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Wilders Is Ascendant
/Is Europe Awaking? /
By Srdja Trifkovic
<http://www.alternativeright.com/authors/srdja-trifkovic/>
The impressive electoral breakthrough of the anti-Jihadist Party for
Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands is sending predictable shock waves
through Europe. Its leader, Geert Wilders, wants a stake in government
after his party came third with 24 seats, more than doubling its share
in the 150 member national assembly. “Nobody in The Hague can bypass the
PVV anymore,” he said. “The impossible has happened,” he went on, “the
Netherlands chose more security, less crime, less immigration and less
Islam.”
“Less Islam” is the key. Forget the currency crisis, social policy,
welfare payments, and other nitty-gritty elements of most European
elections. The biggest loser is Holland’s soon-to-be former Prime
Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, and his demise is long overdue. Six years
ago, in a display of idiocy be expected from a supine Euro-Socialist, he
rushed to declare -- in the immediate aftermath of the Jihadist murder
of Theo van Gogh in an Amsterdam street -- that “nothing is known about
the motive” of the killer, and called on the nation “not to jump to
far-reaching conclusions.” Balkenende also referred to van Gogh’s
“outspoken opinions” -- hinting that he had it coming -- and added that
it was “unacceptable if a difference of opinion led to this brutal
murder.” Mijnheer Balkenende seemed to be implying that “this brutal
murder” would have been deemed less “unacceptable” had it been caused
not by “a difference of opinion” but by some more profound reason -- by
the sense of pain and grievance in the Muslim community, perhaps, caused
by the late filmmaker’s insensitive and inappropriate actions.
Balkenende’s defeat was also due to a host of other issues, but his
undissenting dhimmitude is the key. His Islamophile inanities are no
longer acceptable to a growing segment of Holland's electorate. The Old
Continent is waking up, slowly, to the possibility that by 2050, Muslims
will account for over a quarter of its young residents west of the
Trieste-Stettin line. Millions of them already live in a parallel
universe that has very little to do with the host country, toward which
they have a disdainful and hostile attitude.
Today’s “United Europe,” epitomized by Balkenende and his
fellow-/bien-pensants/ in Brussels and most national chancelleries, does
not create social and civilizational commonalities except on the basis
of wholesale denial of old /mores/ and disdain for inherited values. It
creates the dreary sameness of multicultural “tolerance.” Their
decrepitude breeds contempt and haughty arrogance on the other side:
Tariq Ramadan thus calmly insists that Muslims in the West should
conduct themselves as though they were already living in a
Muslim-majority society and were exempt on that account from having to
make concessions to the faith of the host-society. Muslims in Europe
should feel entitled to live on their own terms, Ramadan says, while,
“under the terms of Western liberal tolerance,” society as a whole
should be “obliged to respect that choice.”
If such “respect” continues to be enforced by the elite class, by the
end of this century there will be no “Europeans” as members of ethnic
groups that share the same language, culture, history, and ancestors,
and inhabit lands associated with their names. The shrinking native
populations will be indoctrinated into believing -- or else simply
forced into accepting -- that the demographic shift in favor of
unassimilable and hostile aliens is a blessing that enriches their
culturally deprived and morally unsustainable societies. The “liberal
tolerance” and the accompanying “societal obligation” that Tariq Ramadan
invokes are the tools of Western suicide. “No other race subscribes to
these moral principles,” Jean Raspail wrote a generation ago, “because
they are weapons of self-annihilation.”
The Dutch voters -- traditionally among the most liberal in Europe --
are waking up to the fact that those weapons need to be discarded, and
the upholders of those deadly “principles” removed from all positions of
power and influence, if their nation is to survive.
In 1938 Hilaire Belloc wondered, “Will not perhaps the temporal power of
Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Muhammadan world which
will shake the dominion of Europeans -- still nominally Christian -- and
reappear again as the prime enemy of our civilization?” Seven decades
later, the same traits of decrepitude are present in Great Britain,
France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, Canada, and the United States,
including both the primary cause, which is /the loss of religious
faith/, and several secondary ones. Topping the list is elite hostility
to all forms of solidarity of the majority population based on shared
historical memories, ancestors, and common culture. The end result is
the Westerners’ loss of the sense of propriety over their lands.
Widers is shaking an elite consensus that /de facto/ open immigration,
multiculturalism, and the existence of a large Muslim diaspora within
the Western world are to be treated as a fixed and immutable fact. That
consensus is flawed in logic, dogmatic in application, and disastrous in
its results. The grand /Gleichschaltung
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung> /of nations, races, and
cultures, which will mark the end of history, is not preordained. In
Holland the fruits are all too visible. Gibbon could have had today’s
Rotterdam in mind, when he wrote of Rome in decline, its masses morphing
“into a vile and wretched populace.”
Wilders has shown that this crime can and must be stopped. The founders
of the United States overthrew the colonial government for offenses far
lighter than those of which the traitor class is guilty, on both sides
of the Atlantic.
