Posted on 04/02/2018 10:36:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last Wednesday, European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans hosted a roundtable with imams from Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands. He had a message for them that they doubtlessy welcomed: “The Commission is strongly committed to promoting diversity in Europe. Islam is part of our history, Islam is part of our present and Islam will be part of our future.”
There is no doubt that Timmermans’ statement is true, but not quite in the way he meant.
Timmermans did hint that he was aware Europe might not travel a smooth and placid path to the glorious multicultural future: “The way we help our citizens -- whatever their background may be -- to embrace the diversity that is a reality in European societies is going to determine much of our collective future.”
In 2015, Timmermans noted: “[D]iversity is now in some parts of Europe seen as a threat. Diversity comes with challenges. But diversity is humanity’s destiny. There is not going to be, even in the remotest places of this planet, a nation that will not see diversity in its future.”
He didn’t note that many majority-Muslim countries have been growing less diverse, while Europe grows more so.
Timmermans added: “Europe will be diverse, like all other parts of the world will be diverse. The only question is, how do we deal with that diversity? And my answer to that is, by ensuring that our values determine how we deal with diversity and not giving up our values to refuse diversity. That will bring us down as a society.”
Timmermans concluded ominously: “If we don’t get this right, I truly believe Europe will not remain the Europe we built. Europe will not remain a place of peace and freedom, for very long.”
In reality, it is because of his diversity project that Europe might not remain a place of peace and freedom.
Timmermans is right: Islam is a part of European history, is certainly a part of its present, and most assuredly will be in its future. And its presence in Europe has, from its beginning, led to the end of peace and freedom for Europeans.
In my forthcoming book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS (which you can preorder here), I detail how the Islamic jihadis first attacked Europe in the Seventh Century, as Islam itself was coming into being, and continued to harass and terrorize Europeans for centuries thereafter. If Timmermans and other European leaders knew the history of the jihad against Europe (and elsewhere) that I detail in the book, they might not be so sanguine about Islam’s presence on the continent.
To take just one notorious example: after over seven hundred years of trying, the warriors of jihad finally entered Constantinople on May 29, 1453. When they did, they made the streets run with rivers of blood. Muslims raided monasteries and convents, killing or enslaving their inhabitants, and plundered private houses. They entered the Hagia Sophia, which for nearly a thousand years had been the grandest church in Christendom.
The Muslims then killed the elderly and weak and led the rest off into slavery.
The Byzantine scholar Bessarion wrote to the Doge of Venice in July 1453, saying:
"[Constantinople had been] sacked by the most inhuman barbarians and the most savage enemies of the Christian faith, by the fiercest of wild beasts. The public treasure has been consumed, private wealth has been destroyed, the temples have been stripped of gold, silver, jewels, the relics of the saints, and other most precious ornaments. Men have been butchered like cattle, women abducted, virgins ravished, and children snatched from the arms of their parents."
When the slaughter and pillage was finished, Mehmet II ordered an Islamic scholar to mount the high pulpit of the Hagia Sophia and declare that there was no God but Allah, and Muhammad was his prophet. The magnificent old church was turned into a mosque; hundreds of other churches in Constantinople and elsewhere suffered the same fate. Millions of Christians joined the ranks of the dhimmis; others were enslaved, and many were killed.
The Muslim advances in Europe generally followed this pattern. Even the vaunted proto-multicultural paradise of Muslim Spain was only remotely livable for Christians and Jews when they passively accepted the daily harassment and discrimination mandated for non-Muslims in Islamic law.
If Timmermans knew the history of Islam in Europe, would it make a difference?
Maybe Timmermans and the rest of the European political elites do know this history, and know what’s coming, and just don’t care, as long as their “diversity” imperative stays on track. But those are the only two choices. Timmermans and his colleagues are either suicidally ignorant, or treasonous beyond measure.
It’s an Islamic invasion. EU still doesn’t recognize that.
He's right...islam has been at war with Europe for over a thousand years.
Well, the Muslims did finally end the Roman Empire.
Oh? That muzzie invasion of Europe in the 1400’s and all?
If if you don’t do something about them now, you won’t have a past or a future. Euro socialism can only work if there’s producers to suck dry. In this case the parasite will kill the host.
True statement. Muslims first invaded Byzantine Sicily in 652 AD (two decades after Muhammad finally died). Those invading thugs successfully conquered Spain in 711 AD, remaining for more than 200 years and briefly expanding by force into southern France. Their biggest push (until the present invasion) was the invasion by the Ottoman Empire, from the 1300s to the 1600s. They are, like the plague, part of our history. The difference is that the plague is not being intentionally invited back in as a guest.
Not learning from History and all that Doom jazz.
Yea dumb cluck you’re gonna see it in Technicolor
Hey Franz I tell you what, if I’m ever elected President of the United States, that “future” part ain’t gonna happen bro!
It’s like saying, slavery is a part of American history... therefore, what follows?
The man who killed your grandmother and is about to get out of prison with a mission of revenge for his imprisonment is part of your past, your present and your future if you do not take preventive measures. How does that obligate you to welcome him into your house and give him the keys to the liquor cabinet and the safe.
EU suicide.
Maybe, but definitely not the good part.
It may be part of the past and present, but why should it be made part of the future?
Only as a reminder of what not to do!
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“EU Official” is about to have a massive collision with reality in the spring of 2021!
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The Islam part is now always has been invasion and war
He just forgot to put the Y in front of Our. Your history, not mine.
EU is committing SUICIDE BY ISLAM!
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