German commentators frame Muslim presence as 1930s-style appeasement

Evidence

In Germany, Henryk M. Broder published a book in 2006 entitled Hurra, Wir Kapitulieren (Hurray! We’re Capitulating!). Broder takes aim at European complacence relative to Islamic radicalism and the growing demands of Muslim minorities on the societies that host them. He goes so far as to compare present attitudes to 1930s appeasement. The comparison indeed is the heart of the book: 23 See 1992 German translation ofLaqueur’s Europe Since Hitler: Europa aufdem Wege zur Weltmacht 1945-1992. — Michael A. Reynolds and Thomas D. Grant, The Future of Europe and Its Muslims, 137

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Extends ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’: here the moral-panic frame escalates from dress to an existential capitulation narrative, a modern chapter in the same signaling lineage.
• QUESTION: How far back does the ‘we are capitulating’ genre go — is this continuous with 19th-century invasion-scare literature or a genuinely post-9/11 mutation?
• BMF: The appeasement analogy as rhetorical device evokes Orwell’s warning in ‘Along the Archival Grain’-adjacent imperial writing about the thought police drawing on appeasement-era surveillance of private life — no exact fiction match; suggest adding Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ to the reading list for a novelized version of this exact capitulation thesis.