Posted on 06/02/2006 9:18:10 AM PDT by Maneesh
While Europe Slept By Andre Zantonavitch FrontPageMagazine.com | June 2, 2006
This stunner of a book about Continental Islam has two main themes. The first is that Europe has a Muslim immigration and reproduction problem. This radically new and explosive demographic, according to the author, is not being converted to Western liberalism or adopting Western life-styles.
While Europe Slept argues that while Europe is currently only about ten percent Islamic -- vs. two percent for America -- if present trends continue it will only take a generation or two for Muslims to become the majority. The once-noble Continent will become what Bat Ye'or in 2005 called "Eurabia." The shocking claim by Gary Bawer is that well before 2050, most of Europe is likely to become an outpost of Islamdom governed by Sharia.
The second theme is that Europe today is a hellhole of leftist multiculturalism, far worse than anything in America, and even far worse than almost anyone in America suspects. American expatriate Bawer -- who has lived the past ten years in various European countries, mostly Holland and Norway -- is almost uniformly horrified by every country he resides in or visits. According to him, political correctness and multiculturalism are "a habit of thought that in America is an annoyance but in Europe is a veritable religion."
Bawer excoriates his European friends for their propensity to display phony "respect" and "understanding" of the various foreigners in their midst, especially Muslims. He blasts their cult-like belief in the mantra of multiculturalism and their unlimited "belief in peace and reconciliation through dialog," even with Islamists who emphatically reject peace, reconciliation, and dialog as methodologies or ideals.
While Europe Slept also makes the interesting observation that there is virtually no American-style "religious right" to oppose growing Muslim power. Virtually the whole Continent is atheist or de facto atheist.
This leads to some odd political terminology and alliances. Bruce Bawer consistently champions what he calls "the liberal resistance," but he doesn't seem to know where to find it or even how to describe it. What he does describe, in sickening detail, is how much the multicultural left utterly protects the Islamism. These two have formed an evil alliance in the heart of Western Civilization which seems all but unstoppable.
Bawer himself is a little confused about his own politics. He edited a book slamming America's multicultural left called Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy (1996). But he's also written a book called Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity (1998), which trashes the religious right. In the end, Bawer calls himself a part-time "libertarian" and is essentially a classical liberal.
This book is an easy and fun read. And despite the speed with which its mere three chapters can be consumed, it has plenty of documentation for its claims from almost every nation in Europe. Bawer, who is also a translator, speaks Dutch and Norwegian fluently, and is proficient in several other European languages as well. This insider-perspective helps provide quotations, incidents, and stories from all over the Continent -- many based on personal experience.
In the end, this book writes off Europe, arguing that America is the last hope for Western Civilization and the world. Although While Europe Slept tries to be positive at times -- and does offer suggestions to ameliorate the coming demographic nightmare -- Bawer concludes that "Europe is steadily committing suicide, and perhaps all we can do is look on in horror."
Perhaps the most terrifying part of the book is the way Muslims are confidently planning to rule Europe and make it part of the caliphate. A popular Swedish t-shirt reads simply "2030 -- then we take over." With France still only 12% Muslim, the leading Parisian newspaper Le Monde seems to have already surrendered. In 2004, it praised France for "the fact of its having and accepting the role of the first Muslim country of Europe."
How did Europe ever reach such a dead-end? The problem began rather recently, in the late '60s and '70s, with a temporary labor shortage and subsequent special "guest worker" programs. But the shortage is long gone and the Muslims are still here. And as Bawer points out repeatedly, they aren't being integrated into the various populations as in America. Almost all Muslims live in suburban ghettos and are somewhat rejected by the native and slightly nativist whites. Most Muslims, in turn, utterly reject their new country and its Western liberal ideology. Nor are the vast majority -- even second generation kids -- fluent in different, local European tongues.
And this growing problem is exasperated by a phenomenon unknown in America called "fetching" marriages. Muslim males use "family unification" laws to bring in illiterate females they've never met from their former country, and then marry them -- usually as uneducated teenagers. The young girls are then kept at home in a virtual prison where they reproduce wildly. These new citizens never learn the local languages or customs but they do qualify for vast welfare benefits and quickly produce more Islamist-oriented males and slave-like females, perpetuating the cycle all over again.
The effect of all these Muslims on the lifestyles of Europeans is simply remarkable. Homophobia is way up, as is opposition to abortion and divorce. "Honor" killings are rampant as is female "circumcision." In many parts of Europe all women must wear a scarf covering their face lest they be deemed whores. By right, any Muslim or Muslim gang can rape any uncovered girl. Afterwards, the girl is properly killed by relatives to end the "shame" of her family.
The rapists, naturally, go unpunished. And because native Europeans differ on this practice, many Muslims scornfully think of all white men as weak and effeminate for not being able to control their women. They think of all normally-dressed Western women as honorless low-lifes and unloved harlots, valuable only for group violation and subsequent termination.
Among the nightmare statistics cited by the book are these: 1. 80% of the women in Oslo's shelter system are Muslims fleeing abusive families, husbands, and boyfriends; 2. Danish Muslims make up 5% of the population but 40% of the welfare rolls; 3. refugee-friendly Switzerland is already 20% Muslim; 4. the world's most wonderful city (in my view) Amsterdam is now majority Muslim; 5. 70% of all French prisoners are Muslim; 6. the four London bombers that killed 56 in July of 2005 received almost a million dollars in welfare benefits.
And the bad news in this book just keeps coming. Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept is relentless. This book is praised by Mona Charen, Abe Foxman, Daniel Pipes, and Victor Davis Hanson, among others. But it doesn't offer much hope. Because of a kind of maniacal political correctness, otherwise civilized and enlightened Europeans seem doomed to Muslim domination in the near future. They are incurably infected with multiculturalism and a subsequent "unprincipled spirit of compromise and capitulation that is guiding today's Europe, step by step, to the gallows."
The White RINO House needs flushing..
Pity in 2008 another RINO will run/be chosen...(and very probably lose)
With Hillary as the head dhimmitation factor, dhimmitude will reach its zenith..
With John McLaim the Latin dhimmitude will be a bit slower..
BUT faster than the Shrubs Latin dhimmitude..
Interesting times await..
--Unless you accept the fact that a great, dark, supernatural force is at work on humanity.--
So many blinders on so many people - the handwriting's on the wall, and they don't want to believe it/deal with it, or other things (like getting half an inch's worth of political advantage, or making sure that abortion is defined as a human right) seem more important.
I have lately often wondered if it is just what you said...
Hmmm....
A great article/interview of Oriana Fallaci in they-wont-even-let-us-link.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060605fa_fact
"I read that book, and highly recommend it. It is significant that Bawer is a liberal, gay New Yorker. No one can accuse him of conservative bias - one of his previous books bashed the Religious Right in America. He has very interesting - and damning - things to say about the European media and the European political elites."
I read it also, and agree completely. The author's background makes his analysis of the European elites more powerful and more damning. Highly recommend it.
Alternatively, these are the people who stood up to Hitler, alone, and sacrificed the greatest empire the world had ever seen in the name of democracy.
When it happens, it will be very, very ugly.
"Europe has only ONE CHOICE, and it will be very ugly. I don't think they have the collective stones to do it. "
For all I care the Muzzies can have Europe. Let them make Paris their new Capitol. Then they can become Russians problem.
Short term I think Iraq falls under Iranian influence, the Saudis destabilize, and militant groups gain strength across North Africa.
They oppose us as the "Great Satan" and the Christian Crusaders that support Israel. So to them, this means they want to destroy NY and Rome - Israel's strongest allies. Those would be their top targets. Besides Turkey-Greece, the shortest route from the Arab world to Europe is Libya/Tunisia to Italy. Rome has long been a target of radical Islam, though most are not aware (it's historical). They have some whacko prophecy that to conquer Europe they must first take Rome. I think they will try to nuke NY with an inside nuclear device to disorient us and try to keep us backed off. So, we must remain vigilant.
This is their future, as cited by Churchill over 100 years ago:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”
-Sir Winston Churchill, from The River War, An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan; first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
Russia will be subsumed probably before the Europeans. Their demographics are truly horrid. It's China that's sitting and waiting.
The problem began rather recently, in the late '60s and '70s, with a temporary labor shortage and subsequent special "guest worker" programs.
But the problem is deeper. If Europe was still Christian this problem could be easily solved. Mohammedan immigration would be halted, and Europeans would not be birth-controling themselves out of existence. This is a battle for hearts and minds. Perhaps the amoral Europeans will wake up when they have to. After all, God used the Babylonians to whip Israel into shape. The Mohammedans can serve the same purpose for Christendom. Or Europe may go the way of the lost tribes.
I think this is exactly what Rev 6, Fatima, and past saints have talked about.
The good news is a strong Christian leader will step up in Europe's defense when all seems lost - the He-Goat of Daniel.
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
Great quote that's worth repeating.
It was that...
Don't think that Russia won't be part of Eurabia. Demographics.
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