The threat to ‘Western Culture’

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“Not only don’t the Western Nations – and this is especially true of the European Union – attempt to fight the cultural invasion facilitated by millions of Muslim immigrants that has flooded their countries after WWII, but they actually seem to exhibit enviable enthusiasm and willingness, when it comes to helping Islamics expand their cultural and religious influence in the Dar Al-Harb. Tariq Ramadan, the inventor and active pursuer of the doctrine of the ‘quiet takeover’ – according to which Islam will be established in Europe by making it an integral part of everyday European (or, rather, Eurabian) life – couldn’t be happier. He can relax in his cozy professor’s chair behind the walls of the Oxford University in England and watch how the European governments together with the mainstream media will do his job for him….

“The riots that have already engulfed over 20 Parisian suburbs are not simple protests of the ‘oppressed’ and ‘disaffected’ immigrants that are supposedly deprived of opportunities for advancement by the ethnocentric French society. For the Western Nations and France in particular they have much more far-reaching and ominous implications. They are a challenge thrown today to the Western Culture. They are an act of defiance, rejection, and outright expression of scorn for the traditions and values that have allowed these very Muslim immigrants to join the club of the Golden Billion. They have refused and ridiculed this invitation. Instead, the majority of Muslim immigrants, whether they come from Africa or the Middle East, have arrived in Europe not to enrich the existing society, but to expand the domain of Islam, and effectively transform that society into the one that would conform to the norms of the Islamic Law.”

American Daily, 6 November 2005

The week Paris burned

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“For years, French integration policies have been based around the republican tenet of secularism. On the basis that France should be indivisible and able to assimilate all its components by officially erasing their particularities, the government does not allow official statistics to be broken down by ethnicity and religion…. Christophe Bertossian, an immigration specialist at the French Institute for International Relations, believes it is time for a rethink: ‘Part of the problem is the French approach to integration, based on the concept that everyone is equal. The idea that we are equal is fiction. Ethnic minorities keep being told they do not exist’.”

Alex Duval Smith in the Observer, 6 November 2005

‘Wake up, Europe, you’ve a war on your hands’, Sun-Times columnist warns

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“Ever since 9/11, I’ve been gloomily predicting the European powder keg’s about to go up. ‘By 2010 we’ll be watching burning buildings, street riots and assassinations on the news every night’, I wrote in Canada’s Western Standard back in February. Silly me. The Eurabian civil war appears to have started some years ahead of my optimistic schedule. As Thursday’s edition of the Guardian reported in London: ‘French youths fired at police and burned over 300 cars last night as towns around Paris experienced their worst night of violence in a week of urban unrest.’

“‘French youths’, huh? You mean Pierre and Jacques and Marcel and Alphonse? Granted that most of the ‘youths’ are technically citizens of the French Republic, it doesn’t take much time in les banlieus of Paris to discover that the rioters do not think of their primary identity as ‘French’: They’re young men from North Africa growing ever more estranged from the broader community with each passing year and wedded ever more intensely to an assertive Muslim identity more implacable than anything you’re likely to find in the Middle East…..

“The French have been here before, of course. Seven-thirty-two. Not 7:32 Paris time, which is when the nightly Citroen-torching begins, but 732 A.D. – as in one and a third millennia ago. By then, the Muslims had advanced a thousand miles north of Gibraltar to control Spain and southern France up to the banks of the Loire. In October 732, the Moorish general Abd al-Rahman and his Muslim army were not exactly at the gates of Paris, but they were within 200 miles, just south of the great Frankish shrine of St. Martin of Tours. Somewhere on the road between Poitiers and Tours, they met a Frankish force and, unlike other Christian armies in Europe, this one held its ground ‘like a wall . . . a firm glacial mass’, as the Chronicle of Isidore puts it. A week later, Abd al-Rahman was dead, the Muslims were heading south, and the French general, Charles, had earned himself the surname ‘Martel’ – or ‘the Hammer’.”

Mark Steyn in the Chicago Sun-Times, 6 November 2005

‘How long before Europe falls?’ US Islamophobe asks

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“Many French authorities seem bewildered and unable to deal with the uprising. What did they expect?  When a country opens its borders and allows Muslims to pour in without demanding that they accept the local culture, riots should not have been a surprise. A growing number of Muslims that have immigrated to European countries, it seems, come with no intention of blending with the locals. They have come with a purpose and that purpose is to take over the country. Many Muslim immigrants gather together, live in poverty, are unemployed and living on the dole with nothing to do but reproduce, get angry, and be taught endlessly that Islam will make it better. Of all the countries in Europe, France has probably been the most accommodating. This is its reward.”

Barbara J. Stock at Renew America, 6 November 2005 

‘Eurabia on the rampage’

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Mad Mel offers her take on the French riots, drawing her inspiration from Jihad Watch and Bat Ye’Or. “Multiculturalism, the doctrine that governs Britain and Europe and which grew out of a war upon their values from within by allowing the values of minorities to trump the majority, has been applied by the west to appease an ideology that has declared war upon its values from without.”

Melanie Phillips’s Diary, 4 November 2005

Of course, the distinguishing feature of French policy is in fact that it rejects multiculturalism in favour of secular nationalism. As a number of commentators have pointed out, this is a contributory factor in the current unrest, as it is difficult for the government to address the problems of oppressed communities when officially these minority cultures do not exist – everyone is supposed to be a French citizen and by definition enjoys equal rights.

When Melanie Phillips and her fellow right-wingers rail against multiculturalism, it’s clear that what they’re really having a go at is the existence of a multicultural society rather than multiculturalism as a policy. It is essentially a racist argument against the very existence of minority communities – at least when those communities are Muslim, that is.

Fine words cannot disguise it: the clash of civilisations is real

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And, needless to say, it’s not Western civilisation that’s to blame. Michael Burleigh explains: “Dialogues between civilisations, Christian, Islamic or other, are fine, but a constant part of this must be the grim reality that visited Van Gogh on a cold northern street, an event depressingly indicative of the ethnic and religious complexity of Europe. We cannot wish away the clash of civilisations.”

Times, 5 November 2005

Anti-Islam rant from Julie Burchill

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Burchill“I wonder why Prince Charles seeks to big up powerful, theocratic Islam – which already controls so much land and wealth and yet will kill and kill to gain more – and not vulnerable, pluralistic Israel?” Julie Burchill asks.

Times, 5 November 2005

Robert Spencer applauds this sterling example of “anti-dhimmitude” from Burchill. “Read it all”, he urges.

Dhimmi Watch, 5 November 2005

Police Federation cartoon condemned

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Police Federation cartoon (1)

A chief constable has condemned the portrayal of Muslims in a police magazine cartoon, describing it as offensive and sacrilegious. The Police Federation magazine cartoon shows officers taking their shoes off outside a mosque, as a bearded man escapes clutching bags of explosives.

Bedfordshire’s chief constable Gillian Parker has written to complain. The magazine’s editor has apologised and said there was no intention to cause offence.

The cartoon was seen by Bedfordshire Police as an attempt to mock the force’s advice to officers to remove their shoes before entering Muslim properties.

Ms Parker wrote: “The stereotypical portrayal of religious communities and the use of places of worship in a sacrilegious manner are bound to offend. Insensitive actions only serve to make our life more difficult.”

She said: “We have worked hard over an extended period of time to achieve relationships and I feel that the stereotypical portrayal of Muslims as terrorists has unnecessarily jeopardised this.

“Where it is feasible to do so we continue to consider the individual customs of all communities when we enter their homes and places of worship; I make no apology for this.”

Metin Enver, editor of the magazine, told the BBC: “Much of the material we publish comes from independent parties and is not necessarily the view of the Police Federation. However, we do apologise sincerely if the cartoon featured caused any offence to anyone.

“The idea behind it featured five different scenarios. It was supposed to depict how policing has changed over the years and how the police service takes account of different cultures.”

BBC News, 4 November 2005

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