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Islam in Europe: In the Casbah of Rotterdam
Catholic Online ^ | May 19, 2009 | Giulio Meotti

Posted on 05/19/2009 5:22:02 PM PDT by americanophile

In the middle of one square stands a mosque with Arabic writing outside. That used to be a church.

ROME (Chiesa) - In Feyenoord, veiled women can be seen everywhere, darting like a flash through the streets of the neighborhood. They avoid any sort of contact, even eye contact, especially with men. Feyenoord is the size of a city, and there are seventy nationalities coexisting there. It is an area that lives on subsidies and residential construction, and it is here that it is most obvious that Holland – with all of its rules against discrimination and all of its moral indignation – is a completely segregated society.

Rotterdam is new, having been bombed twice by the Luftwaffe during the second world war. Like Amsterdam, it is below sea level, but unlike the capital it does not enjoy an image of reckless abandon. In Rotterdam, it is the Arab shops selling halal food that dominate the cityscape, not the neon lights of the prostitutes. Everywhere are casbah-cafes, travel agencies offering flights to Rabat and Casablanca, posters expressing solidarity with Hamas, or offering affordable Dutch language lessons.

It is the second-largest city in the country, a poor city, but also the economic engine with its huge port, the most important in Europe. Most of the population are immigrants, and the city has the tallest and most imposing mosque in Europe. Sixty percent of the foreigners who arrive in Holland come here to live. The most striking thing when one arrives in the city by train are the enormous and fascinating mosques framed by the vibrant green, luxuriant, wooded, watery countryside, like an alien presence compared to the rest. They call it "Eurabia." The Turkish Mevlana mosque is imposing. It has the tallest minarets in Europe, even higher than

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TOPICS: Catholic; Islam; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: culturaljihad; eurabia; europe; holland; islam; islamization; sharia; shariah; stealthjihad
Read it and weep.
1 posted on 05/19/2009 5:22:02 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: americanophile; Kolokotronis; annalex; MahatmaGandu; skeeter; NYer; Islaminaction; La Lydia; ...

2 posted on 05/19/2009 5:23:02 PM PDT by americanophile (There's science, logic, reason; there's thought verified by experience & then there's California)
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Sad...The Netherlands is a beautiful country. Their liberal laws aren’t going to be much help when the Muzzies take over and impose sharia. The homo’s aren’t going to be slaughtered.......Islamo-Facists Vs. Militant Homo-Facists......Hmmmmm


3 posted on 05/19/2009 5:35:59 PM PDT by jakerobins
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Amazing how far it's gone:

"Chris Ripke is a well-known artist in the city. His studio is near a mosque in Insuindestraat. Shocked in 2004 by the murder of director Theo Van Gogh by an Dutch Islamist, Chris decided to paint an angel on wall of his studio and the biblical commandment "Gij zult niet doden," thou shalt not kill. His neighbors at the mosque found the words "offensive," and called the mayor of Rotterdam at the time, the liberal Ivo Opstelten. The mayor ordered the police to erase the painting, because it was "racist." Wim Nottroth, a television journalist, camped out on the spot in protest. The police arrested him, and his film was destroyed. Ephimenco did the same in his own window: "I put up a big white sheet with the biblical commandment. Photographers came, and the radio. If you can no longer write 'do not kill' in this country, then you are saying that we are all in prison. It is like apartheid, whites living with whites and blacks with blacks. There is a great chill. Islamism wants to change the structure of the country." For Ephimenco, part of the problem is the de-Christianization of society. "When I arrived here, during the 1960's, religion was dying, a unique event in Europe, a collective de-Christianization. Then the Muslims brought religion back to the center of social life. Aided by the anti-Christian elite."

4 posted on 05/19/2009 5:40:29 PM PDT by americanophile (There's science, logic, reason; there's thought verified by experience & then there's California)
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Read it and weep.

This is the only way the Left can destroy Europe--mass immigration of Muslims. They Left doesn't really care how they destroy Europe.

5 posted on 05/19/2009 5:44:41 PM PDT by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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To: americanophile

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the casbah way

The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah


6 posted on 05/19/2009 5:44:49 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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Anyone wanting to live better get out quick. The spirit of anti-christ has taken over Holland. Who would have thought that would happen. They left the real God out of their lives and then he left their house desolate and open to the evil one.


7 posted on 05/19/2009 6:09:20 PM PDT by BigFinn (Isa 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.)
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Some part of human nature seems to need fascism, it’s very strange. Europe allowed the Nazis to go unchecked, they’re doing it with Islam now.


8 posted on 05/19/2009 6:26:23 PM PDT by FTJM
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To: americanophile; knighthawk

The cathedrals of Europe will be mosques in our lifetime. Demography is destiny.

This is the suicide by apathy of the west.


9 posted on 05/19/2009 6:28:48 PM PDT by Travis McGee ("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" orders are being mailed out.)
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To: Travis McGee

You wrote:

“This is the suicide by apathy of the west.”

And it started off as revolt by Protestantism. Once that was successful, the door was open for the questioning and overturning of every Christian doctrine and practice. Now contraception - once despised by Christians - is the norm, and abortion MUST follow in its wake so somebody’s daughters are “punished” with a baby.


10 posted on 05/19/2009 6:54:05 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: americanophile

/mark


11 posted on 05/19/2009 6:56:45 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (Hey there, White House Ha Ha Charade you are)
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To: americanophile

When will the last strong man in Europe stand up?

Are there any left?

Euro FReepers, I ask you, tell me.


12 posted on 05/19/2009 7:02:07 PM PDT by alarm rider (Any country that tells you what light bulb to use is not a free country.)
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To: americanophile

Excellent article - skimmed it - bookmarked for more relaxed read later.

And these people have control of their largest port???

Muslim lawyers in Rotterdam also want to change the rules of the courtroom, asking to be allowed to remain seated when the judge enters. They recognize Allah alone. The lawyer Mohammed Enait recently refused to stand when the magistrates enter the courtroom, saying that “Islam teaches that all men are equal.” The court of Rotterdam has recognized Enait’s right to remain seated: “There is no legal obligation requiring Muslim lawyers to stand in front of the court, insofar as this action is in contrast with the dictates of the Islamic faith.” Enait, the head of the legal office Jairam Advocaten, has explained that “he considers all men equal, and does not ...

This is an interesting:

“Not long ago in downtown Rotterdam, funerary photos of Geert Wilders were placed under a tree, with a candle to commemorate his upcoming death. Today Wilders is the most popular politician in the city. He is the heir of Fortuyn, the homosexual, Catholic, ex-Markist professor who had formed his own party to save the country from Islamization.”

“Three months ago, “The Economist,” a weekly publication far from Wilders’ anti-Islamic ideas, spoke of Rotterdam as a “Eurabian nightmare.” For most of the Dutch who live there, Islamism is now a threat greater than the Delta Plan, the complicated system of dikes that prevents flooding from the sea, like the flood in 1953 that killed two thousand people. The picturesque town of Schiedam, part of the greater Rotterdam area, has always been a jewel in the Dutch imagination. Then the fairy tale glow faded, when in the newspapers three years ago it became the city of Farid A., the Islamist who made death threats against Wilders and Somali dissident Ayaan Hirsi Ali. For six years, Wilders has lived under 24-hour police protection.”

Those politicians who let these people into their country deserve to be hung drawn and quartered.


13 posted on 05/19/2009 10:02:10 PM PDT by chase19
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"Those politicians who let these people into their country deserve to be hung drawn and quartered."

They will be...along with everyone else.

14 posted on 05/19/2009 10:13:30 PM PDT by americanophile (There's science, logic, reason; there's thought verified by experience & then there's California)
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I used to date a girl who lived in Rotterdam. She lived in a neighborhood were most people were of Turkish origin and there were mosques like everywere. I will never ever go there again!


15 posted on 05/20/2009 2:29:29 PM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: americanophile

cultural jihad bump


16 posted on 05/20/2009 5:06:53 PM PDT by Dajjal (Obama is an Ericksonian NLP hypnotist.)
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