Lord of the Rings abuse

This guy from the National Review should be ashamed of himself for using Tolkein to excoriate Europe for not sounding the alarm against growing Jihadism. Quite apart from the validity of the point he's trying to make, this sort of thing makes it perfectly clear why Tolkein inveighed against the suggestion that his work was any kind of historical allegory.

This comes from someone who's always been suspicious of the claim that Lord of the Rings takes up no historical themes. I do think that it is broadly about modernity and the human condition in it. But parallels on the level Hanson makes are highly distasteful.