstream political philosophy that criticized the gay left. In "Stealing Jesus" Bawer leveled sharp criticism at evangelical, Pentecostal, and other strains of modernChristianity , includingpremillennialism and evangelicalapologism forcapitalism .In 1998, he moved from New York to
Amsterdam , where he felt that he could live better as a gay man in a more liberal society. In 1999 he moved toOslo and throughout the years has translated several books from Norwegian to English.In "While Europe Slept" Bawer argues that Europe's politically correct culture that allows and protects an Islamic fundamentalist movement that preys upon its liberal social systems. Bawer argues that Islamists use welfare and religious grants to fund extremist mosques and support imams with a violent history. Once established in Western European nations, Bawer argues, the Islamists avoid integration and obey
sharia law while avoiding the legal systems of their host nations, allowing abuse of women, Jews, gays and non-Muslims. In his conclusion, Bawer argues that Islamists' rising birthrates and refusal to intermarry will effect domination of European society within 30 years unless laws are passed to close loopholes favorable to the fundamentalist movement.He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in English from the
State University of New York at Stony Brook , where he also taught courses inliterature and composition. He currently lives with his partner inOslo ,Norway .External links
* [http://www.brucebawer.com Bruce Bawer Homepage]
* [http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_cultural_jihadists.html An Anatomy of Surrender, "City Journal," Spring 2008]
* [http://city-journal.org/html/17_3_peace_racket.html The Peace Racket, "City Journal," Summer 2007]
* [http://www.hudsonreview.com/BawerSp04.html Hating America]
* [http://www.brucebawer.com/volkskrant.htm 9/11, Five Years Later: A View from Europe]
*http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/books/08circ.html?ref=books
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