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Islam’s European Conquest:
Is America Next?
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The ultimate
aspiration of Muslims is total, global dominion
within a theocracy known as a "caliphate."
Editor’s Note: This editorial
first appeared in The American Thinker and is
reproduced here with permission. Visit at
www.americanthinker.com
By John Griffing, Guest
Editorialist to the Insider
"Islamic lands that were occupied
by the enemies will once again become Islamic...We
proclaim that we will conquer Rome, like
Constantinople was conquered once, and as it will be
conquered again." - Ali Al-Faqir, the Jordanian
Minister for Religious Endowment
Britain, birthplace of
parliamentary democracy, has fallen to Islam.
Oxford, once home to the likes of C.S. Lewis, now
houses a giant Eastern Islamic Studies Center. If
this were the only Islamic addition to Oxford, the
mood would be less somber, but when Oxford citizens
are forced to awake every morning to the Muslim call
to prayer with the full consent of the Church of
England, nothing short of conquest has taken place.
Britain’s Muslim demographic is
now so dominant that the British government recently
began to allow Islamic civil and religious law,
known as Sharia, to be enforced along side British
law.
"This is not an issue of religious
liberty. Islam is not designed to co-exist with
western civilization. It is designed to conquer it."
But if religious tolerance is
good, why is this a problem? Simple-this is not an
issue of religious liberty. Islam is not designed to
co-exist with western civilization. It is designed
to conquer it.
Most would agree that
Judeo-Christian values are consistent with
Anglo-American tradition. Can the same be said of
Islam? Even Muslims don’t think so. The chief
Justice of London’s Sharia Court made this chilling
statement:
If Sharia is implemented then you
can turn this country into a haven of peace...Once a
thief’s hand is cut off, nobody is going to steal.
Once an adulterer is stoned, nobody is going to
commit this crime at all. This is why we say we want
to offer it to British society.
Statements like this have not
stopped prominent British figures from endorsing
Sharia. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Protestant
equivalent of the Pope, called Sharia "unavoidable."
Under Sharia, non-Muslims are
forbidden to even criticize Islam. This is
significant, considering that a Policy Exchange Poll
found that forty percent of British Muslims prefer
to be governed by Sharia. Thirty-six percent believe
that "apostates" from Islam should be punished by
death. A Guardian Poll indicates that a sizeable
number of British Muslims favor terrorist attacks on
the United States and even England.[1]
There are presently 85 Sharia
courts all across Britain, and, although initial
defenders of the transformation claimed that Sharia
courts would only exercise authority when consistent
with British law, recent developments indicate that
Muslims want Sharia pushed still further. Many
Muslims advocate a separate police force due to the
repeated embarrassment of rampant "honor killings."
Honor killings represent a new
and growing form of homicide in many European
countries, whereby Muslim families collaborate to
kill fellow family members to restore honor. This
practice is not alien to the US. Recently, a US
Muslim man beheaded his wife, confessed to
authorities, and still received a scheduled award
from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Britain is not alone in its
Muslim plight. In 2005, France experienced massive
Muslim riots in 300 cities. Public buildings were
firebombed, 200 policemen were injured, and 4,000
were arrested.[2] This is not unusual as a Muslim
response to perceived offenses. Remember the Danish
cartoons?
"A Guardian Poll indicates that a
sizeable number of British Muslims favor terrorist
attacks on the United States and even England."
The central problem is
assimilation. Most Muslims don’t move to a country
with the purpose of becoming real citizens of that
country. Muslims don’t want to be British or French.
Muslims come for the wealth of the west, and to make
the west Muslim. The evidence is transparent to
anyone paying attention. The Parisian riots of 2005
were committed by second and third generation
children of Muslim immigrants.
The ultimate aspiration of
Muslims is total, global dominion within a theocracy
known as a "caliphate." Be they peaceful Muslims or
radical Muslims, all share in this goal.
And, incredibly, we cooperate
with this reverse assimilation. Somehow we
Westerners now feel compelled to assimilate with
Muslims instead of expecting the reverse. Paris
fashion
runways have even begun designing and modeling
"Muslim inspired head wraps and...tunics splattered
with simulated blood in what some fashionistas
dubbed carnage couture."[3]
The problem of Muslim integration
is so sensitive that 751 areas have been willingly
ceded to Islamic residents by the French government.
Called "no-go zones" by many, these areas are
off-limits to non-Muslims who value their lives. The
UK is home to an indistinguishable number of "no-go
zones," with violence toward non-Muslims increasing
in once peaceful areas.
Dutch Muslims have such a grip on
Holland that those who speak out must live in safe
houses, like Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders.
Yet the Dutch Minister of Justice still wants to
make full Sharia an option on the next ballot, which
would make Holland the first fully Islamic theocracy
in the heart of Europe.
"What is our fascination with
Islam? Why are we so willing to capitulate to its
aims without resistance? Can’t western civilization
continue to champion religious liberty without
committing suicide?"
Germany could be next. Matthias
Rohe, Judge on the Court of Appeals in Nuremburg
wants to see full Sharia in Germany, saying, "we are
ready to accept these kind of differences and would
apply the norms." Many areas of Germany are now off
limits to police and other uniformed personnel, as
in France and the UK.
Muslim majorities will soon be a
reality. By 2050, one out of every three people in
Europe will be age 60 and over. The UN’s Populations
Division estimates that by 2050, if current birth
rates are held, Europe will shrink by 200 million as
a new Muslim majority dawns.
And now, onto this stage strides
President Barack Hussein Obama, who advocates the
European model for all aspects of American life; for
the economy, for healthcare, and now, in our
dealings with Muslims. We know where that road
leads. It has been travelled by an entire continent
now doomed to cultural and economic destruction.
Is this what we want? Do we
really want European civilization, cultivated for
centuries, to suddenly vanish? Do we really want
American culture to disappear?
President Obama travels the world
apologizing for America’s very existence. He
redefines Islam’s historical goal as one of peaceful
coexistence, its moral ethos as one of "tolerance
and the dignity of all human beings," despite the
evidence to the contrary. He pledges that the US
"never will be-at war with Islam," blindly ignoring
the present strategic situation. He claims that we
are the "biggest Muslim country in the world,"
despite the fact that 80 percent of Americans say
they are Christian.
The US has steadily been bowing
to Islamic pressure. Many US banks and investment
firms have formally adopted Sharia Finance. Harold
Koh, recent Dean of Yale Law School and current
Obama Advisor to the Secretary of State, openly
talks about the compatibility of Sharia with
American legal precedent.
What is our fascination with
Islam? Why are we so willing to capitulate to its
aims without resistance? Can’t western civilization
continue to champion religious liberty without
committing suicide?
Radical Islam is inconsistent
with American ideals, plain and simple. No two
ideologies that embrace concepts so divergent as
global domination and freedom can hope to coexist.
There can be no compromise.
Europe is among the walking dead;
their future is an Islamic one. America, however,
still has a choice if we have the courage to make
it.
[1] Tony Blankley, The West’s
Last Chance: Will We Win the Battle of
Civilizations? (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2005), pp.
51, 55.
[2] Patrick J. Buchanan, State of
Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of
America, (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2006), 194.
[3] Molly Moore, "For the French
Joie de Vivre Fades into Fear," Washington Post, 25
Mar. 2006, 1,13.
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