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Last weekend, at a private residence in Los Angeles, Bat Ye’or, author of Erabia: The Europe-Arab Axis, spoke about Jihad. From a Washington Times article on the book:
“Eurabia,” the long-awaited book by Bat Ye’or, is a comprehensive, even overwhelming and absolutely shocking explication of how and why it is that Europe is transforming itself into what the Egyptian-born historian calls “a new geopolitical entity ” Eurabia.”
...Created 30-odd years ago at the instigation of France and the Arab League, the practically unknown EAD [Euro-Arab Dialogue] has provided structural and theoretical underpinnings to a Euro-Arab axis ” Eurabia. These have fostered the political, economic and cultural bonds between Europe and the Arab world that Bat Ye’or maintains were designed to create “a global alternative to American power.”
...freely flowing Arab oil into Europe … would come about in exchange for freely flowing Muslim immigration into Europe…
But the Europeans got back-stabbed. In accordance with Jihad, the immigrating Muslim populations did not assimilate with the culture, but rather, sought to overpower and destroy it. From Eurabia:
Islamic doctrine forbids Muslims to accept the influence of infidel cultures.
That is no exaggeration. For examples of this, see this post on the Freedom House report on the literature being distributed in Saudi Mosques right here on U.S. soil. One example:
Be dissociated from the infidels, hate them for their religion, leave them, never rely on them for support, do not admire them, and always oppose them in every way according to Islamic law.
They’re not here to join in. They’re not here to help everyone around them live better. They’re here to take over.
The method of Jihad is to get enough non-assimilating people into the target nation so that they destroy the target culture with the one they’ve brought with them. Bat Ye’or describes how effective this already has been in Europe:
As the mass of Europeans remain to this day totally ignorant of the EAD (Euro-Arab Dialogue) agreements, they did not perceive that the growing social insecurity, the erosion of their basic freedoms, and the unrelenting mutation of their societies resulted from the consciously chosen policies of their own leaders—concocted in the opacity of the European Commission decision center. The EU’s various bodies, committees, and policies represent a complex supranational web that often escapes accountabiity and are impenetrable even to experienced people. Europeans have been unwittingly victims during thirty years of constant indoctrination, encouraged by state support—as evidenced in all the Euro-Arab agreements signed at the highest levels of government.
It’s amazing how well this works, especially in democracies where politicians need every vote they can get:
[Islamic doctrine] requires the acknowledgment of Islamic prestige and superiority, and European ministers have shown themselves glad to oblige with proclamation of the Islamic origin of, or predominant contribution to, Western civilization’s science and arts. Some of these proclamations are so florid they suggest that without Arab science, Europeans today would be a mass of illiterates, for Europe owes its civilization and culture to Islam.
...Islam actually inherited most of its knowledge from Greece, Rome, and the Judeo-Christian, Armenian, Persian, and Hindu civilizations that Muslims conquered and colonized and upon which they built their own contributions….
...Yet, since the inferiority of the infidel is a dogma enshrined in the Qur’an and in so many Islamic religious dictums, the obsequious declarations of Eurabian ministers, politicians and intellectuals are reminiscent, as we have seen, of the obligatory acknowledgement of Islam’s superiority under dhimmitude.
The word “dhimmitude” refers to the traditional status of non-Muslims in nations that have been conquered by Muslims. They are oppressed and all but enslaved. The plight of non-Muslims in nations like Iran is tragic.
Dhimmi submissiveness, with its crawling behavior, emerges from a study of historical records and can be analyzed in populations reduced to an almost hostage condition. The great enigma of our time consists in its adoption by so-called free Western nations. Legitimate acknowledgement of mutual cultural borrowing between peoples which allows for transformation, assimilation and improvement, is different from uncritical and self-serving adulation.
This adulation was designed to undermine Europe’s Judeo-Christian roots. The principle of a Judeo-Christian civilization in Europe was belittled by producing and constantly propagating the Islamic origin of European civilization. Hamadi Essid, head of the Arab League Mission at Paris and its permanent delegate to UNESCO, told a meeting as early as 1970, ‘For some time there has been a catch-phrase: Judeo-Christian values. This, slogan is directed against the Arabs.’ Arabs reject the term ‘Judeo-Christian civilization’ and replace it with ‘Abrahamic civilization’ because, as Abraham was a Muslim (according to the Qur’an), it follows that Western civilization not only includes the Islamic dimension, but is Islamic in its essence through Abraham, the Muslim prophet.
‘Abrahamism’ is a notion that totally denies the historical identity and origin of Judaism and Christianity, since it reduces them to falsifications of Islam, the true religion of Abraham. Today, any reference to Europe’s Christian sources—not to mention its Judeo-Christian roots—has been omitted from the EU Constitution on ‘secular’ grounds, but mainly so as not to offend Muslim immigrants.
The above quotes are from Eurabia. The following are from my hand-written notes from her talk last weekend. Quotes are not expected to be verbatim.
A recent French report has shown that in some schools there are separate water fountains for Muslims and for infidels.
I mean, do you really need to hear any more than that? That’s pretty much the ball game, isn’t it? If that’s what’s going on in Europe, they are in big trouble.
Europe cannot defend itself anymore. So it has to flatter Arabs.
... European churches now want to get away from the Judeo-Christian god. They are now saying that Jesus was a Muslim.
Europe is now Palestinian. It is no longer a Judeo-Christian nation. But the U.S. is, which Islamism will seek to destroy, to dominate. Because there are still people there rooted in the bible. America is the root of the resistance. If America disappears and falls, the world is open to Jihad. It is America who is resisting, and who is helping others to resist.
On the plus side:
Many Muslims don’t know that these are rules that are centuries old. If we talk about this to them many things can change.
If the Arabs accept Israel as a country which has its own history and right they will also accept Christianity. We have to make them understand that we are all together and they have to change their mentality.
We have to help the Muslims also who are open-minded.
We’ve got a fight on our hands. I think we need to:
Update 3-10-05: See also this post: Jihad is Driving the Dutch Out of Their Own Nation.
You may have heard the reports that the 1972 porno film “Deep Throat,” currently the subject of a documentary, was possibly “the most profitable film of all time: made for $25,000, it has to date grossed $600 million).”
Michael Hiltzik debunks this:
What to think of these claims: Baloney.
Leaving aside that “Deep Throat” was financed by mobsters and that therefore any figures are suspect, logic and arithmetic alone are enough to tell you that its box-office gross could not remotely have approached $600 million.
We’re talking about a movie that was released in 1972, banned in half the country and generally exhibited in one theater at a time even in the biggest cities, such as New York and Los Angeles.
The average U.S. ticket price in 1972, according to the Motion Picture Assn. of America, was $2.05. By 1980, when the “Deep Throat” phenomenon was way played out, the average was still only $2.69.
For the movie to have made $600 million at the box office, in other words, it would have had to sell tickets to enough customers to populate the entire United States one and a half times over.
The No. 1 mainstream movie of the 1970s, by the way, was “Star Wars.” To date, its domestic theatrical gross is $461 million. You want to tell me that “Deep Throat” has sold more tickets than “Star Wars”?
Hiltzik talks about how readily these absurd numbers have been accepted and widely reported by MSM:
It should surprise no connoisseur of journalistic indolence to know that the press has accepted the $600-million figure as gospel for years. My newspaper database turned up no fewer than 200 references dating back to 1980. The majority have appeared in recent months, thanks to Universal’s publicity machine.
Not a single story attributes the figure to an authoritative source. Indeed, it’s always accompanied by weasel words such as “by some accounts,” “reportedly,” “said to be,” etc.
Have our reporters, editors and critics become so mathematically ignorant that a patently inflated figure like this no longer leaps out and demands authentication?
From the time Tilly Merrell was a year old, doctors told her family she would never have a normal life—or even a normal meal.
British doctors found that the food she swallowed went into her lungs instead of her stomach, causing devastating lung infections. They said she had isolated bulbar palsy, and their solution was to feed her through a stomach tube. Forever.
But having a backpack with a food pump wired to her stomach wasn’t much of a life for a girl whose favorite smell is bacon frying—a girl who once broke through a locked kitchen door in an effort to sneak some cheese. So her family got help from their community of Warndon, about 120 miles north of London, raising enough money to take Tilly, now 8, on a 5,000-mile journey they hoped might change her life, a journey to Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University.
Doctors at Packard were intrigued that she had no neurological symptoms often associated with the palsy. In all other ways, she was a normal child with a mischievous smile and a truckload of energy. After seeing her Feb. 7, they ran three tests and found out what was wrong with her.
Nothing.
She had infections, certainly, but they were long gone. And when she swallowed something, it went into her stomach, not her lungs.
...”I had a burger with cheese, bacon, egg and ham,” she said Wednesday, relishing the moment like a kid in a candy store. “And some hash browns with grease.”
But after being on normal food for more than a week, ice cream is the flavor of the month.
“She tried it at Sizzler,” said her mom, Amelia. “She liked it.”
Wednesday’s menu included a variety of items for breakfast at Denny’s, Tilly said. “Two strips of bacon—I can’t remember. My brain’s gone.”
