At MEMRI.org there is an interview with Palestinian historian Ghassan Weshah that is remarkable for its surpassing absurdity. Even among the many examples of nonsense that MEMRI presents every week, Ghassan Weshah – please do watch his video – takes the cake.
Below is a summary, followed by a transcript of his remarks:
Palestinian historian Ghassan Weshah said in a June 6, 2020 interview on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas – Gaza) that America and its slogan of liberty are collapsing and that Islam is the only power that can lead the world after America, since China is unfit for this. He added that the world has become repulsed by the Chinese “eating anything that moves”. Weshah also cited “scientific studies” that he claimed show convincinglythat Germany and France will become Islamic republics within 10 years.
In what way is America “collapsing”? Its economy is suffering, as are many economies, from the effects of the coronavirus. There is high unemployment. But this is temporary, caused by lockdowns, the need for social distancing, and the banning of gatherings of more than a handful, all of which have led to the closures of many non-essential businesses. The country is slowly reopening. Despite having the most coronavirus deaths of any country, America remains the strongest economy in the world; the strongest military power, the strongest deployer of “soft power.” It is the country that immigrants from everywhere, including Muslims, deem most desirable to live in.
Ghassan Weshah predicts that the Islamic world will within a decade dominate the globe, replacing what he sees as a fatally weakened America. But is America more wracked by problems than the Islamic world? In that world, there are three ongoing civil wars, in Syria, Libya, and Yemen, which have caused massive destruction and displacement of populations. In Syria, for example, during the civil war which has so far lasted for nine years, five million people have fled the country, while another six million are internally displaced. Everywhere in the country cities and towns lie in ruins. To reconstruct Syria, to something like its antebellum condition, will cost at least $350 billion. Syria cannot possibly generate, nor find the aid elsewhere, to undertake such reconstruction. The Syrian conflict has also involved outside Muslim powers; Iran has long supported Assad both directly and through its proxy Hezbollah; in the last year, Turkey has sent troops and weapons to prevent Assad’s army from completing its conquest of Idlib Province. In Libya, the U.A.E. and Egypt support the forces of General Haftar with money, and weapons, while Turkey supports his rival, the Government of National Accord (GNA), headed by Fayez al-Sarraj. In mid-June, Egypt moved thousands of troops up to the border with Libya, and has announced that while it seeks peace it is prepared for war with the Turkish forces in Libya, including Syrian Arab mercenaries that Turkey has brought in to fight on the side of the LNA. Planes, believed to be Egyptian, recently bombed GNA troops approaching Sirte, causing them to halt their advance.
In Yemen, Saudi Arabia supports the internationally-recognized government, mainly by bombing the Shi’a Houthi rebels (and not sparing civilians), while Iran supports those same Houthis with money and weapons. Meanwhile, the U.A.E., which formerly was allied with the Saudis in supporting the Yemeni government, has broken with Saudi Arabia and chosen to support a separatist movement in Yemen’s south. Iran continues to support the Houthi rebels. Yemen itself is on the verge of massive famine. Half of its population is food insecure and because of war have fled their homes to areas with no functioning health facilities. Nearly 2.2 million Yemeni children are acutely malnourished, and an estimated 462,000 children suffer from severe acute malnutrition. Yemen faces three epidemics: first, cholera (with more than 110,000 cases so far this year); second, a mosquito-transmitted virus known as Chikungunya virus; third, the coronavirus which has just begun to spread. Three epidemics, mass famine, a war, and the collapse of the economy, is the lot of Yemen today.
There is financial ruin in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories – in both cases, the result of mismanagement and massive corruption. There is internal violence by, and against, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. In Iraq, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, there are violent sectarian conflicts between Sunni and Shi’a. There are ethnic conflicts, too, throughout the Muslim lands: Turks vs. Kurds in Turkey, Arabs vs. Kurds in Iraq, Arabs vs. Berbers in Algeria. There is the dispute in the western Sahara between Muslim nations, where Algeria supports the Polisario Front that claims territory Morocco considers its own. There are threats from reconstituted remnants of the Islamic State in the Sinai, Iraq, Syria, and Libya. There are political rivalries that have in some cases become violent, as that between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and the West Bank. Secularists oppose Islamists in Tunisia and Turkey. Qatar has been subject to an air, land, and sea blockade by its neighbors Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., and Bahrain, to punish it both for its continued friendly ties with Iran and its support of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Even in the Gulf Arab states, there has been an economic debacle. Mismanagement, wild overspending, too great a dependence on oil sales and a concomitant failure to build a more diverse economy, and the pandemic that has led to plummeting demand for oil – all this is reflected in a drawing-down of reserves. Saudi Arabia, the richest of the oil states, has seen its foreign assets decrease from $750 billion to $448 billion in just the last few years, and they continue to drop in 2020 by about $25 billion a month. At the current rates, within a year the Saudis will have drawn down another $300 billion of foreign assets. And meanwhile, the oil price keeps going down, because of the colossal decrease in demand due to the pandemic. It’s not only Saudi Arabia that has seen its oil revenues plummet — so have the U.A.E., Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq, Iran, and Libya. Even when the pandemic subsides, oil producers face ever greater challenges, as electric vehicle sales soar. Longer-lasting and ever-cheaper lithium batteries, and government subsidies have brought the price of such vehicles way down. In mid-June a million-mile battery was announced as being in the works, while in China, new legislation promotes electric vehicle (EVs) sales by allowing individuals to sell, for the first time, the CO2 credits they accumulate by using EVs. All of this is bad news for the oil producers. Less money, less clout, and a frantic search by the oil states for alternative revenues – does this suggest an Islamic world that is on the march to world domination, as Ghassan Weshah seems to think?
No Muzzies Here says
When your enemy lays out for you in clear terms his vision of the future for you, it’s a good idea to listen carefully.
John says
And what history has proven time and time again what muslims do to their hosts once their numbers are sufficient to wage a successful takeover of the country
Michael Copeland says
“…you have to live like a state within a state, until you take over.”
Dr. Mian,
Undercover Mosque, Channel 4
Tony Said says
Lead the world – no: they are destroying themselves, because they believe that an injury requires revenge on the part of the injured.
mortimer says
Agree with NMH: Palestinian historian Ghassan Weshah is declaring war, but he is only one voice and he has no divisions to enforce his will. There is also the possibility that Western Leftards will wake up and realize what Islam plans to do to the Leftards.
gravenimage says
Very true, No Muzzies Here.
Mural says
This person can be a good stand-up comic. Pure genius, albeit deluded.
BTW, a nice article, filled with facts.
mortimer says
TRANSLATION of Palestinian historian Ghassan Weshah :
“LONG LIVE SLAVERY!”
mortimer says
Would Palestinian historian Ghassan Weshah be pleased if he received a Green Card?
Westman says
“Scientific studies”? The use of mathematics on population statistics is not “scientific”, it is merely mathematical reduction. Real science involves the empirical method of testing a hypothesis on something that can manipulated, measured, and the results released for verification by others.
Islamic “scholars”, and apparently Islamic historians, have appropriated the term “scientific” (for panache) to apply to their drivel without even a slight understanding that most of their “knowledge” is just heresay.
Ghassan Weshah says his Islamic “culture and knowledge” will lead the world. What knowledge? Where are those outstanding scientific developments from Islam? How does an inflexible culture, which rejects anything that questions Islamic fundamentals, punishes free thinkers, reduces women to chattel, and steals time from industry 5 times a day, lead the world?
Islam is an order of magnitude more backward than the Luddites. Everywhere it has ruled (it has never led) its most apparent characteristics are punishments and incompetence.
There is an old saying that perfectly fits Islam: “The beatings will continue until morale improves”
Muslim wives can testify of why no sane nation, or the world, wants Islam, “leading”.
mortimer says
The actual Muslim birth rate is plummeting because young, educated Muslim women want a career, rather than children. Universal female education will reduce the Muslim population in the coming years.
Westman says
Yes, and the only way Islam can maintain mental control of females is to ban the internet – and it’s too late. Islam can be expected to use cultural control and punishments to maintain physical control of women while their desire for freedom grows to rebellion.
Brian Hoff says
2.1 Baby per woman is replacement rate. Most nonIslam woman in Europe are 1.3 baby per woman since the 1970 the. The Muslim woman brithrate is still above 2.1 baby. In the UK Pakistan Muslim woman birthrate where hight then went down and then went up. You can have below replacement birthrate for short periods of time.
gravenimage says
I see that “Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–is still hoping that his coreligionists will out breed us. He has said that when Muslims reach sufficient numbers her that they will destroy the Constitution and impose brutal Shari’ah law on us.
Giacomo Latta says
While the muslim deportation rate is still low it shall soon climb to 2.1.
gravenimage says
Good points, Westman.
Halal Bacon says
393,347,000 personal firearms says different
James Lincoln says
Halal Bacon,
Add one more, I just bought a .30-30 hunting rifle…
Stephen Alsford says
Thank you Hugh.
You laid out a remarkably telling account of the issues that hopefully represent a powerful obstruction to the global ambitions of aspiring Muslim conquerors in the Middle East.
Next step: inform the wilfully misinformed western elite leaders how to see reality rather than propaganda.
Westman says
As Hugh Fitzgerald has pointed out – the money, oil money, that has washed the world in blood, is slowly running out; surpassed by technology. In another generation the great ME producers will have to compete in the world marketplace or wither. Imagine Saudi Arabia without enough food because it can’t grow enough and doesn’t have enough industry to trade for adequate food. Imagine the UN collecting handouts to, “Save The Children”, of Kuwait and Qatar.
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
Westman,
Interesting points.
Look how fast Venezuela collapsed – and not just because of collapsing oil prices.
The socialistic “paradise” of Chavez nationalized the oil industry, agricultural operations, transportation, power generation, telecommunications, steel production, banks.
Phil Copson says
“All of this is bad news for the oil producers. Less money, less clout, and a frantic search by the oil states for alternative revenues – does this suggest an Islamic world that is on the march to world domination…?”
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It might suggest that the populations of even the currently oil-rich countries might join in the hijra to the West ? The populations will have more incentive to leave, and their rulers will have more incentive to send them.
Cultural-jihad and out-populating the host countries can’t be defeated in the way that military jihad can.
tgusa says
He is right about the world becoming repulsed by the Chinese eating anything that moves so my advise to him is, you best play dead and pray that your ding dong doesn’t taste like chicken.
David says
Tomorrow is Saturday, a Jewish day of prayer.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Headline: “Ghassan Weshah: Tomorrow Belongs to Islam!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv0jav4lNsk
gravenimage says
Thanks for that apt link, Mark.
gravenimage says
Ghassan Weshah: Tomorrow Belongs to Islam! (Part 1)
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Violent Muslims have always thought that tomorrow belongs to them, mostly because they intend to enslave or murder anyone who does not agree with their savagery.