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.
Something like that described by The Time Traveler?
It must be sad to be you. So many of us grew up under the shadow of The Bomb, and drank deeply at the well of Lindsey, Back In The Day when Everyone Knew that GOD HAD ORDAINED the global triumph of Soviet Communism.
Well, God obsoleted Hilarious Hal's books overnight.
Rather than giving Him thanks for taking down His enemies, those who could not shake off the addictive psychic poison of pointless prognostication frantically ran around looking for another AC candidate to cringe before.
The twelve spies all worked from the same data set. Ten saw the certainty of defeat, cast aspersions upon the character and power of God, undermined the courage of Israel, and caused an entire generation to die while wandering around pointlessly in the desert.
I'd rather be found with Caleb and Joshua, expecting great things from God, attempting great things for God. For example, suppose Islam was suddenly and supernaturally discredited. What would you have to offer a billion of our fellow men who asked -- "what do we do now?" It's not that hard to make Muslim friends, and start learning their culture and languages. Millions of Arabs, Persians, and Turks are studying in our universities, wanting to learn about our culture, make American friends, and help us learn what we need to know in order to effectively communicate the gospel to them.
Let's smash our crystal balls, grow a pair of b@lls, and let God worry about the future. We have work to do today for His glory.
Non-procreation is not the root of the problem, it is a consequence. West has lost its identity --- first, having lost faith in G-d since the Enlightenment; and then having acquired post-colinianl guilt. We in the US are equally sick but are slightly behind the Europeans. Our elites have succeeded in teaching great many Americans that everything Western in evil --- individual liberties, history, free markets... At this point, most hardly know history or what individual liberties (as opposed to civil rights) and free markets are. And nobody never defend what they don't know. Unless Martians become enamored with our Constitution, I don't know who is going to defend, or even uphold, in the next generation.
Depressing indeed.
This is the unspoken sentiment of Code Stink and the rest of the ignorant and ungrateful scum who protest our military recruiters, etc.
Unspoken because they are not as articulate as this lost soul is.
I’ve been saying for some time that I expect to see concentration camps in Europe in my lifetime (I’m pushing 50).
The question that remains, is: Who will be running them?
I am not at all happy to be making this grim prediction.
You raise thoughtful questions. I think European culture is fundamentally immobile. They could box up the contents of the Louvre and ship them to Sydney or New York, but it would not be the same thing. In addition, I’m not sure how many Americans want old Europe transplanted here. The Woody Allens of the world would love to wake up in the morning and step out the door into a faux Paris, but the folks in the heartland are quite happy surrounded by non-Europe, thank you very much.
The real question for us Americans is whether we’ll lend a hand if/when some Europeans with guts fight back (see earlier posts on Poles, Czechs, maybe Magyars and a few others). On the one hand we rail against western europe and it feels good to say “they deserve what they get.” I’m as guilty of that as the next conservative blogger. On the other hand, if the Polish nation rises up and fights back, I think lots of Americans would want to help.
I guess we won’t know until we get there (God forbid the dreadful predictions in this thread acually come true).
My mother and father lived in England in the mid 50’s. After coming back here they continued to visit England every few years. My father is now deceased but my mother is still living. She went back last summer. She was upset about many of the things that go on there. When she asked about the things she was seeing, she says family and friends kept telling her, “oh none of that affects us”.
She told me she doesn’t intend to go again.
“if the Polish nation rises up and fights back, I think lots of Americans would want to help.”
I would hope we would rise up and help them, before it was too late. I’m not sure, though. I’m doing some research on the Muslim nations’ financial investments in our universities and based just on the most recent Department of Education report of funding over the past ten years or so, Muslim nations, (most notably Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Qatar, Bahrain, Malaysia) have spent about $400 million on gifts and contracts with U.S. publicly funded universities, including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, University of Arkansas, the University of California system, Tufts, Tulane, Duke, Rice Clemson. Texas A&M, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Georgetown, Virginia Commonwealth system and NYU either have or are setting up satellite campuses (campi?) in the United Arab Emirates or Qatar or Oman. The question will be whether the universities will obstruct the nation’s response against Muslim incursion.
Either one, they still aren’t procreating as fast as the Muslims.
“Let’s smash our crystal balls, grow a pair of b@lls, and let God worry about the future. “
I for one AM NOT worrying about the future! I’m looking forward to mine.
Good answer.
Next question — are you also praying with eager joy about your grandchildren’s future? How far “downline” does your faith reach? Can you pray with confidence for God to make your descendants influential a century from now? My little girls may be griping about their Turkish lessons now, but I am really looking forward to see God’s hand of blessings upon their lives in the years to come.
I guess modern Europe is a practical application of the old bromide, “If you won’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”
Excellent article, and one of the saddest commentaries I’ve ever read.
Thank you for the post and ping.
Knighthawk, you can try coming through our southern border.
I don’t think anyone will notice.
I wonder why these countries are not putting in a quota system for muslims immigrants? It should be very very low to allow for the pro-creation quotient.
I saw a post on FR that told that at about 10% of total population, the muslims begin to feel very impowered to enact sharia law.
When asked why this was
He could point to no cause
As for him, he would rather be Red
Interesting research. There are a lot of ways it could become useful, once completed.
Americans are still, in general, egalitarian-spirited and anti-elitist. I think this explains a lot of the reaction against John Kerry in 2004 and Al Gore in 2000. I wonder if a good, thorough set of research on Islamic influence over east and west coast universities, if released at the right time, could turn the tide against secular elitists on a number of fronts? That is, whack them not just for their siding with our enemies, but expose their susceptibility to all forms of anti-Americanism, their cockamammy teaching of western history, their adherence to multi-culturalism, support for illegal immigrant amnesty, etc.
It’s available already from the Department of Education. Freepers, as always, are ahead of the curve. I downloaded the February 2008 report from a link to National Review provided by a freeper a few days ago.
Of course, Saudi Arabia has been investing in universities for a long time but of those reported in the most recent one was an interesting gift of over $18 million to the University of Arkansas in 1995 while a certain president hailed from Arkansas.
Please find out who and why prepared that Law on early 60’s, that prevented on purpose young Europeans to come to America...
Best,
I think Ralph Peters has a better take on the final European reaction to Muslims than this author.
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