Posted on 01/09/2015 7:54:18 AM PST by Kaslin
The massacre in Paris of the staff of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was an act of terrorism, but also a successful act of war in the clash of civilizations between Islamism and the West.
Nor were we lacking for warning signs.
In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, a license to kill author Salman Rushdie for his anti-Muslim novel "Satanic Verses."
Danish cartoons of the Prophet with his turban in the shape of a bomb caused riots across the Middle East. Charlie Hebdo published them. The vulgarian Theo Van Gogh was carved up alive on a street in Amsterdam for insulting Islam in his 10-minute film "Submission."
Have we not known that millions of Muslims now take their faith so seriously they will die for it, and kill for it? Mock and insult Islam, ridicule and lampoon the Prophet, and you risk your life.
The editor and cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo knew this. Their offices had been firebombed. They had guards. There was a combination lock on their office doors.
Shocked by the slaughter, we of the West have been reasserting our belief in freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
"Je Suis Charlie!" read the signs at the Paris demonstration for Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday night -- "I am Charlie."
One sees no such banners in the Islamic world. Regimes there may deplore terrorism in Paris, but no one weeps for Charlie Hebdo.
For across that region, Islamism is rising, churches are being burned, and the remaining Christians are fleeing into exile. In Afghanistan, at the peak of the U.S. presence, a Muslim convert to Christianity was threatened with death and had to leave his own country in fear of his life.
If there is one goal that unites Boko Haram in Nigeria, al-Shabab in Somalia, al-Qaida in the Maghreb and Arabian Peninsula, ISIS in Syria and Iraq, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is to cleanse their societies of non-believers and Westerners.
The journalistic freedom to trash Islam and the moral imperative to advance gay rights may be sacred causes in Europe. But one should probably put them on the back burner when crossing the Med.
The differences between a liberal secularized Europe and the Islamic world are irreconcilable. And it is their world, not ours, that is growing in numbers, militancy, converts, crusaders and confidence.
Yet, what was German Chancellor Angela Merkel bewailing in her New Year's message? Islamophobia.
Demonstrations in Dresden against the 200,000 asylum seekers who entered Germany from an inflamed Middle East last year, and the difficulty of assimilating them and the four million Muslims already in Germany have ignited weekly protests.
Do not go to these rallies of Pegida -- Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West -- railed Merkel, for their organizers have "prejudice, coldness, even hatred in their hearts."
Immigration is a "gift for all of us," said Merkel.
Merkel's attack on rising anti-immigrant sentiment in Germany was echoed on New Year's by President Francois Hollande who denounced the "dangerous" stances of the National Front of Marine Le Pen.
In presidential polls in France, Le Pen is now running first.
Instead of demonizing the right, Merkel and Hollande and other leaders of Europe, if they do not wish to be swept away, ought to ask themselves: Why have these populist and anti-immigrant movements exploded on the continent in recent years at their expense?
Europe's elites appear frozen in a dead past, addicted to an idea of Europeans inexorably melding into a single economic and political entity, like the United States, to become the model for the world.
They seem in denial of the new realities exploding on the continent. Scots, Basque, Catalans, Bretons, Corsicans, Flemish and Piedmontese now want to separate from the nations to which they have belonged for generations; parties like the UK Independence Party as well as the National Front want out of the European Union.
In Central and Eastern Europe, the autocratic nationalism of Vladimir Putin is being cheered by many of these emerging parties.
In Greece, the leftist Syriza Party appears on the precipice of taking power this month. What unites and propels it is hostility to austerity policies imposed by a German-dominated eurozone. The same animosities spawned Podemos in Spain. Rebellion against the idea of One Europe is rampant.
Europeans are asking direct questions of their governments, and demanding answers:
Why, when our own economics are stagnant, do we need all these new immigrants with whom we have little in common?
Why are we altering the identity of our people and nation?
What gain is there for our countries by bringing in more Arabs, Muslims and Africans to swamp our native born and remake our nations in their image rather than our own?
Often, the response to such questions from governments in Berlin, Paris, London and Madrid is to call the defectors xenophobes, racists, neo-fascists and Nazis. The name-calling is no longer working.
Has France surrendered yet?!?
” Immigration is a “gift for all of us,” said Merkel. “
OK Merc.........we are going to send you 30 million of our “immigrants”.
I’ve been called out as being insensitive for saying this:
Islam is incompatible with western civilization and western values. And we should limit and discourage Muslim immigrants for that reason.
Flame away. I’ve been called bigoted and worse for such sentiments. But I think we should ask,and Europe should ask, if islam is able to assimilate into their countries. And if not they should ban such immigration so as to preserve their country and culture. We should do the same.
“One Europe” wouldn’t have been such a bad idea, if Europeans were running it, they are losing control of their own continent.
I don’t know who would flame you here for those sentiments. I think we all are in agreement.
We're just pawns in their game. Maybe France will rise against the "let them eat cake" mentality of the elite.
So was the Trojan horse. And we know how that worked out.
All muslims in this country that are not citizens need to be deported ASAP.
How would we know if they are Muslim. What if they say they converted to Christianity.
Islam allows for Taqqiya, remember that.
Islam is incompatible with western civilization and western values. And we should limit and discourage Muslim immigrants for that reason.
I've read many over-the-top insensitive and foolish pronouncements regarding Islam on this site, but your quote above is not one of them.
On the contrary, your sentiment is entirely reasonable and logical.
Islam, at least in its stridently authoritarian, fundamentalist form, is indeed incompatible with Western civilization.
As such, any Muslims who live in Western civilization must adapt accordingly to the open society in which we live.
Conversely, any Muslims who wish to impose their absurd Tyrannical worldview upon the peaceful People of the West should leave, or be forcibly expelled.
People can believe whatever they want, but they are not entitled to impose these beliefs upon others by attempting to destroy our (at least marginally) Free society.
Well said.
But history has shown that the number of Muslims must be kept at a certain level or below, because past a certain point, they become uncontrollable.
They will need to pass a test that includes their eating pork (pigs feet) and trashing Mohammed and Allah.
In order to have a New World Order the old world of sovereign states must be dismantled, Islam is the fall guy.
Our NWO politicians are burning down the house on us all intentionally to bring about their “utopia”. The same government warned about in the Bible that will be taken over by the Anti Christ.
All Muslims in this country that were American need to be intered in camps till the war is over. Just like the Japanese.
The 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was militarily successful, as was the 1944 American attack on Normandy. The difference in outcomes arises in part from the response to a military success. With Obama as the "leader" of the free world, I'm worried.
Unfortunately, demographics is the real WMD.
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