A Glimmer of Hope for Europe
by Srdja Trifkovic
In spite of some decades of relentless multiculturalist indoctrination and
Religion of Peace propaganda, an overwhelming majority of Europeans believe
immigration from Islamic countries is a threat to their traditional way of
life, a major new survey revealed on January 23.
Prepared for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in collaboration
with Georgetown University, Islam and the West: Annual Report on the State of
Dialogue wasaccording to the official press releasea pioneering attempt to
provide a systematic and thorough overview of how Muslim and Western societies
perceive and relate to each other at the political, social, economic and
cultural levels. In spire of their evident bias in favor of intensified
dialogue, interaction, mutual understanding etc, the reports authors admit that
majorities in populations around the world . . . share a great deal of
pessimism about the state of the relationship. Among both Muslim majority and
non-Muslim majority nations, the proportion who say they think the other side
is committed to better relations rarely rises above a minority of 30%.
The poll reported that a severe deficit of trust is found between the Western
and Muslim communities, with most non-Muslims wanting as little to do with the
Muslim world as possible. Specifically referring to Britain, the study showed
that political leaders who preach the benefits of open immigration were
dangerously out of touch with the public. It reports a growing fear among
Europeans of a perceived Islamic threat to their cultural identities, driven in
part by immigration from predominantly Muslim nations . . . An overwhelming
majority of the surveyed populations in Europe believe greater interaction
between Islam and the West is a threat.
It is noteworthy that Muslim immigration is said to breed a growing
fearwhich implies an irrational, emotional response to a perceived threat,
rather than a normal response stemming from experiential learning. It is on par
with reporting, 75 years ago, a growing fear among Jews of a perceived Nazi
threat to their cultural identity. The authoritative and presumably well-paid
analysts advising the Davos community refrain from assessing the validity of
this perception. They also pass no judgment on the fact that Europeans
believe that interaction is undesirable. They choose, yet again, to present
this belief as irrational: most Europeans reject interaction (a word with
positive connotations) because they see it as a threat (a word with negative
connotations denoting an emotional response).
It takes a brave man, in todays Britain dominated by three social-democratic
parties (Labour, Conservative, and Lib-Dems), to draw the obvious conclusion.
Tory MP David Davieswho is now even more certain to go on lingering on the
back benchesis one of them. He told the Sunday Express: I am not surprised by
these findings. People are fed up with multiculturalism and being told they
have to give up their way of life. Most people in Britain expect anyone who
comes here to be willing to learn our language and fit in with us. Mr Davies,
who serves on the Commons Home Affairs Committee, added:
People do get annoyed when they see millions spent on translating documents and
legal aid being given to people fighting for the right to wear a head-to-toe
covering at school. A lot of people are very uncomfortable with the changes
being caused by immigration and politicians have been too slow to wake up to
that.
The report says people have little enthusiasm for greater understanding with
Islam. That is a sure sign that they are gaining greater understanding OF
Islam. Understanding with Islam may happen only in those societies fortunate
enough not to have any interaction with Islam.
The report also says that attempts to improve relations between Muslims living
in Europe and the non-Muslim majority have been disappointing. That was
entirely predictable, however. It is utterly impossible ab initio for pious
Muslims to have normal, harmonious relations with non-Muslims, relations based
on mutual respect and the acceptance of the legitimacy of non-Muslim beliefs,
lifestyles, and institutions. Most Muslims in Europe live in a parallel
universe that has very little to do with the host country. Overwhelmingly they
feel nothing but contempt for the liberal concept of tolerance and
diversity. If not overtly hostile, their attitude to the host-society is
disdainful and filled with contempt.
The Muslim response to the Davos report was a mixture of lies and
distortionsthe good, old taqiyya. Baroness Haleh Afshar, OBE, of York
University, blamed media hysteria for the findings. She admitted that there
is an absence of trust towards Muslims, but that is
very much driven by an uninformed media. To blame immigration is much harder
because the current influx of immigrants from eastern Europe are by-and-large
not Muslim. The danger is that when people are fearful of people born and bred
in this country it is likely that discrimination may follow.
Presumably it would betray a discriminatory mindset to point out to the good
Baroness of Heslington that all four Yorkshire lads who blew up themselves
and 52 other people on the London Underground on July 7, 2005, were Muslims
born and bred in this country [i.e. Britain]. But translated from
taqiyya-speak into plain English, Dr. Afshar said the following:
Absence of trust towards Muslims should be recognized as not only abnormal
but also inherently discriminatory and therefore illegal response of
non-Muslims to the Jihadist threat. Accordingly, absence of trust needs to be
rectified by (a) an even more relentless Religion of Peace indoctrination;
and (b) legislative criminalization.
As a first step, further legal restraints should be imposed on media reporting
of Islamic terrorism and Jihad activism, so as to counter anti-Muslim
hysteria and turn an uninformed media into well-informed, i.e.
Sharia-compliant media.
There is no Muslim problem, but there is prejudice against immigration per
sewhich is equally reprehensible, and therefore worthy of .
One task of the reformed media will be to teach the native public that
Muhammads, Yusufs and Sabahuddins listening to their favorite imams in
Leicester and Leeds on Friday nights are no more a threat to their way of life,
or to their life itself, than Polish plumbers, Russian tycoons, or Moldovan
prostitutes.
It is a sure bet that the European union nomenklatura in Brussels and its
subsidiary organs in the member-countries nominal capitals will take Dr.
Afshars recommendations to heart. They dont need any prodding, having spent
close to seven years since 9-11 indoctrinating their subject-populations into
believing that the migration of tens of millions of Muslims into Europe and the
Old Continents subsequent demographic shift in favor of Islamic aliens is
actually a blessing that enriches the natives culturally deprived and morally
unsustainable societies.
The elite class has a number of mandatory political documents and enforcement
tools to guide the enforcers, starting with the European Parliamentary Assembly
Recommendation N° 1162 (19 September 1991) on the contribution of the Islamic
civilization to European culture. A giant step forward was made a decade
later, in the General policy recommendation n° 5: Combating intolerance and
discrimination against Muslims issued by the European Commission against
Racism and Intolerance. This recommendation could have been written by
Baroness Afshar:
It emphasized Islams positive contribution to the continuing development of
European societies, of which it is an integral part.
It expressed concern that religious intolerance towards Islam was still
strong in Europe.
It expressed strong regret that Islam is sometimes portrayed inaccurately [as]
a threat.
It warned that this prejudice may manifest itself in different guises, in
particular through negative general attitudes.
The E.U. Commission Against Racism and Intolerance then came to the point, and
called on the Unions member states to adopt legally binding measures that
would counter such negative tendencies. These measures, if and when applied,
will effectively outlaw any serious debate about Islam and introduce pro-Muslim
affirmative action that would far exceed some of the worst excesses of
similar programs in the United States. The E.U. body call on the member
countries:
To impose sanctions in cases of discrimination on grounds of religion [i.e. to
prosecute those who inaccurately claim that Islam may be a threat];
To remove unnecessary legal or administrative obstacles [i.e. planning and
zoning permits, local authority and neighborhood approvals] to the construction
of sufficient numbers of appropriate places of worship for the practice of
Islam [i.e. as many mosques as Muslims want, where they want them, of whatever
size, shape, or form];
To ensure that public institutions make provision in their everyday practice
for cultural and other requirements of the Muslim community [i.e.
taxpayer-funded prayer rooms facing Mecca and foot baths in state schools,
public offices, hospitals, prisons, barracks . . . ];
To prevent discrimination on religious grounds regarding access to citizenship
[i.e. to speed up naturalization of Muslims resident in Europe regardless of an
EU countrys formal requirements, such as taking an oath of allegiance odious
to Muslims];
To eliminate any discrimination on grounds religion in access to education
[i.e. allow hijabs and burqas in taxpayer-funded classrooms . . . where crosses
are banned];
To legislate against religious discrimination in employment and at the
workplace [i.e. set aside a quota of positions that will be filled by Muslims
regardless of ability or of the availability of better qualified non-Muslim
candidates];
To encourage employers to devise and implement codes of conduct to combat
religious discrimination and to work towards the goal of workplaces
representative of the diversity of the society in question [i.e. fire or
demote non-Muslim employees who see Islam as a threat, and introduce
affirmative action programs for Muslims];
To prevent discrimination of Muslims connected with social exclusion [which
means inviting them to company picnics, and instructing employees to bring them
to parties and social events, providedof coursethat no alcohol or pork are
served, and that men and women are rigorously segregated];
To pay special attention to the situation of Muslim women who may suffer both
from discrimination against women in general and that against Muslims [but
paying attention to their Kuranically-mandated abuse by their husbands is
verboten];
To modify curricula to prevent distorted interpretations of religious and
cultural history and portrayal of Islam on perceptions of hostility and
menace [which is already happening in Britain, with Muslim activists approving
state school textbooks dealing with Islam];
To ensure that religious instruction in schools respects cultural pluralism and
make provision for teacher training to this effect;
To raise awareness among the population of those areas where particular care is
needed to avoid social and cultural conflict [i.e. more vigorous
indoctrination];
To encourage debate in the media on the image which they convey of Islam and on
their responsibility to avoid perpetuating prejudice and bias [again, pure Dr.
Afshar];
To provide for the monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of all
measures to combat intolerance and discrimination against Muslims [Orwell].
The diligence with which individual E.U. member countries translate this
appalling list into national legislation, and the instances of Islamophobia
all over the Union, are being tracked by the Vienna-based European Union
Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia. The Centre routinely refers to
institutional Islamophobia as an inherent social and cultural sickness of
most European societies that needs to be rooted out by education, re-education,
and legislation. The rampant insanity emanating from Brussels grows more
unrestrained with each new terrorist plot or attack, resulting in calls for
more understanding of the underlying causes of terrorism (racism, Iraq,
poverty, fear, discrimination, etc, etc etc.) and the insistence on greater
inclusiveness and more stringent anti-Islamophobic legislation.
An ideological commitment to neoliberal globalization has turned
multiculturalism and effectively open-ended Third World (overwhelmingly Muslim)
immigration into two inviolable Euro-dogmas. The result is the inherent
inability of Brussels and its post-national subsidiaries to defend Europe from
the threat of Jihad. Cynically defeatist, self-absorbed and unaccountable to
anyone but their own corrupt class, the Eurocrats are just as bad as jihads
fellow-travelers; they are its active abettors and facilitators.
Islam and the West: Annual Report on the State of Dialogue indicates that
their job is far from done, which is excellent news. They preach death, and it
is up to the millions of normal people in the Western world to stop the
madness. The traitor class wants them to share its death wish, to
self-annihilate as people with a historical memory and a cultural identity, and
to make room for the monistic Utopia spearheaded by the Jihadist fifth column.
That crime can and must be stopped. The founders of the Old Republic overthrew
their colonial rulers for offenses far lighter than those of which the
Jihad-enabling traitor class is guilty.
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