Posted on 02/27/2007 4:57:49 PM PST by VRW Conspirator
The U.S. State Department has another great idea.
The problem in Europe, say the professional diplomats, is that European Muslims just aren't assimilating the way they should.
So the geniuses at State have hired Farah Pandith from the National Security Council to head up a new effort to help European Muslims better integrate into European society.
Let me tell you something – they hired the wrong Farah for the wrong job.
Listen to the way these knuckleheads at State talk about this problem.
Daniel Fried, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, said the growing Muslim presence in Europe is "a fascinating issue and one that the American government is just now trying to get its mind around. It's a huge problem, we are thinking about it seriously, and we've tried to do some intellectual framing-up."
What does he propose?
He says Europe is to blame.
"You have a weird nativist surge in Western Europe, and a kind of odd panic: Aliens are here, they don't accept our values, they are a threat to our way of life and turn to radicalism," says Fried.
So State is going to bring American Muslims to Europe to meet with their counterparts in an effort to "break down stereotypes" and help them end their "self-isolation."
In other words, psychobabble.
This isn't about stereotypes and self-isolation. It's about conflicting worldviews. It's about an evil ideology that seeks to destroy Europe and the U.S. and conquer the world.
On one point, however, I think the eggheads at the State Department are right. The key to the outcome of this global conflict is in Europe.
Do you want to know how to win the fight against the global jihadists?
I'm going to tell you how, and I'm serious.
Re-Christianize the continent.
That's what we need to do.
We need to re-evangelize Europe.
Europe is ripe for this experience.
It has experimented now with socialism for longer than the Soviet Union existed.
It has experimented with secular humanism as a religion.
And it has faced out-of-control immigration from Muslim lands. These new immigrants are happy to exploit the benefits of the welfare state, but they have no use for secular humanism.
If Europe is ever going to be re-evangelized, the time is now, while there is still a vestige of freedom left. Once Europe becomes Eurabia, evangelism, as we know it in the U.S., will carry with it the death penalty.
Europe is going to go one of two ways in the near future:
It's going to become Eurabia;
It's going to rediscover Christianity in a way that will give its people – native Europeans and transplants from Muslim countries alike – something else they can believe in. Islamists are counting on Europe falling into their hands. Most Americans are simply awaiting the inevitable. But it doesn't have to be this way. We can do something about it. We can save Europe for the third time in 100 years – this time without firing a shot.
This can be done and must be done. Americans need to help – not just by becoming missionaries to Europe but especially by supporting the indigenous evangelists already at work there.
You often hear, these days, that Islam is the fastest-growing religion on the planet. I'm not sure from where these statistics come – probably from Saudi Arabia. The truth is that Christianity is the fastest-growing religion on the planet, with lots of Muslims converting all over the world.
No, I don't think sending American Muslims to Europe is a good idea. I think sending American Christians there would make much more sense.
We don't have to "invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity," as my friend Ann Coulter once suggested about our Islamo-fascist enemies. In Europe, all we have to do is convert them to Christianity – peacefully, voluntarily, non-coercively, lovingly.
It's time to reintroduce Europe to Christianity.
It is a continent much in need of salvation.
It is a continent filled with people who are lost.
It's time they had a real choice – not just between secular humanism and Islam, but also the choice of Christianity, the faith that made Europe great.
Call The Crusade!
Time for the Crusades and bring back the Knights Templar!!!
With my limited understanding of the evangelical world, the third world and eastern Europe is gaining many converts.
Wasn't this Ann Coulter's idea to begin with?
Here Here!
Dear god in heaven. Where have these drooling, bladder-'n'-bowel-challenegd amateurs been for the last thirty years?
What the heck are we doing? We have a fit when they interfere in our domestic matters, so what makes us think that we have the right to meddle in their?. They should tell us to mind our own d@mn business. Only not quite so politely.
Send in the Evangelicals!
I hope and pray that Evangelicals will double their efforts in Europe for the coming years.
I'll be a missionary in Munich. Post me about October.
[i]What the heck are we doing? We have a fit when they interfere in our domestic matters, so what makes us think that we have the right to meddle in their?. They should tell us to mind our own d@mn business. Only not quite so politely.[/i]
That's the beauty of this idea, it doesn't interfere with their domestic policy one iota.
This really is the correct answer to the problem, as politically incorrect as it may be.
If Europe was serious about integrating Muslims, the first thing to do is to create integrated housing, instead of doing what Europe has done for a thousand or more years: put the minorities in a ghetto.
If to live and work, immigrants have to integrate, then they *have* to integrate. But if you don't just give them an option of staying in a ghetto, if you even *encourage* them to live there, they *won't* integrate.
This is pretty simple stuff, but seems to go right over their heads.
Instead, they embrace nonsense like "multiculturalism". Which even the slow kids are starting to realize is a disaster for everybody.
Seriously speaking, even in France, with 5-10% of their population being Muslim, how hard would it be to legally *prevent* ethnic clustering? For the government to do exactly the *opposite* of what it had done before?
It's easy. Look at the demographics of a city. If there is a predominantly immigrant area, "gentrify" it, right down the middle. Raze however many blocks you need to split it in half, and replace them with new businesses, owned and run by ethnic French people.
Similar "redevelopment" is done in the US all the time, if not for that reason. It is economically great for a city in general. And if it busts up a large, segregated enclave, then all the better.
And if you are worried about any harm to that ethnic neighborhood, don't, because tearing down old buildings and building new ones, then putting new businesses in them is *great* for local employment.
But if the government of France sat down with a map of their cities with such ghettos, and set about to systematically force integration in this manner, the Muslims *would* integrate.
They would *have* to learn French. They would *have* to interact with Frenchmen. They would *have* to do things the French way.
Under such pressure like that, integration would happen, unlike what they have today, which if left like it is, will still mean Muslim ghettos in France in a hundred years, just like there used to be Jewish ghettos in France for hundreds of years.
"Daniel Fried, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs"
How many times will this guy have to say "It's pronounced Freed, dammit, FREED. Not fried!"
Throughout history, is there any evidence Muslim assimilation and peaceful accommodation into a non Muslim society?
To this day -- Muslims are still under direction of the Koran and their lunatic clerics to slay the non Muslim at every opportunity... Their directive and stated goal is to wage war on the non Islamic world and force by word or sword Islam throughout the world... No room for "assimilation" in that scenario..
Muslims throughout the non Muslim world attempt to get their host nation to comply with Muslim demands...and bend to Muslim sensitivities...
Screw em all.... There is no way to identify or quantify the "moderate Muslim" -- and even if there were -- no one has DEFINED a moderate Muslim...
Semper Fi
Joseph Farah is absolutely correct. However, the evangelism and Christian revival he refers to must also happen here in America. Christianity is weak in America and needs more strength here at home in order to sustain an effective evangelism effort in Europe.
This must be done or Europe will be lost to Islam. The Islamic inroads there cannot be overcome by our "war on terrorism." The real war is a religious one and terrorism is merely a tactic that the Islamofacists are using. Our focus needs to be, not on the tactics of the enemy, but on the core issues. The jihadists openly declare that their war is religious in nature, aimed at Islamic conquest of the entire world. We are foolish in our failure to recognize this.
Islam cannot be defeated by guns and bombs. Our current war on terrorism, being waged by guns and bombs, is faltering because our main motivation, anger over 9/11, is fading with time. On the other hand, the motivation of our enemy is primarily based on deeply held religious convictions that last a lifetime. They persevere while we fade away and give up.
Islam can only be defeated by a superior faith. Christianity is that faith. It was at the foundation of this country's birth and sustained us through many great adversities. In recent years we have rejected the Christian God and are now beginning to reap the bitter fruits of that rejection.
Europe is several years ahead of us in that rejection and its consequences. That is why they have little strength now to resist the advances of Islam. They are well on their way to Islamification. If they fall, we will be in dire straits to resist Islam's present power of middle eastern oil resources PLUS the economic and technological power of an Islamic Europe.
Europe must not fall and a revived Christian Europe is the only way to prevent that.
The intelligent are out there running businesses and corporations. The liberal and the dumb (but then I repeat myself) gravitate towards government. There's your answer.
Sounds like a waste of good missionaries. Europe is too far along the road to extinguishing itself through simple demographics. No sense in putting an "American metal roof" on a house already destined to destruction by termites. Find a structure that has a future-- like Asia, Africa, S. America, or Antartica.
Send out St. Patrick - ping -
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.