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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.
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#2Hi likwidshoe,
Thanks! And welcome to the site. It's great to see a new Gravatar-user here. Gravatar-users (Gravataristas?) provide some of the best comments in the blogosphere.
I see your email address is via SayAnything, one of my favorite blogs. I check in there daily.
Re: can this be turned around. I'm very concerned about the state of the situation in Europe. I see two possible ways it might be turned around:
1) Via all of us talking about it, it might come into the conscious minds of the Europeans how much trouble they're in, and they might be able to find a way to address this.
2) And this really could be the subject of a blog post... we might "flip" the radical Muslims -- inspiring their societies to embrace freedom and Democracy -- before they can fully "flip" Europe. If the Muslim culture rejects Jihad, the Jihadists in foreign lands will, perhaps, abandon that cause.
Bat Ye'or talks about something similar. She discusses the importance of making radical Islamists recognize the right of Israel to exist. She states that if radical Islamists admit that, they will recognize that people of all religions are in this world together, and that it isn't suitable for Islam to have the goal of wiping out Christianity and Judaism.
Needless to say, this could take decades. However, the current advance of freedom in the Mid-East is taking place faster than anyone predicted, which is some grounds for hope on this subject.
Question to you Vik:
Do you think this can be turned around? And the important precursor: do you think that Europe and America have the stomach and will to turn this around?
Off topic: decent blog. I'm definitely stopping back regularly to see what your take is on things.