DENYING THE FUTURE TO ISLAM

I am a European.  I was born and have lived my life in Europe.  I am determined that Europe will not become "Eurabia," that it will not succumb to Islamification.  We can deny Europe's future to Islam.  Here is why I think so.

Islam's historical high point was in the Middle Ages, when Islam was perfect for medieval warfare.  Afterwards, it gradually lost out to the West, especially after the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, which could never have taken place in Islamic lands because of its lack of freedom and cult of authority.

Ironically, history has now gone full circle. Moslems are still useless in developing anything new, but as a result of migration, modern communications, the presence of Moslems in infidel lands, and Arab oil revenues, they can more readily buy or expropriate technology from others. The Iranian Revolution was aided by audio cassettes of speeches by the Ayatollah Khomeini.

In the book The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat, Roger Scruton argues that:

 Globalization offers militant Islam the opportunity that it has lacked since the Ottoman retreat from central Europe… to create a true Islamic Umma, which identifies itself across borders in terms of a global form of legitimacy, and which attaches itself like a parasite to global institutions and techniques that are the by-products of Western democracy.

The techniques and infrastructure on which Al Qaeda depends are the gifts of the new global institutions. It is Wall Street and Zurich that produced the network of international finance that enables Osama bin Laden to conceal his wealth and to deploy it anywhere in the world.

It is Western enterprise with its multinational outreach that produced the technology that bin Laden has exploited so effectively against us. And it is Western science that developed the weapons of mass destruction he would dearly like to obtain. His wealth, too, would be inconceivable without the vast oil revenues brought to Saudi Arabia from the West, there to precipitate the building boom from which his father profited.

While Scruton gives support to the idea that the Internet and modern communications technology have strengthened Islam, there are some contradictory views worth listening to.

Theodore Dalrymple (pen name of English psychiatrist Anthony Daniels)  thinks that "Islam has nothing whatever to say to the modern world," and states:  

All forms of Islam are very vulnerable in the modern world to rational criticism, which is why the Islamists are so ferocious in trying to suppress such criticism. They have instinctively understood that Islam itself, while strong, is exceedingly brittle, as communism once was. They understand that, at the present time in human history, it is all or nothing…. Islamism is a last gasp, not a renaissance, of the religion; but, as anyone who has watched a person die will attest, last gasps can last a surprisingly long time.

J.R.R. Tolkien's epic tale The Lord of the Rings is a story about the little people, the Hobbits, saving the day in the end. The most powerful enemy within Tolkien's story is the wizard Saruman. In the West now, Saruman corresponds to a whole class of people in politics, the media and academia.

The Sarumans of the West are being met with resistance from thousands of little hobbits in cyberspace, and the neither the Saurmans nor the Islamists like it. The Internet may have given them a powerful tool to be used against us – yet it is an equally powerful tool of Western resistance against them.

For pessimists, however much they point to Western weaknesses, overlook the fact that Islam has many weaknesses, too. Yes, don't underestimate your enemy. Moslems should be credited for making clever use of our weaknesses, but this "we're all doomed and have already lost" theme is overblown.

We should implement a policy of containment of the Islamic world. I'm not saying that containment is all that we will ever need to do, but it is the very minimum that is acceptable.

Perhaps the spread of nuclear weapons technology, the darkest side of globalization, will trigger a large-scale war with the Islamic world at some point. The only way to avoid this is to take steps, including military ones, to deprive Moslems of such technology.

We must restrain their ability to hurt us physically. We can't prevent it completely, but we should limit it as much as possible. Moslems try to wear us down through terrorism. They should be worn down through mockery and criticism.

One bottom line: The best way to deal with the Islamic world is to have as little to do with it as possible. We should completely stop Moslem immigration. This could be done in indirect ways, such as banning immigration from nations known to be engaged in terrorism. All Moslem non-citizens in the West should be removed.

We should also change our laws to ensure that Moslem citizens who advocate Sharia, preach Jihad, the inequality of "infidels" etc., should have their citizenship revoked and be deported back to their country of origin.

We need to create an environment where the practice of Islam is made difficult. Moslem citizens should be forced to accept our secular ways or leave if they desire Sharia. Much of this can be done in a non-discriminatory way, by simply refusing to allow special pleading to Moslems.  
Do not allow Islamic public calls to prayer as this is offensive to other faiths. Both boys and girls should take part in all sporting and social activities of the school and the community. The veil should be banned in public institutions, thus contributing to breaking the traditional subjugation of women.

Companies and public buildings should not be forced to build prayer rooms for Moslems. Enact laws to eliminate the abuse of family reunification laws. Do not permit major investments by Moslems in Western media or universities.

Is that racism and fascism you say? Moslems themselves in poll after poll state that their loyalty lies with the Islamic Umma, not with the country they live in. "I'm a Moslem living in Britain, I'm not British" is the sentiment. Well, if Moslems themselves state that their citizenship is not worth the paper it is printed upon, why not take their word for it?

I am very far from surrendering Europe to Islam, and there are many, many Europeans who feel as I do.  The future of Europe does not belong to Islam

"Fjordman"is based in Europe and writes for The Brussels Journal.