One More Consequence of Mass Muslim Migration: Bulletproof Vests

The bulletproof vest is now de rigueur for all those who dare criticize Muslims and Islam in Europe. Remember the attempts to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, for his picture of Muhammad wearing a turban shaped like a bomb. Remember Flemming Rose, the Danish newspaper editor who commissioned cartoons of Muhammad, and now must live under a permanent death threat. Remember the 11 French cartoonists for Charlie Hebdo, murdered because they mocked Muhammad in a cover story. Remember the Japanese translator of Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, murdered because of Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Rushdie, which led a fanatic to want to kill even Rushdie’s translators. Remember the attack on Rushdie himself, that left him blind in one eye. Remember the killing of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty, falsely accused of having criticized Muhammad in class. Remember the murder of Theo van Gogh, for making a movie with Ayaan Hirsi Ali about the mistreatment of women in Islam. Remember the killing of British MP David Amess, murdered by a Muslim angered by Amess’ support for bombing Muslims in Syria. And there are so many more examples.

And that is why so many in Europe who dare to speak or write about Islam, and Muslims, in a way likely to anger them must wear the bulletproof vest. More on the spread of the “bulletproof vest” society can be found here: “The West is now a war zone where a bulletproof vest is required to speak,” by Giulio Meotti, Israel National News, September 25, 2025:

With the usual linguistic caution that censors the truth of things, we speak of “incivility”, “violent fringes,” “urban violence” or “youthful excesses” to describe those who set Italian cities ablaze in the name of Gaza, but in reality, this is one of the most alarming symptoms of a phenomenon that far exceeds the limits of a news story or occasional social disorder.

It is, on a Western scale, a real insurrection, intermittent but persistent, led by a significant portion of woke-ized youth and those of Muslim and immigrant origin, against institutions representing democratic order. An internal intifada—not for the sake of provocation, but because the word means what it must: a revolt against a power perceived as illegitimate, hostile, and oppressive.

The obsessive reference to the Palestinian Arab cause shows that it is not about geopolitical mimicry or abstract solidarity. What is at stake in those images is the transposition, onto the domestic stage of European nations, of an imaginary struggle fueled by hatred for the West, its principles, and its symbolic universe.

Just look at how they have turned universities into war zones.

“Charlie refused to wear the bulletproof vest,” Kirk’s widow revealed to the New York Times.

A conservative speaker knew he was risking his life not in a military trench somewhere in Donbass or Gaza, but in Western universities. Friends had even suggested Kirk speak behind bulletproof glass after he had received numerous death threats.

The same bulletproof glass behind which children play at the Jewish school in Malmö, Sweden.

Let us reflect again with the great Victor Klemperer, who wrote: “Words can act like tiny doses of arsenic: we swallow them without noticing, and their effect manifests over time.”

The same goes for the bulletproof vest.

When Danish journalist Flemming Rose, who commissioned the Muhammad cartoons and has a Taliban bounty on his head, was invited to speak at Oxford, the university citadel looked like a war zone. Rose recounts in his book “The Tyranny of Silence”:

“The Oxford Union invited me to a debate on democracy, free speech, and respect for religious feelings. Since its founding in 1823, the Union has brought the most controversial issues of the age—war, racism, religion—to the table for open and free discussion. Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan called the forum ‘the last citadel of free speech in Western civilization.’ My visit turned into the largest security operation since Michael Jackson had visited the city years earlier. The head of security met me at the airport and lodged me in a hotel under a false name. The campus was cordoned off by police and visitors were searched and put through metal detectors before entering the hall.”

We Westerners have ended up like Noam Chomsky’s boiled frog: if water scalded us suddenly, we would jump out of the pot, but if the temperature rises gradually, imperceptibly, even pleasantly, and by the time we realize it’s too hot, it’s too late….

Given the huge security costs associated with the appearance of a speaker who has or could offend Muslims, how many venues will invite such speakers?

Across Europe, countless academics are protected by police because of Islamic threats….

These include scholars who write history, not apologetics, about Islam, or who question the origins of the Qur’an, such as the scholar Christoph Luxenberg, or challenge the Muslim version of the spread of Islam across the Middle East and North Africa.

How many people, truth-tellers about Islam, turn down all opportunities to speak in public because they fear for their lives? How many do not write what they believe to be true about Islam, or Muhammad, or Islamic history, or the treatment of the dhimmi, because they don’t want to become the target of Muslim violence? How many teachers won’t speak of Islam except to praise it, because they don’t want to be threatened or attacked by the angry parents of their pupils?

Even ideas are not “bulletproof” if those who might discuss them are prevented from doing so out of fear of being attacked or killed. Where are the defenders of free speech who should be denouncing Muslim threats against those who question or mock Muhammad and Islam? Where is the UN Conference on “The Bulletproof Vest Society”? I suppose there is neither time nor space for that. The UN’s fall calendar, after all, is full to the brim with planned fulminations against the settler-colonial ethnic-cleansing genocidal state of Israel. Nothing else really matters.