Shrug Off Islamophobia & Xenophobia Accusations
John R. Houk
© March 30, 2019
Some fairly intuitive people have noticed what most would
think an unusual cooperation between agendas related to Islam and Left-Wing
ideology. I am certain more would publicly speak about this odd pattern of
cooperation between Muslim Apologists and Leftist Multiculturalists except for the
politically correct labeled fear: Islamophobia and Xenophobia.
irrational
fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against Islam or people who practice Islam
Dislike
of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force.
On a personal level I do not an irrational fear or prejudice
against Muslims or all things Islam. I do have a great cognitive understanding
of how Islamic revered writings command Muslims to treat non-Muslim. Let’s look
at a couple of examples that trust me are ONLY the tip of the iceberg against
non-Muslims. Islamic scholar/expert Robert Spencer shows a Quranic surah used
by apologists to prove how nice and peaceful Islam is contrasted with another
surah that brings better context to the first:
In reality, Qur’an 25:68-70 warns
Muslims not to kill the soul which Allah has forbidden to be killed”; it does
not contain any blanket prohibition on killing someone. The Qur’an also tells
Muslims to “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191); again, “kill them wherever
you find them” (4:89); and “kill the polytheists wherever you find them” (9:5).
So clearly killing is permitted, and indeed, commanded, under certain
circumstances. (
Does
Allah really command Muslims to kill non-Muslims? By Robert Spencer;
Jihad Watch; 4/4/18 5:34 PM)
For a deeper perspective on Islam and non-Muslims:
Then there are Leftists with a Multiculturalist agenda.
These ideologues are Open Borders, One World Government and Marxist Cultural
Utopian friendly folks. If you criticize Muslim migrants, Muslim immigrants or
any immigrants that refuse assimilation into the nation and culture moving to
then you practice Xenophobia.
Dislike
of or prejudice against people from other countries.
extreme dislike or fear of foreigners, their
customs, their religions,
etc.
For the record I have no problem with foreigners coming to
America for a new or better life. I do have a problem with foreigners moving to
America desiring to impose cultural norms different from American culture and
heritage. If a foreigner does not like America, for God’s sake don’t move here.
These thoughts were inspired by an email alert sent from
Rachel Ehrenfeld via
ACDemocracy.
Ehrenfeld writes about European Union (EU) leadership and an apparent Open
Borders Multiculturalism eradicating the separate natural cultures of Europe
which is actually complying with an ongoing Islamic Dawah transforming Europe
to an Islamic culture more and more every day.
This is meaning to America TODAY because of the Dem Party’s
Open Borders Multiculturalist agenda is hauntingly similar to EU
Multiculturalism.
JRH 3/30/19
Your generosity is always appreciated:
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‘New Europe’ and the
Islamist Agenda
March 29, 2019
The European Union’s Progressive-Left post-nationalist
leadership is set on challenging the sovereignty of nation-states, by
eliminating borders and letting in millions of Muslims. This policy
has already contributed to moving the “old” European continent towards a new
Europe, occupied by new people with a new culture. Apparently, opening the
continent to millions of mostly unqualified migrants who refuse to assimilate,
and who drain the coffers of their host countries, seems like the preferred
solution to the negative birthrates among the Europeans.
On August 30, 2010, as he was folding his tent
near the Vatican, on his last visit to Rome,
Italy, then Libya’s leader
Colonel Muammar
Gaddafi, forewarned:
“Europe runs the risk of
turning black from illegal
immigration; it could turn into Africa. There is a dangerous level of
immigration from Africa into Europe, and we don’t know what will happen. What
will be the reaction of the white Christian Europeans to this mass of hungry,
uneducated Africans? We don’t know if Europe will remain an advanced and
cohesive continent or if it will be destroyed by this barbarian invasion.”
Kaddafi urged the Europeans, “imagine that this could
happen, but before it does, we need to work together.” He proceeded to offer
the Europeans a deal, asking for a modest fee of
5bn euros, to stop
the mass migration to Europe, which as he predicted, are costing billions of
euros annually.
Despite the already increasing number of African migrants
and Middle Eastern refugees of the evolving Arab Spring, the Europeans accused
Kaddafi of blackmail and dismissed his offer. A few years later, after more
than 1million refugees flooded the continent, the EU caved in to Turkey’s
Islamist President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan demands of more than
6bn euros, to temporarily
prevent refugees from entering Europe.
In addition to Kaddafi’s “business proposal,” the Europeans
overlooked Kaddafi’s public Dawah sermon, in which he called on Europe to
convert to Islam. His handing out Korans to five hundred young
Italian women, impressing upon them that “Islam is the “ultimate religion.
If you want to believe in a single faith, then it must be that of Mohammed,”
was dismissed as one of his publicity ploys, thus overlooking the significance
of his performing the Islamic religious duty, the Dawah (calling on infidels to
join Islam). Incredibly, European and other Western nations continue to ignore
Islamic leaders calls on Muslims residing in the West to spread Islam.
Six months later, when Libyan Muslim
Brotherhood-affiliated rebels joined the “Arab Spring,” NATO began its
military intervention to depose Kaddafi. The chaos that ensued after his death
in October 2011, created a vacuum that was swiftly filled by local and foreign
jihadist groups, including al Qaeda and ISIS.
Libya’s coastline’s strategic importance as a step-stone to
Europe was not wasted on ISIS. By 2015, ISIS has been shipping more than a
million Muslim and African “refugees” and to the Italian island of
Lampedusa, just
162 nm from the
Libyan coastline. It is unknown how many members/supporters of ISIS, al-Qaeda,
and other jihadist groups arrived in Europe via Libya as “refugees.”
As the refugee crisis worsened, Turkey’s Islamist President,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who aspires to take over and Islamize Europe,
demanded a hefty ransom and other political concessions in exchange of helping
control the flood of refugees. The Europeans conceded to most of his demands.
European nations and central institution’ decades-long
denial of the threats posed by radical Islam, have been focusing instead on
alleged ‘root causes’ of Islamist terrorism, and on attempts to accommodate and
appease them, by codifying the Islamic narrative, imposing political
correctness with new draconian hate- speech laws, has played into the
hands of the radicals who are set on expanding the Islamization of Europe.
Widely publicized declarations by Islamic religious and
political leaders and activists that Islam is not merely a religion but also a
universal political and social system are not new or secret. They are
advertised in all languages on the Internet and on the social media
pages of global radical Muslim organizations. The Facebook pages of Hizb ut
Tahrir, for example, says: (quote)
“Islam is the only system that united people of all races and religions in
history and will unite them once more when it returns.”
You don’t have to take my word for it. Instead, take a look
at our dedicated website
news.acdemocracy.org, which
provides original documentation of statement made by radical Islamists leaders,
official representatives of major Muslim organizations, as well as political
leaders in the West who support them.
Let’s begin with the Doha based Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the
very influential spiritual leader for the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood – for
many years he was on Interpol’s red alert, but last November was removed
without an official explanation – who has issued many Fatwas on the duty of all
Muslims to spread Islam. His fatwas have been published on his website;
on Islam-online – the brotherhood’s official website, and for many
years, he issued them on his widely watched TV program on al Jazeera.
According to Qaradawi, “
Occupying
Europe and defeating Christianity will become possible with
the spread of Islam inside Europe until it becomes strong enough to take over
the whole continent.”
After al -Qaeda attacked the U.S., Qaradawi explained that
Islamizing Europe would be “the beginning of the righteous Caliphate’s return.”
Al-Qaradawi declared: “Islam will return once more to Europe
as a conqueror and as a victorious power after it was expelled twice from the
continent…I assume that next time the conquest [of Europe] will not be achieved
by the sword [i.e., war] but by preaching (dawah) and
spreading the ideology [of Islam]….The conquest of Europe …and the expansion of
Islam will reach all the areas where the sun shines and the moon appears [i.e.,
the entire world.” Few, if any Europeans, took him seriously.
Instead, advancing the Islamist agenda seems to suit the
Progressive-Left post-nationalist leadership everywhere. Like the Muslims,
though for different reasons, they are set on challenging the sovereignty of
nation states. Both aim at changing the European continent, by creating a new
Europe, occupied by new people and a new culture. For the Europeans, opening
the continent to millions of Muslims, who drain the coffers of their host
country, seems as the solution to the negative birthrates among the Europeans.
Oddly, they are convinced that the newcomers, as the old Europeans, would
submit to Brussel’s dictates.
Why should they? The Europeans were never interested in
assimilating Muslims. Instead, they talked about integration, which they
miserably failed. They also failed to acknowledge the rise of radical Islam,
especially in large concentrations of Muslim neighborhoods. And little
attention, if any, has been given to the constant preaching by local Imams and
Islamic scholars, many who visit Europe to inoculate the newly
arrived, as well as the second and third generation of Muslim migrants against
assimilation.
These preachers also warn
against temptations readily available in Western secular
societies, urging instead, to “spread the word of Allah.”
In
September 2015, at the height
of the refugee’s crisis in Europe, when more than 1 million refuges flooded
Europe following the German Chancellor’s controversial decision of open border
migration. Fatima Benhatta, a Canadian representative of the
U.K based international organization Islamic Relief, which has ties to
Hamas
, issued the following statement on the Syrian mass
immigration to Europe.
“…My prayer, O Allah, open their
[European countries that welcomed Syrian refugees] breasts to [accept] Islam
and provide them with the testimony [pledge of allegiance to Allah and
Mohammad]. I swear by Allah that they deserve the prayer. What is the
achievement of Syrians coming [to Europe]? Islam will be spread even more among
them [Europeans], their [Muslims] ratio [in society] will increase and the
Syrians will be victorious [conquering Europe], Allah Willing…” (
archive)
Incidentally, Fatima is friendly with Canada’s Prime
Minister, Justin Trudeau, who on March 17, 2019, after the awful
Christchurch terrorist attack on
Muslims, chose to
visit a
Muslim Community (SNMC) mosque in Ottawa to express his
solidarity with the Muslim community. That mosque, however, is known for
hosting a Saudi imam who prayed for killing Jews and Christians.
Also in late 2015, the popular Islamist activist Saeed
Rageah, who was born in
Somalia, raised in Saudi Arabia,
and according to his online bio, “found his way to North
America,” in the late 1980s’, visited Sweden to address Muslim
refugees and immigrants. In his
speech,
which was posted on YouTube- Rageah enlightened his
audience, saying: “
The reason that Allah brought you here is so
you can carry the message of Islam to the people. Why? Because each one of us
has the responsibility to call people to Allah.”
Rageah has also delivered sermons calling on all Muslims
living in the West, to Hire only Muslims: “Use
only truck-and cab drivers that are Muslim! Use only doctors who are Muslim.
— “If you want to do anything just
ask if that individual is a Muslim or not. If he is not, then look for a
Muslim, because I’m sure you’ll find a Muslim. I’m sure you’ll find a Muslim in
that field…”
Shaikh Abdool Hamid, who like
many other Islamic scholars from all over the world have been educated at
Medina University, the Saudi version of the Patrice Lumumba Peoples’
Friendship University, in the former USSR.
Hamid is a popular lecturer who serves as Imam in several
mosques in North America. He regularly holds sermons calling to impose
Islam, with instructions on how to advance the transformation of Western
secular nations into an Islamic society.
He argues that while “it may seem from one perspective that
Islam took over…it is really [taking] over in order to enhance the lives” of
the people. He also calls on the newcomers to become politically active,
because “changing society cannot happen unless we become involved in the
political process.” The involvement in the political process, he explains, “is
necessary to bring Sharia (Islamic Law) because Islam is universal.”
But what should be done to the infidels who reject the
Invitation to Islam?
When such an invitation, the Dawah, does not convince all non-believers
to convert, the Hadith provides the next step. According to the book “The
Gardens of the Righteous”
[Blog Editor:
346 pg PDF English translation via al Islam]
– which was written by a Sunni scholar in the 13th Century, and published and
distributed with modern commentary in the United States, and on social media by
the Islamic Circle of North America, “
Islam
strives to achieve global dominance by jihad.,, Until Islam
Becomes Victorious or We Die in the Attempt. ”
The Saudi Salman bin Fahed al-‘Auda, a member of the Muslim
Brotherhood’s
International Union for Muslim Scholars,
who in 2017 was not allowed into Denmark and in September 2018 sentenced to
death by a Saudi court, is famous for asserting that the solution to Islamic
distress — that may bring about the fall of America and the Western world — “
exists in one word which is Jihad.”
As al-Auda explains (quote) -“The West, and above all the United States, and Western culture, in
general, are undergoing a historical process that is deterministic. This
process leads to its total collapse, sooner or later.” He sounds like most
Democrats turned progressive socialists’ Presidential candidates in the US….
Doesn’t he?
According to al-Auda and many other Salafi scholars – Jihad is
intended to accelerate that collapse. And importantly, he reminds us that Jihad
is fought not only on the battlefield. “Weapons are not only the rifle, the bullet, the airplane, the tank, and
the cannon. Not at all!” When
thinking about weapons to advance Jihad, think about the economy as a
weapon, money is a weapon…”
Anyone critical of the Europeans’ open border policies, and
the Islamization of Europe is labeled Islamophobe by the radical Left and
leaders of wide-spread, well-funded Muslim organizations who use lawfare as an
economic warfare against their critics. Joining them are the leaders of
the European Union, who willfully ignore the Islamic threat, in their haste to
turn the European continent to a new, pinker version of the former USSR. The EU’s
central bureaucracy delude itself into believing that they will be
able to control the fast-growing radicalized Muslim population, as they have
the secular Europeans.
Europe’s Left -leaning central institutions, and Europe’s
leading Islamic organizations fight to protect their opacity. Both groups fear
that transparency would foil their plans. Thus, they stigmatize their opponents
as irrational and hate mongers to silence and abuse the legal system to punish
them.
However, there is nothing irrational with those who dare to
identify the threats posed by these two groups. The “Visegrad 4” –
made of four Central European nations that for decades lived
under Communism: Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, joined
in opposition to the EU’s post-nationalist, no-borders, “New Europe”, pro
-Muslim migration agenda.
The Polish government, which resists the EU dictated quota
of Muslim refugees, has instead “
rolled out the welcome mat” for
some 2 million economic migrants from Ukraine, who are seeking” a better life
after the Russian invasion of 2014.”
At the forefront of the opposition to the EU’s efforts
to end its member nations’ sovereignty, and creating a “new Europeans” with
masses of Muslim migrants/refugees, is Hungary’s outspoken Prime
Minister
Victor Orbán.
The Ottoman’s Empire’s 158 years rule over Hungary
(1541-1699), has not been forgotten. And Mr. Orban seems intent on preventing
the history of Islamic oppression from repeating itself. Despite EU threats and
sanctions, he continues to
argue that
“
Without the protection of our Christian
culture, we are going to lose Europe, and Europe will no longer belong to the
Europeans.”
Would Europe catch up with Poland and Hungary? Could
Europe get its act together before it’s too late?
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Do YOU Want European Multiculturalism?
Shrug Off Islamophobia & Xenophobia Accusations
John R. Houk
© March 30, 2019
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‘New Europe’ and the Islamist Agenda
