GOODBYE EUROPE - HELLO EURABIA
GOODBYE EUROPE - HELLO EURABIA
by
Ken Eliasberg
From my previous columns one might get the impression that France’s problems were unique. Quite to the contrary, France is merely in the vanguard of decline of what is now not uncommonly referred to as “old Europe.” The overall decline, like that of France, is due to the combination of factors previously noted, i.e. economics, politics, demographics, policy, and, perhaps more than any other factor, a combination of secularism (a polite term for Godlessness) and old age. We’ve taken a long look at France; let’s take an abbreviated peek at what’s happening to a good hunk of the rest of the continent.
Holland, long known for its extravagant approach to tolerance—i.e. almost anything goes in the Netherlands—briefly gave some thought to tightening things up, particularly in the area of immigration. The occasion for such a re-examination was, again, somewhat similar to that of France—a massive influx of North African immigrants who have either had difficulty in, or resisted, being harmoniously absorbed into Holland’s mainstream. The problem was exacerbated by a couple of murders of well known people who had expressed some concerns over the compatibility of Islam’s values with those of the host nation. The most recent was that of Theo Van Gogh, a descendant of Vincent Van Gogh’s brother; Theo produced a movie which called attention to the deplorable manner in which many Muslim women were treated. This was not well received in the Muslim community, and, as a consequence, a young Islamicist took it upon himself to gun down Mr. Van Gogh in broad daylight on a Dutch thoroughfare. After shooting Mr. Van Gogh, and then cutting his throat so severely as to almost decapitate him, this tolerant young gentleman, appended a note to his body (by stabbing it to Mr. Van Gogh’s chest) in which he called attention to the fact that Islam was unable to give Mr. Van Gogh’s movie a favorable review. One might reasonably argue that this was a bit of an over-reaction, but these are people not known for their ability to accept criticism of any kind (and certainly none where humor might be involved, e.g. the Cartoon controversy).
A major force in Theo Van Gogh’s movie was Hirsi Ali, a muslim woman from Somalia. She worked with Van Gogh on the film, Submission, which addressed the status of women in Muslim societies, earning her the customary threats on her life. Ms. Ali was a member of the Dutch Parliament. Rather than support and protect Ms. Ali, Holland, apparently following in France’s footsteps, revoked her citizenship on the basis of a technicality—i.e. she lied in her request for asylum in the Netherlands, a fact that was well known and had not engendered controversy prior to the furor over Van Gogh’s assassination. As a consequence, Ms. Ali is on the run.
Great Britain has her own problems, and we have alluded to these already. I refer the reader to Melanie Phillips book, Londonistan, and I remind him (or her) of the 7/7/05 subway explosion, detonated by another unhappy group of Islamofacists. As Ms. Phillips points out, Britain may also be dealing with this unhappy incursion in the French manner, i.e. appeasement and surrender.
Sweden, perhaps wanting to get ahead of the curve, has invited representatives of Hamas for an official visit. Despite what Jimmy Carter says—or, given his affection for dictatorships, perhaps because of it—Hamas is a terrorist organization, and its election as the governing body of the Palestinian people does not make it any less of a terrorist organization—ergo, the current funding problems of the Palestinian sector.
Spain, in response to its train bombing, immediately caved to Islamofacist pressure, changed governments (the apparent purpose of the bombing) to one of a socialist nature, and withdrew its troops from Iraq.
How’s that for courage under fire?
Italy, for probably similar reasons, has recently elected a socialist government. We know of Denmark’s problems, where a somewhat tasteless group of cartoons (published in a Danish newspaper) unleashed a spate of killings throughout Europe and Asia. A fellow columnist explained this away as an assault on a Muslim icon with a commensurate failure to appreciate Muslim sensibilities. When the Taliban—a group of thugs operating in the name of Allah and laying siege to Afghanistan (not to mention harboring Al Qaeda), destroyed Budhist monuments that had stood for centuries, I didn’t notice any Budhists running around killing people, did you? Perhaps we should pay a bit more attention to non-Muslim sensibilities, like those engendered by a group of Muslim maniacs crashing 3 airplanes into our buildings and killing 3,000 of our people. Oops, have I offended somebody by calling attention to this somewhat extravagant atrocity?
Continuing, Germany too has its problems. In short, Western Civilization is collapsing in Europe, and we need to pay attention to the causes lest we, by inattention, fall prey to the same fate. By the way, In
reviewing Europe Slept and Menace in Europe (No.s 1 and 2 below), David Forsmark at FrontPageMagazine.com provides the following quote from Ms. Berlinski’s aborbing text:
“In the introduction to The Menace in Europe: Why the Continent’s Crisis is America’s, Too, Berlinski baldly asserts that even though she is