If Europe Goes on Like This, It Will Become Eurabia

Many thanks to Anton for translating the following essay from the Basler Zeitung:

The Muslim share of the European population is rising inexorably without integration

Arab refugees are changing Europe — not the other way around.

by Bassam Tibi
April 5, 2018

May we talk freely about the consequences of Islamic immigration to Europe without censorship or self-censorship? Is it possible and permissible to raise a contradiction — by reference to three world-renowned experts — Bernard Lewis, Bat Ye’or and Walter Laqueur — against the ruling narrative in a substantive debate? These three thinkers represent the thesis of a future Eurabia in Europe. Finally, can conclusions be drawn from statistics that predict an increasing Arab-Islamic share of the resident population of Europe?

Among the limitations imposed by the prevailing narrative of the fundamental right to freedom of speech and of science in relation to the pending issue is the charge of Islamophobia. This term was forged in Iran in the early 1980s to stifle any critical discussion of Islam and Islamism; it was exploited as a reproach and taken over by the left. The French writer Pascal Bruckner argues against this trend. He speaks of a fictional Islamophobia whose central victims are those who do not join in the lamented attempt to make the theme of “Islamic immigration and its consequences” taboo.

Demographic trend

Under the title “Islamic immigration and its consequences,” I have published a book that is kept secret by all German-speaking media. I belong among the victims. Arguments can now be defamed — but it is more effective to silence them through the media. What about the statistics?

At the beginning of this century, in 2004, the mentioned restriction of the freedom of speech and of science in relation to our topic was not yet as strong as it is today. The daily newspaper Die Welt published an interview with the Princeton historian Bernard Lewis on July 28, 2004 entitled “Europe will be Islamic at the end of the 21st century”. In the same year, in an article published in the US weekly magazine Weekly Standard (issue 4/2004) by Financial Times editor Christopher Caldwell coined the term “Islamic Europe”.

A year later, the Egyptian-born Jewish author Bat Ye’or published the much acclaimed book Eurabia in the United States. In it she speaks of a massive demographic and cultural trend to transform Europe into an Islamic-Arabian entity. The prophetic statements in this book have been enormously topical since the refugee crisis of 2015/2016.

I always feel reminded of this book when I hear the immigrant “new Germans” (Herfried Münkler, political scientist) in many German cities in public transport and public places today, speaking very loudly in a primitive, disturbing Arabic — even for me as a native Arabic-speaking Syrian. Arabic is a beautiful and highly civilized world language, but only if you master it through education. Educated Arabs speak a different Arabic than I’ve heard so often on the streets in Germany since 2015 that I think I’m in an Arab country.

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Towards a Swedish Civil War?

Towards a Swedish Civil War?

by Fjordman

On March 3, 2018, the liberal American newspaper The New York Times ran an article titled “Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class.”[1] An article with such a title would have been unthinkable a couple of generations ago. However, mass immigration is dramatically transforming Swedish society.

The NYT now admits that gang-related assaults and shootings are becoming more frequent. The number of neighborhoods categorized by the police as “marred by crime, social unrest and insecurity” is rising. In major cities, hospitals report armed confrontations in emergency rooms. School administrators say threats and weapons have become commonplace. The use of hand grenades has become disturbingly common. The police are struggling to gather information in immigrant neighborhoods where gangs intimidate witnesses. “We have lost the trust from the people who lived and worked in this area,” says police superintendent Gunnar Appelgren.

Mr. Appelgren describes an arms race among rival criminal gangs that has become difficult to contain. He fears that the escalating attacks on the Swedish police will soon feature AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifles and other weapons used in armed conflicts around the world. “I think we’re going to see, if we don’t stop it, more drive-by shootings with Kalashnikovs and hand grenades,” he said. “They throw rocks and bottles at our cars, and they trick us in an ambush. When will it happen that they ambush us with Kalashnikovs? It’s coming.”

The newspaper also interviewed an immigrant from Lebanon, a country that was marred by a bloody civil war not many years ago. He fears that the same thing could happen in Sweden. “Now, when I think of the future, I am afraid,” he says. “I am afraid for Europe.”

It is good that The New York Times has published this article. It describes problems that are very real. However, just a few years earlier, the paper painted a very different picture of the situation in Sweden.

The NYT claimed in January 2015 that it is false that there are no-go-zones in some urban areas in Western Europe dominated by certain immigrant groups. The newspaper highlighted myself, alongside the American writers Steve Emerson and Daniel Pipes, for spreading this alleged falsehood.[2] This was published shortly after Islamic terrorists had massacred the staff of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

Fox News issued an unusual on-air apology for allowing its anchors and guests to repeat the suggestion that there are Muslim-only “no-go zones” in European countries such as Britain and France, areas that are not under the effective control of the state and are ruled according to sharia law.

Three years later, the same newspaper indicates that criminal gangs have indeed established de facto control over certain areas in Western Europe. Perhaps they could admit that the writers they have unfairly smeared were right all along. That would probably be too much to ask.

In 2008, the Swedish writer Anders Lugn wrote an article titled “Sweden’s road to disaster.” Somewhat unusually, he even got this text published in the major newspaper Aftonbladet. In the 1980s, Lugn served as a captain in UN-led peacekeeping forces in Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War between Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims and Christians. While living there, he asked himself how it was possible for such a wonderful country with so many good people to commit national suicide and self-destruct? Among several reasons for the collapse of Lebanese society he mentions a weak sense of national identity and common values, weak national armed forces, a weak police force, easy access to weapons (legal or illegal) and easy access to drugs. There was also a general sense of powerlessness among average citizens. Lugn is deeply concerned to observe that many of the factors that contributed to a brutal civil war in Lebanon are now also at work in his native Sweden.[3]

Things keep getting worse in the country. The hip-hop artist Ken Ring expects Sweden to descend into a civil war in the next 20 years. He is considering moving to Africa, which he believes will be safer than Sweden. Ring made these comments on the television program Trygdekontoret, which was broadcast on Norway’s state broadcaster NRK on March 13, 2018.[4] This was also reported in English by Breitbart News a few days later.[5]

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How Barcelona Became a Victim of the Barcelona Process

Fjordman’s latest essay has been published by the Gatestone Institute. Some excerpts are below:

How Barcelona Became a Victim of the Barcelona Process

by Fjordman
October 12, 2017

The Barcelona Process, promoted by the EU, has helped to facilitate a greater presence of Islam and Muslim immigrants in Western Europe — thereby also increasing the Islamic terror threat there. That result was perfectly foreseeable.

When the number of people who believe in Islamic Jihad doctrines rises, the likelihood of experiencing jihadist attacks increases as well.

It is unlikely, though, that European political leaders will point to this connection. Doing so would be an indirect admission that Europe’s leaders have actively increased the Islamic terror threat against European citizens. This is the brutal truth they do not want exposed.

Western Europe’s appeasement of Islam stretches back at least to the 1970s.

With the 1973 oil embargo, Arab countries in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) used oil as a weapon and tool for blackmail. European countries started giving concessions to Arabs to ensure their oil supply and, they doubtless hoped, avoid terrorism. These concessions were not just limited to economic affairs. They also included opening Western Europe up to Islamic culture and Muslim immigration. The author Bat Ye’or has written extensively on this subject.

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Interview with Fjordman

Interview with Fjordman

Note: This email interview was first published at the website The Apricity.

I was born in 1975. If I had any Islam-friendly or pro-Multicultural viewpoints in Norway in the 1990s, spending several years in the Middle East cured me of this. I was a student of Arabic at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, in 2001. I was in Cairo during the September 11th terror attacks in the USA that year. Some Egyptians I talked to were happy about these attacks against their American “allies.” Western mass media claimed that almost all Arabs and Muslims lamented the 9/11 attacks. I knew this was not true. I lived in the largest city in the Arabic-speaking world during these events.

In 2002 and 2003, I worked in Israel and the Palestinian territories in a civilian observer mission called Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH). The mission itself is not very useful. However, I continued to learn more about Islamic culture and mentality. From my personal experiences and studies, Islam turned out to be a lot less peaceful than we are being told by the media and mainstream academia.

When I returned to Norway in August 2003, I was convinced that Europe was importing big and dangerous future conflicts because of Muslim immigration. I also took a Master’s degree at the University of Oslo with an emphasis on technology studies and Internet censorship.

I was active on various websites for several years. Eventually, in February 2005, I adopted the pseudonym Fjordman. I have been using that pen name ever since, also after my real identity became known in 2011.

I lived in Oslo between 2003 and 2011. After the mass killings by Anders Behring Breivik on July 22, 2011, I was forced into involuntary exile from Norway for years due to massive media demonization. I genuinely feared for my personal safety at this point. The media presented me nearly as the brains behind a mass murder I had absolutely nothing to do with. I got no aid whatsoever from Norwegian authorities, even though I was forced to leave my home and my job and flee the country. I was homeless for some time afterwards.

The Norwegian police were very hostile during questioning, despite the fact that I volunteered to talk to them and was never charged with doing anything criminal. The police ransacked my home without a search warrant or court order.

ABB had created a very long compendium or manifesto where he quoted many different authors, some of them long dead writers such as William Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson or Gandhi. Yet because I was the only Norwegian on the top ten-list of those who were quoted in his text, the pressure on me was particularly extreme. This public demonization has partly continued until today, albeit with less intensity than in 2011.

I have read Breivik’s so-called manifesto closely, as well as some of the letters he has sent to the media from prison. My view is that Mr. Breivik is a nutcase who is probably medically insane. The first, very experienced forensic psychiatrists who examined him in 2011 declared that he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and is insane. His mother was mentally unstable. His maternal grandmother also suffered from paranoid schizophrenia or something similar to it. This fact was downplayed by the media.

Breivik declared that he is the “commander” of a non-existing terrorist organization. He created a uniform and medals for this imaginary organization. He even wanted to wear this uniform in court, but was denied this possibility.

Yet following massive political and media pressure, Breivik was nevertheless declared sane during the trial in Oslo in 2012. This ruling is highly questionable. It was disputed by quite a few observers. The ruling elites wanted a sane, white terrorist to use as a tool to smear critics of Islamization and mass immigration.

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Flowers and Teddy Bears? Not for Manchester

Don’t you wonder how the Aftermath of Public Massacres will evolve? I mean, there has to be an end to teddy bears and flowers, right? How many candles can you light before the sidewalks are slick with wax?

Well, the mother of one of the dead victims of the Manchester bomb blast is honoring her daughter with a tattoo. Of a bee. Because it’s the old working class Manchester’s symbol. You know, underpaid worker bees. Drones.

Hundreds of Mancunians have been queuing to get their city’s symbolic worker bee tattooed on them in the wake of the terror attack that rocked the city.

Members of the public were filmed outside the city’s Holier Than Thou tattoo centre as they waited in the scorching sun, while other parlours reported large numbers queuing for the design.

Minimum donations of £40 were taken from customers, but many were paying up to £100 for their bee tattoo, with all the money raised being donated to the Manchester Arena Victim’s Fund.

The worker bee was adopted as a motif for Manchester during the Industrial Revolution.

Among those to get one done was Charlotte Campbell — whose daughter Olivia was one of 22 people who died when Salman Abedi detonated an explosive device after an Ariana Grande concert on Monday night.

As the mother of a dead daughter, I can sympathize with this mother’s overwhelming need to do something, anything, to make her suddenly and cruelly vanished daughter feel more present to her. But even had I thought of it, I doubt I’d have gotten a tattoo in a desperate attempt to replace my child.

Predictably, the sheep good citizens of Manchester are lining up behind this mum, waiting to get their skins inked, too. Why, that’ll show those terrorists! At forty pounds a pop, and even more from those who can afford it, these monies are going to be donated to “The Manchester Area Victims’ Fund”.

But it gets worse. The Mail reports:

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The Family That Preys Together…

The authorities have caught up with the Manchester bomber’s father and brother.

Here is a “breaking” story with family news about the killer. You can see what the MSM is saying almost anywhere. I chose this Australian version simply because I like the way he sums up what we know:

The father and two brothers of the Manchester suicide bomber have been arrested over their alleged links to Islamic State.

Salman Abedi’s younger brother Hashem, who was detained in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Wednesday, was allegedly planning to carry out a separate terrorist attack there.

Notice the family resemblance?* When these fellows appear in a fiery blast before the faceless, mindless Allah, I hope they get their just reward. Cuz Allah has a killer sense of humor…

[This is posted as a convenience for our readers. A place to vent about these people the Traitor class in Britain supports.]

NOTE Normally the Baron would have a more detailed story, but he’s at the retinal specialist getting his eyes peered into and it felt wrong to let this story wait when I know y’all have lots to say. Consider this a placeholder and steam vent until he returns.

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[Not to worry, though. The B’s condition has healed beautifully and he says his sight is better than it was before his diagnosis. In other words, somehow the treatments also helped heal the worst of his severe far-sightedness as they also pushed back against his macular degeneration…only mad dogs and Englishmen and landscape painters go out in the noonday sun – for decades.]

*[I knew I should have studied for the exam. Drat! I thought I knew how to upload images in WordPress, but I’ve been taking the lazy way out and let the B do them for me. What a gurrll I’ve become. This is gonna end!]

Will Europe Collapse Without Muslim Immigration?

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Will Europe Collapse Without Muslim Immigration?

by Fjordman

Will Europe collapse without continued Muslim immigration? That seems to be the view of senior EU officials such as Federica Mogherini.

Mogherini, an Italian former Communist, is the current High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. This basically makes her the EU’s Minister for Foreign Affairs. She gave an interesting interview with the major Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera in early February 2017.

In the interview, Mogherini claimed that mass migration is impossible to stop. She further stated that the European economy would become paralyzed and that Europe would “collapse” demographically without continued immigration.[1]

Admittedly, in this particular paragraph, Mogherini did not specifically mention the words Islam, Islamic or Muslim. However, on other occasions, she has made it abundantly clear that Muslim immigration is part of what Europe needs to avoid a collapse.

Federica Mogherini made such remarks at an Islam in Europe conference in June 2015.[2] She then dismissed any notion of a clash between Islam and the West, stating that “Islam holds a place in our Western societies. Islam belongs in Europe. It holds a place in Europe’s history, in our culture, in our food and — what matters most — in Europe’s present and future.” Europeans should celebrate “diversity,” which includes Islam. She further stated that “I am not afraid to say that political Islam should be part of the picture.”

Mogherini said that:

“Some people are now trying to convince us that a Muslim cannot be a good European citizen, that more Muslims in Europe will be the end of Europe. These people are not just mistaken about Muslims: these people are mistaken about Europe — that is my core message — they have no clue what Europe and the European identity are. This is our common fight: to make this concept accepted both in Europe and beyond Europe. For Europe and Islam face some common challenges in today’s world. The so-called Islamic State is putting forward an unprecedented attempt to pervert Islam for justifying a wicked political and strategic project.”[3]

Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants have crossed the Mediterranean in 2015, 2016 and 2017, headed for Europe. The European Union’s way of dealing with immigration is through cooperation and partnership, not confrontation. Mogherini told the media this ahead of a summit on Malta in 2017. “We do not believe in walls or bans,” she added.[4] She further stated that there should be no discrimination against migrants based on faith.[5]

For tens of millions of European citizens, mass immigration has become a huge social and economic burden as well as a major security threat. However, the leaders of the EU view Muslim immigration as an opportunity, even as the solution to Europe’s problems. To the oligarchs of the European Union, Islam is not a problem. Islamophobia is.

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Philippe de Villiers: “We Are Faced With a Demographic Conquest”

Philippe de Villiers is a French author, historian, and former politician. He is an anomaly in Modern Multicultural France: an intellectual who is also a conservative Catholic. Atheism is the only faith that is considered acceptable by the French intellectual establishment.

The following interview with Mr. de Villiers was conducted recently by the French commercial radio network RTL on the occasion of the publication of his new book. Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

A previous interview with Philippe de Villiers is available here.

Transcript:

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Philippe de Villiers: “I Believe That France Will Become an Islamic Republic”

Philippe de Villiers is a French historian, author, and former MEP. He is among a small minority of French intellectuals in being a conservative Catholic — the great majority of intellectuals in France are atheists. Religious belief is frowned upon among French intellectuals even more than it is among their American counterparts.

The following interview with Mr. de Villiers took place last fall. In it you’ll hear him discuss the Islamization of France and the coming destruction of Europe. It is his conclusion that France has already surrendered to Islamization, and the completion of the process is only a matter of time.

The interview is in three parts. After the final part is a full transcript.

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

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

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Diversity’s Melting Pot Has Burned Through

Twenty-four minutes. They say any video this long, containing neither sex nor violence, won’t be watched all the way to the end.

Is that true?

Has our attention span crumbled? Are we falling soundlessly into the dark chasms of indifference that come with cultural decay?

Oh, wait. I think there is violence, it’s just that I can’t recognize it anymore.

I wish I still smoked Marlboros; or had even one of my mother’s crumbly Lucky Strikes stolen from the bottom of her purse, smelling of leather and her perfume. I could use one of something or other right now.

Or perhaps I’m merely rooting around in the cold comfort of old memories hoping to light upon a remembered certainty…

From Matt Bracken: Claude Juncker and the Brexit

If I had more time, I’d digitally alter this photo to include some strategically placed hammer-and-sickle emblems:

Mr. Bracken also sent this cartoon; I don’t know where it’s from:


 
And here are a few “Greatest Hits” selected from the anti-EU graphics in our image archives:
 

 

 

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Waffen EUGENDFOR: The EU’s “Crisis Reaction Mechanism”

One of the characteristics of the age we live in is that it produces a vast amount of real, verifiable information that would normally sound like the stuff of paranoid conspiracy theories. If you aren’t paranoid before you start reading some of this stuff, you will be after you look into it

Back in 2010 we posted an investigative report about EUROGENDFOR entitled “The Armed Enforcers of the Fascist European Superstate”. None of the material about this force is secret — it’s just not very prominent. Most of it is written in dense bureaucratese and buried under layers of official jargon, which makes it a potent soporific as far as most readers are concerned. The same is true of Eurabia, of course: all the documentation for what happened in the 1970s is on the public record, but it takes some dedicated sleuthing — and presumably a tanker truck full of caffeine — to dig out the whole story.

JLH has translated an article from Kopp Verlag about a EUGENDFOR training operation that was kept as secret as possible. The translator includes this introductory note:

Kopp is an interesting publishing house. They have a decidedly anti-progressive viewpoint and a predilection for conspiracy theories and exposés. The thing is, at least some of the conspiracy theories — like Mel Gibson’s in the film of the same name — have some substance. It was one of their more prolific authors — Udo Ulfkotte — who discussed the meaning of EUROGENDFOR[1] at least five years ago.

The translated article:

EU Police and Military Force Rehearses for Civil War in Germany

by Stefan Schubert
May 2, 2016

Screened from public view in North Rhine-Westphalia, units of European police and military have carried out a major exercise in putting down unrest and civil war-like actions. It is especially the financing of this exercise by the EU Commission that has prompted questions. The suspicion arises that EU functionaries are in the process of developing a Europe-wide anti-insurgency troop directly answerable to them.

Although a member of [the North Rhine-Westphalian] parliament repeatedly requested and finally pressed to be an observer, he was rudely repulsed. The major exercise took place two weeks ago in the Westphalian district of Weeze, with ca. 600 police and military.

The EU Commission, too, rigidly rejected the request for a parliamentary observation, and referred the local parliamentarian to the Netherlands gendarmerie in Marechausee[2]

This is also significant, because this nearly 7,000-strong troop is not a police unit, but is responsible to the Minister of Defense and is an independent force, alongside the army, navy and air force. It has broad authority. The responsible colonel could not seem to think of any prevarications that would speak against the presence of a local parliamentarian.

And so, in his telephone conversation with Representative Andrej Hunko, he brusquely re-defined the exercise funded by European taxes as a private activity of the Netherlands Defense Ministry. War games on German soil for suppressing unrest and civil war-like actions as a private activity of an alien army. The EU makes it all possible.

Furthermore, the closing out of the public is peculiar, since the EU officials have made enormous expenditures to promote their “European Police Services Training’ (EUPST). They even commissioned a propaganda film for one past exercise. it was reminiscent of a kitschy Hollywood flick glorifying the military.

The troop already has its own logo, which is more than a little revealing. Flaunted centrally is not the designation of any country, but “European Commission”.

Militarization of the Police by the EU Commission

Formation of this EU troop, which outwardly appears to be a pure police unit, is disconcerting. Paramilitary forces are in the lead, which are directly responsible to the defense ministries, as are the Carabinieri of Italy, the Gendarmerie of France ad the Guardia Civil of Spain.[3]

>These units are trained to be used in times of war as well. Furthermore, these troops are organized through EUROGENDFOR, a swift, paramilitary intervention force which can be activated worldwide in the name of NATO, OSCE [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe] and the UN.

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