Is Europe really asleep?

Yes, says Bruce Bawer, in his book While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within. To be sure, it is an idea that impugns religious tolerance and open borders.

But according to Tim Cavanaugh it is A Clockwork Orange that describes the future of Europe, not 1984. For example, of the recent French labor riots:

...you've got underemployed but well fed kids with plenty of time on their hands, the depraved indifference of a welfare state that usurps the role of parents but provides no useful structure for the youth, a housing-project culture that sees itself (not without reason) as a defenseless ward of the state, politicians who veer between mealy-mouthed coddling of sociopaths and vicious denunciation of people with legitimate grievances, and kids who react to it all with theatrical violence.

Interestingly, it is not difficult to prove that France over-protects her culture. (Read: her non-Muslim culture -- America incubates her culture under no such legislative wing.) So while it is silly to state that French film subsidies have given birth to radical Islam, it is certainly reasonable to question whether the us v. them characteristic of everyday French life causes disenfranchisement and submits Islamism as a worthy alternative.

And there are other French examples than just film.

American film and television each operate in as l'aissez faire an environment that exists today. I am not speaking of the message of Hollywood, but the process, the way films are made. So although these two indicators are seemingly unrelated, it squares the circle that American Muslims are more assimilated, more je ne sais quoi American than are their European counterparts.