In his predictions of a future when America will lose its dominant role – no doubt he would call it an “American hegemony” – the Palestinian “historian” Ghassan Weshah does not even consider the possibility that America might be replaced by a resurgent Europe. Why not? The E.U. alone has a GDP very close to that of the U.S. — $19,700 billion for the E.U. (2020 est.), and $20,190 for the U.S. (2020 est.). If one adds in the GDP from 13 European countries that are not part of the E.U., including such rich countries as Switzerland and the Russian Federation, the Europeans pull far ahead of both the U.S. and China in GDP. And Europe has more than twice the population of the United States. But that continent is not mentioned by Ghassan Weshah – save as a putative source of “studies” foretelling Islam’s triumph — who takes it for granted that Europe is in permanent decline, instead of being capable of remarkable recuperation, economic and political, as it demonstrated after World War II.
Weshah again:
“Today, the U.S. leads the world with a false culture and it has begun to collapse. America’s slogan of liberty is collapsing at its first test. [The coronavirus pandemic] was a big embarrassment for China and a large part of the world is repelled by the Chinese culture and about how they eat anything that moves. These people are unfit to lead the world. Our entire nation needs to see the scientific research that is coming out of Europe.”
What American “false culture” that “has begun to collapse” does he have in mind”? Is it American music, American art, American entertainment (movies, television, computer games), American sport, American technology, all of which continue to impress and dominate in their respective fields and markets? And what’s this about America’s “slogan of liberty” that “is collapsing at its first test”? Perhaps Ghassan Weshah has not heard of other tests of America’s “slogan of liberty” (a dismissive way to describe the principle, or ideal, of liberty, enshrined in the Constitution), such as, inter alia, the Civil War, World War I, and World War II? And what could he possibly mean by that “slogan of liberty collapsing at its first test”? I presume that by “the first test” he means the coronavirus pandemic, and the “liberty” that he thinks is being infringed upon by the necessary and temporary limits placed on people’s behavior because of the need for social distancing and for lockdowns. That’s not a police state. That’s a state that recognizes an unprecedented health crisis and understands the need to limit the spread of the virus. Or could Weshah have something else in mind? Might he be thinking of the Trump administration’s so-called “Muslim ban,” which was nothing of the sort, for it applies to seven countries, only five of them Muslim, that were unable to supply sufficient information on their nationals which the American government required for security purposes? That putative “Muslim ban” did not affect 95% of the world’s Muslims. Whichever Ghassan Weshah has in mind, there has been no serious infringement of the liberties of American citizens.
He offers one last slap at China: “[The coronavirus pandemic] was a big embarrassment for China and a large part of the world is repelled by the Chinese culture and about how they eat anything that moves. These people are unfit to lead the world.” Most people are not repelled, but impressed by the exquisiteness of traditional Chinese culture, its literature, its philosophy and, above all, its art. Ghassan Weshah is not among them.
But let’s get to his unintentionally amusing charge about deficiencies in Chinese cuisine. Apparently, since some people in China include insects and bats in their diets, that makes the Chinese “unfit to lead the world.” Some might argue that people who regard sheep’s eyes as a culinary delicacy, eat fried grasshoppers as snacks, favor lamb testicle kebabs, and even drink camel’s urine for its medicinal properties, as recommended in a sahih hadith by Muhammad, are in no position to criticize Chinese cuisine.
Weshah has dismissed America from its dominant role because it has a “false culture” that has “begun to collapse” – though no one other than Muslims seem to have noticed that collapse — and has not managed to uphold its “slogan of liberty” during its “first test.” He has mocked the world-girdling Chinese for supposedly being so insular and shut in their “cocoon.” This charge will come as news to Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Philippines, all of which have suffered from Chinese expansionism in the South China Sea, including Beijing’s building of man-made islands so as to claim their resource-rich territorial waters, and to those 60-100 countries to which the Chinese have brought their massive Belt-and-Road Initiative.
With America and China out of the running, who’s left? According to Weshah, it’s the Islamic lands that will inherit the earth. How does he know? Oh, there have been “scientific studies” in Europe – he supplies no authors, no titles, no places or dates of publication, no details. Just “scientific studies.” Those “scientific studies” from persons unknown – there’s been no peer review by demographers – assure us, says Ghassan Weshah, “that France and Germany will become Islamic republics within ten years. There are studies that say that German and French citizens are converting to Islam hourly. There are studies that say that every 24 hours, there are churches that become mosques. Islamic culture is on the march.”
Ah, these “scientific studies” he mentions. The ones that tell us that France and Germany “will become Islamic republics within ten years.” Or those studies that assure us that “German and French citizens are converting to Islam hourly.” Or the studies that tell us that every day, churches in Europe are being turned into mosques. “Islamic culture is on the march!”
Here are the facts. In France, up to 3,600 people convert to Islam every year. That is an outside figure, according to demographers. And how many Muslims in France leave the faith? No one knows, and for a very good reason. Apostates from Islam do not advertise their apostasy – they would be putting themselves in mortal danger. But some studies claim, on the basis of anonymous interviewing, that many thousands of French Muslims abandon the faith every year. Ibn Warraq, the celebrated apostate and author of a recent study of atheism among Muslims, Leaving the Allah Delusion Behind, thinks that there may be tens of thousands of French Muslims who leave the faith every year. Even if we assume that there are no apostates from Islam, by 2050 the Muslim population in France will rise from 7.5 million to 8.6 million. That is nowhere near enough to turn France into an Islamic republic. And we are expected to believe that Muslim women, in France, given career opportunities that would not have been possible in their countries of origin, will continue to have large families, when it is likely that the fertility rate among Muslim women will fall precipitously, as it has, for example, among Israeli Arabs. All over the world, in Muslim lands, in India, and among Muslims living in Europe, Muslim fertility rates are falling and are expected to soon converge with those of non-Muslims.
As for Germany, the highest figure provided online is 4,000 converts to Islam every year. And there is the perennial problem of estimating the number of apostates who leave Islam, because of the silence, based on fears of retribution, among those apostates. The Muslim population in Germany is expected to rise from 5.1 to 6 million in 2050. And that figure is, again, calculated without taking the number of apostates from Islam into consideration. Given those figures, how likely is it that Germany will become an “Islamic republic” in 2030?
What about Ghassan Weshah’s claim that “every day, churches turn into mosques” in Europe? The figures tell us otherwise. In all of Europe, 250 churches close every year for want of parishioners. Of those, about 10%, or 25, each year, are known to have been bought by Muslims and turned into mosques. The highest number for a single country has been in Germany, where in 2018, ten churches were turned into mosques. There have been several high-profile church-to-mosque conversions, as with the Dominican Church in Lille and the Saint Joseph Church in Paris, which naturally make an impression, but the numbers still remain low.
Islam is cause for alarm, but Meshah’s triumphalist claims that “Islam is on the march!” in Europe, and that France and Germany will, ten years from now, become “Islamic republics,” is not borne out by the facts.
Faced with so much internal divisions and disappointments, so much violence and destruction, so much corruption and mismanagement, in Muslim lands, Ghassan Weshah has chosen to console himself with a rich fantasy about the coming triumph of Islam. He allows himself to believe that all those civil wars – in Libya, Yemen, and Syria — will somehow end, that the Sunnis and Shia (in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Lebanon) will make peace, even though they have not managed to do so in the last 1,400 years, that Saudi Arabia and Iran will bury the hatchet, that the ethnic quarrels of Arabs with Kurds, Berbers, and black Africans, of Kurds with Turks, of Persians with Arabs, of Turks with Arabs, and all those other permutations and combinations of strife among Muslims – – sectarian, ethnic, political, economic – will soon evanesce. There is no evidence for this, but he’s convinced himself that the unity of the umma – that has never been as fractured as it is today – will nonetheless be attained.
Let him believe whatever he must to convince himself that “tomorrow belongs to Islam.” Let him insist that America is collapsing from within. And that China, despite its centuries of conquest of border lands and today, with its economic conquest through the Belt-and-Road Initiative, has always “turned inward.” That in a decade France and Germany will be “Islamic republics” because “studies coming from Europe” tell us so. Keep repeating to yourself, Ghassan Weshah, that phrase that both stirs and soothe : Islam is on the march! Islam is on the march! Repeat, ad libitum. It’s so much easier than trying to face reality. Meanwhile, the Arab saying recommends itself again: The dogs bark. The caravan moves on.
No Muzzies Here says
When your enemy tells you his vision of your future, it’s a good idea to pay attention, especially if he’s already achieving his goal.
roberta says
Cant be stated any more plainly than your comment.
If all other ”types” of jihad attempts fail, they will still win based on birth rate.
Here is one mo and the boyz took from Sun Tzu
”Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy. Thus the army will have food enough for its needs.” as in, raise and army of little jihadis on the enemies welfare tits, suck them dry and kill the cow.
They are winning, Ive tried to lie to myself, but my eyes wont play along with my mind.
Alex says
Every Christians and non Muslims are recommended to watch Christian Prince YouTube channel.
He expose what is Qur’an to Muslims.
Really interesting!!!!
Rakesh Sharma says
It could be yesterday
Tomorrow belongs to peace
By the time people like us are living on the face of earth your dreams can not be fulfilled
gravenimage says
Ghassan Weshah: Tomorrow Belongs to Islam!
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More supremacist crowing.
And Muslims *hate* liberty, and hope to see it destroyed.
Louis Engelbrecht says
What anout China? Seemingly they are not aware, in how many countries the Chinese have wielded their influence Louis
OLD GUY says
Yes the truth from islam is their plan to take down America and free people around the world. Their plan for the future world is the Islamic dictatorship rule with all non islam followers being executed or enslaved to islam followers. And they are counting on the liberal left leaders that they are suckering into the islamophobia idea to help them do it.