An End to Phony Tolerance

The following op-ed from the Austrian daily Kurier has been kindly translated by JLH:

An End to Phony Tolerance

Which Islam do Muslims in Austria actually follow?

By Martina Salomon | August 24, 2014

By 2051, every fifth Austrian will be Muslim. The figure is already 11.6% ( up from 0.4% in 1971). Official Austria has always operated on the premise of religious co-existence. But the newest reports indicate that shockingly great swathes of the Muslim population are regressing to the Middle Ages. Their brutal attitude toward “infidels” (up to and including bestial murders), their imperialism, their repression of women and homosexuals and the dominion of religion over politics all come to them from the Koran.

In recent years, anyone who criticized or even caricatured Islam ran the risk of earning a death fatwa. Self-styled “holy warriors” are killing and dispossessing Christians all over the world. Nonetheless, Western governments have appealed for tolerance. This may come from the misinterpretation of a comment by Jesus: “But I say unto you, That you resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.” The meaning of the Biblical episode is that Jesus is standing firm and demanding respect. We must do the same, for the sake of our culture and our values. In conversation even with educated Muslims, their contempt for our liberal society is often palpable.

The Role of the Victim as an Excuse

Muslim advocates like to play the victim card. Marginalization of their co-religionists, they say, brings on radicalization. That, however, is only part of the truth. Not a word about the fact that some immigrant groups close themselves off and overburden the educational and welfare systems. Interestingly, it is (liberal) Muslims most of all who denounce the propagation of “fascist Islam” and criticize the support it receives from indigenous parties. It was clear to see, in demonstrations for and against Erdogan in Vienna, that there are thousands of Turks from backward regions in Turkey who are easy to mobilize in our streets. But anyone who has been in Istanbul has also seen the other side of Turkey with its dynamic, well-educated upper class, and many women in top jobs.

The publisher and headman of the Turkish Cultural Community, Birol Kilic, warns against Austria’s becoming a hinterland of politicized belief coming out of Turkey or any other country. And the Green Federal Assemblyman, Efgani Dönmez, criticizes domestic parties — especially the SPÖ — for encouraging “rightist” i.e. fundamentalist trends.

The government is belatedly pulling itself together to take a closer look. The arrested Chechen jihadists are an early accomplishment of this policy and proof that there must be better supervision of what goes on under the cover of religion: in religious education, in (back-alley) mosques, in some “cultural organizations.”

And it must be clear that someone who goes to war for another country or a terror group will automatically lose citizenship and may no longer live here. Anyone who wishes to abrogate the rules of our state or contemptuously ignores them must expect severe punishment and lose any right to asylum. Austrian law is the rule here — no Ifs, Ands or Buts.

7 thoughts on “An End to Phony Tolerance

  1. “By 2051, every fifth Austrian will be Muslim.”

    I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it is all over for Austria. Expect a demand (extremely violent) for a separate country carved up from parts of Austria. Then expect that those muslims who do not fall within the borders of that new country will NOT move to it, and stay in Austria, so that their future generations can outbreed Austrians again, and again, and again. You get the idea, right?

  2. Gosh that sounds great Viennaman. Prime Minister Cameron is saying strong manly things to the English people too. If this keeps up the muslims will just have to tone it down a bit until the guns, ammo and safe houses are more than enough to get the job done. In the meantime, to be fair, there will of course have to be the correct ratio of Islamis to population in the armed forces and elsewhere. The US is leading the way in this regard. That old saying so true “Surrender to win”?!:)

  3. What is the strength of various Christian bodies in Austria? I would urge them to go to work on an evangelization program geared towards Turkish, Kurdish, Bosniak, and other Muslim immigrants in their country.

  4. Islam — not radical Islam or “Islamism” — has no place in any Western country.

    Muslims in the West receiving welfare benefits must be sent to their home countries. All mosques in the West must be destroyed and all imams deported. Public Muslim activities must be forbidden. Muslims failing, per affidavit, to reject any portion of the Koran or Islamic jurisprudence calling for the killing or enslavement of infidels and the killing of apostates and blasphemers must be deported. Proselytizing by Muslims in the West must be forbidden and transgressors deported and imprisoned and their citizenship revoked.

    Islam must be recognized as the loathsome political doctrine that it is and its followers ejected from civilized society.

    Any nation that does not order its legal system to accomplish these goals will drown in the savage Muslim tide.

    Westerners can tip toe around these unpleasant truths but they will do so at their peril. The presence of the Muslim enemy in the West is taken as the rational, normal state of affairs. Instead, it is the result of some of the most widespread and vicious acts of betrayal by all Western ruling parties and political elites. The Western status quo is the suicide of the West.

  5. M. Salomon writes: “Interestingly, it is (liberal) Muslims most of all who denounce the propagation of “fascist Islam” and criticize the support it receives from indigenous parties. It was clear to see, in demonstrations for and against Erdogan in Vienna, that there are thousands of Turks from backward regions in Turkey who are easy to mobilize in our streets. But anyone who has been in Istanbul has also seen the other side of Turkey with its dynamic, well-educated upper class, and many women in top jobs.”

    What you see in Istanbul is not a result of a “liberal islam”, but of Atatürk´s radical secularisation programme which opened up a secular space in Turkey.

    There is an important difference. Atatürk did not realize this programme by debating how islam should be interpreted (i.e. by offering a “more liberal” interpretation). He did it by prohibiting certain islamic practices such as veils in the public space. That is how he gave women the opportunity to move more freely, and work, in Turkey… They got it to the extent he outlawed islam.

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