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Why is This Not Betrayal?
by Fjordman
by Fjordman
It is dismissed as a “crazy conspiracy theory” if one suggests that
Western political elites actively support the Islamization of Europe
and the Western world. Yet one might argue that this is not a conspiracy
theory — or even a theory — merely an observation.
The more Muslims and people who champion Islamic ideas imported
into a society, the more Islamic influence there will be in that
society. This is basic logic: if you import large numbers of Muslims to a
country, you get more Islamization. It’s pretty simple, really.
So let us ask a simple question: Do Western governments allow large
numbers of Muslims to settle in Western countries? Yes or no? The
answer is obviously yes, as we can easily observe all around us. Western
authorities have for decades been in the process of importing large
numbers of Muslims to our countries. Since more Muslims means more
Islam, this implies that Western authorities actively support the
gradual Islamization of our countries.
If you find this to be a provocative observation, then ask yourself
the following question: If Western political elites, ruling authorities
and mass media really and truly object to the growing Islamic presence
in our societies, then exactly what are they doing to curb this growth,
apart from some mostly symbolic gestures?
As long as they are not doing anything substantial to halt or even
slow down Muslim immigration, they are in fact supporting the continued,
gradual Islamization of our countries. There is no other way to put it.
What can be done?
A hard-line option might be to say explicitly that Islamic culture
is incompatible with our culture. Therefore, Muslim immigration to all
European and Western nations will be immediately and permanently halted.
This will probably be seen as too provocative by many people, however.
A more plausible alternative might be to say that while many
Muslims might be fine people as individuals, much of the Islamic world
is currently in such a state of unrest and turmoil that we need to
protect our own societies as much as we can from this. We are therefore
sad to announce that we must, for an indefinite time period, suspend any
immigration from this part of the world.
An even more moderate solution might be not to say anything about
Muslims or Islam at all. Western governments could simply state that our
share of the world’s population keeps dropping rapidly. Moreover, we
have plenty of problems of our own to deal with. The unemployment rate
in several southern European countries is above 20%, with youth
unemployment exceeding 40% in some places. It does not make sense in
this situation to import millions of more people when we cannot provide
work to those who are already here.
With social problems and debt to take care of, we need to put our
own house in order first. While we harbor no ill will towards other
peoples and nations, we therefore regret to announce that we will have
to suspend large-scale immigration from any part of the world until we
have put our own house back in order again.
It is possible to understand why, for pragmatic reasons, Western
authorities do not choose the confrontational approach and state openly
that Islamic culture is incompatible with our culture. However, it is
much more difficult to understand and accept why Western governments
cannot choose one of the two other options.
They can simply state that due to the turmoil that exists in many
parts of the Middle East and the Islamic world, we need to take steps to
protect our borders more firmly. If we need to withdraw from certain
naïve human rights conventions in order to reestablish effective control
over our national borders, then we must do so.
Furthermore, the percentage that Western societies constitute of
the global population and the global economy keeps shrinking fast. We
are not all-powerful. Moreover, we have distinct national cultures that
we would like to preserve, too. Our countries are the homelands of
distinct peoples with a shared history, not empty bowls only to be
filled by shopping and human rights.
As of today, this has also become an urgent security issue. Britain
will feel the repercussions of the civil war in Syria and the rise of
Islamic extremism within its own borders for “many years”
to come, a top counter-terrorism expert stated in June 2014. At the
same time, the former MI6 director of global counter-terrorism Richard
Barrett told the BBC
that it was “out of the question” for the security services to follow
all of the Muslims who had fought abroad in conflict zones such as Syria
when they return. There are quite simply too many of them now.
Similar warnings may be heard from the security services in
Germany, France and other nations. Thousands of Muslims who are European
citizens, from countries as different as Italy and Denmark, are
currently believed to be Jihadist fighters in Syria, Iraq, Somalia and
elsewhere. Some of them die there. Those who return, however, will often
be more militant and deadly than they were before.
While not all of the returning Jihadist fighters will automatically
turn into domestic terrorists in Western countries, it is highly likely
that some of them will. Some militant Muslims return battle-hardened
and with greater knowledge of how to kill those whom they consider
infidels. It is all but inevitable that a few of them will decide to
target us with deadly attacks. This process has already begun.
Yet despite all of this, large-scale Muslim immigration continues
to Western Europe and North America as if nothing has changed. This is
completely unacceptable. Even uneducated truck drivers I have talked to
see clearly that we cannot continue to import many potential Muslim
Jihadists from foreign conflict zones.
One has to expect that supposedly intelligent and well-informed
people in positions of power should be able to see this, too. Are they
remarkably stupid, or have they blinded themselves by fanatical
adherence to an ideology of open borders, mass immigration and the
dissolution of nation-states? Whatever the reason, the result is
unacceptable.
It constitutes a massive betrayal of Western citizens to continue
these failed immigration policies. In fact, harsher terms than
“betrayal” could be used.
Yes, considerable damage has already been done due to decades of
idiotic policies, but that is no excuse for doing nothing. When the fire
brigades come to a house that is on fire, they do not conclude that
they will do nothing and just let the entire city catch fire. They try
to limit the damage as much as possible.
If damage limitation is the only thing we can do now, then let us
at the very least do that. Every single step we take today to reduce the
continued inflow of Islam-related problems means fewer or smaller
problems for our descendants to deal with in the future. We owe them to
do whatever we can.
We cannot base the future of our freedom, security and prosperity
on wishful thinking. I am on the record as stating that I do not think
Islam can be reformed, at least not if by “reformed” you mean something
that is peaceful, based on secular laws, respects freedom of speech and
coexists on equal terms with other religions. I would be very happy to
be proven wrong in this regard. Sadly, there is little to indicate such
an outcome at the moment.
Despite the talk about an “Euro-Islam,” there are few signs of any
Europeanization of Islam, but plenty of signs of a gradual Islamization
of Europe. There is no convincing indication of a general liberalization
of the Islamic world, either. On the contrary, more repressive and
aggressive versions of Islam are on the ascendancy from Malaysia to
Turkey. Non-Muslims are being put under increasing pressure in many
Muslim-majority countries. In a number of cases, they are in the process
of being virtually wiped out by violent means. Meanwhile, unrest in
parts of the Islamic world is spilling over into other regions.
It is deeply irresponsible of Western political leaders in such a
situation to continue large-scale immigration from unstable Muslim
societies. Our cities should not be turned into battlegrounds for
clashing Middle Eastern tribes.
Serious steps must immediately be taken to halt the continued
influx of radical Muslims and potential Jihadist fighters. If Western
governments and political leaders fail to do this, then they fail to
protect their countries and uphold their basic duties to their citizens.
They should be held accountable for that failure.
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Western politicians have become so stupid, so dunce. so [lacking in cranial capacity] … that it is necessary to point out to them something as obvious as the above statement.
Politicians who are stupid, daring liars, unconscionable, stupid, immoral, unscrupulous … pave the way to devastating wars. And still voters go and elect them and call a democracy.
no need to have such a defeatist attitude. initially small steps are needed to resist radical islam–which may then make our society more confident to take additional steps.