How to Fight Eurabia?

A quote from Fjordman at the Gates of Vienna blog, 14 November 2007

The truth is that the European Union is directly responsible for much of the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe, both by importing Muslims and by appeasing Jihad at home and abroad. The EU hardly cares about live Jews, certainly not about dead ones. The Holocaust is shamelessly exploited as an excuse for creating an artificial superstate and above all for imposing restrictions on free speech for everybody who wants to oppose this project. […]

Splitting Belgium, the ideological and geographical heart of the EU, is the policy of the Vlaams Belang. This would contribute significantly to undermining the EU and, by extension, Eurabia. However, out of all the information published by LGF, a lot of which is nonsense or outdated or both, the one piece of information that I disliked the most was VB’s connection to Jean-Marie Le Pen from the FN in France through the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty group at the European Parliament. I don’t like Le Pen at all and consider it to be poor judgment by the VB to have even a formal link to that party. They should seriously consider cutting that link in the future. It’s not helpful.

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If a Swede is really lucky, he will first get battered by Muslims, and then beaten up a second time by his own Leftists for objecting to being beaten the first time. The state does next to nothing to prevent either. Native Swedes who resist a mass immigration that will render them a minority in their own country within a couple of generations have been classified as “racists,” and racists are for all practical purposes outside of the protection of the law.

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Western governments are pushing for independence for a group of Jihadist thugs who recently wanted to create the Osama bin Laden mosque in Kosovo. This name was eventually changed for public relations reasons since the Albanians know they need American support. In June 2007 the visiting US President George W. Bush was hailed as a hero by a group of Albanians who also stole his watch. “Sooner rather than later you’ve got to say ‘Enough’s enough – Kosovo is independent,’” Bush told cheering Albanians.

In Kosovo, dozens of churches and monasteries have been destroyed following ethnic cleansing of Christian Serbs by the predominantly Muslim Albanians, all under the auspices of NATO soldiers, and the Muslims are not ungrateful. Kosovo Albanians plan to honor their “savior,” former US President Bill Clinton, by erecting a statue of him. During the American-led bombing of Serbia on behalf of Muslim Albanians in 1999, Saudi Prince Khaled Bin Sultan called on the US to do the same against Israel on behalf of Palestinians. […]

Shouldn’t the involvement by the Republican Bush Administration with anti-democratic, anti-Semitic thugs with strong ideological and historical Nazi connections be a cause for concern? […]  [S]houldn’t that put both the Democratic and the Republican parties beyond the pale in the USA?

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Many LGF readers base their world view on the existence of a moderate Islam, which doesn’t exist, and on the existence of a large and rabid network of neo-Nazis in Europe, which also doesn’t exist. Neo-Nazi groups are generally quite marginal for the very simple reason that people don’t like them. I agree that they should be watched, but they are far down the list of enemies of freedom right now, behind Muslims, Leftists and the EU. […]

I’ve made my position on this quite clear: No, Islam isn’t reformable. The only possible solution then, apart from a global war to the death which nobody wants, is to separate ourselves from the Islamic world as much as possible. And by “we” I mean non-Muslims in general, not just Westerners. This entails completely and permanently stopping Muslim immigration in any form. However, in the USA, Canada and Australia, and certainly in Europe, simply stopping Muslim immigration is no longer enough. Some of the Muslims who are already here need to be expelled. There is no way around this. No, I have never suggested expelling all of them, but the most hardcore ones who push for implementing sharia laws here need to be deported, yes.

 

Islam reformable?

I think I'd have to agree with Fjordman on this one.  Islam is not just another religion comparable to Christianity.  Secularism is embedded in the latter, while Sayyid Qutb, intellectual godfather of the Muslim Brotherhood, called it Christianity's "great schizophrenia," this term obviously carrying a negative connotation.  The very Western values we still cherish today (albeit it less and less, thanks to the cultural revolution of the 1960s) are mostly rooted in our religious traditions.  To assume that Islam will follow us into achieving prosperous liberal democratic societies is to deny both its illiberal character and history's general unpredictability.

I have a hard time understanding the calls for an Islamic reformation.  Do we mean a "Reformation" (notice the capital R) in the Christian sense of the word?  For the Reformation in the West in fact entailed a return to scripture, which is nothing other than the literal meaning of the word "fundamentalism," and is already taking place within Islam.  The importance of the Christian Reformation was its challenge to Rome's absolute authority over religious matters.  Together with the schism of Orthodox and Roman Christianity, and the establishment of the Anglican Church independent of Rome, the Reformation set an important precedent for the history of the West: the authority of a single religion under an absolute worldly ruler -- by itself illegitimate, according to the Scripture -- will never remain unchallenged.  This, of course, had implications far beyond religion, which is why the Westphalian Peace is still regarded as a landmark in international politics.

The remaining option, then, would be an Islamic "reformation" without the capital R, meaning something like a revolutionary move of the Muslim world toward individualism, liberalism, secularism, and democracy.  This would, in fact, be more of an Islamic Enlightenment.  In short, we are asking of Islam to reform itself into something for which it has neither the foundations nor a natural longing.  Only Islam can reform itself, and since it is, I think, not a coincidence that the world's free societies are concentrated in the West and authoritarian regimes rule the world of Islam, it still has a long way to go.

These regimes reflect Islamic culture, not the other way around.  Overthrowing them won't bring any more freedom or democracy, just another despotic dictator.  As Dutch "populist" right-wing politician Geert Wilders recently stated, Muslims have to strip the Qur'an of half its pages.  I wouldn't bet my money on that happening.  And even if it will, a liberal democratic Islamic world is not necessarily going to be the natural outcome.

Inverting the truth

The Holocaust is shamelessly exploited as an excuse for creating an artificial superstate and above all for imposing restrictions on free speech for everybody who wants to oppose this project.

Can Fjordman name the Jewish organizations campaigning against this shameless exploitation of the Holocaust and demanding an end to the restrictions on free speech in Europe? Nope. The UK doesn't yet have laws against Holocaust denial. It does, however, have draconian laws against "incitement to racial hatred", which were introduced and have been steadily strengthened at the behest of the Jewish Board of Deputies and the Jewish Community Security Trust. Fjordman knows that Jewish organizations are the world's most powerful enemies of free speech, which is why he's scared to direct a word of criticism towards Jews for their central role in the destruction of the West.

re: Inverting the truth

Let's say that both the EU leaders and a great number of Jewish and non-Jewish organizations are involved in holocaust exploitation. Where is the truth inversion?

Fjordman: Islam isn’t

Fjordman:

 

Islam isn’t reformable.

Of course it is. It just needs some sustained tough love: the overthrow of intolerant regimes that are encouraging jihadism and the annulling of the Islamic world's oil domination. The Islamic regimes that refuse to reform can be replaced by those that will.

This just needs the right leadership in the West. That's what's been lacking so far. 

@RS

You're talking about politics and I think Fjordman is talking about religion.

Indeed, Islam is totalitarian so it encompasses both politics and religion, but I think Fjordman's statement is about religious reformation, which is correct, since the Koran was allegedly "handed" to Mohammed from God directly and cannot be altered.

Fjordman banned at LGF's, no surprise

LGF's, while worth a quick glance as an Islamofascist news aggregator, was never a site of much substance beyond that. Since its inception, Johnson has cultivated mind numbing sycophants ("the lizards" as he has designated them, heck he often tucks them in at night with musical clips, grow up!) with the same echo chamber infantilism as Daily Kos at the other end of the spectrum. The positive side to his accusations, and on his part protracted behind his wall, is that he has driven thinking folks to examine his accusations which in my opinion isn't serving him well.

Europeans are in so much more serious danger than we are. They are trying against political forces not aligned in their favor in arresting the encroachment of Eurabia. Considering how nascent their newly forming resistance movement is, one has to give some benefit of the doubt that the good guys in Europe will purge themselves of undesirables.

Thanks to the Brussels Journal and Gates of Vienna, the complexity of this can be examined and debated on comment threads that are transparent and not subject to banning because you aren't spewing the site owners viewpoint.