tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11441510035927500932024-03-12T16:27:40.319-07:00Resisting EurabiaRolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144151003592750093.post-9717310305687586492009-05-30T06:11:00.001-07:002009-05-30T06:11:52.567-07:00EU Election: Appointed Pedophiles And The Case Of Child RapistsThe EUSSR is an Authoritarian Transnational Socialist undemocratic power-house, what 'National Socialism' and the 'Communist Internationale' was yesterday Transnational Socialism is today and the <a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheqrbvqCZh9mDFdeHuYyygYmol1sIf6d_nPfSlzb8HF9JNhtL1jTTxFM-un_rGlec6F94LEoEmZBa6jYjqhoeDY4BCqiQx4w0DYJFsjUjog37u0Xk_pdsM1H3Q8e-8zu10jEJm1zxH9Sk/s1600-h/No+to+UESSR.GIF"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 191px; height: 190px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheqrbvqCZh9mDFdeHuYyygYmol1sIf6d_nPfSlzb8HF9JNhtL1jTTxFM-un_rGlec6F94LEoEmZBa6jYjqhoeDY4BCqiQx4w0DYJFsjUjog37u0Xk_pdsM1H3Q8e-8zu10jEJm1zxH9Sk/s400/No+to+UESSR.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341603059505491906" border="0" /></a>EUSSR is similar to the former USSR, the parliament, the Duma, the commission, the Politbureau, not surprisingly it is a nest of corruption and unelected rotten people wielding power and deciding over your life.<br />The president of the commission, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Barroso">Jose Manuel Barroso was one of the leaders of</a> the underground <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism" title="Maoism">Maoist</a> MRPP (Reorganising Movement of the Proletariat Party, later <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCTP/MRPP" title="PCTP/MRPP" class="mw-redirect">PCTP/MRPP</a>-Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers/Revolutionary Movement of the Portuguese Proletariat) - Barroso like many other powerseeking left fascist extremists reinvented themselves into the mainstream, make no mistake, this people are still what they are.<br />The following illustrates aspects of their morality.<br /><br />H/T from <a href="http://hodja.wordpress.com/">Hodja</a><br /><p>Here we are, a few words about Brussels and how it feels about child abuse. I’ll move onto the elections for the European parliament in a moment, but given the horrors of the Ryan report last week, I thought that you ought to know how seriously the euro-elite treat any suggestion of improper behaviour by adults towards children.</p> <p>In other words I give you <strong>Daniel Cohn Bendit,</strong> an MEP for the German Green Party. He is a <strong>self-confessed kiddie-fiddler</strong>, but pulling down his trouser zip for tiny children hasn’t stopped him becoming one of the most influential members of parliament. Here is his story. Keep in mind this man has more power over the legislation of this country than does any member of the Dail.</p> <p>Mr Cohn-Bendit is better known as Dany the red of the 1968 Paris Barricades. He is a kind of mid-century leftover leftie who was active in squatting, street fighting and agitation before he re-invented himself as a Green and was elected to the European parliament.</p> <p>[....]</p> <p>But let me give you another example of how ’seriously’ the euro-elite take the protection of <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_qANrIwqk1tIBWlE1MITxy42HedN3kXTQaQWxT3QM8noQWon0kBkEOz8q1sprFFk32XG5eEEPOux4AXnnUnrpLejPGPk3fdLXPzNZ0g5Q5GaTed0FzHBTF-CDWUgTUtUQvM8PODQI4dA/s1600-h/eussrLogo.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 386px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_qANrIwqk1tIBWlE1MITxy42HedN3kXTQaQWxT3QM8noQWon0kBkEOz8q1sprFFk32XG5eEEPOux4AXnnUnrpLejPGPk3fdLXPzNZ0g5Q5GaTed0FzHBTF-CDWUgTUtUQvM8PODQI4dA/s400/eussrLogo.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341603269783397682" border="0" /></a>children. You may remember the <strong>Marc Dutroux</strong> case in Belgium. It could be called the most horrific example of child rape and murder in Europe since the war.</p> <p>Known as the beast of Belgium, Dutroux is now serving a life sentence for a series of child kidnappings, rapes and murders in 1995-96. He kept some of his victims locked in a dungeon he had built in his basement. Two eight-year-old girls starved to death there after Dutroux was arrested and served a short prison sentence for car theft: his wife didn’t bother to open the dungeon door to feed the girls.</p> <p>Part of the great mystery and scandal that accompanied the case was the relentless incompetence of the authorities, at that time led by the Justice Minister, <strong>Melchior Wathelet.</strong> For years, as victims were kidnapped and murdered, police files were full of reports and tip-offs that Dutroux was selling young girls. Yet Dutroux stayed free. In the end <strong>Mr Wathelet was forced to resign in disgrace. And his reward for incompetence in the administration of Justice was – to be appointed a judge at the European Court of Justice.</strong></p> <p>[....]</p> <p>But still back to the elections of the European parliament. And that also takes us back to the arrogance of the euro-elite. <strong>Just in case it had slipped past you, the voters of Europe are supposed to be voting to determine the membership of the next European parliament which, under existing European law, that is to say, the Nice Treaty, will have 736 seats. But the euro-elites are manoeuvring to make the voters elect 754 MEPs – that is, to elect an extra 18 politicians to the lushly-paid parliament, even though these politicians will have no seat to fill.</strong> The euro-elite want the 18 to have full salary, full tax-free allowance for every day they turn up at the European parliament building, full expenses, business-class travel allowances and all the rest. The 18 will be given everything except a job.</p> <p>The excuse given? That the Lisbon Treaty allows for the creation of an extra 18 seats. So even though the treaty is not yet ratified, the 18 extra politicians ought to be elected and paid as MEPs until the Lisbon Treaty comes into force. Note that arrogance: the treaty has not yet been ratified, and indeed,<br />may yet come totally off the rails if Gordon Brown is forced to call a general election in the Britain. It may never become law. <strong>Yet the euro-elite intends to ignore that fact.</strong> They expect the European voters, sheep that we are all assumed to be (and given the docility of the Irish in accepting a second referendum yet again, we have certainly proved to be sheep) to ‘baaaa-baaaa’ their way into the polling booths and deliver 754 MEPs for 736 seats.</p> <p>[....]</p> <p>I will remind you of just a few examples of<strong> how the euro-elite have been for years seizing important new powers which were supposed to theirs only after the treaty was made law by the member states.</strong> There is the European Space Policy (which is now developing military use for the European Gallileo GPS system),the European Defence Agency, the borders agency called Frontex, and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. Each of these institutions was meant to be created only after the ratification of the European Constitution. When that collapsed, and even before it was re-packaged as the Lisbon Treaty, the euro-elite used legal trickery to start constructing these new institutions anyway.</p> <p><a title="To repeat: European law is whatever the euro-elite say it is." href="http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=933" target="_blank">To repeat: European law is whatever the euro-elite say it is.</a></p>Rolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144151003592750093.post-13573905347577329672008-10-14T09:03:00.000-07:002008-10-14T10:50:42.376-07:00Ten Reasons to Get Rid of the European UnionThe EU is nothing short of committing treason against the native European people.<br />Those who committed treason and continue to do so will wishfully one day stand at a Nuremberg trial.<br /><br />By Fjordman in <a href="http://europenews.dk/en/node/14890">EuropeNews.</a><br /><br />The EU does not protect the peace in Europe. On the contrary, it undermines stability in the continent by dismantling border controls at a time of the greatest population movements in <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPNUuDdBL9s9vokIwIVUYzZ3QZ6fwaqPRCWitXYBnkaS9yl1l5Y19781_0wbie32JYY7X7VLidHadRChXHSvhyFCMpMby7azpWt8EJAMZj6qMNmj2EuXYsax6jgHHu0KyWCRWxgpta4PE/s1600-h/eussr.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPNUuDdBL9s9vokIwIVUYzZ3QZ6fwaqPRCWitXYBnkaS9yl1l5Y19781_0wbie32JYY7X7VLidHadRChXHSvhyFCMpMby7azpWt8EJAMZj6qMNmj2EuXYsax6jgHHu0KyWCRWxgpta4PE/s320/eussr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257050814659057394" border="0" /></a>human history, with many migrants coming from politically unstable countries whose instability spills over to European states. Through its senseless immigration policies, the EU could become partly responsible for triggering civil wars in several European countries. Maybe it will be remembered as the "peace project" which brought war to Europe, again. <p>The European Union has created a borderless region from Greece to France and from Portugal to Finland, yet the citizens of these countries still pay most of their taxes to nation states whose borders are no longer upheld. It is ridiculous to pay up to half of your income to an entity that no longer controls its own territory or legislation. Unless national borders are re-established, the citizens of EU member states no longer have any obligation to pay taxes at all.</p> <p>The EU promotes a ridiculous amount of laws and regulations, yet street crime largely goes unpunished. Laws are used to punish the law-abiding while real criminals rule the streets, although this flaw is admittedly shared with many national governments. European authorities make a mockery out of the social contract every single day as they fail to uphold law and order. </p> <p>Unless the relevant authorities improve their efforts against crime drastically, we can expect to see normal European citizens acquire arms for their own protection in rapidly increasing numbers. </p> <p>One can't blame them, for in several countries, like the UK, Sweden or the Netherlands, the authorities are more concerned with enforcing speech codes and Political Correctness than with dealing with criminals in a forceful way. We need confidence in our police force or we will have to find other means to protect our lives and property.</p> <p>The EU does not give Europeans a "voice" on the international arena. It's a bureaucratic monster at best, a dangerous Utopian project at worst. It makes our enemies take us less seriously, not more. It is not about giving anybody a voice; it is about silencing the voices we already have, by depriving us of any say regarding our future and the destinies of our peoples.</p> <p>Joschka Fischer, ex-German foreign minister, <a href="http://euobserver.com/9/23803" target="_blank">warns that</a> Europe risks becoming a "playground" for upcoming superpowers in the 21st century. He wants more EU cooperation to remedy this. But we already are a playground for foreign nations, for Muslim ones in particular, who can dump their unsustainable population growth in our countries. This is actively encouraged by the EU. It is going to be interesting for future historians to unveil how many European leaders and officials have been bought and paid for by Saudi oil money.</p> <p>The idea that the EU is going to become a superpower is laughable. Europe at the dawn of the 21st century is a global joke, a decadent and weak continent, despised by its enemies and viewed with pity by its friends. Outsiders don't expect Europe to generate anything new, quite a few will be surprised if it even survives. This image will not be improved by leaders who attack their own people, sell out their historical legacy to their worst enemies and muzzle those who object to this. It is ridiculous to believe that this ramshackle, top-heavy Frankenstein monster is going to make Europe more competitive.</p> <p><strong>2) The EU Weakens Europe's Cultural Defenses</strong><br />The EU is systematically surrendering the continent to our worst enemies. When French, Dutch and Irish voters rejected the EU Constitution, the EU elites moved on as if nothing had happened. When the Islamic world says that the EU should work to eradicate "Islamophobia," they immediately consent to do this. When an organization ignores the interests of its own people yet implements the interests of that people's enemies, that organization has become an actively hostile entity run by a corrupt class of abject traitors. This is what the EU is today.</p> <p>Those inhabiting the European continent are first and foremost Germans, Poles, Italians, Hungarians, Portuguese etc. "Europe" has existed mainly to protect the continent against Islamic expansionism. Charles Martel created Europe in the modern sense when he defeated the Arab invasion in the seventh century, aided by people such as Pelayo, who started the Reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula, John Hunyadi and Lazar of Serbia who fought against the Turks in the Balkans and John III Sobieski, King of Poland, who beat the Ottomans during the 1683 Battle of Vienna. The EU is actively working to undo everything Charles Martel and these men achieved. This makes it the <i>anti</i>-European Union.</p> <p>Immigrants are a "protected class" for Multiculturalists, who need them as a battering ram to destroy existing identities and forge a new "pan-European" identity (and eventually a "global identity," I suspect). I found this quote in the magazine <a href="http://www.signandsight.com/intodaysfeuilletons/1717.html" target="_blank">Signandsight.som</a> from June 2008. Journalist Arno Widmann <a href="http://www.fr-online.de%20/in_und_ausland/kultur_und_medien/feuilleton/?em_cnt=1357045" target="_blank"> witnessed</a> a meeting between Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and theorist Jürgen Habermas. Widmann was extremely impressed by Ramadan:<br /></p> <blockquote>The Irish are first and foremost Irish, the Danish are Danish, the Germans Germans and the Belgians are primarily Flemish or Walloon. Immigrants who are prevented from becoming Irish, Danes and Germans but who are called upon to be more European that Europeans ever were, have no option other than to become Europeans. They will be the first true Europeans. <b>No Europe without Muslims</b> [emphasis in the original].</blockquote> <p>The EU is deliberately destroying the cultural traditions of member states by flooding them with immigrants and eradicating native traditions. This is a gross violation of the rights of the indigenous peoples across an entire continent. Europe has some of the richest cultural traditions on the planet. To replace this with sharia barbarism is a crime against humanity. The European Union is currently the principal (though not the only) motor behind the Islamization of Europe, perhaps the greatest betrayal in this civilization's history. Appeasement of Islam and Muslims is so deeply immersed into the structural DNA of the EU that the only way to stop the Islamization of the continent is to get rid of the EU. All of it.</p> <p><strong>3) The EU Promotes a Bloated Bureaucracy</strong><br />A study released by the organization <a href="http://www.openeurope.org.uk/media-centre/pressrelease.aspx?pressreleaseid=82">Open Europe</a> in August 2008 found that the EU employs an "army" of bureaucrats, and that the actual number of individuals required to run the EU is close to 170,000 — more than 7 times the 23,000 figure sometimes cited by the Commission.</p> <p>According to them,<br /></p> <blockquote>The legislative process of the EU is an extremely complex and opaque system, making it very difficult to identify how many people are actually involved in formulating, implementing and overseeing legislation. However, research by Open Europe, using limited available information, shows that just to draft and work out how to implement legislation the EU requires a bureaucratic staff of around 62,026 people.<br />This figure reveals where the EU's real legislative work is actually done: in committees, behind closed doors and out of the public eye. Most of the work takes place away from the core institutions within Expert Groups, Council Groups, and what are known as Comitology committees.</blockquote> <p>Notice how this closed and secretive process of drafting legislation for half a billion people resembles that of a dictatorship. The EU follows a strategy of hide in plain sight and conceals the real power behind layers of bureaucratic complexities. This strategy was also followed with the drafting of the ridiculously long European Constitution.</p> <p>If somebody presented you with a contract of hundreds of pages of more or less incomprehensible technical language which was to govern all aspects of your life and that of your children and grandchildren, and that person told you to just take his word for it that it is good and could you please sign on the dotted line, would you have accepted it? That is essentially what the EU has done regarding the fate of an entire continent, not just a single family. When some annoying people, such as the Dutch and the Irish, were unkind enough not to consent blindly to their new serfdom, the EU decided that they were bound by the contract they just rejected, anyway. It's arrogance on a monumental scale, if not plain treason.</p> <p>The EU is not yet a true, totalitarian entity, but it already holds most of the tools required in order to become one. It has managed to corrupt the national elites to sell out the freedom of their peoples by inviting them to take part in the world's largest racket, paid for by European taxpayers. The growing pan-European nanny state now interferes with every aspect of social and economic life, governed by an unaccountable, arrogant and often hostile minority of social engineers who wish to impose their way of thinking on the majority.</p> <p><strong>4) Excessive Regulation and Centralization is bad for Freedom and for Prosperity</strong><br />Europe once became a dynamic continent thanks to competition at all levels. It is now virtually impossible to find a sector of society that is untouched by the often excessive EU regulations. The EU functions as a huge superstate centrally directed by statists obsessed by regulations. They have learnt little from history, where central planning has been an almost universal failure. Here is what Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell Jr. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-West-Grew-Rich-Transformation/dp/0465031099/">say</a> in How The West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation Of The Industrial World:</p> <blockquote><p>Initially, the West's achievement of autonomy stemmed from a relaxation, or a weakening, of political and religious controls, giving other departments of social life the opportunity to experiment with change. Growth is, of course, a form of change, and growth is impossible when change is not permitted.<br />Any successful change requires a large measure of freedom to experiment. A grant of that kind of freedom costs a society's rulers their feeling of control, as if they were conceding to others the power to determine the society's future. The great majority of societies, past and present, have not allowed it. Nor have they escaped from poverty.</p></blockquote> <p>Moreover, "Western technology developed in the special context of a high degree of autonomy among the political, religious, scientific, and economic spheres of social life. Is this high degree of autonomy indispensable to the successful application of technology to economic welfare? Few Western scientists would disagree with the proposition that a high degree of autonomy of the scientific sphere from political or religious control is essential to scientific advance. It is almost as clear that a similar autonomy, in much the same degree, is essential to the economic process of translating scientific advances into goods and services. The technological capability of a society is bound to be degraded if control of either scientific inquiry or innovation is located at points of political or religious authority that combine an interest in controlling the outcome of technological development with the power to restrict or direct experiment. In all well-ordered societies, political authority is dedicated to stability, security, and the status quo. It is thus singularly ill-qualified to direct or channel activity intended to produce instability, insecurity, and change."</p> <p>The European Union cannot be anything but anti-liberty because it concentrates far too much power in a centralized bureaucratic system that is almost impossible for outsiders to understand. As the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek warned in The Road to Serfdom:</p> <blockquote><p>To imagine that the economic life of a vast area comprising many different people can be directed or planned by democratic procedure betrays a complete lack of awareness of the problems such planning would raise. Planning on an international scale, even more than is true on a national scale, cannot be anything but a naked rule of force, an imposition by a small group on all the rest of that sort of standard and employment which the planners think suitable for the rest.</p></blockquote> <p><strong>5) The Lack of a Real Separation of Powers in the EU Invites Abuse of Power</strong><br />The pompous former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing declared that the creation of the EU Constitution was Europe's "Philadelphia moment," alluding to the Philadelphia Convention or Constitutional Convention in the newly formed the United States of America in 1787. The USA has its flaws, but if Mr. Giscard d'Estaing had actually understood the American Constitution, he would have discovered that James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and others took great care to implement checks and balances in their new state. This is sorely lacking in the EU. The American constitution is relatively short and understandable whereas the EU Constitution is hundreds of pages long, largely incomprehensible and displays an almost sharia-like desire to regulate all aspects of human life.</p> <p>Madison, Jefferson, George Washington and the American Founding Fathers acted in the open and were generally elected by their peers. Contrast this with Jean Monnet, who is credited with having laid the foundations of the EU despite the fact that most EU citizens today haven't heard of him. He was never elected to any public office, but worked behind the scenes to implement a secret agenda. I read an interview with a senior Brussels lobbyist who dubbed Monnet "the most successful lobbyist in history." To this day, the EU capital of Brussels is <a href="http://www.expatica.com/de/articles/news/Brussels_-A-magnet-for-lobbyists-.html">dominated by lobbyists</a>. Washington D.C. has its fair share of lobbyists, too, and this can be problematic at times. You can make a good case for claiming that the American system is in trouble and no longer works as it was intended to in the early twenty-first century. Nevertheless, the difference is that the EU capital is dominated only by lobbyists and unelected bureaucrats, with very little real popular influence.</p> <p>We should study the work of the great eighteenth century French thinker Montesquieu, who admired the British political system. He advocated that the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government should be assigned to different bodies, where each of them would not be powerful enough to impose its will on society. This is because "constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go." This separation of powers is almost totally absent in the European Union, where there is weak to non-existent separation between the legislative, the executive and the judicial branches, and where all of them function without the consent of the public. In short, a small number of people can draft and implement laws without consulting the people, and these take precedence over the laws passed by elected assemblies. This is a blueprint for a dictatorship.</p> <p>In 2006, the European Commission (the EU's government) announced that it would send its proposals for EU laws to national parliaments for comment - but it made clear that Brussels would only "take note" of national parliamentarians' wishes. The European Union's concept of "consultation" is that the people or their representatives should give their "advice," and then the EU's leaders should be free to ignore this advice.</p> <p>In 2007, former German president Roman Herzog warned that parliamentary democracy was under threat from the EU. Between 1999 and 2004, 84 percent of the legal acts in Germany — and the majority in all EU member states — stemmed from Brussels. According to Herzog, "EU policies suffer to an alarming degree from a lack of democracy and a de facto suspension of the separation of powers." Despite this, the EU was largely a non-issue during the 2005 German elections. One gets the feeling that the real issues of substance are not subject to public debate. National elections have become an increasingly empty ritual. The important issues have already been settled beforehand behind closed doors.</p> <p>Free citizens should obey laws that are passed with the best long-term interests of their nation and people in mind. Most of the laws within the EU's area are no longer passed by elected national representatives, but by unaccountable EU bureaucrats, some of whom could potentially have been bought and paid by our Islamic enemies with Arab oil money. As such, the citizens of these nations no longer have any obligation to obey these laws.</p> <p>As Montesquieu warned, "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." He also stated that "Useless laws weaken the necessary laws." The current problem with the EU is not just the content of laws and the way they are drafted and passed, but also their sheer volume. Law-abiding citizens are turned into criminals by laws regulating speech and behavior, while real criminals rule the streets in our cities. This situation will either lead to a police state, to a total breakdown in law and order, or both.</p> <p><strong>6) The Lack of Transparency Leaves the EU Vulnerable to Hostile Infiltration</strong><br />There will no doubt be debates among future historians about how EU leaders could do something as stupid as the creation of the Eurabian networks. I suspect one of the answers will be: They did it because they could. I have heard some Socialists argue that the Communist system of the Soviet Union could have worked if it didn't end up with a leader like Stalin. This view is fundamentally flawed, for the system itself invited a Stalin, or a Mao; there were no real restraints on the power of the rulers. As Lord Acton said, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The same goes for the EU.</p> <p>At least two conditions must be fulfilled in order to prevent the arbitrary use of power. The first is a system of formal and informal checks and balances, giving the possibility of peacefully removing officials who are not doing their job. The second is transparency, so people know what their representatives are doing. The EU deliberately ignores both these conditions. Vast quantities of power have been transferred to shady backrooms and structures the average citizen hardly knows exist. Eurabia was created through such channels. The reason why European leaders could commit a betrayal as large as this was not only because EU authorities are not formally subjected to the popular will, but because they have made the decision-making process incredibly complicated and moved real power out of the public view.</p> <p>There is every reason to believe that some of those claiming to be our representatives have been bribed and/or blackmailed by Muslim countries and other enemies to implement agendas hostile to our interests. No system is perfect, but a non-transparent system such as the EU is particularly vulnerable to infiltration from outsiders and hostile foreign interests.</p> <p>The "anti-discrimination laws" we now see in Western Europe are an indication that the democratic system no longer works as intended. These laws come from a small group of self-appointed leaders who respond to pressure from the Islamic world, not from their own people. The European political elites increasingly risk being seen as collaborators and puppets for our enemies because that's in many cases how they act.</p> <p><strong>7) The EU Leads to Less Freedom of Speech</strong><br />The EU does nothing to promote freedom in Europe, but rather spends a great deal of time trying to stamp out what's left of it. The EU, in cooperation with Islamic countries, is rewriting school textbooks across the European continent to present a more "positive" image of Islam. The EU increasingly views the media and the education system simply as a prolonged arm of the state. This is the hallmark of a totalitarian state, which is what the EUSSR is gradually becoming. One gets the feeling that the EU's concept of a "united Europe" means one nation, one people — and one allowed opinion. It is tempting to say one allowed religion as well: Islam.</p> <p>According to British writer <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2008/09/04/how_the_eu_plans_to_regulate_blogs?com_num=20">Daniel Hannan</a>,<br /></p> <blockquote>Eurocrats instinctively dislike spontaneous activity. To them, 'unregulated' is almost synonymous with 'illegal'. The bureaucratic mindset demands uniformity, licensing, order. Eurocrats are especially upset because many bloggers, being of an anarchic disposition, are anti-Brussels. In the French, Dutch and Irish referendums, the MSM [mainstream media] were uniformly pro-treaty, whereas internet activity was overwhelmingly sceptical. <p>Bruno Waterfield recently reported on a secret Commission report about the danger posed by online libertarians: 'Apart from official websites, the internet has largely been a space left to anti-European feeling. Given the ability to reach an audience at a much lower cost, and given the simplicity of the No campaign messages, it has proven to be easily malleable during the campaign and pre-campaign period.' The EU's solution? Why, to regulate blogs!</p></blockquote> <p>At the time of writing, it looks like the most radical proposals to regulate independent websites have been watered down, but there is no doubt that the EU will make new attempts to censor the Internet, especially since the organization has successfully bribed much of the traditional media. In 2007, the EU agreed to make incitement to racism and xenophobia a <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,478526,00.html">crime across the 27-nation bloc</a>. </p> <p><a href="http://euobserver.com/9/23902">Under the new law</a>, offenders will face up to three years in jail for "public incitement to violence or hatred, directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin." The term "inciting hatred" against "religion" will no doubt be used to silence critics of Islam, of the EU's pro-Islamic policies and of mass immigration in general.</p> <p>Every single action the EU has taken vis-à-vis these subjects have led to more restrictions of free speech, online and offline. There is no reason not to expect that trend to continue, especially since the EU tries consistently to placate Muslims and other immigrant groups in every way possible. The EU's attempts to crush dissent and silence criticism of its ideas will become increasingly aggressive and hard to ignore.</p> <p><strong>8) The EU Fails to Consult its Citizens and Insults Them When Doing So</strong><br />The Irish referendum in 2008 on the proposed EU Constitution / Lisbon Treaty is a powerful testimony to the evil nature of the European Union. Before the referendum, a number of EU leaders made it perfectly clear that the Lisbon Treaty was virtually identical to the European Constitution which had been rejected by Dutch and French voters in 2005, and which should then presumably have been dead.</p> <p>Former French President <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/valeacutery-giscard-destaing-the-eu-treaty-is-the-same-as-the-constitution-398286.html">Valéry Giscard d'Estaing</a> (the chief drafter of the Constitution) said:<br /></p> <blockquote>the proposals in the original constitutional treaty are practically unchanged. They have simply been dispersed through old treaties in the form of amendments. Why this subtle change? Above all, to head off any threat of referenda by avoiding any form of constitutional vocabulary.</blockquote> <p> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1556175/New-treaty-is-just-%27constitution-in-disguise%27.html">D'Estaing also said</a>:<br /></p> <blockquote>Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly… All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way.</blockquote> <p> Spanish PM <a href="http://www.la-moncloa.es/Presidente/Intervenciones/Sesionesparlamento/prsp20070627.htm">José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero said</a>: "We have not let a single substantial point of the Constitutional Treaty go…" Italian President <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/10248/Opponents+of+EU+treaty+accused+of+being+%27terrorists%27">Giorgio Napolitano</a> said: "Those who are anti-EU are terrorists. It is psychological terrorism to suggest the specter of a European superstate."</p> <p>Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen admitted that he had not read the Lisbon Treaty in full, but nonetheless assured his people that it was good and that Irishmen should vote "yes" based on this assurance. He said that voters were being asked to give the EU a "more effective and efficient decision-making process."</p> <p>If a dictator decides to ignore the opinion of everybody else and implement policies as he sees fit without consulting anybody, this could be seen as a "more efficient" decision-making process from a certain point of view. Is it this kind of "efficiency" the EU is promoting? Mr. Cowen doesn't say, but it's tempting to speculate that the answer is "yes." According to the words and actions of the EU elites, the will of the people is merely an annoying speed bump which slows down the implementation of their supremely enlightened policies.</p> <p><a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3340">After</a> the referendum, when it was clear that the Irish would have none of this trick, the Irish EU Commissioner <a href="http://euobserver.com/18/26342">Charlie McCreevy</a> revealed that he had not read the Lisbon Treaty himself: "I would predict that there won't be 250 people in the whole of the 4.2 million population of Ireland that have read the treaties cover-to-cover. I further predict that there is not 10 percent of that 250 that will understand every section and subsection," he said. "But is there anything different about that?" said the Commissioner, adding: "Does anyone read the finance act?" referring to the lengthy documents he drew up when he was finance minister in Ireland.</p> <p>Let us repeat this again. This man stated — probably correctly — that not more than a couple of dozen people among millions of citizens actually understood the document they were supposed to vote over, yet he saw nothing inherently wrong with this. The EU Constitution/ Lisbon Treaty would finalize the transfer of authority to a new pan-European superstate with almost unlimited powers to direct the affairs and lives of half a billion people in dozens of countries, from Finland to France and from Ireland to Poland. The Irish responded in the only sensible manner, but European leaders made it perfectly clear that they would press on with the project of dismantling European nation states regardless of popular resistance.</p> <p>French President Sarkozy and German Chancellor Merkel issued a <a href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1411115.php/Sarkozy_Merkel_want_treaty_ratification_process_to_go_on__Roundup_">joint statement</a> saying they "hope that the other member states will continue the process of ratification." The German Foreign Minister <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080613/tpl-uk-eu-ireland-germany-43a8d4f_2.html">Frank-Walter Steinmeier</a> said: "The ratification process must continue. I am still convinced that we need this treaty." The British Foreign Secretary <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080613/tuk-ireland-eu-referendum-britain-a7ad41d.html">David Miliband</a> said the UK would press on with ratification: "It's right that we continue with our own process."</p> <p>The President of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Pöttering <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/783601/part_2/eu-leaders-will-never-consult-us-again.thtml">stated</a>: "The ratification process must continue" because "the reform of the European Union is important for citizens, for democracy and for transparency." In other words: The reason the EU is tossing aside the verdict of the Irish people, as well as the French and Dutch people and numerous others who never got the chance to voice their opinion at all, is for "democracy."</p> <p>According to writer <a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3350">Martin Helme</a>, it was always clear that the power elites were not going to accept an Irish "no." After the first shock they would simply continue carrying out plan A:</p> <blockquote><p>One of the most disgusting and outrageous talking points already being peddled by the Eurocrats and their friends in the liberal mainstream media is that 862,415 Irish voters have no right to block the desired goal of some 450 million Europeans. </p> <p>This distortion of truth should never go unchallenged. First of all, those few million Irish were actually the only citizens in Europe who were asked for their opinion. The rest of the 446 or so millions were never consulted. How can any politician claim that their voters want the ratification of EU constitution/Lisbon Treaty when the entire political class emphatically insisted on not asking the people? In fact, in many countries politicians openly admit that their voters would have done the same as Irish did, i.e. vote against the rotten thing. </p> <p>So it is not the few million Irish voters blocking the will of hundreds of millions of other European voters but very clearly a mass of Irish voters against a few thousand politicians and bureaucrats who make up the European power elite. Secondly, what happened to those 20 million French and Dutch voters who said no to the same document three years ago?</p></blockquote> <p>The European Commission in <a href="http://euobserver.com/9/25909">April 2008</a> presented a new plan aimed at increasing EU citizens' involvement in the decision-making process of the 27-nation bloc, as well as making it more popular. "We must consult citizens," said the Swedish Commissioner Margot Wallström then. She is famous for her remark <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1489643/Vote-for-EU-constitution-or-risk-new-Holocaust-says-Brussels.html">in 2005</a> that Europeans needed to approve of the proposed EU constitution or risk a new Holocaust. Three years after the Constitution was first rejected, and still with no Holocaust in sight, the EU no longer pretends to care about the will of the people. When Eurocrats talk about "consulting" citizens, they mean insulting them.</p> <p>In April 2008, a <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/04/austrians-demonstrate-against-lisbon-in.html">demonstration</a> comprising people from all walks of life and from most political parties convened in front of the famous and beautiful Staatsoper (State Opera) in the center of Vienna to demonstrate against the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in the Austrian Parliament, which later occurred without holding a referendum. Opinion polls showed that a majority of Austrians were convinced, as they should be, that policy is determined almost exclusively by Brussels. They <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/06/austrians-were-not-fooled.html">see</a> local politicians as largely deprived of any power, and many of them were reluctant to grant even more power to the unaccountable EU.</p> <p>Opinion polls from <a href="http://www.nisnews.nl/public/170608_2.htm">mid-2008</a> showed that a strong majority of the Dutch were still against the Lisbon Treaty, which is virtually identical to the Constitution that Dutch voters rejected by 62 to 38 percent in the 2005 referendum. Nevertheless, the Netherlands is going ahead with the ratification of the Treaty even after the Irish rejected it, said Premier Jan Peter Balkenende. The political elites are determined to continue a process which will essentially dismantle their country and reduce it to just another province in an emerging Eurabian superstate, and openly ignore their own people in order to implement this.</p> <p>As Helme states,<br /></p> <blockquote>Governments have willfully and knowingly gone against the will of the people, trashed their own constitutions, corrupted their courts to go along with it (thus trashing the rule of law) and started to govern without the consent of the people or the rule of law….This is the path that leads to revolution. Good! As Thomas Jefferson said 'The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.' I have a feeling that more and more people around Europe are ready for it. How about the politicians?</blockquote> <p><strong>9) The EU Undermines Political Legitimacy and Connections between Rulers and the Ruled</strong><br />Proponents of the European Union claim that it is a "peace project." But the EU is not about peace, it is about war: A demographic and cultural war waged against an entire continent, from the Black Sea to the North Sea, in order to destroy European nation states and build an empire run by self-appointed bureaucrats. This is supported by national politicians in order to enhance their personal power, by creating a larger political entity than their individual nation states and by ridding themselves of the constraints of a democratic society. The EU corrupts national political elites into betraying the people they are supposed to serve and protect.</p> <p>The EU is increasingly dictatorial, but it is a stealth dictatorship whose most dangerous aspects are largely invisible in everyday life. What the average person sees is that it makes it easier for him to travel to other countries without a passport, and use the same Euro currency from Arctic Lapland in Finland to Spain's Canary Islands off the African coast. This appears convenient, and on some level it is. </p> <p>But it comes at the price of hollowing out the power of national institutions and placing it into the hands of an unelected oligarchy conspiring to usurp ever more power and rearrange the lives of half a billion people. That's a steep price to pay for a common currency. But people do not clearly see this is their daily lives, and seeing is believing. The enemy that clearly identifies himself as such is sometimes less dangerous than the enemy who is diffused and vague, since you cannot easily mobilize against him.</p> <p>The insightful British philosopher Roger Scruton in his excellent little book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193223621X/brusselsjournal-20/ref=nosim">The West and the Rest</a>: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat, some of which is <a href="http://www.morec.com/scruton/">available online</a> for free, warns that the gradual transfer of legislative powers to "international law" embodied in organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union undermines the traditional system of law in Western nations. The ideology and project of Globalism (Scruton does not use this term, but I do) – for it is a deliberate project, make no mistake about it – is presented to Western citizens as an "inevitable" process. Those disagreeing with this are evil racist or ignorant bigots standing against the tide of history. As Scruton says:</p> <blockquote><p>We have reached the stage where our national jurisdiction is bombarded by laws from outside...even though many of them originate in despotic or criminal governments, and even though hardly any of them are concerned with the maintenance of peace. Even so we, the citizens, are powerless to reject these laws, and they, the legislators, are entirely unanswerable to us, who must obey them....</p> <p>The despotism is coming slowly: the anarchy will happen quickly in its wake, when law is finally detached from the experience of membership, becomes 'theirs' but not 'ours' and so loses all authority in the hearts of those whom it presumes to discipline….our political elites speak and behave as though there were no such choice to be made – just as the communists did at the time of the Russian Revolution. </p> <p>They refer to an inevitable process, to irreversible changes, and while at times prepared to distinguish a 'fast' from a 'slow' track into the future, are clear in their minds that these two tracks lead to a single destination – the destination of transnational government, under a common system of law, in which national loyalty will be no more significant than support for a local football team.</p></blockquote> <p>Anthony <a href="http://www.free-europe.org/blog/?itemid=364">Coughlan</a>, a senior lecturer at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, states the following in an essay at the EU Observer:</p> <blockquote><p>At a national level when a minister wants to get something done, he or she must have the backing of the prime minister, must have the agreement of the minister for finance if it means spending money, and above all must have majority support in the national parliament, and implicitly amongst voters in the country.</p> <p>Shift the policy area in question to the supranational level of Brussels however, where laws are made primarily by the 27-member Council of Ministers, and the minister in question becomes a member of an oligarchy, a committee of lawmakers, the most powerful in history, making laws for 500 million Europeans, and irremovable as a group regardless of what it does. </p> <p>National parliaments and citizens lose power with every EU treaty, for they no longer have the final say in the policy areas concerned. Individual ministers on the other hand obtain an intoxicating increase in personal power, as they are transformed from members of the executive arm of government at national level, subordinate to a national legislature, into EU-wide legislators at the supranational.</p></blockquote> <p>EU ministers see themselves as architects of a superpower in the making, and can free themselves from scrutiny of their actions by elected national parliaments. According to Coughlan, EU integration represents "a gradual coup by government executives against legislatures, and by politicians against the citizens who elect them." This process sucks the reality of power from "traditional government institutions, while leaving these still formally intact. They still keep their old names — parliament, government, supreme court — so that their citizens do not get too alarmed, but their classical functions have been transformed."</p> <p>The European Union is basically an attempt by the elites in European nations to cooperate on usurping power, bypassing and abolishing the democratic system, a slow-motion coup d'état. Ideas such as "promoting peace" or "promoting free trade" are used as a pretext for this, a bone thrown to fool the gullible masses and veil what is essentially a naked power grab.</p> <p>The European Union is deeply flawed in its basic construction and cannot function as anything other than an increasingly totalitarian pan-European dictatorship, run by a self-appointed oligarchy. Indeed, there is reason to fear that it was designed that way. Power is concentrated heavily in institutions that are above the formal restraints of public consent and above the informal restraints of public scrutiny and insight. EU authorities can do more or less whatever they want to, as they do in relations to the Arab and Islamic world.</p> <p><strong>10) The EU Spreads a Culture of Lies and Corruption</strong><br />In 2005 (and again in 2006), the EU's <a href="http://fjordman.blogspot.com/2005/11/11-years-chaos-for-eu-accounts.html">financial watchdog</a> refused to approve the EU's accounts for the 11th year in a row because they were so full of fraud. The European Court of Auditors refused to give a statement of assurance on the EU's $160.3 billion budget for 2004. "The vast majority of the payment budget was again materially affected by errors of legality and regularity," it said. It specifically refused to approve the budgets for the EU's foreign policy and financial aid programs, many of which are geared towards Arab countries. Half of the project budgets approved by the European Commission were inadequately monitored.</p> <p>The European Commission, frequently diffused through a complicated web of innocent-sounding organizations, create agreements with Arabs and then quietly implement them as federal EU policy. This is accomplished because billions of Euros are floating around in a system with little outside control, and with a few powerful individuals and groups pulling the strings. </p> <p>Native Europeans are in effect financing their continent's merger with, in reality colonization by, the Islamic world without their knowledge and without their consent. It must be the first time in human history that an entire continent is being culturally eradicated with bureaucratic precision. This represents perhaps the greatest betrayal in the history of Western civilization, yet is largely ignored by the mainstream media in most Western nations.</p> <p>After Irish voters had clearly rejected the Lisbon Treaty (the slightly changed, but otherwise recycled version of the European Constitution which had been rejected by French and Dutch voters earlier), Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark <a href="http://www.cphpost.dk/get/107749.html">said</a> Ireland should be given less than nine months to work out its problems with the Lisbon Treaty prior to the EU's parliamentary elections in 2009. </p> <p>Rasmussen said that the Irish "no" vote to the Constitution should not stop further work by the Union toward getting the treaty ratified. European leaders, including Danish ones, have generally preferred ratification of the EU Constitution without popular referendums because they know there is powerful resistance to it in many countries. It is meaningless to have referendums if they only come when the elites want them to, and these elites can ignore them if they dislike the results.</p> <p><a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/08/fogh-forget-referendum.html">Mr. Rasmussen</a> is a great example of how the European Union slowly destroys the democratic system and is deliberately designed to do so. He is supposed to follow the will of and interests of his people, but his actual loyalty lies with the rest of the EU oligarchy. He's by no means the worst person among EU leaders; this isn't about his personal flaws, it's about the EU and how it eventually corrupts even otherwise decent individuals.</p> <p>The EU is a slow-motion coup d'état conducted against dozens of countries simultaneously. It is designed to empty all organs subjected to the popular will of any real power and transfer it into the hands of an unelected oligarchy. In fact, it's worse than a coup d'état because this traditionally implied that a group of people seized control over a country. The EU doesn't just want to seize control over nation states; it wants to abolish them. The EU is organized treason.</p> <p>The EU elites react as one when faced with challenges to their power base from ordinary people. Participants at every level of the system get well-paid jobs for taking part in it, which means that their pragmatic interests lie with maintaining it. Most of those who know the true nature of the EU have been bribed by the system and remain silent regarding its abuses because they personally benefit from it. Their loyalty has been bought — with the tax money of European citizens — and transferred from their people, where it theoretically should be, to the EU. </p> <p>The EU is their pension plan. When you challenge the EU, you thus constitute a direct threat to their personal financial interests, and they will respond accordingly. The EU can bribe the national elites by appealing to their vanity and sense of importance, by elevating them from a national to an "international level" and by giving them nice cars and fancy jobs with power unrestrained by silly prosaic things such as the will of the people. Just like the Soviet Union, the European Union promotes a culture of lies and corruption which starts at the top and filters down to society as a whole.</p> <p>Dutchman Derk-Jan Eppink, who has worked behind the scenes of the European Commission, sees a number of similarities between the European Union and the late Soviet Union. The EUSSR, just like the USSR, is administered by a self-appointed political elite from a single bureaucratic center. Its leaders profess belief in a Utopian state. The Soviet Union saw Socialist integration as an irreversible process. The European Union sees integration as a means for an "ever closer Union." </p> <p>The Soviet Union claimed to act on behalf of a mythical worker. The European Union has its mythical citizen. Eppink concluded the comparison:<br /></p> <blockquote>All in all, the Soviet Union lacked the self-correcting forces and the self-criticism which are proper to the democratic process. The European Union lacks these properties in the same way. By setting targets which are either too far away or unrealistic, you are undermining the legitimacy of the project and of the institutions which have to implement these policies. <p>With this book, I want to warn for imperial overstretch and for the creation of expectations which are far-fetched and unrealistic. Sometimes I have the impression that the European Union is moving towards the same trap that finished the Soviet Union.</p></blockquote> <p>According to writer Christopher Booker,<br /></p> <blockquote>when Richard North and I were writing a history of the European Union, trawling hundreds of books and thousands of documents, nothing struck us more than how consistently this grandiose project has been built on deceit as to its true nature (hence our title, The Great Deception). <p>It is more than 60 years since one of its progenitors, Altiero Spinelli, wrote that its aim should be stealthily to assemble the components of a supranational government and only to declare its true purpose at the end of the process by unveiling a 'constitution'. </p> <p>It is more than 50 years since another founder, Paul-Henri Spaak, advised Jean Monnet, who was above all 'the Father of Europe', that the only way to achieve their goal – a politically integrated Europe – was to pretend that it was only a 'Common Market'.</p></blockquote> <p>Danish EU-critic Henrik Ræder Clausen, who is behind the Europe News website, has reviewed the book The Great Deception by Christopher Booker and Richard North. In the early stages, Jean Monnet was seemingly always at the right place and with the right contacts. The first ideas for a European Union were born after the senseless destruction brought about during the First World War, but they were only implemented after the Second World War:</p> <blockquote><p>The initial ideas for the European Union stem from the period after WWI (not WWII), where the catastrophe just experienced had made a deep impression, and had seeded the ground for trying out new ideas. The League of Nations was one such idea, creating an intergovernmental body to deal with international conflicts, and hopefully to preserve the peace. </p> <p>The various players, Monnet, Salter, and later Spinelli, drafted their first ideas immediately after WWI, in an effort to preclude a repeat of this, possibly the most meaningless war in history. Even the basic structure of the Union, modeled after the League of Nations, was drafted out at this early stage.</p></blockquote> <p>Monnet, who had been doing business and making contacts during WW2, resumed his efforts after the war. He eventually realized that there was little opportunity to make European citizens give up their nation states voluntarily, so in 1954 he changed his strategy. Instead of aiming directly for a supranational Union, Monnet and his allies opted for an Economic Community instead, which gradually evolved over several decades.</p> <p>According to Clausen,<br /></p> <blockquote>At this point (the Maastricht Treaty), we are faced with one of the most significant deceptions of the European Union project: It was sold to the European citizens as an economic community, not as a political union. By implementing the political union in small steps, and not making the final goal clear to the public except at a very late stage, the Community founders had pulled off one of the greatest deceptions in history, effectively decoupling the progress from democratic scrutiny and criticism. 1992 marks the end of the European Economic Community and the (troubled) birth of the European Union.</blockquote> <p>Is the European Union exclusively bad? There are two schools of thought: Those who believe that the EU represents an idea that was initially good but went awfully wrong somewhere along the way, and those who believe the EU was flawed from its very inception; most people just didn't see it for what it was. I am willing to listen to the arguments of both camps, but the lies by Mr. Monnet and others do indicate that the EU was steeped in lies and deception from the very first moment of its creation. </p> <p>Either way, this question is by now of secondary importance. What matters at the moment is that the EU has become a monster which threatens the very continued existence of European civilization in any recognizable form.</p> <p>I am not in any way suggesting that the EU is the only cause of the challenges we are now facing; merely that it constitutes our biggest problem, blocks the solution to other problems and adds several new ones. Political Correctness, suicidal Multiculturalism and Globalism rule the entire Western world, and the low birth rates we have among native Europeans are not caused by the EU. There is a new sense of European solidarity which can be useful in the future. It is quite possible that we could indeed benefit from some form of European cooperation in defense of a shared civilization, but not in the form of the EU as it exists today.</p> <p>I would like to reform the EU if I could, but I fear that Vladimir Bukovsky is right and that it is the kind of structure which cannot be reformed. There is an incredible amount of frustration, fear and anger simmering among ordinary people across much of Western Europe which is artificially held down by the authorities and the media. </p> <p>There is a possibility that there will be a counter-reaction once the EU is dismantled, but I don't think we have much of a choice in the present situation. I would liken it to having emergency surgery in order to save your life. If you have the choice between certain death now and possible complications later, you would normally choose possible complications later.</p> <p>The European Union is not about cooperation for protecting the best interests of Europeans; it is about turning the entire continent into a Multicultural theme park while the natives get culturally deconstructed and demographically crushed. The EU is a large-scale social experiment conducted on hundreds of millions of people. It is not about economics of scale, it is about stupidity of scale. The EU system corrupts virtually everybody who comes close to it. It cannot be reformed, it can only be dismantled.</p>Rolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144151003592750093.post-49183884562988079202008-04-12T15:28:00.000-07:002008-04-12T15:29:18.303-07:00Will Europe Resist Islamization?An excellent article from <a href="http://www.israelenews.com/view.asp?ID=1656">Israel enews.</a><br /><br /><br /><div>Some analysts of Islam in Western Europe argue that the continent cannot escape its <a href="http://www.meforum.org/article/696">Eurabian fate</a>; that the trend lines of the past half-century will continue until Muslims become a majority population and Islamic law (the Shari‘a) reigns.</div> <div> </div> <div>I disagree, arguing that there is <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4323">another route the continent might take</a>, one of resistance to Islamification and a reassertion of traditional ways. Indigenous Europeans – who make up 95 percent of the population – can insist on their historic customs and mores. Were they to do so, nothing would be in their way and no one could stop them.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUhkJEkzmKJZRBEyqaDKC7uhhVj6EPYBRnWaZYmgK9A7AcW_YMWOBpSYrsWdw927lPJ7mL779nt8mV_ifU6tEs2Au7M3W0y6rVvidIOrcQ3eTWG_JPeHQsGxunB_HvRShfziuF-dfuEYg/s1600-h/Britain+not+their+finest+hour.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUhkJEkzmKJZRBEyqaDKC7uhhVj6EPYBRnWaZYmgK9A7AcW_YMWOBpSYrsWdw927lPJ7mL779nt8mV_ifU6tEs2Au7M3W0y6rVvidIOrcQ3eTWG_JPeHQsGxunB_HvRShfziuF-dfuEYg/s320/Britain+not+their+finest+hour.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188484605511605218" border="0" /></a></div> <div> </div> <div>Indeed, Europeans are visibly showing signs of impatience with creeping Shari‘a. The legislation in France that prohibits <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/islam/hijab.html">hijabs</a>from public school classrooms signals the reluctance to accept Islamic ways, as are related efforts to ban <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/503">burqas</a>, <a href="http://www.neurope.eu/articles/82846.php">mosques</a>, and <a href="http://www.meforum.org/article/1798">minarets</a>. Throughout Western Europe, anti-immigrant parties are generally increasing in popularity.</div> <div> </div> <div>That resistance took a new turn last week, with two dramatic events. First, on March 22, Pope Benedict XVI himself baptized, confirmed, and gave the Eucharist to <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080322/ap_on_re_eu/pope_muslim_convert;_ylt=AiSKCJY9C_XYRv2eTMogXzlvaA8F">Magdi Allam</a>, 56, a prominent Egyptian-born Muslim long living in Italy, where he is a top editor at the Corriere della Sera newspaper and a well-known author. Allam took the middle name Cristiano. The ceremony converting him to the Catholic religion could not have been higher profile, occurring at a nighttime service at St. Peter's Basilica on the eve of Easter Sunday, with exhaustive coverage from the Vatican and many other television stations.</div> <div> </div> <div>Allam followed up his conversion with a <a href="http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-22151">stinging statement</a>in which he argued that beyond "the phenomenon of Islamic extremism and terrorism that has appeared on a global level, the root of evil is inherent in an Islam that is physiologically violent and historically conflictive." In other words, the problem is not just Islamism but Islam itself. One commentator, "<a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JC26Aa01.html">Spengler</a>" of Asia Times, goes so far as to say that Allam "presents an existential threat to Muslim life" because he "agrees with his former co-religionists in repudiating the degraded culture of the modern West, and offers them something quite different: a religion founded upon love."</div> <div> </div> <div>Second, on March 27, <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/815">Geert Wilders</a>, 44, released his long-awaited, 15-minute film, Fitna, which consists of some of the most bellicose verses of the Koran, followed by actions in accord with those verses carried out by Islamists in recent years. The obvious implication is that Islamists are simply acting in accord with their scriptures. In Allam's words, Wilders also argues that "the root of evil is inherent" in Islam.</div> <div> </div> <div>Unlike Allam and Wilders, I do distinguish between Islam and Islamism, but I believe it imperative that their ideas get a <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/499">fair hearing</a>, without vituperation or punishment. An honest debate over Islam must take place.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSuZ4g6EUeaTdDnfHc4C98g3qyBAF-Wsv64lViS1tqGEacLdFf5TdtxSSziujTE1BtX8LZ-pJaZPlfn8BjMbFhOW18A20xKNXrQVGoGUG0IMiISg62pKyJFt4X8faaDd52Jn15ZhPixOU/s1600-h/giocondaburka.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSuZ4g6EUeaTdDnfHc4C98g3qyBAF-Wsv64lViS1tqGEacLdFf5TdtxSSziujTE1BtX8LZ-pJaZPlfn8BjMbFhOW18A20xKNXrQVGoGUG0IMiISg62pKyJFt4X8faaDd52Jn15ZhPixOU/s320/giocondaburka.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188484145950104530" border="0" /></a></div> <div> </div> <div>If Allam's conversion was a surprise and Wilders' film had a three-month run-up, in both cases, the aggressive, violent reactions that met <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4001">prior criticisms of Islam</a>did not take place. According to the Los Angeles Times, the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-film29mar29,0,2726367.story?track=mostviewed-storylevel">Dutch police</a>contacted imams to gauge reactions at the city's mosques and found, according to police spokesman Arnold Aben, "it's quieter than usual here today. Sort of like a holiday." In <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gbdWDY3d2pIF8SJM8-HhVKSIJz3wD8VMECQ00">Pakistan</a>, a rally against the film attracted only some dozens of protestors.</div> <div> </div> <div>This relatively constrained reaction points to the fact that Muslim threats sufficed to enforce censorship. Dutch Prime Minister <a href="http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MTA3ODE4NDcxOA==" target="_blank">Jan Peter Balkenende</a>denounced Fitna and, after 3.6 million visitors had viewed it on the British website <a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d9_1206624103&p=1">LiveLeak.com</a>, the company announced that "Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, … Liveleak has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers." (Two days later, however, LiveLeak again posted the film.)</div> <div> </div> <div>Three similarities bear noting: both Allam (author of a book titled <a href="http://www.librimondadori.it/web/mondadori/scheda-libro?autoreUUID=87e75adb-9ea9-11dc-9517-454a8637094f&isbn=978880456777" target="_blank">Viva Israele</a>) and Wilders (whose film emphasizes Muslim violence against Jews) stand up for Israel and the Jews; Muslim threats against their lives have forced both for years to live under state-provided round-the-clock police protection; and, more profoundly, the two share a passion for European civilization.</div> <div>Indeed, Allam and Wilders may represent the vanguard of a Christian/liberal reassertion of European values. It is too soon to predict, but these staunch individuals could provide a crucial boost for those intent on maintaining the continent's historic identity.</div>Rolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144151003592750093.post-59241015240351486422008-04-12T15:26:00.000-07:002008-04-12T15:28:24.713-07:00Eurabia - Europe's Future?From <a href="http://www.meforum.org/article/696">Middle East Forum.</a><br /><br /><blockquote> <p>Bat Ye'or, a historian, has published groundbreaking works on minorities and "dhimmitude" (their inferior status) under Islam, including <i>Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide</i> (2002). Her latest book, <i>Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis</i> (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005), argues that European governments, especially the French, have developed foreign policies aimed at winning the favor of Middle Eastern regimes and appeasing the growing militant Islamic minorities in their midst. Bat Ye'or addressed the Middle East Forum in New York on February 7, 2005.</p></blockquote> <p>Europe is undergoing two profound changes. The first is the weakening of Christianity. The second is demographic decline. Presently, across Europe, there are only two-thirds the number of children born necessary to sustain the population. The consequent drop in population has mostly been made good by immigration of Muslims. The fast-growing Muslim population is generally not integrated into the host societies nor politically acculturated to its norms. To the contrary, radical Islamic movements are gaining in strength among these émigré populations. In addition, European governments, especially the French, have developed foreign policies aimed at winning the favor of Middle Eastern regimes.</p> <p>The question arises: is this a temporary aberration or is Europe on the road to losing its historic identity? The latter: Europe is rapidly being transformed into "Eurabia," a cultural and political appendage of the Arab/Muslim world that is fundamentally anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, anti-Western and anti-American.</p> <h4>European-Arab Partnership</h4> <p>The four-decade political and economic relationship between Europe and the Arab countries of the Middle East, institutionalized in the annual European-Arab Dialogue, has spawned a virulent and hostile amalgam called "Eurabia." It will not simply go away with a change in European Union (EU) policy. Rather, its roots are deeper. Indeed, how the Eurabia issue is handled today will largely determine Europe's future.</p> <p>The images of Eurabia are manifest in millions of people burning American and Israeli flags during the Iraq war and openly supporting Yasir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and other brutal dictators. Eurabia is also discernible in the explosion of anti-Semitic activity and a lack of empathy for Jewish rights in various European countries. Increasingly, Jews find themselves under attack, chiefly from Muslim extremists and radicalized youth, and European governments and law enforcement agencies react to these violations of rights only tepidly and only after the sustained pressure of publicity. The Eurabian phenomenon can also be seen in the intimidation into silence of critiques of Islam and Muslim society, epitomized by the slaying in broad daylight of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, who had made a documentary on the travails experienced by Muslim women within Muslim societies.</p> <h4>Eurabia in the Making</h4> <p>This pernicious merger began with Charles De Gaulle in the 1960s. De Gaulle saw that the power of France diminished with the loss of its colonies and he believed a more unified Europe would restore some French glory. In order to unify Europe, the continent needed to form an international bloc that could rival America. The Arab nations of the Middle East, unparalleled in their oil wealth, seemed to be good partners. Laying the foundation for this relationship, on November 27, 1967, De Gaulle said that French-Arab collaboration would be a fundamental element in French politics. Since then, France has adopted a highly amiable policy toward the Arab world and a hostile attitude toward Israel.</p> <p>After the Yom Kippur War of 1973, the Arabs states proclaimed their oil boycott against Europe and specifically against countries with close ties to Israel. Only twenty days after the start of the war, the European community of nine countries recognized the rights of the Palestinians to participate in political negotiations and demanded Israel's return to the armistice lines of 1949, thus diverging from UN Security Council Resolution 242, passed in 1967 and still the basis of a negotiated settlement.</p> <p>Consequently, the Arab boycott of Europe came to an end; and the French and German governments requested Arab leaders to enter into an official dialogue with European leaders to cement a solid relationship. The Arab leaders agreed but on condition that the Europeans had a unified foreign policy in synchrony with the interests of the Arab states.</p> <p>Elements of this relationship are plenty evident. For example, European leaders see Arab reform running parallel to the resolution of the Israeli-Arab peace process. Again and again, Arab and European leaders exploit impasses in the Arab-Israeli conflict conveniently to delay democratic reforms.</p> <p>The goal of Eurabia is to bring together the two shores of the Mediterranean with the interests of European society mirroring the interests of the Arab world. There should be a homogenization of culture, politics, and policy between the two shores. As a byproduct, American leaders have to deal with the growing Eurabian political culture instead of the former European body politic.</p> <p>Unfortunately, most Europeans are not aware of the Eurabia merger. The new hatred found in Europe against America and Israel is commonplace and intertwines with many sectors of society, including the media, the culture, and the economy. Europe now facilitates the jihadist values of the Arab world. This is evident in its reluctance to forthrightly denounce Islamic terrorism and its need to indict America and Israel as the causes of conflict, rather than the victims of Islamic aggression. Mass immigration of Arabs across the Mediterranean to Europe, which was part of the friendship agreement, will only strengthen the Eurabian phenomenon. If Europe continues to respond with appeasement to Islamist terror attacks like that in Madrid in 2004, Eurabia will eventually become the complete European reality.</p> <h4>Conclusions for the United States</h4> <p>Americans need to take an assertive role in both combating Eurabia's dangers and preventing a similar merger from occurring within their own country, for this is a danger. For example, American Middle East studies specialists at universities are already predominantly pro-Arab/Islamic in orientation, dismissive of traditional standards of scholarship and not bashful about politicizing formal instruction.</p> <p>Americans need to embrace their own genuinely pluralist culture. They should not renounce their identity and Judeo-Christian values to appease the current assertive intolerance emanating from the Arab/Muslim world.</p>Rolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144151003592750093.post-71171665143761570932008-04-07T11:39:00.000-07:002008-04-07T11:44:51.597-07:00The Eurabia Code<i>The noted blogger Fjordman is filing this report via <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/10/eurabia-code_19.html">Gates of Vienna.<br /></a><br />This essay, or parts of it, can be freely republished by anybody who wants to, as long as Fjordman is credited as the author.<br /><br />The first three parts of this essay were originally posted at <a target="_blank" href="http://jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/013355.php">Part 1</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/013411.php">Part 2</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/013517.php">Part 3</a>.<br /><br />For a complete Fjordman blogography, see <a target="_blank" href="http://kleinverzet.blogspot.com/2006/02/fjordman-files.html">The Fjordman Files</a>.<br /><br />This essay can also be viewed in an <a target="_blank" href="http://chromatism.net/fjordman/eurabiacode.htm">easy-to-copy and printable format</a>.</i><br /><br /><center><img src="http://chromatism.net/images/bar400.gif" border="0" /></center><br /><b> The Eurabia Code<br />by Fjordman</b><br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/dolchstoss.gif" alt="DolchStoss" align="right" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />I decided to write this essay after a comment from a journalist, not a Leftist by my country’s standards, who dismissed Eurabia as merely a conspiracy theory, one on a par with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. I do not disagree with the fact that conspiracy theories exist, nor that they can be dangerous. After all, the Protocols and the Dolchstosslegende, or “stab in the back myth” — the idea that Germany didn’t lose WW1 but was betrayed by Socialists, intellectuals and Jews — helped pave the way for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis before WW2.<br /><br />However, what puzzles me is that it is a widely-held belief of many (not just in the Islamic world but in Europe and even in the United States) that the terror attacks that brought down the Twin Towers in New York City on September 11th 2001 were really a controlled demolition staged by the American government and then blamed on Muslims. I have seen this thesis talked about many times in Western media. While it is frequently (though not always) dismissed and mocked, it is least mentioned.<br /><br />In contrast, Eurabia – which asserts that the Islamicization of Europe didn’t happen merely by accident but with the active participation of European political leaders — is hardly ever referred to at all, despite the fact that it is easier to document. Does the notion of Eurabia hit too close to home? Perhaps it doesn’t fit with the anti-American disposition of many journalists? Curiously enough, even those left-leaning journalists who are otherwise critical of the European Union because of its free market elements never write about Eurabia.<br /><span class="fullpost">- - - - - - - - - -<br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/eurabia.jpg" alt="Eurabia" align="left" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />Because of this, I am going to test whether the Eurabia thesis is correct, or at least plausible. I have called this project The Eurabia Code, alluding to author Dan Brown’s massive bestseller <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_vinci_code"><i>The Da Vinci Code</i></a>. Brown’s fictional account “documents” a conspiracy by the Church to cover up the truth about Jesus. I’m not sure my work will become equally popular, but I’m pretty sure it’s closer to reality. The next time Mr. Brown wants to write about massive conspiracies in Europe, he would be well-advised to set his eyes at Brussels rather than Rome. It would be a whole lot more interesting.<br /><br />What follows is a brief outline of the thesis put forward by writer Bat Ye’or in her book <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Eurabia-Euro-Arab-Axis-Bat-YeOr/dp/083864077X/"><i>Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis</i></a>. My information is based on her book (which should be read in full). In addition I have drawn from some of her articles and interviews. I republish the information with her blessing, but this summary is completely my own.<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/degaulle.jpg" alt="Charles de Gaulle" align="right" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />In an interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Bat Ye’or explained how French President Charles de Gaulle, disappointed by the loss of the French colonies in Africa and the Middle East as well as with France’s waning influence in the international arena, decided in the 1960’s to create a strategic alliance with the Arab and Muslim world to compete with the dominance of the United States and the Soviet Union.<br /><br />“This is a matter of a total transformation of Europe, which is the result of an intentional policy,” said Bat Ye’or. “We are now heading towards a total change in Europe, which will be more and more Islamicized and will become a political satellite of the Arab and Muslim world. The European leaders have decided on an alliance with the Arab world, through which they have committed to accept the Arab and Muslim approach toward the United States and Israel. This is not only with respect to foreign policy, but also on issues engaging European society from within, such as immigration, the integration of the immigrants and the idea that Islam is part of Europe.”<br /><br />“Europe is under a constant threat of terror. Terror is a way of applying pressure on the European countries to surrender constantly to the Arab representatives’ demands. They demand, for example, that Europe always speak out for the Palestinians and against Israel.”<br /><br />Thus, the Eurabian project became an enlarged vision of the anti-American Gaullist policy dependent upon the formation of a Euro-Arab entity hostile to American influence. It facilitated European ambitions to maintain important spheres of influence in the former European colonies, while opening huge markets for European products in the Arab world, especially in oil-producing countries, in order to secure supplies of petroleum and natural gas to Europe. In addition, it would make the Mediterranean a Euro-Arab inland sea by favoring Muslim immigration and promoting Multiculturalism with a strong Islamic presence in Europe.<br /><br />The use of the term “Eurabia” was first introduced in the mid-1970s, as the title of a journal edited by the President of the Association for Franco-Arab Solidarity, Lucien Bitterlein, and published collaboratively by the Groupe d’Etudes sur le Moyen-Orient (Geneva), France-Pays Arabes (Paris), and the Middle East International (London). Their articles called for common Euro-Arab positions at every level. These concrete proposals were not the musings of isolated theorists; instead they put forth concrete policy decisions conceived in conjunction with, and actualized by, European state leaders and European Parliamentarians.<br /><br />During a November 27, 1967 press conference, Charles de Gaulle stated openly that French cooperation with the Arab world had become “the fundamental basis of our foreign policy.” By January 1969, the Second International Conference in Support of the Arab Peoples, held in Cairo, in its resolution 15, decided “…to form special parliamentary groups, where they did not exist, and to use the parliamentary platform support of the Arab people and the Palestinian resistance.” Five years later in Paris, July 1974, the Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation was created, under the Euro-Arab Dialogue rubric.<br /><br />Bat Ye’or has highlighted this shared Euro-Arab political agenda. The first step was the construction of a common foreign policy. France was the driving force in this unification, which had already been envisaged by General de Gaulle’s inner circle and Arab politicians.<br /><br />The Arab states demanded from Europe access to Western science and technology, European political independence from the United States, European pressure on the United States to align with their Arab policy and demonization of Israel as a threat to world peace, as well as measures favorable to Arab immigration and dissemination of Islamic culture in Europe. This cooperation would also included recognition of the Palestinians as a distinct people and the PLO and its leader Arafat as their representative. Up to 1973 they had been known only as Arab refugees, even by other Arabs. The concept of a Palestinian “nation” simply did not exist.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/opec.gif" alt="OPEC" border="0" vspace="8" /></center>During the 1973 oil crisis, the Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries announced that, due to the ongoing Yom Kippur War between Israel and its Arab neighbors Egypt and Syria, OPEC would no longer ship petroleum to Western nations that supported Israel. The sudden increase in oil prices was had lasting effects. Not only did it create a strong influx of petrodollars to countries such as Saudi Arabia, which permitted the Saudis to fund a worldwide Islamic resurgence, but it also had an impact in the West, especially in Europe.<br /><br />However, Arab leaders had to sell their oil. Their people are very dependent on European economic and technological aid. The Americans made this point during the oil embargo in 1973. According to Ye’or, although the oil factor certainly helped cement the Euro-Arab Dialogue, it was primarily a pretext to cover up a policy that emerged in France before that crisis occurred. The policy, conceived in the 1960s, had strong antecedents in the French 19th-century dream of governing an Arab empire.<br /><br />This political agenda has been reinforced by the deliberate cultural transformation of Europe. Euro-Arab Dialogue Symposia conducted in Venice (1977) and Hamburg (1983) included recommendations that have been successfully implemented. These recommendations were accompanied by a deliberate, privileged influx of Arab and other Muslim immigrants into Europe in enormous numbers.<br /><br />The recommendations included:<br /><br />1. Coordination of the efforts made by the Arab countries to spread the Arabic language and culture in Europe,<br />2. Creation of joint Euro-Arab Cultural Centers in European capitals,<br />3. The necessity of supplying European institutions and universities with Arab teachers specialized in teaching Arabic to Europeans, and<br />4. The necessity of cooperation between European and Arab specialists in order to present a positive picture of Arab-Islamic civilization and contemporary Arab issues to the educated public in Europe.<br /><br />These agreements could not be set forth in written documents and treaties due to their politically sensitive and fundamentally undemocratic nature. The European leaders thus carefully chose to call their ideas “dialogue.” All meetings, committees and working groups included representatives from European Community nations and the European Council along with members from Arab countries and the Arab League. Proceedings and decisions took place in closed sessions. No official minutes were recorded.<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/medea.gif" alt="MEDEA" align="left" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />The Euro-Arab Dialogue (EAD) is a political, economic and cultural institution designed to ensure perfect cohesion between Europeans and Arabs. Its structure was set up at conferences in Copenhagen (15 December 1973), and Paris (31 July 1974). The principal agent of this policy is the European Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation, founded in 1974. The other principal organs of The Dialogue are the MEDEA Institute and the European Institute of Research on Mediterranean and Euro-Arab Cooperation, created in 1995 with the backing of the European Commission.<br /><br />In an interview with Jamie Glazov of Frontpage Magazine, Ye’or explained how “in domestic policy, the EAD established a close cooperation between the Arab and European media television, radio, journalists, publishing houses, academia, cultural centers, school textbooks, student and youth associations, tourism. Church interfaith dialogues were determinant in the development of this policy. Eurabia is therefore this strong Euro-Arab network of associations — a comprehensive symbiosis with cooperation and partnership on policy, economy, demography and culture.”<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/paeac.gif" alt="PAEAC" align="right" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />Eurabia’s driving force, the Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation, was created in Paris in 1974. It now has over six hundred members — from all major European political parties — active in their own national parliaments, as well as in the European parliament. France continues to be the key protagonist of this association.<br /><br />A wide-ranging policy was sketched out. It entailed a symbiosis of Europe with the Muslim Arab countries that would endow Europe – and especially France, the project’s prime mover – with a weight and a prestige to rival that of the United States. This policy was undertaken quite discreetly, and well outside of official treaties, using the innocent-sounding name of the Euro-Arab Dialogue. The organization functioned under the auspices of European government ministers, working in close association with their Arab counterparts, and with the representatives of the European Commission and the Arab League. The goal was the creation of a pan-Mediterranean entity, permitting the free circulation both of men and of goods<br /><br />On the cultural front there began a complete re-writing of history, which was first undertaken during the 1970s in European universities. This process was ratified by the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe in September 1991, at its meeting devoted to “The Contribution of the Islamic Civilisation to European culture.” It was reaffirmed by French President Jacques Chirac in his address of April 8, 1996 in Cairo, and reinforced by Romano Prodi, president of the powerful European Commission, the EU’s “government,” and later Italian Prime Minister, through the creation of a Foundation on the Dialogue of Cultures and Civilizations. This foundation was to control everything said, written and taught about Islam in Europe.<br /><br />Over the past three decades, the EEC and the EU’s political and cultural organizations have invented a fantasy Islamic civilization and history. The historical record of violations of basic human rights for all non- Muslims and women under sharia (Islamic Law) is either ignored or dismissed. In this worldview the only dangers come from the United States and Israel. The creators of Eurabia have conducted a successful propaganda campaign against these two countries in the European media. This fabrication was made easier by pre-existing currents of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism in parts of Europe, although both sentiments have been greatly inflated by Eurabians and their collaborators.<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/patten.jpg" alt="Chris Patten" align="right" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />On January 31, 2001, with the recrudescence of Palestinian terrorist jihad, European Foreign Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten declared to the European Parliament that Europe’s foreign policy should give special attention to its southern flank (the Arab countries, in EU jargon), adding that he was delighted by the general agreement to give greater visibility to the Mediterranean Partnership.<br /><br />Bat Ye’or thinks that “Our politicians are perfectly informed of Islamic history and current policies by their embassies, agents and specialists. There is no innocence there, but tremendous inflexibility in corruption, cynicism and the perversion of values.”<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.dhimmitude.org/d_today_eurabia.php">In the preface to her book</a>, she states that “This book describes Europe’s evolution from a Judeo-Christian civilization, with important post-Enlightenment secular elements, into a post– Judeo-Christian civilization that is subservient to the ideology of jihad and the Islamic powers.”<br /><br />The new European civilization in the making can correctly be termed a ‘‘civilization of dhimmitude.’’ The word dhimmitude comes from the Koranic word ‘‘dhimmi.’’ It refers to the subjugated, non-Muslim individuals who accept restrictive and humiliating subordination to Islamic power in order to avoid enslavement or death. The entire Muslim world as we know it today is a product of this 1,300 year-old jihad dynamic, whereby once thriving non-Muslim majority civilizations have been reduced to a state of dysfunction and dhimmitude. The dhimmis are inferior beings who endure humiliation and aggression in silence. This arrangement allows Muslims to enjoy an impunity that increases both their hatred and their feeling of superiority, under the protection of the law.<br /><br />Eurabia is a novel new entity. It possesses political, economic, religious, cultural, and media components, which are imposed on Europe by powerful governmental lobbies. While Europeans live within Eurabia’s constraints, outside of a somewhat confused awareness, few are really conscious of them on a daily basis.<br /><br />This Eurabian policy, expressed in obscure wording, is conducted at the highest political levels and coordinated over the whole of the European Union. It spreads an anti-American and anti-Semitic Euro-Arab sub-culture into the fiber of every social, media and cultural sector. Dissidents are silenced or boycotted. Sometimes they are fired from their jobs, victims of a totalitarian “correctness” imposed mainly by the academic, media and political sectors.<br /><br />According to Ye’or, France and the rest of Western Europe can no longer change their policy: “It is a project that was conceived, planned and pursued consistently through immigration policy, propaganda, church support, economic associations and aid, cultural, media and academic collaboration. Generations grew up within this political framework; they were educated and conditioned to support it and go along with it.”<br /><br />Are Bat Ye’or’s claims correct, or even possible?<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/09/bring_them_freedom_or_they_des.html">Bernard Lewis</a> has pointed out that, by common consent among historians, “the modern history of the Middle East begins in the year 1798, when the French Revolution arrived in Egypt in the form of a small expeditionary force led by a young general called Napoleon Bonaparte—who conquered and then ruled it for a while with appalling ease.”<br /><br />In an unsuccessful effort to gain the support of the Egyptian populace, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.danielpipes.org/article/90">Napoleon issued</a> proclamations praising Islam. “People of Egypt,” he proclaimed upon his entry to Alexandria in 1798, “You will be told that I have come to destroy your religion; do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights, to punish the usurpers, and that more than the Mamluks, I respect God, his Prophet, and the Qur’an.”<br /><br />According to an eyewitness, Napoleon ended his proclamation with the phrase, “God is great and Muhammad is his prophet.” To Muslim ears, this sounded like the shahada — the declaration of belief in the oneness of Allah and in Prophet Muhammad as his last messenger. Recitation of the shahadah, the first of the five pillars of Islam, is considered to mark one’s conversion to Islam. Muslims could thus conclude that Napoleon had <a target="_blank" href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/657">converted to Islam</a>. In fact, one of his generals, Jacques Ménou, did convert to Islam.<br /><br />The French were later defeated and forced to leave Egypt by the English admiral Lord Nelson. Although the French expedition to Egypt lasted only three years, it demonstrated that the West was now so superior to the Islamic world that Westerners could enter the Arab heartland, then still a part of the Ottoman Empire, at will. Only another Western power could force them to leave. The shock of this realization triggered the first attempts to reform Islam in the 19th century.<br /><br />A positive result of Western conquest was the influx of French scientists into Egypt and the foundation of modern Egyptology. Most importantly, it led to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, which was later used by French philologist Jean-François Champollion to decipher the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. However, the encounter also left a lasting impact in Europe, and above all in France.<br /><br />The French invasion of Algeria in 1830 marked another chapter in this tale. Later, the French ruled Tunisia and Morocco. Finally, after the First World War, the French gained mandates over the former Turkish territories of the Ottoman Empire that make up what is now Syria and Lebanon. After the Second World War, French troops gradually left Arab lands, culminating with war and Algerian independence in 1962. However, their long relationship with Arabs resulted in France’s belief that she had a special relationship with and an understanding of Arabs and Muslims. Along with French leadership in continental Europe, this would now provide the basis of a new foreign policy.<br /><br />President de Gaulle pushed for a France and a Europe independent of the two superpowers. In a speech, he stated that “Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the destiny of the world.” In 1966, he withdrew France from the common NATO military command, but remained within the organization.<br /><br />Following the Six Days War in 1967, de Gaulle’s condemnation of the Israelis for their occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip marked a significant change in French foreign policy. Previously, France — as well as the rest of Western Europe — had been strongly pro-Israel, even going to war together with Israel as late as 1956 against Nasser’s Egypt. From 1967 on, however, France embarked on a decidedly pro-Arab course.<br /><br />It has been said that English foreign policy has remained the same since the 16th century. Its goal was to prevent any country, whether Spain, France, or later Germany, from dominating continental Europe to the extent that it represents a threat to England. On the other hand, one could argue that French foreign policy has also remained the same for several centuries; its goal is to champion French leadership over Europe and the Mediterranean region in order to contain Anglo-Saxon (and later Anglo-American) dominance. This picture was complicated by the unification of Germany in the late 19th century, but its outlines remain to this day.<br /><br />Napoleon is the great hero of French PM de Villepin. Several prominent French leaders stated quite openly in 2005 that the proposed EU Constitution was basically an enlarged France. Justice Minister Dominique Perben said: “We have finally obtained this ‘Europe à la française’ that we have awaited for so long. This constitutional treaty is an enlarged France. It is a Europe written in French.”<br /><br />From its inception, <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/06/why-eu-needs-to-be-destroyed-and-soon.html">European integration has been</a> a French-led enterprise. The fact that the French political elite have never renounced the maintenance of their leadership over Europe was amply demonstrated during the Iraq war. President Chirac famously said in 2003 after Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic backed the US position “They missed a good opportunity to shut up,” adding “These countries have been not very well behaved and rather reckless of the danger of aligning themselves too rapidly with the American position.”<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/jeanmonnet.jpg" alt="Jean Monnet" align="left" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />Jean Monnet, French economist never elected to public office, is regarded by many as the architect of European integration. Monnet was a well-connected pragmatist who worked behind the scenes towards the gradual creation of European unity.<br /><br />Richard North, publisher of the blog <a target="_blank" href="http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/">EU Referendum</a> and co-author (with Christopher Booker) of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0826480144/"><i>The Great Deception: Can The European Union Survive</i></a>, relates that for years — at least from the 1920s — Jean Monnet had dreamed of building a “United States of Europe.” Although what Monnet really had in mind was the creation of a European entity with all the attributes of a state, an “anodyne phrasing was deliberately chosen with a view to making it difficult to dilute by converting it into just another intergovernmental body. It was also couched in this fashion so that it would not scare off national governments by emphasising that its purpose was to override their sovereignty.”<br /><br />In their analysis of the EU’s history, the authors claim that the EU was not born out of WW2, as many people seem to think. It had been planned at least a generation before that.<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/schumandeclaration.jpg" alt="The Schuman Declaration" align="left" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />The Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950, widely presented as the beginning of the efforts towards a European Union and commemorated in “Europe Day,” contains phrases which state that it is “a first step in the federation of Europe”, and that “this proposal will lead to the realization of the first concrete foundation of a European federation.” However, as critics of the EU have noted, these political objectives are usually omitted when the Declaration is referred to, and most people are unaware of their existence.<br /><br />A federation is, of course, a State and “yet for decades now the champions of EC/EU integration have been swearing blind that they have no knowledge of any such plans. The EEC/EC/EU has steadily acquired ever more features of a supranational Federation: flag, anthem, Parliament, Supreme Court, currency, laws.”<br /><br />The EU founders “were careful only to show their citizens the benign features of their project. It had been designed to be implemented incrementally, as an ongoing process, so that no single phase of the project would arouse sufficient opposition as to stop or derail it.”<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/eussrno2.gif" alt="No to the EUSSR!" align="right" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />Booker and North call the European Union “a slow-motion coup d’état: the most spectacular coup d’état in history,” designed to gradually and carefully sideline the democratic process and subdue the older nation states of Europe without saying so publicly.<br /><br />The irony is that <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/04/fall-of-france-and-multicultural-world.html">France is now held hostage</a> by the very forces she herself set in motion. The Jihad riots by Muslim immigrants in France in 2005 demonstrated that Eurabia is no longer a matter of French foreign policy, it is now French domestic policy. France will burn unless she continues to appease Arabs and agree to their agenda.<br /><br />The growth of the Islamic population is explosive. According to some, one out of three babies born in France is a Muslim. Hundreds of Muslim ghettos already de facto follow sharia, not French law. Some believe France will quietly become a Muslim country, while others are predicting a civil war in the near future.<br /><br />Maybe there is some poetic justice in the fact that the country that initiated and has led the formation of Eurabia will now be destroyed by its own Frankenstein monster. However, gloating over France’s dilemma won’t help. The impending downfall of France is bad news for the rest of the West. What will happen to French financial resources? Above all, who will inherit hundreds of nuclear warheads? Will these weapons fall into the hands of Jihadist Muslims, too?<br /><br />MEDEA (the European Institute for Research on Mediterranean and Euro-Arab Cooperation), supported by the European Commission, is one of the key components of the Euro-Arab dialogue. On <a target="_blank" href="http://www.medea.be/index.html?page=&lang=en&doc=55&highlight=euro-arab%20dialogue">its own webpage</a>, it states that:<br /><br />“The Euro-Arab Dialogue as a forum shared by the European Community and the League of Arab States arose out of a French initiative and was launched at the European Council in Copenhagen in December 1973, shortly after the “October War” and the oil embargo. As the Europeans saw it, it was to be a forum to discuss economic affairs, whereas the Arab side saw it rather as one to discuss political affairs.<br /><br />MEDEA Institute wishes to be a resource and a reference point for people wanting to engage in the Euro-Mediterranean dialogue. Via its meetings and talks the Institute seeks to create exchanges between political, economic, and diplomatic players, experts, journalists, academics and others.”<br /><br />As Bat Ye’or points out, while most of the workings of Eurabia are hidden from the public view, sometimes we can catch glimpses of it if we know what to look for. If you search the archives of the MEDEA website and other sources and read the documents carefully, the information is there. Even more material exists on paper, both in French and in English. I argue, as does Bat Ye’or, that there are sufficient amounts of information available to validate the thesis of Eurabia.<br /><br />One of the documents Bat Ye’or was kind enough to send me (which she mentions in the French version of her book about Eurabia but not in the English version) is the <a target="_blank" href="http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:R9GG5yFJ_9gJ:ec.europa.eu/external_relations/euromed/common_strategy_med_en.pdf+Common+Strategy+of+the+European+Council+%E2%80%93+Vision+of+the+EU+for+the+Mediterranean+Region&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&lr=lang_en">Common Strategy of the European Council</a> — Vision of the EU for the Mediterranean Region, from June 19th 2000.<br /><br />It includes many recommendations, such as:<br /><br />“to elaborate partnership-building measures, notably by promoting regular consultations and exchanges of information with its Mediterranean partners, support the interconnection of infrastructure between Mediterranean partners, and between them and the EU, take all necessary measures to facilitate and encourage the involvement of civil society as well as the further development of human exchanges between the EU and the Mediterranean partners. NGOs will be encouraged to participate in cooperation at bilateral and regional levels. <i>Particular attention will be paid to the media and universities</i> [my emphasis].”<br /><br />It also includes the goal of assisting the Arab partners with “the process of achieving free trade with the EU.” This may be less innocent than it sounds, as I will come back to later.<br /><br />The Strategy also wants to “pursue, in order to fight intolerance, racism and xenophobia, the dialogue between cultures and civilisations.” Notice that this statement preceded both the start of the second Palestinian intifada as well as the terror attacks of September 11th 2001. It was thus part of an ongoing process, rather than a response to any particular international incident.<br /><br />One point in the document is particularly interesting. The EU wanted to “promote the identification of correspondences between legal systems of different inspirations in order to resolve civil law problems relating to individuals: laws of succession and family law, including divorce.”<br /><br />In plain English, it is difficult to see this bureaucratic obfuscation as anything other than an indicator that the EU countries will be lenient, adjusting their secular legislation to the sharia requirements of Muslim immigrants in family matters.<br /><br />In another document from December 2003, which is available online, Javier Solana, the Secretary General of the Council of the European Union, Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission and Chris Patten, member of the European Commission, have signed a plan for “Strengthening the EU’s Partnership with the Arab World.”<br /><br />This includes the creation of a free trade area, but also plans to “invigorate cultural/religious/civilisation and media dialogue using existing or planned instruments, including the planned Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue of Cultures and Civilisations.<br /><br />Arab immigrants make a substantial contribution to the development of Europe. The EU is firmly committed to fight all manifestations of racism and discrimination in all its forms. [<i>What constitutes discrimination? Secular laws?</i>] Full respect for the rights of immigrants in Europe is a consistent policy throughout Europe. Its implementation should be improved further and co-operation in the framework of existing agreements should be enhanced to take into account the concerns of Arab partners.”<br /><br />Super-Eurocrat Romano Prodi wants more cooperation with Arab countries. He talks about a free trade zone with the Arab world, but this implies that Arab countries would enjoy access to the four freedoms of the EU’s inner market, <b>which includes the free movement of people across national borders</b>. This fact, the potentially massive implications of establishing an “inner market” with an Arab world with a booming population growth, is virtually NEVER debated or even mentioned in European media. Yet it could mean the end of Europe as we once knew it.<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://ec.europa.eu/comm/external_relations/euromed/conf/naples/index.htm">Another statement</a> from the “Sixth Euro-Med Ministerial Conference: reinforcing and bringing the Partnership forward” in Brussels, 28 November 2003, makes the intention of this internal Euro-Mediterranean market:<br /><br />“This initiative offers the EU’s neighbouring partners, in exchange for tangible political and economic reforms, gradual integration into the expanded European internal market and the possibility of ultimately reaching the EU’s four fundamental freedoms: free movement of goods, services, capital <b>and people </b>[<i>my emphasis</i>]. Ministers are also expected to back the Commission’s proposal1 to set up a Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue of Cultures, a Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.”<br /><br />In June 2006, then newly elected Italian Prime Minister Romano <a target="_blank" href="http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.311746780&par=0">Prodi stated that</a>:<br /><br />“It’s time to look south and relaunch a new policy of cooperation for the Mediterranean.” Prodi was outlining a joint Italian-Spanish initiative which sought to provide countries facing the Mediterranean with “different” political solutions from those offered in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership. The prime minister then explained that the Barcelona Process — whose best known aspect is the creation of a free trade zone by 2010 — was no longer sufficient and a new different approach was needed. “The countries on the southern shores of the Mediterranean expect that from us” he added.<br /><br />Notice how Prodi, whom Bat Ye’or has identified as a particularly passionate Eurabian, referred to what the Arabs expected from European leaders. He failed to say whether or not there was great excitement among Europeans over the prospect of an even freer flow of migrants from Arab countries and Turkey, which is what will result from this “Euro-Mediterranean free trade zone.”<br /><br />During the Euro-Mediterranean mid-term Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Dublin <a target="_blank" href="http://ec.europa.eu/comm/external_relations/euromed/conf/dublin/index.htm">in May 2004</a>, the participants declared that:<br /><br />“Work is now in progress to develop an agreed view on relations with the area which extends from Mauritania to Iran — the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The [European] Union has proposed to include Mediterranean partners in the European Neighbourhood Policy.”<br /><br />The EU can offer a more intensive political dialogue and greater access to EU programmes and policies, including their gradual participation in the four freedoms particularly the Single Market, as well as reinforced co-operation on justice and home affairs.”<br /><br />Again, exactly what does “co-operation on justice and home affairs” with Egypt, Syria and Algeria mean? I don’t know, but I’m not sure whether I will like the answer.<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/euromed.jpg" alt="EMPA" align="left" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" /><a target="_blank" href="http://ec.europa.eu/comm/external_relations/euromed/bd.htm">The Barcelona declaration </a> from 1995 encouraged “contacts between parliamentarians” and invited the European Parliament, with other Parliaments, to launch “the Euro-Mediterranean parliamentary dialogue.” In March 2004, this was converted into a specific institution called The Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, EMPA <a target="_blank" href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/autres/note_/note_en.pdf">(pdf)</a>. During the Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference in Crete in May 2003, the Ministers included a provision which envisaged the consultative role the Parliamentary Assembly will play within the framework of the Barcelona process.<br /><br />EU Commissioner Chris Patten has reiterated the European Commission’s readiness to co-operate fully with the Assembly, giving the Assembly the right to comment on any subject of interest to the Euro-Arab Dialogue.<br /><br />The Assembly consists of 120 members from EU countries, both members of national parliaments and of the European Parliament, and an equal number of representatives from the Parliaments of the Mediterranean partner countries.<br /><br />Like most Europeans, I hadn’t even heard about this institution before coming across it during an Internet search. However, it is apparently going to influence the future of my entire continent. This set-up leaves me with some questions. When we know that these “Mediterranean partner countries” include non-democratic Arab countries such as Syria, isn’t it disturbing that representatives from these countries should participate in a permanent institution with consultative powers over the internal affairs of the European Union? Especially when we know that our own, democratically elected national parliaments have already been reduced to the status of “consultation” with unelected federal EU lawmakers in Brussels?<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.europeanmovement.org/key_themes.cfm?cat=MP">The Algiers Declaration</a> for a Shared Vision of the Future was made after a Congress held in Algeria in February 2006. The document states that: “It is essential to create a Euro-Mediterranean entity founded on Universal Values” and that “It is crucial to positively emphasise all common cultural heritage, even if marginalised or forgotten.” A Common Action Plan draws up a large number of recommendations on how to achieve this new Euro-Mediterranean entity. Among these recommendations are:<br /><ul><li>Adapt existing organisations and the contents of media to the objectives of the North- South dialogue, and set up a Euro-Mediterranean journalism centre<br /></li><li>Set up a network jointly managed by the Mediterranean partners in order to develop “a harmonised education system” [<i>A “harmonized education system” between the Arab world and Europe? What does that include? Do I want to know? Will they tell us before it is a fait accompli?</i>]<br /></li><li>Facilitate the transfer of know-how between the EU countries and the Mediterranean partner nations and “encourage the circulation of individuals”<br /></li><li>Prepare action and arguments in support of facilitating the mobility of individuals, especially of students, intellectuals, artists, businessmen “and all conveyors of dialogue”<br /></li><li>Set up Ministries responsible for Mediterranean affairs in countries of the North and of the South [Europe and the Arab world, in Eurocrat newspeak], in order to benefit from a better management of Mediterranean policy;<br /></li><li>Train teachers and exchange students between the North and the South and set up a network of Euro-Mediterranean Youth clubs<br /></li><li>Establish a “civil watchdog” anti-defamation observatory (with an Internet tool and a legal help network), to cope with racist remarks and the propagation of hate towards people of different religion, nationality or ethnical background</li></ul><br />These agreements, completely rewriting European history books to make them more Islam-friendly, and gradually silencing “Islamophobia” as racism, are being implemented even now.<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/schwimmer.jpg" alt="Walter Schwimmer" align="right" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />Walter Schwimmer, the Austrian diplomat and Secretary General of the Council of Europe from 1999 to 2004, told foreign ministers at the Islamic conference in Istanbul (June15th 2004) that the Islamic component is an integral part of Europe’s diversity. He reaffirmed the commitment of the Council of Europe to work against Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance.<br /><br />The Council was also actively involved in the co-organisation of a Conference on the Image of Arab-Islamic culture in European history textbooks, which took place in Cairo in December 2004. The event was held within the framework of the Euro-Arab Dialogue <a target="_blank" href="http://www.coe.int/NewsSearch/Default.asp?p=nwz&id=5616&lmLangue=1">’’Learning to Live together.’’</a> The aim of the conference was to examine negative stereotyping in the image of Arab-Islamic culture presented in existing history textbooks, and to discuss ways to overcome this stereotyping.<br /><br />In the European Parliament, the German Christian Democrat <a target="_blank" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/16/wtort116.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/16/ixnewstop.html">Hans-Gert Pöttering</a> stated that school textbooks should be reviewed for intolerant depictions of Islam by experts overseen by the European Union and Islamic leaders. He said textbooks should be checked to ensure they promoted European values without propagating religious stereotypes or prejudice. He also suggested that the EU could co-operate with the 56-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference to create a textbook review committee.<br /><br />In <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dccd.dk/DCCD/cku.nsf/doc/olafg.hansensspeechjune2005rabat?OpenDocument">June 2005 in Rabat</a>, Morocco, a conference was held on “Fostering Dialogue among Cultures and Civilizations.” The Conference was jointly organized by UNESCO, the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), the Danish Centre for Culture and Development (DCCD) and the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures (Alexandria, Egypt).<br /><br />Notice that this was months before the Danish Muhammad cartoons created havoc. It was not a reaction to this issue; rather it was a part of a sustained, ongoing process to promote the Arabic-Islamic culture in Europe.<br /><br />Among the recommendations that were raised by Mr. Olaf Gerlach Hansen, Director General of the DCCD: “We are interested in new actions in the media, in culture and in education. These proposals include:<br /><br />- Concrete initiatives to develop “intercultural competencies” in the training of new generations of journalists — Concrete initiatives for links and exchanges between journalists, editors, media-institutions, which encourage intercultural co-operation” — Concrete initiatives for curriculum development through new educational materials and revision of existing textbooks.<br /><br />Although not stated directly, one may reasonably assume that among the “negative stereotypes” to be removed from the textbooks used to teach history to European schoolchildren are any and all references to the 1300 years of continuous Jihad warfare against Europe. These recommendations were accepted and incorporated into <a target="_blank" href="http://www.unesco.org/dialogue/rabat/commitment.html">The Rabat Commitment</a>.<br /><br />According <a target="_blank" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23915">to Serge Trifkovic</a>, “The present technological, cultural and financial strength of Europe is a façade that conceals a deep underlying moral and demographic weakness. The symptoms of the malaise are apparent in the unprecedented demographic collapse and in the loss of a sense of place and history that go hand-in-hand with the expansion of the European Union. The emerging transnational hyper-state is actively indoctrinating its subject-population into believing and accepting that the demographic shift in favor of Muslim aliens is actually a blessing.”<br /><br />He points out specifically the EU Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation N° 1162 (19 September 1991) on “the contribution of the Islamic civilization to European culture.” A decade later, in its General policy recommendation n° 5: “Combating intolerance and discrimination against Muslims,” the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance emphasized “Islam’s positive contribution to the continuing development of European societies, of which it is an integral part.” It expressed strong regret “that Islam is sometimes portrayed inaccurately [as] a threat.”<br /><br />The ECRI called on the EU member states to adopt measures that would effectively outlaw any serious debate about Islam and introduce pro-Muslim “affirmative action.” European countries should:<br /><br /><ul><li>modify curricula to prevent “distorted interpretations of religious and cultural history” and “portrayal of Islam on perceptions of hostility and menace”;<br /></li><li>encourage debate in the media on the image which they convey of Islam and on their responsibility to avoid perpetuating prejudice and bias.</li></ul><br />Trifkovic says “Cynically defeatist, self-absorbed and unaccountable to anyone but their own corrupt class, the Eurocrats are just as bad as jihad’s fellow-travelers; they are its active abettors and facilitators.”<br /><br />Eurabians want to create a unity of the Mediterranean region. This desire is strikingly similar to the goals of some Islamic organizations.<br /><br />The Muslim Brotherhood, regarded as the most important Islamic movement of the past century, was founded by Hassan al-Banna in 1928, inspired by contemporary European Fascists in addition to Islamic texts.<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003067.html">German historian Egon Flaig</a> quotes Banna as saying:<br /><br />“We want the flag of Islam to fly over those lands again who were lucky enough to be ruled by Islam for a time, and hear the call of the muezzin praise God. Then the light of Islam died out and they returned to disbelief. Andalusia, Sicily, the Balkans, Southern Italy and the Greek islands are all Islamic colonies which have to return to Islam’s embrace. The Mediterranean and the Red Sea have to become internal seas of Islam, as they used to be.”<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22415">Patrick Poole describes </a> how discussion of a document called “The Project” so far has been limited to the top-secret world of Western intelligence communities. Only through the work of an intrepid Swiss journalist, Sylvain Besson, has information regarding The Project finally been made public. It was found in a raid of a luxurious villa in Campione, Switzerland on November 7, 2001. The target of the raid was Youssef Nada, who has had active association with the Muslim Brotherhood for more than 50 years.<br /><br />Included in the documents seized was a 14-page plan written in Arabic and dated December 1, 1982, which outlined a 12-point strategy to “establish an Islamic government on earth” – identified as The Project. According to testimony given to Swiss authorities by Nada, the unsigned document was prepared by “Islamic researchers” associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. It represents a flexible, multi-phased, long-term approach to the “cultural invasion” of the West.<br /><br />The Project has served for more than two decades as the Muslim Brotherhood “master plan.” Some of it recommendations include:<br /><ul><li>Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist actions<br /></li><li>Building extensive social networks of schools, hospitals and charitable organizations<br /></li><li>Involving ideologically committed Muslims in institutions on all levels in the West, including government, NGOs, private organizations<br /></li><li>Instrumentally using existing Western institutions until they can be put into service of Islam<br /></li><li>Instituting alliances with Western “progressive” organizations that share similar goals</li></ul><br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/qaradawi.jpg" alt="Youssef al-Qaradhawi" align="right" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />Included among this group of Muslim Brotherhood intellectuals is Youssef al-Qaradhawi, an Egyptian-born, Qatar-based Islamist cleric. Both Sylvain Besson and Scott Burgess provide extensive comparisons between Qaradhawi’s publication, Priorities of the Islamic Movement in the Coming Phase, published in 1990, and The Project. They note the striking similarities in the language used and the plans and methods both documents advocate.<br /><br />As Patrick Poole says, “What is startling is how effectively the Islamist plan for conquest outlined in The Project has been implemented by Muslims in the West for more than two decades.”<br /><br />Youssef al-Qaradhawi, one of the most influential clerics in Sunni Islam, has predicted that “Islam will return to Europe <a target="_blank" href="http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP44702">as a conqueror</a> and victor,” was an important figure during the Muhammad cartoons riots, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1026">whipping up anger</a> against Denmark and the West.<br /><br />According to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22916">Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld </a>and Alyssa A. Lappen, “Clearly, the riots in Denmark and throughout the world were not spontaneous, but planned and organized well in advance by Islamist organizations that support the MB, and with funding mostly from Saudi Arabia.”<br /><br />The current leader of the international Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammad Mahdi Akef, recently issued a new strategy calling on all its member organizations to serve its global agenda of defeating the West. Akef has called the U.S. “a Satan.” “I expect America to collapse soon,” declaring, “I have complete faith that Islam will invade Europe and America.”<br /><br />Ehrenfeld and Lappen state that the Muslim Brotherhood and its offspring organizations employ the Flexibility strategy:<br /><br />“This strategy calls for a minority group of Muslims to use all “legal” means to infiltrate majority-dominated, non-Muslim secular and religious institutions, starting with its universities. As a result, “Islamized” Muslim and non-Muslim university graduates enter the nation’s workforce, including its government and civil service sectors, where they are poised to subvert law enforcement agencies, intelligence communities, military branches, foreign services, and financial institutions.”<br /><br />In the Middle East Quarterly, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687/%92">Lorenzo Vidino</a> writes about “The Muslim Brotherhood’s Conquest of Europe.”<br /><br />According to him, “Since the early 1960s, Muslim Brotherhood members and sympathizers have moved to Europe and slowly but steadily established a wide and well-organized network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organizations.”<br /><br />One of the Muslim Brotherhood’s first pioneers in Germany was Sa’id Ramadan, the personal secretary of Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna. The oil-rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia has granted an influx of money to the powerful Islamic Center of Geneva, Switzerland, run by Sa’id’s son Hani Ramadan, brother of Tariq Ramadan. Hani Ramadan was made infamous by — among other things — a 2002 article in the French daily Le Monde defending the stoning of adulterers to death. Tariq Ramadan, a career “moderate Muslim,” later called for a “moratorium” on stoning.<br /><br />According to Vidino, “The ultimate irony is that Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna dreamed of spreading Islamism throughout Egypt and the Muslim world. He would have never dreamed that his vision might also become a reality in Europe.”<br /><br />Former Muslim <a target="_blank" href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1465349/posts">Dr Patrick Sookhdeo</a> warns that the Islamicization going on in European cities is not happening by chance. It “is the result of a careful and deliberate strategy by certain Muslim leaders which was planned in 1980 when the Islamic Council of Europe published a book called <i>Muslim Communities in Non-Muslim States</i>.”<br /><br />The instructions given in the book told Muslims to get together and organize themselves into viable Muslim communities. They should set up mosques, community centres and Islamic schools. At all costs they must avoid being assimilated by the majority, and to resist assimilation must group themselves geographically, forming areas of high Muslim concentration.<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/farah.jpg" alt="Douglas Farah" align="left" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.douglasfarah.com/article/92/europe-remains-center-of-islamist-focus">Douglas Farah</a> writes about the largely successful efforts by Islamic groups in the West to buy large amounts of real estate, territory that effectively becomes “Muslim” land once it is in the hands of Islamist groups. Some groups are signing agreements to guarantee that they will only sell the land to other Muslims.<br /><br />The Brotherhood, particularly, is active in investments in properties and businesses across Europe, laying the groundwork for the future network that will be able to react rapidly and with great flexibility in case of another attempted crackdown on the group’s financial structure. Most of the money comes from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.<br /><br />According to Farah, the governments of Europe and the United States continue to allow these groups to flourish and seek for the “moderate” elements that can be embraced as a counter-balance to the “radical” elements.<br /><br />“We do not have a plan. They do. History shows that those that plan, anticipate and have a coherent strategy usually win. We are not winning.”<br /><br />In <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/010829.php">March 2006</a>, the two-day plenary session of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, held in Brussels approved a resolution which “condemned the offence” caused by the Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad as well “as the violence which their publication provoked.” These MEPs and national MPs from the EU and Arab countries also urged governments to “ensure respect for religious beliefs and to encourage the values of tolerance, freedom and multiculturalism.”<br /><br />During the parliamentary assembly, Egyptian parliament speaker Ahmed Sorour insisted that the cartoons published in Denmark and other recent events showed the existence of a “cultural deficit.” Jordanian MP Hashem al-Qaisi also condemned the cartoons, claiming that it is not sufficient to deplore the cartoons as these things might occur again in another country.<br /><br />And European Parliament president Josep Borrell referred to the Mediterranean as “a concentrate of all the problems facing humanity.” He said that after one year presiding over the assembly he “still did not fully understand the complexities of the Mediterranean.”<br /><br />Following the cartoons affair, EU foreign policy chief <a target="_blank" href="http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060214-062639-6847r">Javier Solana</a> had travelled to the Middle East and made joint statements with Islamic leaders that “freedom of the press entails responsibility and discretion and should respect the beliefs and tenets of all religions.” Solana said that he had discussed means to ensure that “religious symbols can be protected.” He held talks with Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi of Al Azhar University, the highest seat of learning in Sunni Islam, and Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa.<br /><br />Solana also met with the leader of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu. Following their discussion, Solana “expressed our sincere regret that religious feelings have been hurt”, and vowed “to reach out… to make sure that people’s hearts and minds are not hurt again.”<br /><br />Only a few years earlier, Mr. Solana, then Secretary General of NATO, in <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nato.int/docu/speech/1998/s981112a.htm">a speech</a> stated that “the root cause of conflicts in Europe and beyond can be traced directly to the absence of democracy and openness. The absence of the pressure valve of democratic discourse can lead these societies to explode into violence.” The irony that he himself is now trying to curtail the democratic discourse in Europe through the promotion of Islamic censorship apparently did not occur to him.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the tentacles of the vast, inflated EU bureaucracy insinuate themselves into regulations on every conceivable subject. Some of the examples of the bureaucracy are ridiculous; some are funny. But there is a sinister side to the European bureaucracy:<br /><br /><ul><li>The promotion of an official, “EU federal ideology” advocating Multiculturalism;<br /></li><li>The denunciation as “xenophobes” of all those who want to preserve their democracy at the nation state level; and<br /></li><li>Calling those who would limit Third World immigration “racists.”</li></ul><br />A report from the EU’s racism watchdog said that more must be done to combat racism and “Islamophobia.” One method of accomplishing this is the promotion <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/010968.php">of a lexicon</a> which shuns purportedly offensive and culturally insensitive terms. This lexicon would set down guidelines for EU officials and politicians prohibiting what they may say. “Certainly ‘Islamic terrorism’ is something we will not use ... we talk about ‘terrorists who abusively invoke Islam’,” an EU official said.<br /><br />Early in 2006, the EU’s human rights commissioner Alvaro Gil-Robles’s criticized a plan to revamp Christianity as a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cphpost.dk/get/93360.html">school subject</a> in elementary schools in Denmark. Gil-Robles said doing so went against European values. “Religion as a school subject should be a general course that attempts to <b>give students insight into the three monotheistic religions</b> [<i>my emphasis</i>],” he said. The “three monotheistic religions” means Christianity, Judaism and Islam.<br /><br />As I see it, there are several possible ways of dealing with the issue of education about religion.<br /><br />1. Teach the traditional religions within a particular country, which in Europe means Christianity and Judaism.<br />2. Teach all the major world religions.<br />3. Leave religion out of the curriculum.<br /><br />What the European Union does, however, is to <b>treat Islam as a traditional, European religion on par with Christianity and Judaism. This is a crucial component of Eurabian thinking</b> and practice. Notice how EU authorities in this case directly interfered to force a once-independent nation state to include more teachings of Islam in its school curriculum in order to instill their children with a proper dose of Eurabian indoctrination. Notice also that they didn’t ask for more teaching of Buddhism or Hinduism. Only Islam is being pushed.<br /><br />In another case, the European Commission rebuffed a call by the Polish president for an EU-wide debate on reinstating the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/02/news/death.php">death penalty</a>. “The death penalty is not compatible with European values,” a Commission spokesman said. Again, the issue here is not your opinion regarding the death penalty. The real issue is that the metasticizing EU has already defined for you what constitutes “European values.” Thus, major issues are simply beyond public debate. This innocent-sounding phrase “European values” cloaks a federal, Eurabian ideology enforced across the entire European Union without regard to the popular will.<br /><br />Perhaps the most shameful and embarrassing aspect of the history of Eurabia is how the supposedly critical and independent European media has allowed itself to be corrupted or deceived by the Eurabians. Most of the documents about the Euro-Arab Dialogue place particular emphasis on working with the media, and the Eurabians have played the European media like a Stradivarius. Aided by a pre-existing anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, European media have been willing to demonize the United States and Israel while remaining largely silent on the topic Eurabia.<br /><br />In May 2006, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1145961388862">a big conference</a> was held in Vienna involving media figures (journalists) from all over Europe, who met with partners from the Arab world as a part of the Euro-Arab Dialogue.<br /><br />European officials responded publicly with “regret” to Israel’s ambassador to Austria Dan Ashbel’s decision to boycott the conference on racism in the media because of concern in Jerusalem that anti-Semitism was getting short shrift at the meeting. Speaking for the conference — entitled “Racism, Xenophobia and the Media: Towards Respect and Understanding of all Religions and Cultures” — an official claimed that anti-Semitism was not taken off the agenda. This official countered that the meeting was “primarily a dialogue between the media representatives of all the Euro-Med partners on the problems that beset their profession. These include xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism and <b>Islamophobia</b> [<i>my emphasis</i>].”<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.brucebawer.com/">Writer Bruce Bawer</a> thinks that many Europeans recognize that Multiculturalism is leading their societies to disaster. But they’ve heard all their lives from officially approved authorities that any concern about Multiculturalism and its consequences is tantamount to racism:<br /><br />“<a target="_blank" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24274">There’s a widespread resignation</a> to the fact that multiculturalists control the media, academy, state agencies, and so on. They know very well that if you want to get ahead in European society, you don’t take on multicultural orthodoxy. The political establishment seems solidly planted, unmovable, unchangeable. There may be a widespread rage, in short, but it’s largely an impotent rage. Europeans today have been bred to be passive, to leave things to their leaders, whose wisdom they’ve been taught all their lives to take for granted. To shake off a lifetime of this kind of indoctrination is not easy.”<br /><br />According to Bat Ye’or, fear of awakening opposition to EU policy toward the Arab Mediterranean countries led to the repression of all discussion of the economic problems and difficulties of integration caused by massive immigration. Any criticism of Muslim immigration is basically brushed off as being “just like the Jews were talked about in Nazi Germany,” a ridiculous but effective statement.<br /><br />Bat Ye’or agrees with Bawer’s analysis “concerning the totalitarian web cohesion of ‘teachers, professors, the media, politicians, government agency workers, talking heads on TV, the representatives of state-funded “independent” organizations like SOS Racism’ to indoctrinate the politically correct. This perfectly expresses the political directives given by the European Commission to coordinate and control in all EU member-states the political, intellectual, religious, media, teaching and publishing apparatus since the 1970s so as to harmonize with its Mediterranean strategy based on multiculturalism.”<br /><br />Professional harassment, boycott and defamation punish those who dare to openly challenge the Politically Correct discourse. According to Bat Ye’or, this has led to the development of a type of “resistance press” as if Europe were under the “occupation” of its own elected governments. This free press on the Internet and in blogs has brought some changes, including the rejection of the European Constitution in 2005. Despite overwhelming support for the Constitution by the governments in France and the Netherlands and a massive media campaign by political leaders in both countries, voters rejected it. Blogs played a <a target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4603883.stm">significant part</a> in achieving this.<br /><br />Only a few months later, EU authorities lined up together <a target="_blank" href="http://fjordman.blogspot.com/2005/10/keep-internet-free.html">with authoritarian regimes</a> such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and the Chinese Communist Party in favor of “more international control with” (read: censorship of) the Internet.<br /><br />According to Richard North of the <a target="_blank" href="http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/game-they-are-playing.html">EU Referendum blog</a>, “The most dangerous form of propaganda is that which does not appear to be propaganda. And it is that form at which the BBC [the British Broadcasting Corporation] excels. Perhaps the biggest sin of all is that of omission. By simply not informing us of key issues, they go by default, unchallenged until it is too late to do anything about them.”<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/bukovsky.jpg" alt="Vladimir Bukovsky" align="left" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />Vladimir Bukovsky is a former Soviet dissident, author and human rights activist who spent a total of twelve years in Soviet prisons. Now living in England, he warns against some of the same anti-democratic impulses in the West, especially in the EU, which he views as an heir to the Soviet Union. In 2002, he joined in on protests against the BBC’s <a target="_blank" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/08/nfee08.xml">compulsory TV licence</a>. “The British people are being forced to pay money to a corporation which suppresses free speech — publicising views they don’t necessarily agree with.” He has blasted the BBC for their “bias and propaganda,” especially in stories related to the EU or the Middle East.<br /><br />Conservative MP, Michael Gove and political commentator Mark Dooley also complain about <a target="_blank" href="http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7483">lopsided coverage</a>: “Take, for example, the BBC’s coverage of the late Yasser Arafat. In one profile broadcast in 2002, he was lauded as an “icon” and a “hero,” but no mention was made of his terror squads, corruption, or his brutal suppression of dissident Palestinians. Similarly, when Israel assassinated the spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, in 2004, one BBC reporter described him as “polite, charming and witty, a deeply religious man.” This despite the fact that under Yassin’s guidance, Hamas murdered hundreds.”<br /><br />Polish writer <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2006/10/05/478767.html">Nina Witoszek</a>, now living in Norway, warns that people who have lived under Communist regimes are struck by a strange feeling of dejá vu in Western Europe:<br /><br />“Before formulating a sentence, you put on a censorship autopilot which asks: Who am I insulting now? Am I too pro-Israeli, or maybe anti-Feminist, or — God forbid – anti-Islamic? Am I “progressive” enough? Soon we shall all write in a decaffeinated language: We shall obediently repeat all the benign mantras such as “dialogue,” “pluralism,” “reconciliation” and “equality.” Norway has never been a totalitarian country, but many people now feel the taste of oppression and of being muzzled. I know many wise Norwegians – and even more wise foreigners – who no longer have the energy to waste time on contributing to a castrated, paranoid democracy. We prefer safety above freedom. This is the first step towards a voluntary bondage.”<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/milosz.jpg" alt="Czeslaw Milosz" align="right" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />She quotes follow writer from Poland Czesław Miłosz, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 for books such as <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Captive-Mind-Vintage-International/dp/0679728562/"><i>The Captive Mind</i></a>, where he explained the seductiveness of totalitarian ideology.<br /><br />One essay by Miłosz is <a target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2105821">titled “Ketman.”</a> “Ketman” or “kitman” is an Islamic term brought to Miłosz’s attention by Arthur Gobineau’s book <i>Religions and Philosophies of Central Asia</i>. He had noticed that the dissidents in Persia, long accustomed to tyranny, had evolved a style of their own. The need for survival often involved more than just keeping your mouth shut, but of actively lying in every way necessary. This strategy of dissimulation and deceit, which is especially pronounced by Shia Muslims but also used by Sunnis, is primarily used to deceive non-Muslims, but can also be used against other Muslims under duress.<br /><br />According to Miłosz, a very similar strategy was used in Communist countries. Similar to Islam, those practicing dissimulation felt a sense of superiority towards those who were stupid enough to state their real opinions openly. In Communist societies, dissimulation was just as much a technique of adaptation to an authoritarian regime as a conscious, theatrical form of art that became increasingly refined.<br /><br />It is frightening to hear people who have grown up in former Communist countries say that they see this same totalitarian impulse at work in Western Europe now. According to them, we in the West are at least as brainwashed by Multiculturalism <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/06/political-correctness-revenge-of.html">and Political Correctness</a> as they ever were with Communism. It is frightening because I believe they are right. Have we witnessed the fall of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe only to see an Iron Veil descend on Western Europe? An Iron Veil of EU bureaucracy and Eurabian treachery, of Political Correctness, Multicultural media censorship and the ever-present threat of Muslim violence and terrorism that is gradually extinguishing free speech. The momentum of bureaucratic treachery is accelerating.<br /><br />Native Europeans and indeed some non-Muslim immigrants are quietly leaving in growing numbers, gradually turning the continent into a net exporter of refugees rather than an importer of them. When large parts of Europe are being overrun by barbarians — actively aided and abetted by our own trusted leaders — and when people are banned from opposing this onslaught, is Western Europe still a meaningful part of the Free World? Have the countries of Eastern Europe gone from one “Evil Empire” to another? Are they — and we — back in the EUSSR?<br /><br />Vaclav Klaus, the conservative President of the Czech Republic, has complained that: “Every time I try to remove some piece of Soviet-era regulation, I am told that whatever it is I am trying to scrap is a requirement of the European Commission.” In an interview with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865">Paul Belien of the Brussels Journal</a> in February 2006, Vladimir Bukovksy warned that the European Union is on its way to becoming another Soviet Union. Mr Bukovsky called the EU a “monster” that must be destroyed, the sooner the better, before it develops into a fully-fledged totalitarian state.<br /><br />“The ultimate purpose of the Soviet Union was to create a new historic entity, the Soviet people, all around the globe. The same is true in the EU today. They are trying to create a new people. They call this people “Europeans”, whatever that means. According to Communist doctrine as well as to many forms of Socialist thinking, the state, the national state, is supposed to wither away. In Russia, however, the opposite happened. Instead of withering away the Soviet state became a very powerful state, but the nationalities were obliterated. But when the time of the Soviet collapse came these suppressed feelings of national identity came bouncing back and they nearly destroyed the country. It was so frightening.”<br /><br />Timothy Garton Ash is considered a leading expert on Europe’s future. Bruce Bawer views Garton Ash as typical of Europe’s political élite. Ash mistrusts national patriotism but adores the EU. He writes about the need for a factitious European patriotism (“flags, symbols, a European anthem we can sing”) to encourage “emotional identification with European institutions.” And just why does Europe need the EU? Garton Ash’s answer: “To prevent our falling back into the bad old ways of war and European barbarism.” Among his suggestions is that Europe encourage “the formation of an Arab Union.” He makes no mention of Arab democracy. Imagining “Europe in 2025 at its possible best,” he pictures it as a “partnership” with Arab countries and Russia that would extend “from Marrakesh, via Cairo, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Tbilisi, all the way to Vladivostok.”<br /><br />The European Commission proposed the controversial idea of a singing event in all member states to celebrate the European Union’s 50th “birthday,” the 50th anniversary of the 1957 Treaty of Rome. Commissioner Margot Wallstrom was lobbying for big-style birthday celebrations to “highlight the benefits that European integration has brought to its citizens.” Diplomats said the idea had sparked feelings of disgust among new, formerly Communist member states such as Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, which were reminded of “Stalinist times” when people were forced by the state to sing. Brussels decided on a more modest celebration, also intended to spend around €300,000 on the appointment of 50 citizen “ambassadors,” dubbed the “Faces of Europe,” who are supposed to “tell their story” throughout the year on what the EU means to them in their daily life, as well as a series of activities for school children and youngsters. Germany will go ahead with its own idea to let thousands of its bakeries bake 54 sorts of cakes with recipes from all 27 member states.<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/09/nve09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/05/09/ixportaltop.html">Commissioner Wallstrom</a> in 2005 argued that politicians who resisted pooling national sovereignty risked a return to Nazi horrors of the 1930s and 1940s. Her fellow commissioners also issued a joint declaration, stating that EU citizens should pay tribute to the dead of the Second World War by voting Yes to the EU Constitution. The commissioners gave the EU sole credit for ending the Cold War, making no mention of the role of NATO or the United States.<br /><br />Is the EU an instrument to end wars? In October 2006, Michel Thoomis, the secretary general of the French Action Police trade union, warned of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/05/wmuslims05.xml">a civil war</a> in France created by Muslim immigrants: “We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists. This is not a question of urban violence any more, it is an intifada, with stones and Molotov cocktails. You no longer see two or three youths confronting police, you see whole tower blocks emptying into the streets to set their ‘comrades’ free when they are arrested.”<br /><br />These Muslim immigrants were allowed in by the very same European elites who now want European citizens to celebrate their work through cakes and songs. While civil society is disintegrating in Western Europe due to Islamic pressures, EU authorities are working to increase Muslim immigration, while congratulating themselves for bringing peace to the continent. What peace? Where?<br /><br />The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1101">Peace of Westphalia</a> in 1648 ended the Thirty Years’ War, the last major religious war in Europe, and helped lay the foundations for modern nation states. Before nation states, we thus had a pattern of borderless religious wars and civil wars. This is what we have returned to, full circle, only this time a borderless Jihad is triggering civil wars in Europe. While the EU may help prevent wars between nation states with old grudges, such as Germany and France, it may also actively cause other kinds of wars. It accomplishes this by increasing Multicultural tensions and a dangerous sense of estrangement between citizens and those who are supposed to be their leaders.<br /><br />Wars have existed for thousands of years before the advent of the modern nation state. It is far more likely that weakening nation states will end our democratic system, a system which is closely tied to the existence of sovereign nation states, than that it will end wars.<br /><br />When asked whether the member countries of the EU joined the union voluntarily, and whether the resulting integration reflects the democratic will of Europeans, Vladimir Bukovksy replied, “No, they did not. Look at Denmark which voted against the Maastricht treaty twice. Look at Ireland [which voted against the Nice treaty]. Look at many other countries, they are under enormous pressure. It is almost blackmail. It is a trick for idiots. The people have to vote in referendums until the people vote the way that is wanted. Then they have to stop voting. Why stop? Let us continue voting. The European Union is what Americans would call a shotgun marriage.”<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/destaing.jpg" alt="Giscard-Destaing" align="right" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />In 1992, Bukovksy had unprecedented access to Politburo and other Soviet secret documents, as described <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author-exact=Vladimir%20Bukovsky&">in his book</a>, <i>Judgement in Moscow</i>. In January 1989, during a meeting between Soviet leader Gorbachev, former Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone, former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, American banker Rockefeller and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Giscard d’Estaing supposedly stated: “Europe is going to be a federal state and you have to prepare yourself for that. You have to work out with us, and the European leaders, how you would react to that.”<br /><br />This was in the 1980s, when most of the media still dismissed as scaremongering any talk of a political union that would subdue the nation states. Fifteen years later, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing became the chief drafter of the truly awful EU Constitution, an impenetrable brick of a book, hundreds of pages long, and lacking any of the checks and balances so crucial to the American Constitution. Giscard has argued that the rejection of the Constitution in the French and Dutch referenda in 2005 “was a mistake which will have to be corrected” and insisted that “In the end, the text will be adopted.”<br /><br />Giscard has also said that “it was a mistake to use the referendum process” because “it is not possible for anyone <a target="_blank" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/14/news/giscard.php">to understand</a> the full text.” Does it instill confidence among the citizens of Europe that we are supposed to be under the authority of a “Constitution” that is too complex for most non-bureaucrats to understand? According to Spain’s <a target="_blank" href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20050227/ai_n11829335">justice minister</a> Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar “you don’t need to read the European constitution to know that it is good.”<br /><br />Jean-Luc Dehaene, former Belgian Prime Minister, said that “We know that nine out of ten people will not have read the Constitution and will vote on the basis of what politicians and journalists say. More than that, if the answer is No, the vote will probably have to be done again, because it absolutely has to be Yes.”<br /><br />Journalist <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/006392.php">Nidra Poller</a>, however, is more skeptical. Commenting on the debate prior to the EU Constitution referendum in France, she noted a submissive attitude among EU leaders towards Muslim demands: “The Euro-Mediterranean ‘Dialogue’ is a masterpiece of abject surrender.” The European Union functions as an intermediate stage of an ominous project that calls for a meltdown of traditional European culture, to be replaced by a new, Eurabian cocktail. And she asks: “When subversive appeasement hides behind the veil of ‘Dialogue,’ what unspeakable ambitions might be dissembled by the noble word ‘Constitution’?”<br /><br />The European Union gave the Palestinians $342.8 million in<a target="_blank" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/008181.php"> aid in 2005 </a>— or, more accurately, $612.15 million when assistance from the 25 EU governments is included. Even the United States has repeatedly donated millions of American tax dollars to the Palestinian Authority, though not at EU levels. In July 2005, as a response to the Islamic terrorist attacks on London a few days earlier, leaders of the G8, the group of influential industrialized nations, offered the PA <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/007084.php">some $9 billion</a>, dubbed an “alternative to the hatred.”<br /><br />The West’s largesse continued despite a demographic study in 2005 which revealed that the number showing the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza <a target="_blank" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4992">had been inflated</a> by 50% by the government.<br /><br />Almost all of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.likud.nl/press224.html">the new infrastructure</a> in the Palestinian territories from the beginning of the Oslo Peace Process in the 1990s — schools, hospitals, airports — were arranged and paid for by Brussels. As Jihad was once again unleashed with the second Intifada in 2000, Israel stopped its transfer of payments to the Palestinians. So the EU stepped in with another 10 million Euros a month in direct budgetary assistance to the Palestinian Authority. EU Commissioner for External Affairs <a target="_blank" href="http://ec.europa.eu/comm/external_relations/news/patten/sp02_293.htm">Chris Patten</a> stated in 2002 that “there is no case for stating that EU money has financed terrorism, has financed the purchase of weapons, or any similar activities.”<br /><br />However, a report by the Foundation for <a target="_blank" href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=250109&attrib_id=7393">the Defense of Democracies</a> later found that: “There is indisputable evidence that PA money has been used to fund terrorist activities.” This was confirmed by Fuad Shubaki, who used to serve as the finance chief in the Palestinian security forces. According to him, former Palestinian Authority chairman <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961361493&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull">Yasser Arafat</a> ordered millions of dollars, taken from international aid funds, tax money transferred by Israel and from Arab countries, to be used to purchase weapons and ammunition, including the 50 tons of armaments on board the ship Karine A. The transaction was coordinated between the PA, Hizballah in Lebanon and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/alaksa.gif" alt="Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades" align="left" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />In May 2006, Mahmoud Abbas — President of the Palestinian Authority after Arafat’s death in November 2004 and a leading politician in Fatah — talked to the European Parliament about the peace process. At the same time, the al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961350957&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">threatened to strike</a> at US and European economic and civilian interests in response to international sanctions on the PA. Financial support evokes no gratitude in the Palestinians. However, they will threaten you with violence if aid is not forthcoming. This is plainly extortion.<br /><br />This shakedown corresponds to the Muslims’ view of the Jizya, the tributary tax paid by non-Muslims in exchange for not being killed. Documents from the Euro-Arab Dialogue frequently mention about “financial assistance” from the EU to Arab countries. Bat Ye’or points out that some of this Jizya tax is extracted from Europeans without their awareness.<br /><br />In November 2005, the EU’s <a target="_blank" href="http://fjordman.blogspot.com/2005/11/11-years-chaos-for-eu-accounts.html">official financial watchdog</a> refused to approve the EU’s accounts for the 11th year in a row because they were so full of fraud and errors. The European Court of Auditors refused to give a statement of assurance on the EU’s $160.3 billion budget for 2004. “The vast majority of the payment budget was again materially affected by errors of legality and regularity,” it said. It specifically refused to approve the budgets for the EU’s foreign policy and aid programs, many of which are geared towards Arab countries. Half the project budgets approved by the European Commission were inadequately monitored.<br /><br />The European Commission is considered the EU’s “government,” and thus the government of nearly half a billion people. But it can release accounts with massive flaws for over a decade straight because it is largely unaccountable to anybody and was intended to be that way.<br /><br />Muslims use deception to advance Jihad until it is almost too late for the infidels to stop them. The EU federalists and Eurabians have taken a page out of the Islamic playbook, and have been approaching their goals by stealth for decades, buried beneath a mass of detail and technocratic newspeak all but incomprehensible to non-bureaucrats.<br /><br />In a frank moment, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.economist.com/World/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1325309">Jean-Claude Juncker</a>, Luxembourg’s prime minister, once described the EU’s “system” in this way: “We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens,” he explained. “If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don’t understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.”<br /><br />In The Economist, columnist Charlemagne writes: “What Mr Juncker and those who think like him are trying to do is, in essence, to <b>drown opposition to European federation in a mass of technical detail, to bore people into submission. As a strategy, it has gone a long way. </b>[<i>My emphasis</i>] The greatest single transfer of sovereignty from Europe’s nations to the European Union took place, in 1985, as part of the project to create a single European market. Even [British Conservative PM] Margaret Thatcher, not usually slow to spot a trick, later claimed that she had not fully appreciated the ramifications of what she was then signing up to.”<br /><br />Writer Christopher Booker has called this the EU’s <a target="_blank" href="http://www.brugesgroup.com/mediacentre/index.live?article=91#price">”culture of deceit”</a>:<br /><br />“What in fact has been taking place has been a transfer of power (…) to Brussels on a scale amounting to the greatest constitutional revolution in our history. But much of this has remained buried from view because our politicians like to preserve the illusion that they are still in charge. The result is that remarkably few people now have any proper understanding of how the political system which rules our lives actually works.”<br /><br />I have used the term “neo-Feudalism” to describe the EU. There are definitely certain elite groups in Europe who think that everything that’s wrong with Europe is because of “populism” — what others call democracy. The motive force behind the EU aims to cede national sovereignty to a new ruling class of bureaucrats, a new aristocracy. This is a throwback to the pre-democratic age. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4288"> Karl Zinsmeister notes</a> that: “The EU apparatus is exceedingly closed and secretive. Relatively few of the confederation’s important decisions are currently made by democratically accountable officials. On front after front, bureaucratic mandarins are deciding how everyday Europeans will live. … Many Europeans, in a way Americans find impossible to understand, are willing to let their elites lead them by the nose. There is a kind of peasant mentality under which their “betters” are allowed to make the important national judgments for them.”<br /><br />MP Gisela Stuart was a member of the Praesidium which drafted the proposed EU Constitution. She sums up her experiences thus:<br /><br />“The Convention brought together a self-selected group of the European political elite, many of whom have their eyes on a career at a European level, which is dependent on more and more integration, and who see national parliaments and governments as an obstacle ... Not once in the sixteen months I spent on the Convention did representatives question whether deeper integration is what the people of Europe want, whether it serves their best interests or whether it provides the best basis for a sustainable structure for an expanding Union.”<br /><br />In 2005, an unprecedented joint declaration by the leaders of all the British political groups in Brussels called for an end the “medieval” practice of European legislation being decided behind closed doors. Critics claim that the Council of Ministers, the EU’s supreme law-making body, which decides two thirds of all Britain’s laws, “is the only legislature outside the Communist dictatorships of North Korea and Cuba to pass laws in secret.”<br /><br />According to British Conservative politician Daniel Hannan, this is how the EU was designed. “Its founding fathers understood from the first that their audacious plan to merge the ancient nations of Europe into a single polity would never succeed if each successive transfer of power had to be referred back to the voters for approval. So they cunningly devised a structure where supreme power was in the hands of appointed functionaries, immune to public opinion. Indeed, the EU’s structure is not so much undemocratic as anti-democratic.”<br /><br />The European Union has been compared to the Roman Empire, but such comparisons are not very apt. Rome was the military superpower of its time, while the EU is but a military midget. However, there is one intriguing commonality: Julius Caesar was murdered because he wanted to crown himself king. This was not a popular move among the powerful elite in the Senate, who reminded Caesar that Rome had become a Republic precisely because they had rebelled against the “tyrant” kings of old.<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/augustus.jpg" alt="Caesar Augustus" align="right" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />Caesar’s successor Octavian, better known today as Caesar Augustus, is considered both the first and one of the most important Roman Emperors. He downplayed his own position by preferring the title <i>princeps</i>, usually translated as “first citizen”. He also preserved the outward form of the Roman Republic, paid lip service to the old elite, and veiled the changes to make them seem less upsetting to the public. He may have been a monarch, but he never called himself one.<br /><br />Some might see a parallel in the present-day EU. When up to three-quarters of our national laws originate in Brussels, what is then the point of holding national elections? Just as in Octavian’s Rome, the real power has been moved elsewhere, but the old order is draped over reality as a democratic fig leaf in order not to upset the common people. The EU operates largely by stealth; its edicts are implemented through traditional parliaments, which are increasingly reduced to decorative appendages.<br /><br />The funny aspect of this is that those who are against the EU are labelled xenophobes, nationalists or simply anti-democratic forces. The EU is an organization where unelected bureaucrats dismantle democracy, yet denounce their critics as anti-democratic forces.<br /><br />In order to create this new entity, the old nation states must be deliberately crushed. Massive numbers of non-European immigrants are introduced, and the resulting situation is termed a “Multicultural society”. This demolition is followed by the demand that our entire society be changed accordingly.<br /><br />Since Europeans feel less “European” than they experience themselves as French, Italian, Dutch, etc., national allegiances have to be broken down. At the same time, an external rival must be created. The closest model is Bismarck’s unification of Germany. The numerous German states rallied to Prussia’s side against the French in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, thus paving the way for a new, powerful German federation.<br /><br />The EU federalists strive to build a united European state through a shared animosity against the USA, while constructing a Eurabian entity of Europe and the Arab world via their common hostility towards Israel. One tactic is the deliberate use of the media to whip up anger against these countries and to demonize them.<br /><br />However, Bismarck’s German states were united by a common language. Even if a “new us” could be constructed from dozens of nations — which is highly questionable — melding various ethnic groups into a cohesive nation takes centuries. Without a shared identity, without a European demos, how can the EU be anything but authoritarian? Perhaps the EU elites believe that a large mass of people lacking a distinct cultural identity would be easier to control?<br /><br /><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/fjordman/orwell.jpg" alt="George Orwell" align="left" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="4" />The problem is that the nation state itself has been declared evil or obsolete, not collectivism, anti-individualism or totalitarianism. But there is a crucial distinction between nationalism and patriotism, which George Orwell saw clearly:<br /><br />“<i>Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism</i>. By ‘patriotism’ I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power.”<br /><br />Totalitarian regimes can be national, such as Nazi Germany, but they can also be supranational, such as the Soviet Union, which sought to suppress all pre-existing national loyalties.<br /><br />How was a project as big as the creation of Eurabia pulled off? I have thought a lot about this question, and come to the conclusion that it succeeded precisely because of its size. St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied. “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor.”<br /><br />It’s a matter of scale. If a small group of people sideline the democratic process in one country and start imposing their own laws on the public, it’s called a coup d’état. If they do so on an entire continent, it’s called the European Union.<br /><br />Adolf Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf described a propaganda technique known as “the Big Lie”. The EU has adopted this strategy, which consists of telling a lie so “colossal” that it would be impossible to believe anyone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.” This has been combined with the technique, perfected by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels in Nazi Germany, of repeating a point until it is taken to be the truth.<br /><br />Here are some Big Lies:<br /><br /><ul><li>Diversity is always good;<br /></li><li>Multiculturalism is inevitable, as is continued EU integration;<br /></li><li>Those opposing it are ignorant racists standing against the tide of history;<br /></li><li>Muslim immigration is “good for the economy” and is necessary for funding the welfare state in the future, despite the fact that it drains away enormous resources.</li></ul><br />The creation of Eurabia ranks as one of the greatest betrayals in the history of Western civilization. Does that mean that all EU federalists or those who participate in the various instruments of the Euro-Arab Dialogue are evil? No, reality isn’t that simple. As Hugh Fitzgerald points out, “A whole class of people has gotten rich from Arab money and bribes; lawyers, public relations men, and diplomats, journalists, university teachers and assorted officials.”<br /><br />However, while ignorance, corruption and the self-serving search for personal power explains some of the behavior of the Eurabian elites, it cannot explain the behavior of ALL those thousands of people who have been involved in these networks. Some of them must have convinced themselves that what they were doing was for a just cause, if for no other reason than because human vanity demands that we justify our actions by covering them with a veneer of goodness.<br /><br />In the science fiction <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_%28film%29">movie Serenity</a>, the two great superpowers, the United States and China, have merged into the Alliance, which has moved humanity to a new star system. On the little-known planet Miranda, a gas called Pax was added to the air processors. It was intended to calm the population, weed out aggression. It worked. The people stopped fighting. They also stopped doing everything else, including breeding and physical self-preservation. A small minority of the population had the opposite reaction to this pacification. Their aggression increased beyond madness, and they killed most of the others. Tens of millions of people quietly let themselves be wiped out.<br /><br />Movie director Joss Whedon is careful to point out that the Alliance isn’t some evil empire, but rather a force that is largely benevolent. They meant it for the best, to create a better world, a world without sin. However, according to Whedon, “Whenever you create Utopia, you find something ugly working underneath it.”<br /><br />Former Europeans who fought against Jihad fought <i>for</i> a number of things: Their religion, their culture and their nation. EU federalists and Eurabians are deliberately suppressing all of these instincts in their quest to create a New Man and weed out aggression. However, because they have wrongly identified the nation state as the root cause of all evil, they are suppressing not just aggressive nationalism, but defensive patriotism. And since some of the Muslims have actually become even more aggressive in response to what they perceive as our nihilism, the Eurabians have suicidally disarmed their own people, literally and metaphorically, and put them up for slaughter.<br /><br />Many Communists, at least in the beginning, really believed in their ideology. The result was mass slaughter; tens of millions of people were killed in the quest for a world without oppression or exploitation. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Regardless of how good your intentions may be, you cannot use millions of people as guinea pigs in massive social experiments without also causing massive harm.<br /><br />Perhaps one of the reasons why this has been allowed to happen in Western Europe and the European Union is because we never fully understood or attempted to confront the reasons for the abysmal failure of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union following the Cold War. The concept of massive social experiments to create a New Man was allowed to survive. It mutated and then migrated West. Jean Monnet, who set in motion the process of European integration, reflected on how the European civil service constituted a ‘laboratory’ in which a new kind of ‘European Man’ would be born. But the New European Man, just like the New Soviet Man before him, is all but certain to fail.<br /><br />Can the European Union be reformed? I doubt it. The EU is bound together by a self-serving class of bureaucrats who want to expand their budgets and their power, despite the harm they do. These functionaries will use traditional methods of deception to counteract any calls for reforms so they can retain control.<br /><br />It is instructive to watch the reactions of the EU elites to the popular rejections in France and Holland of the EU Constitution in 2005. They put together <a target="_blank" href="http://euobserver.com/9/22641">a “wise” group </a>of European politicians, led by Giuliano Amato, Italian Interior Minister in “super-Eurabian” Romano Prodi’s government, to come up with possible solutions to this impasse. Suggestions discussed included dropping the name “constitution” in favor of “treaty.”<br /><br />The same Amato, who is a former Italian Prime Minister and also the Vice-President of the EU Convention which drafted the Constitution, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.europeannocampaign.com/351.html">has earlier stated</a> that:<br /><br />“In Europe one needs to act ‘as if’ — as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if states were to remain sovereign to convince them to concede sovereignty ... The Commission in Brussels, for example, should act as if it were a technical instrument, in order to be able to be treated as a government. And so on by disguise and subterfuge [<i>my emphasis</i>].”<br /><br />That a man who has openly bragged about how EU federalist goals are advanced by “disguise and subterfuge” leads the attempts to “renew” the EU Constitution tells ordinary Europeans everything we need to know about the EU. If the EU elites have deliberately deceived us for decades to achieve their goals, why should we suddenly trust them now? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. These people have fooled us enough.<br /><br />“I think that the European Union, like the Soviet Union, cannot be democratized,” says Vladimir Bukovksy. “There will be a collapse of the European Union pretty much like the Soviet Union collapsed. But do not forget that when these things collapse they leave such devastation that it takes a generation to recover.(…) Look to the huge number of immigrants from Third World countries now living in Europe. This was promoted by the European Union. What will happen with them if there is an economic collapse? We will probably have, like in the Soviet Union at the end, so much ethnic strife that the mind boggles.”<br /><br />In their book about the EU, Richard North and Christopher Booker conclude: “The project Monnet had set on its way was a vast, ramshackle, self-deluding monster: partly suffocating in its own bureaucracy; partly a corrupt racket (…) The one thing above all the project could never be, because by definition it had never been intended to be, was in the remotest sense democratic.” They believe the EU is doomed and will “leave a terrible devastation behind it, a wasteland from which it would take many years for the peoples of Europe to emerge.”<br /><br />I understand concerns that the destruction of the EU could cause “instability” in Europe. It will. But we will probably end up with “instability” anyway, given the number of Muslims the EUrabians have let in. The choice is between a period of painful years in which most of Europe prevails, and death, where Europe simply ceases to exist as a Western cultural entity.<br /><br />Some would hope that we could keep the “positive” aspects of the EU and not “throw out the baby with the bath water.” I beg to differ.<br /><br />The EU is all bath water, no baby. There never was a baby, just a truckload of overpaid babysitters.<br /><br />Multiculturalism separates people into “tribes” below the nation state level. This is precisely the situation we had in Europe in the Middle Ages. Likewise, the idea that we should “respect” other cultures by not criticizing them means turning the clock back several centuries to the pre-Enlightenment era. Multiculturalism is merely a medieval ideology, and will generate medieval results.<br /><br />Although the EU will fail in creating a pan-European identity, it has already partly succeeded in weakening the traditional nation states. Across Western Europe, Muslim immigrants tend to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/012204.php">settle in major cities</a>, with the native population retreating into the countryside. This destruction of the coherence of society is triggering a return to tribalism, as people no longer trust the nation state to protect them.<br /><br />The process has been explained <a target="_blank" href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1492">by Ernest Baert</a>: “Over many centuries, Western Europe has replaced the tribe or clan by the nation state.” The result was that “European citizens tend to have equal trust in all other citizens of the same nation state outside their immediate family and circle of friends.” This “high-trust society” was a necessary precondition not only for the success of a capitalist economy in Europe, but also for the rise of democracy.<br /><br />A different worldview prevails in the Muslim world or in Africa. There, individuals have no choice but to fall back on their clan for protection. So what effect will the introduction of massive numbers of individuals from “low-trust societies” have on our own culture? Baert is pessimistic:<br /><br />“There is little doubt that we live in the dying days of the multicultural fantasy. It will end in misery and may lead to the loss of Europe as a part of Western civilisation. Our children and grandchildren will look back to our days and wonder why so many so easily accepted what patently contradicted history and common sense.”<br /><br />While ordinary Europeans live in fear of Muslim violence in their own cities and trust in their own leaders is plummeting, EU elites meet in cocktail parties and congratulate each other for bringing peace to Europe.<br /><br />The European Union promised a Brave New World where wars and ethnic rivalries were a thing of the past. Will it deliver the Middle Ages? Maybe that’s what Utopias tend to do.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://chromatism.net/images/bar400.gif" border="0" /></center><br />This essay can also be viewed in an <a target="_blank" href="http://chromatism.net/fjordman/eurabiacode.htm">easy-to-copy and printable format</a>.</span>Rolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144151003592750093.post-41664749376843520372008-04-06T09:08:00.000-07:002008-04-06T09:10:03.528-07:00We are so sorry!Here is for what the European leaders apologizes<br /><br /><embed src="http://www.liveleak.com/e/44a_1207174085" width="450" height="370" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" scale="showall" name="index"></embed>Rolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144151003592750093.post-87392135702581179522008-04-03T11:59:00.000-07:002008-04-03T12:00:34.311-07:00Is This Not Exactly Like the Soviet Union?It is indeed, and quite shockingly so are the similarities - From: <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/04/is-this-not-exactly-like-soviet-union.html">Gates of Vienna</a><br /><br />Vladimir Bukovsky has discovered like many others a striking resemblance between the great totalitarian unions, the Soviet version in the 20th century and the European version in the 21st.<br /><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bM2Ql3wOGcU&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bM2Ql3wOGcU&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br />More information about Mr. Bukovsky and the EUSSR (as taken from two <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM2Ql3wOGcU&feature=related" target="_blank">YouTube site</a> for this video) is below the jump.<br /><br />Vladimir Bukovsky spent many years in Russian labour camps and psychiatric prisons for defending human rights.<br />He came to Britain in 1976. He lectures and writes on the old Soviet system and the EU.<br />From the DVD <a href="http://www.junepress.com/" target="_blank">“Britain on the Brink”</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Bukovsky" target="_blank">Wikipedia on Vladimir Bukovsky</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865" target="_blank">The Brussels Journal on Vladimir Bukovsky</a><br /><br /><a href="http://wiseupjournal.com/" target="_blank">End of Nations</a><br /><br /><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2699800300274168460" target="_blank">The Real Face of the European Union</a>Rolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144151003592750093.post-87875974077943233012008-03-18T06:33:00.000-07:002008-03-18T06:59:39.104-07:00European Leaders Agree to Create EurabiaFrom: <a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3058">Brussels Journal.</a><br />By Fjordman.<br /><p><a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/840">Bat Ye’or</a> in her book about <a href="http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/083864077X/103-0488350-9136647?SubscriptionId=0JEKXTWNECEXBJGY7RR2">Eurabia</a> documented how European leaders have for years been quietly planning to merge Europe with the Islamic world. This has been denounced as a “conspiracy theory.” Only a few months ago the British Foreign Minister David Miliband <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7095657.stm">said openly</a> that the European Union should expand to include the Muslim Middle East and North Africa. Now French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are saying virtually the same thing. The greatest betrayal in European history is fact, not fiction. And to think that many people <a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2116">supported Sarkozy</a> because he should “halt” Islamization. Now he is speeding it up:</p> <p><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,539247,00.html"><strong>Merkel and Sarkozy Find ‘Club Med’ Compromise (<em>Der Spiegel</em>, 4 March 2008)</strong></a><br /></p><blockquote><em>German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced jointly that they had reached a compromise regarding Sarkozy’s proposed Mediterranean Union. At a press conference held jointly with Sarkozy,</em><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijUo8Qxafkoz_LtjdT1wyrZ_TUiCHw2LcF6zNt4tznPhmvz9m0aJ8MT-W_vO39d1Ad3lPU5g-kndNp_x88TbJuOWO5f6I0f8x1hSDZnVLWZ1zpPRk7cvKDcD8tJlMWY1O6qYJWhyphenhyphenBkkHw/s1600-h/Take+some+lesson.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijUo8Qxafkoz_LtjdT1wyrZ_TUiCHw2LcF6zNt4tznPhmvz9m0aJ8MT-W_vO39d1Ad3lPU5g-kndNp_x88TbJuOWO5f6I0f8x1hSDZnVLWZ1zpPRk7cvKDcD8tJlMWY1O6qYJWhyphenhyphenBkkHw/s320/Take+some+lesson.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179079634069263698" border="0" /></a><em> German Chancellor Angela Merkel added that the ensuing outcome should be called the “Mediterranean Union” and that it “should be a project of all 27 (European Union) member countries.” Merkel was referring to her position that any deal to create a union with the Mediterranean states that border the European Union should be negotiated and drafted in conjunction with all EU member states – not just those that border the sea, as Sarkozy had initially proposed.</em><br /></blockquote> <p><br /><a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/10/eurabia-code_19.html"><strong>The Eurabia Code</strong></a></p> <p>How was a project as big as the creation of Eurabia pulled off? I have thought a lot about this question, and come to the conclusion that it succeeded precisely because of its size. St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied. “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor.” It’s a matter of scale. If a small group of people sideline the democratic process in one country and start imposing their own laws on the public, it’s called a coup d’état. If they do so on an entire continent, it’s called the European Union.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/019873.php"><strong>The European Union and the Islamization of Europe</strong></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDaCHimfG6gjaOKCp_wdG0i080g6m2T_ZVNneLUTW7Mf0zhkhBq4AYiFr2XTV-VCAfmahjQKQMrRPBrVkRJsxGqhDckAhPxNAOXoNXuZB5DfkbTPZa0mwN9WRG6z9dlU-pq35X-i3zlHQ/s1600-h/islam-marchers.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDaCHimfG6gjaOKCp_wdG0i080g6m2T_ZVNneLUTW7Mf0zhkhBq4AYiFr2XTV-VCAfmahjQKQMrRPBrVkRJsxGqhDckAhPxNAOXoNXuZB5DfkbTPZa0mwN9WRG6z9dlU-pq35X-i3zlHQ/s320/islam-marchers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179080935444354402" border="0" /></a></p> <p>The British Foreign Minister <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7095657.stm">David Miliband</a> in November 2007 stated that the European Union should work towards including Middle Eastern and North African countries. The EU involves the free movement of people across borders. If it expands to the Middle East, hundreds of millions of Muslims will have free access to Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Sweden and the Czech Republic. If Turkey becomes a member, it means that Greeks, Bulgarians and others who have fought against oppression by Ottoman Turks for centuries will now be flooded with Muslims from a rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey. The same goes for Poles, Hungarians, Romanians and others who fought against Muslims for centuries. Appeasement of Islam is so deeply immersed in the structural DNA of the EU that the only way to stop the Islamization of Europe is to dismantle the European Union. All of it.</p>Rolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144151003592750093.post-24412864528469010292008-03-17T09:22:00.000-07:002008-03-17T09:23:50.061-07:00What if....From: <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/02/now-what-if.html">Gates of Vienna</a><br /><br />Denmark is an unusual place.<br /><br />Take, for example, the newspaper <i>Politiken</i>. It is <i>The New York Times</i> of Denmark, a repository of the conventional wisdom, the place to look for a reliably politically correct opinion on anything and everything.<br /><br />But not always. Recently there have been cracks in the liberal monolith that is <i>Politiken</i>. The <a target="_blank" href="http://politiken.dk/debat/article466244.ece">feature article</a> translated below is unusual, and rings out as a voice of sanity in the politically correct wilderness.<br /><br /><blockquote>Something has definitely changed among the people in charge of this paper. A year ago you would <i>never</i> have seen an article like that in <i>Politiken</i>. Actually the most insane editor in Denmark, Thøger Seidenfaden, walked out on all of us last time there was a meeting of Trykkefrihedsselskabet [the Press Freedom Society], the one in support of Lars Vilks, telling everybody in the room that they were a bunch of misusers of freedom of speech. He was especially targeting Flemming Rose, Vilks, and the creators of the Mohammed cartoons. It was hilarious…<br /><br />Maybe they have now seen the signs…? One can only hope.</blockquote><br />And now for the article itself.<br /><br /><center><a target="_blank" href="http://politiken.dk/debat/article466244.ece"><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/politikenlogo.gif" alt="Politiken.dk" border="0" vspace="8" /></a></center><br /><b>Now, What If…?</b><br /><br /><b>Now, what if our ideals destroy our sense of reality and lead us down the wrong path? What if Bush is really a great president?<br /><br />By Mogens Rukov<br /><br />What if Bush…? What if Islam…? Think, what if the intelligentsia…? What if multicultural…? Think, what if Arafat…? What if my a.. was…? What if you could go on forever?</b><br /><br />Now, what if there existed the equivalent of contrafactual history writing? What if there were the equivalent of hypothesizing what the world would be like out if history hadn’t turned out the way it did?<br /><br />What if Hitler had won the war? What if the Iron Curtain had never been imposed on Europe? What if the incandescent light bulb had never been invented?<br /><br />What if the mind could entertain these kinds of questions, which are counterfactual to the conventional wisdom.<br /><br />What if some are more concrete, others more fluid. But what if all of them now work for the sake of clarifying reality, of the facts, of the sum of what we know about reality. What if we can open up a perspectives on an alternative world of thought to the one we already agree about?<br /><br />What if many of them lead us directly into paradise or hell? What if they individually put history on a knife’s edge, where it balances and where it could have fallen out differently than it did?<br /><br />Contrafactual questions shake the way we, by habit, react to the course of history. They are part of history’s teaching.<br /><br />Aren’t there also questions which can shake up our thinking, so that it doesn’t become habitual thinking?<br /><br />What if you could ask contra-conceptual questions instead of contra-factual?<br /><br />To think new thoughts one often has to change concepts. Such a change of concept lies in the contra-conceptual.<br /><br />Concepts are our prisons, our direction, and our freedom. They are our dreams and our nightmares.<br /><br />Contra-conceptual questions do not have to be wise, or logical, or rational. Actually, they have to be the opposite. They have to be stupid, unthinkable, to the verge of ignorance.<br /><br />What if Bush was a great president?<br /><br />Is that unthinkable? Reagan was called a fool too, an actor, parvenu. Nor could he read — as Bush is said not to be able to — Reagan didn’t have any experience in foreign policy, should never have been in The White House. All these kinds of things they said, our foreign policy experts, many of our politicians, the intelligentsia, the intellectuals, the writers.<br /><br />Now he is called a great president. By the same people, or among the same people who have little interest in what happens around them.<br /><br />In those days you where taken as a big idiot if you said anything else except that Reagan was a big idiot. People laughed at you if you didn’t laugh at Reagan. But the experts say that it was Reagan’s policy that ended the Cold War, that it was his stubbornness that won it.<br /><br />The man who didn’t know anything about politics, the ridiculous fool who could not read, the actor, won the biggest political fight in modern time, after forty years of cold war.<br /><br />Do you have to be illiterate to become a great politician? Do you have to be a Western politician not to understand a thing?<br /><span class="fullpost">- - - <a name="readfurther">-</a> - - - - -<br />What if the Iraq war is a real war?<br /><br />The Korean war was stupid. The Vietnam war was insane, all the good people said as much in those days. But both wars stopped communist aggression. Both served in part to hasten the fall of communism.<br /><br />What if the war in Iraq will lead to a new balance in the Arab world, if it is a probe thrust into the Muslim sea?<br /><br />What if it is only a temporary fiasco, what if it becomes a success? What if it made Libya give up its weapon of mass destruction program in December of 2003 as a reaction to the war in Iraq, or if it is true, made Iran to halt its development of nuclear weapons in 2003, also for that very reason. Is that not enough to call the war in Iraq a good war?<br /><br />What if there is no such thing as a legitimate war, as some opponents of the Iraq war claim because they see the war in Iraq as illegitimate.<br /><br />What if legitimate war is only a concept which has been invented by some bureaucrats as a concept that allows them to make wars that are just as insane as any other war but which they would not be able to do without the juridical term “legitimate war”, partly because they don’t have the power, partly because there is no reason to do it?<br /><br />What if “legitimate war” leads us into the most insane wars because some insane states in the UN vote for it?<br /><br />What if UN with all their perception and legitimacy are leading the world into Armageddon, if it becomes an instrument for powerless madness.<br /><br />What if the fight against Islam is the big European war right now?<br /><br />What if it is the new Thirty Years War that replaces the old one prior to the peace of Westphalia, which is now defines Europe?<br /><br />The European establishment, the European debate , treats Islam as if it was only a religion.<br /><br />Think — what if Islam is only a religion if seen from the perspective of the individual Muslim?<br /><br />What if Islam is already at war from within the mosque and further up in the hierarchy. And think — what if it actually already is at war from the viewpoint of the individual Muslim believer.<br /><br />What if the order in the Quran about killing or dominating the infidel (non-Muslim) is part of the doctrine that the individual Muslim recognize?<br /><br />What if the Muslim terrorists are only the storm troops in the war, those who commit the commando raids in the broader fight?<br /><br />What if the only way the war can be won for Christian Europe is by prohibiting Islam and sending all Muslims back to Islamic countries? What inhumane conduct does the war not impose on us?<br /><br />What if all European countries develop Muslim no-go zones as already exist in Great Britain?<br /><br />What if the Bishop of Rochester is right, and the problem is the political establishment, as the chairman of the Muslim Forum, Manzoor Moghal, has replied: “No matter how much his (the Bishop’s) opponents are rumbling against his accusations, the fact is that the determination with which some of my Muslim kinsmen stick to a specific lifestyle, specific habits, language and way of living has led to create neighborhoods where non-Muslims would feel uneasy, and might even get attacked.”<br /><br />What if the rising violence in our streets is actually making no-go time zones? Will the politicians still talk about freedom of religion, about tolerance towards different ways of thinking, when they speak of Islamophobia?<br /><br />What if any generation of Muslim immigrants in reality functions as occupying troops?<br /><br />What if the positive results of multiculturalism do not exist. What if the brotherhood, mutual understanding, deeply felt empathy, and cross-fertilization are only part of the mental activity of some members of the intelligentsia?<br /><br />What if multiculturalism dissolves society?<br /><br />What if the big survey of multiculti societies by Robert Putnam — who has studied 41 multicultural areas in the US — is right? What if it is true that diversity not only reduces the so-called social capital between different ethnic groups but also inside the groups themselves?<br /><br />What if multiculture not only dissolves society, but destroys it.<br /><br />What if the problem of multiculture is not the ethnic conflicts or the difficult race relations, but the fact — as the survey shows — that confidence in society, and “the others” in society, is lower. What if — as was reported — altruism, which the distribution of burdens in the welfare society is built upon, is reduced.<br /><br />What if such a simple thing as friendships between likeminded men and women is not as frequent in a multiculti society. “In plain speech, people who live under ethnic diversity ‘keep their head down’, hide like a turtle”.<br /><br />What if many Muslims throughout their childhood have been raised to show more solidarity towards the Quran than towards the country where they were brought up?<br /><br />What if it is a fact that “the terror threat does not come from marginalized citizens with a pure Danish or Dutch background, it comes solely from citizens with Muslim background,” as Ayaan Hirsi Ali says?<br /><br />What if that is what we have seen in the last few years?<br /><br />What if the divide in opinion surrounding the Mohammed Cartoons was a consequence of this diversity. What if the violence in Nørrebro and the violence in general is a consequence of this?<br /><br />What if the tough debates are coming from this? If the tone in the debate is not a consequence of anybody’s cynicism, but a consequence of the destruction of our society?<br /><br />What if the knife-stabbers understand more about multiculturalism than the guys behind “Images of The Middle East”?<br /><br />What if a festival with title “Images of The West” could win the curiosity of the intelligentsia?<br /><br />What if those writers — good writers of fiction — who warned against the sharpening of the tone and the exclusion of the Muslims especially by that tone, by supporting the multicultural development themselves actually bring the sharpened tone into society accompanied by the use of sharp knives?<br /><br />These “Now, what if…” questions are aiming at exactly these kinds of circumstances. On the absurd reverses of events, reality’s grotesque play between surface and foundation.<br /><br />What if now the fulfillment of intentions tends to produce the opposite of what was intended?<br /><br />What if we are on the verge of a world war?<br /><br />Consider whether such a war is as all other wars: the solution to conflicts that politics cannot cope with.<br /><br />What if the politicians had taken care of the conflicts without war, and with the consent of the populace. Which social development is prevented by the intelligentsia, DR, Politiken and Information [PC Danish media outlets]?<br /><br />What if it’s true that war solves insoluble conflicts, but that negotiations do not.<br /><br />What if it is violence and negotiations together that solve the conflicts? First violence, then negotiations.<br /><br />What if those who speak of peace actually generate wars.<br /><br />What if the biggest threat to peace is to focus on peace, while focusing on war preserves the peace?<br /><br />What if those people who speak of peace (with Islam) only promote our defeat, and the victory of Islam?<br /><br />What if paradoxical preparations for war are exactly preparations for peace?<br /><br />What if immigration is actually occupation?<br /><br />What if the Muslim immigration into Christian Europe constitutes an army of occupiers, even if the individual Muslim does not want to be a soldier in that army, but just wants to be a respected settler.<br /><br />What if the Jewish settlers on the West Bank are nothing but immigrants?<br /><br />What if the world’s problems with these Jewish settlers are the same as our problems with integration?<br /><br />Now, what if the Palestinians have developed a strategy that makes them the gangsters of the world?<br /><br />What if the Palestinians suffer due to our massive aid to the Palestinian areas ($6 billion over three years), where the help up until now has only turned the whole population into social clients, while their leaders have ruled with corruption and lawlessness — just like a bunch of mafia bosses?<br /><br />What if the Israeli attacks into Gaza should be the model for Århus in dealing with Gellerupparken [Muslim ghetto outside Denmark’s second largest city]?<br /><br />What if Arafat was a mafia boss of the magnitude of Saddam? What indicates otherwise?<br /><br />And what if there actually were no Palestinian problem, but that a Palestinian problem has been created by the Arab side going all the way back to the 1920s, and that it is inspired by the Nazis’ anti-Semitism?<br /><br />What if there still exists only an Islamic/Jewish problem? And that what we see around Israel is of the same character as what is about to happen in Europe: The Muslims everywhere invent their “legitimate” rights.<br /><br />Now, what if.<br /><br />What if Europe is a huge West Bank? If neighborhoods such as Gellerupparken and Mjolnerparken are only Arab settlements in Denmark.<br /><br />What if Israel’s military strength — as weakened as it may be by now — is its only possibility of survival in an Arab world, and that it is now equally necessary for the military to be raised in European countries and turned against other usurpers?<br /><br />Now, what if we have a common foe, Islam?<br /><br />What if Huntington is right about the clash of civilizations, and that is what we see in the Arab-European space; as opposed Fukuyama’s end of history, “the point in human ideological evolution and the universalization of the liberal democracy of the West as the final form of governance”; as with any other fascist development, in this also the religious foundation must stand up against it and fight.<br /><br />What if sharia should replace Roman Law? Have we no rights? Shall tolerance make room for Allah and Mohammed?<br /><br />Shall experiments and innovation be succeeded by a literal reading of primitive scriptures?<br /><br />Now, what if the control whose intended imposition on the public, instead of enhancing efficiency of public affairs, drains it of energy?<br /><br />Is it not what we see in connection with aid to the elderly, help in the home, in the hospitals, and in the schools?<br /><br />What if our habits have destroyed our foresight?<br /><br />What if our ideals destroy our realities? What if our ideals actually mislead us instead of showing us the right way?<br /><br />What if tolerance, for example, is not a universal notion but only valid under circumstances which have disappeared — even though we thought that it was universal?<br /><br />Now, what if our language has thereby been emptied?<br /><br />Now, what if our language only has meaning in the most banal circumstances, and no longer serves to express actual careful thought?<br /><br />What if fiction is now the proper form for a clarifying documentary realism?</span>Rolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144151003592750093.post-17630878592984638462008-03-09T10:00:00.000-07:002008-03-09T10:28:48.367-07:00The Truth About Islam in EuropeAn excellent article by Fjordman in the <a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3017">Brussels Journal.</a><br /><br />A valuable background in analyzing political islam.<br /><br />===<br /><p>This essay was inspired by <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/02/04/080204crbo_books_acocella?currentPage=all">Joan Acocella's review</a> of David Levering Lewis' book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393064727/brusselsjournal-20/ref=nosim"><em>God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215</em></a>. Lewis is an American historian and two-time winner of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. Acocella's review is not bad, but she reveals little evidence that she has read authors such as Robert Spencer, Bat Ye'or or Andrew G. Bostom. She refers to Edward Said's 1978 book <em>Orientalism</em>, but not Ibn Warraq's excellent criticism of him in the recent book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1591024846/brusselsjournal-20/ref=nosim"><em>Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism</em></a>.</p> <p>According to Acocella, "The Muslims came to Europe, he writes, as 'the forward wave of civilization that was, by comparison with that of its enemies, an organic marvel of coordinated kingdoms, cultures, and technologies in service of a politico-cultural agenda incomparably superior' to that of the primitive people they encountered there. They did Europe a favor by invading. This is not a new idea, but Lewis takes it further: he clearly regrets that the Arabs did not go on to conquer the rest of Europe." This was "one of the most significant losses in world history and certainly the most consequential since the fall of the Roman Empire."</p> <p>Abd al-Rahman I, a Syrian-born prince who took over in 756, is the hero of "<em>God's Crucible</em>." According to Acocella, "It was he who built the Great Mosque of Córdoba, the most spectacular extant example of Muslim Spain's architectural achievements. He also botanized, and imported to Spain its first date palms, its first lemons, limes, and grapefruit, as well as almonds, apricots, saffron, and henna."</p> <p>In a digression, I would like to qualify that statement. Apricots were known in the Mediterranean world already in Antiquity. The apricot is called <em>armeniaca vulgaris</em> in Latin because many Europeans thought it originated in Armenia, where it was grown in the Ararat Valley. However, apricots come from China or nearby regions in Central Asia and were cultivated there in prehistoric times. They were later brought to Armenia and the Mediterranean world via Persia through the Silk Road trade.</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_production">Citrus fruits</a> originate in south-eastern Asia, and certain types were known in the Mediterranean in ancient times as the Romans did participate to some extent in the Indian Ocean trade. However, the use of citrus fruits was limited at the time and was disrupted after the fall of Rome. It is true that various citrus fruits were reintroduced via Arabs, who brought sour oranges from India. The drink lemonade may have been invented in Egypt.</p> <p>Sweet oranges had been cultivated by the Chinese for many centuries and were introduced in Europe by the Portuguese, who probably got them from Indians, in the fifteenth century. Sweet oranges quickly replaced sour oranges. Christopher Columbus in 1493 brought with him seeds of orange, lemon and citron from Spain's Canary Islands to Hispaniola in the Caribbean. Oranges were abundant in Haiti by the sixteenth century and were introduced to Florida while the Portuguese brought them to Brazil. Oranges were for many Native Americans one of the more welcome things Europeans brought with them, certainly more so than smallpox. The juice of citrus fruits was used as a cure for scurvy. James Lind of the British Royal Navy conducted the first clinical trial in 1747 to prove this effect.</p> <p>George Vancouver of the Royal Navy accompanied Captain James Cook, the British explorer and cartographer, on two of his voyages in the Pacific Ocean in the 1770s while exploring the coastlines of Australia and New Zealand. Cook's voyages are often seen to mark the beginning of colonialism in the region, and Cook himself died fighting native Hawaiians in 1779. Captain Vancouver later explored the north-western coast of North America, from California to Alaska. The city of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, is named after him. During a visit to California, then a part of Mexico and thus still a Spanish colony, he mentioned seeing oranges. With the growth of the transcontinental railway in the United States during the nineteenth century production grew, and boomed after the American Civil War. Oranges are still grown in the Mediterranean region, in Spain, Portugal, Israel and other countries as well as in Asia, but the largest production is in Brazil, Florida and California.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh73EyWXwwdoou0yN-3NkYWZ6cTYjryoblJV2GdCKtgjrWKb69EaKrkogN_j9fjbyPzIoMWexlDjuPj5OBBLtnrcwYCsZ4vDGoYwdD3EdZ8EtWZmHT3T1sGqsf3-528KU8azBbl6hr8ORY/s1600-h/04.09.21.SwordInjustice-X.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh73EyWXwwdoou0yN-3NkYWZ6cTYjryoblJV2GdCKtgjrWKb69EaKrkogN_j9fjbyPzIoMWexlDjuPj5OBBLtnrcwYCsZ4vDGoYwdD3EdZ8EtWZmHT3T1sGqsf3-528KU8azBbl6hr8ORY/s320/04.09.21.SwordInjustice-X.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175791832309208034" border="0" /></a></p> <p>David Levering Lewis spends a lot of time demonstrating how the Franks were less civilized than Muslims and that their economy was "little better than the Late Neolithic." Their neighbors were supposedly even worse. The Vikings who invaded Frankland were "the filthiest race that God ever created," according to a Muslim ambassador. Being Scandinavian myself, I have no problems admitting that the Vikings did possess a number of barbarian traits, but history is more complex than that. Scandinavians of this age gradually became integrated into the civilized mainstream of European culture. Christian European culture, that is.</p> <p>Vikings from Denmark went to England and France, Norwegians went to the British Isles and the North Atlantic and Swedes went east, though there was always considerable overlapping between these nations. Some went via the Volga and other rivers in Russia and the Ukraine to the Black Sea engaged in trade and piracy, and a few even settled in Kiev and Volgograd. They occasionally fought Byzantine forces, but the Byzantines had the advantage of Greek fire. Vikings were still respected for their fighting skills and were employed as mercenaries, even as personal bodyguards for the emperors. The Scandinavians called Constantinople Miklagard, "the Great City."</p> <p>As Timothy Gregory says in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0631235132/brusselsjournal-20/ref=nosim"><em>A History of Byzantium</em></a>, during the eleventh century the Byzantine Empire suffered from a decline in its conscript army. Because of this, "the state had to rely more and more on foreign mercenaries, at first Varangians from Russia but increasingly Normans from Sicily and France, Anglo-Saxons from England, and others. The most famous of these was the Varangian Duzina, attested from 1034 onward, which enrolled Vikings from Russia and eventually Anglo-Saxons. This elite guard, whose members had distinct arms and uniforms, had its quarters in Constantinople but also took part in field campaigns. In addition, Byzantium had to rely more than before on its alliances with foreign peoples who might be used to fight the empire's wars."</p> <p>The Varangian Guard defended Constantinople against other Westerners during the Fourth Crusade in 1204. One of their most prominent members was the future king Harald Hardråde, "Hard-ruler," from 1035, whose story was told by Icelandic poet and historian Snorri Sturluson ca. 1230 in the <em>Heimskringla</em>. Harald participated in a number of battles against Muslims and returned to Norway with great wealth. He wasn't the only one to do so. Large quantities of Byzantine gold coins have been found in Scandinavia. He is most remembered, however, for his invasion of England in 1066 with several hundred longships. Harald Hardråde was killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in England on 25 September 1066, a date which is often seen to mark the end of the Viking Age. The victor Harold Godwinson was himself soon defeated by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings the same year. This remarkable story has been immortalized in the beautiful Bayeux Tapestry.</p> <p>It is interesting to notice, though, that much of the contact that did take place between the Byzantine Empire and north-western Europe at this point happened through backdoor channels like the rivers of Eastern Europe, linking the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. The Mediterranean was still plagued by Muslim pirates.</p> <p>Women enjoyed greater freedom in the Norse society than they did in Islamic societies even then, and this continued into Christian times. In <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060516054/brusselsjournal-20/ref=nosim"><em>What went Wrong?</em></a>, historian Bernard Lewis writes: "The difference in the position of women was indeed one of the most striking contrasts between Christian and Muslim practice, and is mentioned by almost all travelers in both directions. Christianity, of all churches and denominations, prohibits polygamy and concubinage. Islam, like most other non-Christian communities, permits both.... Muslim visitors to Europe speak with astonishment, often with horror, of the immodesty and frowardness of Western women, of the incredible freedom and absurd deference accorded to them, and of the lack of manly jealousy of European males confronted with the immorality and promiscuity in which their womenfolk indulge."<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGpxLr8foDSV2c6GZRnwmz9esB92QIWLUJOwJwqTDVB1RUr5MA_-qqyLS3wvlg-c4kwcCNdaJj4vD3sWN8g_p7B7A4RXMIDxrDVIFdd6OsUNOFMfcaLwe1zpZ-3TuNMp6dG0FbYeamQc/s1600-h/04.09.21.Goat-X.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGpxLr8foDSV2c6GZRnwmz9esB92QIWLUJOwJwqTDVB1RUr5MA_-qqyLS3wvlg-c4kwcCNdaJj4vD3sWN8g_p7B7A4RXMIDxrDVIFdd6OsUNOFMfcaLwe1zpZ-3TuNMp6dG0FbYeamQc/s320/04.09.21.Goat-X.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175788885961642962" border="0" /></a></p> <p>Bernard Lewis has also, in my view correctly, suggested that the concept of "Holy War" was originally alien to Christianity and was imported to Europe after Europeans had been confronted with Islamic Jihad. The Reconquista, the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from Islamic rule, is traditionally seen to have begun with Pelayo in 718. Although initially slow, it speeded up from the eleventh century onwards. The Portuguese had been liberated in 1249 under King Afonso III.</p> <p>As Joan Acocella says, "Toledo fell to Alfonso VI of León and Castile, a Catholic king, in 1085. Four more centuries passed before the expulsion of the last emir from Granada, in 1492, but [David Levering] Lewis gets through them fast. He doesn't want to talk about it."</p> <p>Lewis also fails to explain why Spaniards and Portuguese repeatedly rebelled against this glorious Islamic culture in favor of an "almost Neolithic" culture. He writes that Muslims did not enslave their co-religionists, only infidels. Yes, but exactly why is that better?</p> <p>As Robert Spencer writes in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1596985151/brusselsjournal-20/ref=nosim"><em>Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't</em></a>: "The Qur'an says that the followers of Muhammad are 'ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another' (48:29), and that the unbelievers are the 'worst of created beings' (98:6). One may exercise the Golden Rule in relation to a fellow Muslim, but according to the laws of Islam, the same courtesy is not to be extended to unbelievers. That is one principal reason why the primary source of slaves in the Islamic world has been non-Muslims, whether Jews, Christians, Hindus, or pagans. Most slaves were non-Muslims who had been captured during jihad warfare."</p> <p>Slavery was taken for granted throughout Islamic history. When it was finally abolished this was due to Western pressure, especially through the efforts of the British Empire: "Nor was there a Muslim abolitionist movement, no Clarkson, Wilberforce, or Garrison. When the slave trade ended, it was ended not through Muslim efforts but through British military force. Even so, there is evidence that slavery continues beneath the surface in some Muslim countries - notably Saudi Arabia, which only abolished slavery in 1962; Yemen and Oman, both of which ended legal slavery in 1970; and Niger, which didn't abolish slavery until 2004. In Niger, the ban is widely ignored, and as many as one million people remain in bondage. Slaves are bred, often raped, and generally treated like animals. There are even slavery cases involving Muslims in the United States. A Saudi named Homaidan al-Turki was sentenced in September 2006 to twenty-seven years to life in prison for keeping a woman as a slave in his Colorado home. For his part, al-Turki claimed that he was a victim of anti-Muslim bias."<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVi4xk5hORTXKL3qR0FFRj51cxM6cfgRKIw19LlUzNYYcVYLy2KHa4nFtJZ6816Gpj5nbvfyVaowlBvGtVGeWYDwxMA9V0GYJPuKcP9tOuPQ21DEIcPRmhgA9a_Go5hTz3hrWYlH3FWlY/s1600-h/ComradesInHate-X.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVi4xk5hORTXKL3qR0FFRj51cxM6cfgRKIw19LlUzNYYcVYLy2KHa4nFtJZ6816Gpj5nbvfyVaowlBvGtVGeWYDwxMA9V0GYJPuKcP9tOuPQ21DEIcPRmhgA9a_Go5hTz3hrWYlH3FWlY/s320/ComradesInHate-X.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175793073554756594" border="0" /></a></p> <p>Indian historian K. S. Lal states that wherever Jihadists conquered a territory, "there developed a system of slavery peculiar to the clime, terrain, and populace of the place." When Muslim armies invaded India, "its people began to be enslaved in droves to be sold in foreign lands or employed in various capacities on menial and not-so-menial jobs within the country."</p> <p>The most comprehensive book on the subject to date, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1591023076/brusselsjournal-20/ref=nosim"><em>The Legacy of Jihad</em></a>, was published by Dr. Andrew G. Bostom. Bostom writes about how Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, then serving as ambassadors, met in 1786 with the Tripolitan ambassador to Britain. These future American presidents were attempting to negotiate a peace treaty which would spare the United States the ravages of Jihad piracy – murder and enslavement emanating from the so-called Barbary States of North Africa, corresponding to modern Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. However, the spirit of the young Republic came to be embodied in the slogan "Millions for defense, not a penny for tribute." Bostom notes that "By June/July 1815 the ably commanded U.S. naval forces had dealt their Barbary jihadist adversaries a quick series of crushing defeats. This success ignited the imagination of the Old World powers to rise up against the Barbary pirates."</p> <p>Robert Davis' methodical enumeration in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1403945519/brusselsjournal-20/ref=nosim"><em>Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters</em></a> indicates that perhaps one and one-quarter <em>million</em> white European Christians were enslaved by Barbary Muslims from 1530 through 1780. In his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312425295/brusselsjournal-20/ref=nosim"><em>White Gold</em></a>, Giles Milton describes how regular Jihad razzias in Europe extended as far north as Iceland. Even during the time of Queen Elizabeth I, while William Shakespeare was writing his plays and poems, young Englishmen risked being surprised by a fleet of Muslim pirates showing up at their village, or being kidnapped while fishing at sea:</p> <p>"By the end of the dreadful summer of 1625, the mayor of Plymouth reckoned that 1,000 skiffs had been destroyed, and a similar number of villagers carried off into slavery." Such events took place across much of Europe, also in Wales and southern Ireland: "In 1631…200 Islamic soldiers…sailed to the village of Baltimore, storming ashore with swords drawn and catching the villagers totally by surprise. (They) carried off 237 men, women, and children and took them to Algiers…The French padre Pierre Dan was in the city (Algiers) at the time…He witnessed the sale of the captives in the slave auction. 'It was a pitiful sight to see them exposed in the market…Women were separated from their husbands and the children from their fathers…on one side a husband was sold; on the other his wife; and her daughter was torn from her arms without the hope that they'd ever see each other again'."</p> <p>Englishman Thomas Pellow was enslaved in Morocco for twenty-three years after being captured by Barbary pirates as a cabin boy on a small English vessel in 1716. He was tortured until he accepted Islam. For weeks he was beaten and starved, and finally gave in after his torturer resorted to "burning my flesh off my bones by fire, which the tyrant did, by frequent repetitions, after a most cruel manner."</p> <p>Scholar Bat Ye'or is an expert on dhimmitude, the oppressive system for non-Muslims under Islamic rule, described in the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0838639437/brusselsjournal-20/ref=nosim"><em>Islam and Dhimmitude</em></a>. She writes this about the Jihad slave system: "When Amr conquered Tripoli (Libya) in 643, he forced the Jewish and Christian Berbers to give their wives and children as slaves to the Arab army as part of their <em>jizya</em>. From 652 until its conquest in 1276, Nubia was forced to send an annual contingent of slaves to Cairo. Treaties concluded with the towns of Transoxiana [Iranian central Asia], Sijistan [eastern Iran], Armenia, and Fezzan (Maghreb) under the Umayyads and Abbasids stipulated an annual dispatch of slaves from both sexes. However, the main sources for the supply of slaves remained the regular raids on villages within the dar-al-harb [non-Islamic regions] and the military expeditions which swept more deeply into the infidel lands, emptying towns and provinces of their inhabitants."</p> <p>According to Sir Jadunath Sarkar, the pre-eminent historian of Mughal India, "The conversion of the entire population to Islam and the extinction of every form of dissent is the ideal of the Muslim State. If any infidel is suffered to exist in the community, it is as a necessary evil, and for a transitional period only…A non-Muslim therefore cannot be a citizen of the State; he is a member of a depressed class; his status is a modified form of slavery…In short, his continued existence in the State after the conquest of his country by the Muslims is conditional upon his person and property made subservient to the cause of Islam."</p> <p>As Robert Spencer says: "Although the strictness with which the laws of dhimmitude (the subservient status of Jews and Christians) were enforced varied, they were never abolished, and during times of relaxation the subject populations always lived in fear that they would be enforced with new stringency. Muslim rulers did not forget that the Qur'an mandates that both Jews and Christians must 'feel themselves subdued.' One notable instance is recounted by Arab historian Philip Hitti: 'The caliph al-Mutawakkil in 850 and 854 decreed that Christians and Jews should affix wooden images of devils to their houses, level their graves even with the ground, wear outer garments of honey color, i.e., yellow, put two honey-colored patches on the clothes of their slaves...and ride only on mules and asses with wooden saddles marked by two pomegranate-like balls on the cantle.'"</p> <p>In 1888, a Tunisian Jew noted: "The Jew is prohibited in this country to wear the same clothes as a Muslim and may not wear a red tarbush. He can be seen to bow down with his whole body to a Muslim child and permit him the traditional privilege of striking him in the face, a gesture that can prove to be of the gravest consequence. Indeed, the present writer has received such blows. In such matters the offenders act with complete impunity, for this has been the custom from time immemorial."</p> <p>Maimonides, the renowned Jewish philosopher and physician, stated that "the Arabs have persecuted us severely, and passed baneful and discriminatory legislation against us...Never did a nation molest, degrade, debase, and hate us as much as they." Jews could teach rabbinic law to Christians, but Muslims he said, will interpret what they are taught "according to their erroneous principles and they will oppress us. [F]or this reason.....they hate all [non-Muslims] who live among them." But the Christians "admit that the text of the Torah, such as we have it, is intact."</p> <p>Richard Fletcher states in his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520248406/brusselsjournal-20/ref=nosim"><em>Moorish Spain</em></a> that: "Moorish Spain was not a tolerant and enlightened society even in its most cultivated epoch."</p><p>In the essay <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/001665.php"><em>Andalusian Myth, Eurabian Reality</em></a>, Bat Ye'or and Andrew G. Bostom examine the myth of the supposed "tolerance" enjoyed by Christians and Jews in the Iberian Peninsula: "Segregated in special quarters, they had to wear discriminatory clothing. Subjected to heavy taxes, the Christian peasantry formed a servile class attached to the Arab domains; many abandoned their land and fled to the towns. Harsh reprisals with mutilations and crucifixions would sanction the Mozarab (Christian dhimmis) calls for help from the Christian kings. Moreover, if one dhimmi harmed a Muslim, the whole community would lose its status of protection, leaving it open to pillage, enslavement and arbitrary killing."</p> <p>This humiliating status provoked many revolts, punished by massacres. Insurrections erupted in Saragossa in 781 and 881, Cordova (805, 818), Merida (805-813, 828 and the following year, and in 868), and again in Toledo (811-819). Many of the insurgents were crucified, as prescribed in the Koran 5:33:<br />"The revolt in Cordova of 818 was crushed by three days of massacres and pillage, with 300 notables crucified and 20 000 families expelled. Feuding was endemic in the Andalusian cities between the different sectors of the population: Arab and Berber colonizers, Iberian Muslim converts (Muwalladun) and Christian dhimmis (Mozarabs). There were rarely periods of peace in the Amirate of Cordova (756-912), nor later. Al-Andalus represented the land of jihad par excellence. Every year, sometimes twice a year, raiding expeditions were sent to ravage the Christian Spanish kingdoms to the north, the Basque regions, or France and the Rhone valley, bringing back booty and slaves. Andalusian corsairs attacked and invaded along the Sicilian and Italian coasts, even as far as the Aegean Islands, looting and burning as they went. Thousands of people were deported to slavery in Andalusia, where the caliph kept a militia of tens of thousand of Christian slaves brought from all parts of Christian Europe (the Saqaliba), and a harem filled with captured Christian women."</p> <p>In Granada, up to five thousand Jews perished in a pogrom by Muslims in 1066. The Berber Almohads in Spain and North Africa (1130-1232) wreaked enormous destruction on the Jewish and Christian populations. Suspicious of the sincerity of converts to Islam, Muslim "inquisitors" (i.e., antedating their Christian Spanish counterparts by three centuries) removed children from such families, placing them in the care of Muslims. A prominent Andalusian jurist, Ibn Hazm of Cordoba (d. 1064), wrote that Allah has established the infidels' ownership of their property merely to provide booty for Muslims.</p> <p>According to Joan Acocella, "In view of Lewis's high opinion of learning in Al Andalus, it is amazing how little space he gives it." In the twelfth century, Averroes (Ibn Rushd) wrote his commentaries on Aristotle, and Moses Maimonides produced his Aristotle-inflected Guide to the Perplexed. However, both these men had to flee Andalusia. Averroes, despite being an Islamic judge, was banished, his books burnt, and he was forced to emigrate to Morocco (in 1195) where he died in 1198. Maimonides had to flee in order to escape the Almohad Jihad.</p> <p>It is true that the highly influential Christian scholar St. Thomas Aquinas in the late thirteenth century quoted both these men, but he was critical of the way Averroes used Aristotle and had at his disposal a more complete body of Aristotelian writings than any of the Muslim philosophers ever did. Another Catholic, the Flemish Dominican Friar William of Moerbeke, was heavily involved in translating Byzantine manuscripts into Latin. According to scholar John Dunn in his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1843542110/brusselsjournal-20/ref=nosim"><em>Setting the People Free</em></a>, the word <em>demokratia</em> entered modern Western discourse in the 1260s in William of Moerbeke's Latin translation of Aristotle's Politics, "the most systematic analysis of politics as a practical activity which survived from the ancient world."</p> <p>Iranian intellectual <a href="http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/4462">Amir Taheri</a> states that: "There was no word in any of the Muslim languages for democracy until the 1890s. Even then the Greek word democracy entered Muslim languages with little change: <em>democrasi</em> in Persian, <em>dimokraytiyah</em> in Arabic, <em>demokratio</em> in Turkish.…It is no accident that early Muslims translated numerous ancient Greek texts but never those related to political matters. The great Avicenna himself translated Aristotle's <em>Poetics</em>. But there was no translation of Aristotle's <em>Politics</em> in Persian until 1963."</p> <p>Muslims inherited a great deal of accumulated knowledge when they conquered the Middle East, and <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/10/islam-christian-europe-and-greek.html">most of the translations</a> of earlier works were done by non-Muslims.</p> <p>According to <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/006014.php">Robert Spencer</a>, "The Christian Huneyn ibn-Ishaq (809-873) translated many works by Aristotle, Galen, Plato and Hippocrates into Syriac [in Baghdad], from which they were translated into Arabic by his son. The Jacobite Christian Yahya ibn 'Adi (893-974) also translated works of philosophy into Arabic, and wrote his own; his treatise <em>The Reformation of Morals</em> has occasionally been erroneously attributed to various of his Muslim contemporaries. His student, another Christian named Abu 'Ali 'Isa ibn Zur'a (943-1008), also made Arabic translations of Aristotle and other Greek writers from Syriac. The first Arabic-language medical treatise was written by a Christian priest and translated into Arabic by a Jewish doctor in 683. The first hospital, another source of pride among Muslims and often a prominent feature of Islamic accomplishment lists, was founded in Baghdad during the Abbasid caliphate by a Nestorian Christian. A pioneering medical school was founded at Gundeshapur in Persia — by Assyrian Christians."</p> <p>Greek or other pre-Islamic learning was never integrated into the regular curriculum at Islamic schools, as it was in European universities. The German-Syrian writer Bassam Tibi points out that "science" in the madrasa meant the study of the Koran, the hadith, Arab history etc.: "Some Islamic historians wrongly translate the term <em>madrasa</em> as university. This is plainly incorrect: If we understand a university as <em>universitas litterarum</em>, or consider, without the bias of Eurocentrism, the cast of the <em>universitas magistrorum</em> of the thirteenth century in Paris, we are bound to recognise that the university as a seat for free and unrestrained enquiry based on reason, is a European innovation in the history of mankind."</p> <p>In <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521529948/busselsjournal-20/ref=nosim"><em>The Rise of Early Modern Science</em></a>, second edition, scholar Toby E. Huff warns that if Islam had taken over Europe, later Western <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/018746.php">scientific achievements</a> would have been impossible: "If Spain had persisted as an Islamic land into the later centuries - say, until the time of Napoleon - it would have retained all the ideological, legal, and institutional defects of Islamic civilization. A Spain dominated by Islamic law would have been unable to found new universities based on the European model of legally autonomous corporate governance, as corporations do not exist in Islamic law. Furthermore, the Islamic model of education rested on the absolute primacy of fiqh, of legal studies, and the standard of preserving the great traditions of the past. This was symbolically reflected in the ijaza, the personal authorization to transmit knowledge from the past given by a learned man, a tradition quite different from the West's group-administered certification (through examination) of demonstrated learning. In the actual event, the founding of Spanish universities in the thirteenth century, first in Palencia (1208-9), Valladolid, Salamanca (1227-8), and so on, occurred in long-established Christian areas, and the universities were modeled after the constitutions of Paris and Bologna."</p> <p>Apparently, David Levering Lewis doesn't care much about art, as he devotes little space to the subject in <em>God's Crucible</em>. Pictorial arts are banned in Islam. Images have been made at certain times, but paintings, and certainly not sculptures, never had anything remotely resembling the importance they <a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2128">enjoyed in Western art</a>. The Islamic world could produce some good poets, for instance the Sufi poet Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) whose works are still popular, but they tended to be unorthodox Muslims.</p> <p>Jihad piracy and slavery remained a serious threat to Europeans for more than a thousand years. As historian Ibn Khaldun proudly proclaimed about the early Middle Ages: "The Christian could no longer float a plank upon the sea." The reason why the West for centuries didn't have easy access to the Classical learning of the Byzantine Empire was because endemic Muslim raids made the Mediterranean unsafe for regular travel. It has to be the height of absurdity to block access to something and then take credit for transmitting it, yet that is precisely what Muslims do. As stronger states slowly grew up in the West, regular contact with their Christian cousins in Byzantium was gradually re-established, especially with the city-states of northern Italy where during the Renaissance the printing press – an invention aggressively rejected by Muslims – made Greco-Roman texts, with translations aided by Greek-speaking Byzantine refugees from Islamic Jihad, available to future generations. Westerners eventually gained access to the Greco-Roman manuscripts preserved in Constantinople, the Second Rome. Consequently, they no longer needed to rely on limited translations in Arabic, which had often been made from Byzantine manuscripts in the first place, and frequently by Christian or Jewish translators.</p> <p>The Middle East had for thousands of years been more advanced than most of Europe. This situation didn't begin with the introduction of Islam. On the contrary: it ended with Islamization. The region we today call the Greater Middle East, which includes Egypt, Palestine, Syria, south-eastern Anatolia, Iraq, Iran and parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, is the seat of the oldest known civilizations on the planet and the source of many of the most important inventions in human history, including writing and the alphabet.</p> <p>It is surely no coincidence that the first major civilization on the Indian subcontinent, the Harappan Civilization, arose in the Indus Valley in the northwest, i.e. closest to Sumerian Mesopotamia. A little understood culture at the Mediterranean island of Malta has left us with megalithic temples that may be the oldest freestanding stone structures in the world. Dating back to 3600 BC, they predate the pyramids of Egypt with a thousand years. Still, it is not a coincidence that literate European civilizations took root in lands that were geographically close to Egypt, the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia: The Minoan civilization at the island of Crete, later mainland Greece and the Balkans, then Rome. Even in the Roman Empire, the Eastern part was more urbanized than its Northern and Western regions, which is one of the reasons why the Eastern half proved more durable.</p> <p>Contrast this with modern times, when southeast Europe (the Balkans) is Europe's number one trouble spot. So is the original seat of the first Indian civilization, in Pakistan and Kashmir. The Greater Middle East thus went from being a global center of civilization to being a global center of anti-civilization. This change largely coincided with the Islamization of the region.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiED8kJpXMEZJZl7kGUqMEvRi-aPBUa7JFxwrxOh1xKUyW9FfxLNvdDjeqHfWb9HbswTolJuEcvIKV_XETzZrM_2pqtm1ZLJg98Ejb1pyuywg7Pbj30qqYULggiNm2aacO9Zc3dBDw0d5w/s1600-h/JihadProselytizing-X.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiED8kJpXMEZJZl7kGUqMEvRi-aPBUa7JFxwrxOh1xKUyW9FfxLNvdDjeqHfWb9HbswTolJuEcvIKV_XETzZrM_2pqtm1ZLJg98Ejb1pyuywg7Pbj30qqYULggiNm2aacO9Zc3dBDw0d5w/s320/JihadProselytizing-X.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175793807994164226" border="0" /></a></p> <p>Muslim reformist Irshad Manji has asked in her book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000FUTQ6E/brusselsjournal-20/ref=nosim"><em>The Trouble with Islam</em></a> what caused the earlier "golden age" of Islam, and concludes, with a few reservations, that "tolerance served as the best way to build and maintain the Islamic empire." In light of the evidence quoted above I disagree with her, and even more so with David Levering Lewis. Islam's much-vaunted "golden age" was in reality the twilight of the conquered pre-Islamic cultures, an echo of times passed. The brief cultural blossoming during the first centuries of Islamic rule owed its existence almost entirely to the pre-Islamic heritage in a region that was still, for a while, majority non-Muslim.</p> <p>I've recently been re-reading some of the books of American evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond, including <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393061310/brusselsjournal-20/ref=nosim"><em>Guns, Germs, and Steel</em></a>. What strikes me is how Diamond, with his emphasis on historical materialism, fails to explain the rise of the West and especially why English, not Arabic, Chinese, Sanskrit or Mayan, became the global lingua franca. His most important flaw is his complete failure to explain how the Greater Middle East went from being a center of civilization to being a center of anti-civilization. This was not caused by smallpox or because zebras are more difficult to domesticate than water buffaloes. It was caused by Islam. Yet is striking to notice how Diamond totally ignores the influence of Islam. This demonstrates clearly that any historical explanation that places too much emphasis on material issues and too little on the impact of human ideas is bound to end up with false or misleading conclusions.</p>Rolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144151003592750093.post-58151762683091598642008-03-05T03:27:00.000-08:002008-03-05T03:28:07.297-08:00Eurabia A Reality, The Hour of Truth: The Euromediterranean Project To Become the Mediterranean UnionEurabia - Becoming the reality.<br /><div class="post-content"><br />The European Union to comprise Palestine, a terrorist state, Syria, Libya,,, What are they thinking, a sinister Nazi or Marxist nightmare of a Social Engineering experiment, what will the consequences be when the 27 EU member are relieved from foreign politics and are going to be represented by an EU foreign minister, when the EU member states are going to surrender their military, laws and justice, foreign policy etc and even surrendering Democracy to a Supranational totalitarian state similar to the USSR and Nazi Germany's Neuropa vision.<br /><br />Erik Goethe is a lawyer who prepared the defence of <a href="http://www.freenations.freeuk.com/voices-erik-goethe.html">book-publisher Kalle Haegglund of Stockholm</a> who recently tried to publish Mein Kampf - The EU has got their own Political reasons to ban the historical study of certain aspects of Nazi history:<br /><p style="font-style: italic;">Why do they do this? Why do they take action against the publishing of Mein Kampf for a perfectly above-board study of history? (By critics of Nazi Germany - Ed)<br /> </p> <p style="font-style: italic;">Through this case I have come to the conclusion that they do it because there is too much in Mein Kampf that is much too revealing for the current European project. One must not forget that the plans of the Third Reich for the New Europe - Neuropa - were well under way, and were in fact postponed by Hitler for the regrettable reason that he had still not won the war.</p><p style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Obviously, Mein Kampf and Hitler's Second Book which was never published in his life-time, and a lot of other writings by other Nazi leaders, are of great interest for judging the background of today's European politics. Several of these writings and European plans clearly foreshadow the European Union of today and tomorrow. </span><br /></p><span style="font-style: italic;">[...]</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_mXOJsfJyd74/R86B5Q_DGvI/AAAAAAAAAO8/2h1vLhPrpUM/s1600-h/Neuropa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_mXOJsfJyd74/R86B5Q_DGvI/AAAAAAAAAO8/2h1vLhPrpUM/s320/Neuropa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174215842707217138" border="0" /></a></p> <span style="font-style: italic;">The claims by the EU institutions that they allegedly are fighting against racism and for</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> human rights deserve attention, but little credit. </span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Defence of national political independence, the development of a national consciousness and culture that includes all immigrants, the defence of freedom of speech and of the press, including all kinds of political views, and a free and open debate. These are important tasks - particularly important for two political forces,</span> considering the composition of their electorate:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Conservatism and the Labour movement. If these forces do not take these matters seriously, the quasi-fascist political forces will take over for their own purposes, as they are now doing in other countries.<br /><br /></span> It is happening, the EU has effectively removed the Electorate from decision makings, the 'Coup' by the Eurocrats with the Lisbon treaty which is by 94% identical to the nixed constitution which in effect means the beginning of the totalitarian state reducing EU citizens to 'objects' under their quasi Fascist social engineering projects of multiculturalism and the poisoning dogma of political correctness against freedom of thought and speech creating the narrow frame of collectivist mind necessary to carry out a NeoFascist ideology and totalitarianism.<br /><br />Following from: <a href="http://euro-med.dk/?p=565">Euromed</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />PLEA TO THE IRISH:</span><br /><p><strong>FOR THE SAKE OF EUROPE AND YOUR CHILDREN: STOP THIS HIGH TREASON DISASTER!</strong></p> <p><strong>THE EU CANNOT IMPLEMENT THIS MEDITERRANEAN SHARIA UNION IF YOU BLOCK THE LISBON TREATY. </strong></p> <p><img src="http://euro-med.dk/billeder/sarkozy-merkel.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="180" hspace="20" vspace="8" width="180" /></p> <p> <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,539138,00.html" target="_blank" title="der spiegel online">Der Spiegel Online</a> has it on March 4, 2008:<br /><em> Sarkozy´s limited Mediterranean Union is to comprise all 27 EU Countries as well as the countries of the Western Balkans and the <a href="http://euro-med.dk/?p=439" target="_blank" title="euromediterranean empire">Euromediterranean Empire</a>-partners: Mauritania, Morocco Algeria, Tunisia, (Libya underway), Egypt, the Palestinian Autonomy, Israel, Jordan,Lebanon, Syria, Turkey.</em><br />The Euromediterranean Common Market was already planned to begin in <a href="http://balder.org/avisartikler/Open-Letter-To-Danish-Prime-Minister-Anders-Fogh-Rasmussen.php" target="_blank" title="2010">2010 </a>according to the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/euromed/bd.htm" target="_blank" title="Euromediterranean declaration of barcelona">Euromediterranean Declaration of Barcelona</a> - but Merkel and Sarkozy have come to terms at the opening of the Cebit-exhibition i Hannover that <strong><em>the details of of a Euromediterranean lift are to be discussed at the March-summit of the EU.<br /></em></strong><br /><strong>And then at the EU-Summit in Paris on July 13-14, 2008, the Mediterranean Union will be founded.</strong><br />So far, <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,521743,00.html" target="_blank" title="merkel">Merkel was opposed</a> to Sarkozy´s plans. But now the Spiegel Online reports, that Merkel has enforced her will!!! This means: All EU countries are allowed to participate in this One-World project.<br /><strong>This High Treason does not come as a surprise </strong><br />On Oct. 22.2007 Nicolas Sarkozy paid a visit to Morocco. King Mohammad VI asked him for closer ties to Europe - beyond Morocco´s association-agreement. And Sarkozy promised to work for this during ´the EU-Presidency of France during the 2. half of 2008.</p> <p><img src="http://euro-med.dk/billeder/muhammed-vi-sarkozy.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="152" hspace="20" vspace="8" width="270" /> <em>By shaking hands with king Mohammad VI of Morocco President Sarkozy has sold European identity, culture and Christianity to Islam and the Sharia through the coming <strong>Union of the Mediterranean</strong> with all 27 EU states involved. What this Union agrees upon will have to be paid by all of us- and EU´s 4 freedoms as promised by the EU to the Euromediterranean partner countries on <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/euromed/conf/naples/index.htm" target="_blank" title="dec. 2-3, 2003, in naples">Dec. 2-3, 2003 in Naples</a>, will be co-administered at the cost and suffering of all EU States by Arabs with equal - or superior - rights to the EU-dhimmis.</em></p> <p><em> </em><em><strong>In his speech to the Moroccan king,<a href="http://www.ambafrance-uk.org/President-Sarkozy-on-Mediterranean,9743.html" target="_blank" title="mr sarkozy said"> Mr. Sarkozy said</a></strong></em>:<br />“I want to say that the time has come to put all their energies and their whole hearts into building the Mediterranean Union, since this region is absolutely crucial for world balance…</p> <p><img src="http://euro-med.dk/billeder/king-abdullah-satanstegn.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="294" hspace="20" vspace="8" width="384" /></p> <p><em>Another king from the Mediterranean Union: King Abdullah of Jordan </em></p> <p>Since <strong><em>Europe’s future – I have no hesitation in saying – is in the South</em></strong>. <strong><em>By turning its back on the Mediterranean, Europe would cut itself off not only from its intellectual, moral and spiritual sources, but also from its future,</em></strong> since it’s in the Mediterranean that Europe will secure its prosperity, ensure its security, that it will regain the momentum given it by its founding fathers. <strong><em><br />While Europe’s future is in the South, Africa’s is in the North</em></strong>..<strong><em> call on all those who can do so to join the Mediterranean Union because it will be the linchpin of Eurafrica, the great dream capable of enthusing the world</em></strong>. "…let’s together build a common future.</p> <p><a href="http://euro-med.dk/billeder/Map-Eurabia-Highway-Into-Europe.jpg"><img src="http://euro-med.dk/billeder/thumb-Map-Eurabia-Highway-Into-Europe.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="250" hspace="20" vspace="8" width="186" /></a> <strong><em>We will build the Mediterranean Union, as Europe’s union was built</em></strong>. the Mediterranean Union probably won’t, in the end, resemble the European Union and what it has become, but will too, at the end of the day, be original and unique. The courageous, bold break with the past, changing everything, would be for the Mediterranean peoples at last to decide to take control of their destiny, write their future themselves, <strong><em>shoulder collectively a responsibility, forge a solidarity which their long history and their geography impose on them</em></strong>, and no longer ever let anyone decide in our place. Just as Europe began with coal and steel and atomic energy, <strong><em>the Mediterranean Union will start with sustainable development, energy, transport and water</em></strong>. <strong><em>The Mediterranean Union’s priorities will from the start include culture, education, health and human capital</em></strong>. </p> <p><img src="http://euro-med.dk/billeder/sarcozy-presidentfrance-satanic293h1.thumbnail.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="118" hspace="20" vspace="8" width="128" /></p> <p><em>Nicolas Sarkozy</em> </p> <p><strong><em>For France, the Mediterranean Union’s remit is not to take the place of all the already existing initiatives and projects, but to give them fresh impetus, a new lease of life</em></strong>. It is to gear them all to a single goal, to pool all the ideas, all the energies, and all the resources. in the name of <strong><em>our children, who, one day, will ask us to account for what we have done,</em><em> I invite all the heads of State and government of the Mediterranean rim countries to meet in France in June 2008 to lay the foundations of a political, economic and cultural union founded on the principle of strict equality between the nations bordering the same sea: the Mediterranean Union</em></strong>. </p> <p><img src="http://euro-med.dk/billeder/berlusconi.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="106" hspace="20" vspace="8" width="125" /></p> <p><em> Silvio Belusconi </em></p> <p><em>I invite all States which don’t border the Mediterranean but are concerned by what is happening to it.</em> For France, the Mediterranean Union is quite different from the Euro-Mediterranean process; it will not be built to the detriment of either Africa or Europe. It will be built with them, with Europe and with Africa. I shall propose that</p> <p> <strong>from the outset the European Commission be fully involved in the work of the Mediterranean Union, participating in everything it does so that their relationship is one of partnership and their actions complement each other, so that the two unions support and strengthen one another and, progressively, forge a single destiny</strong>.<br /><strong><em>France wants it – Morocco wants it – and in my heart I know all mediterraneans want this Union.</em></strong></p> <p><img src="http://euro-med.dk/billeder/Benita-Ferrero-Waldner-Jack-Straw-Abdullah-Gul.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="221" hspace="20" vspace="8" width="300" /> <em>EU Commissioner for Foreign Relations, Benita Ferrero Waldner and Turkish President Gül</em></p> <p> <strong><br /></strong><strong>And the <a href="http://www.ansamed.info/en/top/ME12.YAM19404.html" title="the european Investment Bank">dhimmi, the European Investment Bank</a> has a plan ready which means the poor Arabs can have our money at their free disposal for developing the Sharia:</strong><br />Here is what <em>EIB Vice President Philippe de Fontaine Vive</em> has to say on Febr. 29, 2008: ''<strong><em>The countries on the two coasts will all sit at the same table for taking decisions, they all will have the same power</em></strong>, the same possibilities and they will all have personnel working full-time for the management of the funds for the development and the economic growth of the region."<br />The European Investment Bank is ready to launch the tools that will manage the savings of 23 countries lying on the Mediterranean coasts. The announcement was given by EIB Vice President Philippe de Fontaine Vive, in charge of the Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership (FEMIP), the financial instrument created in 2002 to support the economic development of the countries partners of the EU in the Mediterranean. <img src="http://euro-med.dk/billeder/Eurabia-Burkha-Turkey.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="325" hspace="20" vspace="8" width="240" />''<strong>The moment the political decision is taken and the European Union asks the EIB to launch a Bank for the Mediterranean, in a few months we will be ready to open the new institute,</strong>'' the vice-president said.<br />What is needed is the politicians to take the historic decision to create that entity which de Fontaine Vive defined as ''<strong><em>the natural evolution of the Barcelona Process</em></strong>'' .</p> <p><strong>And it is not that important if it is called bank, agency or intitute (unacceptable to Muslims)</strong><br />he explained, the important thing is to function like the EIB. "<strong><em>It will no longer be the European Union to propose and enact its ideas for the Mediterranean, but the Mediterranean itself will be the key figure and promoter, which will have the same place on the international scene as other geographic macro-areas"</em></strong>, according de Fontaine Vive.<br />According to the vice-president, the Mediterranean Bank would introduce a fundamental innovation. By becoming a<strong><em> united subject with equal members, who take decisions according to a communitarian method,</em></strong> like the EU.<br />The Mediterranean Union should also overcome the difficulties of the Euro-Med</p> <p> </p> <div class="post-info"> </div> <!-- <rdf:rdf rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"> <rdf:description about="http://euro-med.dk/?p=565" identifier="http://euro-med.dk/?p=565" title="The Hour of Truth: The Euromediterranean Project To Become the Mediterranean Union" ping="http://euro-med.dk/wp-trackback.php?p=565"> </rdf:RDF> --> <div class="post-footer"> </div> </div>Rolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144151003592750093.post-35735135366051817592008-02-23T07:37:00.000-08:002008-02-23T07:43:49.389-08:00The Muslim Brotherhood's Conquest of Europe<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu6nsAWu6HQe6daIcztq6P-dH9ForJolfbX_PhcyAygps9UkTZ_Pot4MHkXiqOk6naqThUU6-sc0cB6c5pDIXpr-Et5rZESh5GzSNj2J408IpQs04RRvhJE2JDJD8C9USeHIoi0G-KPdE/s1600-h/Jihaaaad+diplomacy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu6nsAWu6HQe6daIcztq6P-dH9ForJolfbX_PhcyAygps9UkTZ_Pot4MHkXiqOk6naqThUU6-sc0cB6c5pDIXpr-Et5rZESh5GzSNj2J408IpQs04RRvhJE2JDJD8C9USeHIoi0G-KPdE/s320/Jihaaaad+diplomacy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170201780112138850" border="0" /></a><br /><p>The Muslim Brotherhood - An essential article in further understanding islamism, <b><a href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687"> by Lorenzo Vidino</a><br /><i>Middle East Quarterly</i><br />Winter 2005</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Since its founding in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood (<i>Hizb al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun</i>) has profoundly influenced the political life of the Middle East. Its motto is telling: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a></p> <p>While the Brotherhood's radical ideas have shaped the beliefs of generations of Islamists, over the past two decades, it has lost some of its power and appeal in the Middle East, crushed by harsh repression from local regimes and snubbed by the younger generations of Islamists who often prefer more radical organizations.</p> <p>But the Middle East is only one part of the Muslim world. Europe has become an incubator for Islamist thought and political development. Since the early 1960s, Muslim Brotherhood members and sympathizers have moved to Europe and slowly but steadily established a wide and well-organized network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organizations. Unlike the larger Islamic community, the Muslim Brotherhood's ultimate goal may not be simply "to help Muslims be the best citizens they can be," but rather to extend Islamic law throughout Europe and the United States.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2">[2]</a></p> <p>Four decades of teaching and cultivation have paid off. The student refugees who migrated from the Middle East forty years ago and their descendants now lead organizations that represent the local Muslim communities in their engagement with Europe's political elite. Funded by generous contributors from the Persian Gulf, they preside over a centralized network that spans nearly every European country.</p> <p>These organizations represent themselves as mainstream, even as they continue to embrace the Brotherhood's radical views and maintain links to terrorists. With moderate rhetoric and well-spoken German, Dutch, and French, they have gained acceptance among European governments and media alike. Politicians across the political spectrum rush to engage them whenever an issue involving Muslims arises or, more parochially, when they seek the vote of the burgeoning Muslim community.</p> <p>But, speaking Arabic or Turkish before their fellows Muslims, they drop their facade and embrace radicalism. While their representatives speak about interfaith dialogue and integration on television, their mosques preach hate and warn worshippers about the evils of Western society. While they publicly condemn the murder of commuters in Madrid and school children in Russia, they continue to raise money for Hamas and other terrorist organizations. Europeans, eager to create a dialogue with their increasingly disaffected Muslim minority, overlook this duplicity. The case is particularly visible in Germany, which retains a place of key importance in Europe, not only because of its location at the heart of Europe, but also because it played host to the first major wave of Muslim Brotherhood immigrants and is host to the best-organized Brotherhood presence. The German government's reaction is also instructive if only to show the dangers of accepting Muslim Brotherhood rhetoric at face value, without looking at the broader scope of its activities.</p> <h4>The Muslim Brotherhood </h4> <p>The situation in Germany is particularly telling. More than anywhere else in Europe, the Muslim Brotherhood in Germany has gained significant power and political acceptance. Islamist organizations in other European countries now consciously follow the model pioneered by their German peers.</p> <p>During the 1950s and 1960s, thousands of Muslim students left the Middle East to study at German universities, drawn not only by the German institutions' technical reputations but also by a desire to escape repressive regimes. Egyptian ruler Gamal Abdel Nasser's regime was especially vigorous in its attempts to root out the Islamist opposition. Beginning in 1954, several members of the Muslim Brotherhood fled Egypt to escape arrest or assassination. West Germany provided a welcome refuge. Bonn's motivations were not simply altruistic. As terrorism expert Khalid Durán explained in his studies on jihadism in Europe,<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3">[3]</a> the West German government had decided to cut diplomatic relations with countries that recognized East Germany. When Egypt and Syria established diplomatic relations with the communist government, Bonn decided to welcome Syrian and Egyptian political refugees. Often, these dissidents were Islamists. Many members of the Muslim Brotherhood were already familiar with Germany. Several had cooperated with the Nazis before and during World War II.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4">[4]</a> Some had even, reportedly, fought in the infamous Bosnian Handschar division of the Schutzstaffel (SS).<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5">[5]</a></p> <p>One of the Muslim Brotherhood's first pioneers in Germany was Sa‘id Ramadan, the personal secretary of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6">[6]</a> Ramadan, an Egyptian who had led the Muslim Brotherhood's irregulars in Palestine in 1948,<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7">[7]</a> moved to Geneva in 1958 and attended law school in Cologne.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8">[8]</a> In Germany, he founded what has become one of Germany's three main Muslim organizations, the Islamische Gemeinschaft Deutschland (Islamic Society of Germany, IGD), over which he presided from 1958 to 1968.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9">[9]</a> Ramadan also cofounded the Muslim World League,<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10">[10]</a> a well-funded organization that the Saudi establishment uses to spread its radical interpretation of Islam throughout the world. The U.S. government closely monitors the activities of the Muslim World League, which it accuses of financing terrorism. In March 2002, a U.S. Treasury Department-led task force raided the group's Northern Virginia offices looking for documents tying the group to Al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In January 2004, the Senate Finance Committee asked the Internal Revenue Service for its records on the Muslim World League "as part of an investigation into possible links between nongovernmental organizations and terrorist financing networks."<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11">[11]</a> This privileged relationship with the oil-rich kingdom granted Ramadan an influx of money, which he used to fund the powerful Islamic Center of Geneva and to bankroll several financial and religious activities. Hani Ramadan, Sa‘id's son, currently runs the Islamic Center. Among its other board members is Sa‘id's other son, Tariq Ramadan, who recently made headlines in the United States when the Department of Homeland Security revoked his visa to teach at Notre Dame University.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12">[12]</a> Sa‘id Ramadan's case is not isolated.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13">[13]</a></p> <p>Following Ramadan's ten-year presidency of the IGD, Pakistani national Fazal Yazdani briefly led the IGD before Ghaleb Himmat, a Syrian with Italian citizenship, took the helm. During his long stewardship (1973-2002), Himmat shuttled between Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the United States.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14">[14]</a> Intelligence agencies around the world have long scrutinized Himmat's terrorist connections. He is one of the founders of the Bank al-Taqwa, a powerful conglomerate dubbed by Italian intelligence, "Bank of the Muslim Brotherhood," which has financed terrorist groups since the mid-1990s if not earlier.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15">[15]</a> Himmat helped Youssef Nada, one of the Muslim Brotherhood's financial masterminds, run Al-Taqwa and a web of companies headquartered in locations such as Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Bahamas, which maintain few regulations on monetary origin or destination. Both Himmat and Nada reportedly funneled large sums to groups such as Hamas and the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16">[16]</a> and set up a secret credit line for a top associate of Osama bin Laden.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17">[17]</a></p> <p>In November 2001, the U.S. Treasury Department designated both Himmat and Nada as terrorism financiers.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18">[18]</a> According to Italian intelligence, the Al-Taqwa network also financed several Islamic centers throughout Europe<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19">[19]</a> and many Islamist publications, including <i>Risalatul Ikhwan</i>,<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20">[20]</a> the official magazine of the Muslim Brotherhood. After the U.S. Treasury Department designation, Himmat resigned from the IGD's presidency. His successor was Ibrahim el-Zayat, a 36-year-old of Egyptian descent and the charismatic leader of numerous student organizations.</p> <p>The fact that IGD leaders Ramadan and Himmat are among the most prominent Muslim Brotherhood members of the last half-century suggests the links between the IGD and the Ikhwan. Moreover, reports issued by internal intelligence agencies from various German states openly call the IGD an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21">[21]</a> In particular, according to one intelligence report, the Egyptian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood has dominated the IGD since its early days.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22">[22]</a></p> <p>The Muslim Brotherhood—led by Ramadan and Himmat<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn23" name="_ftnref23">[23]</a>—sponsored the construction of the imposing Islamic Center of Munich in 1960,<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn24" name="_ftnref24">[24]</a> aided by large donations from Middle Eastern rulers such as King Fahd of Saudi Arabia who, according to a 1967 <i>Sueddeutsche Zeitung</i> article, donated 80,000 marks.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn25" name="_ftnref25">[25]</a> The Ministry of Interior of Nordrhein-Westfalen states that the Islamic Center of Munich has been one of the European headquarters for the Brotherhood since its foundation.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn26" name="_ftnref26">[26]</a> The center publishes a magazine, <i>Al-Islam</i>, whose efforts (according to an Italian intelligence dossier),<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn27" name="_ftnref27">[27]</a> are financed by the Bank al-Taqwa. According to the interior minister of Baden-Württemberg, <i>Al-Islam</i> shows explicitly how the German Brothers reject the concept of a secular state.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn28" name="_ftnref28">[28]</a> Its February 2002 issue, for example, states,</p> <blockquote> <p>In the long run, Muslims cannot be satisfied with the acceptance of German family, estate, and trial law. … Muslims should aim at an agreement between the Muslims and the German state with the goal of a separate jurisdiction for Muslims.</p></blockquote> <p>The IGD, of which the Islamic Center of Munich is one of the most important members, represents the main offshoot of the Egyptian Brotherhood in Germany. But the IGD is also the quintessential example of how the Muslim Brotherhood has gained power in Europe. The IGD has grown significantly over the years, and it now incorporates dozens of Islamic organizations throughout the country. Islamic centers from more than thirty German cities have joined its umbrella.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn29" name="_ftnref29">[29]</a> Today, the IGD's real strength lies in its cooperation with and sponsorship of many Islamic youth and student organizations across Germany.</p> <p>This focus on youth organizations came after Zayat's succession. He understood the importance of focusing on the next generation of German Muslims and launched recruitment drives to get young Muslims involved in Islamic organizations. But a Meckenheim police report on the sharply dressed Zayat also reveals alarming connections. German authorities openly say he is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. They also link him to the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a Saudi nongovernmental organization that seeks to spread Wahhabism, the radical and intolerant Saudi interpretation of Islam, throughout the world with its literature and schools.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn30" name="_ftnref30">[30]</a> WAMY, which falls under the umbrella of the Muslim World League<b>,</b> has the stated goal of "arming the Muslim youth with full confidence in the supremacy of the Islamic system over other systems." It is the largest Muslim youth organization in the world and can boast unparalleled resources.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn31" name="_ftnref31">[31]</a> In 1991 WAMY published a book called <i>Tawjihat Islamiya</i> (<i>Islamic Views</i>) that stated, "Teach our children to love taking revenge on the Jews and the oppressors, and teach them that our youngsters will liberate Palestine and Al-Quds [Jerusalem] when they go back to Islam and make <i>jihad</i> for the sake of Allah."<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn32" name="_ftnref32">[32]</a> The sentiments in <i>Tawjihat Islamiya</i> are the rule rather than the exception. Many other WAMY publications are filled with strong anti-Semitic and anti-Christian rhetoric.</p> <p>Meckenheim police also link Zayat to Institut Européen des Sciences Humaines, a French school that prepares European imams. Several radical clerics lecture at the school and several European intelligence agencies accuse the school of spreading religious hatred.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn33" name="_ftnref33">[33]</a> German authorities also highlight the fact that he is involved in several money laundering investigations.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn34" name="_ftnref34">[34]</a> Zayat has never been indicted for terrorist activity, but he has dubious financial dealings and maintains associations with many organizations that spread religious hatred. The IGD may have changed leadership after the U.S. Treasury's designation of Himmat, but it did not change direction.</p> <p>While the Egyptian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood has chosen Munich as its base of operations in Germany, its Syrian branch is headquartered in Aachen, a German town near the Dutch border. The former Carolingian capital, with its famous university, is now home to a large Muslim population including the prominent Syrian Al-Attar family. The first Attar to move to Aachen was Issam, who fled persecution in his native country in the 1950s when he was leader of the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Other members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood soon followed. With time, Islamists from other countries adopted Attar's Bilal mosque in Aachen as their base of operations.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn35" name="_ftnref35">[35]</a> From hosting exiled Algerian terrorists<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn36" name="_ftnref36">[36]</a> to operating a charity designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury as a financial front for Hamas,<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn37" name="_ftnref37">[37]</a> Aachen is well known to intelligence agencies throughout the world.</p> <p>The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood base in Aachen kept close relations with their Egyptian counterparts. For example, confirming the tendency of important Muslim Brotherhood families to close alliance through intermarriage, Issam al-Attar's son married the daughter of Al-Taqwa banker Youssef Nada.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn38" name="_ftnref38">[38]</a> Links between the two Muslim Brotherhood branches are more extensive than a single marriage, however. The Aachen Islamic Center reportedly received funding from Al-Taqwa.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn39" name="_ftnref39">[39]</a> Staff members have rotated between the Islamic Centers in Aachen and Munich. For example, Ahmed von Denffer, editor of the Islamic Center of Munich's <i>Al-Islam</i> magazine, came to Munich from Aachen.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn40" name="_ftnref40">[40]</a> Nevertheless, some distance remains. The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood has never joined the IGD, instead preferring to keep some form of independence.</p> <h4>Milli Görüş</h4> <p>Of all of Zayat's financial activities, the one that has attracted the German authorities' greatest suspicion has been his association with officials of Milli Görüş (National Vision, in Turkish). Milli Görüş, which has 30,000 members and perhaps another 100,000 sympathizers,<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn41" name="_ftnref41">[41]</a> claims to defend the rights of Germany's immigrant Turkish population, giving them a voice in the democratic political arena while "preserving their Islamic identity."<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn42" name="_ftnref42">[42]</a> But Milli Görüş has another agenda. While publicly declaring its interest in democratic debate and a willingness to see Turkish immigrants integrated into European societies, some Milli Görüş leaders have expressed contempt for democracy and Western values. The Bundesverfassungsschutz, Germany's domestic intelligence agency, has repeatedly warned about Milli Görüş' activities, describing the group in its annual reports as a "foreign extremist organization."<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn43" name="_ftnref43">[43]</a> The agency also reported that "although Milli Görüş, in public statements, pretends to adhere to the basic principles of Western democracies, abolition of the laicist government system in Turkey and the establishment of an Islamic state and social system are, as before, among its goals."<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn44" name="_ftnref44">[44]</a></p> <p>Milli Görüş' history alone indicates why the group should be considered radical. Former Turkish prime minister Nehmettin Erbakan, whose Refah Party was banned by the Turkish Constitutional Court in January of 1998 for "activities against the country's secular regime,"<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn45" name="_ftnref45">[45]</a> is still Milli Görüş' undisputed leader, even if his nephew Mehmet Sabri Erbakan is its president. The 2002 European Milli Görüş meeting held in the Dutch city of Arnhem, where Nehmettin Erbakan was the keynote speaker, provides a glimpse into Milli Görüş' ideology. After a tirade against the evils of integration in the West and U.S. policies, Erbakan declared that "after the fall of the wall, the West has found an enemy in Islam."<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn46" name="_ftnref46">[46]</a> A Bundesverfassungsschutz report reveals Milli Görüş' real aims:</p> <blockquote> <p>While in recent times, the Milli Görüş has increasingly emphasized the readiness of its members to be integrated into German society and asserts its adherence to the basic law, such statements stem from tactical calculation rather than from any inner change of the organization.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn47" name="_ftnref47">[47]</a></p></blockquote> <p>Milli Görüş pushes an agenda similar to that of the IGD, even if its target is more limited. Nevertheless, both Milli Görüş and the IGD collaborate on many initiatives. There is also a family connection. Zayat married Sabiha Erbakan, the sister of Mehmet Sabri Erbakan.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn48" name="_ftnref48">[48]</a> The siblings' mother is also involved in politics and runs an important Islamic women's organization in Germany. The Zayat family is active as well. Ibrahim el-Zayat's father is the imam of the Marburg mosque; other members of his family are involved in Islamic organizations. As Udo Ulfkotte, a political science professor specializing in counterespionage at the University of Lueneburg and an expert on Islamic terrorism, notes, the Erbakans and the Zayats lead networks of organizations that aim at the radicalization, respectively, of the Turkish and Arab communities in Germany.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn49" name="_ftnref49">[49]</a></p> <p>IGD and Milli Görüş are active in their efforts to increase political influence and become the official representatives of the entire German Muslim community. With well-endowed budgets, their mosques provide social services, organize conferences, and distribute literature nationwide. As the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Landesverfassungsschutz) in Hessen<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn50" name="_ftnref50">[50]</a> notes:</p> <blockquote> <p>The threat of Islamism for Germany is posed … primarily by Milli Görüş and other affiliated groups. They try to spread Islamist views within the boundaries of the law. Then they try to implement … for all Muslims in Germany a strict interpretation of the Qur'an and of the Shari‘a. … Their public support of tolerance and religious freedom should be treated with caution.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn51" name="_ftnref51">[51]</a></p></blockquote> <p>It presents a problem that politicians and security services in Germany view the IGD and Milli Görüş so differently. But, as Ulfkotte wrote about Zayat in his book, <i>Der Krieg in unseren Staedten</i> (<i>The War in Our Cities</i>),<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn52" name="_ftnref52">[52]</a> "politicians of all colors and parties try to reach out to him."<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn53" name="_ftnref53">[53]</a> For example, the prestigious Berlin Catholic Academy invited Zayat to represent the Muslim point of view in an inter-religious meeting organized by the academy in October 2002.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn54" name="_ftnref54">[54]</a> German politicians and Christian institutions regularly partner themselves with Milli Görüş in various initiatives. <i>Milli Gazete</i>, the official journal of Milli Görüş, once stated that "Milli Görüş is a shield protecting our fellow citizens from assimilation into barbaric Europe."<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn55" name="_ftnref55">[55]</a> Nevertheless, German politicians meet regularly with Milli Görüş officials to discuss immigration and integration issues. The fact that an official like Ahmed al-Khalifah, IGD secretary general, represents Islam before members of parliament who are discussing religious tolerance,<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn56" name="_ftnref56">[56]</a> shows the success of Brotherhood-linked organizations' efforts to gain acceptance as the representatives of German Muslims. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution well described these efforts, saying that Milli Görüş (and the IGD) "strives to dominate regional or nationwide federations and umbrella organizations for Muslims which are increasingly gaining importance as interlocutors for state and ecclesiastical authorities and thus to expand its influence within society."<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn57" name="_ftnref57">[57]</a></p> <h4>Zentralrat, the Islamist Umbrella</h4> <p>In 1989, under the auspices of Abdullah at-Turki, powerful dean of Bin Saud University in Riyadh, the Saudis created the Islamische Konzil Deutschland (Islamic Council of Germany). Turki assumed the presidency with other top positions held by Ibrahim el-Zayat, Hasan Özdögan, a high-ranking Milli Görüş official, and Ahmad Khalifa, an officer from the Islamic Center of Munich.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn58" name="_ftnref58">[58]</a> While an official German parliament report describes the Islamische Konzil as just "another Sunni organization," such an assumption indicates a dangerous misunderstanding of the Saudi relationship to German Islamists.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn59" name="_ftnref59">[59]</a></p> <p>The trend toward consolidation took a step forward in 1994 when German Islamists realized that a united coalition translated into greater political relevance and influence. Nineteen organizations, including the IGD, the Islamic Center of Munich, and the Islamic Center of Aachen, created an umbrella organization, the Zentralrat der Muslime<b>.</b> According to a senior German intelligence official, at least nine out of these nineteen organizations belong to the Muslim Brotherhood.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn60" name="_ftnref60">[60]</a> The German press has recently investigated the Zentralrat president, Nadeem Elyas, a German-educated Saudi physician and an official of the Islamic Center of Aachen. <i>Die Welt</i> linked Elyas to Christian Ganczarski, an Al-Qaeda operative currently jailed as one of the masterminds of the 2002 attack on a synagogue in Tunisia.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn61" name="_ftnref61">[61]</a> Ganczarski, a German of Polish descent who converted to Islam, told authorities that Al-Qaeda recruited him at the Islamic University of Medina where Elyas sent him to study.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn62" name="_ftnref62">[62]</a> Elyas said he could not remember meeting him but did not deny the possibility that Ganczarski, who never completed high school, might have been one of the many individuals he had sent over the years to radical schools in Saudi Arabia.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn63" name="_ftnref63">[63]</a> Saudi donors paid all of Ganczarski's expenses.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn64" name="_ftnref64">[64]</a> Ganczarski was not alone. Elyas admitted to having sent hundreds of German Muslims to study at one of the most radical universities in Saudi Arabia.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn65" name="_ftnref65">[65]</a></p> <p>The Zentralrat, which portrays itself as the umbrella organization for German Muslim organizations, has become, together with the IGD and Milli Görüş, the de facto representative of three million German Muslims. Even though the IGD is a member of the Zentralrat, the two organizations often operate independently. Their apparent independence is planned. With many organizations operating under different names, the Muslim Brotherhood fools German politicians who believe they are consulting a spectrum of opinion.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn66" name="_ftnref66">[66]</a> The media seek the Zentralrat's officials when they want the Muslim view on everything from the debate about the admissibility of the <i>hijab</i> (headscarf) in public schools, to the war in Iraq, and so forth. Politicians seek the Zentralrat's endorsement when they want to reach out to the Muslim community. Many German politicians are uninformed about Islam and do not understand that the view and the interpretation of Islam that the Zentralrat expresses, as does the IGD and Milli Görüş, is that of the Muslim Brotherhood and not that of traditional Islam. Accordingly, the Zentralrat expresses total opposition to any ban of the <i>hijab</i>, supports Wahhabi-influenced Islamic education in schools, and endorses a radical position on the Middle East situation.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn67" name="_ftnref67">[67]</a> While many Muslims endorse these views, the problem is that the Zentralrat neither represents nor tolerates those with divergent views. Moderate German Muslim groups lack the funding and organization of Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups. In terms of numbers, influence on the Muslim community, and political relevance, the Zentralrat and its two most important constituent parts, the IGD and Milli Görüş, dominate the scene. With ample Saudi financing, the Muslim Brotherhood has managed to become the voice of the Muslims in Germany.</p> <p>Recently, the German public was shocked to hear what is preached inside Saudi-funded mosques and schools. In the fall of 2003, a hidden camera-equipped journalist from Germany's ARD television infiltrated the Saudi-built King Fahd Academy in Bonn and taped what it taught to young Muslim children. One teacher called for jihad against the infidels.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn68" name="_ftnref68">[68]</a> While the images elicited a rebuke from German politicians, the rather sterile debate about Saudi influence on German Muslims has not effected tangible change. Saudi officials and Saudi-run nongovernmental organizations continue to groom Muslim Brotherhood organizations.</p> <h4>First Germany, Then Europe</h4> <p>While the Muslim Brotherhood and their Saudi financiers have worked to cement Islamist influence over Germany's Muslim community, they have not limited their infiltration to Germany. Thanks to generous foreign funding, meticulous organization, and the naïveté of European elites, Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations have gained prominent positions throughout Europe. In France, the extremist Union des Organisations Islamiques de France (Union of Islamic Organizations of France) has become the predominant organization in the government's Islamic Council.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn69" name="_ftnref69">[69]</a> In Italy, the extremist Unione delle Comunita' ed Organizzazioni Islamiche in Italia (Union of the Islamic Communities and Organizations in Italy) is the government's prime partner in dialogue regarding Italian Islamic issues.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn70" name="_ftnref70">[70]</a></p> <p>In parallel to European Union integration efforts, the Muslim Brotherhood is also seeking to integrate its various European proxies. Over the past fifteen years, the Muslim Brotherhood has created a series of pan-European organizations such as the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe, in which representatives from national organizations can meet and plan initiatives.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn71" name="_ftnref71">[71]</a> Perhaps the Muslim Brotherhood's greatest pan-European impact has, as with the Islamische Gemeinschaft Deutschland, been with its youth organization. In June 1996, Muslim youth organizations from Sweden, France, and England joined forces with the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth to create a European Islamic youth organization.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn72" name="_ftnref72">[72]</a> Three months later, thirty-five delegates from eleven countries met in Leicester and formally launched the Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organizations (FEMYSO), which maintains its headquarters in Brussels.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn73" name="_ftnref73">[73]</a></p> <p>According to its official publications, FEMYSO is "a network of 42 national and international organizations bringing together youth from over 26 different countries." FEMYSO proudly stated in 2003 that over the preceding four years it had become</p> <blockquote> <p>The de facto voice of the Muslim youth in Europe. It is regularly consulted on issues pertaining to Muslims in Europe. It has also developed useful links with: the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the United Nations, the European Youth Forum, and numerous relevant NGOs at the European level.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn74" name="_ftnref74">[74]</a></p></blockquote> <p>Ibrahim el-Zayat, who held the presidency until his commitments in Germany forced him to step down, even used the FEMYSO perch to address the European Parliament.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn75" name="_ftnref75">[75]</a> Because the Muslim Brotherhood provides the bulk of FEMYSO's constituent organizations, it provides the "de facto voice of the Muslim youth in Europe." While FEMYSO claims that it "is committed to fighting prejudices at all the levels, so that the future of Europe is a multicultural, inclusive and respectful one,"<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn76" name="_ftnref76">[76]</a> such statements ring hollow given the position of sponsors like the World Assembly of Muslim Youth which believes that "the Jews are enemies of the faithful, God, and the Angels; the Jews are humanity's enemies. … Every tragedy that inflicts the Muslims is caused by the Jews."<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn77" name="_ftnref77">[77]</a> </p> <p>The Muslim Brotherhood's ample funds and organization have contributed to their success in Europe. But their acceptance into mainstream society and their unchallenged rise to power would not have been possible had European elites been more vigilant, valued substance over rhetoric, and understood the motivations of those financing and building these Islamist organizations. Why have Europeans been so naïve? Bassam Tibi, a German professor of Syrian descent and an expert on Islam in Europe, thinks that Europeans—and Germans in particular—fear the accusation of racism.<a title="" href="http://www.meforum.org/article/687#_ftn78" name="_ftnref78">[78]</a> Radicals in sheep's clothing have learned that they can silence almost everybody with the accusation of xenophobia. Any criticism of Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations is followed by outcries of racism and anti-Muslim persecution. Journalists who are not frightened by these appellatives are swamped with baseless and unsuccessful but expensive lawsuits.</p> <p>In some cases, politicians simply fail to check the backgrounds of those who claim to be legitimate representatives for the Muslim community. As in the United States, self-described representatives for the Muslim community are far more radical than the populations they represent. In other cases, politicians realize that these organizations are not the ideal counterparts in a constructive dialogue but do not take the time to seek other less visible but more moderate organizations, several of which exist only at the grassroots level, impeded by financial constraints.</p> <p>What most European politicians fail to understand is that by meeting with radical organizations, they empower them and grant the Muslim Brotherhood legitimacy. There is an implied endorsement to any meeting, especially when the same politicians ignore moderate voices that do not have access to generous Saudi funding. This creates a self-perpetuating cycle of radicalization because the greater the political legitimacy of the Muslim Brotherhood, the more opportunity it and its proxy groups will have to influence and radicalize various European Muslim communities. The ultimate irony is that Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna dreamed of spreading Islamism throughout Egypt and the Muslim world. He would have never dreamed that his vision might also become a reality in Europe.</p>Rolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144151003592750093.post-88401122407694841212008-02-23T06:42:00.000-08:002008-02-23T06:43:08.664-08:00Diversity and Multiculturalism: The New Racism<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLpXGaQ2A7BRgGaVM1L3OfIMSkDOHr4lYW8kwK7Rqncsh8j7yzdWGKZavxu_GjgzhoRAx-hnb-LsNBqrbfMqqbJXMzter_4yDuKMqZARMrJEwsuqy1yjlvlSYUod88Cv8A3K-_deb_zwk/s1600-h/Left-wing+sell-out.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLpXGaQ2A7BRgGaVM1L3OfIMSkDOHr4lYW8kwK7Rqncsh8j7yzdWGKZavxu_GjgzhoRAx-hnb-LsNBqrbfMqqbJXMzter_4yDuKMqZARMrJEwsuqy1yjlvlSYUod88Cv8A3K-_deb_zwk/s320/Left-wing+sell-out.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170169121180819986" border="0" /></a>Multiculturalism - The ugly Marxist Social engineering wrapped in the mindnumbing Political Correctness - An attack on individualism and reason - multiculturalism is perhaps one of the most evil and destructive concepts of our time.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Diversity and Multiculturalism: The New Racism</span><br /><a href="http://www.aynrand.org/site/DocServer/newsletter_multiculturalism.pdf?docID=162">By Michael S. Berliner and Gary Hull</a><br /><br />Is ethnic diversity an “absolute essential” of a college education?<br />UCLA’s Chancellor Charles Young thinks so. Ethnic diversity is clearly the purpose of affirmative action, which Young is defending against a long-overdue assault. But far from being essential to a college education, such diversity is a sure road to its destruction. “Ethnic diversity” is merely racism in a politically correct disguise.<br /><br />Many people have a very superficial view of racism. They see it as merely the belief that one race is superior to another. It is much more than that. It is a fundamental (and fundamentally wrong) view of human nature. Racism is the notion that one’s race determines one’s identity. It is the belief that one’s convictions, values and character are determined not by the judgment of one’s mind but by one’s anatomy or “blood.”<br /><br />This view causes people to be condemned (or praised) based on their racial membership. In turn, it leads them to condemn or praise others on the same basis. In fact, one can gain an authentic sense of pride only from one’s own achievements, not from inherited characteristics.<br />The spread of racism requires the destruction of an individual’s confidence in his own mind. Such an individual then anxiously seeks a sense of identity by clinging to some group, abandoning his autonomy and his rights, allowing his ethnic group to tell him what to believe. Because he thinks of himself as a racial entity, he feels “himself” only among others of the same race. He becomes a separatist, choosing his friends—and enemies—based on ethnicity.<br />This separatism has resulted in the spectacle of student-segregated dormitories and segregated graduations.<br />The diversity movement claims that its goal is to extinguish racism and build tolerance of differences.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This is a complete sham.</span><br /><br />One cannot teach students that their identity is determined by skin color and expect them to become colorblind.<br />One cannot espouse multiculturalism and expect students to see each other as individual human beings.<br />One cannot preach the need for self-esteem while destroying the faculty which makes it possible: reason.<br />One cannot teach collective identity and expect students to have self-esteem.<br /><br />Advocates of “diversity” are true racists in the basic meaning of that term: they see the world through colored lenses, colored by race and gender. To the multiculturalist, race is what counts—for values, for thinking, for human identity in general. No wonder racism is increasing:<br />colorblindness is now considered evil, if not impossible.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">No wonder people don’t treat each other as individuals: to the multiculturalist, they aren’t.</span><br /><br />Advocates of “diversity” claim it will teach students to tolerate and celebrate their differences. But the “differences” they have in mind are racial differences, which means we’re being urged to glorify race, which means we’re being asked to institutionalize separatism. “Racial identity” erects an unbridgeable gulf between people, as though they were different species, with nothing fundamental in common.<br />If that were true—if “racial identity” determined one’s values and thinking methods—there would be no possibility for understanding or cooperation among people of different races.<br />Advocates of “diversity” claim that because the real world is diverse, the campus should reflect that fact. But why should a campus population “reflect” the general population (particularly the ethnic population)?<br /><br />No answer.<br /><br />In fact, the purpose of a university is to impart knowledge and develop reasoning, not to be a demographic mirror of society.<br />Racism, not any meaningful sense of diversity, guides today’s intellectuals.<br />The educationally significant diversity that exists in “the real world” is intellectual diversity, i.e., the diversity of ideas. But such diversity—far from being sought after—is virtually forbidden on campus.<br />The existence of “political correctness” blasts the academics’ pretense at valuing real diversity. What they want is abject conformity.<br />The only way to eradicate racism on campus is to scrap racist programs and the philosophic ideas that feed racism. Racism will become an ugly memory only when universities teach a valid concept of human nature: one based on the tenets that the individual’s mind is competent, that the human intellect is efficacious, that we possess free will, that individuals are to be judged as individuals— and that deriving one’s identity from one’s race is a corruption—a corruption appropriate to Nazi Germany, not to a nation based on freedom and independence.Rolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144151003592750093.post-65469997919003703552008-02-13T03:31:00.000-08:002008-02-13T03:32:40.286-08:00The European Union and the Islamization of Europe<blockquote>Here is the latest essay from one my preferred Political Anakysts, Fjordman:<br /><br /><br />Hugh Fitzgerald of <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019755.php" target="_blank">Jihad Watch</a> recently suggested a number of things Europeans can do to halt Islamization. The proposals were good, but I think we should focus on the most important obstacle: the European Union. I've suggested in <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/017508.php" target="_blank">the past</a> that the EU is the principal motor behind the Islamization of Europe, and that the entire organization needs to be dismantled as soon as possible, otherwise nothing substantial can ever be done about the Muslim invasion. At the Gates of Vienna blog, I am writing a text called "<a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/01/ten-reasons-to-get-rid-of-european.html" target="_blank">Ten Reasons to Get Rid of the European Union</a>," which can be translated into other languages and be republished when it is completed. <p>As Bat Ye'or demonstrates in her book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Eurabia-Euro-Arab-Axis-Bat-YeOr/dp/083864077X/" target="_blank">Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis</a>, senior EU leaders have actively been working for years to merge Europe with the Arab world. They are now feeling confident enough to say this openly. The British Foreign Minister <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7095657.stm" target="_blank">David Miliband</a> in November 2007 stated that the European Union should work towards including Middle Eastern and North African countries, as this would "extend stability." He also said that the EU must "keep our promises to Turkey" regarding EU membership. </p> <p>The EU involves the free movement of people across borders. If it expands to the Middle East, hundreds of millions of Muslims will have free access to Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Sweden, the Czech Republic and Austria. If Turkey becomes a member, it means that Greeks, Bulgarians and others who have fought against oppression by Ottoman Turks for centuries will now be flooded with Muslims from a rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey. The same goes for Poles, Hungarians, Romanians and others who fought against Muslims for centuries.</p> <p>The EU's Justice and Security Commissioner <a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2458" target="_blank">Franco Frattini states</a> that Europe must relax its immigration controls and open the door to an extra 20 million "Africans and Asians" during the next two decades. Most of these "Africans and Asians" come from the predominantly Muslim countries of North Africa and the Greater Middle East. The EU thus decided to flood Europe with tens of millions of Muslims at the same time as peaceful Europeans demonstrating against the Islamization of Europe were brutally harassed by the police in the EU capital of Brussels. Frattini has also banned the use of the phrase Islamic terrorism: "People who commit suicide attacks or criminal activities on behalf of religion, Islamic religion or other religion, they abuse the name of this religion." He thinks we shouldn't use the word "immigration," either, we should talk about "mobility." </p> <p>While Dutch politicians, in what was until recently a peaceful country, have been killed for being too critical of Islam, while Islamic terror attacks have murdered people in London and Madrid, while more terror attacks are planned <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019798.php" target="_blank">every single day</a> from Italy <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019525.php%E2%80%9C%20target=" _blank="">via Paris</a> to Denmark, and while people from Sweden to Germany are subject to Muslim street violence and harassment, EU leaders want to increase Europe's Muslim population by tens of millions in a few years. This is criminal and evil, pure and simple. </p> <p>In <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,532423,00.html" target="_blank">Cologne, Germany</a>, a Muslim teenager who wanted to mug a 20-year-old German man was killed in an act of self-defense, according to witnesses. This led to angry protests from Muslims. Apparently, non-Muslims are not supposed to defend themselves from attacks. This violence is usually labelled "crime," but I believe it should more accurately <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/03/muslim-violence-crime-or-jihad.html" target="_blank">be called Jihad</a>. </p> <p>Those who know Islamic history, as described in books such as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Muhammad-Intolerant-Religion/dp/1596980281/" target="_blank">The Truth About Muhammad</a> by Robert Spencer or <a href="http://www.andrewbostom.org/loj/" target="_blank">The Legacy of Jihad</a> by Dr. Andrew G. Bostom, know that looting and stealing the property of non-Muslims has been part and parcel of Jihad from the very beginning. In fact, so much of the behavior of Muhammad and early Muslims could be deemed criminal that it is difficult to know where crime ends and Jihad begins. In the city of Oslo, it is documented that some of the criminal gangs also have close ties to Jihadist groups at home and abroad. As Dutch Arabist Hans Jansen points out, the Koran is seen by some Muslims as a God-given "hunting licence," granting them the right to assault and even murder non-Muslims. It is hardly accidental that while Muslims make up a minority of the population in France, they make up an estimated seventy percent of French prison inmates.</p></blockquote> <a name="more"></a> <blockquote>Why would anybody in their right mind want to import Islam, the most destructive force on the planet? Are EU leaders naïve? I don't think so, at least not all of them. You cannot maintain political power in the long run if you are totally naive. <p>We are told to treat cultural and historical identities as fashion accessories, shirts we can wear and change at will. The Multicultural society is "colorful," an adjective normally attached to furniture or curtains. Cultures are window decorations of little or no consequence, and one might as well have one as the other. In fact, it is good to change it every now and then. Don't you get tired of that old sofa sometimes? What about exchanging it for the new sharia model? Sure, it's slightly less comfortable than the old one, but it's very much in vogue these days and sets you apart from the neighbors, at least until they get one, too. Do you want a sample of the latest Calvin Klein perfume to go with that sharia? </p> <p>I have heard individuals state point blank that even if Muslims become the majority in our countries in the future, this doesn't matter because all people are equal and all cultures are just a mix of everything else, anyway. And since religions are just fairy-tales, replacing one fairy-tale with another one won't make a big difference. All religions basically say that the same things in different ways. However, not one of them would ever dream of saying that all political ideologies "basically mean the same thing." They simply don't view religious or cultural ideas as significant, and thus won't spend time on studying the largely unimportant details of each specific creed. </p> <p>In <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Suicide-Reason-Radical-Islams-Threat/dp/046500203X/" target="_blank">The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West</a>, Lee Harris writes that: "What strikes us as irrationalities in the economic systems of Third World nations, such as the red tape documented by [Peruvian economist Hernando] de Soto, is not irrational at all from the point of view of the dominant elite: It is part of what keeps them dominant. With enough red tape, they can stay king of the mountain forever." </p> <p>This reminds me a great deal of what the EU is doing, attempting to create a permanent oligarchy by keeping the native population in line though a combination of confusion, bureaucracy and intimidation from imported Muslims. </p> <p>Far from being an irrelevant detail, religion is the heart and blood of any civilization. The greatest change (until now) in my country's history was when we adopted Christianity instead of the Norse religion. This changed the entire fabric of our culture. We became integrated into the mainstream of Western civilization at about the same time as we went from being a tribal society to a genuine state. Maybe Christianity helped in creating the foundations of nation states with an individualistic culture. If so, perhaps changing the religion is beneficial for those who want to replace nation states with authoritarian transnational entities, for instance the European Union. Islamic societies are always authoritarian. Those who want to abolish the democratic system and rule as an unaccountable oligarchy thus naturally prefer Islam. </p> <p>The EU is an awful organization even if you don't take Muslim immigration into account. Former Soviet dissident <a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865" target="_blank">Vladimir Bukovksy</a>, who is not particularly preoccupied with Islam, fears that the European Union is on its way to becoming another Soviet Union: "The sooner we finish with the EU the better. The sooner it collapses the less damage it will have done to us and to other countries." </p> <p>The brilliant French political thinker Montesquieu advocated that the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government should be assigned to different bodies, each of them not powerful enough alone to impose its will on society. This is because "constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go." This separation of powers is almost totally absent in the EU, where there is weak to non-existent separation between the legislative, the executive and the judicial branches, and where all of them function more or less without the consent of the public. </p> <p>As Montesquieu warned, "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." He also stated that "Useless laws weaken the necessary laws." The problem with the EU is not just the content of laws, but their volume. Law-abiding citizens are turned into criminals by laws regulating speech and behavior, while real criminals rule the streets. This will either lead to a police state, to a total breakdown in law and order, or both. </p> <p>At least two conditions must be fulfilled in order to prevent the arbitrary use of power. The first one is a system of formal checks and balances, giving the possibility of peacefully removing officials who are not doing their job. The second is transparency, so people know what their representatives are doing. The EU deliberately ignores both these conditions, but especially the latter. Vast quantities of power have been transferred to shady backrooms and structures the average citizen hardly knows exist. Eurabia was created through such channels. </p> <p>The pompous former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing declared that the creation of the proposed EU Constitution was Europe's "Philadelphia moment," alluding to the Philadelphia Convention or Constitutional Convention in the newly formed the United States of America in 1787. The USA has its flaws, but if Mr. Giscard d'Estaing had actually understood the American Constitution, he would have discovered that James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and others took great care to implement a number of checks and balances in the new state, precisely what is lacking in the EU. The American constitution is relatively short and understandable, whereas the EU Constitution is hundreds of pages long, largely incomprehensible and displays an almost sharia-like desire to regulate all aspects of human life. After it was rejected by Dutch and French voters, the Constitution has been renamed and is now being smuggled through the back door. </p> <p>Madison, Jefferson, George Washington and the American Founding Fathers acted in the open and were generally elected by their peers and applauded for their actions. Contrast this with Jean Monnet, who is credited with having laid the foundations of the EU, despite the fact that most EU citizens haven't heard of him. He was never elected to any public office, but worked behind the scenes to implement a secret agenda. I read an interview with a senior Brussels lobbyist who dubbed Monnet "the most successful lobbyist in history." To this day, the EU capital of Brussels is dominated <a href="http://www.expatica.com/de/articles/news/Brussels_-A-magnet-for-lobbyists-.html" target="_blank">by lobbyists</a>. The Americans in Washington D.C. have their fair share of lobbyists, too, and this can be problematic at times. The difference is that the EU capital is dominated ONLY by lobbyists and unelected bureaucrats, with little real popular influence. Those who read the excellent British blog <a href="http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">EU Referendum</a> regularly will know that this secretive modus operandi is still very much alive in the European Union. </p> <p>Frankly, I don't think the EU has the right to use the term "European." Those inhabiting the European continent are first and foremost Germans, Dutchmen, Poles, Italians, Hungarians, Portuguese etc. "Europe" has existed mainly to protect the continent against Islamic expansionism. Charles Martel created Europe when he defeated the Arab invasion in the seventh century, aided by people such as Pelayo, who started the Reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula, John Hunyadi and Lazar of Serbia who fought against the Turks in the Balkans and John III Sobieski, King of Poland, who beat the Ottomans during the 1683 Battle of Vienna. The EU is actively trying to undo everything Charles Martel and these men achieved. This makes it the anti-European Union, an evil organization with no moral legitimacy whatsoever. </p> <p>The EU is gradually reducing the indigenous people of an entire continent to the likely future status of second-rate citizen in their own countries. It is quite possibly the greatest betrayal in the history of European civilization since the fall of the Roman Empire, yet it is hailed as a "peace project" in the media. It is shameful to witness the bullying displayed by EU leaders vis-à-vis the Serbs, who are being forced to give up their land to Muslim thugs. This template will eventually be used against all Europeans. As <a href="http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/?p=416" target="_blank">Srdja Trifkovic</a> warns, even if the Serbs are robbed of Kosovo, Muslims will not thank the West: </p> <p>"In Europe most nations want to defend themselves—even the ultra-tolerant Dutch have seen the light after Theo van Gogh's murder—but cannot do so because they are hamstrung by a ruling class composed of guilt-ridden self-haters and appeasers. Their hold on the political power, the media, and the academe is undemocratic, unnatural, obscene. If Europe is to survive they need to be unmasked for what they are: traitors to their nations and their culture. If Europe is to survive, they must be replaced by people ready and willing to subject the issues of immigration and identity to the test of democracy, unhindered by administrative or judicial fiat. For those reasons too, Serbia must not give up Kosovo. By giving it up it would encourage the spirit that seeks the death of Europe and its surrender to the global totalitarianism of Muhammad's successors. Not for the first time, in Kosovo the Serbs are fighting a fight that is not theirs alone." </p> <p>Some hope we can keep the "positive" aspects of the EU and not "throw out the baby with the bath water." I beg to differ. The EU is all bath water, no baby. The EU got off on the wrong path from its very inception, and is now so flawed that it simply cannot be reformed. Appeasement of Islam is so deeply immersed in the structural DNA of the EU that the only way to stop the Islamization of Europe is to dismantle the European Union. All of it. </p></blockquote>Rolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144151003592750093.post-22804858468282683442008-02-10T07:08:00.000-08:002008-02-10T07:09:48.768-08:00Ten Reasons to Get Rid of the European Union — A First Draft<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD97zaVoj_-wWtqO5u7QHQQhpS6QRK0Jbz8pYd5iywZJhjUYzNDWSL0KnqI5EuiO8cLHeCj7tZ16HRyITFY40XkjVCbvBmFnyHOHVpzetKdX54evdVC2uQFhmnhpxj0ZdPwpCdX9Fabkk/s1600-h/eussrSkender.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD97zaVoj_-wWtqO5u7QHQQhpS6QRK0Jbz8pYd5iywZJhjUYzNDWSL0KnqI5EuiO8cLHeCj7tZ16HRyITFY40XkjVCbvBmFnyHOHVpzetKdX54evdVC2uQFhmnhpxj0ZdPwpCdX9Fabkk/s320/eussrSkender.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165346950944202978" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://kleinverzet.blogspot.com/2006/02/fjordman-files.html">Fjordman</a> is one of the sharpest political analysts around and has written a number of essays and analysis of an exceptional exellence - His initiative 'Ten Reasons To Get Rid Of The European Union' is an important step in working to preserve and defend our freedoms, our superb and rich European cultures, identities and our right to exist as people in our native lands.<br /><br />The creation of a Supranational State such as the European Union is nothing short of a new form of totalitarianism and a blue print for tyranny - In order to impose multiculturalism upon an existing culture and society it is necessary to eliminate and destroy the host culture and the fabrics of the existing society in the respective nation states, the Soviet Union was such an example of a Supranational State and could only exist with the Iron-fist of a Totalitarian Communist State.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ashevilletribune.com/asheville/terrorism/Middle%20East%20Crisis%2010%20RTF.htm">Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt</a> <i style="font-style: italic;">proclaimed that bringing millions of Turkish guest-workers into Germany was a mistake and that multiculturalism can only work under authoritarian regimes. Schmidt told </i>Hamburger Abendblatt<span style="font-style: italic;"> reporters that:</span> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><b>“The concept of multiculturalism is difficult to make fit with a democratic society.”<o:p><br /></o:p></b></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Indeed, multiculturalism was conceived and developed as a Marxist strategy for overthrowing free governments. The former Soviet Union used massive immigration and deportation to dilute the ethnic, cultural, and political cohesion of the peoples of the Baltic states with the objective of making them more compliant and compatible with Soviet rule.<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Hundreds of thousands of Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians were deported to Siberia, and hundreds of thousands of Russians were moved in to take their places.Lebanon and Kosovo are good examples of what happens, when Muslim immigration and higher Muslim birthrates tip the demographic balance in former majority Christian regions: escalating violence and terrorism, assassinations, and civil war. Most Serbian Christians in Kosovo were forced to flee. </p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">In the European Union, massive immigration has become a tool to reduce the political power of ethnic, religious, or political majorities that might resist the new imperial order.<span style=""><br /></span>Besides providing cheap labor, massive immigration has become an instrument for political change and control. More immigration makes resistance to the European Union increasingly difficult. This will be true of the North American Union as well. </p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>Political resistance to the European Union is growing within its twenty-seven member countries. Belgium, established by French revolutionaries in 1830, is an artificial construct dominated by the French-speaking southern region of the country and has been one of the most liberal driving forces in building and governing the EU. Its capitol, Brussels, is both the capitol of the EU and NATO headquarters. Belgium has been dominated by a liberal-socialist coalition since 1999. Yet political resistance in Belgium to the tsunami of Muslim immigration ranks among the strongest in Europe. This resistance is concentrated in Flanders, the more conservative Dutch-speaking northern half of Belgium, with about 59 percent of the population. But because of an uncorrected misallocation of parliamentary seats, the more liberal and socialistic French-speaking minority in the southern half of Belgium continues to dominate the Belgian Parliament. Hence there has always been a movement for Flemish independence.</p>Ironically the EU has used Belgium to be a showcase that multiculturalism is possible, a Balkanization of Europe as a result of the population experiment called multiculturalism is more than likely to happen, it will only be a question of how bloody we allow ourselves it is going to be down the road if we do not act now.<br /><br />You can add thought's to the initiative <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/01/ten-reasons-to-get-rid-of-european.html">HERE.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ten Reasons to Get Rid of the European Union — A First Draft</span><br /><br />Hello from Fjordman.<br /><br />I intend to write a text called “Ten Reasons to Get Rid of the European Union” This text will be written with me as editor and contributor, but not necessarily sole writer. I will post some ideas here which can be expanded upon by blog readers. I will then post a second, more elaborate draft, make some changes to that, and then post the final version. It is my intention that this text should be translated into major European languages and be republished or reprinted in various EU countries. If you post comments <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/01/ten-reasons-to-get-rid-of-european.html">HERE</a>, you thus give your permission to allow your writings to be incorporated into this text and republished elsewhere.<br /><br />The proponents of the European Union claim that it is a “peace project.” But the EU is not about peace, it is about war: A demographic and cultural war waged against an entire continent, from the Black Sea to the North Sea, in order to destroy European nation states and build an empire run by self-appointed and unaccountable bureaucrats. This is supported by national politicians in order to enhance their personal power, by creating a larger political entity than their individual nation states and by ridding themselves of the constraints of a democratic society. The EU thus corrupts national political elites into betraying the people they are supposed to serve and protect.<br /><br />Anthony Coughlan, a senior lecturer at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, notes:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">At a national level when a minister wants to get something done, he or she must have the backing of the prime minister, must have the agreement of the minister for finance if it means spending money, and above all must have majority support in the national parliament, and implicitly amongst voters in the country. Shift the policy area in question to the supranational level of Brussels however, where laws are made primarily by the 27-member Council of Ministers, and the minister in question becomes a member of an oligarchy, a committee of lawmakers, the most powerful in history, making laws for 500 million Europeans, and irremovable as a group regardless of what it does. National parliaments and citizens lose power with every EU treaty, for they no longer have the final say in the policy areas concerned. Individual ministers on the other hand obtain an intoxicating increase in personal power, as they are transformed from members of the executive arm of government at national level, subordinate to a national legislature, into EU-wide legislators at the supranational.<br /><br /></span>EU ministers see themselves as political architects of a superpower in the making. They can also free themselves from scrutiny of their actions by elected national parliaments. According to Coughlan, EU integration represents “a gradual coup by government executives against legislatures, and by politicians against the citizens who elect them.” This process is now sucking the reality of power from “traditional government institutions, while leaving these still formally intact. They still keep their old names — parliament, government, supreme court — so that their citizens do not get too alarmed, but their classical functions have been transformed.”<br /><br />The European Union is basically an attempt by the elites in European nation states to cooperate on usurping power, bypassing and abolishing the democratic system, a slow-motion coup d’état. Ideas such as “promoting peace” or “promoting free trade” are used as a pretext for this, a bone thrown to fool the gullible masses and veil what is essentially a naked power grab.<br /><br />The European Union is now suppressing free speech across Europe in the name of Multiculturalism and tolerance. Free speech is the hallmark of freedom. When the EU is suppressing free speech, it is repressing freedom itself. The EU has thus become a tyranny, and the laws and regulations it is passing are illegitimate.<br /><br />The EU is deliberately destroying the cultural traditions of member states by flooding them with non-European immigrants and eradicating native traditions. This is a gross violation of the rights of the indigenous peoples across an entire continent. Forcing native Germans, Brits, Italians, Dutch, Greeks, Swedes or others to fund their own colonization, to suffer abuse and violence in their own countries and watch as their heritage gets extinguished is evil, not tolerant. Native Europeans are taught that we should be grateful for the cultural traditions Pakistanis, Iraqis or Nigerians bring to our countries. We are also told that we “don’t have a culture.” This is an insult to thousands of years of Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, Germanic, Celtic and Slavic history. Europe has one of the richest cultural and artistic traditions on the planet. To replace this with sharia barbarism is not just a crime against Europe, it is a crime against humanity.<br /><br />The European Union is the principal motor behind the Islamization of Europe, perhaps the greatest betrayal in this civilization’s history. Appeasement of Islam and Muslims is so deeply immersed into the structural DNA of the EU that the only way to stop the Islamization of Europe is to get rid of the EU. All of it.<br /><br />The European Union has created a borderless Europe from Greece to France and from Romania to Spain and Portugal, yet the citizens of these countries still pay the vast majority of their taxes to nation states whose borders are no longer upheld. It is ridiculous to pay up to half of your income to an entity that no longer has any semblance of control with its own territory. Unless national borders are reestablished, the citizens of all EU member states no longer have any obligation to pay taxes. We do, however, have the right to arm ourselves. As the authorities from Berlin via Amsterdam to London and Rome fail spectacularly to uphold law and order, citizens have not just the right, but the duty to arm themselves in order to protect their property and the lives of their loved ones.<br /><br />The European Union cannot be anything but anti-liberty because it concentrates far too much power in a centralized system that is almost impossible for outsiders to understand. As the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek warned in <i>The Road to Serfdom</i>:<br /><br /><span class="fullpost"><span style="font-style: italic;">To imagine that the economic life of a vast area comprising many different people can be directed or planned by democratic procedure betrays a complete lack of awareness of the problems such planning would raise. Planning on an international scale, even more than is true on a national scale, cannot be anything but a naked rule of force, an imposition by a small group on all the rest of that sort of standard and employment which the planners think suitable for the rest.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="fullpost">the large scale. It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the small peoples, and that among the large ones there was more happiness and content in proportion as they had avoided the deadly blight of centralisation. Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the decisions rest with an organisation far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend. Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders. It is only where responsibility can be learnt and practised in affairs with which most people are familiar, where it is awareness of one’s neighbour rather than some theoretical knowledge of the needs of other people which guides action, that the ordinary man can take a real part in public affairs because they concern the world he knows. Where the scope of the political measures become so large that the necessary knowledge is almost exclusively possessed by the bureaucracy, the creative impulses of the private person must flag.</span><br /><span class="fullpost"><br /></span><span class="fullpost">The European Union is deeply flawed in its basic construction, and cannot function as anything other than an increasingly totalitarian pan-European dictatorship, run by a self-appointed oligarchy. Indeed, there is reason to fear that it was specifically designed that way. There cannot be a European democracy because there is no European <i>demos</i>, no European “nation” with a shared sense of pre-political loyalty. Moreover, power in the EU is concentrated heavily in institutions that are not just above the formal restraints of public consent, but also above the informal restraints of public scrutiny and insight. In short: The EU authorities can do more or less whatever they want to, as they do in relations to the Arab and Islamic world.<br /><br /></span><span class="fullpost">We should study the work of the great eighteenth century French thinker Charles Montesquieu, who admired the British political system. He advocated that the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government should be assigned to different bodies, where each of them would not be powerful enough to impose its will on society. This is because “constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.” This separation of powers is almost totally absent in the European Union, where there is weak to non-existent separation between the legislative, the executive and indeed the judicial branches, and where all of them function without the consent of the public. In short, a small number of people can draft and implement laws without consulting the people, and these take precedence over the laws passed by elected assemblies. This is a blueprint for a dictatorship.<br /><br /></span><span class="fullpost">In 2007, former German president Roman Herzog warned that parliamentary democracy was under threat from the EU. Between 1999 and 2004, 84 percent of the legal acts in Germany — and the majority in all EU member states — stemmed from Brussels. According to Herzog, “EU policies suffer to an alarming degree from a lack of democracy and a de facto suspension of the separation of powers.” Despite this, the EU was largely a non-issue during the 2005 German elections. One gets the feeling that the real issues of substance are not subject to public debate. National elections are becoming an increasingly empty ritual. The important issues have already been settled beforehand behind closed doors. Free citizens should obey laws that are passed with their consent and with the best interests of their nation and people in mind. Most of the laws across the European Union are now not passed by elected national representatives, but by unaccountable EU bureaucrats. As such, the citizens of these nations no longer have any obligation to obey these laws.<br /><br />As Montesquieu warned, “When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.” He also stated that “Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.” The problem with the EU is not just the content of laws, but their volume. Law-abiding citizens are being turned into criminals by laws regulating speech and behavior, while real criminals rule the streets in our cities. This situation will either lead to a police state, to a total breakdown in law and order, or both.</span>Rolf Krakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057557314853607369noreply@blogger.com0