A poster here at Jihad Watch recently observed that, among Muslims in France, a recent "massive and widespread surge in antiMuslim anger really shocked and worried the muslim community here as they had seen their position of arrogance as untouchable and very secure….This shock has caused a major downturn in mosque rhetoric and the whole Muslim community has slid back into its usual shell and the Muslim violence factor has decreased markedly. They still hate us but they will not move again (accidents excepted) until they have much greater numbers and that will take from 5 to 10 years."
Exactly. There is a detectable drawing back, here and there, among Muslims in France and in Europe as a whole. See, for a telling example, Tariq Ramadan's new approach to keeping the lid on things, urging Muslims to work "within the system" and vote, vote, vote. He says all this, this grandson of Hassan al-Banna, not because he thinks that Muslims in Europe should accept the legal and political institutions of the Infidels permanently, but so that the Muslims in Europe should behave in a manner that will permit the continued, uninterrupted, and largely unremarked campaigns of Da'wa and of course the inexorable demographic changes.
Before the scott-applebys of this world decide to hand out their Kroc Center or Soros Center or any other goddam center money to support the sinister hissing of Tariq Ramadan, they have a solemn duty to read about him.
They should read his fellow Muslim and native of Egypt, the now-Italian journalist Magdi Allam (see "Lettera aperta a Tariq Ramadan").
They should read "Frere Tariq" -- a book devoted to the practice of taqiyya by Ramadan, by the Frenchwoman Caroline Fourest.
They should read Laurent Favrot on Tariq Ramadan.
They should perhaps view the tapes of Tariq Ramadan's appearances, in debate on French television, with Nicolas Sarkozy and Alain Finkielkraut.
And long before they do all that, they will have lost any desire to be associated with the transparently duplicitous, and dangerous, Tariq Ramadan.
But they will not do this. It is instead up to the Infidels who care about what is happening to their countries. What should those Infidels do? Inform themselves fully about the tenets, attitudes, and atmospherics of Islam (atmospherics that affect even those who never go to mosques). Learn something about Jihad-conquest and the treatment of non-Muslims, from Spain to the East Indies, over 1350 years. Work "within the system" to force a halt to all Muslim immigration, the deportation of all non-citizens, and a reworking of naturalization requirements so that they include evidence of knowledge of a nation's history, political and legal system, and culture. Make clear that a loyalty oath will be necessary, an unalterable requirement. And if that oath is perjured, it will be grounds for swift deportation at any point -- to the country of one's origins or of one's parents or grandparents.
Stop the Saudi funding of mosques and madrasas by making such financial backing from abroad illegal. Never give in to a single Muslim demand for changes in curricula, or in any other aspect of the schools. Vote up-and-down on candidates based on their awareness of the menace of Jihad, so that those inclined to curry Muslim votes will be defeated early on by all those who will vote against them for that very currying. Keep educating yourself and others. Make a point, each week, of telling five people about this website, for example. Perhaps one of the five will come, read, and become a regular visitor. In a year that is 52 new visitors. Tell them about other relevant websites and books. Demand that your local library stock such books.
Keep after the politicians. Educate them, or educate, if you can get to, their young staff members on whom they often rely.
Don't let up.
And the more supporters of Jihad, and of its various instruments, in the Lands of the Infidels feel this new understanding, the less likely it is that they will be an obvious threat through bullying, street demonstrations and violence, that sort of thing. That's good. But it is the non-obvious threat -- Da'wa and demographic conquest -- that is most worrisome.
Hugh,
Good commetary, excellent ideas. Thank-you. These are excellent ideas that should be encouraged. But in truth, it will take a massive attack that will create a large, angry violent backlash against the Muslims bigtime. Just my combined hopeful and pessimistic sides of me.
The lack of rioting by the mohammedan hordes, over the world cup loss and the 14th of July celebrations is very disappointing to us France based islamophobes. Education through Death was such an effective tool. I guess we will have to return to ranting and raving at dinner parties.
Still we can only hope.
I quote and analyse at length (in French) Ramadan's new stance here (Le manifeste de la mauvaise foi:
http://ajm.ch/wordpress/?p=11
By clicking the link given just above, you arrive at a masterful explication de texte -- the text in question being Ramadan's latest screed insisting that Islam, and Muslims, are most definitely Here to Stay, and that the formerly (according to Ramadan) culturally homogeneous Western world will have to adapt to "the Other" that, unfortunately, some of those in that homogeneous white naturally colonial, postcolonial, racist and narrow world (the author, Alain Jean--Mairet, points out that in Switzerland, the country Ramadan grew up in, it was already a place where four languages, and several kinds of identity, managed to co-exist quite easily within one nation-state. But any summary would be unfair.
If a practiced translator wishes to transmute the French gold into English gold, and post it here, please do so.
The only doubtful note is that struck in the very last paragraph, about the supposed contributions of Islam that the author, in a slight concessionary raptus, refers to so optimistically. With that paragraph, I take issue.
One way to help, is, newscasters can stop saying "radical" islam. Just say islam. After all, it's in their war manual for all muslims to read.
I am very thankful to Hugh for his nice words (I add that the quotes from Ramadan are already in English – that will help a translator).
And I briefly answer his taking issue with my last paragraph. I am saying there that Islam – the civilization, the people which are Muslims – can make a major contribution to progress. And I say that Islam – the poisonous religion – must be reformed before using it again, if ever.
I do think, for one, that merely discrediting the Islamic religion among them would already be a contribution of Muslims to progress, by stopping to hinder it, and, for two, that people able to do that sure would be able too to bring a major contribution to progress in many other fields, then, and because they could rid the world of the Islamic religion.
Yes, what Hugh quotes in his piece was in the context of Australia, not France. I doubt that anything comparable to what was described among Australians (and even that I still maintain was exaggerated) after the Cronulla riots has occurred anywhere in the West.
P.S.: I know the context was Australia because I was one of the interlocutors in that exchange with the poster Hugh misquotes.
wake up call from downunder:
http://www.newsweekly.com/articles/2006jun24_i.html
sorry folks, that was:
http://www.newsweekly.com.au/articles/2006jun24_i.html
..and apropo´ riots in paris: saturday (yesterday) 60 vehicles (and a few other public fittings) burned in the suburbs of paris...
(articles were displayed on times.uk and web.de (Germany) but replaced by other news.)
I visited a popular bookshop in the trendy side of town last week. There I was pleased to see in the Islam section amid all the pasty books extolling Islam's humanity and progress, books by Mr. Spencer and Mr. Warraq.
Although I find ibn Warraq's views on the world in general somewhat lacking, his analysis of Islam is dead on.
I was at the same bookstore several times over the last few months and all they had in their Islam section were the "Mohammed promoted peace" type books. So to get Robert Spencer books there is a departure for them. I'll try to buy a few books from them—they won't keep books on the shelf if they don't sell.