Way cool. See: Global Agenda: Exodus from Europe.

A snip:

However, as [Paul Weston] notes in his second article on this theme, there are numerous other possible scenarios, although he rejects all except the “civil-war-is-inevitable” one. Among these are that “Islam peaceably integrates into Europe and we all live happily ever after” and that Islam moderates because the Muslim silent majority succeeds in reclaiming Islam from the extremists, making peaceful co-existence possible. Neither of these seem at all likely, or even possible, given current trends.

The other options he raises, that Europe is quietly Islamized and Christian culture fades into oblivion, or the alternative where Europe expels its Muslim minority, are also brusquely dismissed — leaving only the path to horrendous civil war.

While tending to agree with Weldon’s [sic — they spelled his name wrong!] conclusion, I would note that its realization requires a leap of faith, in both the literal and metaphoric senses. The evidence currently available strongly favors the passive-demise-of-Christian-culture scenario. This is now the default option, and only a dramatic shift in public opinion and behavior — a leap of faith — can move Europe from the demographic oblivion path to the full-scale civil war route. However, in one crucial aspect, these two routes, and indeed the expel-the-Muslims one, as well, all lead to the same place — the elimination of the European Jewish community. If the Muslims take over, the Jews will find their lives made impossible; but if a war breaks out between Christians and Muslims — or, to be historically accurate, if the struggle between Christians and Muslims for mastery of Europe is renewed — then the Jews will be caught in the middle and will have no life at all.

Hat tip: Steen.

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Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is the generous fellow from Saudi Arabia who offered New York City ten million dollars after 9/11. The money didn’t come without strings — New York was to help promote greater understanding about Islam — so Mayor Rudy Giuliani told the prince that he could take his money and go home.

But not everyone in America is as principled as Rudy, and the Saudis have been busy over the last few years endowing chairs and establishing study centers at universities across the length and breadth of the Great Satan.

Georgetown University has been one of the beneficiaries of Prince bin Talal’s largesse, and the institution that was once a light of Jesuit learning has become a propaganda arm of the Umma.

Christine of Vigilant Freedom reports on an event later today at Georgetown sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding:

In yet another Saudi propaganda event (carefully coordinated with the PBS series Crossroads), the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and Washington Post Magazine are co-sponsoring “What it Means to be Muslim in America.” This is unabashed propaganda — speakers include well-known and well-paid Saudi shill John L. Esposito (Founding Director of the Prince Al etc. Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding), Salman Ahmad, Pakistani born rock musician, Imam Yahya Hendi, the Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University, Sherman A. Jackson, professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ingrid Mattson, President of Islamic Society of North America, and Hadia Mubarak, head of the Muslim Student Association.

According to their website and the full page advertisement in Sunday’s Washington Post (your petrodollars at work), “This diverse panel will look at four distinct and potentially competing definitions of Muslim identity: Islam as a moral compass, a political agenda, a spiritual journey and a culture apart.”

This is what it feels like to have the media, government and academic institutions occupied by a foreign power. You can be sure that the left, the Islamists and the media will pack this event. It has been assigned as homework to students at Georgetown University. Please attend if you can, and ask questions if possible. As always, be polite but firm — and focused on the background of the speakers’ organizations, their foreign funding, or their political agendas.

Time: 4:00 — 5:30 pm

Place: Copley Hall Formal Lounge, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

For more information, see the Georgetown calendar.

See Christine’s post at the Vigilant Freedom blog for more information about how to submit questions in advance, and for some of the extensive questions she is submitting.

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The noted blogger Fjordman is filing this report via Gates of Vienna.
For a complete Fjordman blogography, see The Fjordman Files. There is also a multi-index listing here.

In 1974, former Algerian President Houari Boumedienne warned Europe in a speech at the UN : “One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.”

“Soon we will take power in this country. Those who criticize us now, will regret it. They will have to serve us. Prepare, for the hour is near.” — Belgium-based imam in 1994.

Marie Simonsen, political editor of the Norwegian left-wing newspaper Dagbladet, wrote in March 2007 that it should be considered a universal human right for all people everywhere to migrate wherever they want to. This statement came just after a UN report had predicted a global population growth of several billion people to 2050, which amounts to a growth of more than one million people every week. It doesn’t take much skill to calculate that unlimited migration will spell certain death for a tiny Scandinavian nation such as Norway — not in a matter of generations, but theoretically even within a few weeks.

Ms. Simonsen is thus endorsing the cultural eradication and perhaps physical annihilation of her own people, and she does so almost as an afterthought, no doubt congratulating herself for her own tolerance. Her comments received no opposition from anyone in the media establishment; this silence could be construed as a demonstration that most of them share her views, or at least have themselves resigned to the fact that our death as a people is already inevitable.

Meanwhile, the EU is busy “combating” illegal immigration from Africa — by making it legal:

EU Offers Legal Jobs to Africa In Bid To Stop Illegal Immigration

The European Union plans to open a job centre in Mali, in an experiment aimed at boosting the migration to the EU that is skilled, legal and temporary immigration from Africa. In return for assistance with legal “circular immigration” Frattini expects Mali to boost its cooperation in the fight against illegal immigration to the EU. If successful, the EU will establish a network of job centres across Africa. In the 1960s Germany introduced a similar scheme for Turkish ‘guest workers’ who came to do the jobs no one wanted. However the scheme never became the ‘circular migration’ that the German government envisaged, and tensions erupted when Turkish migrants demanded citizenship rights. German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble told reporters he backed the new scheme because if the countries in question were going to help stem the flow of illegal immigration “you have to give something in return.” EU members France and Spain have recently signed such accords with Senegal, the jumping off point for many desperate immigrants heading for Spain’s Canary islands.

West Africa — Europe’s New Border

A study by the Royal Elcano Institute in Madrid argues that Europe may be on the brink of a flood of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, with potentially historic implications. Rickard Sandell, chief investigator for demography, reported: “Both economic and demographic data provide evidence that this is only the beginning of an immigration phenomenon that could evolve into one of the largest in history…the mass assault on Spain’s African border may just be a first warning of what to expect of the future. The situation is so serious that the possibility of a mass exodus if the African states fail to absorb their rapidly increasing working age population should not be ruled out. Nor can we rule out the possibility of armed conflict as a result of the political unrest that is likely to follow from a lack of effective management of the unprecedented increase in the labour supply.”

Stupidity Without Borders — The Alliance of Utopias

“We were just tired of living in the forest,” explained a man from Guinea-Bissau. “There was nothing to eat, there was nothing to drink.” In mid-September, Africans began assaulting the frontier of Spain’s small enclaves in Africa en masse. Deploying crude ladders made of branches, they used their weight to bring the fences down in places. As one of them put it, “We go in a group and all jump at once. We know that some will get through, that others will be injured and others may die, but we have to get through, whatever the cost.”

The Jihad Continues in Spain

Morocco and Spain vowed overnight to work together to bore a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar to link Africa and Europe. Moroccan experts say the long-mooted 39km rail tunnel would be among the world’s most sophisticated engineering works and rival the Channel Tunnel linking England and France. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero pledged to drum up European Union support for a project he said “would change Africa and Europe”.

Africa migration to Europe inevitable-Gaddafi

Migration is an age-old fact of life that governments must accept if they want to manage the flow of job-seekers moving from Africa to Europe, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi told an Africa-Europe conference on migration. “Action against nature is like rowing against the stream, which leads to failure,” Gaddafi told African and European interior ministers at the first African Union-European Union conference on migration, the Libyan news agency reported. “Political borders, official papers and identities set for every group of people are new, artificial things not recognised by nature. Land is property of everyone, and God commands all human beings to migrate on earth to seek a living, which is their right.”

EU-Africa Summit Addresses European Migration

European and African nations met in Libya to seek ways to stem the rising tide of illegal migration. The Libyan foreign minister, Abd al-Rahman Shalgam, told the conference that EU countries must provide assistance to Libya. Shalgam also says more projects are needed on the ground in Africa to keep people in their own countries. African leaders agree that more jobs need to be created so that people will not have to leave their countries to earn a living.

Who Are We, Who Are Our Enemies — The Cost of Historical Amnesia
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The Barbary Jihad piracy had been going on since the earliest Arab-Islamic expansion in the 7th and 8th centuries. During the 16th and 17th centuries, as many Europeans were captured, sold, and enslaved by the Barbary corsairs while West Africans shipped for plantation labor in the Americas by European slave traders. Robert Davis’ methodical enumeration indicates that between one and one and one-quarter million white European Christians were enslaved by the Barbary Muslims from 1530 through 1780.

Some Arabs seem to miss the good old days when they could extract Jizya payments from the West. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has stated that he thinks that European nations should pay 10 billion euros ($12.7 billion dollars) a year to Africa to help it stop migrants flooding northwards into Europe. Apart from being a clear-cut example of how migration, or rather population dumping by Third World countries, has become a tool for blackmail in the 21st century, this is a throwback to the age when Tripoli could extract payments from Europe.

EU, African ministers seek common stand on immigration

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees urged participants to make special provision for “refugees and other people who have need of protection.” Amnesty International called on European countries to “open legal channels of migration as an important element in a global strategy on migration and development”. So far Libya has refused Europeans permission to patrol its territorial waters, amid suspicions in Europe that Libyan leader Kadhafi turns the immigration tap on and off to suit his immediate interests.

EU job centres to target Africans

The International Organisation for Migration says it’s a “constructive step in the right direction. You can’t manage migration flows by simply having tougher border controls,” says IOM spokesman Jean-Philippe Chauzy. “If you’re trying to undercut the people smugglers, the best way is to open up legal opportunities (for migrants).”

Chirac: Africans ‘will flood world’

Jacques Chirac, the French president, claimed Africans “will flood the world” if more is not done to improve the continent’s economy. He said that almost half of the 950 million people living on the African continent were under the age of 17, adding that the population would more than double by the middle of the century. “If we do not develop Africa, if we do not make available the necessary resources to bring about this development, these people will flood the world.”

Beware: the new goths are coming

In an apocalyptic vision of security dangers, Rear Admiral Chris Parry said future migrations would be comparable to the Goths and Vandals while north African “Barbary” pirates could be attacking yachts and beaches in the Mediterranean within 10 years. Europe could be undermined by large immigrant groups with little allegiance to their host countries — a “reverse colonisation” as Parry described it. If a security breakdown occurred, he said, it was likely to be brought on by environmental destruction and a population boom, coupled with technology and radical Islam. The result for Britain and Europe, Parry warned, could be “like the 5th century Roman empire facing the Goths and the Vandals.”

Fatalism and the Loss of Western Cultural Confidence

The waves of migration that the Western world is faced with now are magnitudes greater in scope than those which brought down the Roman Empire. At least 2.2 million migrants will arrive in the West every year until 2050, according to a United Nations report . It appears to be taken for granted by the UN that we will sit back, bleed to death and accept all these millions to flood our countries. It is presented like a natural disaster, as if the massive population growth cannot be stopped by the nations in question, and the ensuing migration cannot be limited by Western countries.

But both these assumptions are wrong. Westerners should not and cannot take responsibility for billions of people in other parts of the world. They will have to limit their population growth to a sustainable level. We have already accepted more immigration peacefully than any other society has done in human history.

There is a significant element of blackmail here. A group of African leaders told the European Union that they needed to get huge amounts of money to limit mass migration from their countries, which is a tacit admission that they can control this mass movement of people if they want to.

Many Westerners watch with resigned fatalism as we are told by our leaders and our media that this is “inevitable.” But nothing is inevitable. Our societies will collapse, yet we are supposed to stand by quietly and simply observe our own demise. On one hand, the economic right-wing assures us that this unparalleled mass migration will be “good for the economy.” On the other hand, left-wingers attack those of us who are concerned for our cultural survival us for inciting “racism and discrimination.” Meanwhile all we desire is our continued existence.

At Lawrence Auster’s blog, an Indian living in the West writes: “They say that all ‘rich nations’ will face mass immigration. But, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and even Malaysia are also rich nations. Immigration to those countries is close to zero. I think that immigration is matter of government policy and national will. If the will is there, you can have zero immigration or limited immigration. But there isn’t the will to do anything about immigration in the West. Instead they sit and wring their hands. (…) If there was ever a picture of a society that has been completely finished, this is it. You don’t have to discriminate on racial grounds or religious grounds, just reduce the annual quota to 1000 or 10000. Nothing illiberal about that. But they cannot contemplate even that! Westerners amuse me. Even the worst cowards in the so-called ‘third world’ have more spine than this.

The Failure of Western Universities

Professor Sigurd Skirbekk at the University of Oslo questions many of the assumptions underlying Western immigration policies. One of these unwritten rules is the notion that rich countries have a duty to take in any and all people from other nations that are suffering, either from natural disasters, political repression or overpopulation.

According to Professor Skirbekk, it cannot be considered moral behavior on the part of the cultural, political and religious elites of these countries to allow their populations to grow unrestrained and then push their excess population onto other nations. Skirbekk points out that European countries earlier rejected the Germans when they used the argument of lebensraum as a motivation for their foreign policy.

We should now follow the same policy when other countries invoke the argument that they lack space for their population. Skirbekk says there is plenty of literature available about the ecological challenges the world will be facing in this century. Demanding a too- liberal immigration policy while refusing to confront such unpleasant moral issues is not a sustainable alternative in the long run.

I got home from Denmark in the middle of the night last night after twenty-four hours of continuous travel. The meeting in Copenhagen was an enormous success; we have a broad base to build on now, and the different groups are connecting and communicating.

One of the things I discovered from my visit is how important Gates of Vienna is to some of the people there, and to other people across Northern Europe. It has changed my perspective, and I’ll be keeping it in mind as I follow up on Copenhagen over the next few weeks.

During that time I’ll be posting material drawn from my visit. Some of it will be for fun, some of it will be informational, and some of it will be operational. The last two functions will be combined when people send me translations and other material about plans for events such the September 11th protest in Brussels.

Please continue to send translations and tips, provided that they are timely, on-topic, and significant. Given the volume of material we receive, I can’t use everything that people send, but I’ll do what I can. To make sure the word gets out, send it to Vigilant Freedom as well, at info@vigilantfreedom.com.

The resistance, like Holger Danske, is awakening all across Northern Europe, and its members are starting to communicate. If you think your organization should be included in our lists of Counterjihad groups, please let us know.

Denmark is at the center of our efforts, because the Danes enjoy unfettered freedom of speech, and are less hobbled by political correctness than anyone else in the West.

Steen is at the hub of all the intellectual currents in Denmark, so those of you who read Danish or Swedish should keep an eye on Snaphanen.

Something important is happening. None of us is important as an individual — none of us is going to get famous or rich from doing what we do. Each of us is going to have at most a modest effect within the Counterjihad. However, as our groups network more thoroughly with one another, the aggregated effect of what we do will be noticeable.

The logo for Vigilant Freedom represents this interlinked network. The strength of the shield comes from the multiple strands that weave the golden nodes together.

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It’s a long, long way from 1966 to 2007. Too long for the MSM to remember anything useful. As they blather on today about the need for more gun control, look at the remembrances from last year at a Texas television station:

Gordon Wilkison is retired from the news business now, but in 1966, he was a photographer for KTBC, the only television station in town. It hadn’t been that long since Wilkison had left the Army.

That’s why when Charles Whitman opened fire from the University of Texas Tower on Aug. 1, 1966, Wilkison wasn’t afraid as long as he had cover.

“I wasn’t being anybody’s hero but I had a good 75 mm lens on my Bolex [camera]. That’s what got the shots,” he said.

It was Wilkison’s shot that captured the definitive images of the tragedy – the shots of gunfire from the Tower, the shots of a wounded, pregnant Claire Wilson on the hot pavement. He also interviewed students who risked their lives to rescue fellow students.

“There was a lot of heroics that were going on then, same thing was going on over on the Drag. When they brought the armored car out to take out one of the wounded persons, [Whitman] was just firing left and right then. It was a good idea and I thought they’d never get the guy in the truck,” Wilkison said.

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News footage was shot on film back then with cameras that were very heavy. Wilkison didn’t have a tripod so he had to hold the camera steady as bullets fired around him…

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Seventeen people were killed and nearly three dozen others were wounded by Whitman, who fired from the Tower’s 28th-floor observation deck.

That was August 1966. It was later discovered that Whitman had a brain tumor. In the note he left behind, it is obvious he knew something had gone seriously wrong.

Now fast forward to January 2006:
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A bill that would have given college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus died with nary a shot being fired in the General Assembly.

House Bill 1572 didn’t get through the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety. It died Monday in the subcommittee stage, the first of several hurdles bills must overcome before becoming laws.

The bill was proposed by Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah County, on behalf of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. Gilbert was unavailable Monday and spokesman Gary Frink would not comment on the bill’s defeat other than to say the issue was dead for this General Assembly session.

Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. “I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.” [emphasis mine -D]

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Most universities in Virginia require students and employees, other than police, to check their guns with police or campus security upon entering campus. The legislation was designed to prohibit public universities from making “rules or regulations limiting or abridging the ability of a student who possesses a valid concealed handgun permit … from lawfully carrying a concealed handgun.”

The legislation allowed for exceptions for participants in athletic events, storage of guns in residence halls and military training programs.

Last spring a Virginia Tech student was disciplined for bringing a handgun to class, despite having a concealed handgun permit. Some gun owners questioned the university’s authority, while the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police came out against the presence of guns on campus. [a bit territorial, hmm? -D]

In June, Tech’s governing board approved a violence prevention policy reiterating its ban on students or employees carrying guns and prohibiting visitors from bringing them into campus facilities. [outlaw the guns so only the outlaws will have them. More help from the Marching Morons]

You can’t miss the note of superior self-congratulation here, can you? The Rule of the Enlightened over the unwashed, dangerous masses. Simply issue an edict and the governing board of Tech has “prevented violence.” Everyone is safe now from those nasty guns [noise offstage. Someone is vomiting into the bushes by Norris Hall].

Too bad journalism majors don’t have to do double duty with some delving into American history (the real version, not the p.c. pap infecting colleges today). Or maybe someone could just inoculate them against the virulent hubris from which so many of them seem to suffer – and which makes them insufferable for the rest of us.

Who wants to bet on how many of the MSM will be interviewing the Brady Bill bunch about gun control, and how many will be talking to the survivors of the University of Texas shooter? What do you think the ratio will be?

Except for Texans, I’ll bet it runs about 50::1 for the Brady Bunch talking heads.

When it comes to the MSM, bet on ignorance and wonder if it’s willful.

Thanks to Tushar for noticing the date mix up. That’s 1966,folks, not 1996. I made the two changes — Dyslexic Dymphna

A VPI professor who escaped the Holocaust stood in the doorway of his classroom to protect his students from the gunman.

He will be buried Thursday in Israel.

From The Jerusalem Post:

As Jews worldwide honored on Monday the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust, a 76-year-old survivor sacrificed his life to save his students in Monday’s shooting at Virginia Tech College that left 33 dead and over two dozen wounded.

Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, threw himself in front of the shooter when the man attempted to enter his classroom. The Israeli mechanics and engineering lecturer was shot to death, “but all the students lived — because of him,” Virginia Tech student Asael Arad — also an Israeli — told Army Radio.

Several of Librescu’s other students sent e-mails to his wife, Marlena, telling of how he blocked the gunman’s way and saved their lives, said Librescu’s son, Joe.

Hat tip: Aramy

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UPDATE: A commenter, CW, brings up the first televised –sorry, it was covered by a television photographer, no mini-cams then — campus shooting, almost forty years ago. How different things were then.

The reaction of students and professors — which was to begin firing back — couldn’t happen now. We’ve been disarmed by an emasculated press which is yowling even now for more gun control. They seriously don’t get it; they never will either. J school is a brainwash.

CW says:

This incident should be compared to the U. Texas campus tower incident in 1966. That brain cancer-deranged shooter was shot by a combination of police and fellow students [and professors –D] who pulled rifles out of their car trunks and began firing back in self-defense. If there were no armed students on the UTx campus in 1966, the death toll would have been higher as the shooter in the tower had a commanding vantage point of the entire campus.

Follow the link to an engrossing first-person account of that day. The author describes it as worse than his experience in Vietnam.

Exactly. In Vietnam, he was armed.

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The first piece in this post is from the Roanoke Times online (Roanoke.com) from last August. It celebrates the defeat of the State Assembly bill that would have allowed students to register to carry handguns for their personal safety.

You will realize how fatuous this article is, when you see the lightweight backup for this writer’s reasoning: a Harvard study which said “Americans feel less safe rather than more safe as more people in their community begin to carry guns…”

This canard has been disproved so often that it is amazing that there are still useless idiots in academia who continue to repeat the fairy tale as though it were canonical truth. In fact, there have been more studies proving just the opposite. But Harvard doesn’t do those studies. Not with the feminists running the place.

This first commentary will be followed by the original op ed from a graduate student at Virginia Tech:

A graduate student at Virginia Tech wrote an eye-raising commentary in this morning’s Roanoke Times. In his piece, Bradford B. Wiles writes that he would have felt safer during last week’s evacuation of Squires Student Center if he would have had his handgun at the ready.

Wiles argues that the events of Aug. 21 reinforce his views that he should be able to carry his weapon on Virginia Tech’s campus. Students, staff and professors at Tech are not allowed to carry guns on campus, even if they are licensed to do so by the state. And the Virginia House of Delegates defeated a measure earlier this year that would prohibit universities from banning weapons on campus. When that happened, we had another commentator (a Tech professor) write about how he felt about students who pack heat on campus.

One of the things I found most interesting about Wiles’ op-ed was that he quoted a professor who said she would have felt safer if he would have had his gun on him last Monday. I’m curious whether that professor still holds that opinion or if she only said it in the moment. The comment got me wondering about how people generally feel about being in places where people can carry guns.

At the risk of being accused of being a member of the liberal media, I’ll put it out there that I don’t particularly feel safe knowing that people can carry guns around me — even if those people have licenses to do so.

Turns out, I’m in the majority. With a quick Google search, I was able to find this 2001 article by professors at the Harvard School of Public Health. The conclusion of the study is summed up here: “Americans feel less safe rather than more safe as more people in their community begin to carry guns. By margins of at least nine to one, Americans do not believe that ‘regular’ citizens should be allowed to bring their guns into restaurants, college campuses, sports stadiums, bars, hospitals, or government buildings.”

Here is the op ed linked above – the one which “raised eyebrows”:

Unarmed and vulnerable

Bradford B. Wiles

Wiles, of New Castle, is a graduate student at Virginia Tech.

On Aug. 21 at about 9:20 a.m., my graduate-level class was evacuated from the Squires Student Center. We were interrupted in class and not informed of anything other than the following words: “You need to get out of the building.”

Upon exiting the classroom, we were met at the doors leading outside by two armor-clad policemen with fully automatic weapons, plus their side arms. Once outside, there were several more officers with either fully automatic rifles and pump shotguns, and policemen running down the street, pistols drawn.

It was at this time that I realized that I had no viable means of protecting myself.

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Please realize that I am licensed to carry a concealed handgun in the commonwealth of Virginia, and do so on a regular basis. However, because I am a Virginia Tech student, I am prohibited from carrying at school because of Virginia Tech’s student policy, which makes possession of a handgun an expellable offense, but not a prosecutable crime.

I had entrusted my safety, and the safety of others to the police. In light of this, there are a few things I wish to point out.

First, I never want to have my safety fully in the hands of anyone else, including the police.

Second, I considered bringing my gun with me to campus, but did not due to the obvious risk of losing my graduate career, which is ridiculous because had I been shot and killed, there would have been no graduate career for me anyway.

Third, and most important, I am trained and able to carry a concealed handgun almost anywhere in Virginia and other states that have reciprocity with Virginia, but cannot carry where I spend more time than anywhere else because, somehow, I become a threat to others when I cross from the town of Blacksburg onto Virginia Tech’s campus.

Of all of the emotions and thoughts that were running through my head that morning, the most overwhelming one was of helplessness.

That feeling of helplessness has been difficult to reconcile because I knew I would have been safer with a proper means to defend myself.

I would also like to point out that when I mentioned to a professor that I would feel safer with my gun, this is what she said to me, “I would feel safer if you had your gun.”

The policy that forbids students who are legally licensed to carry in Virginia needs to be changed.

I am qualified and capable of carrying a concealed handgun and urge you to work with me to allow my most basic right of self-defense, and eliminate my entrusting my safety and the safety of my classmates to the government.

This incident makes it clear that it is time that Virginia Tech and the commonwealth of Virginia let me take responsibility for my safety.

No way, man. Your young life is merely fodder for the crazies and the politically correct who don’t want you to be able to defend yourself because being responsible for ourselves scares them.

These people don’t know yet that they’re really on their own. They think police chiefs who pontificate will also protect them.

Hot Air seems to have the most complete round-up on the butchery at Virginia Tech University.

The death toll appears to be going up by the hour and there is great confusion on the campus. There are thirty two reported dead so far, and almost as many injured.

These deaths and injuries seem to have occurred at two widely separated places, a dormitory and a classroom building.

Hot Air says that there were portents of trouble earlier this month. Here’s one of his many updates:

Update: More oddness from Fox: “On April 13, the campus closed three of its academic halls after they received a letter stating that explosive devices were in the building. Classes were canceled for the remainder of the day. A bomb threat was also made against Torgerson Hall on April 2.”

In other words, something has been coming down since early in the month. Whatever it was – and is – may be very hard to trace back to its origins until the killing is over and the person or people involved have also killed themselves. Slaughter on this level doesn’t leave its perpetrators alive.

Another Hot Air update:

Update: According to NBC, the killer used two 9mm handguns and killed himself. It’s officially the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history.

President Bush is supposed to give a nationally broadcast speech later on today. I don’t know if I can bear to listen.

Virginia Tech is not far from us. Our son is planning to do graduate work there in oenology. My heart sinks at the thought. He and the Baron went to see the head of that department last December and now I’m wondering if the man is alive.

So many children we know are there, or have been there. It’s hard to take this in…

NOTA BENE: Do not post comments about the need for gun control laws. I will delete them. That stupid idea has been demonstrated to be false on the merits, so get a new argument. I am in no mood to put up with sanctimonious know-nothings. There will be enough of that from those useful idiots who are proposing a cabinet-level Department of Peace.

If you feel impelled to voice such sentiments, go where you’ll have a sympathetic audience. It won’t be on this venue, however.

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UPDATE: Needless to say, there is a great deal of blogospheric backwash on this…umm, situation. Do read Right Wing Nuthouse for an even better takedown. For example, he suggests Al Sharpton for the Department of Free Speech.

He also seems to think these people are on drugs. I think they ought to get off the street variety and find a good psychiatric pharmacologist before they do any more damage with their random slams into the American body politic.

Beyond the fringe, beyond the pale, and beyond rational thinking into some new realm of being.

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Charlottesvillain’s post from last week alerted me to this newest stupidity concocted by the Democrats in the House of Representatives. It’s hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the sheer ignorance of history and humanity these lotus eaters display.

They must dream up new legislation by reading old John Lennon lyrics and smoking peace pipes. They’re smoking something, that’s for sure – and they’re using flames from the burning Constitution to puff on their corn cobs.

Get this:

H.R. 808: Department of Peace and Nonviolence Act

HR 808 IH

110th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 808

To establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 5, 2007

Mr. KUCINICH (for himself, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Mr. ANDREWS, Ms. BALDWIN, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Ms. CARSON, Mr. CLAY, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. FARR, Mr. FILNER, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. HOLT, Mr. HONDA, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. KILPATRICK of Michigan, Ms. LEE, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mrs. MALONEY of New York, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. NADLER, Ms. NORTON, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. ROTHMAN, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. SHERMAN, Mrs. TAUSCHER, Mr. TOWNS, Ms. WATERS, Ms. WATSON, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. WU, and Mr. WYNN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Judiciary, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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A BILL

To establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence.

Yep. A cabinet level position, no less, with hundreds of minions to carry out the further undermining of our country. These people must be on drugs…or are burnt-out cases from their adolescence – a mindset they seem to have carried into adulthood and are now trying to foist on an already overburdened citizenry.

Can you imagine what this devil’s spawn will end up costing us in the way of funding. Don’t we have enough malignant federal governmental micromanagement in our lives?
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Charlottesvillain has actually drilled down to some of the slimier levels and has come up for air to let us know how really bad this stuff is:

If I recall correctly, this was a plank in the platform of the ill fated Kucinich Presidential campaign of 2004. With the Democrats now in control of the legislature, they are moving ahead.

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For those looking for a distillation, imagine a governmental agency responsible for advising on non-confrontational foreign policy options, establishing and enforcing new gun control measures, designing school curriculum, establishing and enforcing new legislation governing “hate crimes” and violence against animals, and my favorite, establishing a “Peace Academy,” a four-year institution of higher learning modeled on our service academies. (Wait, doesn’t the Ivy League already have like six of those?)

I wonder if they consulted with Cindy Sheehan on this idea? It sounds like one of her rants. Or maybe they did it in consultation with CAIR and Tehran. Those guys must be doubled over laughing.

If you have the bad luck to live in a blue district, I suggest that you contact your representative on this piece of sedition. And if you have the true misfortune to be represented by one of the sponsors of the bill (see above), send emails, call on the phone, and alert whatever knowledgeable friends you have about this cockamamie idea.

This is so Wilsonian even Woodrow would cringe at the idea. Our constitution is being eroded methodically by the most ignorant and unwise group of politicians to come down the pike since the League of Nations.

Greetings from Århus. I’m staying here with Phanarath until I return to the Great Satan later this week. I’ll be posting about the Counterjihad Summit in due course, once I get home, collect my notes, upload my photos, and have access to an English-based keyboard. While I’m here, though, I can at least spell the names of places that I’ve visited, such as Nørrebro.

This is the first real access I’ve had to a computer since I got here last week. I see that Dymphna has been more than making up for my absence, even posting about Malmö — poaching on my turf!

It has been really inspiring to meet at long last some of the people who comment here, to put faces and voices and personalities to what had previously been merely text on a screen. Besides Phanarath, I have been spending time with Exile, Steen, Henrik (of Viking Observer), Kepiblanc, Aeneas, Gaia, Asger, Fjordman, Zonka, Anders Gravers, and a number of my email contacts. There are others I’m leaving out whose nicknames I’m not sure of (or because I forgot!) — but you know who you are, and I thank you for being there.

I have learned three additional (and very important) words in Danish: “Hvor er toileten?” which means approximately: “I say, could you tell me the way to the sanitary facilities?”

I’ve been enthusiastically trying to learn Danish, because my etymological experience made it obvious to me that Danish is closely related to Old English.

But that’s just the written language. The spoken language, especially in København, has lost about 80% of its consonants, replacing them mostly with glottal stops (which are like soft Viking hiccups) between syllables. The result is that, to the untrained ear, Danish sounds like English spoken by a Glaswegian with a mouth full of cake batter.

I found the following story (unfortunately not available online) about how the Danes first lost all those consonants. It concerns the initial migration of the Vikings from Jutland to Sealand via Fyn and the Store Bælt under the leadership of Torvald the Blind:

The longboats were well out to sea when a terrible storm arose, with lightning and hail and high wind, so that the ships were in danger of being swamped.

In order to keep the people from perishing, Torvald ordered his men to collect all the consonants on board and throw them over the side to lighten the load. The plan was successful, and, despite the awful tempest, Torvald and his crew landed safely on the western shore of Sealand.

It is for this reason that we have lost all our consonants, and even today the folk of Copenhagen are forced to converse without them.

I have been working hard to connect what I read with what I hear, and have thus become an annoyance to every Dane who comes near me, demanding definitions, pronunciations, and generally being an Anglo-Saxon nuisance. Steen can tell you all about it, and probably already has.

I’ll be back to normal blogging sometime later this week, but I’ll just leave you with a quick story. Yesterday in Copenhagen I was sitting with Steen and Phanarath at a sidewalk cafe — it has been very warm and pleasant since I got here — when a Polish friend of Steen’s happened to walk by. The man was quite familiar with Gates of Vienna, and we had a brief conversation about it. Then he asked, “When are you going back to Austria?”

I told him that I was not Austrian, despite the name of our blog, and that he was not the first person who had thought the same thing. Steen then explained the symbolic significance of the name of our blog.

“Oh, I see,” his friend said. “But you are European, aren’t you?”

“No, I’m American.”

He seemed quite surprised, and gave me a big smile. Then we shook hands again and said our farewells, and he continued down the street.

[Nothing further]

The mythical Conservative Swede has put an essay in the comment section of Compasses Anyone?. It was initially his response over at the Lawrence Auster post Is the Islamic takeover of Europe inevitable?.

Conservative Swede has it serve double duty as a response to Archonix’ remarks in this “Compasses” post at Gates of Vienna (as is often the case, the commenters are often better than the posters – a good dose of the humbles never hurt anyone).

Archonix was tracing the present situation back to its devilish beginnings; Conservative Swede picks up on it, and riffs on the same theme.

Here’s Archonix first:

…I agree that Sweden must have imported the multiculti idea from America, but I don’t blame the Americans for it. I actually blame my own people. Multiculturalism grew up in Great Britain and France, both former colonialists with a great deal of self-imposed “guilt” about their colonial past. From there it migrated to California, the incubator of just about every crackpot idea since the movie industry moved out there to avoid paying patent fees to Edison.

In the UK, our ‘guilt’ was imposed by the Labour party, who were definitely Marxists of the old school, but also influenced heavily by Gramascian ideas. The Americans adopted this colonialist guilt, for reasons that have never been clear — like Sweden they had no reason for it — and turned from a country that welcomed immigrants who could improve the national; fibre to a country that welcomed anyone who arrived on their shores. “Bring me your tired, your hungry, your huddled masses yearning to be free” lost the last clause. Freedom became anathaematic to the new multiculturalism. The fact that it’s largely a movement run and adopted by socialists simply made it easier for Sweden’s socialist leaders to adopt the same model.

In this case I can’t even use my favourite scapegoat of the French. The left in my country are responsible for it and they’re the ones you should hold responsible. No offence to our hosts…but the Americans were simply naive about the end results of this behaviour. Hell, maybe that’s a compliment. Naive optimism isn’t such a bad thing really… The US, even now, has a strange sort of hidden admiration for what the mother country gets up to, and a great many would have adopted just about any idea that came from these shores. It’s unfortunate. But there you go…

Our “naive optimism,” which de Tocqueville observed so tellingly, has often served us well. It is part of the Jacksonian heritage of America — though it was evolving before then — and that heritage can be traced back to our Scots-Irish DNA. It is impulsive, chivalric, and many of its descendants will be found in the military. Interestingly, most of the descendants seemed to have preferred the then-rural southern streams of our genetic pool.

The Jacksonian is easy to spot, especially when contrasted the more Wilsonian — i.e., Northern, or even bi-coastal — parts of our country. Look at the red-blue electoral configurations — but look quickly as they are rapidly changing. Blue state California is being abandoned as it morphs into Mexifornia. The native Blues are fleeing to contiguous Red states, but they carry their Blue Wilsonian ideas with them, thus re-coloring the map. Seeing the chaos and mayhem didn’t change their thinking, however. They’re still all for dialogue, but they want someone else to do it while they are safely far from the mess they permitted to happen as they talked and talked and talked. Wilsonians are addicted to the illusion that peace demonstrations bring about peace. In fact, it’s the only arrow in their tiny quiver.

Conservative Swede describes the Wilsonian effect:

It’s a Wilsonian delusion that political change happens through voting. Real political change never does. Real political power is not represented by a plurality of votes. It’s represented by having the greatest means to apply violence. It’s only when living under the protective wings of an empire—such as Europe have been living under the protective wings of Pax Americana the last 60 years—that peaceful political procedures make sense. The means to apply violence here represented by the mighty American army, providing the protective shield for the Europeans (however, and apple with a worm in it).

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But it’s when this is seen clearly that we can also see why the system of modern democracy—a Wilsonian invention—can never allow real political change, but is only of ceremonial value. You will not be allowed to transgress the (over)ideology imposed by the guarantor of your protective shield. Or you will be given the “Serbian” treatment.

The point is not that the Europeans lack the will to fight. They are, just as the Americans, lulled into a false sense of security. Westerners truly think that we still dominate the world (including our own countries), and have an unmoved sense of invincibility. They generally think that we are steamrolling the rest of the world to adapt Western values, and that there is just some friction on the way.

Just look at Sweden. Sweden is often brought up as the worst Western country in many ways. I invite everyone to come here and visit. You’ll find the most idyllic place, where you’ll feel safe walking in the streets after dark, etc. Do you remember the VFR reader who wanted to escape California and said he “felt more at home in smaller towns in Sweden”. This picture is not at all untrue. It takes many decades for the destruction of a country to come in effect.

It’s only if you’re a thinker, or you had bad personal experiences, that you will already now see how the current incarnation of the West is terminally ill. It doesn’t show, not in the ordinary life of common people. We are past the point of no return, but it still doesn’t show. It’s like that George Washington quote, that in a democracy people have to feel it before they can see it. And it doesn’t feel quite yet.

But we are headed for the moment when the perception of the idyllic order will break apart in Europe, followed by the illusion of the imperial protective shield along with the system of modern democracy. This will be a truly revolutionary moment. The awakened Europeans will not only have the Muslims against them, in this fight, but their own political elites, leftist storm troopers, and a Wilsonian Uncle Sam. Bush II would have reacted just like Clinton, had there been another Serbia in Europe. And so will Giuliani or Hillary (let’s hope for Tom Tancredo in 2012).

It will start with street wars, then civil wars in one or two European countries—maybe in England and Holland, where we have already seen unrest caused by “white hooligans”. It will spread like wildfire over most of Western Europe. Next we will see extensive migrations within Europe. White people will flee to countries such as Poland, while the Muslims will escape to countries such as France. Mid 21st century, Europe will look like a chess board, now in a situation of more conventional warfare. We will see Europeans building city walls around their traditional cities, but for the first time in history to protect the country side from the cities.

… I hope and pray there’s not another Wilsonian president in office when this get started.

It is already starting in the streets of California. Why do you think the state has become Mexifornia? No one stayed to fight; they simply moved to contiguous states to avoid the Armageddon they could see every time they looked out the window.

After 9/11 a New York City friend of mine told me proudly that his son was leaving then to take part in that first big “peace” vigil that was a response to war. It made me slightly queasy to realize that this very learned man, author of many books on the human mind, hadn’t the slightest clue about self-preservation. He thought his son was making a valiant effort to “preserve” things.

Maybe that kind of blindness is caused by living in a city that is larger than it should be for everyday face-to-face relationships to have real meaning?

The Wilsonians are suicidal; it is they who built the underclass which will destroy them…and perhaps us. It is they who control the press, academia, and the legislatures. They think words count more than actions, and that words can easily be re-written as they go along. For just one example, take their betrayal of so many hopes with the signing of the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920. That doesn’t work? Why it’s back to the table for further dialogue and the Treaty of Lausanne.

And now? Now we have that nitwit Pelosi traipsing off to Tehran, and the American Congress inviting the Muslim Brotherhood in for tea and the British press condemning Israel. The Turks and Kirkuk are lobbing bombs and shoe bats at one another. Such is the diabolical and quite logical end of Wilsonian “dialogue.” Now we know from where the expression “the chattering classes” emerged.

The Jacksonians are our only hope. The question is, what proportion of them remains? For sure, you can’t make a Jacksonian into one of Wilson’s talking heads. But perhaps, in the interests of self-preservation, some of the Wilsonians will taste reality and condescend to put on Jackson’s façade, at least until the worst of the slaughter is over.

That is my hope, but I do not think it is the coming reality. Unless…

…unless we truly recognize that we are now on our own.

Here are the highlights of the latest “youth” rampage from Sydsvenska Dagbladet, the largest newspaper in the south of Sweden. For our American audience, I have heavily edited/commented on the translated version I received – mainly because the lack of action by the police feels so foreign to American sentiments.

[NOTE: while I was given the source for the story, there was no link provided. It’s difficult to find a link to a story in a language you don’t read. Nonetheless, it was a trustworthy source.]

Sounds like the police and fire personnel were busy all night in Rosengård:

Last night, the police were subjected to stone throwing in Rosengård, a district of Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden.

The first incident was sparked by an incident with a young man armed with a sword. As the police began filling out an incident report on his activities, a group of young people began throwing stones at the officers. The police stated they then backed off in order to “calm down the situation.” [That strategy worked as well as it always does with disorderly crowds, especially adolescents]

Soon gang reinforcements arrived and by 8:30 p.m. at least fifteen teenagers were engaged in throwing stones, eggs, and bottles. When they set fire to a storage shed, the fire department arrived and met the same treatment. The fire personnel said “because of…the current violence and disturbances in the area [we] will wait for police backup before we enter the area…”

By 11:00 p.m. two storage facilities were blazing. A large contingent of police officers arrived, which allowed the fire department to get near enough to the conflagrations to extinguish the fires.

Stone-throwing started again, but no one was hurt and no arrests were made.

An hour later [wash, rinse, repeat]…another storage facility was torched; the firemen went in with police backup and put out the fire. Due to the necessary wait for police, the fire grew larger and additional units had to be called in to deal with the blaze.

Meanwhile, a nearby store was attacked with stones and again the police came, only to be subjected again to a barrage of rocks. [Repeat after me: no arrests were made]

Jihad Watch was on the story last night, but I could find not one mention of this anywhere in the international news outlets. JW has The Local newspaper version now, but T.L. didn’t have the story up last night. Scroll down the Jihad Watch page to see the earliest version, and links to Patrick Perrson Press pictures. What is it about arson and adolescent males?
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Maybe mayhem in Malmö simply isn’t considered breaking (so to speak) news. If it doesn’t bleed, it doesn’t lede, and fires aren’t enough to rate a mention anymore. If it’s Saturday night in Rosengård, there’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight…or however the old song went.

I was going to give you just the original lyrics of that song, written in the 1880’s after the Chicago fire. Remember Mrs. O’Leary and her cow?

Late one night, when we were all in bed,
Mrs. O’Leary lit a lantern in the shed.
Her cow kicked it over,
Then winked her eye and said,
“There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight!”

In my googling, I ran across this variation, supposedly sung by children in Winnipeg in the 1940’s:

One, two, three, the cops are chasing me.
Four, five, six, they’re chasing me with sticks.
Seven, eight, nine, they chase us all the time,
There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight

However, that childhood ditty is not a variation of the Chicago song, but a take-off on a number Bessie Smith made famous. This one was composed by Joe Hayden and Theodore Metz ten years after the Mrs. O’Leary version. Obviously, they describe a different scene entirely:

Come along get you ready, wear your brand, brand new gown,
For there’s goin’ to be a meeting in that good, good old town
Where you know-ded everybody and all know-ded you,
And you’ve got a rabbit’s foot to keep away the hoo-doo.
When you hear that the preachin’ does begin,
Bend down low for to drive away your sin,
And when you get religion, you want to shout and sing
There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight, my baby.

verse 2:

There’ll be girls for everybody in that good, good old town,
For dere’s Miss Consolation Davis and there’s Miss Gondolia Brown,
And dere’s Miss Johanna Beasly, she am dressed all in red,
I just hugged her and I kissed her and to me, then, she said:
“Please, oh please, oh do not let me fall.
“You’re all mine, and I love you best of all;
“And you must be my man, or I’ll have no man at all.
There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight, my baby.”

It makes you wonder…if those teenagers in Malmö had some Swedish-Somalian version of gangsta rap, would they be out throwing stones and making mayhem?

Probably. Unfortunately, not all music has powers to soothe the savage breast. Rap sure doesn’t.

I know, I know, not everyone considers this genre to be “music.” However, its very wealthy performers would disagree with you. Snoop Dogg says he’s an artist, man. Just ask him.

Some bloggers have returned from the meeting and are giving their impressions.

Aeneas from Yorkshire, England posted:

I have just returned to the UK from a very interesting and useful meeting that took place yesterday in Copenhagen. Like minded people came together from a number of European countries as well as from the United States to get to know each other as develop a way forward in the fight against Islamism.

It was refreshing to meet so many people from different countries who shared similar ideals and concerns. Hopefully this meeting will be remembered as the beginning of something of historical importance that will serve to galvanise the counter jihad community worldwide. I hope that this will be the first of many such international meetings and that the next one will have even more countries represented. The struggle against Islamism is global and it is gratifying to see people finally starting to unite in common cause.

Part of the discussions covered a planned event outside the European Parliament in Brussels that will take place later on this year. It is hoped that as many European counties as possible will be well represented at this event so that a clear message can be sent to European leaders that their current approach to dealing with Islamism is not acceptable.

The movement is now up and running, but the best is yet to come.

That “planned event outside the European Parliament in Brussels” ought to be interesting. Somehow I don’t think the Brussels police will be all that sympathetic.

Here’s Exile’s input:

The event involved the coming together of many minds. The idea was not to set any vast political agenda…the summit was a chance to meet and greet and exchange ideas and meaning. Politicians, activists and the bloggers all defining their need for each other and the need for increased coordinated publicity.

It was a contact meet. And it went well. SIOE was launched as a coordinating organ. The Centre for Vigilant Freedom and its role in the anti Jihad was explained. The philosophy and tactics behind the efforts of SIAD was explained. This was the mixing of intent with practise. It will bear fruit later.

Zonka has also posted his view of the event:
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As the Gates of Vienna have reported we had a get together in Copenhagen with people from the Center for Vigilant Freedom, SIAD (Stop Islamisation of Denmark), Sverigedemokraterne, FOMI (Svenska Forum Mot Islamisering – Swedish Forum Against Islamization) as well as many bloggers including Baron Bodissey of the Gates of Vienna as one of the prominent speakers, bloggers from many anti-jihad and Islam critical blogs were present.

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The meeting was surrounded by some level of security due to the fact that both members of SIAD and Sverigedemokraterne have been attacked by leftist extremists at some of their previous meetings, so nothing was to be said about the meeting in advance and we all met at a neutral place only to take a short walk to the final destination that was “Den Danske Kro” where we had a nice meal and some of the good Danish beer.

The whole arrangement was a smashing success, people started talking, debating and mingling from the beginning, and after the meal first Baron Bodissey made his speech, which can be found at Gates of Vienna, followed by Anders Gravers of SIAD who told about why and how SIAD was formed as a movement that weren’t satisfied by just sitting around and debating issues but wanted to engage in a policy of more action – And by playing a confrontational and provoking game engaging the established politicians, media as well as the muslim segment into acknowledging the situation as well as take a position on some of the problem issues. He also spoke about the new project SIOE – Stop the Islamisation of Europe, which is a pan-European organization to help stem the Islamic tide and to help national and regional anti-jihad groups in all of Europe as well as being a source of exchanging information from all over Europe and have the information translated and ready to be presented in various languages.

The last speaker was Asger a philosopher from SIAD who was connecting the dots on why we are fighting, who we are fighting and what we are fighting for, putting it into a historical perspective dating back to the ancient Greek democracy, the Icelandic democracy at Altinget and the problems that our current democracy is facing, as well as defining the values that we are fighting for Freedom, Democracy and Liberty and the Rule of Law!

As he put it,

This summit in itself didn’t come out with some pompous declaration or formation of some bureaucratic structure to bury the process in, but with an invigorating new sense of purpose and direction as well as a better understanding between the parties involved in this fight… And that is the most important thing and the best result that one could hope for.

No “pompous declarations? No “bureaucratic structure?” I guess that proves it wasn’t funded by the UN, hmmm?

Read more here.

There will be further reports later, as people check in.

Now I can tell you the news. The Baron has been in Copenhagen for the last few days. Today he is attending the UK and Scandinavia Counterjihad Summit, organized by the Center for Vigilant Freedom and hosted by SIAD, Exile, Steen, and other members of the Danish blogosphere.

Because of the previous experiences of SIAD (Stop the Islamification of Denmark), none of this could be discussed ahead of time. In the past, when SIAD’s events were publicized in advance, groups of leftist thugs known as “Anti-Racism Squads” broke up the meetings by physically attacking SIAD members and injuring some of them.

So the Counterjihad Summit was organized without advance publicity. In addition, there was strict security, and the location was known only to the leaders of SIAD. In attendance today is an international group:

• Danish bloggers and anti-jihad operatives;
• leaders of the UK chapter of the Center for Vigilant Freedom;
• members of a Swedish political group;
• several Norwegians (including our own stalwart Fjordman);
• Paul Belien* of Brussels Journal; and
• the Baron and one other American representing CVF.

The whole event transpired just because the Baron couldn’t keep his ideas to himself. During an online meeting of the directors of CVF back in February, someone raised the topic of dissatisfaction among the members of the Danish chapter of Vigilant Freedom. The Danes were fed up with all the talk; they wanted some action.

“I have an idea,” the Baron piped up. “The Brits are doing so well right now — what we need is a meeting between the Brits and the Danes. It should happen in Denmark. That will really energize the Vikings.”

As usual, it was decided that since the Baron dreamed this up, it was going to be up to him to organize it.

That night he sat down with his list of Scandinavian contacts and began to put his plan into operation, emailing possible participants. The leader of SIAD, Anders Gravers, responded enthusiastically. He offered to arrange the venue and the security. Exile, as a British expatriate living in Denmark, spans both of the major groups, and was persuaded to be the co-ordinator. The word spread through the blogging network, and other guests, including Fjordman, Steen, and Paul Belien, were invited.

The Baron did not expect to be able to attend this meeting. After all, it is expensive to travel to Denmark, even this early in the season. However, his new job started in the interim, and an anonymous donor sent him some money specifically for the trip. This constellation of good fortune seemed auspicious, and I insisted that the Baron start looking for his passport.

So for the last couple of days he’s been traveling in Denmark and staying with people that he had previously known only in cyberspace. His visit has become a reunion with the Scandinavian commenters from Gates of Vienna, some of whom are also meeting each other in person for the first time.

The Baron has been seeing the Viking sights, drinking good Danish beer, and testing out his newly-acquired (and very rudimentary) Danish on his Scandinavian colleagues. I hope they aren’t laughing so hard they choke on their snaps. At least it’s them listening to it, and not me.

The meeting is underway now, and the Baron has probably given his speech. Presuming he stuck to the text he labored over before he left home, here is what he said (mercifully in English):
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I’d like to thank Fjordman for starting this process — if it hadn’t been for him, I would never have considered Muslim immigration in Scandinavia.

I’d like to thank Exile and Aeneas for taking charge of the Danish and British ends of this event. A big thank-you to Anders for our meeting place and the food, and for inviting in our partners from Germany and Sweden.

I’d also like to thank Skjoldungen, Phanarath, and Zonka for being such stalwart supporters of Gates of Vienna. I’d like to thank Steen for his services to the Danish blogosphere, for his excellent photography, and for putting me up in his apartment. I owe a deep debt of gratitude to Paul Belien for his courageous work at Brussels Journal. And I’d like to thank all of the rest of you for being here.

The only other time I was ever in København was almost forty years ago. Remember 1967, the “Summer of Love”? We lived in England then, and came here on holiday. I was sixteen and my brother was nineteen. While our parents visited the museums and saw the sights of København, my brother and I slept all day. Most of the night we went to the Tivoli Gardens and other places where young people gathered. The only sights we saw involved Danish girls and miniskirts.

To my delight, I found out that I was old enough to drink beer here. So my brother and I learned exactly two Danish words: “to øl”.

Anyway, it’s great to be back.

In the decades since, as I looked back on my visit to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, the three countries all but merged in my mind. To an outsider they seemed so similar. It wasn’t until much later that I learned how distinct Denmark is.

That realization began a few years ago, after we started our blog, Gates of Vienna. Dymphna — my wife and co-blogger — discovered Queen Margethe’s book. Such a refreshing viewpoint! What a commonsense approach! How could this Queen say such politically incorrect things?

Then there was Lars Moller, that Danish soldier with the UN forces in Bosnia. When he was fired upon by the Bosnian Serbs, he decided that breaking the rules of engagement in order to destroy the enemy was not such a bad idea. How warlike of him! Who did he think he was, a Viking? Didn’t he know that he was supposed to be engaged in “peacekeeping”?

When a young woman named Ghazala Khan decided to marry a man her family disapproved of, her young brother salvaged the family’s so-called “honor” by shooting her in broad daylight. And how did the Danes react to this brutal murder in Slagelse? Did they ship the boy away for a few months in juvenile detention? Were the local imams invited in for more “dialogue”? No. The whole family paid for the crime. The worst of them will be deported when released from prison. That is justice. That is the true rule of law.

And, above all there was the Mohammed Cartoon crisis. That’s when I really began to see the depths of the Danish character. I learned two things: Danes won’t back down, and they won’t be bullied.

The more you learn about the Danes, the more you like them. Danish commenters — many of whom are here tonight — came over to our blog and wrote with intelligence and humor.

Reading Phanarath or Kepiblanc would make me say to my wife, “Ha! You gotta love those Danes.”

They seemed more like Americans than the British do. Heck, they seemed more like Americans than most Americans do!

And then I discovered Holger Danske in his stronghold. When I read the stories about Holger, the Danish national character was revealed. Yesterday Skjoldungen and Steen took me to the cellar under Kronborg to see the ancient warrior himself, and I have just one thing to tell you:

Holger Danske vågner.

[Holger Danske is stirring.]

Denmark’s hour of need has arrived, and Holger Danske is honor-bound to awaken and defend her.

Actually, the Danes seem to be doing pretty well on their own. It’s the entire Western world that needs Holger.

He is an archetypal Scandinavian, but he also represents a peculiarly northern strain of industrious liberty. Denmark just happens to be the place he chose to dwell.

His character is spread throughout the countries who owe their cultural origins to northern Europe and the British Isles. We are all Men of the North.

As I have often said, the fundamental issue at stake is liberty. This means the right of people to live without interference from the state, and to live under the rule of law — governed by legislation enacted through their own consent.

The biggest threat to our rights comes from the Demonic Convergence — the evil combination of the powerful socialist state, the poison of multiculturalism, and the violent intolerance of Islam.

When a liberal democratic state requires its citizens — in the name of an intolerant religious “tolerance” — to accept into their midst a dangerous and violent political ideology disguised as a religion, then this liberal democratic state has gone off the rails. It has become what Kepiblanc called a “seppukultur”, a culture of self-negation. It is the perfect storm of Postmodernism — liberal democracy deconstructing itself.

Radical Muslims all over the world have made their intentions clear. Like Hitler, they do not hide their agenda. They post it on the internet, broadcast it on their television stations, and shout it from the pulpits of their mosques on Friday afternoons.

Islam’s goal is simple: a worldwide Caliphate. Muslims aim to expand Allah’s reign to include the entire planet. Those who resist will be destroyed, and the rest will live in servitude. The Islamic Paradise will have no competitor, no doctrine other than the Koran and the Hadith, and no law other than the Shariah.

This plan is well-documented in multiple sources. It is something that everyone in the West should already know. Those not deafened by political correctness do know. All the rest are sleepwalking towards the cliff.

This is not to say that all Muslims hold such extreme views. There are moderate Muslims who support democracy and freedom of religion. But the media, academics, and politicians of the West have chosen Wahhabism to represent all of Islam. It is not yet clear whether the so-called moderate Muslim is willing to risk his neck and his family to stand against the murderous fundamentalists.

These zealots are a threat to all of us who love liberty.

There are three factors at work here: demographics, the failure of Christianity, and the flood of oil money that funds global terrorism.

So what is to be done?

I have said repeatedly: we are on our own. This is fundamental. Our political leaders no longer act in the best interests of the people they supposedly serve. Self-interest, short-sightedness, and corruption guarantee our continuing decline.

The driving force behind our political impotence is the character of the elitists who control the media, the bureaucracies, and the academy. We can trace its origins all the way back to the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment, for good or ill, is our inheritance.

But, ultimately, it doesn’t matter where it started. We’re stuck with it. Those people in power who claim to act in our interest do not represent us. They are out of touch with average people. They are immune to common sense.

A major part of the problem lies with the media, but the very nature of media is changing. Gutenberg, meet the internet!

We are devising alternatives to the mainstream media. We are constructing new systems for collecting and diffusing information. We are changing the way news is discovered, reported, and acquired by ordinary citizens.

That’s why I’m here. The 910 Group — now called the Center for Vigilant Freedom — is one of those changes. CVF is not an alternative news outlet — we are an entirely new form for the propagation and dissemination of information.

The idea is not that everyone should join Vigilant Freedom — heaven forbid! That would make us just another huge and impotent bureaucracy. The 20th century has demonstrated the useless and immovable inertia of bureaucracy.

No, we are a network of networks. Anders and Ted are here to represent their respective organizations. Vigilant Freedom exists to coordinate their communications with others and their actions on behalf of the Counterjihad.

There is no chain of command — nor will there ever be — in Vigilant Freedom. No party line. No one in control of what happens. Our unity and mission arise from a common goal: to resist the Jihad in all its forms. Anything else is details.

One way you know that something new is happening is that nobody is making any money at this. Bloggers don’t make money by blogging. What little Gates of Vienna takes in from advertising and donations was spent getting me here tonight. The 910 Group has virtually no money.

Yet look what we have done. Look what Anders’ people are doing. Counterjihad groups have sprouted from the seed of dissatisfied individuals with computers and internet connections. With few operating costs, and at a speed that can only be the envy of traditionally-organized activist groups, we can spread information and mobilize for action.

The next big action will be the protest in Brussels on September 11th. SIAD and Akte Islam initiated the effort, and communicated with a British group to help plan it. The word spread through Gates of Vienna and the 910 Group to lots of other internet outlets, and now the plan has grown to include parallel actions in Australia, the United States, and Canada.

This will be a big event. The process was bootstrapped out of nothing by an interlinked group of like-minded individuals.

In other words, us — and people like us, dissatisfied with the heritage of the Enlightenment, and determined to move past its last vestiges.

Denmark started it. We’re all involved, but Denmark is the model, and her outspoken Queen says what we need to hear. In matters that count, the Vikings have become the model for the Western world.

My reason for coming here is to help leverage Danish efforts so that they can have an effect far beyond South Jutland and the Kattegat. I want to make sure the Danes continue to punch above their weight. My job is to hold a megaphone up in front of Anders and Steen and Mikael so that their Viking bellow can be heard across the entire European continent and beyond. Even a blogger can hold a megaphone.

You Danes are used to being Danish, so it’s no big deal to you. You can’t see how inspiring you are. You don’t realize how moving Holger Danske can be for people who don’t have a single drop of Viking blood in their veins. Holger is the Guardian of the West.

This seed we have planted will take at least two generations to bear fruit. I won’t be here to see it mature. But that is our job for future generations: to plant what they will harvest.

So we need to realize we are in it for the long haul, and we need to be prepared for the rough times ahead. Parts of Europe will descend into civil war in the relatively near future, and the way that we have lived for the past sixty years will be gone.

You and I are part of the process of this change. None of us individually is significant — I’m just a computer programmer with some outlandish right-wing political ideas. By himself, each of us is unimportant.

But, in the aggregate, what we do is important. How we communicate is important. How we organize our actions: that’s what’s important. Our leaders no longer represent us, so any efforts to defend our civilization have devolved to ordinary people like us.

If we are in tune with what average, everyday, well-meaning Westerners know in their hearts to be true, then maybe our grandchildren will know success.

I’d like to leave you with a thought from Wretchard, the proprietor of the blog known as The Belmont Club. Wretchard is a Filipino mathematician who was educated at Harvard on a scholarship and is now living in Australia. He’s our blogfather, the reason that Dymphna and I decided to start Gates of Vienna.

In this quote Wretchard is talking about one of the recent scandals involving photoshopped images.

He says, “There are some who are shocked, shocked at the act of a private person musing out loud about what seems like a staged photograph. ‘How dare you, how dare you raise these questions?’ Yet to those who grew up on the Internet, this attitude is puzzling in the extreme. It’s as natural as breathing, a wholly different tradition.”

Wretchard continues, “There must be hundreds of sites out there saying I’m a jerk. So what? This blog is just a meme, that’s all. I am nothing. I don’t even have a name. There must be zillions out there who disagree with my ideas. But so what? If my ideas are wrong they’ll die. If they are right, not even I can stop them. Scary when you think of it.”

That sums it up: If our ideas are wrong they’ll die. If they are right, not even we can stop them.

Thank you, and good night.

*At the last moment, Mr. Belien was detained from leaving Brussels due to strikes by workers at the airport. There is a possibility that the group has been able to patch in an audio connection with him so that he could participate in the discussion. –D