Good Bye Europe
BlackHawke
I know this is long.... but it must be faced sooner or later :
Goodbye Europe
By Lowell Ponte
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 28, 2006
Europe's botched civilization, perverted by socialism and lost faith,
seems to have lost the will, the passion to sustain itself. If it continues
to practice today's multiculturalist leftism, Europe's demographic doom will
be sealed. Some harbingers:
a.. In Brussels, Belgium, the most popular name for baby boys is now
Mohammad. Sustaining the population of a nation requires that on average
each couple gives birth to 2.1 children. The average European couple now has
fewer than 1.4 babies, compared to 3.6 babies born to the average Muslim
immigrant couple in Europe. Across Western Europe 16 to 20 percent of babies
are being born into Muslim families.
b.. In France at least 12 percent of the population is already
Muslim, the fruits mostly of immigrants from former French colonies in North
Africa. If present birth trends continue, by 2030 a quarter of France's
people will be Muslim, more than enough to determine who controls the
national parliament and executive. As this columnist recently noted, the
nuclear-armed French military is already 15 percent Muslim. Adjacent
Switzerland is now 20 percent Muslim.
c.. The German newspaper Deutsche Welle days ago reported that
Germany's birth rate in 2005 fell to a level lower than at the end of World
War II, to a "historic low," more than fifty percent lower than those of
France and Great Britain. But at a meeting this week in Berlin that brought
together the interior ministers of six European nations, Germany's leftwing
Social Democrats continued to oppose the application of any test or standard
that would restrict who could migrate into Germany.
The burgeoning Muslim population within Europe is not evenly spread.
It is largely concentrated in and around big cities, whose local politicians
feel its pressure acutely and often bend to that pressure. In the
Netherlands the cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam nearly have Muslim
majorities now.
These Islamic enclaves are already taking on the character of
conquered provinces that no longer belong to the European countries around
them. As FrontPage Magazine recently quoted from the new book While Europe
Slept by liberal American expatriate Bruce Bawer:
In France, a public official met with an imam at the edge of Roubaix's
Muslim district out of respect for his declaration of the neighborhood as
Islamic territory to which she had no right of access. In Britain, imams
have pressed the government to officially designate certain areas of
Bradford as being under Muslim, not British, law. In Denmark, Muslim leaders
have sought the same kind of control over parts of Copenhagen. And in
Belgium, Muslims living in the Brussels neighborhood of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek
already view it not as part of Belgium but as an area under Islamic
jurisdiction in which Belgians are not welcome.
Europe has several potential choices in the face of a flood of
immigrants and families within its borders who refuse to assimilate European
values of mutual toleration and liberal social policies.
Europe's cultural polarization vis-à-vis its Muslim underclass is
being exacerbated by socialist policies that are producing stagnant
economies and high unemployment. These fruits of Euro-socialism have also
created a political tinderbox of Muslim frustration and, as we saw in recent
days of protests in Paris, an angry refusal by many traditional Europeans to
reform or relinquish their welfare state and job security benefits. This
climate discourages investors and pits new and traditional Europeans against
one another.
If Europe continues as it is now, the rising Muslim tide will, one at
a time, transform the members of the European Union into Islamic Republics
under Islamic Shari'a law as Muslims become the majority population.
Already the wealth of traditional Europeans is being bled away and
transferred to new Muslim immigrants and their children. One mechanism for
this is the European welfare state. In Denmark, observed Bawer, only five
percent of the population is Muslim, but this minority demands and receives
40 percent of the Danish government's total welfare payments and other
taxpayer-subsidized social benefits. Even the liberal New York Times
Magazine in February reported on the social impact of this growing Islamic
drain on the resources of European welfare states such as Sweden and
Denmark.
Another method used to transfer wealth from Europeans to Eurabian
Muslims is theft. Some radical Mullahs have told their European
congregations that Islamic Shari'a law justifies shoplifting and other forms
of stealing from European merchants and companies as a way to make
non-Muslims pay the discriminatory jizya tax that is extracted from
non-Muslim citizens in Muslim countries.
And in Europe's growing Islamic neighborhoods, where police are often
afraid to go, European law is being supplanted by Shari'a. European women
venturing into or near such enclaves have been assaulted and, in some cases,
raped by gangs of macho Islamic males for violating Muslim dress codes and
failing to exhibit the subservient status some Islamic subcultures require
of females.
Forty percent of Muslims living in Great Britain want Islamic Shari'a
law introduced into parts of that country, according to a
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London Sunday Telegraph.
Shari'a differs dramatically from modern Western notions of law and
society. Shari'a has no separation of church and state; to the contrary,
under Shari'a the Koran is the ultimate law book and constitution, and the
Islamic Mullah is the magistrate who punishes violators of this law. Under
Shari'a, as practiced in much of the Islamic world, equality exists only
among Muslim men; women are inferior to men, and Jews and Christians are
inferior to all Muslims. Risk-taking and usury, i.e., money-lending for
profit, are forbidden, so we would kiss capitalism goodbye.
Religious freedom is non-existent under Shari'a. A Christian or a Jew
is permitted to convert to Islam, but the penalty for any Muslim converting
to a different faith is death. In American-liberated Afghanistan a
41-year-old former Muslim, Abdul Rahman, is on trial in Kabul for the crime
of converting to Christianity. The prosecutor in the case, Abdul Wasi, has
asked for a death penalty, as Shari'a requires. Wasi, reported Associated
Press, said that he "had offered to drop the charges if Rahman changed his
religion back to Islam, but the defendant refused." The Muslim judge's
ruling is expected by mid-May.
It seems worth asking American authorities whether the U.S. would
intervene to prevent the execution of an Afghan whose only crime was
converting to Christianity.
European Muslims demand toleration and respect and accommodation for
their laws, garb, Halal (Islamic "Kosher") dietary rules, customs, and
faith. But as the world has seen in recent months, radical Muslims have no
respect for Western traditions such as press freedom. Cartoons depicting the
Prophet Muhammad set off riots, killings and death threats against European
journalists.
(Oddly, as this columnist uniquely noted, the tradition prohibiting
depictions of the Prophet began with Muhammad himself, who gave such
guidance to avoid becoming an object of idolatry by misguided Muslims
tempted to worship him instead of Allah. Logically, therefore, a devout
Muslim should object to any positive depiction of Mohammad, but negative
depictions of Mohammad, as in the European cartoons, pose no such danger of
causing idol worship. It was the Islamists who fanatically objected to
negative European cartoons of the Prophet who were practicing idolatry by
turning Mohammad into an image too sacred to depict in any way.)
Islamic Shari'a is incompatible with Western traditions of tolerance.
Too much of today's Islam preaches "an eye for an eye" but not "live and let
live."
No wonder, then, that earlier this month the chairman of Britain's
Commission for Racial Equality, Trevor Phillips, responded to the Telegraph
poll by urging the 40 percent of his nation's Muslims who want part of the
country ruled by Shari'a law to move elsewhere. "We have one set of laws" in
Britain, said Phillips. "They are decided by one group of people, members of
Parliament, and that's the end of the story." (In February Australia's
Federal Treasurer Peter Costello, said much the same, suggesting in a public
speech that Shari'a advocates would feel more comfortable living in Saudi
Arabia or Iran.)
Immigrant to Norway Iraqi Mullah Krekar, a former leader of the
Kurdish guerrilla group Ansar-al-Islam, has told Norwegians that "our way of
thinking.will prove more powerful than yours" and described Al Qaeda terror
mastermind Osama bin Laden as "a good person." This prompted Norway's
Minister of Labor and Social Inclusion Bjarne Hakon Hanssen to say he
intended to deport Mullah Krekar back to Iraq in the near future. Selective
deportation of such radical Islamist firebrands (such as those who inspired
recent Muslim terrorism in London) across Europe could reduce immediate
social tensions.
What Europe is doing in the meanwhile is preaching the need for press
freedom and tolerance while preparing this June to prosecute, in Paris,
famed Italian journalist Orianna Fallaci for daring to write a book, The
Force of Reason, critical of the Muslim immigrant inundation of Europe. In
today's Europe free speech is stifled by laws that prohibit Political
Incorrectness in a wide and arbitrary variety of ways.
And France, at the heart of Europe, is promoting trade barriers with a
dogmatic zeal not seen since the frenzy of stone castle building in the dark
ages. In the name of preserving national security, as Daniel Schwammenthal
reported in the March 13 Wall Street Journal, France last winter declared 11
of its industrial sectors off limits to purchase by investors from other
European nations; these sectors, noted Schwammenthal, range "from data
security to (bizarrely) casinos." What might become of France if its dice
and roulette wheels became Dutch.or Russian?
France is also dragging its feet on agreements to allow European Union
workers to move freely from one EU country to another. The French have
phobias not only about Muslim peasant immigrants but also about what they
call the "Polish plumber," the skilled European workers who would move to
Paris and undercut the high pay now pocketed by scarce French workers. The
French incentive to work is dulled by an easy, lazy alternative: a fat
welfare check.
If Europe can somehow buy time, then in theory it might be able to
make a comeback. What it needs is cloning and fertility technology, moxie,
imports of its old sturdier, healthier genetic material from the United
States and Australia to restore its seminal vigor, and a renewal of faith.
Europe was able to restore its lost population rather quickly after the
Black Plague and spawned Baby Booms after two World Wars.
Political policies could facilitate this. When France was unable to
recruit many settlers to its colony called New France, now known as Canada,
it offered fat pensions to any married couple there that had six children.
Quebec to this day retains the spirit of fecundity those pensions bred.
Last September French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin proposed
accelerating cash benefits to encourage women to have a third child. This is
yet another kind of slacker welfare, but at least it encourages the lazy to
spend more time breeding and less watching television. De Villepin did not
propose restricting these or other government breeder benefits to
non-Muslims, although he could have made the argument that non-Muslim French
are an endangered species meriting special help.
Europe has stopped rising Islamic tides before, in battle in southern
France in 732 by the knights of Charles Martel, "The Hammer," and twice at
the gates of Vienna in 1529 and 1683 by holding off the Ottoman Turks. Spain
even rolled back its Muslim occupiers with the Reconquista of 1492, and
Greece, the cradle of Western democracy, won back its independence from
Muslim rule in 1829.
In time Islam could collapse, as Communism did. More likely, this
religion now living through its own dark 14th Century might flower into a
Renaissance and follow the enlightened model of Ataturk's Turkey. Modern
Turkey is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a friend of
Israel, and a candidate for European Union membership. Women had the right
to vote in Ataturk's Turkey before they did in England. Turkey could become
the model for the future Islamic world, besting the medieval ideology of
Islamism, narrow-mindedness, hate and violence preached by Osama bin Laden
and his ilk.
A courageous European stand against that nest of Islamist vipers and
their atomic eggs in Teheran would be a good place for Europe to demonstrate
to itself and to the world that it has the will and skill to survive.
Thanks for listening.
Bob Beals
A lot of growing up takes place between "It fell" and "I dropped it."
- Anonymous
Rocksand
are none so blind...
Canada is next. Sharia is just around the corner.
Dearbornistan is right in our midst.
They want to kill us. It's in the koran.
mohhamad (death be to his followers and may his name be forever cursed) was
a servant of satan.
His followers include the democratic party (death be unto them).
TimeTraveler
Liberal politics taken to fruition.
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Regards,
TimeTraveler
He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.
- Alice Cooper, on Marilyn Manson
AndyW
This was one gem I hadn't considered...
" (Oddly, as this columnist uniquely noted, the tradition prohibiting
depictions of the Prophet began with Muhammad himself, who gave such
guidance to avoid becoming an object of idolatry by misguided Muslims
tempted to worship him instead of Allah. Logically, therefore, a devout
Muslim should object to any positive depiction of Mohammad, but negative
depictions of Mohammad, as in the European cartoons, pose no such danger of
causing idol worship. It was the Islamists who fanatically objected to
negative European cartoons of the Prophet who were practicing idolatry by
turning Mohammad into an image too sacred to depict in any way.)"
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Best,
TimeTraveler
Their religion doesn't allows kings yet they have them. It goes on and on.