Friday, May 28, 2010

DECKER: Cold Turkey for Europe

"DECKER: Cold Turkey for Europe

TURKEY IN EUROPE: BENEFIT OR CATASTROPHE?

By Roberto de Mattei

Gracewing, $22.95, 97 pages

Reviewed by Brett M. Decker

'So how does it feel to see your culture taken away from you?' That's what a friend in Paris emailed to me after Rima Fakih won the Miss USA Pageant last week. It was a loaded question. Supposedly, I should have felt the sting of an Arab-American Shi'ite being crowned because she hails from Michigan, which is my home state as well. While it's questionable if beauty pageants are inherently a constituent component of American culture, I'm sure our culture is not being taken away from us. If anything, it's being given away."

More:DECKER: Cold Turkey for Europe - Washington Times