Wow, this article got e-mailed to me and it’s so racy I just had to share it and see what kind of comments we’re going to get. This article has it all: War, bigotry, hatred, death… kind of reminds me of The Princess Bride, but without the “kissy” parts.
My favorite part of this rant:
Consider that, in all of Europe, no one under the age of 65 has picked up arms in defense of their country. That task has been borne by the United States since Hitler surrendered in 1945.
Originally published in The Brussels Journal, billed as “The voice of conservatism in Europe” (yeah, right), this article was written by Paul Belien a fairly radical thinking lawyer/PHd and journalist. Oh and he is the director of Islamist Watch, a project which combats the ideas and institutions of Islam in the United States and other Western countries. So I wouldn’t exactly call him an unbiased bystander.
The premise of the article is basically that Muslims are taking over Europe, and Europeans are too weak to do anything about it. So unless you want to die or submit you need to move the heck out!
The Rape of Europe
The German author, Henryk M. Broder, recently told the Dutch newspaper, DeVolkskrant, that young Europeans who love freedom, better emigrate. Europe, as we know it, will not exist twenty years from now.
While sitting on a terrace in Berlin, Broder pointed to the other customers and the passersby. ‘We are watching the world of yesterday.’
Europe is turning Muslim. As Broder is sixty years old, he is not going to emigrate. ‘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 German 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. That 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 newborn 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 DeVolkskrant, ‘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, DeStandard, the (gay and self declared humanist) Dutch 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.’
Consider that, in all of Europe, no one under the age of 65 has picked up arms in defense of their country. That task has been borne by the United States since Hitler surrendered in 1945.
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. That’s because many of them prefer to enjoy freedom rather than renounce it for the sake of children.
‘Secularists, Bethell continues, ‘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. That is the real cause of the closing of civilization in Europe. Islamization is simply the consequence. The very word Islam means submission. 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 US 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 nonimmigrant 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. A small band of European Islamophobes, dare 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.
‘Europeans, apparently, never read John Stuart Mill. ‘War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth a war, is worse.’
‘A man, who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.’
I’m especially interested to hear what our European and Muslim readers think about all that?
Very nicely brought out timely post. India has faced this problem (country got divided on religious grounds;creation of Pakistan and Bangladesh) and is still facing this problem. No religion should be spread by force.
Blimey, that is the sort of thread that opens a can of worms.
I am a 39 year old Englishman with fairly objective views but this did get my heckles up, particularly the comment “Consider that, in all of Europe, no one under the age of 65 has picked up arms in defense of their country. That task has been borne by the United States since Hitler surrendered in 1945.”
Does the author forget that our troops traveled half way around the World to engage the Argentinians in The Falklands, or that they are currently putting their lives on the line is Iraq and Afghanistan. Maybe that is not defense of our “country” in a strict geographic sense but we are more than willing to get involved. Whether we should is a separate argument that doesn’t belong in this post.
Our politicians and the “do gooders” seem proud to talk about the fact that have embraced social integration but that is not the message on the ground. Most of us are constrained from speaking out for the fear of being branded racists but there is an underlying feeling that the UK needs to get back to its roots and put a stop to immigration. We are a small Island nation and just can’t sustain the influx, not only from Muslims but Eastern Europeans too.
Only on Friday one of our most popular talk radio shows had a phone in titled something along the lines “Has the British white, working class family been forgotten”. That sparked a heated debate and I’m not so sure that we will sit by and watch things go to ruin in the manner the author suggests.
A German talking about invasions is the height of hypocrisy after all !
I am a UK citizen that now lives in New Zealand. I did not leave the UK due to influx of immigrant, Muslim, or otherwise. I left for better weather and less stress.
The bit about the US taking up the role of world defender since 1945 is full of holes since, as I remember, the Korean and Vietnam wars, which had nothing to do with defending ones own lands but that of another nation, had significant input from other nations. Wasn’t Korea a UN war?
Of course, the US has the largest army in the world so it does stand out a bit. Still a lot of other armies (from Europe) have got involved in fighting since 1945. The deployment of troops into the former Yugoslavia comes to mind.
As for the imminent overtaking of Europe by those whose faith is Muslim. I can see where this kind of fear is going and it isn’t going to a happy place.
A while back we interviewed a guy. He was British, loved living there but was worried about the death of English culture. He complimented me and a colleague on having the get up and go to leave. There was no _real_ English culture left anymore he said. The country was being over-run by immigrants.
The only thing is. All of those immigrants have a legal right to live there. It’s an EU law. Get used to it. If you don’t like it move somewhere else or change the law. Just stop whining about it.
He was a bigot. A polite one but a bigot all the same.
This rant against Muslims is exactly the same sort of thing.
Bigotry.
Most Muslims I have met are not extremists in the political sense. They are decent working people whose just happen to have a different view on the workings of the almighty and the various prophets that wandered around the middle east several centuries ago.
Most of them are just like you and me. For better or worse.
Well after all what I read in this article I have to admit that there are many people considered as Muslims but they are not good people and they give bad image about Muslims and Islam.
But let us not forget that in every religion we have good people and bad people so the sound of the logic says that religion in this case is not accused or guilty coz of some people in it! Let me remind you with the KKK in U.S.A they used to kill the African American people in the name of Christianity but I still believe that Allah and Jesus don’t agree about that.
I don’t know why people include all Muslims in one group as savage people blood suckers and killers. We are not like this because of a basic and essential fact we have in our religion which is : to be a real Muslim you have to believe in all religions that Allah sent and believe in all holy books and the prophets that Allah sent to human being and any Muslim works opposite to that he isn’t a Muslim.
There is nothing wrong with Islam and don’t be afraid of it, on the contrary try to read about it and try to question everything coz it’s the key to success! We used to read about the western people as open minded people that negotiate and have discussion meetings, but i believe after September 11 everything has changed coz of Jews and Mr. Bush.
Thank you for your kindness and for reading my comment and please let people stop talking about Prophet Muhammad coz most of the western scholars approved in their books that Prophet Muhammad P.B.U.H is the No. 1 man in the world with his biography and his behavior and his mercy with all people. Thank you again.
Steve,
For some reason this comment got held for moderation. Don’t worry, when you post a comment like this and it doesn’t show up immediately I’ll notice it and release it usually within a few hours. :-) I’m guessing that this happened because someone is reporting your Web site as spam to Akismet. I read your other post about it being your personal site, and that is why I’ve been allowing your comments – but I have to moderate out your URL because people will complain that it looks too spammy. If you could use another URL that is more of a personal nature it would be much appreciated.
Now, you’re right that this post opens a huge can of worms. That’s why I put it up. Every once in a while I like to hear people’s opinions on stuff like this and I figured this topic would generate some discussion.
Although I grant you that GB did participate in the Falkland Island’s skirmish in 1982, I’d hardly call that a war. There were a total of 258 British killed and 777 wounded and it was not actually declared a war on either side. As far as the Iraqi war is concerned, there have been almost 4,000 US soldiers killed and over 29,000 wounded vs. the UK’s 175 killed and 300 wounded. For the sake of comparison, the US population is 5 times greater than the UK, but US deaths are almost 23 times greater, and wounded are 100 times greater. Hardly equal participation.
Having said all that, we love the British. You guys are our number one ally, so don’t take my comments wrong. I’m just saying that there is quite a bit of truth to the statement that the US is the world’s policeman – even if the other comments are a load of crap. :-)
John
Gordon,
In Korea the US sent 480,000 troops. All other nations (not including South Korea) accounted for 134,500 – of which Britain accounted for 50%. In my book the UK gets full credit for participation in this war. However, you look at France with the same population as the UK and they contributed 3,400 troops vs. 63,000. Pretty pathetic… but perhaps it was because they were so decimated in WWII just a few years prior.
The UK did not participate in the war in Vietnam as far as I am aware.
The “war” in Yugoslavia was indeed a NATO mission.
I agree that the rant seems to be one full of bigotry and meant to incite fear. It reminds me of KKK hate speech. Although they are generally peace loving, normal people, the big question seems to be whether or not they can be incited into radical religious warfare?
John
many bad image addressed to muslim people in US and europe, but still in their country, who many open minded people change their believe and turn to be a muslim.
but in many developing country like my country in Indonesia, we leave peacefully, even church and mosque are stand side by side..
so the question is where the bad image of muslim come from?
because muslim and just like other religion always ask the followers to be a good people and peace full..
This anti-immigration paranoia over muslims is just the latest in a long line of paranoias about immigrants, be they Irish Protestant, Irish Catholic, Italian, African, or Jewish.
These days you don’t hear many people ranting about the corrupting influence of Irish Catholics in the US, as they once did. I don’t see any reason to think that it won’t be the same for muslims.
For fun, take a look at some of this 19th century anti-Irish propaganda, see if it looks familiar.
Exactly the point, only “gentiles” or “Infidels” would phrase the question about the undesireability of people of the Muslim faith. We have recent events to thank including the Demonization of all Muslims by certain Western powers. Maybe it is the christians that are the problem…
Or maybe religion is the problem…