Shiite Muslim Mohammed Jomahaa cuts the head of his son with a sword during the annual ritual to mark Ashoura Day in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatiyeh, Tuesday March 2, 2004.
Posted on 02/19/2004 6:30:45 PM PST by quidnunc
Last month, as Muslims in the small northern Italian town of Luino prepared to celebrate the annual Islamic Eid Al-Adha, or "Feast of Sacrifice," they were met by some surprising opposition. The feast, which requires the slaughter of rams and lambs carried out according to Islamic tradition — meaning the animal must bleed to death after its throat is slit — sparked outrage amongst the region's animal-rights activists. Abandoning the hushed reverence with which Europe's Left usually regards all things Islamic, a coalition of groups gathered in front of a Luino slaughterhouse in an effort to prevent trucks loaded with animals from entering. Soon enough, the protesters — some of whom, ironically, wore Palestinian keffiyehs — were confronted by a group of angry local Muslims shouting "Allah u Akhbar!" ("God is Great!"). In the past, such blatant disregard for Muslim sensitivities would have caused the local Left to apologize profusely and enroll in cultural sensitivity training, post haste. But in today's increasingly Islamicized Europe, many on the Left are slowly realizing that the behavior of large segments of Europe's Muslim population represents the antithesis of their politically correct ideals and values. Indeed, only the intervention of local police prevented physical violence between the protesters in Luino and their Muslim counterparts.
The Luino incident was not an isolated one. From France's controversial decision to ban the veil in public schools to news of the barbaric application of Islamic law throughout Europe, Muslim immigrants are creating a crisis of conscience within the Left. While most European conservatives have acknowledged the problems created by massive Muslim immigration, the Left has usually chosen instead to blame Muslims' assimilation problems on the close-mindedness of native European populations. But after years of calling conservatives racist for raising these issues, Leftists have begun to notice that many of the Muslim immigrants arriving in Europe have little respect for values sacrosanct to the Left, like women's rights and separation of Church and State.
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If ethnic groups were allowed to pursue their homeland's divergent cultures (ad infinitum), our CULTURE would devolve into chaos.
.........THEN there'll be hell to pay!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, it is truly bizarre the way the Left approves of everyting with the word Muslim attached to it. And yet most Muslims live in ways diametrically opposed to everything the Left stands for.
Some Leftists have woken up to the stanger they got into bed with, but I do not think most will realize this until it is too late to do anything about it. The Left is so consumed with hatred for the very culture that gave birth to their ideas and continues to sustain them, that their animosity to all things Western trumps all other considerations.
The Left desires the total destruction of Western culture. I do not think they care how this comes about or what the consequences will be. And I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that they will get their wish: we are at the point of no return.
Such as honor killings?
Shiite Muslim Mohammed Jomahaa cuts the head of his son with a sword during the annual ritual to mark Ashoura Day in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatiyeh, Tuesday March 2, 2004.
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