No doubt about that. But at what cost? My latest in PJ Media:
Last Wednesday, European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans hosted a roundtable with imams from Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands. He had a message for them that they doubtlessy welcomed: “The Commission is strongly committed to promoting diversity in Europe. Islam is part of our history, Islam is part of our present and Islam will be part of our future.”
There is no doubt that Timmermans’ statement is true, but not quite in the way he meant.
Timmermans did hint that he was aware Europe might not travel a smooth and placid path to the glorious multicultural future: “The way we help our citizens — whatever their background may be — to embrace the diversity that is a reality in European societies is going to determine much of our collective future.”
In 2015, Timmermans noted: “[D]iversity is now in some parts of Europe seen as a threat. Diversity comes with challenges. But diversity is humanity’s destiny. There is not going to be, even in the remotest places of this planet, a nation that will not see diversity in its future.”
He didn’t note that many majority-Muslim countries have been growing less diverse, while Europe grows more so.
Timmermans added: “Europe will be diverse, like all other parts of the world will be diverse. The only question is, how do we deal with that diversity? And my answer to that is, by ensuring that our values determine how we deal with diversity and not giving up our values to refuse diversity. That will bring us down as a society.”
Timmermans concluded ominously: “If we don’t get this right, I truly believe Europe will not remain the Europe we built. Europe will not remain a place of peace and freedom, for very long.”
In reality, it is because of his diversity project that Europe might not remain a place of peace and freedom.
Timmermans is right: Islam is a part of European history, is certainly a part of its present, and most assuredly will be in its future. And its presence in Europe has, from its beginning, led to the end of peace and freedom for Europeans.
In my forthcoming book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS (which you can preorder here), I detail how the Islamic jihadis first attacked Europe in the Seventh Century, as Islam itself was coming into being, and continued to harass and terrorize Europeans for centuries thereafter. If Timmermans and other European leaders knew the history of the jihad against Europe (and elsewhere) that I detail in the book, they might not be so sanguine about Islam’s presence on the continent.
To take just one notorious example: after over seven hundred years of trying, the warriors of jihad finally entered Constantinople on May 29, 1453. When they did, they made the streets run with rivers of blood. Muslims raided monasteries and convents, killing or enslaving their inhabitants, and plundered private houses. They entered the Hagia Sophia, which for nearly a thousand years had been the grandest church in Christendom.
The Muslims then killed the elderly and weak and led the rest off into slavery.
The Byzantine scholar Bessarion wrote to the Doge of Venice in July 1453, saying:
[Constantinople had been] sacked by the most inhuman barbarians and the most savage enemies of the Christian faith, by the fiercest of wild beasts. The public treasure has been consumed, private wealth has been destroyed, the temples have been stripped of gold, silver, jewels, the relics of the saints, and other most precious ornaments. Men have been butchered like cattle, women abducted, virgins ravished, and children snatched from the arms of their parents.
When the slaughter and pillage was finished, Mehmet II ordered an Islamic scholar to mount the high pulpit of the Hagia Sophia and declare that there was no God but Allah, and Muhammad was his prophet. The magnificent old church was turned into a mosque; hundreds of other churches in Constantinople and elsewhere suffered the same fate. Millions of Christians joined the ranks of the dhimmis; others were enslaved, and many were killed.
The Muslim advances in Europe generally followed this pattern. Even the vaunted proto-multicultural paradise of Muslim Spain was only remotely livable for Christians and Jews when they passively accepted the daily harassment and discrimination mandated for non-Muslims in Islamic law.
If Timmermans knew the history of Islam in Europe, would it make a difference?
Read the rest here.
Sam says
UK deserves Islam!!!!
mortimer says
THE HISTORY OF ISLAM DESTROYING EUROPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuxqXjhl13Y&t=14s
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
+1
Wellington says
Nazism and Communism are also part of European history. So what?
Delenda est Islam. Delenda est EU.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Vērō, vērō!
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
Lavéritétriomphera says
+1
European Union is not the European continent. Political Europe will not exist wiithout European Russia. Putine knows it and EU kwows it too.
Savvy Kafir says
Yes — and cholera is part of European history too, but hasn’t contributed much besides spasms of puking, pooping, & death. Not much to celebrate there, either.
gravenimage says
+1
maghan says
Someone should just get the email of Timmerman and just educate his dim brain on the history of Islam in Europe. One wonders how can grown men supposedly educated and literate–be so naive and stupid. Some people call them “educated fools”. Sounds about right.
KJW says
They aren’t naive and and stupid-they planned this since the 1960s, early 1970s. The European Commission and the Arabs over oil and economics. We must stop the narrative of the unelected degenerate elites being dumb about this and call them out on their devious schemes and machinations fully knowing the clash of civilizations, Middle Eastern history and Jihad. They have foisted this on citizens while they live in their Eagles Nests.
mummymovie says
Who the hell does Timmermans think he is? This arrogant bastard thinks he is playing God.
It is tragically obvious to anyone paying attention now that these rapidly populating invaders are an army. An army that has discovered that our civility is our weak spot; that they can come to our countries and receive shelter, comfort, nourishment, health care, education, technology… all as a means to sophisticate, enhance, intensify and focus their jihad against us with the end goal of conquest. The humanitarian They are using the liberal, open, humanitarian laws and policies of the West designed to help people against us. Immigration, citizenship, and human rights laws are being subverted and used to spawn an army on Western soil we will not be able to rid ourselves of.
Clearly moslems in Western countries are using our humanity to foster their inhumanity. There is nothing more inherently evil than that.
Leaders like Timmermans, and the other (mostly childless) leaders in Europe are not blind or clueless- they are facilitators and enablers in this massive invasion, takeover, and Grand Betrayal of future generations of civilized people.
I hope and pray they are one day held accountable.
mummymovie says
I somehow left out funding, with regard to what they receive in our countries for their jihad.
Our generosity funds islam’s war against us.
“Refugee” resettlement is a bloody outrage!
END THE HIJRA
STOP REFUJIHAD
b.a. freeman says
love the neologism, mummymovie! refujihad – i’m going to start using it. thanks!
Benedict says
If Islam could enrich our culture it would be very welcome here.
But Islam is nothing but humanism in Islamic religious garb. (read: garbage)
Muslims celebrate the perfect man Muhammad, “al-Insān al-Kāmil “, in all his narcissistic self-importance, megalomania, belligerency and in all his self-righteousness and with all his delusions and his base passions, as the measure of all things.
How can such an anthropology, that Islam and Muslims are bound to bring with them, enrich any culture?
gravenimage says
Benedict, there is *nothing* humanist about Islam.
Savvy Kafir says
Agreed. I had a major WTF?! moment when I read Benedict’s assertion that “Islam is nothing but humanism in Islamic religious garb”.
It’s hard to imagine a worldview that is LESS like humanism than Islam.
Benedict says
– “The Commission is strongly committed to promoting diversity in Europe” –
Mark Steyn: “Diversity unto Death – Literally” (https://www.steynonline.com/8547/diversity-unto-death-literally)
might be of no interest and relevance to the comatose Commission and its commitment. But thoughtful people should read the article.
gravenimage says
Thanks for linking to that Mark Steyn piece, Benedict.
b.a. freeman says
my thanks as well, Benedict; the comments made for a good read as well.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
https://www.rt.com/news/422994-europe-weakened-migration-leftists/
gravenimage says
This is true. Unfortunately, Muslims are also flooding into Russia–especially Moscow. We are all in increasing danger.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
I don’t recall former Czech President Vaclav Klaus talking/writing about Russia in this article.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/01/geller-new-york-times-asks-can-islamic-and-european-civilizations-coexist/
gravenimage says
Important piece from Pam Geller. Thanks for the link, Flavius.
mortimer says
Muslims want ‘Islamic conquest of Europe’, Austrian cardinal says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFRjvSJ01S8
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Thanks Mortimer.
Mohammad Shafiq words are meant to provide cover and buy time for the “Third Turkish Siege of Vienna.” And of course, when Shafiq loses the debate he falls back on that old Mohammadan chestnut: the personal attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#/media/File:Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement-en.svg)!
By the way, the moderator messed up (or is biased) and lost control of the debate. When Shaq interruped the Identitarian, Markovics, the moderator did not jump in but he shut the Identitarian down when it went the other way. RT messed up on this one.
I hope the new pope is inaugurated soon. You know Europe is in trouble when a Mohammadan praises the siting pope.
John Magee says
Many? Try 90%.
mortimer says
NON-PRACTICING MUSLIMS TURN TO JIHAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6ePVxRLDM0
Dante says
In reality Diversity=Death.
sidney penny says
“To take just one notorious example:”
Robert Spencer, are there not many notorious examples?Here is another one below in another country.
Versions of Mehmet were everywhere.
“Elaborate literary evidence of the World’s biggest holocaust from existing historical contemporary eyewitness accounts. The historians and biographers of the invading armies and subsequent rulers of India left quite detailed records of the atrocities they committed in their day-to-day encounters with India’s Hindus.”
https://www.sikhnet.com/news/islamic-india-biggest-holocaust-world-history
With the invasion of India by Mahmud Ghazni about 1000 A.D., began the Muslim invasions into the Indian subcontinent and they lasted for several centuries. Nadir Shah made a mountain of the skulls of the Hindus he killed in Delhi alone. Babur raised towers of Hindu skulls at Khanua when he defeated Rana Sanga in 1527 and later he repeated the same horrors after capturing the fort of Chanderi. Akbar ordered a general massacre of 30,000 Rajputs after he captured Chithorgarh in 1568. The Bahamani Sultans had an annual agenda of killing a minimum of 100,000 Hindus every year.
The history of medieval India is full of such instances.
The holocaust of the Hindus in India continued for 800 years, till the brutal regimes were effectively overpowered in a life and death struggle by the Sikhs in the Panjab and the Hindu Maratha armies in other parts of India in the late 1700’s.
AP says
Brussels is being run by the muslims
jewdog says
Yes, Islamic societies are growing less diverse. They are approaching a kind of monoculture, but, like Zeno’s paradox, they never quite make it to homogeneity since they keep splitting into warring subsets. It’s entropy inside an Islamic black box.
Terra Nova says
I am so sick about the lame excuses of the EU, UN , and councils and governments and Mr. Timmermans.
And this to put it very mildl. It is hard if you can’t trust anybody anymore, not your governments, councils and invaders of the death cult, named Islam, who lives on the taxpayers money. What a richness they added to our countries.