The European Caliphate (A refugee from the Muslim world sees it taking shape)

National Review ^ | 09/15/2011 | Clifford May

[SeekAndFind]

For more than 30 years, Bat Ye’or, a refugee from Egypt, has been writing about dhimmis — Christians and Jews living under oppression in Muslim lands. Now, she has a new book, Europe, Globalization, and the Coming Universal Caliphate, that looks at Muslims living in lands that once were Christian but today call themselves multicultural. She predicts Europe will not remain multicultural for long. She is convinced that Europe, sooner rather than later, will be dominated by Islamic extremists and transformed into “Eurabia” — a term first used in the mid-1970s by a French publication pressing for common European-Arab policies.

Immigrants can enrich a nation. But there is a difference between immigrants and colonists. The former are eager to learn the ways of their adopted home, to integrate and perhaps assimilate — which does not require relinquishing their heritage or forgetting their roots. Colonists, by contrast, bring their culture with them and live under their own laws. Their loyalties lie elsewhere.

Ye’or contends that a concerted effort is being made not only to ensure that Muslim immigrants in Europe remain squarely in the second category, but also that they become the means to transform Europe politically, culturally, and religiously. Leading this effort is the Organization of the Islamic Conference, established in 1969, which, a few months ago, no doubt on the advice of a highly compensated public-relations professional, renamed itself the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

The OIC represents 56 countries plus the Palestinian Authority. It claims also to represent Muslim immigrants — the “Diaspora” — in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. It is pan-Islamic: It seeks to unify and lead the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims. In a manual first published in 2001, “Strategy of Islamic Cultural Action in the West,” the IOC asserts that “Muslim immigrant communities in Europe are part of the Islamic nation.” It goes on to recommend, Ye’or notes, “a series of steps to prevent the integration and assimilation of Muslims into European culture.”

The IOC, she argues, is nothing less than a “would-be, universal caliphate.” It might look different from the caliphates of the Ottomans, Fatimids, and Abbasids. It might resemble, instead, a thoroughly modern trans-national bureaucracy. But, already, the OIC exercises significant power through the United Nations, and through the European Union, which has been eager to accommodate the OIC while simultaneously endowing the U.N. with increasing authority for global governance. Among the other organizations that Ye’or says are doing the OIC’s bidding are the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, and the European Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation (PAEAC).

In the eyes of OIC officials, no problem in the contemporary world is more urgent than “Islamophobia,” which it calls “a crime against humanity” that the U.N. and the EU must officially outlaw. Even discussing why so much terrorism is carried out in the name of Islam is to be forbidden. The OIC insists, too, that international bodies ban “defamation of religion,” by which it means criticism of anything Islamic. Defamation of Judaism, Christianity, Bahai, Hinduism, and even heterodox Muslim sects such as the Ahmadiyya is common within the borders of many OIC countries, a fact the OIC refuses to acknowledge.

Instead, the OIC has specifically “warned” the EU and the “international community” of the “dangers posed by the influence of Zionism, Neo-Conservatism, aggressive Christian evangelicalism, Jewish extremism, Hindu extremism and secular extremism in international affairs and the ‘War on Terrorism.’”

Though funding for terrorist groups flows generously from individuals in oil-rich OIC countries, the organization itself is not a supporter of terrorism. Neither, however, is it an opponent. Violence directed against those it views as enemies of Islam is defined as “resistance” — even when civilians, including women and children, are the intended victims.

While the OIC expresses concern for the rights of Muslim immigrants in the West, the egregious mistreatment of foreign workers in the Gulf countries (and other Muslim countries as well) is not something OIC officials deign to discuss. Nor has the OIC ever condemned the genocide of the black Muslims of Darfur or the genocidal intentions toward Israelis openly expressed by Hamas, Hezbollah, and the rulers of Iran.

European diplomats might at least insist that the OIC accept the principle of reciprocity. If there is to be a “dialogue of civilizations,” shouldn’t both sides get to air their grievances? Shouldn’t Europeans work to end the persecution of religious and ethnic minorities in OIC countries and to grant foreign workers in Muslim countries basic rights and a path to citizenship? If the Saudis want to fund and control tens of thousands of mosques around the world, is it too much to ask that they permit people of other faiths to at least worship on their soil? Evidently it is, and Ye’or offers this explanation: Committed to a multicultural, multiethnic, multireligious, and multilateral ideology that rejects patriotism and even national identity and cultural pride, afflicted by guilt over their imperial and colonial past — and ignorant about more than a thousand years of Islamic imperialism and colonialism — Europeans have become dhimmis in their own lands; inferiors who accept their status and submit. The OIC, by contrast, rejects multiculturalism, openly professing the superiority of the Islamic faith, civilization, and laws.

The caliphate,” Bat Ye’or concludes, is “alive and growing within Europe. . . . It has advanced through the denial of dangers and the obfuscating of history. It has moved forward on gilded carpets in the corridors of dialogue, the network of the Alliances and partnerships, in the corruption of its leaders, intellectuals and NGOs, particularly at the United Nations.”

If you think that’s alarmist, if you think the OIC sincerely seeks cooperation with the West or that Europeans know where lines must be drawn and have the courage to draw them, read her book. Or just wait a few years.

— Clifford D. May is president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on national security and foreign policy.

[Genoa]

Eurabia today, Amerabia tomorrow.

[scooby321]

I guess Glenn Beck was a nut?

[Travis McGee]

I don’t think so. I think Europe will be plunged into a bloody civil war before that. Mass deportations, etc. But I fear that all religious minorities in the Islamic world will be slaughtered in response, like the Armenians in Turkey 1915-22. I would not want to be a Copt in Egypt, for example, when civil war breaks out in Europe, and millions of muslims are deported by force, and entire cities burn.

(Anyway, that’s how I’m currently writing Europe’s future in my 5th novel.)

[Genoa]

You must know more about Europe than I do. Just who in Europe will be standing up to the Muslims and their Euro-enablers?

[ZULU]

This is the UMMA, the Community of “Believers” (i.e. Muslims) which transcends national borders.

One of the ways to combat this is to push for equal rights for non-Muslims in Muslim lands and propagandize, or, more properly, educate, the non-Islamic Public to the fact that Islam is NOT just a religion. It is ALSO, a cult, a political belief system and an economic system.

Non-Muslims must establish a zero tolerance policy for Sharia, Muslim domination and non-Muslim politicians who pander to these enemies of civilization.

In its entire 1200 years of existance, non-Muslims have been totally ineffectual in combatting these bastards from a philosophical perspective. They have only succeeded through force of arms. And in today’s more “sophisticated” world, the effective use of arms to fight Islamo proselytizers is very difficult.

[Genoa]

Western society is in decay, and the barbarians are being welcomed with open arms by large numbers of their intended victims.

[GonzoGOP]

You must know more about Europe than I do. Just who in Europe will be standing up to the Muslims and their Euro-enablers?

I think his name is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. The argument is not that Europe will be free, just that it won't be part of the Caliphate. Getting surrounded by the Caliphate would be suicide for Russia. So they will move into the Balkans to prevent it. As the Caliphate doesn't manufacture its own weapons if the Russians decide to stop supplying them the war gets over very quickly.

[KeyLargo]

I watched this film from Netflix last night. Good film to see if you get a chance.

Of Gods and Men

(Des Hommes et des Dieux)

2010 PG-13 123 minutes

"Awarded Grand Prix honors at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, this compelling historical drama relates the ordeal of seven French Trappist monks in the mountains of Algeria who are taken captive by Islamic fundamentalists. Before the monks' abduction, they have ample reason to believe they may be in danger, but their assumption that there can and must be common ground between Islam and Christianity leads them to remain at the monastery."

[Genoa]

Interesting scenario. But I’m thinking there will be a Russian-Islamic axis aimed at achieving the subjugation of Israel, Europe, America, and eventually the rest of Asia.

[GonzoGOP]

Russian-Islamic axis aimed at achieving the subjugation of Israel, Europe, America

The Islamists have always been a useful idiots for the Communists. And the number one rule for useful idiots is that once the job is done they get eliminated. Leon Trotsky, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Foreign volunteers of the Spanish Civil war, were all were disposed of when they were no longer needed. Fanatics and idealists are like a wild animal. They are useful in attacking an enemy, but too dangerous to keep around as a pet.

The job of the islamists was to drive the US out of Europe and the Middle East. That job is nearly done, and will be completed as soon as the last US troops are out of Iraq and Afghanistan next year. Like Vietnam did for SE Asia we will shake the dust of region from our boots and never return. Then Russia will hang them out to dry like the Cubans, North Koreans or the Vietnamese. Cuba thought that the Russians would help them dominate the entire Caribbean. Instead they were never supplied with first rate weapons and were kept at home with the exception of Angola, where the Russians decided they could again be useful idiots.

[Iron Munro]

The Obama Brotherhood

[Sal]

atots to find again besides my bookmark.

[GonzoGOP]

Note: Russia just announced that it is sending two nuclear submarines and a destroyer to Cyprus to ensure that the Turks do not interfere with oil exploration there. Obama just let the Bear into the tent.

[Genoa]

Obama just let the Bear into the tent.

Nature abhors a vacuum.