In France this September, a Saudi princess had her bodyguards seize her Parisian decorator simply because he took, as part of his work, a photograph of her flat. She then had him beaten and bound, threatened with death (“Kill the worthless dog!”), and forced to kiss her feet in a sign of craven submission.
Here’s what happened, according to the magazine Le Point:
The decorator said his terrifying ordeal started after he had taken a snap of the interior of the flat in a chic apartment block on Avenue Foch, in the affluent 16ème arrondissement, when the princess flew into a rage.
“You must kill him, this dog. He doesn’t deserve to live,” he told police she had screamed at her armed bodyguard because she thought that he had taken the picture to sell it to the press.
Guards of Saudi royals are authorised by the French interior ministry to bear arms, which is not the case for private security guards of French nationality, bar rare exceptions.
The decorator said he desperately tried to explain that he always took pictures of buildings where he conducted works to be sure to put back objects and furniture in the same place afterwards.
But the princess remained unconvinced and the decorator said her guard then punched him on the side of the head before binding his hands together.
In a fit of zeal, the guard then ordered his prisoner to “kiss the feet” of the princess. He said when he refused, the guard pointed a gun at him.
The decorator’s ordeal lasted four hours. He was finally let go, and he now has brought a claim against the princess, for not paying her bill to him, for keeping his equipment, and for holding him prisoner and beating him. Meanwhile, the Saudi princess skipped town, claiming “diplomatic immunity,” as so many well-off Saudi princes and princesses have done, since they are, after all, part of the vast ruling family, though their connection to actual diplomacy is non-existent.
What did this incident, that attracted a good deal of Parisian commentary, tell us? For it was not an isolated incident. There have been many cases reported in Europe (and some even in the U.S.) of royal Saudis misbehaving in extraordinary ways. Several of them have decamped from their hotels without paying their bills, though none of them lacks for money. One did so in the dead of night in Paris, along with the 60 members of her retinue, in order to avoid paying a $7 million dollar hotel bill for 41 rooms that she had rented for six months, and to avoid paying, as well, a $20 million dollar debt owed to a dozen luxury stores. Other Saudi princesses and princes have left without settling similar bills running into many millions, not only from hotels, but from interior decorators, limousine services, jewelry and furniture stores. And then there are more serious crimes, involving the physical abuse of their servants and employees. One Saudi prince, Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud, was sentenced to jail in the U.K. in 2010 for the “sexually motivated killing of his Sudanese manservant,” whom he beat to death after a “prolonged campaign of violence and sexual abuse” in a suite in London’s Landmark Hotel. But though given a life sentence, after just three years he was released, to serve the rest of his sentence in Saudi Arabia. Just how long do you think it will be before this prince of the Al-Saud family is set free from his Saudi prison? One year? One month? And do you think he’s being made to endure real prison conditions, or something more like a hotel? And when he’s freed, what can the British government do about it? Nothing.
In the U.S., another Saudi prince faced allegations of having a sexual relationship with a male aide, taking cocaine and threatening to kill women who refused his advances – as well as sexually assaulting a maid at his Beverly Hills mansion. He managed to have felony charges against him dropped, and appears to have fled the country rather than face misdemeanor charges. Another example of a Saudi getting away with, if not murder, than at least serious charges, of forced sex, with several different people.
There have been other offenses, both serious and minor, involving both Saudi princes and princesses, in Paris, London, and other Western cities. One Saudi prince used his private plane to smuggle two tons of drugs out of Lebanon. Yet they have always been able either to avoid any punishment at all, or to receive surprisingly light sentences.
While travelling in Europe with their Saudi employers, domestic servants have from time to time managed to escape from them and to tell stories of barbarous mistreatment and overwork and often a failure to be paid even the pitiful sums they were promised. One can only imagine how many servants of the Saudis endure their lives as semi-slaves in Saudi Arabia – with little payment, having their passports held so that they cannot escape, subject to 18-hour work days, beaten or sexually molested or even tortured – and who, unless they travel with their Saudi masters to Europe, and manage to escape — remain largely unable to report their intolerable conditions. But even when the reports reach the West, nothing effective is done, either by the countries whose nationals are most affected (Sri Lanka, India, the Philippines, Thailand) or by Western powers, to change Saudi behavior.
What did this latest display of Saudi cruelty and arrogance in Paris signify? It reminds us that “officially” slavery came to an end in Saudi Arabia, one of the last countries to abolish it, in 1962, and only because of outside pressure, but that the mentality remains.
In Saudi Arabia still, many servants must endure treatment close to the “slave” conditions that were supposedly abolished. Slavery is bound up with, and sanctioned by, Islam. Muhammad himself owned slaves, and whatever Muhammad did remains exemplary for all Muslims for all time. For nearly 1400 years, Muslims enslaved Infidels, from the “white slaves” of Western Europe described in Giles Milton’s White Gold, to the slaves – that is, the Slavs – of Eastern Europe, taken by the Osmanli and Seljuk Turks, to the black Africans whom Arab slavers seized in east and central Africa. That Arab trade in Africans was the deadliest part of the African slave trade, because 7 out of 10 of those seized were young boys, intended to be used as eunuchs and therefore castrated in the jungle, where 90% of them died from the operation before they could reach, by slave coffle and dhow, the Islamic slave markets of Cairo, Baghdad, Damascus, and Istanbul. That Arab slave trade involved 17 million people, with many more victims than the slave trade that brought black Africans from West Africa to the New World, which involved an estimated 2 to 4 million Africans. Yet the Arab slave trade is hardly discussed in the West, while the Middle Passage is written about endlessly.
King Fahd expressed this mentality in 1993 when in Jeddah he famously said:
I summon my blue-eyed slaves anytime it pleases me. I command the Americans to send me their bravest soldiers to die for me. Anytime I clap my hands a stupid genie called the American ambassador appears to do my bidding. When the Americans die in my service their bodies are frozen in metal boxes by the US Embassy and American airplanes carry them away, as if they never existed. Truly, America is my favorite slave.
And it’s the same mentality that impelled the Saudi princess and her guards this September to treat this Parisian Infidel as if he were their slave, someone they could with impunity bind and beat for four hours, command to kiss his Saudi employer’s feet, and threaten to kill. Had the scene taken place in Saudi Arabia, he might well have been subject to even worse. Fortunately for him, he was in a civilized country, of which he was a citizen, and could escape with his life.
But can France remain a civilized country if it allows its citizens to be so manhandled with impunity? The Saudi Princess was allowed to claim diplomatic immunity and to leave France. She’s escaped punishment, like so many other Saudis before her. Western pusillanimity simply reinforces Saudi (and Muslim) contempt for Infidels, whom the Qur’an describes in Sura 98:6 as the “most vile of creatures.”
The Saudis have been getting away with murder in Western Europe because Saudi oil, and Saudi cooperation on oil policy, in the past has been deemed so important. But is Saudi oil really as important as it once was? The world has been awash in oil, including shale oil, and the Saudis have been eager to produce more oil in order to lower prices, and thus make production of that shale oil by the Americans and alternative energy sources uneconomic. The results have been dramatic. In 2015, the price of oil was down so much that the Saudis, incapable of curbing their spending, ran a $98 billion deficit, and are likely to draw down their entire surplus of $630 billion within a few years as the shift out of oil to renewables continues, a shift that may now be, as U. S. Secretary of Energy Moniz says, “irreversible.” There is no plausible Saudi “threat” to produce less oil; that would only drive up the price of oil, ensuring that shale oil is worth producing, and certainly pushing consumers worldwide into even more rapidly embracing renewables. And the $100-billion per year budget deficit also means the Saudis will not be the customers they have been in the past. And some of the markets where they were most important – e.g., high-end real estate in London and Paris, luxury cars and goods – are seeing Saudis being replaced by Chinese and Russians.
So there is far less reason today, than there would have been twenty years ago, to placate the Saudis by allowing them to flout Western laws.
What if, instead of permitting members of the Al-Saud family to escape from the consequences of their criminal behavior by claiming “diplomatic immunity,” the French government were to have summarily denied that status, and arrested and charged the princess and her bodyguards with holding a French citizen against his will, and then binding, beating, and threatening him with death? There would be two justifications for this. One is that even if the princess invoked “diplomatic immunity,” the government of France could claim that her actions fell outside the scope of a diplomat’s official functions, and therefore diplomatic immunity did not apply. Second, when the claim of “diplomatic immunity” is based not on her actually being a diplomat at any level, but only on her being a member of the Saudi royal family, such a claim becomes absurd, especially when one considers that there are now 15,000 princes and princesses of the Al-Saud. “Diplomatic immunity” was never meant to apply to such numbers. For a very large diplomatic presence as, for example, France has in the United States, with an embassy and ten consulates, at most a hundred embassy and consulate employees might be able to legitimately claim “diplomatic immunity.”
By standing up to the Saudis, who until now have treated the laws of the Infidels with indifference or contempt, the French would have set an example for the rest of Europe, signaling that the previous policy of craven obeisance was over, that the oil-rich Muslim countries no longer needed to be courted, and neither the Saudis, nor the Qataris (who ignored French laws about preserving the architectural heritage when they installed huge underground garages and elevators in 17th century Parisian houses, such as the Hotel Lambert, destroying their historical integrity), nor the Emiratis, are any longer going to be able to ignore Western laws.
Imagine the effect on Western morale if the French had prevented the Saudi princess from leaving, declared publicly that she had been denied “diplomatic immunity,” and held her for investigation and trial, making clear that there was to be no return to the ill-considered policy of submission to Saudi desires and diktats.
And imagine the effect on the Saudis and other Muslim Arabs if it were no longer possible for the rich Arabs to use Western Europe as a combination luxury goods store, fun fair, and brothel, and to behave in Europe just as they liked, without suffering any consequences.
Or suppose, taking a different tack, the French government had unceremoniously booted out the princess and her retinue, and declared that none of them could ever return to France, announcing that its former indulgent policy toward “certain foreigners who have presumed on our forbearance in the past” (no need to specify, everyone will understand the Gulf Arabs are meant) was over, and that those deemed guilty of any infractions of French laws would in the future, after serving whatever prison time might be imposed, and fine paid, then be required to leave France, never to return. That is a threat that has real bite not just for Saudis, but also for others similarly situated (Kuwaitis, Qataris, Emiratis), who have cut a wide swathe in Europe without worrying overmuch about consequences. Access to Western Europe is something the rich Arabs, for all of their o’erweening arrogance, desperately desire. If you have all the money in the world, but are condemned to spend your time and money in monotonous souks and glittering shopping malls of the Gulf, life can be intolerably constrained.
What is needed is for the West to reassert itself, to become more aware of its true position of strength vis-à-vis the world of Islam, and to not allow itself to be inveigled or snookered or pressured by the rich Arabs into letting them ignore our laws. They need the West for many reasons. It is where they can indulge their private pleasures, far from the stultifying atmosphere in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Gulf. Their yachts are in the Mediterranean, their pleasure palaces in Paris and London, their villas on the French Riviera and the Costa del Sol, their Maseratis and Maybachs garaged in Zurich and Berlin, their jewelry bought at Harry Winston and Cartier in New York and Paris.
And where would the rich Arabs be if they could not count on Western medical care, whether from the doctors of Harley Street in London, or at the hospitals of Boston and New York (the niqabbed waiting rooms at many of these institutions testify to that dependence). They will always need the West. But the West no longer needs them, as we once convinced ourselves we did, because of the vast changes in energy supply and demand. As already mentioned above, more oil can be retrieved, thanks to fracking, than once thought, and there is at the same time a steady drop in oil demand, with greater use of electric cars and solar heating. Better schooled in Islam than we once were, we now realize that treating leniently those who are taught to view us as the “vilest of creatures” wins no favors, but merely confirms Muslims in their contempt and o’erweening arrogance.
Even if this particular princess got away, similar outrageous behavior by another Saudi is bound to come along soon. And this time, the French (or other Western) government should not allow any invoking of “diplomatic immunity” unless the Saudi in question really is a diplomat (and not just a member of the Al-Saud). Rather, bring that offender to trial, and if convicted, make sure he (or she) serves out the sentence in Europe, not in Saudi Arabia. This is needed to re-set relations between the civilized Western states and the uncivilized states of Dar al-Islam. The world’s oil-rich Muslim states need to recognize that their former hold over the advanced West is gone.
The French might also signal their new policy by declaring that that princess, who fled to Saudi Arabia, is forever barred from returning to France, and they might even seize her apartment, holding it for sale to satisfy a judgment likely to be won by the decorator, a judgment which, considering what happened to him, could well be substantial). And if the Saudis don’t like that kind of treatment, what can they do? If they sell less oil they will lose even more market share not just to other oil producers (Iraq, Iran, American frackers), but also to the alternative sources of energy that the elon-musks of this world are making constantly cheaper and more efficient, from electric cars to solar collectors.
This progress is inexorable, and there is nothing the Saudis or other Muslim oil states can do to stop it. It is up to the countries of Western Europe to show the Saudis (and other Gulf Arabs) that the days of Western deference and Arab swagger are over, beginning with an end to treating their terminally arrogant “royals” as the real thing. La Commedia è finita! Why not bring down this particular curtain, so that we can concentrate on what is now being performed on the main stage, for what looks like a very long run, which is to say, the Muslim invasion of Europe?

Linde Barrera says
Hugh Fitzgerald wrote a fabulous article here but he was too diplomatic in his wording. If I had written this article, being that I’m from Brooklyn, NY, I would have included these words: “Leaders in every Western World government have to stop being pussies for the Saudis and all other Islamists.” EOS!
Angemon says
I second that feeling, Linde.
Morty Mooze says
Only Iran can stand up to Saudi Arabia!
The U.S.A., E.U. and others have sold out long ago!!!
Linde Barrera says
To Angemon- Always great to get a thumbs up from you. Take good care, Angemon.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, Linde and Angemon!
Linde Barrera says
To gravenimage- Thank you for your endorsement. Stay sharp, dear graven.
gravenimage says
🙂
tom parry says
another great jihad watch post, Why do most nations allow foreigners to buy property in their land.
Especially muslims whom dominate london Losa angeles munich etc.
Anne Smith says
Unfortunately, money speaks all languages
Dacritic says
See a niqab, deport them.
harbidoll says
funny but a “Wiener” might have done just that & entrapped a Saudi girl/wife who works for Hillary!
Ray Sears says
Well Said, but being a retired comm. fisherman i wouldn’t have been as gentle and a whole lot more colorful !
Anke L. says
This is a great article…..have to read it again.
However the new red or pale grey of the writing in the website
is hard to read. Please stay with black.
gravenimage says
Agreed–this does make it harder to read the articles.
PsychoBob says
Yessss!!!
Ray Sears says
YES, it would be nice if was easer to see the words ! Black Lettering would work a lot better for me !
dumbledoresarmy says
AGREED.
I have sub-standard eyesight and the grey-on-grey does make life much harder; the change in ‘decor’ was viewed by me with much dismay.
Praeceptor Maximus says
Lol. My eyes are exactly the same.
Aardvark says
Firefox allows me to set the colour and background of displayed pages. Whatever browser you are using may have a similar setting – worth checking it out.
Great article by Hugh!
BLC says
If that’s the Saudi royal family, their hardly a good role model for the citizens. They’re depraved. There is no morality in their culture at all. There’s only jihad.
Rev g says
Some 40 years ago my wife saw the Saudi princes in action when she waitressed at a disco in Dearborn. This behavior is ingrained in their psche.
BLC says
Even the most common Western people can see that this is disgraceful conduct. Seems as though “civilization” in the Arab world is non-existent.
Praeceptor Maximus says
With all that money, these classless Saudi princesses and princes are nothing but barbarian thugs. Muslims nations are generally not civilized just like their religion. Barbarian through and through.
gravenimage says
Of course they are a good model–by Islamic standards.
Those who rule in Islam do so because they took power violently.
And they can even flout Islamic standards so long as they work to spread Islam–which the Saudis do. And nothing is more Islamic than abusing Infidels and other Muslims who have less power.
This is *exactly* what Muslim rule looks like. *Ugh*.
BLC says
I hear what you’re saying. Maybe they’re good role models in the Arab Emirates, but in the civilized world, even the Saudi Royals are nothing more than barbaric.
We have paupers in the West who wouldn’t act the way the Saudi Royal family does.
gravenimage says
I entirely agree, BLC–I was talking about barbaric Muslim standards.
Gen Jones says
The Saudis seem to like shopping and displaying wealth. These aren’t indicators of actual taste or cultivation. The French, for all their faults, know how to live. Their couture is high priced but it’s appreciated as an art form that displays the highest skills that human imagination and human hands can create. The refinement of things in French culture are as elaborate as a Dior gown and as simple as a loaf of bread. The Saudis have money but no sense of aesthetics. Their pleasures are vulgar and even criminal because the simple ones are denied them – amour, vin, joie de vivre. (Love, wine and joy in life)
Anne Smith says
Their “culture” has been the same for hundreds of years. Read “Arabian Sands”, the amazing story of an Englishman walking through the Empty Quarter a hundred years ago. You will see that nothing changes.They were unpleasant anti-everybody tribes then and they still are. The tribal mentality has never gone away.
Custos Custodum says
On the contrary, the Saudi royals are excellent and effective role models for their people.
Remember that what civilized people may see as depravity, murder, rape, fraud etc. directed at infidels is not only acceptable but often sacralized in normative Islam.
Mark A says
Excellent article Hugh Fitzgerald.
The Saudis have nothing to offer the world except oil, arrogance and jihad.
Custos Custodum says
The Saudis are valuable allies. The country should fetch a good price when we sell them to Iran and/or Turkey. The main oil-producing areas of SA are mainly populated by Shiites already, much to the chagrin of the Wahhabi kings.
Saudi Arabia’s “Empty Quarter” (Rub’ al-Khali) could serve as a new, spacious homeland for the non-Arab “Palestinians” who can finally live to their full potential far away from the hated Jews. Desert sand is mostly silicon, so they can start making computer chips. In no time at all, “the Quarter” will become a global byword for sophisticated electronic technology.
Linde Barrera says
To Custos Custodum- I just loved your Nov. 3, 2016 post of 2:40 pm. Not sure if you are being sarcastic (I dont get written sarcasm) or trying to sound like a sweet talking, smooth stalking salesman for positivity in what is an ocean of nasty negativity: Islam. Keep your comments coming! And thanks again.
JawsV says
Muslim “royals.” What a joke. Without oil they’d all be peasants riding camels and living in the desert.
Charli Main says
Agreed. Saudi ” princess ” ??? My King Charles spaniel is more royal that these Muslim goat shaggers.
gravenimage says
True.
Mazo says
The Saudi royal family established their state three times before the discovery of oil in their land, the first time in the 18th century around the same tine as the foundation of the USA. They lived in cities like Diriyah and built their own forts and palaces long before they discovered oil. M9st Saudis can trace their ancestry far further back in time than the average westerner.
Rev g says
True, but the continual inbreeding makes the lineage so much simpler to trace.
gravenimage says
Mazo wrote:
The Saudi royal family established their state three times before the discovery of oil in their land, the first time in the 18th century around the same tine as the foundation of the USA. They lived in cities like Diriyah and built their own forts and palaces long before they discovered oil.
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“Palaces”–uh huh. This is what Mecca looked like before the oil money started flowing in:
http://www.thenational.ae/storyimage/AB/20141001/GALLERY/141009908/AR/0/&NCS_modified=20141001160342&MaxW=960&imageVersion=default&AR-141009908.jpg
Mazo says
Cravenmirage.
The Saudi royal family are natives of Najd, from Diriyah and Riyadh.
http ://whc.unesco. org/en/list/1329
https ://upload.wikimedia. org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Diriyahpic.jpg
https ://upload.wikimedia. org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Diriyyah-Mosque_of_Mohd_bin_Abdul_Wahab.jpg
Mecca is in Hejaz. Which was ruled by Hashemites (Jordanian royal family) until the Saudis from Najd defeated them and conquered them in 1924. Najd and Hejas are two different lands.
Not sure why you are being a retard and posting pictures unrelated to the Saudi royal homeland.
Next time someone asks for a picture of George Washington’s Virginia home, be sure to post a picture of the Alamo in Texas instead.
davej says
Well said Hugh. This needs to be widely distributed, it is intolerable that 15,000 Saudi Princes and Princesses (oh the arrogance) are routinely swooping in like barbarian raiders, stealing goods and services, abusing non-Muslims and then decamping while claiming immunity from prosecution.
How did it come to this? Somehow we are buying in to their line about us being the vilest and them being the best, when the reality is obviously the opposite. And we call them “allies”?
Prosecute them, seize their expensive cars and homes and refuse to ever allow them in again.
dumbledoresarmy says
Agreed.
Custos Custodum says
The usual suspects in the West’s chancelleries will find it hard to resist the gradualist, softly-softly instincts acquired over a lifetime in government offices.
But to be effective, the next step against Saudi, Qatari and other uppity oil tribes must be drastic and unpredictable.
In particular, it might make sense to arrest, in one sweep, a whole slew of tribal “royals” who are not accredited diplomats and thus at most protected from justice under vague notions of state immunity. No doubt host governments already have secret lists of the most egregious murderers, rapists and thieves.
Cretius says
A well written commentary that is an open door to reality.
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: A Saudi Princess In Paris
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Will French authorities hold the Saudis responsible for the criminal abuse of this poor decorator? Don’t hold your breath…
dumbledoresarmy says
Shoutout to French jihadwatchers, lurking and reading quietly over our shoulders: I am sure that Our Hugh will be very happy if you take this excellent article and translate it into French, as carefully and skilfully as you can, and then set it a-circulating on the French-language forums of the Resistance to Islamisation.
In fact: send it, right *now*, as is, in English, to Marine Le Pen and to any other current French politician great and small (most especially, those various Mayors who set out to ban the burkini) whom you think might be responsive to what Hugh is saying. Who might find his suggestions, as to what should be done, inspiring.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
I was unable to find a proper citation for King Fahd’s 1993 quote (why in faint lettering?) “Truly, America is my favorite slave.” But a search led to
http://www.sauduction.com/
Shazza says
You can put lipstick on a pig and call it a princess, but it is still a pig.
The saudis have no class. They are just a bunch of knuckle draggers.
Matthieu Baudin says
“… By standing up to the Saudis, who until now have treated the laws of the Infidels with indifference or contempt, the French would have set an example for the rest of Europe, signaling that the previous policy of craven obeisance was over, that the oil-rich Muslim countries no longer needed to be courted, and neither the Saudis, nor the Qataris (who ignored French laws about preserving the architectural heritage when they installed huge underground garages and elevators in 17th century Parisian houses, such as the Hotel Lambert, destroying their historical integrity), nor the Emiratis, are any longer going to be able to ignore Western laws…”
Hugh Fitzgerald ought to offer his services as a policy consultant to the French Government. The idea (above) and many others that he has put forward are well thought out and also relatively inexpensive to implement. Courage is also required by the national political elite but this has been in short supply under the watchful and censuring eye of the Obama administration. It certainly seems more likely that European governments would experiment with new initiatives to reign in Saudi arrogance if by some miracle Mr Trump were to defeat Ms Clinton on November 8.
Sheri says
My husband had a run-in with a Lebanese here in the U.S. I did some searching on this person and found quite a trail involving many court cases in several states including one in California for the exact same issue we were having with him. We were building his home and he made false claims with the in-floor heating system materials, claiming defective plastics were used. He was looking for an out-of-court-settlement and he goes after a company’s “Bond” money. I also found where he had ordered a book on-line about how to take down American businesses (Specifically plastics) and then wound up in a court case with the author of the book. When convenient they will change their last names to their mother’s side of the family. The home is currently on the market for 6 million. My husband was financially wiped-out from 6 years of lawyer fees and a stroke just before the out-of-court-settlement. I can’t even think this person’s name without wishing for his demise and a meteor to hit that house….that he never lived in.
Linde Barrera says
To Sheri- As per your 4:18 am comment of Nov.3, 2016, I feel so bad for your husband and you. I am so sorry that you went through that court case. If you care to comment further (I respect you if you care not to further comment) since this thug thought your husband was installing defective materials, he could have demanded a work stoppage until his assertion was provided true or false, and that would have ended it, I am 99% sure. Also, isn’t there a law that protects people from unsubstantiated lawsuits? Again, I feel terrible for this bitter experience that you and your husband went through in good faith.
gravenimage says
Sheri, I am so sorry to hear about this. This is more “Lawfare”.
Never deal with Muslims if you can help it.
Mazo says
What was the Lebanese man’s religion?
Ray Sears says
GUESS !
Custos Custodum says
Another common trick is to change the English transliteration of Arabic names. Because most vowels are unwritten in Arabic and consonants are geminated (doubled) in speech but not in writing, there is a lot of scope for creative interpretation.
For example, Muhammad, Muhamad, Mohammed, etc. all reflect the same Arabic name. Morsi/Mursi and the countless spellings of Gaddafi are other examples.
Western legal systems rely on voluntary compliance and a sense of restraint on the part of 99% of the population. This opens them up to exploitation by sociopaths and aggressive groups not grounded in the same social mores.
LB says
Excellent and insightful article once again, Mr. Fitzgerald. But as much as I want to believe in Western rebellion against the arabs, it’s not happening anytime soon, so long as the leftist governments are in charge. While it’s most certainly true all you said about oil dropping and renewable energy sources rising; even if combustible fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) were to be completely replaced by renewables starting tomorrow, the West would continue to bow down to the Arabs simply due to their status as muslims.
Let’s be real here — ORDINARY muslims in Western countries have gotten away with all sorts of crimes due to political correctness just for being muslims, just imagine all the horrors ROYAL muslims have gotten away with. So the only real way of standing up to the arabs (muslims) is to stand up against the corrupt Left (additionally “greased up” by oil money) who are letting them do whatever they want.
Cameron says
Assemble the French Foreign Legion and whatever other military forces, send them in to Saudi Arabia to overthrow the Royal Family, send the entire family and anyone who was complicit in their crimes against humanity as convicts to an empty island off of Antarctica and then turn the country of Saudi Arabia into a country worth living in.
gravenimage says
Sadly, I doubt Arabia without the Saudis would be any better than it is now–an Islamic sh*t hole.
But we should stop showing any respect to these thuggish barbarians as of right now.
Charli Main says
Agreed 100%. Saudi Arabia is a shithole because the Muslims that live there, turned it into one.
Britain, Europe and the USA are steadily being turned into shitholes by the Muslims, that are increasingly infesting these countries because that’s what Muslims do—–drag countries into the dark ages and turn them into shitholes.
GOD I HATE MUSLIMS.
Custos Custodum says
Elitist politicians love to talk about the West’s responsibility for solving the problem of massive population growth in Africa, particularly the Muslim Northern half where fertility rates are horrendous, especially in the poorest countries such as Mali.
With modern air conditioning and building techniques, there is no reason why, say 300 million Africans should not be settled in the deserts of Saudi Arabia. The “Guardian of the Two Holy Places” will surely be thrilled to welcome so many new Muslim subjects.
David says
@”In 2015, the price of oil was down so much that the Saudis, incapable of curbing their spending, ran a $98 billion deficit, and are likely to draw down their entire surplus of $630 billion within a few years as the shift out of oil to renewables continues, a shift that may now be, as U. S. Secretary of Energy Moniz says, “irreversible.” There is no plausible Saudi “threat” to produce less oil; that would only drive up the price of oil, ensuring that shale oil is worth producing, and certainly pushing consumers worldwide into even more rapidly embracing renewables”
I doubt that I will read anything that gives me more enjoyment this year, please publish it regularly.
vicki says
YAY!!! I have been hping for this for some time now.
So many ways to help their demise!! Recycle plastics, burn only soy or beeswax candles, carpool, walk to the grocery, wear cotton, etc!!!
http://matadornetwork.com/change/50-ways-to-use-less-oil/
Gotta love the upcycling!!
gravenimage says
I would love to see Saudi Arabia implode–and see the same thing happen with other Muslims living off unearned oil wealth.
chevalier de st george says
40 years {1977} ago, the path for the islamification of europe had already been laid. it began as a soft jihad walk through our institutions a la Gramsci. What we had was the chance to educate ourselves, and those who did just that were quickly silenced or ignored and labelled racists and later islamophobes.HISTORY which had by then been carefully revised was only available to those who really searched it out.The lid on the pressure cooker of disinformation was blown with the arrival of the INTERNET.
even Boumedienne at the UN had boasted that Islam would acheive with the wombs of Muslim women, what centuries of mamluk warriors had failed to realise.
yes, it has been just pissing in the wind, or should i say a storm of leftist cultural marxists and their enablers in the BBC, media and universities and establishment arabophiles and the need by our ‘elites to subdue and control the masses to fill the gap that failing christianity had left behind.
gravenimage says
Grimly true–but few recognized the threat at the time.
Custos Custodum says
Not coincidentally, the 1970s was also when systematic moves by communist front groups to silence any dissenting voice as “racist,” “hate,” “dehumanizing” etc. were initiated on college campuses and by their agents in the media.
To nobody’s surprise, many of these groups and initiatives turned out later to have been financed and directed by the secret services of communist countries.
Carolyne says
I know there’s no comparison between the Saudi royal family and the British royal family The British behave well and are respectful while in other countries, but do they also have diplomatic immunity while out of the UK? Is it customary for members of royalty to automatically have diplomatic immunity?
The Saudis are pigs–especial their so-called royals–and really shouldn’t even be allowed to be in another country.
Cretius says
Diplomatic immunity pertains to accredited diplomats and not to the 15,000 Saudi princes and princesses. Our Royals represent the gov’t usually when abroad and certainly observe national laws unlike Saudis who only respect Sharia Law. It is high time the West held these Muslim renegades to account for their misdeeds.
Crusades Were Right! says
Western voters need to be educated about what Islam is, and what Mohammedans think about the rest of us; and then elect politicians who are educated in these matters.
As long as Westerners keep reciting the “diversity” and “multicultural” mantras they have been brainwashed into believing, the colonization of the West will continue, and eventually Christians in London, Rome, Paris, Berlin, etc, will be as rare as Christians in Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, Damascus, etc today.
Cretius says
Islam is not a race. It is a fascist, totalitarian, anti-democratic belief system dedicated to the destruction of western democracy, culture and religions. Those that cannot see this then their ignorance is not only monumental but also culturally suicidal.
Don McKellar says
Boy the Saudis sure are having a lot of fun visiting their colony France, aren’t they?
Jack Diamond says
It’s even more a colony of Qatar nowadays. Let’s not leave the al-Thanis out when imagining the worm turning since they take a backseat to no one as a state-sponsor of terrorism, stealth jihad, narco-terrorism, and the end of the West, all the while posing as an ally and business partner. Their demise can’t come soon enough either.
Cretius says
YES!
Cretius says
Who will buy their oil at the OPEC price if the western democracies are gone? Western Muslims will want the ‘brotherhood’ price!
Robert John Bennett says
“(T)he Muslim invasion of Europe”?
Yes, but it can’t be stopped. It’s too late. Anyone who does try to stop it in any of the ways Hugh Fitzgerald suggests in this article will be greeted with screams of, “Islamophobia.”
A pessimistic outlook? Well, yes, but a realistic one too.
Cretius says
Never too late. Muslims are still the minority. Give them a letter to leave within 6 months and then remove those that remain by whatever means necessary.
gravenimage says
It is *not* too late. France has the largest percentage of Muslims, but even there is it only 8%. Rolling over now is not “realism”–it is cowardice.
The free West *is* worth fighting for.
What would our parents and grandparents, who stood against the threat of Fascism, think of such calls for surrender?
Charli Main says
It took Spain 800 years to drive the Muslim invaders out of their land and East Europeans 400 years to drive the Turk invaders out off Europe.
Don´t give up. The day will come when the Muslims will be driven out off ALL THE LANDS THEY HAVE INVADED:
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, Charli!
And it was not just Spain that took back their land after centuries of Muslim conquest, but also Portugal, southern France, Sicily, southern Italy, Greece, and the Balkans–and, of course, Israel as well.
Things are dire now–but they are *not* lost.
daniel sebold says
You see, Saudi women do have some power. Weathy Arab women can override the male director of a school to get the male English teacher they want. If they want Daniel teacher, they will get him
gravenimage says
They only have power over the “filthy Infidels”.
Jack Diamond says
at least one of them.
somehistory says
Money talks, and buys power. The wild beast from satan has stolen the plates that print it and has so much, the lily-livered are afraid to stand up for what is right …because they just have to have that money
This abuse of others is truly disgusting and cries out for Divine Justice.
The awful truth says
Not many people today know about the Jeddah Massacre of Christians in 1858. They always start with a greivance against non-Muslims eventually leading to a global takeover.
Cretius says
Yes. Islam is the mortal enemy of the Western democracies. Recognise it and then deal with it!
gravenimage says
Here’s that terrible story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeddah_Massacre_of_1858
Mazo says
Not committed by Saudis. The Saudi royals are from Najd and Hejaz at that time was Ottoman ruled.
The masscre was not even committed by Hejazis. It was committed by Hadhramis who originate from Hadhramaut in south Yemen.
daniel sebold says
Interesting, I have been to Hadromoat in Southern Yemen and the ancient mud skyscrapers of Shabom. Incredible place.
gravenimage says
These murderers were not Saudis per se–but they were more of Mazo’s homicidal coreligionists.
Jaem says
It is outrageous that these people get away with stealing, raping and killing on the soil of another country.
Rasmussen says
Sooner or later they’ll have their very own “arab spring” …….
gravenimage says
But that just means the Saudis would be replaced with something as bad or worse.
davej says
The only encouraging sign I see (apart from sites like JW) is that when the MSM print their fawning articles about “Islamophobia”, “backlash” and the “Religion of Peace” the comment sections are about 98% filled with realistic denunciations. I think the majority of average citizens see the truth and are not fooled by the apologists and explainers. The problem is with our deluded and corrupt “leaders”, who are a minority, and can at least theoretically be thrown out. (Pakistan or Saudi Arabia would be good places to throw them).
gravenimage says
Yes–I do think the tide is–slowly–beginning to turn.
Jerry says
Enough with all the Islamophobia.
Most African Americans owe their their existence in the USA to the enterprising, mainly Muslim Arabs, who rounded up their ancestors in East and West Africa and sold them to be shipped to the USA, the Caribbean, and the former Spanish Colonies and elsewhere.
Surely this is the greatest contribution Islam ever made to the history of the USA!
Yorkshire Kufir says
He’s lucky he’s not a dhimmi, then he really would have suffered. Kissing a smelly arab’s feet should be banned under the geneva convention