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February 20, 2006
What the "Cartoon Jihad" is Really All About
Sky News last week reported on a poll by the Sunday Telegraph in which 20% of Muslims in Great Britain support the July 7 terrorist who set off the bombs in London.
One in five UK Muslims sympathise with the suicide bombers who killed 52 people in London on July 7, a survey suggests.The ICM poll also reveals four in 10 want hardline Sharia Law introduced in parts of Britain.
A group of 500 UK Muslims aged 18 and above were quizzed for the Sunday Telegraph.
While 20% said they had sympathy for the July 7 killers' "feelings and motives", 99% condemned the attacks.
Another 75% said they did not sympathise with the bombers.
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Sharia should be introduced in "predominantly Muslim" areas of Britain, according to 40% of the Muslims polled.
That last one is the most scary of all. It's also exactly why I've been concentrating so much on the "Cartoon Jihad" these past few weeks. Anyone not totally mired in the fever swamps of political correctness knows full well that the protests around the world are not about the cartoons. They are about intimidating the West. Radical Muslims do not want to assimilate into our societies. They want nothing of the traditional give-and-take between the natives and new immigrants that is a hallmark of Western Civilization. They want us to change. They want to bring their odious and hateful Sharia law into our societies.
For all the problems in the US today with regard to Hispanic immigrants, we need to keep in mind that they are fundamentally like us. They come from countries with a Christian heritage. They too are children of the Enlightenment. The Reformation affected their society as well. In short, they think like we do. As such, they are participating in our tradition of give-and-take. We can debate how well it is going, and I think that the leftists with their multiculturalism are harming the process, but that is another debate.
Not so with Muslims, at least in Europe, where there are a lot more of them and they are much less assimilated. We don't have that many in the US, and the ones who are here don't create a whole lot of trouble beyond the usual complaints of discrimination that we've come to expect. Local Muslims didn't participate in the Feb 18 protests outside of the Danish Embassy in Washington DC, as instead we saw the New Black Panther party, a group more based on racialist principles than religion.
The Growing Islamization of Britain
Think all this is exagerated? Check out this article in the Sunday Telegraph from yesterday titled "The day is coming when British Muslims form a state within a state". Money quote
That is why they(Muslims) do not believe in integration. In 1980, the Islamic Council of Europe laid out their strategy for the future - and the fundamental rule was never dilute your presence. That is to say, do not integrate.
They're even worried over at the left-wing British paper The Guardian, calling the above poll "a warning that should not be ignored."
USS Neverdock has all the links you'd ever want on the growing he Islamization of Britain. Check it out. A few tidbits
British theater censors play so as not to upset MuslimsBritain adopts Islamic laws
English flag offensive to Muslims
Make his blog a part of your daily reading.
No Assimilation in Belgium
Last week on Downeastblog, one of my Belgium friends wrote about the situation in his country
One could fill books about the behaviour of Moroccan youngsters in Brussels schools e.g., with teachers driven to the brink of insanity, intimidated, ridiculed, sometimes chased out of the classrooms. Theft, robbery, downright murder. Schools in Antwerp forced to scrap pork meat from the school menu. Rampant "youth" criminality everywhere with the often minor perpetrators getting away with it unpunished. "Youth" gangs cruising the streets during the day (when they ought to be on the school banks), and cruising them at night (when they ought to be doing their homework). Of course, when they enter the job market, they have acquired no skills at all, not to mention raucous behaviour is not exactly inducing patrons to hire them either. Result: unemployment figures for young immigrants of 40% in the Brussels Region.
Doesn't sound like give-and-take to me.
The Demographics in France
Remember those riots in France a few months ago? Maybe they were a sign of things to come.
At the time most msm outlets simply referred to the rioters as "youths", or some other similar euphamism desiged to hide their true identity. In reality, of course, they were Muslim immigrants, mainly from Algeria.
Here are some population statistics you might not have seen:
It is one thing to know in theory that France has undergone major ethnic changes over the past 30 years and another thing altogether to confront a mass ethnic insurgency. The figures are inescapable. There are about 60 million inhabitants in continental France, plus 2 million citizens in the overseas territories (essentially the French West Indies and La Reunion island in the Indian Ocean). About 20 million, most of them white and Christian, are over 50Out of the remaining 40 million or so, 10 million or so belong to the ethnic minorities: Muslim North Africans, Muslim Turks or Near Easterners, Muslim Black Africans, Christian West Indian, African or Reunionese blacks. When one regards to the youngest age brackets, the proportion is even larger. It is estimated that 35% of all French inhabitants under 20, and 50% of all inhabitants in the major urban centers, belong to the ethnic minorities. Islam alone may claim respectively 30% and 45%. Since war is essentially the business of youths, the combatant ratio in any ethnic war may thus be one to one
In the end it's not so much the numbers as the lack of assimilation. I post these demographics simply to illustrate that it's not a small problem. There are enough Muslims in Europe now that the politicians take notice, and are concerned about getting their vote.
As the survey in Britian shows, many Muslims hold anti-western views, and given their numbers, are going to have great influence in Europe in the years ahead. This problem isn't going away.
Posted by Tom at February 20, 2006 2:00 PM
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Comments
As a blogger in Taiwan, I feel that I really should concentrate on Taiwan & Asian issues.
This subject is different though. Someday, I'll return home to the West. And it's not a matter of indifference to me what kind of West I return home to.
Posted by: The Foreigner at February 21, 2006 1:14 AM
test test
Posted by: Tom the Redhunter at March 1, 2006 8:05 PM
