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August 11, 2006

Britain Looks To 'Why Us'

Topics: Dhimmitude

Administrative note: Notice that I've categorized this post under dhimmitude.

A Boston.com piece this morning says that Britons are again wondering what they have we done wrong. How could British citizens of Pakistani origin, but nonetheless British, plot to blow up airplanes over the Atlantic, which would be sure to kill hundreds of their fellow citizens? What is it about Muslim youths in Europe that draws them to suicide and religious fanaticism?

When I was researching how European countries interact with the Muslim minorities during a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin last winter, I found British Muslims to be the envy of their French and German counterparts. Britain allowed more public space for Islam than did Germany or France, more tolerance, more dedication to multiculturalism, more Muslim faces on television, and more participation in the national life. Interviews indicated that British Muslims themselves thought they were better off in Britain than in Germany or France.

Yet when the Pew Foundation polled thousands of Muslims in Europe it found that British Muslims held more negative views about the West than did Muslims on the continent. One startling statistic: 68 percent of British Muslims held negative views of Jews, while only 29 percent of French Muslims held similar views.

One reason for this, according to one of Britain's most senior policeman of South Asian origin, Tarique Ghaffur, may be foreign policy. Britain's engagement in the Iraq war, its high-profile role in Afghanistan, and its close alliance with US foreign policy in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute may be a trigger for alienated youth who perceive Islam as being under siege. They connect Britain's role in the world with their own lack of employment and under-class status.

Doesn't this sound familiar? Foreign policy? Islam under attack? I thought these people were Brits!

Not so. It just happenst that most, not all, Muslims - identify with the ummah rather than their country. They don't like the fact that certain Western governments (i.e. the U.S. and Great Britain) are unwilling to succumb to the ambition of the radical Islamists to conquer the world in the name of Islam, and be "Islamicized." In other words, it's that old bedouin mentality rising to the surface within much of the Muslim community. Unwilling to assimilate like the rest of their country's citizens who have emigrated from foreign lands or have grown up as Brits irregardless of their parents native country, a large and growing percentage of the Muslim youth in the West choose to fall in lockstep with the ideology followed by radical clerics and their fellow misquided peers. A huge percentage of these people actually believe that 9/11 is a CIA/Jewish conspiracy - and that's just a warmup to the ridiculous inflamatory mistruths they learn from their cultural environment.

Yet, typical of the Europeans and the American liberal Left, it's always mea culpa first, reason last if ever.

There's an old expression for people like that - people that fail to recognize the threat and the real cause of the threat until the threat is no longer a threat but a reality. Their called "dead meat" Kaput! Along with their civilization.

As for the cause - it's beCAUSE they hate everyone that doesn't believe what they do, that threatens their sick, perverted, dark age, tribal/bedouin culture and ideology. It's not complicated - it's radical Islam.

It's fish or cut bait time - the Brits and the rest of the West either get it, or it gets us.

Howard Bloom "got it" in his piece, "Islam's War Against the West."

Posted by Richard at August 11, 2006 7:33 AM

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