Posted on 03/31/2008 5:49:23 AM PDT by Doctor13
The German author Henryk M. Broder recently told the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant (12 October) that young Europeans who love freedom, better emigrate. Europe as we know it will no longer exist 20 years from now. Whilst sitting on a terrace in Berlin, Broder pointed to the other customers and the passers-by and said melancholically: “We are watching the world of yesterday.”
Europe is turning Muslim. As Broder is sixty years old he is not going to emigrate himself. “I am too old,” he said. However, he urged young people to get out and “move to Australia or New Zealand. That is the only option they have if they want to avoid the plagues that will turn the old continent uninhabitable.”
Many Germans and Dutch, apparently, did not wait for Broder’s advice. The number of emigrants leaving the Netherlands and Germany has already surpassed the number of immigrants moving in. One does not have to be prophetic to predict, like Henryk Broder, that Europe is becoming Islamic. Just consider the demographics. The number of Muslims in contemporary Europe is estimated to be 50 million. It is expected to double in twenty years. By 2025, one third of all European children will be born to Muslim families. Today Mohammed is already the most popular name for new-born boys in Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and other major European cities.
Broder is convinced that the Europeans are not willing to oppose islamization. “The dominant ethos,” he told De Volkskrant, “is perfectly voiced by the stupid blonde woman author with whom I recently debated. She said that it is sometimes better to let yourself be raped than to risk serious injuries while resisting. She said it is sometimes better to avoid fighting than run the risk of death.”
In a recent op-ed piece in the Brussels newspaper De Standaard (23 October) the Dutch (gay and self-declared “humanist”) author Oscar Van den Boogaard refers to Broder’s interview. Van den Boogaard says that to him coping with the islamization of Europe is like “a process of mourning.” He is overwhelmed by a “feeling of sadness.” “I am not a warrior,” he says, “but who is? I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.”
As Tom Bethell wrote in this month’s American Spectator: “Just at the most basic level of demography the secular-humanist option is not working.” But there is more to it than the fact that non-religious people tend not to have as many children as religious people, because many of them prefer to “enjoy” freedom rather than renounce it for the sake of children. Secularists, it seems to me, are also less keen on fighting. Since they do not believe in an afterlife, this life is the only thing they have to lose. Hence they will rather accept submission than fight. Like the German feminist Broder referred to, they prefer to be raped than to resist.
“If faith collapses, civilization goes with it,” says Bethell. That is the real cause of the closing of civilization in Europe. Islamization is simply the consequence. The very word Islam means “submission” and the secularists have submitted already. Many Europeans have already become Muslims, though they do not realize it or do not want to admit it.
Some of the people I meet in the U.S. are particularly worried about the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. They are correct when they fear that anti-Semitism is also on the rise among non-immigrant Europeans. The latter hate people with a fighting spirit. Contemporary anti-Semitism in Europe (at least when coming from native Europeans) is related to anti-Americanism. People who are not prepared to resist and are eager to submit, hate others who do not want to submit and are prepared to fight. They hate them because they are afraid that the latter will endanger their lives as well. In their view everyone must submit.
This is why they have come to hate Israel and America so much, and the small band of European “islamophobes” who dare to talk about what they see happening around them. West Europeans have to choose between submission (islam) or death. I fear, like Broder, that they have chosen submission – just like in former days when they preferred to be red rather than dead.
Thanks for the link. I seem to remember reading that before. Very thought provoking.
“your love of your own exalted sensibilities and your willingness to enter into a global war for civilizational survival even while you are too timid, too fearful . . . too decent . . . to match the ruthlessness of your enemies.”
Well a white guy not speaking Spanish coming from that direction will be noticed lol.
“I wonder why he didnt tell European youth to come to america?”
Because in America they might be expected to fight one last time. They would rather run to Australia or NZ where they think trouble won’t get there as soon.
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Remember, today's Europeans are the descendants of those peasants who, 150 years ago, decided they didn't want to risk getting on a boat and come to America.
They aren't from particularly brave stock.
I fully expect some liberal enclaves to give recognition to sharia law.
17 posted on 03/31/2008 6:02:07 AM PDT by The Great RJ (”Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin” or “We want to remain what we are
That will probably happen during the next administration. Regardless of which individual wins the general election, there will be a Democrat President.
When are they going to take over?
Find a crowd and blend in. ;o)
Well I need to get a sun-tan first then, I am really, really white lol. Remind me to do that, my legs look like bottles of milk hehehe
LOL!
If you make it to Oregon, your really white self will blend in nicely.
They are so white up here that they GLOW! lol
Unthinkable back in 2000 but now it’s becoming reality. Now the question is what sort of future refugees should we accept from Eurabia?
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Ones who fought and attempted to take a stand, and who didn't just go around appeasing quietly and waiting for the government to do something.
Ones who don't find it shocking if someone owns a gun or carries a pocketknife.
Ones who think it's wrong to fine people for accidentally putting a recyclable bottle in the wrong bin.
Ones who haven't spent the past 8 years (or 50 years) cursing Americans.
That would be the head of the line.
The die-hards will likely stay in Europe while the cowards will flee to America. In Zimbambwe, there are still some Whites living there despite all of what happened under Mugabe’s regime.
I'm not sure that will be the case with Europe. I expect that the cowards will remain and do nothing until they get their dhimmi lapel pin. That's what they are doing now. The die-hards seem to be the ones emigrating to the US, Canada and Australia etc. They can see the writing on the wall.
Procreation is only one ingredient. Europe (and the US) has to come to the realization that a Secularist government is too weak to survive. Christianity has been actively and calculatedly suppressed in the way that Christianity is most vulnerable, from argument and advocacy in the public square. Islam is not vulnerable in this way. It spreads through governments by the sword with far more pragmatically disingenuous and brutal methods to gain and retain "followers".
The funny thing is, Secularism was only allowed to reign because of the goodness of Christianity, which does not strive for power in governments or special consideration in law. Islam, however, has no such restraint, and Secularism is in no way capable of withstanding the onslaught of a brutal power-seeking religion (that ironically, Secularists characterize Christians as being). Christianity is capable of and has overthrown Muslim rule and changed the hearts and minds of millions of Muslims through peaceful means. It is like we are in the middle of a large game of Rock Paper Scissors, and we're going from Secularism beats Christianity (by exploiting Christianity's goodness), to Islam beats Secularism (by exploiting Secularism's weakness), and in the future back to Christianity beats Islam.
That may just be the way God has it planned...
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