Secular Suicide: How European-born Terrorists Signal the West’s Demise

Townhall.com ^ | October 6, 2014 | Taweh Beysolow

[Kaslin]

The Western world is slowly discovering that many of the Muslim extremists in ISIS were born on its own turf, in countries such as France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Abdirahmaan Muhumed , an American Citizen and former Delta Air Lines employee recently died in combat fighting for ISIS. James Foley’s murderer is a British Born Muslim who leads a brigade of British jihadists within ISIS comically coined “The Beatles,” and francophone Abu Shaheed reports that there are 500 other French recruits among ISIS’ ranks. These disturbing developments leaves one to wonder how someone with a college education from nations that supposedly embrace tolerance and freedom would become a militant in a clan of stone age extremists. To me, the answer lies in the increasing lack of cultural assimilation in their countries of origin — the very Western world that we cherish so dearly.

Since 2001, the Muslim population in the UK has tripled from 1.64 million to three million today. This is an unprecedented population boom largely caused by the country’s relatively open border policy. But, the Brits aren’t the only actors in the Western world with their arms wide open to Islamism. In France, there are roughly 6.5 million Muslims, comprising approximately 10 percent of the entire population, and Germany is not far behind with 4.1 million comprising 5 percent of the population. Major European powers are experiencing a substantial increase in these populations, to the point that the UK is projected to be a Muslim majority nation by 2050. While increased racial diversity may seem like an encouraging development at first glance, it has come with a lack of integration that raises serious concerns about Western culture becoming fractured.

In 2013, a panel in France was appointed to review the country’s integration policies as a means of urging the government to implement a “new form of secularism,” recommending that public school classes be “taught in Arabic and African languages” rather than in French. Such a gesture seems quite courteous but has the potentiality of delaying and hampering an immigrant or first generation Muslim from learning the native language. This, along with the rising racial tensions, does not help to improve a French Muslim’s condition, at a time when they are already “2.5 times” less likely than a Christian job candidate to get a callback.

In the UK, there have been several cases of secular schools in Birmingham being heavily influence radicalized Muslims to inject intolerant beliefs into schools with predominantly Muslim student bodies. This further isolates them from UK culture and making them prone to radicalization. There are also reports of several other terrible events, such as the rape of over 1,400 children in Rotterdam that have marred the UK-Muslim relations. The subsequent cover up is due to what one Labor MP describes as “looking after your own,” in which many Muslims turned the other way as to not turn fellow immigrants into the police.

These are just many examples of a growing epidemic in Western Europe, an epidemic that is being met with an anemic response. The cause of this anemia, according to one member of British parliament, is the desire to “not rock the multicultural boat.” The West finds itself wrapped in a bind by political correctness, a knot which grows so tight as to restrict movement while being humiliatingly beaten. More Westerners feel as if many motivations to preserve their own culture are unfair at best, and racist and xenophobic at worst. The idea of another age of an overbearing Western nation-state brings distasteful memories of habitual genocide and the racist ideologies that to this day often poison the minds of many around the word. Reinforcing Western ideals on a people whose native countries are experiencing the crushing might of Western military power becomes an uncomfortable quagmire to be caught in­, but one that raises greater concerns about our viability.

While not without some political division, the vast majority of the West stood proudly against communism, fascism, and other movements that sought to threaten our way of life. When even discussing early political movements to end discrimination within a country, such as the Civil Rights movements and women’s suffrage movements, the West uphold its ideals of equality and include them. However, the tone today is much different, arguing for more separation and distinction of groups than unity. People often do not refer to themselves by nation, state, or province, but by racial, sexual, and religious distinction increasingly. The end of cultural assimilation signals more than apathy and more than a generation of rebellious youth; it signals that we no longer know who we are, what we seek to be, or what the world was like without freedom and liberty. That is much more dangerous than any terrorist or any radical religion.

[WashingtonSource]

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[TexasFreeper2009]

liberalism / socialism + PC nonsense signaled the decline of the west.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

When a nation is about to go under there is a prescription—a sort of poison pill. It works to revive a nation and get it going again but it has terrible side effects. That pill is called Fascism. It can change a state—purge it of the ills that is slowly killing it— But at a cost. Hitler was perhaps the worst example of this “Poison Pill” but other states have done well (Spain under Franco, Argentina under Juan and Evita Peron, etc...) I foresee Europe swinging toward fascism—with new “leaders” rising to power and changing things—even with extream violence—Nationalism and wars. Russia is heading this direction now-—Even UK isn’t immune from this. Unlike its cousin Communism, Fascism looks to its nations past—it doesn’t seek to make the subjects into a new form of man—or go international (save for conquest). They are less a threat to the world—but they can be mean and bloody. If my prediction is right-—it will not be healthy for Islamic people in Europe. They should leave before the camps and gas chambers are reopened. First will come the marches, the uniforms, the propaganda, then the restriction in rights of free speach—then the round ups. Good news, they will not have need of the USA— at that time. They may even re-establish their Empires as well.

[RipSawyer]

“This, along with the rising racial tensions, does not help to improve a French Muslim’s condition, at a time when they are already “2.5 times” less likely than a Christian job candidate to get a callback.”
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The use of mathematical absurdities such as (“2.5 times” less likely) destroy any credibility the writer has. When I read the actual quote in the article it is written correctly saying that the Christian candidate is 2.5 times MORE likely to get the job interview than a Muslim candidate. This writer actually went to the trouble of misquoting the article to use this absurd expression of 2.5 times less. It is amazing to me when it is so easy to say (for example) that 25 is 2.5 times MORE than ten, someone will go to the trouble of reversing it to the absurd expression of ten is “2.5 times less” than 25 even if it requires misquoting. Just when did supposedly educated people become so ignorant as to believe that the inverse of 2.5 times more is 2.5 times less? This is amazing ignorance and it is becoming standard usage. We have reached the point that any article containing numbers is likely to be indecipherable.