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Eurabia on the rampage
Melanie Phillips' Site ^ | 11/4/2005 | Melanie Phillips

Posted on 11/05/2005 1:52:27 PM PST by 1066AD

November 04, 2005 Eurabia on the rampage The Muslim riots in Paris have now been going on for eight nights. How is Britain reacting to these disturbing events just across the English Channel, four months after its own ‘wake-up call’ from last July’s bombings? With almost total indifference, since far from having woken up Britain is still sleep-walking in its own little trance. Media coverage has been sporadic and downplayed, and the disturbances have been portrayed as caused by deprivation and race. The fact that the rioters are Muslim has been mentioned, if at all, only in passing. But in Denmark, as Viking-Observer has reported, Muslims have also been rioting for days in Arhus, apparently over the publication of cartoons satirising the Prophet. The cartoons were in turn a response to the difficulties encountered by a children's writer, Kare Bluitgen, who couldn’t find an illustrator for his book on the Koran and the Prophet's life since all the artists he approached feared the wrath of Muslims if they drew images of the Prophet. The daily Jyllands-Posten which published the cartoons reported:

Rosenhøj Mall has several nights in a row been the scene of the worst riots in Århus for years. ‘This area belongs to us’, the youths proclaim. Sunday evening saw a new arson attack. Their words sound like a clear declaration of war on the Danish society. ‘Police must stay out. The area belongs to immigrants...We have planned this for three weeks.’ In line with routine contemporary moral inversion, in which the perpetrators of violence are excused and their victims blamed instead by an alliance of Muslims and western decadents (Britain was blamed for the July bombings of its citizens because of Iraq) the French authorities are being blamed for fanning the flames of discontent by discriminating against the country’s Muslims. Should we also blame the Danes for refusing to accept self-censorship and asserting their own values of freedom of expression? Is every country to be held responsible for the jihad being waged against it - despite the fact that in every case the alleged provocation is different — rather then responsibility being properly assigned to those who have declared war upon the free world?

Much of the coverage of the Paris riots has blamed the policies of France’s Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy for abandoning French Muslims inside squalid ghettoes and failing to integrate them. But as Robert Spencer points out, it is the Muslims themselves who insist on not being integrated. In her book Eurabia, Bat Ye’Or details

a series of agreements between the European Union and the Arab League that guaranteed that Muslim immigrants in Europe would not be compelled in any way to adapt ‘to the customs of the host countries.’ The European Union has implemented such recommendations for decades — so far from playing down the differences between ethnic groups, they have instead stood by approvingly while immigrants formed non-assimilated Islamic enclaves within Europe. Indeed, as Bat Ye’or demonstrates, they have assured the Arab League in multiple agreements that they would aid in the creation and maintenance of such enclaves. Ignorance of the jihad ideology among European officials has allowed that ideology to spread in those enclaves, unchecked until relatively recently.

Consequently, among a generation of Muslims born in Europe, significant numbers have nothing but contempt and disdain for their native lands, and allegiance only to the Muslim umma and the lands of their parents’ birth. Those who continue to arrive in Europe from Muslim countries are encouraged by the isolation, self-imposed and other-abetted, of the Islamic communities in Europe to hold to the same attitudes.

The Arab European League, a Muslim advocacy group operating in Belgium and the Netherlands, states as part of its ‘vision and philosophy’ that ‘we believe in a multicultural society as a social and political model where different cultures coexist with equal rights under the law.’ It strongly rejects for Muslims any idea of assimilation or integration into European societies: ‘We do not want to assimilate and we do not want to be stuck somewhere in the middle. We want to foster our own identity and culture while being law abiding and worthy citizens of the countries where we live. In order to achieve that it is imperative for us to teach our children the Arabic language and history and the Islamic faith. We will resist any attempt to strip us of our right to our own cultural and religious identity, as we believe it is one of the most fundamental human rights.’ AEL founder Dyab Abou Jahjah, who was himself arrested in November 2002 and charged with inciting Muslims in Antwerp to riot (Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said that the AEL was 'trying to terrorize the city', has declared: ‘Assimilation is cultural rape. It means renouncing your identity, becoming like the others.’

What is now taking place in Paris is merely an intensification of what has been going on since long before the electrocution of the two youths which prompted the current disorder. And the scale of it is astonishing; Sarkozy told Le Monde that

...twenty to forty cars are set afire nightly in Paris’ restive Muslim suburbs, and no fewer than nine thousand police cars have been stoned since the beginning of 2005. Multiculturalism, the doctrine that governs Britain and Europe and which grew out of a war upon their values from within by allowing the values of minorities to trump the majority, has been applied by the west to appease an ideology that has declared war upon its values from without. The poulets have now come home to roost in France, but the message for the rest of us is just as ominous.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: denmark; eurabia; france; frenchmuslims; islamism; parisriots; wot
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Good summary
1 posted on 11/05/2005 1:52:28 PM PST by 1066AD
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To: 1066AD

yewas


2 posted on 11/05/2005 1:57:19 PM PST by Eurotwit (WI)
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To: 1066AD
img src= if it's not stopped over there now, I'd hate to think this is the USA in 100 years..
3 posted on 11/05/2005 2:03:30 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (Islam is a religion of peace and they'll behead you to prove it...)
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dang..I don't know how to post a pic..:(


4 posted on 11/05/2005 2:03:55 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (Islam is a religion of peace and they'll behead you to prove it...)
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I guess then multi-culturalism = Jihad.


5 posted on 11/05/2005 2:06:39 PM PST by junta (It's Jihad stupid!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
try this again..
6 posted on 11/05/2005 2:06:56 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (Islam is a religion of peace and they'll behead you to prove it...)
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7 posted on 11/05/2005 2:08:35 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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Does this mean nobody wants to adopt the french or german cultures? I'm shocked, no really; I thought everyone longed to be a europussy


8 posted on 11/05/2005 2:11:53 PM PST by Porterville (Pray for War- Spanish by birth, American by the Grace of God!!!)
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9 posted on 11/05/2005 2:11:53 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
2nd Amendment, G32. Nothing like that in Europe. Not since 1933, and now the bill comes due. To appease is to surrender.
10 posted on 11/05/2005 2:12:14 PM PST by Texas WOP
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Put the greater than on the right side,then put the less than
on the other, then i m g s r c =


11 posted on 11/05/2005 2:13:59 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: Boazo; GeorgiaDawg32

don't forget the " " around the URL too


12 posted on 11/05/2005 2:44:59 PM PST by kstewskis ("I don't know what I know, but I know that it's big..." Jerry Fletcher)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

13 posted on 11/05/2005 2:45:55 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: 1066AD

"[Western elites] are living a lie, basing the future of their societies on the assumption that all groups of people are equal in all respects." -- Charles Murray


14 posted on 11/05/2005 2:54:42 PM PST by Bogolyubski
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15 posted on 11/05/2005 2:56:47 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: Bogolyubski; 1066AD; Porterville; GeorgiaDawg32
I believe European civilization is on the ropes and will fall to the Islamists. The US and our unique culture just might survive.

Our Constitution is based on God given rights. The ACLU, MSM, and various other American hating groups attack our religious traditions because removal of God in the public sphere removes the basis of our republic. Remove worship of God and replace it with worship of the state.

Islam demands absolute subservience to allah. There are no inherent rights. All are slaves to allah. In this sense, the left and Islamists have the same near term goal. Replace God with either the state or allah. It doesn't matter which as long as God and the rights He gave us are removed.

Should a significant minority of the US come to believe that we do not have inherent God given rights, our way of life is in real trouble. We may be near that point now.
16 posted on 11/05/2005 3:34:39 PM PST by Jacquerie (Democrats soil institutions)
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‘We do not want to assimilate and we do not want to be stuck somewhere in the middle. We want to foster our own identity and culture while being law abiding and worthy citizens of the countries where we live. In order to achieve that it is imperative for us to teach our children the Arabic language and history and the Islamic faith. We will resist any attempt to strip us of our right to our own cultural and religious identity, as we believe it is one of the most fundamental human rights.’

Then why leave the Middle East? It would be far, far better for you to stay there, than to destroy the Europeans from within.

In their own words, herein lies the strongest reason I can think of for the Europeans to send the Muslims home now! Is living in Europe a fundemental human right?

If the Europeans fail to act, they'll surely be out-bred and overwhelmed. Their culture will die with them.

17 posted on 11/05/2005 3:43:17 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: 1066AD; SJackson

Ping to another good piece from Melanie. Here's more on recent, related events in western Europe--events that didn't get as much press.

Anti-Semitic poem in children’s school book {In England where they ban Piggy Banks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1509162/posts

I warned Bush about Iraq: Italy's PM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512263/posts

Berlusconi protests over CIA ‘kidnap'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1434969/posts

Italy Demands 'Full Respect' From U.S. Over Terror Suspect's Seizure
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1434975/posts

20,000 in farewell to Italian 'martyr'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358260/posts

Freed Italians eye return to Iraq [Italy paid a ransom!]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1231061/posts

Sgrena's 'truth' doesn't ring true
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1361764/posts

Italy to stop paying ransoms
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1361666/posts


18 posted on 11/05/2005 4:06:19 PM PST by familyop ("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
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To: 1066AD
Jihad!


The picture below is from a mosque in Pakistan:

19 posted on 11/05/2005 4:10:58 PM PST by Bon mots
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Fox News on Saturday afternoon had a report on the riots which weakly noted that "many of the rioters are Muslim." Are any of them anything other than Muslim?
20 posted on 11/05/2005 4:19:17 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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