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November 3, 2005
The Harbingers Of France, Then Denmark, And More: Muslim Riots Continue Amidst Statements That The Land Belongs To Muslims
Topics: Understanding IslamTwo posts at Jihad Watch caught my attention. Two posts on two riots in two different countries, but just one story - a story that has to do with Europe experiencing the "fruits" of lax immigration policies that have allowed Muslims into the West ad-libitum, the immigration-without-assimilation of a culture that refuses to assimilate - putting Islam before nationhood, and multiculturalism.
The results of the situation are being felt throughout Europe, and are exemplified by the situation described in Belgium.
Frank Vanhecke is leader of the Vlaams Blok, or Flemish Block, in Belgium. The party is strong in Belgium's Dutch-speaking North, and is poised to take over the Antwerp city government. Vanhecke is worried about the growth of what he says is a radical Islamic sub-culture that refuses to assimilate, and which has begun demanding that Arabic become an official language of Belgium.Simply put, Europe has allowed itself to reach the point of becoming Islamicized, and it is begining to suffer the consequences. That what we're seeing now may not be mistaken as isolated events, let's take a look at our two posts.
One is on the riots in France by Muslim youth:
"Rioting Spreads to 20 Towns Around Paris" as rioters shoot at police and firefighters. As LaShawn Barber says, the whole thing has been caused by "lax immigration policies, prostration to the god of multiculturalism, and the refusal to fight fire with fire."And the other is on the riots in Denmark:Rampaging youths shot at police and firefighters Thursday after burning car dealerships and public buses and hurling rocks at commuter trains, as eight days of riots over poor conditions in Paris-area housing projects spread to 20 towns.
Youths ignored an appeal for calm from President Jacques Chirac, whose government worked feverishly to fend off a political crisis amid criticism that it has ignored problems in neighborhoods heavily populated by first- and second-generation North African and Muslim immigrants.
"Several days of Muslim Riots in Denmark (Not only in France)," a translation of this Jyllands Posten piece from Free Republic.The youth in both stories complain about being poor, supposedly they are being oppressed (by virtually ghetto-cizing themselves through their refusing to assimilate), their "honor" has been abused, they are revenge-motivated, and of course, they are Muslim.For several nights in a row, there has been the worst riots in Ã…rhus for many years.
"This land belongs to us", declared the young rioters. Another arson attack took place sunday night
"We are tired of being oppressed. We are tired of the police raiding our parents. We are tired of the police stopping our cars, and raiding us in public and damaging our honour."
"The police has to stay away. This is our area. We rule this place."
"We are angy to what has happened to our prophet. We are tired of the Jyllands Post (Danish paper who published cartoons of Mohammed). I know that it wasn't you, but we are not going to take this, what the Jyllands Post has done towards the prophet", he states aggressivly, and the others nod in agreement.
"We have planned this for three weeks.
The Economist sums up the situation, and the situation is scary:
>"Indifference to Islam has turned first to disdain, then to suspicion and more recently to hostility ... (due to images of) petro-powered sheikhs, Palestinian terrorists, Iranian ayatollahs, mass immigration and then the attacks of September 11th, executed if not planned by western-based Muslims and succored by an odious regime in Afghanistan ... Muslims tend to come from poor, rural areas; most are ill-educated, many are brown. They often encounter xenophobia and discrimination, sometimes made worse by racist politicians. They speak the language of the wider society either poorly or not at all, so they find it hard to get jobs. Their children struggle at school. They huddle in poor districts, often in state-supplied housing ... They tend to withdraw into their own world, (forming a) self-sufficient, self-contained community."Although the article that this excerpt comes from gives me cause to find much to disagree with, I do find myself agreeing with most if not all of the above excerpt. And no matter how you wish to cut it, Muslims are simply being Muslims, and the problem with Islam, is Islam itself.This self-imposed segregation has multiple dimensions. Clannish behavior persists for decades. Marriages are still arranged - reluctant brides and grooms are imported from the motherland to wed immigrants from the same region or village. The "parallel society", in the words of a British government report following the Oldham riots two years ago, extends to cultural habits, religious practices and social norms.
We cannot not allow the United States to follow the path to Islamization, already taken by the European governments. Halting lax immigration policies that have allowed Muslims into the West ad-libitum, the immigration-without-assimilation of a culture that refuses to assimilate - putting Islam before nationhood, and multiculturalism, will be a good start. And we just might start by getting serious about walling off the US-Mexican border.
As La Shawn Barber says in her post, it's "Coming to an American Street Near You."
Update: Dan at Diggers Realm appears to be as tired of hearing the word Muslim, as the rest of us. He writes, "If you want to live in a country and benefit from it then fit in otherwise get the f--- out!"
Posted by Hyscience at November 3, 2005 3:27 PM
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Comments
Good to see your trackback system and comment system is run by the mainstream media
"Your ping was denied for questionable content."
and
"Your comment was denied for questionable content"
When I tried to post about it.
For my entry http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/001357.html
Probably because I used the word M-u-s-l-i-m *gasp*
Posted by: Digger
at November 4, 2005 1:34 PM
Muslim? We filter the word mulsim? Let's try it: muslim, muslim, muslim ... Actually, we found the problem in our overly aggressive spam filter and squashed it. Thanks for commenting.
Posted by: tim at November 7, 2005 11:41 PM
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