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		<title>Syrian Jihad Comes to France</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2014 04:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Brown]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[French jihadists return home.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/nemmouche534.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226859" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/nemmouche534-450x253.jpg" alt="nemmouche534" width="322" height="181" /></a>Last February, French authorities broke up a terrorist plot they described as “imminent,” seizing nine hundred grams of explosives from the apartment building of a twenty-three year-old Islamist recently returned from Syria where he was suspected of having waged jihad. Two men escaped the police raid, in which several wills were also found, one belonging to a 25-year-old man described as “a candidate for the jihad.”</p>
<p>“This case is emblematic of that which one has always feared,” a police source close to the investigation told the French newspaper, <i>Le Figaro, </i>at the time, explaining that young French Muslims who had participated in the Syrian jihad and returned “radical, trained, hardened” with a terrorist project in mind are France’s newest terrorist threat.</p>
<p>This fear became a reality for French authorities when Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, a French Muslim and veteran jihadist of the Syrian war, was arrested Friday in southern France “in possession of firearms and large quantities of ammunition.” Nemmouche is suspected of having killed three people in a shooting rampage in Brussel’s Jewish museum on May 24. After the arrest, police apparently found a video he made, claiming responsibility for the attack.</p>
<p>The French government’s growing concern about the danger posed by returning jihadists to France (and now to other countries) manifested itself last April when Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced a plan to prevent young French Muslims from leaving home for Syria. Once there, they join the al-Qaida-connected al-Nusra Front to battle the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Some also enlist in the even more extreme terrorist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). All of which only deepens their radicalization and hatred for the West.</p>
<p>The French government’s plan contains about 20 measures, chief among which is a “green number”, active since April 29, which people can privately inform authorities about potential jihadists. In its first ten days of operation, the anti-jihad “green number” was reported in the French media to have registered 24 cases (18 by phone and six by internet) of interest to authorities. They involved people between the ages of 14 and 34, of which eight were women and 16 men.</p>
<p>“These calls have already established five actual departures for Syria,” an interior ministry source told <i>Le Figaro</i>.</p>
<p>But opposition political leader Marine Le Pen of the National Front Party called Cazeneuve’s plan “cosmetic.”</p>
<p>“It does not attack the root of the problem, the speech in some mosques that are genuine calls to jihad,” Le Pen told a French radio station. “Nor does the plan attack recruiters and funding from foreign countries known to support terrorist fundamentalism, such as Qatar.”</p>
<p>What triggered France’s sudden concern for citizens and residents taking part in the Syrian war three years after its outbreak was not security issues but rather the deaths of two young brothers killed there last December. They were part of a group of 12 young French Muslims that had left France to fulfill their jihad duty in Syria. The brothers’ deaths and this group’s departure “unleashed a mobilization against jihadist indoctrination” in France early this year.</p>
<p>But another, perhaps more important, reason regarding the French government’s sudden interest in returning French jihadists concerns numbers. Cazeneuve revealed the disturbing fact that the number of Syria-bound French jihadists has increased 75 percent over the past few months. Security officials are calling this “an unheard of exodus.” Altogether, according to Cazenueve’s figures, 285 French Muslims are currently involved in “the Syrian quagmire,” 120 are in transit, a further 100 had returned to France and about 30 have perished in the conflict.</p>
<p>These are astonishing numbers when compared to the approximately 50 French jihadists intelligence officials identified as having taken part in the Afghanistan jihad from 2001 to 2011. In total, about 2,000 European Muslims are believed to have reached the Syrian battlefields, according to the military news website <a href="http://strategypage.com/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>strategypage.com</i></span></a>. About 100 Americans jihadists are also believed to be in Syria, one of whom last week became the first American suicide bomber there.</p>
<p>And as if all this wasn’t cause enough for concern, French authorities have admitted they will not be able to keep track of the expected large numbers of returning jihadists, stating that surveillance “is going to cost a fortune.” In other words, they will be overwhelmed &#8211; if they aren’t already. One observer perhaps illuminated this unsettling situation best when, using dark humour, he commented that, at this rate, there will be so many former French jihadists from the Syrian war the government will have to build a veterans homes for them.</p>
<p>The extent of the France’s jihadist problem is actually worse than Cazeneuve portrayed. There are also French citizens waging jihad in North Africa as well as in Yemen where two French nationals were recently arrested in connection with the war al-Qaeda is waging against Yemen’s government. So the number of current and former French jihadists is actually estimated by some at about 800. But this may not include those flying under the radar and as yet unknown to authorities.</p>
<p>To give an idea of the extent of the European jihadist phenomenon, according to <a href="http://strategypage.com/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>strategypage.com</i></span></a>, Turkey, a major entry point to Syria, currently has a list of about 4,000 European Muslims that their governments believe are jihad bound and have asked be detained. Turkey has caught and returned about 500 so far.</p>
<p>Some of the French jihadists have been arrested upon their return to France and put on trial for associating with a terrorist group. But, if convicted, the punishments they receive are usually light. And if they are minors, then none at all.</p>
<p>One of the problems the French legal system faces in prosecuting returned jihadists is that they have not committed a crime on French soil. It is also sometimes difficult to establish whether they actually joined a banned terrorist group when abroad. Some of the accused have said they had left France simply to go on holidays<i>. Le Figaro</i> reports that there are currently 40 cases before the courts regarding French jihadists. Some concern crimes, such as armed robbery, committed by jihadi hopefuls before leaving France to finance their trip to the Syrian battlefields.</p>
<p>Some of the reasons offered for jihad’s attraction for young French Muslims range from poor integration into French society (between 50 and 60 percent of men in French prisons are Muslim, although Muslims make up only ten percent of France’s population), testing the limits of authority of a society that has set few for young people, and the doctrine of Islamic supremacy. The latter is inculcated by radical preachers who do not like non-Islamic societies and do not accept that other religions are equal to Islam. Rather, France and other western countries must become Islamic, by force if necessary.</p>
<p>Because of the large numbers of French Muslims taking part in the Syrian jihad and the resulting danger they represent, many in France are now questioning the meaning of French citizenship. This issue may now become a burning one after Nemmouche’s arrest.</p>
<p>It is currently argued that returning jihadists may be French nationals, but are citizens only on paper. In addition, many French jihadists, like the two arrested in Yemen, possess dual citizenship, often from an Islamic state. As one observer commented, they are not French “neither by culture, nor by their mode of living, nor by any attachment to France.”</p>
<p>“They have only a French identity card,” stated another. “It is the difference between being and having.”</p>
<p>As a result, it has been proposed that French jihadists not be allowed to return to France because of the increasingly visible security risk. Some believe they should not even be prevented from leaving the country, only prevented from returning. This argument was given a boost when four French journalists, kidnapped and held eleven months by ISIL, said after their release last April that some of their captors spoke French. This topic will probably receive greater attention after the Brussel’s tragedy.</p>
<p>Gilbert Collard, a National Front federal parliamentarian, put forward the non-return argument on French television last April after the kidnapped journalists’ homecoming. He prophetically stated it is necessary to prevent the jihadists’ re-entry into France in order to avoid more killings like those committed by Mohammed Merah, a French Muslim terrorist who murdered three Jews and four soldiers in France in 2012. Regarding the danger these jihadists pose, Collard said one would have to be “completely mindless, decerebrated, not to be worried.”</p>
<p>“One is going to have …people who have left to conduct holy war return to French territory trained, equipped and who are going to be unmanageable,” he said.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, due to an unshaken belief in multiculturalism and an attachment to the Muslim vote, France’s socialist government will most likely never adopt Collard’s common-sense, life-saving proposal, especially since he belongs to the party French socialists love to hate. But this unwillingness and inability to look reality in the face and confront the danger radical Islam and jihad pose to France, insures that returning jihadists do not have much to fear in the future, while law-abiding French and European citizens, especially Jewish ones, do.</p>
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		<title>Muslim Kills Jews in Brussels, Brussels Mayor Says City Needs More Diversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there's a problem with diversity, just add more diversity.]]></description>
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<p>If there&#8217;s a problem with diversity, just add more diversity. <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4338/brussels-terrorists-europe">It&#8217;s bound to make things better</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Yesterday, French police arrested the terrorist accused of murdering three Jews in Brussels, Belgium on the eve of the European elections. The killer, 29-year old French citizen Mehdi Nemmouche, a son of Muslim immigrants, had gone to Syria in 2013&#8230;</p>
<p>The way to combat this, Yvan Mayeur, the Socialist Mayor of Brussels, said, was &#8220;to give room to the many cultures and religions in Europe.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yvan Mayeur, the Socialist Mayor of Brussels, said that to combat anti-Semitism and racism, his city needed more &#8220;diversity.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Anti-Semitism would be better combated with less diversity. For all the native bigotry, it&#8217;s been a while since the average citizen of Brussels thought that killing Jews was a good way to pass the time.</p>
<p>The same can&#8217;t be said for its Muslim settlers.</p>
<p>But the left can&#8217;t process minority bigotry. Its response to Muslim Supremacist bigotry is to solve it with more diversity. And that&#8217;s how this whole mess got started.</p>
<p>The London Review of Books responded to the killings <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/05/26/glen-newey/in-brussels-2/">with a long snarky piece </a>about Brussels that managed to reference UKIP, Le Pen, Denis Thatcher, PVV, Pierre Poujade, Lega Nord and Breivik&#8211; none of whom had anything to do with the attack.</p>
<p>Missing was the dreaded &#8220;M&#8221; word.</p>
<p>After describing the local scene, the piece abruptly turns to discussing fascism in the EU elections as if one had anything to do with the other. It&#8217;s a curious mechanism of distraction and denial.</p>
<p>European leftists, like American leftists, are incapable of discussing the actual issue.</p>
<p>If a Neo-Nazi had been responsible, then conclusions would have been drawn. When a Muslim is responsible, then it&#8217;s time to mutter something about UKIP and diversity.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Europe Will Collapse as the Soviet Union Did&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Giulio Meotti]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foremost European conservative philosopher explains why he has hope Europeans will come to their senses.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/roger-scruton1.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-139944" title="roger-scruton1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/roger-scruton1.gif" alt="" width="375" height="253" /></a>“It’s inevitable that the European project should reach a crisis – as it was inevitable that Lenin’s project in 1917 should do the same.”</p>
<p>Roger Scruton has no doubt: the European Union will collapse as it happened with the Soviet Union. Hailed as “Britain’s foremost conservative philosopher” by the The Wall Street Journal, Professor at Oxford and St. Andrews, Scruton is author of twenty books, including, “The Meaning of Conservatism” and the latest “The Face of God.” He is one of the very few intellectuals who predicted the implosion of the European project.</p>
<p>“The European crisis has come about, in my view, for two reasons,” Scruton tells me. “First, there was the original project, to create a united states of Europe. This project was conceived without any Plan B. It seemed imperative to achieve it, and no provisions were made for failure, or for a change of direction. The machine lumbers forward without feedback, and can make no adjustments to a changing reality. Second, the project was entrusted to a bureaucracy, with extraordinary legislative and administrative powers. Those responsible for pushing things forward are neither elected by the people nor answerable to the people in any election. They proceed at uniform speed in a straight line until reaching the inevitable immovable obstacle. When that happens, it will all be over. But the damage will be enormous.”</p>
<p>Given those two features of the European project it is inevitable that it should reach a big crisis. “The failure also has two important causes. First, as everybody knows, there is a growing deficit of legitimacy in the European institutions. Once or twice the institutions have appealed through their political spokesmen to the people. But whenever given the chance to vote the people of Europe say ‘no’ to the project. The project continues as before, unaffected by this ‘no’. But the people draw their conclusions, and gradually withdraw their trust.”</p>
<p>The other cause has been the complete failure of the European political elite to consider the culture of Europe. “The culture of Europe is founded in the Judeo-Christian revelation, and our laws, institutions and educational traditions are unintelligible without reference to the lessons taught in the Bible. But the culture of Europe is also a secular culture, as I explain in my book ‘The West and the Rest’, based in territorial loyalty of a national kind. Both the religious and the national sources of our culture are repudiated by the European elites, who believe that culture is of no significance, and will change in obedience to the political and economic imperatives. Hence those who invented the Euro and imposed it unthinkingly on the people of Europe failed to see that the attitude of people to debt is profoundly affected by culture, and that the culture of Greece (for example) is totally different, in this respect, from the culture of Germany, and that of Italy of course different to both of them.”</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[An open letter to Geert Wilders.]]></description>
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<p>An open letter to Geert Wilders:</p>
<p>Though we have not met, I feel as if I know you well. I have followed your trials—and trial—closely and, like many who are engaged in the same fight against Islamic supremacism and the various forms of jihad that confront us, I endorse your campaign on behalf of the West and its traditional liberties in every way that I can.</p>
<p>Indeed, I wonder if you are aware of the extent of your <em>de facto</em> “support network,” a majority in America who, according to a <a href="http://people-press.org/report/564/islamic-extremism">Pew Research Center survey</a>, are “very concerned” about the rise of Islamic extremism, and certainly a significant minority of the increasingly vocal. The same may now be the case in your own country and in a number of other European nations as well—Switzerland and its <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/11/29/switzerland.minaret.referendum/index.html">minaret affair</a> come immediately to mind—as ordinary people gradually come to realize the threat they are facing.</p>
<p>Of course, we can write off the political and intellectual elites who, through laziness, timidity, adherence to the craven doctrine of political correctness, and no doubt the profiteering impulse, are in bed with the succubus who would guzzle their blood. And this is no blood libel. In addition, you probably strike these presumably more decorous sensibilities as too blunt, aggressive or politically ambitious, which is clearly what prompts their efforts at character assassination against you. But your passionate resistance to the creeping Islamization of Europe prompts me in turn to ask: Does this in Wilders seem ambitious? In any event, pay no attention to these tergiversators. As Andrew Bostom <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/qaddafi-wilders-and-the-jihad-against-switzerland/">writes</a>, “The transparent agenda in characterizations of Wilders is to demonize Western Europe’s most informed and courageous politician resisting the actual jihadism…But the Swiss minaret referendum, and even more emphatically, burgeoning Dutch support for Wilders and his PVV, indicate that ordinary Europeans reject the capitulation to Islamic supremacism their cultural relativist media and political elites deliberately abet.”</p>
<p>In your fine <a href="http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=20195">speech to the British House of Lords</a> on March 5, 2010, you established the principle, as you have many times before, that you and your Freedom Party do not “have a problem with Muslims as such.” You distinguish between law-abiding Muslims and the ideology of Islam based on the Koran. “There are many moderate Muslims,” you declare, “but there is no such thing as a moderate Islam.” The first part of your proposition is a socially appropriate sentiment, but the second part begets a conceptual problem which is decidedly unpleasant to address.</p>
<p>Forgive me for suggesting that you probably had no choice but to make this subtle discrimination between the faithful and the faith, which implies a certain disconnect between the wish and the reality, as you must surely realize. You tread on very delicate ground here, as you are doubtlessly constrained to do in order to avoid alienating both “moderate Muslims” and non-Muslims who regard themselves as unprejudiced.</p>
<p>When you rightly assert that “Islam is not merely a religion [but] a totalitarian ideology,” note that the Koran “commands Muslims to establish shariah law,” claim that “Islam is not compatible with our Western way of life,” and go on to compare the Koran with <em>Mein Kampf</em>, quoting Winston Churchill to reinforce your thesis, the distinction you adduce between individual Muslims and the collective institution of Islam tends to collapse. For what you are really saying is that moderate Muslims cannot be devout Muslims or, in truth, cannot be Muslims at all. What sort of Muslim remains after you have factored out shariah law, effectively compared Muhammed to Hitler, and contended that the Koran should be outlawed, or at least designated as a species of hate literature, as you proposed in your <a href="http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3094">letter</a> to the newspaper <em>De Volkskrant</em> on August 8, 2007?</p>
<p>You now find yourself uncomfortably situated, so to speak, between the devil and the deep Red Sea. Not being a Muslim yourself, you don’t have the option of polemical emphasis that derives from rejecting the faith, becoming an apostate-on-principle or converting to another faith, like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ibn Warraq, Wafa Sultan and Nonie Darwish, among others—all of whom took the second part of your logic to its inevitable terminus. They understood that one cannot honestly profess Islam without abiding by the decrees of the religion and its holy book, including the oft-repeated summons to kill or enslave the infidel, the structure of gender apartheid, the imposition of shariah, and a host of other draconian laws.</p>
<p>In other words, a “moderate Muslim” would have to live in a state of contradiction, and perhaps many do—as does, for example, freedom loving Tarek Fatah, Canadian author of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Mirage-Tragic-lllusion-Islamic/dp/0470841168/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268418133&amp;sr=1-1">Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State</a></em>, who <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=2673117">calls himself</a> a “hardened secular Muslim.” What exactly is a <em>secular</em> Muslim, whether hardened or soft? Similarly, what could a “secular Christian” conceivably be other than some sort of mythical chimera? (It is different for Jews, of course; a “secular Jew” remains a Jew because the world persists in regarding him as such. But that is another matter.) Fatah is a good man and an important voice in the ongoing debate concerning Islam, but he cannot extricate himself from a legendary infatuation or acknowledge disagreeable historical and theological facts. One cannot cherry pick the Koran or romanticize Islamic history, as so-called “moderate Muslims” are obliged to do, without falling into incoherence. As a character in Hanif Kureishi’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Black-Album-Hanif-Kureishi/dp/0684825406/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268483288&amp;sr=1-1">The Black Album</a></em> says, “our religion isn’t something you can test out, like trying out a suit to see if it fit! You gotta buy the whole outfit!” There is, to put it another way, no such beverage as Islam Lite. One drinks in the real thing or nothing; there is no substitute.</p>
<p>Bangladeshi author and former Muslim Abul Kasem, in a <em><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=29366">FrontPage Magazine interview</a></em>, defines the majority of Muslims as believers “in name only.” Kasem is shockingly direct: the existence of a “moderate Muslim” is contingent upon a moderate Koran “since the life force of Islam is the Qu’ran.” But the Koran happens to be an extreme and violent document, and even if it is selectively ignored by practitioners of the faith, its fissile core can be activated at any time. For Kasem, as for the dissidents mentioned above, the term “moderate Muslim” or “secular Muslim” is an oxymoron. The use of the term “moderate Muslim,” he argues, is “truly misplaced” and muddles Western thinking in the attempt to defeat Islamic terror. I’m presuming this is an argument you too would candidly advance if the sociopolitical context were not so precarious, and if your place in Dutch society and as leader of a respectable political party permitted you to do so.</p>
<p>Still, you were on the money when, in a <a href="../Application%20Data/Microsoft/Word/speech%20to%20the%20Dutch%20parliament">speech to the Dutch parliament</a>, you compared Islam in Europe to a Trojan Horse. Here you were being perfectly forthright. Your metaphor was both mythologically and historically accurate. In 1529, the armies of Islam were camped before the gates of Vienna. They were beaten back. Today they are camped <em>within</em> the gates of Paris, the gates of Oslo, the gates of Malmo, the gates of Berlin, the gates of London, the gates of Birmingham, the gates of Brussels, the gates of Marseille, the gates of Amsterdam, and counting. In fact, as you and many of the politically aware—Bruce Bawer, Christopher Caldwell, Walter Laqueur, Bernard Lewis, the late Samuel Huntington, Melanie Phillips, Bruce Thornton, Claire Berlinski, Denis MacShane, Bat Ye’or, to name only a few—point out, Islam is now a major demographic force within the gates of Europe <em>in its entirety</em>. Vienna was only a temporary setback, a lost battle in a long and possibly successful war. Our ostensible sophisticates seem to have forgotten that Islamic time is not Western time.</p>
<p>I began this letter by assuring you that you have a far wider community of supporters than you might at times suspect. True, several conservative <em>bien pensants</em> and generally astute observers of the ideological world, such as Bill Kristol, Glenn Beck and Charles Krauthammer, have lately <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/03/11/another-look-at-foxnews-hatchet-job-on-geert-wilders/">taken you to task</a> on Fox News and elsewhere for your supposed intransigence, your explicitness and your “radical” stance vis à vis Islam, that is, your refusal to differentiate between a peaceable Islam and violent Islamism. The critical perspective adopted by these otherwise excellent writers toward the leftist collaboration with, or appeasement of, militant Islam, their awareness of the demographic menace posed by unchecked immigration, and the weaponized prose they habitually flourish would indicate they should be your allies rather than detractors.</p>
<p>So unfortunate a dereliction is highly problematic and, at first blush, inexplicable—unless, as a commenter to an <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDk2ODI2OGEwMjAzOWFlMzQxMzUxNTE3NmVkOWU3M2U=">article</a> by Mark Steyn <a href="http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/3016/59/">suggests</a>, “perhaps the recent purchase of a substantial portion of <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100117/D9D9GR0O0.html" target="_blank">News Corp.&#8217;s stock by a wealthy Saudi Arabian</a> might be a factor in Krauthammer&#8217;s and Beck&#8217;s negative statements about Geert Wilders.” Diana West <a href="http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1307/Fox-News-Best-Investment-Saudi-Prince-Talal-Ever-Made.aspx">concurs</a>: “this anti-Geert pundit solidarity will only delight stakeholder Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.” We have long known that Saudi money has infiltrated the media, the universities, the Hollywood illusion factory and the book publishing industry, with all the predictable consequences. But then, we also know that Kristol, Beck and Krauthammer are honorable men.</p>
<p>Maybe there is another explanation. <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2010/03/10/beck-krauthammer-and-the-geert-wilders-perplex/?singlepage=true">Roger Simon hazards</a> that Beck “is not particularly versed in European affairs”, which are plainly not his forte, and that Krauthammer may be subconsciously afraid that <em>you are right</em>, a likelihood “too depressing” to contemplate. For, Simon continues, “if Wilders is correct, and the line between Islam and Islamism is as blurred as the Dutchman posits, then we in the West are in very deep trouble indeed.” And this is a conclusion all too few of our intellectuals, “peace” constituencies, opinion shapers and power wielders, addicted to the ostrich syndrome and insulated from the mean streets of the real world, are willing to absorb. They have taken another route and are speeding down the highway to dhimmitude like Toyotas with stuck gas pedals. They would rather allow the approaching immiseration of the West at the hands of a resurgent Islam than stiffen their spines and act as they must if Western civilization is to survive. Which is why they do not want you in the game.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, despite such curious defections and betrayals, I think you may rest confident that you enjoy a stalwart following among those who have come to share both your fears and your salient assumptions. We monitor the court prosecution to which you have been subjected by a camarilla of judges who, as you say, “do not want to hear the truth about Islam.” As David Rusin shows in a compendious <a href="http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/03/objection-your-honor-european-courts-placate">summary</a> of “the growing deference to Islam in Europe’s courtrooms,” citing evidence of a most disturbing, if ludicrous, nature, “in the Netherlands, the bar association is leading the way to mollify Islamists.”</p>
<p>But there is a redeeming irony tunneling its way through these proceedings. You are in a win-win situation. A victory in court means you have been vindicated. A negative verdict also works in your favor, for a jail cell would give you an effective podium, though I doubt you would malinger there for long. It would then become glaringly obvious that your accusers are a pack of <em>soi-disant</em> anti-Dreyfusards, Vichy-type sellouts, cowards and hypocrites, and public demonstrations against your captors would be sure to follow. They are the ones in a self-inflicted bind, not you. Moreover, it is already common knowledge that your judges have substantially curtailed the number of expert witnesses you have called and are deliberating behind closed doors. Oddly enough, a bad day in court may translate into a good day at the polls. Indeed, according to some <a href="http://countercultureconservative.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/prime-minister-geert-wilders/">electoral prognostications</a>, you may shortly find yourself the prime minister of your country.</p>
<p>The cake appears ready for the oven. If all goes well, the next election may actually install you in the seat of power or, failing that, position you as a power broker. You have only to keep on being yourself and, of course, you need to stay alive. You have the courage and outspokenness of your murdered fellow Amsterdammers, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1971462.stm">Pym Fortuyn</a> and <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3974179.stm">Theo van Gogh</a>, but you also have what they did not, 24/7 protection. And, to reiterate, you are not alone. A growing company of the likeminded stand behind you. One way or another, you cannot lose, at least not in the Netherlands.</p>
<p>So in conclusion, as the current idiom enjoins: Go for it!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The secret plan to flood the EU with mass Muslim immigration.]]></description>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Pamela Geller, founder, editor and publisher of the popular and award-winning weblog <em>AtlasShrugs.com</em>. She has won acclaim for her interviews with internationally renowned figures, including John Bolton, Geert Wilders, Bat Ye’or, Natan Sharansky, and many others, and has broken numerous important stories — notably the questionable sources of some of the financing of the Obama campaign.. Her op-eds have been published in <em>The Washington Times</em>, <em>The American Thinker</em>, <em>Israel National News</em>, <em>Frontpage Magazine</em>, <em>World Net Daily</em>, and <em>New Media Journal</em>, among other publications. She is the co-author (with Robert Spencer) of the soon to be released, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Post-American-Presidency-Obama-Administrations-America/dp/1439189307/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1260121208&amp;sr=8-2">The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration&#8217;s War on America</a> (forward by Ambassador John Bolton).</p>
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<p><strong>FP:</strong><strong> </strong>Pamela Geller, welcome back to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>I would like to talk to you today about a mass Muslim immigration plan that is going into the works in Europe and not too many people know about it. Can you enlighten us please?</p>
<p><strong>Geller:</strong> Thanks, Jamie.</p>
<p>The disastrous and suicidal pact called the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership is in the process of going into effect, with little fanfare or examination. It boggles the mind that such a consequential and seismic cultural shift could be mandated and put into play without so much as a murmur from the mainstream media.</p>
<p>The European human rights group called Stop the Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) has been working tirelessly to expose the mass Muslim immigration plan of the Euro-Med Partnership. A statement on the SIOE website criticizes the secrecy of the process:</p>
<p>&#8220;It was shocking to hear about the plans and at the same time knowing that Danish politicians and a [cowardly] Danish press &#8212; who is otherwise proud to be critical &#8212; has told nothing to the Danish people about this project which begins already in January next year [2010]. This also showed clearly at the conference. Only very few politicians showed up and no media. Those politicians who showed up had obviously never heard about the Euro-Mediterranean project.”</p>
<p>The goal of the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation is to create a new Greater European Union encompassing both Europe and North Africa, with the Mediterranean Sea becoming a<strong> </strong>domestic Eurabian sea. The goal is to establish a “comprehensive political partnership,” including a “free trade area and economic integration”; “considerably more money for the partners&#8221; (that is, more European money flowing into North Africa); and &#8220;cultural partnership&#8221; &#8212; that is, importation of Islamic culture into post-Christian Europe.</p>
<p>According to the SIOE, in the Euro-Med plan, &#8220;Europe is to be Islamized. Democracy, Christianity, European culture and Europeans are to be driven out of Europe. 50 million North Africans from Muslim countries are to be imported into the EU.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Who exactly is behind this agenda? Why is it being done so secretly and how come it is allowed to happen this way?</p>
<p><strong>Geller:</strong> Jamie, this agenda is being pushed at the highest levels of the European Union. The official EuroMed Partnership website says it’s an initiative of “the EU and its southern neighbors.” And it’s huge in scope. Recently in Brussels there was a summit meeting of trade ministers from 43 countries in Europe and the Mediterranean. And it’s being done secretly because the European governing elites know the people of Europe wouldn’t go along if they knew what was happening.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>How does this effect<strong> </strong>America and Americans?</p>
<p><strong>Geller: </strong>Americans have to care about this for a number of reasons. Short term the most obvious reason presented itself on Christmas day, when a jihadi from Amsterdam attempted to blow up a passenger jet carrying 278 people as it was landing in Detroit. A flood of Muslims into Europe, many of them &#8220;devout,&#8221; would increase the security risks to America.</p>
<p>And the destruction of national identity also bodes ill for us. This internationalism is already destroying what has made Europe free and great. And now Barack Obama seems to want to do the same thing to America.</p>
<p>Longer term, a Euro-Arab partnership would put control of the oil in the hands of the new Eurabians, leaving America at a distinct disadvantage. Oil is power, and we would be at their mercy.</p>
<p>More troubling is that we seem to be following the same European model of Muslim immigration. We have opened up Islamic immigration via diversity visas and religious visas to countries that are hotbeds of jihadist activity.</p>
<p>The European model is in play.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> So is all of this taking effect now?</p>
<p><strong>Geller:</strong> Indeed it is. EuroMed agreements have already begun to take effect. The British newspaper the Daily Express reported back in October 2008 about “a controversial taxpayer-funded ‘job centre’ “that opened in Mali at that time as “just the first step towards promoting ‘free movement of people in Africa and the EU.’ Brussels economists claim Britain and other EU states will ‘need’ 56 million immigrant workers between them by 2050 to make up for the ‘demographic decline’ due to falling birthrates and rising death rates across Europe.”</p>
<p>To offset this decline, a “blue card” system is to be created that will allow card holders to travel freely within the European Union and have full rights to work &#8211; as well as the full right to collect welfare benefits.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>What can be done to block this project?</p>
<p><strong>Geller: </strong>Europeans and Americans must become aware of what is going on and fight it. The EuroMed Partnership will destroy what is left of European civilization, and ultimately shake the foundations of this country. Free people must not allow that to happen. We must stand up and demand that our leaders protect our civilization and take our countries back.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong><strong> </strong>Pamela Geller, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[When does a civilization become incompetent? I&#8217;ve been mulling the question in a number of contexts over the last year, including our inability to put a stop to Somali piracy, detain a terrorist who can neither be charged nor released, think rationally about climate change, or rebuild Ground Zero in an acceptable time frame. But [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When does a civilization become incompetent? I&#8217;ve been mulling the question in a number of contexts over the last year, including our inability to put a stop to Somali piracy, detain a terrorist who can neither be charged nor released, think rationally about climate change, or rebuild Ground Zero in an acceptable time frame.</p>
<p>But the question came to me again in Brussels on Sunday as I watched my children—ages six, four, and four months—get patted down before boarding our U.S.-bound flight. The larger-than-allowed bottle of cough syrup in my carry-on, however, somehow escaped our screener&#8217;s humorless attentions.</p>
<p>Yes, the screener in this case was Belgian, not American. Yes, terrorists come in any number of skin colors, and they aren&#8217;t above strapping explosives to their own children. And yes, the Obama administration took a half-step toward sanity by ordering additional screening of passengers from 14 countries, including Yemen, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, home of Flight 253 would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s a predictive certainty: Not one non-Muslim from any of these countries (or others such as Egypt or Jordan, which were oddly excluded from the list) will ever become a suicide bomber. The localized case of Sri Lanka&#8217;s Tamils aside, suicide bombing is a purely Islamic phenomenon. Note that during the whole of the intifada there was not a single case of a Palestinian Christian blowing himself up, making a nonsense of the view that Israel&#8217;s checkpoints and curfews and security fences were the main cause of the terror.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904574637921764041330.html">Bret Stephens: Airport Security and Our Incompetent Civilization &#8211; WSJ.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>Eurabia vs. Israel on Jerusalem &#8211; by P. David Hornik</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EU pressures Israel to surrender its capitol. 
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p dir="ltr"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-42567" title="1306345-View_of_Old_City_from_Mt_Of_Olives-Jerusalem" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1306345-View_of_Old_City_from_Mt_Of_Olives-Jerusalem.jpg" alt="1306345-View_of_Old_City_from_Mt_Of_Olives-Jerusalem" width="463" height="314" /></p>
<p dir="ltr">The recent Swiss vote to ban minarets was seen by many as a further indication that European populations are waking up to the threat of Europe’s Islamization and the need to stop the trend. If so, the European Union—the centralized bureaucracy that, as documented in Bat Ye’or’s important book <em>Eurabia</em>, went “over the heads” of European publics to meld the European and Arab/Muslim civilizations in the first place—still hasn’t caught up and remains locked in a pro-Arab/Muslim disposition.</p>
<p dir="ltr">At least, the EU’s stance on Jerusalem would suggest so. Last week the new EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, “<a href="http://euobserver.com/9/29167">came down hard</a> on the Israeli government” in her maiden speech to the European Parliament and said:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">“East Jerusalem is occupied territory together with the West Bank. The EU is opposed to the destruction of homes, the eviction of Arab residents and the construction of the separation barrier.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Her words prompted Israel’s deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon to <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&amp;cid=1261244337074">reply</a>:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">“Just as the Romans did not succeed in cutting off Jerusalem from Israel, so too will diplomats from the UN and the EU be unsuccessful as well.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Ashton, previously the EU’s trade commissioner and expected to be given considerable authority as a new sort of EU foreign minister, also called Israel’s recently launched ten-month moratorium on settlement construction a “first step”—representing, as the <em>EUobserver</em> <a href="http://euobserver.com/9/29167">comments</a>, “a cooler tone than EU foreign ministers who last week took ‘positive note’ of the move.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">The <em>EUobserve</em>r also pointed out that the speech was</p>
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<p dir="ltr">“significant for what it left out: Ms Ashton did not say that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, that it faces a security threat from Palestinian ‘terrorists’ or that Palestinians should immediately return to formal peace talks—the classic tenets of Israeli supporters.”<strong> </strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr">Ashton’s statements also come hard on the heels of an EU-Israel spat over Jerusalem in which the EU explicitly called for East Jerusalem to become the capital of a Palestinian state. That demand was later only partially toned-down under intense Israeli objections.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In other words, even at a time when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly accepted the call for a Palestinian state and enraged part of his right-wing base with the settlement moratorium, the EU keeps reflexively embracing Arab/Muslim positions. As always, the EU’s stance on Jerusalem ignores several facts.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Jerusalem was unified under Israeli sovereignty in 1967, after nineteen years in which Jordan illegally occupied the city and finally used it to attack Israel despite being implored by Israel to keep out of the fighting.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Under Israeli rule, Muslims and all other groups (except Jews—on the Temple Mount itself) have enjoyed full freedom of worship—a stark contrast to the nineteen years of Jordanian rule when Jews and Christians were denied access to Jerusalem’s holy places and Jewish synagogues and gravestones were destroyed and desecrated.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Muslims already have full control over Mecca, Medina, and countless sacred locales and shrines throughout the vast Muslim world, and their demand for Palestinian sovereignty in Jerusalem and the redivision of Israel’s capital can reasonably be regarded as excessive – especially when, as noted, Israel gives Muslims full access to their Jerusalem shrines and full rights in the city.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Indeed, Jerusalem is full of minarets, and any visitor to its Old City or its Arab neighborhoods can attest to the vibrancy of Muslim religious life there. The EU should be more concerned with Islamization on the continent than with taking harsh stances against Israel as it struggles to survive and to find the right mix of accommodation and steadfastness in an Arab/Muslim environment hostile its very existence.</p>
<p dir="ltr">But for the EU, after decades of forsaking its Judeo-Christian roots for pro-Arabism, that may be too much to expect. Even if European populations are starting to grasp the consequences of this civilizational self-abnegation, Europe’s Brussels-based bureaucracy remains willfully ignorant of the stakes.</p>
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		<title>Matthias Küntzel: The West goes wobbly on Iran, The Weekly Standard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On November 18, Iran&#8217;s foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki rejected a proposal that his country should export some 70 percent of its low-enriched uranium for further processing abroad. On November 20, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany met in Brussels and urged Iran to reconsider. &#8220;I continue to hold out the prospect that they may decide to walk through this door,&#8221; explained Barack Obama, though he noted at the same time, &#8220;Over the next several weeks, we will be developing a package of potential steps .  .  . that would indicate our seriousness to Iran.&#8221; Russia&#8217;s foreign ministry, as usual, contradicted him: &#8220;There is currently no discussion on working out additional sanctions against Iran.&#8221;</p>
<p>So was this merely the latest manifestation of the same fruitless maneuvering that has gone on every year since the struggle over Iran&#8217;s nuclear weapons began in 2003? Not at all. It was not the ploys of the Iranians that provoked astonishment at the most recent negotiations in Geneva and Vienna, but rather the attitude of the United States.</p>
<p>Whereas in the past Washington sought to increase pressure on Iran, and Europe stepped on the brakes, today it is Obama who is stepping on the brakes while France and Great Britain push for sanctions. Whereas George W. Bush denounced the Islamism of the Iranian regime, his successor attempts to ingratiate himself by offering compliments and apologies. Whereas before it was the Europeans who packaged their failures as successful &#8220;dialogue,&#8221; now it is Washington that does so.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/275yteer.asp">Obama&#8217;s Search for Peace in Our Time</a>.</p>
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