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This is perhaps nothing more than wishful thinking, but my sense is that in Europe, when it comes to Islam, things may just possibly be coming increasingly to a head. I suspect that the monstrous Hamas attacks of October 7 awakened the imaginations of millions of Europeans who, although on some level surely knowing better, had lulled themselves into passivity with the notion that those surly-looking Muslims living in their midst, some of whom occasionally spoke out loud about conquering Europe in the name of their prophet, couldn’t possibly mean what they said or be as dangerous as they looked. Surely, moreover, the far from peaceable pro-Hamas protests that have taken place every weekend in any number of major cities around Europe have impressed upon people who, until recently, had their heads firmly stuck in the sand, that over the last few decades they had imported into their countries huge numbers of people who not only loathed and looked down on them but who might very well be prepared, early on any given morning, to do to them more or less what Hamas did to innocent Israelis on October 7.
Which brings us to the recent elections for the European Parliament (EP). Now, the parliament itself, for all its air of self-importance, is a rather meaningless and impotent organ, a rubber-stamp legislature whose function within the European Union brings to mind the role of the Supreme Soviet back in the USSR. Traditionally, European citizens, recognizing its irrelevance, have tended not to bother voting in EP elections. Even this year, the voter turnout was nothing to write home about. Nonetheless, those people who did bother to cast their ballots produced a set of results that have caused an earthquake from one end of the continent to the other. The French President immediately called for new elections. The Belgian Prime Minister resigned, reportedly in tears.
In 2006, I published a book entitled While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within. If I had written the book a couple of years later, I’d have omitted the word “radical” – and removed references within the text to “extreme Islam” and the like. Because in the meantime I had come to realize that Islam is Islam. So-called “radical Islam” isn’t some kind of aberration, some twisted deviation from the peaceful norm – it’s Islam itself, the Islam of the Koran, the Islam of the prophet. It’s what Islam looks like when it’s taken seriously and practiced by the book. In the nearly two decades since that book came out, I’ve been writing endlessly about the topic – and, along with fellow truth-tellers, being dismissed as a racist, a conspiracy theorist, an Islamophobe, and a subscriber to an apparently bizarre, far-out, cult-like set of ideas known as the “Eurabia theory.”
Our allies in the corridors of power have been thin on the ground. One of them has been the courageous Dutch politician Geert Wilders, whose Freedom Party, now the largest in the Netherlands, won big in the EP elections. Other European politicians have also sounded the alarm about Islam, but have been routinely isolated, suppressed, and demonized by the political and media establishment. No more. Jimmie Åkelsson’s Sweden Democrats, which has been vociferously critical of Islam and which was long depicted as the virtual equivalent of Nazis, are now the second largest party in the Swedish Riksdag. In France, Marine Le Pen has run for President three times, coming in third once and coming in second twice; in the recent EP elections, her party, the National Rally, crushed Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance Party, after which she told a gathering of supporters: “Give me one reason, only one, to keep on our territory foreigners who collaborate with a totalitarian ideology that wants the death of the French.”
Yes, Le Pen – like Wilders, and Åkelsson, and others – has made similar declarations in the past. But in the aftermath of the EP elections these words suddenly sound rather different. They feel as if they carry more weight. They sound, at long last, as if they’re being spoken from a place of potential power. No, gaining a bunch of seats in the EP isn’t the world’s largest electoral coup, but it certainly signals that the veteran Le Pen and 28-year-old Jordan Bardella, the charismatic president of National Rally, may well be on the verge of displacing Macron and the rest of the useless, wishy-washy French political establishment and actually being in a position to take France back. “We are ready to govern,” Bardella said in an interview on Tuesday, and when his interviewer replied with a typical reference to him and Le Pen as leaders of a “far right” that strikes fear into the hearts of millions of Frenchmen, Bardella didn’t even bother to dismiss that stupid label “far right”; all he said was: “Times have changed.”
And it looks as if they really have changed. Or are, at least, changing. I’ve previously mentioned that another of the parties that did well in the EP elections, the Alternative for Germany, has its ticklish aspects (to put it mildly), but the other day one of its leading members, Maximilian Krah, sounded for all the world like Jordan Peterson, reminding us that, as Andrew Breitbart said, the political is always downstream from the cultural: “One in three young men in Germany has never had a girlfriend. Are you one of them?…Don’t watch porn, don’t vote green, go outside into the fresh air. Be confident. And above all don’t believe you need to be nice and soft.” If Bardella didn’t bother to reject the term “far right,” Krah went so far as to embrace it: “Real men stand on the far right.” Some might read this as nothing less than a declaration of solidarity with neo-Nazis, but to me it sounds more like a tongue-in-cheek thumbing of the nose to mainstream journalists and politicians who reflexively use the term “far right” to label anyone to the right of Stalin. “Real men are patriots,” declared Krah. “That’s the way to find a girlfriend!” This kind of rhetoric might have sounded frightening if delivered by certain figures in the Germany of the 1930s, but today I read it, tentatively in any case, as a welcome corrective to the sort of political and social thinking that has bred a generation of cowardly soy boys who put on masks, pick up truncheons or other weapons, and, ganging up against helpless innocents, pretend to be fighting fascism.
These developments are happening, note well, at a time when challengers, Muslim and otherwise, to the European status quo are increasingly outspoken about their determination to conquer and increasingly violent – not just toward ordinary citizens but toward the previously immune people at the top. Last Friday, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen suffered whiplash after a man approached her in a Copenhagen square and punched her in the arm. Yes, her assailant was Polish – an immigrant group that’s heavily represented in Western Europe these days, and known far more for being law-abiding and for being hard workers than for committing acts of violence. But, hey, it happened. And it’s the kind of thing that simply wouldn’t have happened in Denmark a couple of generations ago.
As the Guardian noted, this was the latest of many violent attacks on politicians in Europe: “In May, Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, was shot and seriously injured. A German Social Democrat MEP was hit putting up posters in Dresden.” Two German politicians were also assaulted – one of them hit in the head, the other stabbed. Frederiksen’s comments on her own incident sounded naive. “I am so sad about this,” she said, “because we have always been so happy – and I think proud – of a country where the prime minister cycles to work.” Well, way back in 2004 – twenty years ago this coming November 2 – the filmmaker, columnist, TV personality, and all-around raconteur Theo van Gogh was cycling to work in Amsterdam when he was shot multiple times and then had his throat slit by a young Dutch-Moroccan named Mohammed Bouyeri, whose motive for this chilling act of butchery was that van Gogh, in collaboration with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, had made a short film critical of Islam’s treatment of women.
Van Gogh’s murder followed that of another Dutchman, Pim Fortuyn, who was killed on May 6, 2002, at a moment when he was on the verge of becoming his country’s prime minister. Fortuyn, a professor, sociologist, journalist, and old–school boulevardier, was an eloquent voice against the Islamization of Europe. He was gay, and, apropos of the Islamization of his country, famously commented: “I have no desire to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again.” The exciting prospect of his rise to power seemed to portend a remarkable new era in Europe – an era when political leaders, learning from Fortuyn, would dare to speak the truth fearlessly and act upon it responsibly. Then, all at once, he was dead – and the Dutch queen herself, to her everlasting disgrace, was obviously so worried about how Muslims might react that she avoided saying or doing anything of substance to express her respect or mourning. After that horror, it somehow took a very long time for the Dutch people to rally again, in significant numbers, behind a gutsy critic of Islam. But now, all these years after the martyrdom of Fortuyn and van Gogh, it’s finally looking as if, under Wilders, the promise they embodied may yet be fulfilled. Of course, some of us wonder whether it’s already far too late to speak seriously, as Le Pen does, of removing from Europe “foreigners who collaborate with a totalitarian ideology that wants the death” of the continent’s native inhabitants. But better to try than to surrender.
“Anyone to the left of Stalin?” Don’t you mean “anyone to the right of,Stalin?”
The far left and right are amazingly similar. The Red Green alliance is evidence of that.
What should be done is that all those European Nation should go and succeed from the EU end use of those Euros(Money)and return to their original Currency and Coins and go back to Normal and stop this Globalization by closing their Nations Borders
“Justin” is probably meant to be “Jordan” (Peterson).
Europe will not improve until the EU is ended.
The election, whilst encouraging, won’t make any difference to the bureaucracy in Brussels and Strasbourg which is where they move to and from every couple of months.
These “elected” politicians will need their own Brexit.
However Britain has not really exited the EU the establishment made sure that we still subsidise all the UN agencies and NGO’s such as IOM.int that are openly promoting “regular mass migration” REGULAR mass migration.
Love that word “whilst.” It almost harkens back to a more civil time.
I’m an aging Englishman.
Unfortunately, it has become a race against time. Either the people of Europe will come to their senses and deport all Muslims, or the Muslims will simply outbreed them.
Good work Bruce!
One thing that struck me was the need for targets of Muslims to take more care of their personal security.
“the supreme soviet” excellent analogy to our congress as well. The only way to stop government is to stop the money.
It’s true, some people seem to be waking up to the dangers that have now come very close. That danger seems to be increasing with the partnering of formally separate Islamic Jihad groups. I keep reading about the efforts of Iran to create corporation between Jihad terrorists from Yemen, Somalia, Egypt and Nigeria to name a few. This has mostly been made possible with mountains of money thanks to Joe Biden’s administration.
Bruce,
I read your book, back when it was published.
I remember it well.
I also remember what happened with Theo van Gogh, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. (And I remember Geert Wilders being banned from entering the UK.)
It is almost inconceivable that the leaders of our countries have chosen to go down this path, over the last twenty years – have none of them ever read a history book?
In my own modest way, I have tried to add to the body of work on this subject. One of my books had to be released under a pen-name. (Andrew Sittason – A. Citizen!)
In this particular book, which I entitled “Living In A Salt Land” (See Jeremiah 17:5-6) I provide counterarguments against the continual condemnation of white people, and against the acceptance by white people of the historical sin of slavery. In doing so, I write about the slavery practiced by the Islamic “Barbary” states of North Africa. It is worth noting here that the conduct of the corsairs as they raided places as far away as Ireland and Iceland were not dissimilar to the conduct of the terrorists who attacked Israel on October 7th.
I argue that the false and fallacious ideas of the enemies of humanity are not only false, they are not only fallacious, they are actually harmful to the psychological health of anyone who accepts them. (This allowed me to disguise the book as a “self-help” book.)
In reality, it is a subversive little philosophy book, which uses a few logical tools and techniques, together with some historical examples, to attack some of our enemies’ sacred cows At least, that is what it is intended to be. The tides may very well be turning, as you suggest, so we can all do something to help make this happen.
If anyone is interested, the book is on Amazon. It’s called: Living In A Salt Land, by Andrew Sittason.
Best wishes to Bruce, and to everyone.
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.” (Ephesians 5:11 NKJV)
The October 7th attack was more like an Indian raid/ massacre on the western frontier in 18th America ..what were called at the time ”red devils”
It was very similar to the raids carried out by the Islamic corsairs on Ireland and Iceland.
” It is almost inconceivable that the leaders of our countries have chosen to go down this path, over the last twenty years – have none of them ever read a history book? ”
Depraved psychopathic murderous, berserk, evil hate-filled violent Islam has been a scourge on humanity for 1400 years.
Enough already.
At least eradicate Islam in Europe and America.
China and Japan and Russia will never succumb to berserk Islam.
America and Europe are already close to surrendering.
The Western elite ruling class and political leaders only care about enriching themselves from the depraved Islamic OPEC “ROYAL” families …. the Saudis, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, etc.etc.etc. and the
psychopathic Iranian Ayatollahs.
The ruling class and political leaders in the West are traitors betraying their own citizens. …
They think nothing of stabbing their own fellow Citizens in the back.
Wake up Europe and America and the West ….
Crush depraved psychopathic murderous berserk hate-filled intolerant violent Islam once and for all.
Or at least drive them out of your own countries and prohibit all Islamic migration into Europe and America.
The ruling ethnomasochist liberal-left have instigated and overseen the ongoing demographic and cultural genocide of ethnic Europeans in pursuit of their no-borders, no-nation state, homogeneous one “world” culture agenda. Their policies of non-European mass immigration and multiculturalism have been imposed on the people of Europe without the peoples’ consent; policies that have not led to social cohesion and community integration but to community segregation and cultural isolationism as witnessed in towns and ghettoised cities across Britain and Western Europe; policies that if the public wanted or consented to would not require the ever increasing number of draconian laws to enforce “multicultural diversity” on ethnic European populations.
Further the ethnomasochist neo-liberals across western Europe have acquiesced and even actively encouraged the colonisation of Europe by Islam thus sowing the seeds of its own demographic and cultural genocide on the path to “Eurabia”.
Muhammad said there was no (Muslim) migration without jihad….as witnessed on the streets of Europe – attack after attack!
1400 years, same winning plan: hijra > jihad > sharia.
The Biden administration and democrat party betrayal of Israel and Jews goes much deeper than people realize.
There really may be a “Grand Plan” to convert Israel into an enemy of America, while converting Iran and Islam into an ally.
The reason for this Israel stab in the back policy of Biden and the democrat party is actually quite simple to understand.
The Islamic world population is about 1.3 billion.
The Jewish Israeli population is about 9 million.
Israel is the only Jewish country in the world.
There are 50 Muslim-majority countries in the world.
The OPEC Muslim countries, i.e. autocratic Islamic “Royal” families in the middle east, control vast oil wealth and occupy the chokepoint of the world’s oil energy supply.
This is the only real source of Islamic power and influence. Otherwise Islam and Islamic countries are cesspools. of depravity psychopathology violence hate and murder.
But this Islamic power and influence far exceed that of Israel, excepting Israel’s arsenal of about 300 nuclear weapons, which no one believes Israel would ever use even in a situation of ultimate self defense and survival.
Therefore, if America’s ruling class priority is going to be access to big money, big oil, big population, big power and big influence, then the morally corrupt logical but evil and depraved selection for an ally would be the Islamic swine, not Israel.
I believe that Biden and his administration and the democrat party have made their choice for depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Hamas, Iran, and the morally corrupt treacherous Islamic “Royal” families who control the oil chokepoint of the world economy.
What a moral travesty for America to ally itself with depraved evil Islam. What a disgrace.
What morally corrupt scum the democrat party has become.
The Grand Plan and Scheme of Biden and the democrat party is to ultimately make Israel into an enemy of America, and Islam and the depraved Islamic world into its ally.
That is the democrat Grand Strategy.
It absolutely must be thwarted and stopped.
America and US citizens must never ally themselves with depraved psychopathic murderous violent berserk intolerant hate-filled Freedom and Liberty suppressing and Truth denying morally corrupt Islam.
America’s political leaders must be dedicated to preserving protecting and defending America and US citizens from the 1400 year scourge of depraved murderous aggressive hate-filled Islam.
Donald Trump is not a “threat to democracy.”
Biden and the democrat party and Islam itself is the real insidious depraved psychopathic
murderous berserk hate-filled threat to Freedom and Liberty and Democracy.
The formation of the EU as its stand now is a disaster. The whole concept as outlined in the Liberty Treaty that was passed years ago was a mistake. I would like to see it return to when it was just an economic common market approach to cooperation between different European countries in the beginning. England was smart to leave the EU.
Hopefully, Germany, Austria, Hungary and others will leave the EU as well. Europe is being destroyed by Middle Eastern, African, and Asian people whose culture, custom, language, religion, and way of life is not compatible to the European people.
If you want real peace, then NATO should be dissolved as well. There is no need for military alliances in the 21st century.
Superb piece by Bruce Bawer. His 2006 book ‘While Europe Slept’ was prophetic. Since then a number of similar books have come out, one of the last being Douglas Murray’s “The Strange Death of Europe.” Another great book published in 2018 was by the now deceased Fr. James V. Schall S.J. “On Islam: A Chronological Record, 2002-2018.” A must read. Islamization and Africanization of Europe is in full swing and if the trend is not reversed soon, in less than a generation the continent will be unrecognizable.
That said, a word of caution to the anti-Islamic leaders and forces mentioned in Bawer’s article: be aware of another threat to European democracy and way of life: expansionistic Russia. It probably represents a threat as dangerous as Islam if not greater. Recall, Putin’s nuclear saber rattling if he does not get his way, To avert the Russian threat a strong and powerful NATO is crucial. If you doubt the threat is real just ask Eastern Europeans like Poles, Balts and especially Ukrainians and Georgians what living under the Russian boot means. Looking to Russia as a partner in combating Islam is a grave mistake.
Just a follow up to my previous comment, a stark warning from an ally of Russia: the current tensions between Russia and the West could escalate into full-scale war within the next three months.
Subject: Fwd: Putin to Escalate https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-president-putin-approaches-point-of-no-return-as-world-war-3-fears-escalate/ar-BB1orW8m?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=523091084b264729b748df7d1ec64926&ei=18
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