And Shariah For All? By Diana West Saturday, September 15, 2007 The story of the week wasn't Gen. David Petraeus' testimony on Iraq, although it dominated the headlines. The story of the week wasn't the sixth return of Sept. 11 since the jihad atrocity of 2001, although it inspired many public statements and ceremonies. The week's biggest story garnered little press and few comments. But, in a significant way, this overlooked story -- an outrageous display of police force in Brussels on Sept. 11, 2007 -- symbolizes the missing link in our flawed comprehension of both Iraq and Sept. 11. There, in the so-called capital of Europe, 200 people marked the day with a protest against the Islamization of Europe -- a civilizational shift which, as Europe increasingly accommodates Shariah (Islamic law), is shockingly advanced. Indeed, Middle East expert Bernard Lewis has already predicted Europe will become Islamic by century's end. Absent a reversal of Islamization (which remains possible) I'm guessing sooner than that. The assembly, sponsored by Stop the Islamization of Europe (SIOE), was wholly peaceful -- at least until Belgian police showed up. With a chopper above, water cannon nearby, they didn't break heads, exactly -- nothing so kind as that. In a photo that should be titled The New Face of Fascism (see it at www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2441), we see black-clad Belgian policemen brutalizing a man in a light-colored suit and tie. His hands are cuffed behind his back, his right elbow is clasped in what is known as an arm-bar hold, and he is also being subjected to a genital hold -- a vicious grip that, a retired cop friend of mine tells me, would get any American policeman thrown off the force. The man under arrest was Frank Vanhecke, president of the Flemish secessionist party Vlaams Belang and a member of European Parliament. Also arrested and beaten was Filip Dewinter, who, as the leading politician of Vlaams Belang, Belgium's largest opposition party, has personally garnered 25 percent of the electorate. (You can find a picture of Belgian police forcing Dewinter to the ground online at kleinverzet.blogspot.com.) These men are invariably described as "far-right" politicians, as though "far-right"-ness alone (whatever that means when totalitarian police tactics are considered tolerant left) is rationale enough for harsh treatment. I've met both men and know them as free-market, small-government conservatives who deeply believe Western civilization is worth defending against the Islamization that occurs with the entrenchment of Shariah. Indeed, they are bravely trying to prevent Europe's Islamization, practically by themselves. I say "bravely" because in Europe these days, as we know from the Islam-motivated murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh, such beliefs can get you killed. Maybe so, a reader might say. But what does protesting Shariah in Europe have to do with either American policy in Iraq or Sept. 11? The answer is everything. What were the attacks of Sept. 11 all about? Al Qaeda's terrorist plot was designed not only to strike at the United States, but also to advance the cause of establishing an Islamic caliphate -- a world government ruled according to Shariah, which, among other things, forbids criticism of Islam. Polls indicate that sizable numbers of Muslims (solid majorities in key countries), regardless of their opinion of Al Qaeda, share this same goal of a Shariat-based, Islamic caliphate. This is a highly significant overlap between the goals of Islamic terrorism and what we think of as mainstream Islam. Meanwhile, though, in our childish, PC wisdom (accepted across the political spectrum), we have let Islam off the hook when it comes to terrorism, sticking to the story that our whole problem is with a Tiny Band of Extremists That Hijacked Islam, not the jihadist teachings of Islam itself. To make the story stick, we also seem to ignore the impetus behind Islamic terrorism -- the imposition of Shariah, what with its ultimate institutional denigrations of non-Muslims and women, and its denial of freedom of conscience and expression. This blinkered view of Islam explains how even in our commemorations of Sept. 11 we ignore the ongoing threat to liberty posed by the spread of Shariah across the West, which the SIOE was trying to protest. It even helps explain our confusion over Iraq, where, ignoring the formative influence of Shariah on the native culture, we are stumped by our failures to remake Iraq in our own Western image. There is another consequence of our blindness: a terrible indifference to cultural allies in Europe who are fighting its Islamization -- a cataclysm for the liberty-based West. We ignore them at our peril.
EU chiefs want to let in an extra 20 million immigrants from Africa and Asia JAMES SLACK UK Daily Mail Friday September 14, 2007 Britain faces being swamped by a wave of new migrants after EU chiefs announced yesterday they want to let in an extra 20 million workers from Asia and Africa. Skilled migrants would be granted special 'blue cards' giving them the right to settle in member states, including Britain - if the Government agrees. Britain has an 'opt-in' to ideas from Brussels it supports and is not bound by EU policy on immigration and asylum. But a blue card - similar to the green cards issued by the US - could circumvent any opt-out by Britain. The card would entitle skilled migrants to work in a member state for two years and then move to a second EU country after two or three years. The workers could apply to stay permanently after five consecutive years in any EU state. (Article continues below) Opponents said that even if Britain opts out of the Commission's proposal, it will not stop many of the migrants coming here eventually. Once they gain citizenship of another EU country they are entitled to free movement throughout the 27 member states. Home affairs commissioner Franco Frattini said an influx of migrants was needed to plug skills gaps in the EU economy caused by a declining, ageing population. And he called on member states to stop viewing immigration as a threat and erecting barriers to arrivals. The reforms could more than double the EU's foreign-born population by 2030. The resident population of non-EU citizens in EU countries was about 18.5million last year - almost 4 per cent of the total population. The Tories opposed the move last night. Shadow Home Secretary, David Davis, said: "The fact that under these proposals anyone who has lived for five years anywhere in the EU would be allowed to stay permanently makes a mockery of any Government claim they have the option of opting in to this. "Since this would be likely to be in addition to already large-scale immigration, the stress placed on housing, public services and community relations in the UK would be enormous. "We would introduce an explicit annual limit on the numbers of non-EU migrants who can come to the UK which would be set by Parliament. "It is vital that the Government retains complete control over who is allowed to come to the UK and should not allow the EU to create loopholes or back doors that would make a mockery of a sensible wellbalanced immigration system." Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the campaign group Migrationwatch UK, said: "This is more of the usual Euro-babble. One size does not fit all. In the UK, 83 per cent of our population growth is down to immigration. "We need more immigration like a hole in the head." Mr Frattini told a conference in Lisbon, Portugal, yesterday: "We have to look at immigration as an enrichment and as a inescapable phenomenon of today's world, not as a threat. "We should take more account of what statistics tell us. "Eighty-five per cent of unskilled labour goes to the EU and only 5 per cent to the USA, whereas 55 per cent of skilled labour goes to the USA and only 5 per cent to the EU. We have to reverse these figures with a new vision." Germany has already rejected the idea. Its economy minister, Michael Glos, said it could not accept an influx of foreign job seekers just because it had a temporary skilled labour shortage. A spokesman for the Home Office said last night: "The European Commission has not yet issued any proposals for a blue card scheme but we would consider any such proposals carefully. "The UK has the right to opt in to EU measures on immigration and we would only decide to do this if the proposals were consistent with our national approach to managed migration. "The Government is committed to controlling migration and boosting Britain's economy by bringing in the right skills from around the world. "We have already established a Highly Skilled Migrants programme that prioritises entry into the UK for those with the right skills. "We are also managing numbers in the national interest by moving into a tough Australian-style points based migration system for those seeking to work in the UK who come from outside the European Economic Area."
Are you alleging a conspiracy theory to overtake Europe? 'Cause anyone who even suggests a conspiracy is obviously mentall ill. In fact, we should remove the crimes of Conspiracy to Commit Murder, or to distribute Drugs, from the criminal code. There are no such things as conspiracies, only 'liberal' judges who railroad the justice system with their agenda. Oh yeah, did that demonstration by "extremist dissenters" also "embolden" the "terrorists"? lol @ my Fox-speak.
Don't you know Toronto?? Only hapaboy could accuse people of being consumed by conspiracy theories. By the way...I heard that Muslims in Europe are now kidnapping white kids from the streets, draining their blood to be used for religious rituals. I say start the ovens and prepare the concentration camps. By the way hapa...Did you dig deeper into that particular demonstration??? I heard half of the two hundred demonstrators were Skinheads and the other half were followers of a catholic man who wanted to settle scores with the mayor of Brussels for serving champagne after the Pope's death.
An alternative "optimistic" scenario: THE 'EURABIA' MYTH MUSLIMS TAKE OVER EUROPE? SORRY, THERE'S NO CHANCE The notion that continental Europeans, who are world-champion haters, will let the impoverished Muslim immigrants they confine to ghettos take over their societies and extend the caliphate from the Amalfi Coast to Amsterdam has it exactly wrong. Don't let Europe's current round of playing pacifist dress-up fool you: This is the continent that perfected genocide and ethnic cleansing, the happy-go-lucky slice of humanity that brought us such recent hits as the Holocaust and Srebrenica. THE historical patterns are clear: When Europeans feel sufficiently threatened - even when the threat's concocted nonsense - they don't just react, they over-react with stunning ferocity. One of their more-humane (and frequently employed) techniques has been ethnic cleansing. From the French expulsion of the Huguenots right down to the last century's massive ethnic cleansings, Europeans have never been shy about showing "foreigners and subversives" the door. When Europeans feel sufficiently provoked and threatened - a few serious terrorist attacks could do it - Europe's Muslims will be lucky just to be deported. The Europeans have enjoyed a comfy ride for the last 60 years - but the very fact that they don't want it to stop increases their rage and sense of being besieged by Muslim minorities they've long refused to assimilate (and which no longer want to assimilate). WE don't need to gloss over the many Muslim acts of barbarism down the centuries to recognize that the Europeans are just better at the extermination process...Europeans have just been better organized for genocide. Europe's Muslims are living on borrowed time. When a third of French voters have demonstrated their willingness to vote for Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front - a party that makes the Ku Klux Klan seem like Human Rights Watch - all predictions of Europe going gently into that good night are surreal. I have no difficulty imagining a scenario in which U.S. Navy ships are at anchor and U.S. Marines have gone ashore at Brest, Bremerhaven or Bari to guarantee the safe evacuation of Europe's Muslims. After all, we were the only ones to do anything about the slaughter of Muslims in the Balkans. European Muslims can't become French or Dutch or Italian or German. Even if they qualify for a passport, they remain second-class citizens. On a good day. And they're supposed to take over the continent that's exported more death than any other? All the copy-cat predictions of a Muslim takeover of Europe not only ignore history and Europe's ineradicable viciousness, but do a serious disservice by exacerbating fear and hatred. And when it comes to hatred, trust me: The Europeans don't need our help. http://www.nypost.com/seven/1126200...a_myth_opedcolumnists_ralph_peters.htm?page=0
A gentile-hating jew's work is never done, is it ddoo? You bring on the antisemitism yourselves, you people do. The message here is Europe can calm down, everything will be okay. Why? Because hateful and intolreant Europeans will kill all the Muslims if things get out of hand, just like they did the Jews. Now a man like ddoo knows that this is nonsense. He knows that Euroepans the world over have been beaten into submission and no longer possess the will to protest their own dispossession and destruction of their civilization and race. He knows it because his people -- Jews -- have been at the forefront of the very efforts that have beaten Europeans into submission. ddoo knows that Europe will be forever lost with the continuing immigration of Arabs and Africans into the Euroepan homelands, but he cares nothing for Europeans, and so he lulls them to sleep with fanciful stories about an European "intolerance" that when fully enraged will make short work of any troublesome Muslim presence. This is patently absurd. Where were these hateful Europeans two years ago when arabs and africans were setting France ablaze? They were busy making delightfully idiotic excuses like "the 'immigrant youths' are rioting because they are French". Lol. If they are so hateful and intolerant and bursting with bloodlust, why was none of it unleashed when circumstances surely would have called for it? One of the few intellectuals to call bs on such nonsense excuses that the weary French were making for the criminal immigrant rioteres was a Jew, Alain Finkielkraut. But what was the real reason he did so? Because France's Muslims hate Jews and hate Israel -- which of course is the only reason ddoo has anything negative to say about Arabs, too. Had the rioters been non-Jew-hating Africans, like they are in America, this Finkielkraut would have either remained mute, or demanded the same sort of ethnic pandering Jews in America always demand whites make -- affirmative action, "civil rights" blather etc etc, usually capped off with happy talk about how interracial breeding will make us all one happy family, which is of course a deeply desired Jewish aim, seeing Europeans breed themselves out of existence -- preferably by procreating with negroes, but anyone will do. Anyway, even if we accept this idiotic premise that Europeans are murderous maniacs (and ddoo posts it because in order to remind everyone of "The Holocaust" -- as if anyone could ever forget that in America) just waiting to explode, would it not then be humane to demand an end to Muslim immigration into Europe? I mean, isn't it better to keep them out of Europe and alive rather than to let them in and let the Euros slaughter them like pigs? If you know that once Europeans get angry enough they are going to "revert" back to their old selves and kill all the muzzies, then wouldn't you want to warn the Muslims of what terrible fate awaits them, and do your best to keep them out? I mean, isn't this what "righteous gentiles" did during the war? Didn't they save the Jews from the ghastly fate that awaited them if the Germans got their hands on them? Don't the Muslims deserve the same? Good grief, it beggars the imagination that such complete and utter rot can appear in print. It's completely rational on ddoo's part that he would seize on it, but what sort of a poisoned mind what see fit to print this crap? I can only imagine it's some Jew editor working behind the scenes. (I recall this editorial when it came out; the name slips my memory, but I'm sure it wasn't Jewish.)