Islam: The Good News and the Bad News for Europe

Below is the most recent opinion piece by the Austrian writer Andreas Unterberger, as published last Friday at the author’s website. Many thanks to JLH for the translation:

Islam: The Good News and the Bad News for Europe

by Andreas Unterberger
January 9, 2015

The new book by the bestselling French author Michel Houellebecq is on everyone’s mind, because of the Paris attacks. It envisions a Muslim president of France in eight years, and the elimination of all “infidels” from the “Islamic University of the Sorbonne.” Actually, the demographic development makes that most likely a few years later. But, in fact, the triumph of Islam over what was once the West could take place in eight years. Indeed, the tendency of most leftist parties is to prefer voting for Muslim candidates than for those from anti-Islamic parties.

That is the logical result of their intensive efforts in recent years to label all Islam critics as neo-Nazis. It was ostensibly a strategy to retain power, but with no factual basis. This characterization has become an unquestioned axiom and, therefore, a self-made trap.

Something similar is happening in Germany, where there has been increasing support for Islam-critical demonstrations. Where, however, all the Bundestag parties (excepting only the CSU*) have made the mistake of denouncing as rightist-radical the rapidly growing concerns of that portion of the population that is still in the majority. Even as partisan tactics, that is stupid. It is to be expected that Muslim-qua-Muslim parties will be forming everywhere in Europe in coming years. And as that happens, the present membership of Muslims in red and green parties will be a thing of the past.

The SPD parliamentary leader Opperman had a particularly dramatic reaction after the Paris attacks. “These are killers, not Muslims,” he decreed, without explaining why these two terms should be mutually exclusive, And, as a reaction to this attack on freedom of expression, he actually demanded that PEGIDA stop its demonstrations. With no understanding of the fact that this is what the Islamists want — for any further peaceful exercise of freedom of expression to be made impossible. Some Europeans believe that prognoses about an Islamic majority are like predictions of economic cycles — just reading tea leaves. But that is wrong, because demography — even in reference to the future — is based on hard facts. The mothers of the next generations are already born. Or not born. And the tendency to be prolific is an amazingly firm constant. The more educated, the more cosmopolitan, the more non-Muslim women are, the fewer children they have. That has been true for decades now. And in every country in Europe. It is therefore almost inevitable that several European countries will have Muslim majorities sometime in this century.

A Religion Like Any Other?

Now this does not mean that we can just await Europe’s future with resignation. There are a number of factors that can still be influenced (by, for instance: emphatically liberal-democratic education, stopping any further immigration, firm action against preachers hostile to women and the constitution, etc.). Of course, that will only happen if Europe’s governments, the EU and the media finally recognize the ominous developments. If they do not continue across-the-board to prefer repression and concentration on the teeny-tiny pseudo-problems of the real world.

Others are soothing, saying: Islam is a religion like many others. That’s not bothering anybody. It doesn’t matter, in present-day Europe, whether you live in a country with a Catholic or an Anglican or a lay majority, or a Nordic national church. Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu — it’s all the same.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/12/2015

After a rare cold wave brought snow to parts of Saudi Arabia, a top scholar and theologian in the Kingdom has issued a fatwa that forbids the making of snowmen or snow animals. Mohammad Saleh Al Minjed says that making sculptures of people or animals is forbidden by the Koran.

In other news, a White House spokesman conceded that it was a mistake not to have sent a higher-ranking member of the Obama administration to attend yesterday’s unity demonstration in Paris. Meanwhile, the Twitter feed and YouTube account for the Pentagon were hacked and taken over by activists who claimed to be disciples of the Islamic State.

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The Moroccan Mayor of Rotterdam says: “If you don’t like our country, go away!”

Ahmed Aboutaleb (PvdA, Partij van de Arbeid, Labour Party) is the mayor of Rotterdam. Below is his response to the culture-enrichers who carried out the Charlie Hebdo massacres last week in Paris. No mincing of words for him!

Many thanks to SimonXML for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

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40,000 People March Against Islamization in Dresden

Rembrandt Clancy summarizes the crowd estimates tonight from Dresden:

According to Kopp Online, the police estimate for the number of people at the march is 25,000. However, the organisers in Dresden are claiming 40,000 according to several sources, all of which have the same wording; for example, MWNews.

He has also translated this article from Compact Magazine:

Over 40,000 at PEGIDA in Dresden

by Jürgen Elsässer
12 January 1015

While the Tagesschaue reports just “several thousand’ at the PEGIDA demonstration in Dresden, one can read the following for himself on the Live-Ticker of the Leipziger Volkszeitung: There are 35,000! Since the established media mostly depress the numbers, one can easily assume over 40,000 participants. This is a huge success! The Dresdeners are not allowing themselves to be intimidated by the block parties.

The success is to be assessed even more highly, when today in the nearby city of Leipzig over 4,000 were present at the PEGIDA offshoot, LEGIDA, and marched at the same time.

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The BBC, Dishonesty, and the Jews of Paris

The following BBC News report about the plight of Jews in Paris contains an exceptionally dishonest segment — not exceptional for the Beeb, just among news reports in general.

Halfway through the report the producers have inserted a clip from the archives to illustrate the “growing anti-Semitism” in France. The segment is taken from footage of a neo-Nazi march that took place last year (if I recall correctly). A number of MSM outlets seized on it eagerly at the time — “At last! Some non-Muslim Jew-haters! Now we can report on rising anti-Semitism in France!”

It’s typical of the BBC to use this as the only example of Jew-hatred in France, as if Muslim mobs had not attacked synagogues. As if a mujahid had not murdered four Jews at a school in Toulouse. As if a disciple of the Islamic State had not just taken hostages and murdered four Jews in a kosher supermarket.

In contrast, repulsive as they were, the neo-Nazi marchers did not attack any Jews. However, at the BBC, the truth is cast aside in service of The Narrative.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video and annotating it with his commentary:

#PublishTheMotoons: A Cowardly Cartoonist (Not)

I’ve been a fan of R. Crumb’s comics for well over forty years now, ever since I was a dissolute long-haired hippie. He was the most well-known and accomplished of the underground comics artists working in San Francisco in the late 1960s and early ’70s. His most famous works include Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, “Truckin’”, and Zap Comix. I’m also fond of some of his lesser-known characters, such as Whiteman, Schuman the Human, the Snoids, Eggs Ackley and the Vulture Demonesses, and especially Angelfood McSpade (the last could never find a publisher nowadays, but those were different times).

Mr. Crumb now lives in France, and has declared his support for the murdered cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo by drawing his own Motoon. It’s a little more vulgar than what we usually publish, so I’ve placed it below the jump for those who prefer to skip it:

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Oppression Instead of Admission

Note: This post was originally published on January 10, and was “sticky” for a couple of days. Scroll down for more recent posts, including the livestream from tonight’s PEGIDA march, “PEGIDA is Not the Disease — It is the Symptom”, Amedy Coulibaly’s martyrdom video, and the news feed.

In his latest essay, Takuan Seiyo notes the many ways in which the bill is now coming due all across the West for mass Muslim immigration. He also details recent examples of denial and repression against anyone who dares to identify the cause of what is happening.


Vincent van Gogh, ‘Prisoners Exercising’, 1890

Oppression Instead of Admission

by Takuan Seiyo

A recent headline informed that TSA Considers All-Out Ban Of Carry-On Bags After Latest Terror Threat. That reminded me how and why I gave up my comfortable life and turned instead to the solitary, unrewarded labor of writing pro bono for samizdat publications shut out of the wider sheeple’s ken by the flock’s herders and shearers.

It was in the mid-2000s. My longtime home country, California, to which I had contributed much as a taxpayer, employer, educator, buyer of homes and planter of trees, had been pulled from under my feet by the usual postmodern wrecking crew. I had expatriated to Japan.

I like Japan and its culture, but I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life there. So I started flying across the Pacific periodically, in search of a future home in my country.

My first recon destination was Denver. What I experienced on that trip and on subsequent ones to other American cities was so shocking that words and paragraphs started pouring out of me. Not so much to change the course of this runaway train — I am not that naive — but to leave information for future archeologists puzzled over the piles of rubble where a great civilization once flourished.

That first flight from Tokyo placed me in a long line of Americans shuffling shoeless and beltless in silence under the watchful stares of uniformed state functionaries barking orders at the silent, snaking file of cowed, conquered people. As they moved along, the herded subjects were discarding their clothing here, nail files and pen knives there, watches and coins yet elsewhere, having that last drink of water before that too was taken away from them, in order to then step virtually naked into a contraption that showered them with a stream of particles.

To one born where I was born — an easy day’s hike to Auschwitz — whose own mother had been processed in a similar if more sinister manner before boarding a cattle car to a labor/death camp (she escaped en route), the analogy could not go unnoticed.

And now they want to ban carry-on luggage too. Your laptop, your valuables, your necessities for that 20-hour flight to Melbourne. What a windfall to TSA security minders, over 400 of whom were fired between 2003 and 2013 for theft from check-in — by law, unlocked — baggage, and even that just “the tip of an iceberg” of the larceny.

Things have progressed in other ways too, in the manner in which progressive Western countries now like to make progress. You go now to transact any business in a U.S. Government office, you’ll get the full airport security treatment. Soon, all manner of cops driving around in unmarked “mobile backscatter radiation x-rays” vans will be able to zap you inside your car and under your clothes, giving them the same prurient thrill currently available only to TSA employees at airports. But even that will soon give way to progress, as a private company, Q-Tel, working with the US Department of Homeland Security, has developed a “molecular level” (and of course clothes-penetrating) scanner that will “instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage” from 50 meters (164′) away — including what you ate for breakfast and how your hormones are doing this morning.

They have facial recognition embedded now in electronic billboards, cameras on every lamppost — over thirty million already — chips on supermarket shelves that record what merchandise you look at. The FBI’s Next Generation Identification system can now identify people just by looking at their faces, with all that data streaming from tens of millions electronic spy eyes and chips, and soon remote identification by iris scans, palm prints, voice analysis, DNA signature and even walking stride will be possible as well. There is Trapwire, exposed through Julian Assange’s Wikileaks, that sieves all this raw surveillance data for patterns of “suspicious activity.” And now there are “pre-crime surveillance cameras” too, thanks to BRS Labs, that we should all be grateful to know, identify criminal activity before it happens.

And that’s not counting the drones. There are about 18,000 state and local law enforcement agencies in the United States, increasingly employing surveillance drones. There is a whole alphabet soup of federal law enforcement agencies, and who knows what fleets of drones and other devices they too deploy. And that’s not talking about the dedicated spying agencies such as NSA and the whole large domestic and global U.S. government spying program revealed by Edward Snowden.

Such spying includes access to all electronic communications of anyone — no court-order required and no Constitution consulted. Snowden revealed among other things, and it was verified by the Washington Post, that 90% of individuals monitored by the NSA are ordinary, innocent Americans. According to a lawsuit [pdf] by several former NSA employees, “The NSA has the capability to do individualized searches, similar to Google, for particular electronic communications in real time through such criteria as

target addresses, locations, countries and phone numbers, as well as watch-listed names, keywords, and phrases in email.” It can also seize and store “most electronic communications passing through its U.S. intercept centers.”

All for your own security, tovarisch. And there is a giant training regimen going on to get you used to the idea that your constitutional rights, your privacy, even your privates, are not your own but your benevolent, caring government’s as represented by its stalwart thirty million or so employees (federal, state and local, and growing on steroids).

Talk back to a TSA person, you will be detained. Visit some websites critical of NWO, Empire, Migra, Muslimization and fiat paper money, but extolling self-sufficiency, freedom, the Constitution and the natural right of a people to its territory, and you are a strong candidate for the “No-fly” list without a prior notice, due process or recourse. Visit a prepper website, and the FBI will insert a cookie in your electronic rectum. Run your phone’s video on an arresting cop, and he will smash you and your camera and you will not find a sympathetic judge. Search on Google for a rice cooker and a backpack — implements used by the Musloid-immigrant Boston bombers — and within hours your door will explode and your dog be shot dead by armored gummint ninjas with machine guns and stun grenades.

Ostensibly, all of that cattle treatment in airports and the freest country in the world turned into Orwell’s Oceania was to protect Americans from “terrorists.” TSA was created because on September 11, 2001 some jihadi Muslim retards took advantage of the even more retarded non-discriminative mindset of the country they hated. Ever since, and before too, practically all foiled or executed acts of terror have been by Muslims.

There are so very few exceptions to the “All terrorists are Muslim” rule that they are worth listing, as curiosities. One kind is White communists like Bill Ayers in the United States and Joschka Fischer and Danny the Red in Europe. They are themselves VIPs now at the apex of the Establishment: either friends and collaborators of the President of the United States or major, adored politicians themselves. The other White kind are mental cases like Timothy McVeigh and Anders Breivik, who see Leviathan’s weight crushing their peoples and for some twisted reason elect to kill innocents in reprisal. Then there are racist psycho Blacks like John Allen Muhammad or Ismaaiyl Brinsley, seeing “racism” everywhere and murdering whitey for that.

But all those existed before 9/11 too, conspicuously in the 19th century, and America and Great Britain were not fascist-leaning police states then. It’s Muslim immigration and Muslim residence in the West that changed all that, quantitatively and qualitatively.

And we must, say the commanders of this compound and their kapos, the sheeple-herders of every former nation state and home to a European-origin people, keep importing Muslims, and other indigestible brown and black tax eaters, because… because… we must!

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PEGIDA: Livestream from Dresden

The weekly PEGIDA march is underway now in Dresden. Justice Minister Heiko Maas requested that they cancel tonight’s demo so as not to “exploit” the Charlie Hebdo massacre, but PEGIDA declined.

Below is the livestream from RT:

For links to previous articles about PEGIDA (Patriotische Europäer Gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) and related movements, see the PEGIDA Archives.

Hat tip: Vlad Tepes.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/11/2015

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas requested that PEGIDA cancel its scheduled march tomorrow night in Dresden . He said that the anti-Islamization group should not exploit the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

In other news, the offices of the Hamburger Morgenpost, a German tabloid, were firebombed after the paper reprinted several Charlie Hebdo cartoons.

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Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fjordman, Insubria, Jerry Gordon, Papa Whiskey, RL, Sergei Bourachaga, Steen, The Observer, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

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PEGIDA is Not the Disease — It is the Symptom

This excellent and surprising op-ed was published in Die Welt, of all places. Many thanks to JLH for the translation:

PEGIDA is Not the Disease — It is the Symptom

Writer Monika Maron traveled to Dresden before Christmas, to get an impression of the demonstrators. She does not understand the upset and calls for freedom of expression.

by Monika Maron

[48-second video — Under the motto, “Christmas with PEGIDA, more than 15,000 people came to gather for the tenth demonstration. Ca. 4,000 counter-demonstrators collected on the neighboring castle square.]

On the Monday before Christmas, my friend and colleague Peter Schneider and I traveled to Dresden. We wanted to see for ourselves what it was about the phenomenon PEGIDA that has given politicians and the media the foaming fits. It is hard for me to find the right tone for this subject, because the discussion is so poisoned that the fury of each person I address echoes in my ears. And how should a dialogue between PEGIDA and the political world take shape? The PEGIDA demonstrators have shouted their protest to the world. The answer can be read in the newspapers. What else is there to say?

But where does this rage come from? If the PEGIDA people mean what they say, they consider it their duty to accept refugees from war and political persecution, but to deport all rejected asylum seekers, and they are asking for legally regulated immigration. I didn’t hear anything else in the speeches when I was in Dresden Monday.

I cannot and will not judge whether they mean exactly that. But from these demands, it is not possible to conclude racism or xenophobia, and certainly not Nazi thinking. If I nonetheless assess this as mere camouflage and assume these attitudes, then I have precluded any possibility of dialogue. And yet that is what has happened from the beginning.

All Racists?

I have the impression that the unsurpassed hostility and blatant contempt affect PEGIDA is like human growth hormone. The antagonism of others supplies a missing sense of community. Anyone who attracts so much hostility must be big and important. And the polls sponsored by Zeit seem to confirm this. According to them, 30% supported PEGIDA “completely and absolutely,” 19% leaning in favor, 26% partly and 23% not at all.

Are three-quarters of all Germans racist and xenophobic because they fear that Islam is gaining too much influence in Germany and gradually undermining the secular basis of our everyday lives? Xenophobes, racists, enemies and/or haters of Islam — these words apparently belong in the discussion of PEGIDA.

There are no longer critics and opponents of Islam, but haters and enemies of Islam. But what would a friend of Islam be? What reason would I have to be a friend of Islam? I can be a friend to Muslims, but not a friend to this unenlightened religion with political claims, whose potential for hatred is apparently so great that it is shaking the entire world?

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ISIS Jihad Video by Amedy Coulibaly

The following video allegedly features Amedy Coulibaly, the jihad terrorist who took hostages in a kosher supermarket in Paris last Thursday, killing four of them before he was killed by police.

You’ll notice that not only does he declare himself a disciple of Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State, he also announces that he conducted his deadly operation in coordination with the two Al Qaeda mujahideen who assassinated twelve people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo.

This demonstrates the pointlessness of pigeonholing jihadis as Al Qaeda, ISIS, al-Nusra, Hamas, etc. All these groups share the same goals and practice operational cooperation. Someday, after the Universal Caliphate has been fully achieved, they may fall upon one another and start cutting throats. For the moment, however, they are comrades-in-arms:

Hat tip: Vlad Tepes.

If They Do Not Conform, Deport Them!

As noted here several times in the past, Czech President Miloš Zeman is often outspoken in his politically incorrect opinions about immigration and Islam.

Below is an interview with President Zeman from
Blesk, a well-known Czech tabloid, that was published after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Many thanks to Gemini for the translation:

Zeman on Muslims: If they do not conform, deport them!

Muslims who won’t conform to the customs of their new homeland should be deported, President Zeman stated in the interview conducted for Blesk.

“Everyone should be living in his homeland. It is something different to travel and discover other cultures than to live in one’s homeland and work for its prosperity. I think that those people should live and practice their religion in their homelands and shouldn’t try disturbing common life in countries that have a different culture,” thinks Zeman.

He also added that even if radicals are born in western Europe, they still belong more to Muslim lands like Algeria, Mali etc. “There is some genetic connection,” he elaborated. “A Czech remains Czech even if he lives in France. Although, in the case of Czechs, the different culture is not a problem. A Czech, such as Milan Kundera, for example, is able to adapt well in France. People from those lands lack aforementioned ability. This is not a critique as such, it is an observation,” he added.

According to Zeman, it all depends just on the willingness to adapt. “I would tell them: Unless you can accept rules laid down by your host country — while killing journalists certainly is not accepting them — go back home, to your homeland,” he concluded.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/10/2015

A personhunt is currently underway in France for a terrorist’s moll named Hayat Boumedienne, who is suspected of involvement in this weeks terror attacks. She is thought to be the girlfriend of the late mujahid who took hostages in a kosher supermarket in Paris on Thursday. Some reports say she has fled to Syria.

In other news, a 10-year-old girl blew herself up in a market in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least twenty people. The tragic incident had nothing to do with Islam.

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I Am NOT Charlie — I’ll Shoot Back!

Papa Whiskey is a long-time American reader and commenter here at Gates of Vienna. Below is his take on recent events in Paris.

I am NOT Charlie — I’ll shoot back!
by Papa Whiskey

January 9, 2015

When the story of the furor over a Danish newspaper’s publication of a handful of drawings depicting Muhammad, Islam’s prophet, broke in early February of 2006, I was astounded. Riots? Death threats? Torched embassies? Over a few cartoons?

The mystery deepened when I actually saw the images on the Jihad Watch website. To one who remembered the era of American underground comics, they were really pretty tame stuff. The harshest of them showed a scowling Arab face wearing a round black turban with a burning fuse coming out of its top, to suggest one of the old-timey bombs thrown by anarchists a century ago. The others ranged from the cogent — an artist shown drawing a picture of Muhammad in the dead of night, sweating in terror — to the cryptic, with in-jokes only a Dane would get.

Their innocuous nature, however, didn’t keep the Muslim world from erupting in outrage. The paper, Jyllands-Posten, had commissioned the drawings in 2005 as part of an assessment of the extent to which self-censorship regarding Islam had permeated Denmark’s arts community, prompted by the difficulties encountered by an author who’d written a children’s book on the life of Muhammad and was trying to find an illustrator. Twenty-five artists were solicited for the project, of whom half made submissions. Their publication by Jyllands-Posten’s cultural editor Flemming Rose incensed the local Muslim community, which protested to the government. Tough, they were politely told. Danish law protects freedom of expression. Sorry ’bout that.

That should have been that, but the Muslims of Denmark decided to “internationalize” their protest. A delegation of imams took the cartoons to the Mideast — Egypt, Lebanon, and other countries — to gin up indignation at their publication. Their tour culminated in a December meeting at the annual convention of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Cairo, where they were shown to the Egyptian foreign minister and other officials.

The “Cartoon Jihad” thus gathered momentum. Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries instituted a boycott on Danish products, which soon disappeared from shelves across the region. By the end of January in 2006, demonstrations were being held at Danish embassies, and when European papers republished the cartoons as part of their coverage, the furor erupted worldwide. Danish embassies in Tehran and Damascus were set on fire by mobs, and a crowd of Muslims converged on the one in London with blood-curdling signs: “Behead those who insult Islam!” “Europe, you will pay! Your 9/11 is on its way!” and, with caustic candor, “Freedom go to hell!”

At the time I was a staff writer for the East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Arizona, and I set about composing an article on the uproar, which was the big story of the week, for the Sunday op-ed section. It seemed perfectly clear what the accompanying art ought to be: a selection of the cartoons themselves. They were central to the story, and their publication would show what all the fuss was about. Let readers see them and judge for themselves whether it was justified.

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