Europeans face the same kind of propaganda of blaming the
exposers of reality as Conservatives face in America from the Left on multiple
issues, including gun control. After Leftist hater James Hodgkinson (See Also HERE) went to murder
Republican members of Congress because he hated Trump, the Dem gun control rhetoric was amped up
almost as viciously as the Hodgkinson shooter himself.
Fjordman (Peder Jensen) is the Counterjihad writer that
European Multiculturalists love to hate. They would rather blame Fjordman (and
other Counterjihad writers daring to risk EU hate-speech laws) for acts of
Islamic terrorism rather than the Muslims devoted to the purist Islam of
Muhammad and the revered writings of the Quran, Hadith and Sunnah.
Below is a Fjordman essay I found on the Internet European
publication Snaphanen that takes a stark look at Muslim immigration to
Europe and the troubles that immigration is causing.
JRH 6/15/17
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The EU, Islam and
Radicalization
By Fjordman
June 13, 2017 [SENESTE
OPDATERING – Danish for LATEST UPDATE] 1806 KL [I’m guessing Danish for
“o’clock” – HERE & HERE]
[Blog Editor: I must admit ignorance of European
publications. Snaphanen has a “.dk” indicating Denmark but the news seems to
focus on Sweden. And Fjordman is Norwegian. It’s all Nordic to me.]
One of the
frustrating things about trying to warn against a gradually-developing threat
is that many people choose to ignore the warnings until it is almost too late.
Perhaps this is human nature. We prefer to ignore unpleasant realities as much
as possible, and don’t believe a problem is real until we can see it with our
own eyes. Some people will not believe it even then.
If seeing is
believe, the time has now come to believe. The problems of mass migration and
radical Islam have been developing for a long time. However, they have
intensified recently and keep on escalating. 2015 may in hindsight be
remembered as the year when illegal mass immigration was brought to the
forefront of mass media attention. Migrants have been arriving illegally to the
Western world for many years. Yet the flow of illegal migrants arriving in
boats in the Mediterranean has drastically increased in 2015 compared to 2013
or 2014.
After some
high-profile incidents in which migrants have drowned,[1] several
European countries sent ships to pick up illegal immigrants in the
Mediterranean and bring them to Europe. Critics argue that this is not a
long-term solution. This sends out a signal to illegal immigrants and people
smugglers that Europe is open to them. That will encourage even more of them to
come. There is no reason to assume that the pressure of illegal immigration
from the south will stop in the year 2016, 2017 or 2030. On the contrary, the
ongoing population explosion in Africa and parts of the Middle East indicates
that mass migration could further increase in scale in the coming years. The
turmoil caused by militant Islam also continues.
Sometimes, bringing
attention to a problem may trigger accusations that you caused the problem to
exist in the first place. Jan Opsal is a Professor of Science of religion at
the School of Mission and Theology (MHS) in Stavanger, Norway. He works with
issues related to Christian-Muslim relations. In July 2015, Professor
Opsal accused me personally of contributing to the rise of radical
and militant Islam by spreading alleged “conspiracy theories” about Islam.[2]
According to him, “Those who warn against Islam, through constant assertions
that are not factual, will thereby contribute to increased radicalization of
Islam.” Mr. Opsal further suggested that maybe one tenth of a percentage point
of Muslims support the Islamic State (IS or ISIS).
With all due respect
to the professor, the percentage of Muslims sympathizing with the militant
Muslims of ISIS is a lot bigger than what he suggests. It could be 50 times as
great, or even 100 to 200 times. Muslims supporting jihadists from groups such
as ISIS or al-Qaida can now be found in cities and towns across the Western
world. This is not a “conspiracy theory.” It is a fact. Just listen to the
increasingly worried warnings of professional security services.
Furthermore, if you
listen to the jihadists themselves, they legitimize their actions by referring
to the Koran and other authoritative Islamic texts. Suggesting that critics of
Islam helped cause the slave markets and massacres of ISIS is not merely wrong,
it is absurd. This is like suggesting that critics of Communism caused the
Gulag, or that critics of Nazism caused Auschwitz.
Next to Islamic
theology, the primary cause of radicalization in Europe today is arguably the
immigration policies promoted by Western political elites. EU governments have
a duty to help the flood of migrants arriving in Europe and not cave in to
“populist” demands to turn them back, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker says.[3] In other words, EU leaders think native
Europeans have a “duty” to settle large numbers of illegal immigrants from
dysfunctional African and Muslim societies permanently in their nations.
“Ministers, unlike citizens, have an obligation to act. We made proposals that
went far, while still being modest given the scale of the problem,” Juncker
said, referring to the proposals from the Commission, the executive arm or
unelected “government” of the 28-nation EU. “We proposed a mandatory system to
redistribute asylum seekers and people who need international protection, but
the member states did not follow us,” he said. At a July 20, 2015 meeting in
Brussels, EU justice and home affairs ministers agreed to relocate more than
32,250 Syrians, Eritreans, Iraqis and Somalis who had landed in Greece and
Italy. The ministers also agreed to take in some 22,500 Syrian refugees
currently living in camps outside the EU. Juncker said the EU would resume
efforts to reach a higher target. “If we don’t get there on a voluntary basis,
we will have to reconsider the Commission’s proposals,” the former Prime
Minister of Luxembourg said. Mandatory distribution of asylum seekers among
member states is still being seriously considered.
Illegal immigrants
currently arrive on a daily basis, at a pace of hundreds of thousands annually.
They use every trick imaginable to get into Europe, perceived as the promised
land of milk and honey. Migrants hide in containers, storm trucks, occupy
railway stations or use inflatable rubber dinghies. Some even try to swim to European-controlled territories,[4] or get smuggled in suitcases.[5] Meanwhile, there is rising opposition
among ordinary Europeans to having their local communities forcibly changed by
this influx.
It is interesting to
note that some of the strongest opposition to mass immigration can be found in
societies that have first-hand experience with Communist rule: Poland, the
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Eastern Germany and Baltic nations. Nationalists protested in Riga, Latvia’s capital, against their
country’s taking in a planned 250 migrants under an EU resettlement scheme. “I
don’t feel that EU institutions are listening to our concerns about taking in
refugees from very different cultures,” said MP Raivis Dzintars.[6] Hungarian
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has repeatedly sounded the alarm. He warns that
mass immigration constitutes a threat to European civilization.
EUSSR It has long
been a joke to compare the European Union to the Soviet Union, an EUSSR. Some
people wonder whether this is really a joke. The Russian intellectual and
former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovksy believes
the EU has certain structural similarities to the dictatorial Soviet Union.[7]
The unelected and powerful European Commission resembles the Soviet Politburo,
ruling hundreds of millions of people without their consent. While partly true,
it should be mentioned that not even Communist states such as the Soviet Union
championed mass immigration of Muslims and Africans on the scale which the EU
is doing today. The USA does, however. The EU seems to have adopted harmful
traits from both Cold War superpowers: The anti-democratic bureaucratic
structure of the Soviet Union, and the mass immigration “diversity” policies of
the USA.
It has become
increasingly apparent that the EU in its present form is actively harmful to
the long-term interests of native Europeans. The organization provides weak
leadership. When it attempts any leadership at all, it usually leads Europe in
the wrong direction. The handling of illegal immigration and radical Islam has
been very poor, and dominated by Utopian ideas without basis in reality. Its
handling of the euro crisis in Greece has not been impressive, either. With its
increasingly authoritarian centralization, the EU robs national parliaments of
their power and undermines its own popular legitimacy. The repeated attempts to
force illegal immigrants on all of its member states trigger outright
hostility. Its immigration policies contribute to the rising polarization of
European societies.
Perhaps the EU will
be remembered as the alleged “peace project” that once again plunged Europe
into conflict.
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Notes:
1.
www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-33791920 Rescue hopes fade for migrants after
boat capsizes in Mediterranean 6 August 2015
2.
www.smp.no/nyheter/article11358314.ece — Skremmebilder av islam gir
radikalisering. Published in the regional Norwegian newspaper Sunnmørsposten,
28.07 2015.
3.
www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/europe-migrants.13r9 Juncker urges EU members to
resist ‘populist’ rejection of migrants 6 August 2015.
4.
latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/08/02/4-sub-saharan-africans-drown
-while-trying-to-swim-to-ceuta/ 4 Sub-Saharan Africans drown while trying to
swim to Ceuta August 02, 2015.
5.
www.thelocal.es/20150805/brother-of-man-who-died-in-suitcase-charged Man held
over brother’s death inside suitcase 05 Aug 2015.
6.
euobserver.com/tickers/129838 Latvian nationalists protest against immigration
5. Aug 2015.
7.
www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865 Former Soviet Dissident Warns For EU
Dictatorship. Vladimir Bukovksy in interview with Paul Belien, 2006-02-27.
[Blog Editor:
Fjordman made a comment to this Snaphanen post 6/13/17:
Peder Fjordman Jensen • 2 days ago Thanks to Steen to reprint this
text. It is originally from 2015, but the conclusion is the same today. My
conclusion already before the euro crisis and the migrant crisis began was that
the EU can not be reformed.]
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