These Europeans will fight!
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.
Also, central European countries, like Poland and the Czech Republic, which have relatively few Muslims, may one day be a destination for Christian Western Europeans looking to escape.
I've heard the same from my parents, uncles and aunts. I remember my grandmother really getting wound-up on this topic a few times; understandable from someone who was a child whose father died in WWI, then watched her own sons march off to save France once again.
This lesson is one that, unfortunately, must be re-learned the hard way every few generations. School is now in session.
These Europeans will fight!
Good question. We might get an answer by taking a look at Bangladesh. No resources, corrupt and inefficient government, etc. etc. Bt that doesn’t stop the Bangladeshis from having families with 7 kids. They just spill over into India.
The bottom line - islamist governments don’t worry about taking care of their people or providng the necessities - they just move on to the next conquest (witness Hamas in Gaza).
No, muslims in Europe could not thrive without the massive welfare state currently prevalent there. As with many in this country, they don’t see or understand the support chain, so they continue to persecute the productive members of the society they are leeching off of.
love the Poles
Europe will just collapse. Europe has collapsed in the past and another dark age is not unimaginable.
The new Europeans will pick the bones of old Europe until they starve or build a new civilization.
What a quote.
“I hate to say it, but ‘old europe’ deserves what it gets.”
Don’t we all. That said, to cede Europian territory to muslims, is merely to allow the front of the war to move closer to your home.
(I should know.)
Rather be raped than risk injury by resisting??? The muzzies must be laughing themselves silly over this.
European nations which remain sane will likely face the “New Hampshire problem”. Secular leftists will flee from Holland, France, and England to Poland. Once there, they’ll immediately vote in the same secularist, open borders policies that ruined the nation they fled from. Just as Massachusetts lefties moved to NH and have turned it into an increasingly ‘Rat state.
I wonder if the Euroweenies will think to destroy their military hardware before it falls to the Muslims? Or will they just hand it over in the name of keeping the peace?
European peoples are being betrayed by thier governments.
But then again, so are we Americans - just to slightly lesser extent.
Tough times lie ahead.
Thanks for your response. I see that we all agree Europe would not continue for long as we now know it (not that that would be a bad thing in some aspects).
In addition to Europe’s youth, the Europeans of today might want to consider placing their art and other cultural treasures somewhere safe, like here in the U.S. because the inheritors of Europe are not likely to care for them as Europeans do. Can they dismantle St. Paul’s, or Notre Dame and rebuild it somewhere else? How much of European culture is portable because whatever isn’t portable is likely to be lost to either neglect or outright destruction by the new Europeans.
I believe there will come a point where the parasite overcomes the host and then we are all in trouble. Europe can satiate the radical Muslims only so long as it will support their 7th Century lifestyle and then, like happyathome said, it will metastacize (I know, mixed metaphors but it is early morning where I am posting).
Sad to say I think the real lifeblood of Europe either emigrated long ago or was destroyed in and prior to WW2. What’s left there now are the trust fund babies enjoying the dregs of the family legacy.
What about living to fight another day, when you have better odds?
King Leonidas of Sparta might disagree with you.
Yeah, he died, never did get to fight again.
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