(National Interest) Benny Morris - Last week I was invited to lecture on the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948 at the London School of Economics. As I walked down Kingsway, a major London thoroughfare, a small mob of some dozen Muslims, Arabs and their supporters, both men and women, surrounded me and, walking alongside me for several hundred yards, raucously harangued me with cries of "fascist," "racist," "England should never have allowed you in," "you shouldn't be allowed to speak." Passersby looked on in astonishment, but it seemed the sight of angry bearded, caftaned Muslims was sufficient to deter any intervention. To me, it felt like Brownshirts in a street scene in 1920s Berlin. Uncurbed, Muslim intimidation in the public domain of people they see as disagreeing with them is palpable and palpably affecting the British Christian majority among whom they live, indeed, cowing them into silence. One senses real fear which, if true, is a sad indication of what is happening in the historic mother of democracies and may point to what is happening, and will increasingly happen, in Western Europe in general in the coming decades.
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