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 Broders 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 Broders 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 months 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.
The warring tribes of Europe have never had a document that secures the right of the individual over the collective. The state that cannot protect and defend that individual will submit to an anti-individual collective that will impose its will.
Witness history.
One big question I have is that: If Old Europe’s youth emigrate, then how will the dominant Muslim society support itself on the socialist programs? Europe has little in the way of natural resources like oil to have non-Muslims develop for it. It is not conducive to a nomadic life unless it is moving from old abandoned building to old abandoned building. At the present time, slavery is illegal in Europe (yes, I know, the tax rates equate slavery). But, really, can a Muslim majority which has driven out the native youth and whose own youth are not capable of either maintaining a viable government or competing in today’s 21st Century, high tech world really thrive in Europe?
Leftist socialists destroyed Europe and will destroy America too.. Currently America is fixing to elect a leftist socialist president.. All three of them are socialists either overt or covert..
So very true.
I don’t know, but those countries are not doing as well economically. I would think that they would therefore have fewer immigrants. Remember that Turkey is mostly Islamic, however, so I would expect that southeastern European countries would have some Islamic influence. That influence is long-standing rather than recent. It’s built in.
Insightful comment by Broder.
By 2018/19, Europe will be outright conquered. If they were just going to out-populate them, that would take a couple more decades. But they will go the militant route and take it much faster.
Yet, the generation who will live/grow up under Islamic occupation will reclaim Europe again - a more widespread Reconquista/D-Day.
In their haste to bolster the coming economic crash of their socialized states, the Europeans did this to themselves by opening their borders.
So...shouldn’t the title be “The Onanism Of Europe”...?
“Sadly I see this happening in the US as well.”
Not when my generation takes over.
I don’t think that is really the case, but OK...Non-Muslims just aren’t having children fast enough.
I hate to say it, but ‘old europe’ deserves what it gets.
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And “New America” deserves what it is getting. We are only a couple of steps behind Europe.
The author has it only partially correct: The choice is not just between submission and death, but rather is between submission, death, and victory. The author is right, though, in that a majority of Europeans seem to have accepted submission, as they are afraid of death and absoluteoly terrified of the fight that would be required for victory.
Thus, in the end I agree with the author that Europe is rapidly submitting to its islamic masters, and will see the dark cloud of islam roll over the continent. The ironic thing is, when that happens, even though they submitted, the Europeans will still find death, because they will be killed.
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.
This will be the liberals lament.
My mother, one of the great generation, often grieves at how the people nowadays think their freedom is an entitlement that just fell out out of the sky. People had to die for it.
I expected a white bull.
The empire of the future AC is growing, and, it’s going to be a Muslim Empire led by a muslim AC, IMHO. Many of us won’t be here to see it or to know who the AC will be, but we can see it coming. Obvious to me, anyway.
Thank God California, New Zeland and Australia make good wines since the French and Italian vineyards will soon be scorched so as not to produce evil spirits. Hell I was just acquiring a taste for good single malts too.
Europe has not passed the "tipping point" (thank you, Al Gore), but it is soon approaching. They have to do something unthinkable, something very bad, something that would horrify the UN. They have to start expelling Muslims and banning the practice of Islam.
Horrible, unthinkable, but entirely necessary if they wish to remain Europe. Almost every facet of European culture will be offensive to Islam. Do the math.
Imagine London, Paris, Brussels, Madrid, Copenhagen, Amsterdam all blaring the call to prayer 5 times a day, and jailing anyone not in Muslim garb. Imagine priceless artwork burned and smashed as offensive to the Prophet. Imagine the remaining churches converted into mosques and raped of all Christian evidence. Imagine millions of people subjected to Shari'a law when they are pulled over by a cop.
It may have been amusing hyperbole a few years ago, but it's not amusing now.
When Britain and France decided to put centuries of conflict behind them at the end of the 18th century many believed it would bring on an era of endless peace. Within 2 decades Europe was caught up in the maelstrom of WW1.
When the USSR collapsed many of the same emotions came out...the "peace dividend" and what have you. I became very afraid, and remain so to this day, that history was going to repeat itself. I've felt since that time that the world was on course to another catastrophe; I didn't see the rise of militant Islam as being that source but I'm increasingly of the belief that it may well be.
The next 5 to 7 years will be very dangerous I'm afraid. I truly hope I'm wrong, but the whole Chinese monkey wrench potential after the Olympics might just be enough to light the cauldron.
Global Warming is nothing compared to this mess.
Nothing lasts forever.
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