Crunchy Con

You can see it coming

Sunday March 18, 2007

The other day I mentioned in a blog a recent line by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, in which she said the failure of European liberals to stand up to criminal and fascistic behavior by Muslims living in Europe only serves to enable the future coming to power of real Eurofascists, who certainly will stand up to it, and then some. Here is something really troubling posted by the blogger Fjordman on Brussels Journal, and sent in by a reader. In the lengthy essay, Fjordman -- who is not a Eurofascist -- discusses the intolerable situation members of the European public find themselves in, vis-a-vis Islamic immigration and crime, and the fact (says Fjordman) that Europeans are persecuted by their own governing and media elites if they dare to raise their voices against the situation, and the civilization-killing scheme that is multiculturalism.

In 2002, after the assassination of Pim Fortuyn (a free-market social liberal and open homosexual who was denounced in the Dutch media as a neofascist simply because he had the nerve to say that Holland's high rate of immigration from Islamic countries threatened Dutch civil liberties), I traveled to Holland and wrote about the situation there. Here's a key passage from my story:

Immigrants, who have a high unemployment rate, are another irritant. Eight percent of Holland's 16 million people are of foreign descent, with more than half of them Muslims, mostly from Turkey and Morocco. Holland's four largest cities — Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, and Utrecht — are home to the majority of immigrants. Almost half the population of Rotterdam, where Fortuyn launched his political career, is of foreign descent.

This has had unfortunate consequences. Earlier this month, the trade association representing Holland's supermarkets announced that it would be shutting down stores in the immigrant-heavy inner cities unless the government got serious about policing the areas. That's because young immigrant men from these neighborhoods are disproportionately represented in Dutch crime statistics. According to criminologist Chris Rutenfrans, a study in 2000 found that 33 percent of all criminal suspects are foreign-born, as are 55 percent of prison inmates. An astonishing 63 percent of those convicted of homicide are immigrants — Moroccans, Antilleans, and sub-Saharan Africans are the chief culprits. "The reason always given to explain these statistics is that they live in deprived circumstances," says Rutenfrans. "But other minorities are similarly deprived, and they aren't criminals."

Some Muslims bring with them a culture of religious extremism, encouraged in part by religious schools — at least one-third of which are funded by the Saudis, according to a government report. The report also revealed that 20 percent of Holland's Islamic schools receive funding from the radical Islamic organization Al-Waqf al-Islami, or have radical Muslims on their boards. The government warned that the country's Islamic schools showed very little commitment to preparing their students for integration into Dutch society.

More troubling, the government intelligence service warned as long as a decade ago that the Netherlands was becoming a center of Islamic terrorist recruitment and operations. Since September 11, terrorism experts have warned that violent Islamic extremists are conducting operations in Holland, in part because the country's deeply ingrained taboo against intolerance gives them relative freedom from scrutiny.


Fjordman proposes the following. I'm betting that if some version of this isn't instituted by the mainstream parties of the left and right in Europe, we will see a far more severe program implemented with the support of fed-up electoral majorities who can see exactly where their elites are leading their nations.

A European Declaration of Independence

We, the citizens of the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Hungary, (fill in the blanks) demand that the following steps are taken immediately:

We demand that our national governments should immediately and without delay pull their countries out of the European Union, which should be dismantled entirely. European citizens pay up to half of their salaries in direct or indirect taxes to their nation states. If these nations do not control their own borders nor their policies, and they don't as long as the EU exists, those taxes are a scam. National taxes require national borders. If our national borders are not enforced, we have no obligation whatsoever to pay national taxes.

We demand that all documents regarding the Euro-Arab Dialogue and the creation of the Eurabian networks for "Euro-Mediterranean cooperation" between European countries and Arab countries since the 1970s, as documented by Bat Ye'or's work on Eurabia, are published and explained in their full significance to the general public. Those chiefly responsible for this - one of the greatest betrayals in the history of Western civilization - should stand trial, followed by a period of general de-Eurabification of our laws and regulations.

We demand that all financial support to the Palestinian Authority should cease immediately. It is proven beyond any doubt that this has in the past been used to finance campaigns of Jihad terrorism against Jews in Israel and against Christians in territories under PA control. A public statement in support of Israel against Muslim aggression should be issued, and the money that has previously been awarded to Palestinians should be allocated partly to Israel's defense, partly to establish a Global Infidel Defense Fund with the stated goal of disseminating information about Muslim persecution of non-Muslims worldwide.

We demand that the ideology of Multiculturalism should immediately be removed from all government policies and school curricula, and that the state should adopt a policy of supporting the continuation of the cultural heritage and traditions of the indigenous populations. Multiculturalism has never been about tolerance. It is an anti-Western hate ideology championed as an instrument for unilaterally dismantling European culture. As such, it is an evil ideology bent on an entire culture's eradication, and we, the peoples of Europe, have not just a right, but a duty to resist it and an obligation to pass on our heritage to future generations.

We demand that all Muslim immigration in whatever form should be immediately and completely halted, and that our authorities take a long break from mass immigration in general until such a time when law and order has been reestablished in our major cities. We will not accept any accusations of "racism." Many European nations have for decades accepted more immigration into our countries in a shorter period of time than any other people has done peacefully in human history. We are sick and tired of feeling like strangers in our own lands, of being mugged, raped, stabbed, harassed and even killed by violent gangs of Muslim thugs, yet being accused of "racism and xenophobia" by our media and intimidated by our own authorities to accept even more such immigration.

Europe is being targeted for deliberate colonization by Muslim states, and with coordinated efforts aimed at our Islamization and the elimination of our freedoms. We are being subject to a foreign invasion, and aiding and abetting a foreign invasion in any way constitutes treason. If non-Europeans have the right to resist colonization and desire self-determination then Europeans have that right, too. And we intend to exercise it.

If these demands are not fully implemented, if the European Union isn't dismantled, Multiculturalism isn't rejected and Muslim immigration isn't stopped, we, the peoples of Europe, are left with no other choice than to conclude that our authorities have abandoned us, and that the taxes they collect are therefore unjust and that the laws that are passed without our consent are illegitimate. We will stop paying taxes and take the appropriate measures to protect our own security and ensure our national survival.
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dissenter
March 19, 2007 11:36 PM
HASH(0x91773bc)

I for one am glad that civilization thrives here, where the Indians once roamed. If I'm injured, I'd rather go to a Western hospital with the latest technology than a medicine man who blows smoke on me. Do any of you doe-eyed nostalgic reminiscers feel differently? Does anyone wish the Indian tribes had kept the US to themselves? Such a peaceful, sophisticated lot, perpetuating an immutable Eden... Too bad we had to come along and screw it up, leading to the ugly and brutal situation we're in today, what with the Internet and all, but no frolicking buffaloes.

Gary Seaton
March 19, 2007 11:46 PM
HASH(0x917b834)

Rod: Sans the alleged anti-Semiticism (on which I'm no expert), LePen's program is remarkably similar to what you described as the necessary antidote to Sharia-fueled civilizational suicide. I'm with you. My point is that *some* voices in Europe HAVE been articulating a counter-elite, counter-establishment, non-pandering position, and have been villified for it. But LePen has run strongly in a couple of national elections, and has spawned similar parties in other European countries. As our own alarm grows, we may find ourselves in league with forces and voices we previously dismissed. The heat is, as you've suggested, being turned up.

ratiocination
March 19, 2007 11:56 PM
http://ratiocinationandtheinexplicable.blogspot.com

dissenter-- Are you confusing the example with the argument??? Or are you suggesting that Europe is suffering from a lack of civilization?

Anne
March 20, 2007 12:55 PM
HASH(0x918054c)

Rod, why do anti-Muslims like Le Pen have to be proven to be anti-Jewish too to make you wonder? This is a fascist cause in Europe and the UK. (Hirsi Ali who does what she does for her own purposes unfortunately serves to confirm them in what they want to believe...and hate.) Let the authorities handle violent immigrants, as they did in the days when European immigrants caused trouble in the US. The only way to protect good Muslim immigrants from the ugly fallout is to STOP THINKING AND WRITING ABOUT THEM AND THEIR RELIGION AS IF THEY'RE THE ENEMY. Just stop. Please.

Lisa
March 20, 2007 6:46 PM
HASH(0x9182508)

Dissenter, I'm glad I'm here, I'm glad I live in a Western civilization in this rich and lovely continent, I don't feel guilty for what my ancestors did - but there's no question it caused the American Indians great suffering. They didn't always do it on purpose either - they just moved in with consequences for those who were here first. I don't want my children and grandchildren to go through that. And from what I've read, American Indians don't take well to the notion of Muslim attacks and Muslim conquest either - except for maybe phony Indians like Wade Churchhill.

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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.

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