Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West


PEGIDA:
Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West
We stand for this! Down with all radical trash!

We reported on Saturday about a demonstration against Salafism by “right-wing extremists” in Cologne. Similar demonstrations have also taken place in Dresden under the leadership of an anti-Islamization group called PEGIDA.

Many thanks to JLH for translating this article about yesterday’s demo from Sächsischen Zeitung:

Demonstration Against Alleged “Islamization”

More than 500 Dresdeners demonstrated peacefully in the inner city yesterday against “religious war” on German soil. It was the second demonstration of a group called PEGIDA — “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West.” The organizers intend to march in Dresden every Monday evening as long as the political system does not take on the problem.

Lutz Bahmann, one of the organizers, said to applause: “With understanding for all the misery and horror of the warlike confrontations in all the war-torn areas of the earth, we Germans and Europeans cannot be the reception center of the world, and bring these wars to our own streets, no matter how beautiful our land is.” He emphasized the rejection of violence, from whatever direction it may come. Isolated right extremist slogans could be heard, however.

After the protests had been announced, a large police presence cordoned off the demonstration. Last week, speakers for the Left Party had reported “harassment” of opponents of this allegedly “rightist” demonstration. This, however, was confirmed neither by the police nor the office of public order. The riots in Cologne may also have contributed to the police presence.

ISIS and the Big Lie

The following post is the result of various discussions Vlad Tepes and I had a few weeks ago.

When was the last time you heard of a beheading where the perpetrator was neither a Muslim nor a Mexican gangster?

And, out of all such beheaders, what percentage professed the Islamic faith?

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I began this post more than a month ago, before the press of current events relegated it to the back burner. As a matter of coincidence, the very day I started writing it (September 25), a news story broke about a beheading that had occurred the day before at a food distribution facility in Oklahoma. The alleged killer (who was shot but not killed by an officer of the company) was a recent convert to Islam, and had attempted da’wa on his fellow employees before he was fired from the plant.

Most of the early media reports on this incident either failed to mention JIM or played down the Islamic aspect of the incident. This is typical of the way the MSM handles instances of grotesque barbaric violence carried out by Muslims — either reporters decline to discuss the religion of the perpetrator, or they hastily explain it away, before all the details of the case have been revealed, before the body parts have even been collected and the blood hosed off the floor. If possible, they avoid mentioning the killer’s Islamic name, even if it had been legally changed. A case in point is the late John Allen Williams, the Beltway Sniper. The media were extremely reluctant to use his preferred surname (Muhammad) and thereby assign his crimes a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%. In the weeks after his arrest, back in the fall of 2002, they used “Williams” for as long as they possibly could.

The media reports on the more recent “lone wolf” attacks in Canada and New York have used the same playbook. In most instances, the jihadis’ infidel names are the only ones mentioned by reporters. The perpetrators’ conversion to Islam is played down, or papered over. Their actions are ascribed to insanity, or poverty, or sunspot activity — anything to avoid looking at Islam and the ideology of jihad.

Such behavior on the part of the Fourth Estate simply follows the lead of our governments, which tell us repeatedly that such-and-such atrocity “has nothing to do with Islam”, regardless of the faith professed by the perpetrators, or their regular attendance at a well-known mosque, or which god they pray to five times a day, or what books they were reading just before their bomb belts detonated.

The corollary statement that “there was no connection to terrorism” is part of the same syndrome. Spokesmen for the Department of Homeland Security might as well hand such statements out to media people on a pre-printed card after each new atrocity. “Terrorism” is now commonly understood to mean “Islam”, so no incident, no matter how horrendous it is, no matter how many victims are killed, can possibly be a “terrorist” attack. “Workplace violence” — maybe.

Or “senseless violence”, which seems to be the phrase preferred by President Barack Hussein Obama. Fjordman has compiled a handy list of Mr. Obama’s utterances on the topic:

All of the formulae described above are examples of what I call “The Big Lie”. The core falsehood of this ideological complex is the assertion that Islam is not inherently violent. As an immediate corollary, anyone who commits violence in the name of Allah or Mohammed is perforce un-Islamic, and “does not represent true Islam.”

It is remarkable to hear Western political leaders — who are not Muslims, do not speak Arabic, and have no training in Islamic law — make such confident declarations about the true nature of Islam.

Why should we take David Cameron’s word on what constitutes “true Islam”? Why does John Kerry have any credibility when he pontificates on the nature of Islam?

Mind you, Mr. Obama may well be an expert on Islam, since he was raised as a Muslim. But that means he is also well-trained in the art of taqiyya, and knows exactly what to say about Islam, true or otherwise, when the infidel is listening.

And, whether it is taqiyya, stupidity, or political expedience, the rest of the governing class in the Multicultural West is singing the same tune:

[Lower House Speaker Laura] Boldrini said the group had deviated from Islam…. ISIS is “religious deviance using religion for political purposes; that’s not Islam,” she said.

How does she know what Islam is or isn’t?

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/27/2014

All U.S. troops who have been sent to Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa will be quarantined for 21 days before they are sent home. According to the Defense Department, the troops will be isolated at an airbase in Italy for the required period before returning to the United States.

In other news, the British government has decided that it will no longer contribute to any search-and-rescue operations to aid illegal migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe,

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The EU as an Accomplice to Terror

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The following essay by the prominent Austrian journalist Christian Ortner was originally published on his website. Many thanks to JLH for the translation:

The EU as an Accomplice to Terror

by Christian Ortner
October 14, 2014

This past weekend the EU decided to devote half a billion euros of tax money to rebuild the Gaza Strip, which was partially destroyed during the last war. And since this money, of course, is non-existent, that much debt will accrue.

Just a reminder: This summer, the Gaza Strip was used by the governing Hamas regime as a launch pad for more than 2,000 rockets fired at Israeli schools, hospitals, a nuclear research center and other civilian targets. And because Israel had the unmitigated gall to defend itself militarily instead of peaceably observing, there is now considerable damage to buildings. Not least because Hamas is especially fond of using schools and hospitals as launching platforms; several of them in Gaza are in ruins.

If you hold your nose, you can half-heartedly argue that it is appropriate on “humanitarian grounds” for the EU to shell out for rebuilding Gaza. For now, we can ignore the fact that the population of Gaza democratically elected Hamas. The EU flushes tons of moolah down the toilet for other nonsense, including some hundreds of millions to Turkey.

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“Terrorism” in the West

Dave Petteys returns with a brief look at the Islamic doctrine of “individual Jihad”, and how it is misunderstood by the media and political leaders in Western countries.

“Terrorism” in the West

by Dave Petteys
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All the attacks in Ottawa and elsewhere are Islamic Jihad, not the work of “deranged young men who have been economically marginalized”, (as the Progressives attempt to rationalize the phenomenon). These attacks conform to the strategy first formulated by Abu Musab al-Suri[1]., an Al Qaeda member and ideologue of Jihad. He rightly recognized the ability of the security services to take down hierarchical Jihad organizations and called for the following:

  • Jihad websites and magazines to supply ideology, training, methodology and target selection.
  • To encourage and support “individual Jihad”.
  • This would be impossible for the security services to stop.

One only has to look at the online Al Qaeda magazine Inspire[2] or the ISIS Magazine Dabiq[3] and read the newspapers to see this strategy being made manifest. To term such attacks “lone wolf” is to misunderstand and ignore the Abu Musab al-Suri strategy: the attackers may be solitary, but they are not “alone”, nor are they without support.

The most bizarre aspect of all this disinformation and denial is the degree to which the government and the media try to disassociate Jihad from Islam. This catastrophic misunderstanding of Islamic doctrine, fostered by Muslim groups in the West, is the main issue. So let’s straighten this out!

The Qur’an is a collection of “recitations” of Muhammad’s revelations as taken down and recorded by his companions. The early “Meccan” Suras were conciliatory, peaceful and tolerant. They were necessarily so, owing to the fact that Muhammad’s movement was weak in those early days. After the Hijra (migration) to Medina, and the invention of Jihad, Muhammad’s movement became strong and ruled all of Arabia within ten years. His revelations became less tolerant and more violent.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/26/2014

According to German intelligence, the Islamic State now possesses shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles. The anti-aircraft missiles are of Russian origin, and at some point belonged to the Syrian army. They are capable of shooting down passenger airliners at low altitudes.

In other news, the Parliament Hill jihadi Michael Zehaf Bibeau reportedly prepared a video prior to his deadly attacks last week. The RCMP say they are in the process of analyzing the footage, and are not ready to release it yet. However, we can rest assured that the video has nothing to do with Islam.

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The Caliphate Next Door

The following op-ed about the ubiquity of Salafism and support for the Islamic State, in Europe as well as in the Middle East, was originally published in Wina magazine. Many thanks to JLH for the translation:

The Caliphate Next Door

October 13, 2014

Everyone is presently watching the “Islamic State” in the Near East. But there are hundreds of like-minded Islamic towns all over Europe. Terror is among us; it has just not revealed itself.

by Oliver Jeges

For months now in Germany and Austria, we have been hearing about a subject that we thought had been all talked out: Islam. Not a day passes between Hamburg and Vienna, Istanbul and London, Stockholm and Cairo, without some Muslim flipping out because his pride, his honor or his feelings have been in injured. And since the turn of the millennium, terrorism in the name of Islam has become as routine in the news as the weather report. The usual car-bomb in Baghdad, Islamabad or Abuja, the traditional assassination attempt in Syria or Gaza, no longer capture anyone’s attention. Such events have become too “normal.” You could say, it’s just a cultural peculiarity among Orientals.

Everywhere there is Islam, there is Islamism. They are Siamese twins. One cannot survive without the other because they have grown together.

The Takbir, or Allah’s Index Finger as the symbol of an entire youth movement… No problem if you feel good as a “teenie terror.” A milieu without context is releasing these teenagers into an uncertain future.

IS — the Islamic State — had to show up so that the subject of Islam would become prominent in the media again. The caliphate proclaimed by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, its leader, gives a new twist to the reportage. How brutal and insouciant Islam’s evil face is! IS adherents stone adulterous women, crucify “infidel” Christians, dispossess minority Yazidis from Iraq and outlaw any influence which they believe is not compatible with the pure teaching of the Koran.

And for the first time we notice that this is no mere regional hot spot in the Near East. IS is recruiting its fighters from all over the world. More than 2,000 of them are from Europe, including Germans, British, Austrians, Dutch. Even an Australian Muslim with his underage children joined the jihad. It is true that the the caliphate is “only” raging through Syria and Iraq. But the ideology that makes these terrible actions possible has already found its way here.

There is a Salafist Presence in Almost Every European City

There are people who interpret the Koran literally and reject Western values such as the separation of church and state, democracy, freedom of speech, gender equality, sexual self-determination and international law. In Germany’s Wuppertal, there is a sharia patrol after the British model. Young men patrol nightly to enforce Muslim moral order. If there is a too casually dressed Muslim female, a young Turk with a bottle of beer in his hand, a Egyptian-German standing in front of a gambling hall, the watchmen are on the spot. London has had these morality police for at least two years. Young Muslims — converts included — discipline anyone who does not follow the rules of Islamic law. This form of intimidation is the rule, and the European rule of law undertakes little against it.

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Refusing to Parrot the Lies of Our Age

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Why I Write
by Fjordman

Why write?

What is the point of continuing my writing activities? I have asked myself that question quite a few times.

There is a theory that the Western ruling elites do not care as long as the huge problems of their Multicultural social experiment only hurt common people. They will not react until the problems target them directly. On October 22, 2014, there was an Islamic terror attack in Canada’s capital city Ottawa. An armed Muslim terrorist tried to enter the Parliament. He was fortunately shot and killed by the 58-year-old sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers. If the terrorist had succeeded in entering, he might have been able to kill many politicians who believe in dialogue.

This Islamic terrorist was stopped at the very last moment. However, others will no doubt try again.

Still, the ruling elites did not respond forcefully. I looked in vain for senior Western political leaders saying that we most now halt or at least restrict Muslim immigration. I did not see any. True, we would then still face the problem of converts to Islam, but at least the problem would be smaller and more manageable.

Once again, the useless US President Barack Hussein Obama refused to link this Islamic attack to Islam. Obama merely suggested that it was “senseless violence.” As the Canadian-born author Mark Steyn commented, this was a targeted Islamic terror attack aimed for the very heart of the state. It was hardly senseless.

If an attempted Islamic attack on a Western parliament is not enough to wake Western leaders up, then what does it take? There are more Muslims in Europe than in North America. Do they believe that this is the last Islamic attempt to target Western parliaments? The next one could hit lawmakers in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome or Madrid. What about the EU’s institutions in the increasingly Islamic city of Brussels? How long will the security services be able to keep the rapidly growing number of militant Muslims at bay? When will we see an attack on the European Parliament, the EU Commission, or perhaps NATO’s headquarters in the same city?

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No To Salafist Pigs!

An anti-Salafist march took place in downtown Cologne today. It was organized by what the mainstream media are calling “right-wing extremists” and “neo-Nazis”. Various sources from alternative media tell a different story, but before we get to that, here’s a video of the march. Many thanks to Carpe Diem for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Various people who understand German have sent background reports on the day’s events in Cologne. First, from a German source:

The protest was organized by a group called HoGeSa, Hooligans gegen Salafisten (Hooligans against Salafists). They are fans of football clubs, basically like EDL.

I’m in a Facebook group with people who attended the demonstration on the side of the hooligans. They say that the police were completely against them. The media reported that the hooligans toppled over a police bus, but he said that’s not true. He saw immigrants doing that. The police wouldn’t believe him….

Some reports say the police provoked violence. The demonstrators wanted to leave peacefully, but were hindered. Of course media say it was caused by HoGeSa.

From JLH:

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PVV: #1 in the Polls Again

We reported last month that the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV, led by Geert Wilders) had become the most popular party in the Netherlands. In the interim, however, it had slipped from the top. Now it has regained its #1 position, according to the latest poll.

The chart below shows each party in terms of how many seats it would hold in parliament if elections were held today. The current poll is in the fourth column, with last week’s results to the left, and 2012 figures to the left of that. As you can see, the PVV has gained three seats since last week, and twelve since 2012:

The PVV is the only major political party in the Netherlands that dares to criticize immigration and Islamization. For that reason, the public prosecutor is once again preparing a to put Geert Wilders on trial. In other words, the Dutch state is planning to prosecute the most popular political leader in the country for saying what millions of ordinary Dutch people agree with.

This is what passes for “democracy” in Modern Multicultural Europe.

Key to the parties:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/25/2014

The first spare aircraft parts in 35 years are being sold to Iran by Boeing. The parts, whose sale has been approved by U.S. authorities, are “for safety purposes”, and therefore acceptable under the current sanctions regime.

In other news, a nurse who was quarantined after returning to New Jersey from an Ebola-stricken region of West Africa is complaining about the “unwelcoming” treatment meted out to her by U.S. authorities.

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ISIS: The Modern Islamic Scourge

Anestos Canelides returns with a brief survey of the early conquests of Islam, which resemble all too well the modern depredations of the Islamic State.

ISIS: The Modern Islamic Scourge
History Repeats Itself

by Anestos Canelides

In the shallow words of our Commander-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama, the Islamic State (or ISIL, or ISIS) is not Islamic, and Islam does not condone the killing of innocents.

These statements are historically false. Regardless of whether there are peaceful Muslims, today’s ISIS is a repeat of Islamic violence beginning with its early conquests of the infidel world. Either Obama is in denial or he is living in a fantasy land. He is simply placating Muslims and his delusional so-called liberal base, which believes criticism of Islam equals “racism” and “hate speech”. The horrible atrocities ISIS is committing against innocent Christians, Muslims and other religious groups are well-known from news reports. These atrocities include: murder, rape, destruction of churches, forced conversion, and slavery.

Ecclesiastes proclaims there is nothing new under the sun. This is all too apparent with the violent atrocities being committed by these savages today.

In The Legacy of Jihad, Andrew Bostom has complied sources that provide accounts of the barbaric cruelty brought upon the Christians of the Middle East during the Arab Islamic Invasion of that region during the 7th century. About thirty years after Mohammad’s death Islam underwent a tremendous expansion into the former Byzantine Empire (Roman). Islam had rapidly conquered all of what is now Saudi Arabia and territory that had been in Roman-Greco hands since the conquests of Alexander the Great.

The events described in “Greek Christian and other accounts of the Muslim Conquest of the Near East” by Demetrios Constantelos provide examples, through eyewitness accounts, that the 7th-century Islamic invasion of Syria and Egypt was no less savage than the atrocities ISIS commits today. ISIS is indeed acting according to the laws of Islamic war.

The author of Ecclesiastes is correct: nothing is new under the sun.

The conquest of Christian lands was often associated with eschatological or “end of days” events, as indicated in the accounts of Muslim invaders. They were described as “wild and untamed beasts”, “bloodthirsty” “beastly” and “barbaric”. (The Greeks often used the term barbarian for their enemies or non-Christians, and pre-Islamic Arab raids were written about in 5th- and 6th-century manuscripts.)

It is recorded in the narrations of St. Nilos that these Arab tribes were not known for trade or agriculture, but were nomadic, and pursued “robbery and warfare” in a “beastly and bloodthirsty” manner.

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Paradoxical Effects and Unintended Consequences

After two uniformed Canadian soldiers were killed this past week in separate jihad attacks in Montreal and Ottawa, Rear Admiral John Newton, the commander of Canada’s Maritime Forces Atlantic, advised soldiers under his command to avoid wearing their uniforms in public. His directive took the form of an urgent recommendation, and not an actual order, but was nonetheless quite disturbing — so appalling, in fact, that I had to resort to satire as a means of dealing with it.

Similar orders/recommendations have been issued by military authorities in other Western countries, including Australia, Britain, and the Netherlands. Uniformed members of these countries’ armed services are now at risk within their own borders, but rather than confront this emergency head-on and recognize it for what it is, they have chosen the cowardly route instead. They have asked soldiers to conceal their identities, as if they were guerilla forces behind enemy lines.

Admiral Newton’s directive will have the paradoxical effect of making all Canadian citizens less safe.

Why do I say this?

Mujahideen within infidel countries who support the Islamic State have been instructed specifically to target soldiers and police, whom they regard as servants of a blasphemous, illegitimate state, and therefore deserving of special murderous attention. If soldiers are no longer identifiable by their uniforms, a jihadi must needs resort to targeting civilians indiscriminately, in hopes of murdering a soldier or two in the process. Pedestrians who happen to be in the vicinity of a military barracks would perhaps be more vulnerable than those elsewhere, but everyone would be at risk.

In any case, since the Islamic State does not recognize the existence of actual civilians among the infidels of Dar al-Harb — all of whom are enemies of Allah — it also recommends targeting pedestrians at random. If a uniform happens to be around, yes, kill him first. But all infidels are fair game.

Making all Canadians marginally less safe is an unintended consequence of policies that purportedly serve to protect citizens from harm. Like so many politically correct responses to the Islamic threat, the Canadian government’s actions serve to bolster the ruling elites’ collective self-image of tolerant, non-racist inclusiveness rather than the actual well-being of Canadian citizens.

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The Harper government’s responses may seem irrational — even insane — but they aren’t, not really. Once you accept the underlying premises of Politically Correct Multiculturalism, that is. After that, the rest follows.

The real “root cause” of terrorist attacks on Canadian soil cannot possibly be addressed, because it would require an acknowledgement that the mass importation of Muslim immigrants into Canada was a horrendous mistake. It would also mean admitting that mosques are not houses of worship, but rather incubators of sedition. As Turkish Prime Minister (now President) Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously said, “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers.”

Could anyone say it more clearly?

But the PC/MC regime must at all costs avoid revealing such facts. Admitting the truth would bring the entire multiculti Potemkin edifice crashing down, exposing the tawdry, useless reality behind all the lies.

Instead, Canada will have more restrictions on internet speech, more spying, and more monitoring of citizens for “extremist tendencies”. We can expect that each new violent incident involving culture-enrichers will be handled with kid gloves, of course. But the hammer of the law will strike with full force against anyone who dares to point out all the things I have mentioned here. As we have seen in Britain and many other places, laws against “hate speech” will be disproportionately invoked and enforced against those who discuss the awful truth that the Multicult is attempting to paper over.

That’s the whole point of the exercise — to protect the stability of the existing political structure at all costs.

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Once the flimsy Multicultural scrim is pushed aside, revealing the dingy essence behind it, other pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place. The actions of our political leaders have all those unintended consequences because their ostensible purpose is a sham.

For example:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/24/2014

The government of Cyprus says that it will block the accession of Turkey to the EU after Turkish ships, including warships, were sent to survey natural gas resources within Cyprus’ offshore Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The EU in turn says that it supports Cyprus’ rights concerning its EEZ.

In other news, Boko Haram activists in northeastern Nigeria abducted at least sixty more girls, despite having allegedly reached a peace agreement with the government. The parents of the kidnapped girls will be relieved to learn that the incident had no connection with Islam.

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