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.
History isn't static - it merely reflects constant competition for territory, wealth & power. If Europe is left to those that cannot maintain it without a preceding holocaust, then at some point in time it will represent a prime geographic region ripe for conquest & exploitation.
Of course, we're talking 500-1k years here, but it isn't so far fetched to see reverse colonial actions taken from far-flung regions such as Australia. And when the new 'colonialists' arrive, the results will not be that different from what our forefathers did to aboriginal peoples in N. America.
Indeed you do...
It seems that the governments do not see it as such.
Of course, what do we know - we just live out in the real world.
Good luck to you, FRiend...
The Truth About the History of Islam in Europe - fjordman (great read...long)...here...
http://www.islam-watch.org/Fjordman/Truth-About-Islam-in-Europe.htm
The history of the current counter-offensive to the individual vs. the collective (my interpretation) Mark Steyn...here...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994101/posts
Concrete solutions here...
http://www.islam-watch.org/NoSharia/Prevent-Europe-Islamization8.htm
Many, many thanks to No Sharia.
“Of course, we’re talking 500-1k years here, but it isn’t so far fetched to see reverse colonial actions taken from far-flung regions such as Australia. And when the new ‘colonialists’ arrive, the results will not be that different from what our forefathers did to aboriginal peoples in N. America.”
You may be right, although it seems to me that historical timelines are compressing these day and what took centuries long ago might take much less time nowadays. So reverse colonialism might be the result, this time with missiles and nukes? Should prove interesting. I personally am thankful for the oceans which protect the U.S. on two and a half sides. Got the keep Canada from following Europe and keep Mexico economically viable at least enough not to fall into Communist hands.
And his death, while a tragedy, served to mobilize the entire Spartan Army who along with other Greeks pushed the Persian army into the sea at Palatea.
I can remember my Grandfather and Dad wondering if the two WW’s hadn’t killed or destoryed the real men of Europe leaving only French like men in Europe.
They may have been correct.
> It also greatly reduces your savings and purchasing power.
That depends upon your priorities in life.
To answer your question, just look at the US’s involvement in Kosovo...
Mainly housing, food, clothing, fuel, education, health ins, stuff like that.
Our house isn’t much bigger than the average. We make do. Bunk beds are the rule around here.
Food and clothing are the big costs. We shop at the big discount stores, Salvation Army, the Dollar Store, and the local stores that specialize in insurance salvage.
We buy industrial sized containers of food from places like Sam’s, grow a lot of our own, get milk at a local farm, and buy sides of beef from another local farmer.
The Apostolic Lutherans have a saying, “Each child comes with his own bread.”
And certainly, the Lord has been gracious and merciful to us and has provided abundantly for us.
But we are also investing in the future.
When the stock market crashed after 9-11, the guys at work were lamenting the collapse we were all experiencing with our 401K holdings. One of them asked me what I was going to do about retirement. I told him that with all our children, that wasn’t going to be a very big concern for us.
Good for you.
“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.”
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Too many of them don’t even realize the meaning of the word! That is why I have the tagline I have. If people understood what freedom is we would not have any of the three stooges we currently have fighting for the top office. They would all have been run out on a rail by now.
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Thanks for the ping, it’s a great article.
Thanks for the ping.
In the 1930's, many Europeans -- and some Englishmen (including people like Neville Chamberlain) -- felt this same way.
History has an odd way of repeating itself.
They may have to lead by example (again) and teach the other Euros how to fight and beat the muslim invaders.
When push comes to shove, Serbs and maybe Greeks are unwilling to let Muzzies gain control...I would guess that Poles and Russians will stand firm as well...maybe some Romanians and Bulgarians. These ethnicities have been fighting back Muzzies for hundred of years.
The Brits OTOH are slinking away to places hither and thither...
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