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| The Mullahs' Europe |
| 2004-09-22 |
| How quickly is Europe being Islamized? So quickly that even historian Bernard Lewis, who has continued throughout his honor-laden career to be strangely disingenuous about certain realities of Islamic radicalism and terrorism, told the German newspaper Die Welt forthrightly that "Europe will be Islamic by the end of the century." Or maybe sooner. Consider some indicators from Scandinavia this past week: • Sweden's third-largest city, Malmø, according to the Swedish Aftonbladet, has become an outpost of the Middle East in Scandinavia: "The police now publicly admit what many Scandinavians have known for a long time: They no longer control the situation in the nations's third largest city. It is effectively ruled by violent gangs of Muslim immigrants. Some of the Muslims have lived in the area of RosengÃ¥rd, Malmø, for twenty years, and still don't know how to read or write Swedish. Ambulance personnel are attacked by stones or weapons, and refuse to help anybody in the area without police escort. The immigrants also spit at them when they come to help. Recently, an Albanian youth was stabbed by an Arab, and was left bleeding to death on the ground while the ambulance waited for the police to arrive. The police themselves hesitate to enter parts of their own city unless they have several patrols, and need to have guards to watch their cars, otherwise they will be vandalized." • The NordgÃ¥rdsskolen in Aarhus, Denmark, has become the first Dane-free Danish school. The students now come entirely from Denmark's fastest-growing constituency: Muslim immigrants. • Also in Denmark, the Qur'an is now required reading for all upper-secondary school students. There is nothing wrong with that in itself, but it is unlikely, given the current ascendancy of political correctness on the Continent, that critical perspectives will be included. • Pakistani Muslim leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed gave an address at the Islamic Cultural Center in Oslo. He was readily allowed into the country despite that fact that, according to Norway's Aftenposten, he "has earlier make flattering comments about Osama bin Laden, and his party, Jamaat-e-Islami, also has hailed al-Qaeda members as heroes." In Norway, he declined to answer questions about whether or not he thought homosexuals should be killed. Elsewhere in Europe the jihad is taking a more violent form. Dutch officials have uncovered at least fifteen separate terrorist plots, all aimed at punishing the Netherlands for its 1,300 peacekeeping troops in Iraq. And in Spain, Moroccan Muslims, including several suspected participants in the March 11 bombings in Madrid, have taken control of a wing of a Spanish prison. From there they broadcast Muslim prayers at high volume, physically intimidated non-Muslim prisoners, hung portraits of Osama bin Laden, and boasted, "We are going to win the holy war." The guards' response? They asked the ringleaders please to lower the volume on the prayers. What are European governments doing about all this? France is pressing forward with an appeasement campaign to free two French journalists held hostage by jihadists in Iraq. The Swedish state agency for foreign aid is sponsoring a "Palestinian Solidarity Conference," which aims, among other things, to pressure the European Union to remove the terrorist group Hamas from the EU's list of terrorist groups — despite Hamas's long history of encouraging and glorifying the murder of civilians by suicide bombers. What Europe has long sown it is now reaping. Bat Ye'or, the pioneering historian of dhimmitude, the institutionalized oppression of non-Muslims in Muslim societies, chronicles in her forthcoming book Eurabia how it has come to this. Europe, she explains, began thirty years ago to travel down a path of appeasement, accommodation, and cultural abdication before Islam in pursuit of short-sighted political and economic benefits. She observes that today "Europe has evolved from a Judeo-Christian civilization, with important post-Enlightenment/secular elements, to a 'civilization of dhimmitude,' i.e., Eurabia: a secular-Muslim transitional society with its traditional Judeo-Christian mores rapidly disappearing." After the Beslan child massacres, however, there are signs from Eastern Europe that this may be changing. Last Sunday Poland turned away one hundred Chechen Muslims who were trying to enter the country from Belarus. This is the sort of measure that the countries west of Poland have been so far unwilling to take. But since one cannot by any means screen out the jihadists from the moderate Muslims, and the moderates are not helping identify the jihadists either, what choice did the Poles have? It might not be too long before they will have to turn away entrants from Scandinavia and France as well. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 Oh, I dunno, we preserved the Alhambra and the mosques in Toledo and Cordoba; perhaps Eurabia's mullahs will return the favor and preserve the Sistine Chapel. With freshly-painted burqas obscuring Michelangelo's nudes, of course... |
| Posted by: lex 2004-09-23 12:23:28 AM |
| #6 Lex, did not have christian heritage exactly in mind, although I suppose that the old architecture is a part of it. I meant art--sculptures, paintings... would not care that much for last 2 centuries, but would miss renaissance stuff. |
| Posted by: Memesis 2004-09-23 12:10:21 AM |
| #5 Somehow, it would be nice if we could preserve the cultural artefacts in Western Europe before TSWHTF, else they would be gone forever The only houses of worship in western Europe that routinely attract a decent turnout of people under 60 are mosques. As for preserving Europe's (excuse me--sorry to use the word, but here goes) um, er Christian heritage, the obvious solution is for Disney to buy up Chartres, Salisbury, etc and turn them into Christian theme parks targeting American evangelical tourists and Japanese and Chinese tourgroups. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-09-22 11:36:32 PM |
| #4 It's not any more alarming than plenty of other developments in this new world disorder. Civilizations change, nations rise and fall, greatness comes and goes. Europe's era passed long ago. Europe is now a dying continent, and if demographic trends continue, as they likely will, one of two things invariably must give way: either the European welfare state will be radically scaled back due to the inversion of worker:pensioner ratios, or else Europe will have to assimilate many millions, probably 100 million by 2050, of immigrants and their children from the middle east and Africa. In other words, the EU's choice is either to become more capitalist and "Anglo-American" or still addicted to the welfare state but paying for it with scores of millions of young muslims. I'd bet on the latter. For us, the policy implications of a pro-jihadist EUrabia are enormous. Best to start contemplating and addressing them now, IMO. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-09-22 11:31:53 PM |
| #3 Mark, it was alarming 15 years ago. Now it is critical. Sweden is a writeoff. Norway and especially Danmark have still some chance to self-correct. But as the Europe becames more and more Eurabia, the gravitational pull may be too strong for them to erect defences. Somehow, it would be nice if we could preserve the cultural artefacts in Western Europe before TSWHTF, else they would be gone forever. |
| Posted by: Memesis 2004-09-22 11:12:29 PM |
| #2 This is alarming. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-09-22 11:00:16 PM |
| #1 France is pressing forward with an appeasement campaign to free two French journalists held hostage by jihadists in Iraq. Dammit! Lets agree that at the end of this world war: THE LOSER HAS TO KEEP FRANCE! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-09-22 7:35:10 PM |