At 9:09 PM -0700 10/30/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
I'm surprised
the Ask yourselves why we didn't attack Sweden comment
isn't discussed more
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yesid=5096
HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE: The National Conservative Weekly Since 1944
'Europe Will Be Islamic by the End of the Century'
by Robert Spencer
Posted Sep 16, 2004 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 Rosengård, 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 Nordgårdsskolen 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
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