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America Snoozing-Europe is waking up. When will blue-state U.S.A.?
Frontpagemagazine ^ | February 14, 2017 | Bruce Bawer

Posted on 02/14/2017 5:15:58 AM PST by SJackson

There was a time, in the years immediately after 9/11, when I was reasonably (though not entirely) confident that we Americans would be too savvy to let ourselves be led down the primrose path of Islamization. I assumed that the alarming example of Europe – where the destructive nature of Islam's impact was there for all to see – would be effective enough to persuade us to pull up the welcome mat and double-lock the door. What I didn't count on was that so many of our politicians and media would do such a splendid job of covering up the facts about the European situation and whitewashing the Religion of Peace. Nor could I have imagined that the post-9/11 generation of Americans would grow up to be so thoroughly drenched in political correctness that many of them would, in fact, come to see Islam not as an violent existential threat but as the most vulnerable of victim groups.

Yes, Americans elected Trump. Red-state Americans, anyway. But coastal elites went ballistic over his executive order that sought to put a temporary halt to immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. Hollywood, the bubble-headed brain trust of blue-state America, set the tone of the backlash: Judd Apatow denounced Trump's “ignorance and cruelty”; Patricia Arquette suggested returning the Statue of Liberty to France; John Leguizamo reminded his Twitter followers that “The pilgrims came here on the #mayflower as refugees!” Several celebrity tweets implied that Europeans would never support such a monstrous act. Yet a new poll tells otherwise. Most EU citizens, it shows, would be happy to see a total and permanent end to immigration from the Islamic world. To be specific: 71% of Poles, 65% of Austrians, 53% of Germans, 51% of Italians, 64% of Belgians, 58% of Greeks, 61% of Frenchmen, and 64% of Hungarians want Muslim immigration to stop. For good. Only in two of the ten European countries surveyed did a Muslim immigration ban not win the support of a clear majority, and even in those cases a plurality approved of a ban: in Britain, the numbers were 47% for, 23% against; in Spain, 41% to 32%.

Chatham House, the London-based think tank that conducted the survey, plainly found these results distasteful. Calling them “sobering” and attributing them (at least in part) to the influence of the so-called “radical right,” the pollsters sought to discount opposition to Muslim immigration by emphasizing that it was stronger among pensioners, the undereducated, rural types, and those “who are dissatisfied with their life” – in other words, not the right sort of people. Of course, what self-respecting think tank would be willing to admit that Europeans – having had enough of doling out welfare to immigrants who, in return, rape women and children, torment Jews and gays, commit violent crimes on an unprecedented scale, and express contempt for democracy and their infidel neighbors while tacitly supporting terrorism and sharia – are finally waking up?

How depressing that while more and more Europeans are snapping out of their self-delusions, all too many North Americans remain first-class dupes. According to the results of a Rasmussen poll that were released just the other day, 56% of Democrats actually believe that Muslims undergo serious persecution in the U.S, while only 46% think that Christians are persecuted in the Islamic world. What could be more delusional? Meanwhile, a CBS survey showed that only one in seven Democrats consider Islam to be more dangerous than any other religion and that nearly seven out of ten Democrats think Islam encourages violence to approximately the same extent as other faiths. Insane. Not to leave Canadians out, on February 16 the Parliament in Ottawa will actually consider a motion, known as M-103, that would criminalize Islamophobia. It's a move that should elicit mass protests in the streets; but most Canadians appear to be far more worked up about Trump than about the prospect of their own government severely curtailing their free-speech rights.

From all this, it's hard not to draw a bleak conclusion: namely, that most citizens of Western countries don't come to their senses on Islam until their countries are so far gone that it's too late – or almost too late – to rescue them. Even bleaker is the determination of the media, academic, and political establishment to keep drinking the Kool-Aid even after the masses decide they're done. Just the other day, Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, insisted that immigration into the EU would continue no matter what. “Europeans,” she loftily pronounced, “should understand that we need migration for our economies and for our welfare systems.” As if the Muslim tsunami were anything but a drain on Europe's economies and welfare states! Her opponents' views, Mogherini claimed, were “based on confrontation, instead of cooperation; on building walls, instead of building partnerships; on closures and bans, rather than dialogue.” Ah, “cooperation”! “Building partnership”! “Dialogue”! Imagine being so insulated from reality that you're still capable of buying into all that empty rhetoric. The sooner Europe can junk the EU and kick Mogherini and her ilk to the curb, the better. But what's to be done for America, where half the population, locked arm in arm philosophically with Meryl Streep and Lena Dunham, looks at the Islamic hordes over here and the Trump brigades over there, and sees the latter as a bunch of brownshirts?


TOPICS: Editorial; War on Terror
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1 posted on 02/14/2017 5:15:58 AM PST by SJackson
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2 posted on 02/14/2017 5:17:26 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: SJackson

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3 posted on 02/14/2017 5:22:36 AM PST by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: SJackson

They won’t get it until they have a seriously horrifying tragedy that kills a whole bunch of innocents where they live.


4 posted on 02/14/2017 5:24:57 AM PST by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: DarthVader

The enclaves scattered throughout the territory generally known as “the United States of America”, designated as “blue”, are not easily swayed by either logic or critical thinking. It is difficult to imagine any series of tragedies that would modify their thinking sufficiently so they would stand up and DEMAND the underlying threat be eradicated.

Even 9/11, terrible though it was at the time, faded in their collective consciousness with surprising speed, and they are extremely irritated at the tendency of others to fixate of the grave consequences since.

It is a pity that so many who do NOT share this distorted view of history are going to be sucked into the vortex of mass death and wholesale destruction of vast swathes of real estate, goods and intellectual property, as collateral damage.

The Judgment of God can be massive and quite spectacular. And still no man can know the outcome until it is past.


5 posted on 02/14/2017 5:38:55 AM PST by alloysteel (John Galt has chosen to take the job. This time, Atlas did NOT shrug.)
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To: SJackson

AMERICA - 2008 and 2012

"Let's elect an America-hating closet muslim as president - What could possibly go wrong?"


6 posted on 02/14/2017 5:39:59 AM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: DarthVader

They won’t get it even then. They will rationalize that the “brownshirts” caused it and the Muslims would have been peaceful otherwise. There is no curing the disease of the Leftist mind other than by isolation or death.


7 posted on 02/14/2017 5:40:54 AM PST by Truth29
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To: DarthVader

>> They won’t get it until they have a seriously horrifying tragedy that kills a whole bunch of innocents where they live.

They go on a crusade over something like Newtown because they want to take away our 2A protections.


8 posted on 02/14/2017 5:53:52 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Lisbon1940

They won’t be shot. It will be an attack with something far more lethal and destructive.


9 posted on 02/14/2017 5:57:33 AM PST by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: DarthVader

Yeah, but that will kill everyone non-discriminately. When you said innocents, I thought you meant specifically going after the children.


10 posted on 02/14/2017 6:05:25 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: SJackson
(where America is really asleep)

There is no way Islam is compatible with the United States Constitution...most protesters are US Constitution Challenged...non deserving citizens living on the largess of this great Nation.

11 posted on 02/14/2017 6:06:42 AM PST by yoe
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To: SJackson
The author is on the wrong side of the 8 ball. America DID wake up to the likes of his kind and we are aware of their fondness of the Muslim importation of terrorists into our nation. More importantly we understand why. We also know that nothing would make leftists happier than to see the white Christian conservative males be slaughtered by the invading Muslim army so they can achieve their idiotic illusions of a NWO where everything is "free". Do they really think this stuff is free? Who do they think has been working to pay for it all along - the white Christian conservative. If they think the Muslims are going to take care of them and treat them with any respect, they're about as dumb as a slug inching towards a salt pillar. I hate to be the bearer of bad news for all the lefties but their friendship with the Muslis ends once the mission is accomplished and they're escorted to the top of the nearest tall building. They need to look up the definition of Taqiyya and read what the Quran says about infidels and how they are to be treated (death, slavery, or very high taxes unless they convert but they will still be looked upon as dogs in their culture)

And lefties you need to check yourself. How can you trust the judgment of someone who is so delusional they believe you can just imagine being a woman or a man and poof there they are. It doesnt matter what's hqnfing between their legs; all that matters is what their "Gender Studies" professor at the university told them. And about this Target and university transgender thing - The lefties don't understand why someone wouldn't want a pedophile sitting in a stall next to their daughter or maybe it's that they don't want to acknowledge that because they ARE a pedophile? Be forewarned though. If you molest our children or grandchildren you probably won't need an attorney because you will never make it to the courtroom. And dont even think we'll care if you contact the ACLU because they dont care about the lefties just all the money they receive wo they can live their comfortable lifestyles. The leftists want this NWO so bad because they think their will be no restraints. That the law will be null and void and that they can so whatever the hell they want. They probably think that in the new world sex will be unstrained and they'll be able to use their tallywhackers on just about anything they see fit; children, men, women, animals, etc...

and now for the part we already know; this part is for the lefties not us righties

and I bet they think all the free $hit will be available paid for by someone (anyone OTHER than them). And one thing about dumb lefties - they never pay attention to history. They don't understand that the nature of man stays the same so you get the same results under the same circumstances; Especially when it comes to socialism. Socialism has never worked very long unless a very tyrranical government was in place. In almost every case, socialism bankrupted the countries because they took away the incentives for men to profit by their work so they stopped working. The government over regulated and taxed businesses until they became unprofitable so they stopped producing. Eventually all the money ran out from the producers because they kept giving it to the government so you easily led, gullibe, underachieving, lazy morons that we have absolutely no respect could receive your portion.

12 posted on 02/14/2017 6:16:18 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Iron Munro

Only a camelphobe would object.


13 posted on 02/14/2017 6:18:08 AM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: SJackson
The author is on the wrong side of the 8 ball. America DID wake up to the likes of his kind and we are aware of their fondness of the Muslim importation of terrorists into our nation. More importantly we understand why. We also know that nothing would make leftists happier than to see the white Christian conservative males be slaughtered by the invading Muslim army so they can achieve their idiotic illusions of a NWO where everything is "free". Do they really think this stuff is free? Who do they think has been working to pay for it all along - the white Christian conservative. If they think the Muslims are going to take care of them and treat them with any respect, they're about as dumb as a slug inching towards a salt pillar. I hate to be the bearer of bad news for all the lefties but their friendship with the Muslims ends once the mission is accomplished and they're escorted to the top of the nearest tall building. They need to look up the definition of Taqiyya and read what the Quran says about infidels and how they are to be treated (death, slavery, or very high taxes unless they convert but they will still be looked upon as dogs in their culture)

And lefties you need to check yourself. How can you trust the judgment of someone who is so delusional they believe you can just imagine being a woman or a man and poof there they are. It doesnt matter what's hanging between their legs; all that matters is what their "Gender Studies" professor at the university told them. And about this Target and university transgender thing - The lefties don't understand why someone wouldn't want a pedophile sitting in a stall next to their daughter or maybe it's that they don't want to acknowledge that because they ARE a pedophile? Be forewarned though. If you molest our children or grandchildren you probably won't need an attorney because you will never make it to the courtroom. And dont even think we'll care if you contact the ACLU because they dont care about the lefties just all the money they receive so they can live their comfortable lifestyles. The leftists want this NWO so bad because they think their will be no restraints. That the law will be null and void and that they can so whatever the hell they want. They probably think that in the new world sex will be unstrained and they'll be able to use their tallywhackers on just about anything they see fit; children, men, women, animals, etc...

and now for the part we already know; this part is for the lefties not us righties

and I bet they think all the free $hit will be available paid for by someone (anyone OTHER than them). And one thing about dumb lefties - they never pay attention to history. They don't understand that the nature of man stays the same so you get the same results under the same circumstances; Especially when it comes to socialism. Socialism has never worked very long unless a very tyrranical government was in place. In almost every case, socialism bankrupted the countries because they took away the incentives for men to profit by their work so they stopped working. The government over regulated and taxed businesses until they became unprofitable so they stopped producing. Eventually all the money ran out from the producers because they kept giving it to the government so you easily led, gullibe, underachieving, lazy morons that we have absolutely no respect could receive your portion.

14 posted on 02/14/2017 6:19:50 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: SJackson
Is Europe awakening? I'm not so sure I buy into that at all. Are some waking up in Europe, absolutely. However, until their leaders wake up they will continue to slide into the abyss, and so far I see very little movement by their leaders in that correct direction.

Instead they continue to move in the direction that the globalists favor.

I think even some in this country are starting to see the light, but again like Europe, there are many who continue to dismiss the realities. Difference being, and this is the big difference right now, is that just enough Americans were able to overcome the stupid to elect leadership that gets it.

More importantly our new leaders reject this move towards globalism. Globalism is really just another form of slavery for those who do not have standing within the elitists circle of acceptance.

Those outside this circle are often considered to be expendable and easily replaced when they cease to offer any thing they desire. Sadly, far to many cannot see this reality, both within and outside of this country.

Make no mistake though, this battle is far from over even with this election. They are the powerful movers & shakers of this world, and they they will not accept defeat easily. But at least we will start to move in the right direction. Question is can we convince enough in the relatively short period we have to accept what is really in store for them should they continue to blindly accept this push for globalism. If not when they regain control, they will do a 180 and head back in the wrong direction at an even more accelerated speed than Obama.

15 posted on 02/14/2017 6:21:55 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: jsanders2001

Did you actually read the whole thing?


16 posted on 02/14/2017 6:27:22 AM PST by stellaluna
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To: SJackson
America Snoozing-Europe is waking up. When will blue-state U.S.A.?

Actually it's the high-crime "blue" counties, and I don't care if they wake up at all.

The murdering rapist rags will naturally gravitate there and victimize the wetbacks, gang-bangers, queers and moonbats. After a while, the terrorists should be much easier to round up and "process".

17 posted on 02/14/2017 6:30:01 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: jsanders2001
and I bet they think all the free $hit will be available paid for by someone (anyone OTHER than them). And one thing about dumb lefties - they never pay attention to history.

When will WE realize that a majority of lefties are perfectly willing to pay extra for their guilt? IT DOES NOT BOTHER THEM TO PAY MORE! They just want us to pay for it too, whether we feel guilty or not. Until then, we can keep pretending at some point they'll "get it". They won't.

18 posted on 02/14/2017 6:50:59 AM PST by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: SJackson

BlueState U.S.A. will never wake up.

They’re hardcore Democrats with an arsenal of intimidation, coercion, and hate tactics.

(How can they give up such power that’s never held accountable?)

IMHO


19 posted on 02/14/2017 8:02:58 AM PST by ripley (ually to)
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To: SJackson

The money quote:

“Most EU citizens, it shows, would be happy to see a total and permanent end to immigration from the Islamic world. To be specific: 71% of Poles, 65% of Austrians, 53% of Germans, 51% of Italians, 64% of Belgians, 58% of Greeks, 61% of Frenchmen, and 64% of Hungarians want Muslim immigration to stop. For good. Only in two of the ten European countries surveyed did a Muslim immigration ban not win the support of a clear majority, and even in those cases a plurality approved of a ban: in Britain, the numbers were 47% for, 23% against; in Spain, 41% to 32%.”

They have much larger percentages of unassimilating Muslims in their countries than we do. Why do they feel the way they do? They are not “all racists.”


20 posted on 02/14/2017 8:08:25 AM PST by Yaelle
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