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The courageous Dutch politician Geert Wilders released his book Marked for Death: Islam's War Against the West and Me in May 2012. The foreword to this title was written by the eloquent Canadian-born political commentator and cultural critic Mark Steyn, who has a special talent for writing about serious topics in a humorous way. He has published several books and written essays for publications ranging from the Jerusalem Post and the Chicago Sun-Times to the National Review, The Australian and Canada's National Post.
Steyn is honest enough to admit that when he was first asked to contribute to Wilders' new book, his initial reaction was to say no. The main reason for this is the potentially high cost of being associated with a man who lives with constant death threats.
Yet, after taking a stroll in the woods, Mark Steyn felt ashamed at the ease with which he was caving in to the enemies of freedom, and decided to accept the offer after all. He recalled how the Canadian Islamic Congress boasted that their attempts by legal aggression to silence Steyn's critical writings about Islam had cost his magazine substantial sums, and thereby attained their "strategic objective" of increasing the cost of publishing anti-Islamic material.