Posted on 09/15/2007 7:59:52 AM PDT by Nuc1
The story of the week wasn't Gen. David Petraeus' testimony on Iraq, although it dominated the headlines. The story of the week wasn't the sixth return of Sept. 11 since the jihad atrocity of 2001, although it inspired many public statements and ceremonies. The week's biggest story garnered little press and few comments. But, in a significant way, this overlooked story -- an outrageous display of police force in Brussels on Sept. 11, 2007 -- symbolizes the missing link in our flawed comprehension of both Iraq and Sept. 11.
There, in the so-called capital of Europe, 200 people marked the day with a protest against the Islamization of Europe -- a civilizational shift which, as Europe increasingly accommodates Shariah (Islamic law), is shockingly advanced. Indeed, Middle East expert Bernard Lewis has already predicted Europe will become Islamic by century's end. Absent a reversal of Islamization (which remains possible) I'm guessing sooner than that.
Belgium's Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht gives a news conference in Brussels September 14, 2007 following the announcement of the release of Stefaan Boeve in Iran. Boeve had been kidnapped on August 12, 2007 with his girlfriend Carla Van Den Eeckhoudt, who was released on August 15. REUTERS/Sebastien Pirlet (BELGIUM) Related Media: VIDEO: Belgium Farm Hosts Large Music Party, Neighbors Complain VIDEO: IT Events - European e-ID Conference 2007 The assembly, sponsored by Stop the Islamization of Europe (SIOE), was wholly peaceful -- at least until Belgian police showed up. With a chopper above, water cannon nearby, they didn't break heads, exactly -- nothing so kind as that. In a photo that should be titled The New Face of Fascism (see it at www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2441), we see black-clad Belgian policemen brutalizing a man in a light-colored suit and tie. His hands are cuffed behind his back, his right elbow is clasped in what is known as an arm-bar hold, and he is also being subjected to a genital hold -- a vicious grip that, a retired cop friend of mine tells me, would get any American policeman thrown off the force.
The man under arrest was Frank Vanhecke, president of the Flemish secessionist party Vlaams Belang and a member of European Parliament. Also arrested and beaten was Filip Dewinter, who, as the leading politician of Vlaams Belang, Belgium's largest opposition party, has personally garnered 25 percent of the electorate. (You can find a picture of Belgian police forcing Dewinter to the ground online at kleinverzet.blogspot.com.)
These men are invariably described as "far-right" politicians, as though "far-right"-ness alone (whatever that means when totalitarian police tactics are considered tolerant left) is rationale enough for harsh treatment. I've met both men and know them as free-market, small-government conservatives who deeply believe Western civilization is worth defending against the Islamization that occurs with the entrenchment of Shariah. Indeed, they are bravely trying to prevent Europe's Islamization, practically by themselves. I say "bravely" because in Europe these days, as we know from the Islam-motivated murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh, such beliefs can get you killed.
Maybe so, a reader might say. But what does protesting Shariah in Europe have to do with either American policy in Iraq or Sept. 11?
The answer is everything. What were the attacks of Sept. 11 all about? Al Qaeda's terrorist plot was designed not only to strike at the United States, but also to advance the cause of establishing an Islamic caliphate -- a world government ruled according to Shariah, which, among other things, forbids criticism of Islam. Polls indicate that sizable numbers of Muslims (solid majorities in key countries), regardless of their opinion of Al Qaeda, share this same goal of a Shariat-based, Islamic caliphate. This is a highly significant overlap between the goals of Islamic terrorism and what we think of as mainstream Islam.
Meanwhile, though, in our childish, PC wisdom (accepted across the political spectrum), we have let Islam off the hook when it comes to terrorism, sticking to the story that our whole problem is with a Tiny Band of Extremists That Hijacked Islam, not the jihadist teachings of Islam itself. To make the story stick, we also seem to ignore the impetus behind Islamic terrorism -- the imposition of Shariah, what with its ultimate institutional denigrations of non-Muslims and women, and its denial of freedom of conscience and expression.
This blinkered view of Islam explains how even in our commemorations of Sept. 11 we ignore the ongoing threat to liberty posed by the spread of Shariah across the West, which the SIOE was trying to protest. It even helps explain our confusion over Iraq, where, ignoring the formative influence of Shariah on the native culture, we are stumped by our failures to remake Iraq in our own Western image.
There is another consequence of our blindness: a terrible indifference to cultural allies in Europe who are fighting its Islamization -- a cataclysm for the liberty-based West.
We ignore them at our peril.
You have my vote VOA. Danger is raising all around us and we sit here.
Good luck with that in MA. You’re right, conservatives do have jobs and families. That means that conservatives have money to spend. We have the power to not spend money that supports those who oppose our way of life. That is a good place to start. Jesse Jackson has been successful in forcing corporate hands by threatening boycotts etc. If we really care about our families we will not fund those who despise our way of life. That means knowing what the positions of the CEOs of companies you do business with are. That means knowing what the entertainers you fund support. It shouldn’t be ‘shut up and sing’. It should be shut up or starve.
Second Amendment. Our ultimate defense against evil. Our founding fathers were far more visionary than we give them credit for.
check http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/ for some info. you might have to go back a few days for their coverage, but I doubt it. They were on the story from the beginning.
It’s pretty sobering stuff. In Brussels, in the public square, saying islam is bad will get you arrested.
Belgian Police Beat Demonstrators as “Precautionary Measure”
A demonstration against the “Islamization of Europe,” where participants planned a moment of silence to commemorate the anniversary of 9/11 attacks in the United States, was brutally suppressed by Belgian police acting on instructions from the Socialist mayor of Brussels Freddy Thielemans.
The mayor described the police violence as a “precautionary measure.” “The demonstration was very offensive to our Muslim citizens,” Thielemans pointed out. “To be against Islamization is, in their eyes, an affront to God. And to choose 9/11, the day of the jihad of the martyrs, was abysmal timing. I can’t tell you how many calls I got promising a bloodbath if the demonstration was allowed to go forward. These people were beaten by our police for their own protection.”
Thielemans maintained that the police action “had to be severe enough to placate the Islamic extremists, lest something worse might happen.” “A few concussions, a couple of broken ribs and a little blood were a tolerable outcome,” Thielemans said. “No one died. If people would just learn to be quiet about this subject we could all live in peace.”
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
Of course, if people were “quiet” about Krystalnight” then things would have been peaceful as well.
Wait. They WERE silent then .... But to a socialist, ANY protest is illegitimate, unless it is against the US or capitalism.
Unbelievable. What about the non-Muslim women of Europe? They’ve decided to go silently into the long dark night of Total Subjugation?
Scathing but on target. Trouble is you could actually see this happening anywhere the left rules.
Well there are individuals and groups of women standing up for their human rights but I don't believe they will have much impact. When one considers the magnitude and manevlviolence of the people they are up against I don't hold up much hope. In order for a rights movement to establish itself and flourish in islam it must be protected from the practitioners of islam. It follows then that islam is the problem. I conclude that the only way for the women of islam to exercise their God given rights is to push back islam. The west is not ready to do this. So for muslim women the choice is silence or brutality, torture, and death. This is essentially the choice non-muslim women have. If they protest the muslim invasion then their own government finds them guilty of hate speech, thoughts etc. If they are too successful in their protests the muslims will assinate them. Between the extremes the left will persecute them. The west has painted itself into quite a corner.
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