Posted on 09/18/2008 6:43:23 PM PDT by Nachum
With Wall Street convulsing, and the White House race intensifying, the question "Who lost Europe" is on no one's lips, let alone minds. Indeed, the question begs another: "Is Europe lost?"
The answer to the second question is, "No, not yet." And losing Europe, I would add, is by no means inevitable. But that doesn't mean the continent isn't currently hell-bent to accommodate the dictates of Islamic law, bit by increasingly larger bit. Such a course of accommodation, barring reversal, will only hasten Bernard Lewis' famous prediction that Europe will be Islamic by century's end.
And what do I mean by "accommodation"? Well, to take one tiny example, one snowflake in a blizzard of such examples, there are schools in Belgium that not only serve halal food to Muslim and non-Muslim alike (old news), but, according to a recent French magazine report, no longer teach authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin. (Don't even ask about the Holocaust.)
For a more substantial, indeed, keystone example of accommodation, we can look to England, where, it pains me to write, Sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. According to press reports this week, the British government has quietly, cravenly elevated five Sharia courts to the level of tribunal hearings, thus making their rulings legally binding.
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Son, my ancestors fought and died to rid themselves once and for all of Euroweenie tyranny, so spare me the guilt trip.
Sadly, it seems this country is slowly following suit with Europe. We see it in the news every other day, how some business or school has rolled over to accommodate the religious beliefs of Muslims. It’s hard not to fathom what is waiting for us down the line. I’m just glad that I’m on the tail-end of my life, and hopefully won’t live to see this country totally taken over by the Commies and the Muzzies.
“We”?
It's my history too, and it's very nice to care, but obviously these European nations didn't care enough about their own history, to keep it from being obliterated. When a nation hasn't the gumption to protect itself from being overridden, why should we? The muzzies rolled into Europe, and are in the process of conquering it without firing so much as one shot. And the sad thing is, this country is headed in the same direction.
"They’ll tear down the cathedrals."
Henry VIII beat them to it.
non-breeding self-excinction
Old Hank dismantled the monasteries, but he left the magnificent cathedrals standing and took them away from the pope so he could install his own religious leaders who would let him live the way he wanted to.
But this was only in England, not the rest of Europe.
My dad used to tell of the orders he and his men had as flight crews in WWII: they were to avoid the historical landmarks and strike only essential infrastructure. At war’s end, Cologne was rubble but the cathedral stood, barely damaged, surrounded by rubble, because the Allies respected history.
No way will the mullahs do that. They WILL tear them down.
Salisbury, Cologne, Aachen, Chartres, so many more.
Who lost Europe? Europe.
Agreed. If Obama gets in we may beat them to it in a catch-up surge to Islam.
What do you mean "we", white man. ;-)
Personally, I could stand to see a few cathedrals turned into dance clubs a la the old Limelight in NYC. Not being used for much else except for old men chanting monotonous phrases to a handful of old ladies and tourists.
That’s hilarious, and soooo true! lol
Thanks for the ping!
If you missed the YouTube song, MUSLIMS IN LONDON, here it is -— http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wwoGtHAG8IQ&feature=related
LOL!
DV, check out that definition of “Political Correctness”, lol!
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/09/political-correctness.html
Abe Lincoln: "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
A little late on this one, but I heartily agree!
Ditto! While islamanazis are raping and murdering women and children the euroscum try to run down the US.....hell with them.
Within 5 yrs we need to cut all NATO ties..form new alliances and let old europe rot.
With "Wall street convulsing" and the White House race on final approach, it's in the best interest of countries in Europe to focus as to what is going on in the USA.
European countries has already made their bed....
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