Stoned to Death … Why Europe and the Americas Are Starting to Lose Its Faith in Islam

It’s about time, but is it too late? Europe is farther along in the process of Islamization than is either North or South America. In Europe, the feathers that are breaking the camel’s back have been the broad-daylight in the street ritual slaughter of Theo Van Gogh in the Netherlands by a Moroccan immigrant, and the lapidation death (stoning) in Marseille of a young Tunisian-born French woman, days before she was about to be married because “she refused the advances of a teenage boy.” ‘Her skull was smashed by rocks hurled by at least two young men, according to police.’

Muslim women in France are reacting an organizing themselves in against “obscurantism” and “fundamentalism that imprisons women” in groups such as one called “Ni Putes ni Soumises” (Neither Whores nor Submissive). Similar groups are springing up all over Europe.

It seems that political correctness is finally being abandoned by politicians, governments, and media that so passionately defended the principles of tolerance and multiculturalism that have brought Europe’s indigenous populations to the precipice of extinction by an overwhelming demographic onslaught of Muslims propelled by Islamists to create an Islamic republic of the E.U.

Europeans have come to realize that Islam, especially Islamism, the political form of Islam is “incompatible with Europe’s liberal values.” Europeans realize that “more muscular methods are needed to integrate Europe’s 13-million strong Muslim community and to combat creeds that breed extremists and ultimately, terrorism.” Europeans are trying to promote a “moderate European Islam.”

Is moderation possible in Islam? It is said that there might be moderate Muslims, but that Islam itself can not be moderated because Islam must be taken as whole doctrine, a whole system of living and thinking, one that is based on the immutable Koran from which nothing added nor subtracted, and on Sira and ahadiths, the traditions of the life and times of Mohammed and his followers in the early years of the development of Islam, a belief system that arose in the tradition of the desert Bedouin. The Arab mind is the mind of the Bedouin and Arabic thought has made its stamp on all sects of Islam and on all Muslims throughout time, wherever they have lived. Twenty-first century Muslims are no exception.

Europeans are now stuck with millions of Muslim immigrants that are urbanized Bedouins first and Europeans second, meaning that their “tribe” is the Umma, the brotherhood of world Muslims, and their “clans” are the various sects. Of course these are metaphorical values as blood relationships are important to these people, but higher thinking processes tie them all together under the umbrella of Islam. National loyalty is transitory and unnecessary when one identifies with the Islamic brotherhood.

Islam produces everything that Muslims need – a commercial system, a system of family law (Sha’ria), rituals and processes to determine the purpose, the “right” and “wrong” of every thought and deed. Muslims have no need for the Other, the Infidel, non-Muslims except in the sense that non-Muslims occupy lands, have goods and services, and wealth that have eluded modern Muslims for some time. For this reason Muslims have wandered into Western spaces in the hope of acquiring Western rights while searching for places to put down new roots. But unlike previous recent immigrants that integrated well into the new societies, they harken back to the older traditions of immigrants that once scourged both Europe and the Americas. The older immigrants came to pillage and conquer. Twenty-first century Muslims are mix of the old and the new. Islamists represent the old, and other less extreme Muslims represent the new, but together they are a force of possibly irreversible change that is being forced upon the indigenous Europeans and on the Americas which the Europeans themselves had conquered several centuries ago.

Europeans discarded their self-promoting empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and are aghast as, ironically, they are being colonized by their some of their former colonials that were invited in as either guest workers, asylum seekers, or citizens by right of being former colonials. Europeans thought that they were being “tolerant and multicultural” with this policy.

“The notion of multiculturalism has fallen apart,” said Angela Merkel, leader of Germany’s Christian Democrat opposition. “Anyone coming here must respect our constitution and tolerate our Western and Christian roots.” Italy’s traditional tolerance towards immigrants has been eroded by fear of Islamism. An Ipsos poll in September showed that 48 per cent of Italians believed that a “clash of civilisations” between Islam and the West was under way and that Islam was “a religion more fanatical than any other”.

Similar views are being heard all over Europe. Europeans have started to implement measures to curb their Muslim immigrants, and, naturally Muslims, unaccustomed to acceding to any law but that of Allah, have reacted, often violently to new policies that are characterized by them as “racist,” “intolerant,” reactions of Islamophobia, “fascist,” and “totalitarian.” Freedom of religion seems to mean that Muslims can do as they please as long as it’s cloaked in the garb of Islam.

Also ironic is this astonishing conclusion:

“…some intellectuals have lately concluded that the model for Europe should be the U.S. On Tuesday a writer for Libération, the French left-wing daily, noted that immigrants in the U.S. threw themselves into “the American dream” and prospered. ‘There is no French, Dutch or other European dream,’ she noted. ‘You emigrate here to escape poverty and nothing more.’ ”

Although it is refreshing to hear our European cousins give us a backdoor-compliment, we can’t forget that Muslims and Islam are a growing concern in the United States and Canada. Islamists are beginning to rally some Muslims to extremism in the U.S., more, though, in Canada. What precautions must be taken to prevent the kinds of difficulties and violence that have marred recent events in Europe? 9/11 changed the perceptions of Americans toward Islam and the European experience is ample warning of the kinds of problems that can arise out of the mixture of Islam with Democracy, Muslims with non-Muslims. Certainly both Muslims and non-Muslims should individually respect each other, but, Muslims must understand that they are no different from any other immigrant group and that Islam may not be a force in America as Sha’ria is incompatible with Democracy.



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