That's how you can them yellow bellies to fight.
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."
Mainly prophecies of Catholic saints and Scripture. St. Malachy's writings for example point to the next pope being a martyr, though certainly not the last pope.
The point made by the article is that the continent is populated by atheists and/or de facto atheists.
This is a wild claim.
My wife is an Italian national, and I lived abroad for a number of years.
Agnosticism is rampant. Atheism isn't.
The statement is at best careless and at worst preposterous.
I do not disagree to any degree with your post. And while I agree with the article's tenor, it seems like warmed over Steyn.
I don't have even the slightest clue what point you're making here.
I don't disagree with the tone of this warmed over topic that has been eloquently visited by the likes of Mark Steyn.
Inaccuracy and wild assertion annoy me, and should annoy you too.
That is an excellent point. Radical Islam and the Left disagree over almost everything else except their common hatred of America and that makes them bedfellows. When Radical Islam takes over a nation the leftists lose their freedoms but their hatred for capitalism and America supercedes that.
Good point about the hatred of the US and capitalism, I meant to include that point in my post. Reminds me of Hitler using homosexuals as concentration camp torturers and than turning on the homos in the end.
BTTT
Socially liberal, pro gay marriage, anti-family. It goes on and on.
In short. Europe is hell bent on committing cultural suicide. In time, Islam will complete its invasion, throw the stinking corpse out of the window, and take over the digs.
That's where the US will end up too if we don't check the same tendencies here.
Does no one see the parallels with the invasion that is pouring in over our Southern Front RIGHT NOW?
Does no one see the parallels with the notions of "guest workers", and what becomes of them (they become PERMANENT "guests"), and of their offspring?
Does no one see the parallels when considering what will become of American culture 50 years from now?
How can the leadership and elites of America - which (right now) seem so hurried to sell out the Euro-Americans and their nation to hordes of aliens that they are stumbling over themselves down in D.C. to pass "immigration reform".....
How can they NOT see this?
- John
That is an awesome pic!
Indeed. Europe faces a holocaust which will make the previous one resemble a pajama party by comparison.
It is inevitable. There is no way to stop it, at least no "other path" which will be taken that can prevent it. By the time Europeans aquire the stomach and the will (read: "Triumph of the Will") to deal with Islam, no other solution but a bloodbath will be before them.
We of The West can only hope that the blood which is spilled (which MUST be not only the blood of soldiers, but of women and children as well) is mostly Muslim, rather than European.
Europe's only hope against Islam is to ultimately treat Islam _MORE_ viciously than Islam would treat Europe, if Islam gains the upper hand.
A gruesome thought. But inescapable.
- John
The article states as a nightmare fact that Switzeralnd is 20% Muslim. That can't be right can it?
I highly doubt we or Europe will use nukes before Europe is attacked and occupied. Russia and China would have their hands on their triggers. The danger of escalating to MAD would be too great. I think we'll decide to bear the brunt for the moment.
However, when we liberate Europe (late 2030s?), we'll have a pure fusion delivery system, which don't have the radioactive after effects of fission delivery and can be smaller. Also, the atrocities the occupying Islamics will commit will be reason enough to justify a collateral response. Russia might even help some. So the will to use them will be there.
My sketchy timeline is partly based on a Cold War analogy - 40 years from 1950 to win that one = 40 years from 2001 to win this one.
He seemed to be under the impression that because most of Eu is Atheist, they would'nt follow Islamofascism. Eu has a History
To make the statement that EU would not fall to Islamofascism is the most unenlightened statement I have heard. And to say because they are Atheist is going to be their salvation is even more hard to take. Any continent that has a histroy of allegience with the Islamofascist and follows an evil National socialist, will have no problem bending over for OBL.
I hope you are right of course and Europe rediscovers its testestorone.
And start making babies too!
Your statement reflect exactly my thinking; namely at the end, the Eastern Europeans will save the Westerns out of their self inflicted demise.
I do know for a fact that Eastern Europeans give very little credence to "multiculturalism", "political correctness" etc.
They are very patriotic, staunch defenders and believers in God, Country and Family and very loyal allies in times of need.
The majority of the Eastern European nations have been under Communist subjugation for decades and believe me they are not going to allow anyone to take away from them the newly found freedom.
How do I know them?...I was born there!
I hope you are right. In your prayers, please ask Our Lady to intercede for the West.
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