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| Germans embracing Islam: Himmler delighted | |
| 2003-10-30 | |
| By Srdja Trifkovic. Itâs long, but I couldnât find anything I wanted to cut. According to a recent Agence France Presse report (October 25), Germans are converting to Islam in increasing numbers. They are also âgetting younger and younger,â according to Muhammad Herzog who runs a Muslim cultural center in Berlin. He is quoted by the AFP as saying that âmany are looking for new lifestyles and some sense of direction.â Herr Herzog converted to Islam as far back as 1979, when he realized that âthe Quran gathered together everything I had ever believed in.â Islamic Institute archives now contain records of 12,400 people born in Germany to German parents who are now âcertifiedâ Muslims. The total Muslim population of Germany is approaching four millionâmost of them Turksâbut it accounts for close to one-fifth of all newborn babies in the nation of 80 million. The writing was on the wall over a decade ago, when the number of Muslims stood at three million and the number of mosque associations exceeded 2,000. By that time already the Turks in Berlin had entire sections of the city closed in on themselves. The trend of establishing and supporting the enclaves of a parallel culture, hostile to the host-countryâs lifestyle and values, is by now well-established not only in Germany but also in France and Britain. The fact that increasing numbers of young Germans want to join an alien and hostile ghetto within the country of their birth is unsurprising. Estranged from their parents, ignorant of their culture, ashamed of their history, those young converts are making a logical step on the path of alienation that alternatively leads to madness, drugs, or suicide. They accurately sense that âthose who subscribe to Islam and its civilization are aliens, regardless of their clothes, their professions or their places of residenceâ (Sam Francis), and they choose to be aliens. On present form the burgeoning Muslim population of Europe will never be âwesternized,â that is to say, made as willing as Christians to see their religion relativized, then mocked, and its commandments misrepresented or ignored. It is even less likely to be Christianized: that cannot happen unless there is a belated, massive, and unexpected recovery of Western spiritual and moral strength. Europe therefore faces two clear alternatives: defenseâimpossible under the current banner of multiculturalismâor submission and eventual acceptance of sacred Arab places as its own. Islamic activists in Europe trust in the latter, and with good reason. They know that the host-societies have lost the capacity to define themselves vis-Ã -vis âthe other.â They also know that their own immigrant brethren have no kinship with the host-societies and no desire to establish any (except to partake in their wealth, know their women, and eventually take over their lands, while nurturing contempt for a society willing to grant them every indulgence without a fight). Their utter disdain for the secular-democratic institutions of the host-countries notwithstanding, Muslims gladly invoke those institutions when they clamor for their ârightsââincluding the ârightâ of Algerian girls to have their heads properly covered in French state schools, or the ârightâ of a Muslim child not to face the effrontery of a cross on the wall of an Italian classroom (newswires, October 28). Like their Bolshevik predecessors they demand democratic privileges to organize and propagate their views while knowing thatâgiven the power to do soâthey would impose their own beliefs and customs, and eliminate all others, on the pain of death. As I had predicted in The Sword of the Prophet (2002), extreme Islamic âpeace and toleranceâ manifested on 9-11 did not spell the end of another kind of extremism: the insistence of the ruling European elite that their countries are not based on ethnicity and on a cultural tradition rooted in Christianity. The rulers of Europe, their collective will recently visible among the founding fathers of the European Unionâs Constitution, facilitate the advance of Islam by destroying the sense of community based on kinship, language, faith, and culture. They are promoting functional nihilism, thus ensuring an apparent paradox: the urge of young Germans to convert to Islam is stronger now than before 9-11. This confirms that Islamâs strategy of reliance on the spiritual âDeath of the Westâ is sound. It also fits a pattern set by recent history; similar surges followed the outbreak of the Gulf War and the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. It is befitting rather than ironic that Germanyâs conversion to Islam was desired, six decades ago, by an anti-Christian par excellence, Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler. His hatred of âsoftâ Christianity was matched by his liking for Islam, which he saw as a masculine, martial religion based on the SS qualities of blind obedience, absence of compassion, and readiness for self-sacrifice. By creating an SS division composed of Bosnian Muslims Himmler was only taking the first step in the planned grand alliance between Nazi Germany and the Islamic world. One of his closest aides, ObergruppenfÃŒhrer Gottlob Berger, boasted that âa link is created between Islam and National-Socialism on an open, honest basis.â To many young Germans Usama Bin Laden is as admirable a figure today as Adolf Hitler was to many of their grandparents in 1929: a charismatic and dangerous man with a cause for which people are ready to die. Millions of their forefathers did not grapple with the complexities of the Great Depression when it was easier and more satisfying to submerge oneâs identity and suspend judgment in the scream of Sieg heil! Likewise the grandchildren, even when hungry for spiritual nourishment, refuse to solve mental puzzles. Tackling the meaning of Incarnation, Trinity, or Fall is not even an option when a readily available alternative offers simplicity and instant gratification. It is as easy to say âAllah is great; there is no Allah but Allah, and Muhammad is His prophet,â as it is to gulp a gram of Ecstasy. In the cities still dominated by ancient spires and domes the starkness and terror of the Cross have been forgotten; the image itself is being removed from sight. The young convertsâ newly arrived co-religionists know, and thrive on the fact that Islam is well on the way to supply the only religious tradition left standing in Western Europe.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #11 ...Still missing the point, NMM... |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-10-31 4:07:26 AM |
| #10 The Marseillaise---!? Then you truly do rule Fred--"Allons enfants de la patrie--le jour de gloire est arrivee! " Learned it in 3rd grade in Ohio--guess we were a hot bed of francophiles in '65 |
| Posted by: NotMikeMoore 2003-10-31 12:31:55 AM |
| #9 In days of old, before Rantburg, I used to have a small collection of marches and anthems. Along with Horst Wessel, I also have the Radetzky March, Gary Owen, Stars and Stripes Forever, and about 40 or 50 others. I also collect 20s and 30s jazz. I used to have a copy of Triumph of the Will, along with Chapaev, Battleship Potemkin, and Aleksandr Nevsky. I also have copies of Tom Jones, the Magnificent Seven, and the African Queen. I own a copy of the Organisationsbuch der NSDAP, printed in 1940, with a picture of Adolph in the frontespiece. I also own the complete works of Lenin, a 120-year-old History of the Holy Roman Empire, translations of Eusebius and St. Augustine, the Soviet officers' handbook, quite a large number of books on languages, linguistics, and military orders of battle and tactics, plus poetry, most of it Elizabethan. Most Rantburgers probably possess similarly odd collections. Anyone who can't Google the lyrics to most well-known songs shouldn't be allowed near a computer, though I'll admit I can hum the tune without prompting. I can also hum Gary Owen, the Marseillaise, and Brahms' 4th (or at least the first movement). |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-10-30 11:58:26 PM |
| #8 A bit esoteric since I was referring to an ACTUAL DECLARED WAR/ENEMY of the US |
| Posted by: NotMikeMoore 2003-10-30 10:15:58 PM |
| #7 I'm amazed that some Rantbourgeois are too familiar with Nazi I'm amazed too... I however can name the Gulags from B-Z and know lots about the T-34 - T-72. Hmmmm.... I know about the Doctors Plot and stateless metropolitans and trust me I can smell a Kulak. Can you humm Red October? Are you familiar with the defense of Tractor Station 4? I knew you were. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-10-30 10:03:13 PM |
| #6 Once again, I'm amazed that some Rantbourgeois are too familiar with Nazi culture to the point they quote the Horst Wessel Lied--Gott in Himmel--what say you TGA? |
| Posted by: NotMikeMoore 2003-10-30 9:53:38 PM |
| #5 1. Just because the Islam Institute says 11k have converted, it doesn't mean they have. 2. A lot of incarcerated people attend moslem religious services in prison and identify with the 'I am a victim' mentality. They may even convert. But then they commit crimes again and get sent to prison again and get ticked off and unconvert. Do you count these people as converts? 3. For Germany, 11k Islamic converts may be a problem but 3 to 4 million Islamic residents, many of whom are hostile to civilization, is a disaster. |
| Posted by: mhw 2003-10-30 3:34:11 PM |
| #4 The Germans have been on the wrong side of history since their foundation as a state. WW1, WW2, half of Germany was on the wrong side of the cold war (DDR and College students). Its actually a cheering site to see them embracing Islam in that context. |
| Posted by: Yanks 2003-10-30 3:02:39 PM |
| #3 I have noted before that Europe is effectively post-Christian. Their current religion is democratic socialism, which neglects people's spiritual (and many other) needs. Their morality has been weakened and Islam stands ready to succeed where it failed before the gates of Vienna. |
| Posted by: Spot 2003-10-30 2:42:23 PM |
| #2 'On present form the burgeoning Muslim population of Europe will never be âwesternized,â that is to say, made as willing as Christians to see their religion relativized, then mocked, and its commandments misrepresented or ignored.' Seems like whoever wrote this has a really big problem with modern society. NOT someone whos interested in liberal democracy and a secular state. I wouldnt take the rest seriously. oh wait he want to emphasize "By creating an SS division composed of Bosnian Muslims" Well im certainly aware of that history - interesting that nowhere here do we find out that contemporary Bosnian Muslims, ARE secularized and moderate. Oh wait - the authors name? "Srdja Trifkovic" Basically just more bigoted muslim bashing. By someone whose main worry is NOT Salafi-Jihadi terrorism, but instead is " a cultural tradition rooted in Christianity" well, my cultural tradition AINT rooted in christianity thank you very much - Im damned glad my great grand parents had the good sense to come to a country whose cultural tradition is rooted in the enlightenment. God bless the USA. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-10-30 2:40:48 PM |
| #1 ...Ah, to be at this year's reunion of SS 'Der Kama'.. These people are mindless, moral-less fools. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2003-10-30 1:58:44 PM |