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Most of Europe still doesn't get it
In today's Washington Post, Anne Appelbaum looks at last week's cancellation of the opera Idomeneo in Berlin, for fear of Muslim reaction to its final scene where the severed head of Muhammed is brought on stage. Applebaum sees the cancellation in the context of Germany's (and other European countries') failure to grasp that they are living under the threat of terrorism. In truth, the fact that