Is Europe awakening to how severely it is threatened? “Dutch Voters Seen Losing Interest in EU,” from the Washington Post, with thanks to JS: AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Are the Dutch tired of Europe? That will be the real question on June 1, when the Netherlands holds its referendum on the European constitution, just three days […]
Saudi newspaper: US working on plan to protect Europe from Islamization
Anti-dhimmitude from US officialdom? Hard to believe, but here it is: “Saudi paper: U.S. studies Islam in Europe,” from UPI, with thanks to Skeetstreet: The semi-official daily al-Watan quoted an unidentified Dutch political source as saying the initiative was drawn up by a team of 15 political experts, security, science and social advisers, and led […]
Germany: Islam Instruction for Kids
From the Jerusalem Post, “German state to offer Islam class in every school,” with thanks to RSK. The western German state of Hesse expects to offer instruction in Islamic religion for Muslim students in every school in the state, a state official said Friday. At least one school in every district in the state will […]
Bruno: The Clash of Fascisms
A continuation of this thought-provoking essay from Wolfgang Bruno: Historian Bat Ye’or fears that it may already be too late to save Europe from Islam, and that the continent will be transformed into Eurabia. Should this come to pass, Eurabia will either slowly decline into just another overpopulated Islamic failure, or it will be used […]
Irshad Manji and Islamic history
Here I go again. People will say: you don’t really support Muslim reformers like Manji and Reza Aslan. If you did, you wouldn’t criticize their work. But in fact, I am all for anyone who will confront and combat the causes of Islamic terrorism. All I want them to do is tell the whole truth. […]
Jatras: Dhimmitude in Greece
Stella L. Jatras comments on recent developments in Greece and Southern Europe. Yesterday I received a call from my friend in Ottawa who said that one of the Greek publications wrote that Greece’s Muslim population at one time was at 1%. Today, it is at 10%. Within three to four decades, the Muslim population will […]
Mordechai Nisan reviews Eurabia
“The Arabization of Europe” is Mordechai Nisan’s review of Bat Ye’or’s Eurabia in the
Alas for Europe
A message from Rogier Van Bakel: Malcolm Gladwell reviews a book (“Collapse“) that talks about how and why cultures/societies die. This passage made me think of the Europe’s half-hearted struggle against Islamic fascism: The lesson of “Collapse” is that societies, as often as not, aren’t murdered. They commit suicide: they slit their wrists and then, […]
Sweden is a sinking ship
Here is a rather rough translation from the December 2004 issue of a bi-monthly magazine of Danish People´s party, which I’m told by Thomas Bolding Hansen, who kindly sent this in, is “a rightwing party with 13 % of the parliamentary vote.” I don’t know anything about the Danish People’s party and am not endorsing […]
Europe’s Boys of Jihad
Teenage jihadis. From the LA Times, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: PARIS — The case file of the French homeboys who joined the Iraqi jihad contains a startling photo. It’s the mug shot of Salah, the alleged point man in Damascus, Syria, who authorities say arranged for guns and safe passage into Iraq for […]