A Healthy Fear
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Fri, 2008-09-19 08:14
A quote from Diana West in her weekly column (which appears in 130 US newspapers), 18 September 2008
Is advocating freedom of speech "extreme" or "fascist"? Is opposing Islam's law, which knows no race, "racist"? Is supporting Israel (which these parties do far more than other European parties) "Nazi"? The outrageously empty epithets of the Islamo-socialist left seem calculated to stop thought cold and trigger a massive rejection reflex. In this way, resistance becomes anathema, and Islamic law, unchecked, spreads across Europe.
Does that sound "Islamophobic"? You bet. How can anyone who values freedom of conscience, equality before the law and other such Western jewels not have a healthy fear of Islamic law, which values none of these things? Incredibly, this is an emotion that is supposed to be suppressed – and, in Europe, on pain of prosecution.
See links below for Diana West’s articles from Europe:
Europe (general):
We Have a Lot to Learn From 'Over There', column, 26 June 2008
Postcards from Europe I, blog post, 28 June 2008
Jihad in America Vs. Jihad in Europe, blog post, 1 July 2008
Yes or No to Islamization? blog post, 13 September 2008
We Are Losing Europe to Islam, column, 18 September 2008
The Netherlands:
Geert Wilders: Prisoner of Islam, column, 3 July 2008
Switzerland:
Swiss Minaret Referendum Has Nothing to Do with "Racism", blog post, 10 July 2008
A Swiss "Extremist" Against Islamic Law, column, 17 July 2008
Belgium:
Studies in Sensitivity in Brussels, blog post, 13 September 2008
"Islamo-socialist left", how apt
Submitted by onecent on Fri, 2008-09-19 15:52.
"Islamo-socialist left" is the perfect description of the collaboration of both groups, both muzzle free speech. The Left tolerates Islamofascism. It certainly isn't an enemy to them, why else refuse to name the problem or permit public discussion about the most negative aspects of Islam and the demographics that will change the future of Europe.
The bureaucrats in Brussels aren't going to change. The EU needs to scale back to a trading treaty only so that individual countries can have their right to self-determination restored. If France and Holland and some Scandinavian countries chose to be dhimmi states, let them. Their follies shouldn't be shared by all.