"Civilizations Die from Suicide, Not by Murder"

This quote from Cliff May at NRO's The Corner caught my eye. It's actually from the English historian and philosopher Arnold Toynbee.

Mark Steyn and Diana West relate Toynbee's insight to how the insidious belief in multiculturalism could be the West's cyanide pill.

The best comment, though, is from Italian oracle Oriana Fallaci, via Darleen's Place:

"Europe is no longer Europe, it is 'Eurabia,' a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. Servility to the invaders has poisoned democracy, with obvious consequences for the freedom of thought, and for the concept itself of liberty"
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"You cannot survive if you do not know the past. We know why all the other civilizations have collapsed--from an excess of welfare, of richness, and from lack of morality, of spirituality." (She uses "welfare" here in the sense of well-being, so she is talking, really, of decadence.) "The moment you give up your principles, and your values . . . the moment you laugh at those principles, and those values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period." [emphasis added]