Guy Millière
§ The
Syrian government sells passports and birth certificates at affordable prices.
Many migrants have no passport, no ID, and refuse to give fingerprints.
§ Because
Islam is the heart of the culture of people formerly colonized, Europeans
rejected criticism of Islam, saying it would blend smoothly into a
multicultural Europe. They did not demand the assimilation of the Muslims who
came to live in Europe. Much of the time, Muslims are not assimilated -- and
often show signs of not wanting to assimilate.
§ Any
criticism of Islam in Europe is treated as a form of racism, and
"Islamophobia" is considered a crime or a sign of mental illness.
§ European
people still have the right to vote, but are deprived of most of their power:
all important political decisions in Europe are made behind closed doors by
technocrats and professional politicians in Brussels or Strasbourg.
§ Europe
has renounced force, so to many, it appears weak, vulnerable and easily able to
be overpowered.
§ The
sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands more Muslims most likely prompts
Europeans to think that the nightmare will get worse; they see, powerlessly,
that their leaders speak and act as if they have no awareness of what is
happening.
§ Central
European leaders and people, who have already lived under authoritarian rule,
seem to be thinking that entering the European Union was a huge mistake. They
came to what was then called the "free world." They do not seem
willing to be subjected again to coercive decisions made by outsiders.
§ Illegal
Muslim migrants will live on social benefits until the bankruptcy of welfare
states.
§ In
all 28 countries of the European Union, birth rates are low and the population
is aging. People under thirty account for only 16% of the population, or 80
million people. In the 22 Arab countries, plus Turkey and Iran, people under
thirty account for 70% of the population, or 350 million people.
The flow of illegal migrants
does not stop. They land on the Greek islands along the Turkish coast. They
still try to get into Hungary, despite a razor wire fence and mobilized army.
Their destination is Germany or Scandinavia, sometimes France or the UK. Some
of them still arrive from Libya. Since the beginning of January, more than
620,000 have arrived by sea alone. There will undoubtedly be many more: a leaked
secret document estimates that by the end of December, there might be
1.5 million.
Journalists in Western Europe
continue to depict them as "refugees" fleeing war in Syria. The
description is false. According to statistics released
by the European Union, only twenty-five percent of them come from Syria; the
true number is probably lower. The Syrian
government sells passports and birth certificates at affordable
prices. The vast majority of migrants come from other
countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Eritrea, Somalia, and Nigeria.
Many do not seem to have left
in a hurry. Many bring new
high-end smartphones and large sums of cash, ten or twenty thousand euros,
sometimes more. Many have no
passports, no ID, and refuse to give fingerprints.
Whenever people flee to
survive, the men come with whole families: women, children, elders. Here,
instead, more
than 75% of those who arrive are men under 50; few are women, children
or elders.
As Christians are now the main
targets of Islamists (the Jews fled or were forced out decades ago), the people
escaping the war in Syria should be largely composed of Christians. But
Christians are a small minority among those who arrive, and they often hide that
they are Christians.
Those who enter Europe are
almost all Muslims, and behave as some Muslims often do in the Muslim world:
they harass Christians and attack women. In reception centers, harassing
Christians and attacking women are workaday incidents. European women
and girls who live near reception centers are advised to take care and cover
up. Rapes,
assaults, stabbings and other crimes
are on the rise.
Western European political
leaders could tell the truth and act accordingly. They do not. They talk of
"solidarity," "humanitarian duty," "compassion."
From the beginning, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said that illegal
migrants were welcome: she seemed to change her mind for a moment, but quickly slid back. In France,
President François Hollande says the
same things as Angela Merkel.
After the heartbreaking image
of a dead child being carried on a Turkish beach was published, thousands of
Germans and French initially spoke the same way as their leaders. Their
enthusiasm seems to have faded fast.
The people of Central Europe
were not
enthusiastic from the beginning. Their leaders seem to share the
feelings of their populations. None spoke as explicitly as
Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary. He said out loud what many of his
countrymen seemed to think. He spoke of
"invasion" and asked if there were another word to describe the
massive and often brutal entry into a country of people who have not been
invited to do so. He added that a country has theright to
decide who is allowed to enter its territory and to guard its borders.
He stressed that those who enter Europe are from a "different
culture," and suggested that Islam might not be compatible with European
Judeo-Christian values.
Western European political
leaders harshly condemned his
remarks and the attitude of Central Europe in general. They decided to take a hard
line approach, including: forcing recalcitrant countries to welcome
immigrants, setting up mandatory quotas that define how many immigrants each EU
country must receive, and threatening those countries that declined to obey.
Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, said that Europe was
built in a spirit of "burden sharing," and that EU breakup was a risk
that could not be excluded.
An acute division, in fact, is
emerging between the leaders of Western Europe and the leaders of Central
Europe. Another division is growing between the populations of Western Europe
and their leaders.
Those who rebuilt Europe after
World War II thought that an enlightened elite (themselves) could make a clean
sweep of the past and build a dream society where peace and perpetual harmony
would reign.
[1] Because they thought nationalism was
the cause of the war, they decreed that nationalism was harmful and that the
cultural identities in Europe had to disappear and be replaced by a new
"European identity" that they would shape.[2]Because Europe had a colonialist past and
Europeans had believed in the superiority of their cultures, they claimed that
Europe should redeem its guilt and affirm that all cultures were equal. And
because Islam was at the heart of the culture of people formerly colonized, the
Europeans rejected all criticism of Islam, and said that it would blend
smoothly into a multicultural
Europe. They did not demand the assimilation of Muslims who came to live in
Europe in increasing number.
Because the Europeans thought
poverty had led to the rise of Nazism, they built welfare states that were
supposed to eliminate poverty forever.
Because two world wars had
started in Europe, the Europeans decreed that from now on, Europe would
renounce the use of force, and solve all conflicts through diplomacy and
appeasement.[3]
We now see the results.
European people still have the
right to vote, but are deprived of
most of their power: all important political decisions in Europe are made
behind closed doors, by technocrats and professional politicians, in Brussels
or Strasbourg.
Cultural identities in Europe
have been eroded to such a point that saying that Europe is based on
Judeo-Christian values has become controversial.
Any criticism of Islam in
Europe is treated as a form of racism, and "Islamophobia" is
considered a crime or a sign of mental illness.
Islam has not melted into a
smooth multiculturalism; it is creating increasingly distressing problems that
are almost never brought to light.
Muslim criminality across
Europe is high. Consequently, the percentage of Muslims
in prisonsin Europe is high. In France, which has the largest Muslim
population in Europe, the prison population is 70%
Muslim. Many European prisons have become recruitment centers for future jihadis.
Muslim riots may occur for any
reason : police upholding the
law, a Soccer League celebrationor
in support
of a cause.
Welfare states have created a
government-dependent class in Europe of many people who live permanently on
social benefits. These people are often Muslim. Much of the time, they are not
assimilated – and often show signs of not
wanting to assimilate. Many reside in virtually autonomous, so-called no-go
zones (e.g. France,
the UK,
and Germany).
Europe has renounced force; to
many, it therefore appears weak, vulnerable and easily able to be overpowered.
Populations of Western Europe increasingly think that
the dream society that had been promised has turned into a nightmare. The
sudden and often brutal arrival of hundreds of thousands more Muslims most
likely prompts Europeans to think the nightmare will get worse. They see,
powerlessly, that their leaders speak and act as if they have no awareness of
what is happening.
Central European leaders and
their people, who have directly experienced authoritarian rule, seem to be thinking
that entering the European Union was a huge mistake.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, they became members of the EU to join what was
called then the "free world." They do not seem willing to be
subjected again to coercive decisions made by outsiders.
After living under the Soviet
yoke, they preserved their desire for freedom and self-government, and
evidently will not now agree to give them up. They know what submission to
Islam could mean. Bulgaria and Romania were occupied by the Ottoman Empire
until 1878. Hungary was under the boot of Ottoman rule for more than a hundred
and fifty years (1541-1699).
Polls show that a majority of
Muslims living in Europe want
the application of sharia law and clearly reject any
idea of assimilation.
Hundreds of thousands of
Muslims living in Europe have joined fundamentalist
Islamic organizations. Thousands have joined jihadist movements and are now
fighting in Syria or Yemen. Many have returned and
are ready to act against
Europe.
Illegal Muslim migrants are
likely to join the Muslims already living in Europe; and they will remain
Muslim. They will live on social benefits until the bankruptcy of welfare
states. They will reside in the "no-go zones," and the "no-go
zones" will continue to grow. Their occupants come from countries where
Christians and women are mistreated; in Europe, they are already mistreating
Christians and women.
They come from countries where
Western civilization is despised and where hatred of Jews is inescapable -- and
this remains
so among Muslims already living in Europe. For more than two decades,
almost all assaults
against Jews in Europe were committed by Muslims.
Many of those who arrive, according to
European intelligence sources, are already radicalized.
A project
to overwhelm Europe by a huge wave of migration was already described
by the Islamic State in documents discovered this February. It is hard
to rule out that the Islamic State plays a role in what is happening. Turkish
authorities are ignoring the massive
departurestaking place from their coast. If they really wanted the current
process to stop, they could
stop it. That is clearly not what they do. The Islamic State could not
survive without Turkish
help. Daily flights on Turkish Airlines bring illegal migrants to Istanbul;
they continue unhindered to
Europe. The Russians, in their military intervention in Syria, similarly does
not seem interested in stopping what is occurring.
Angela Merkel said in
Strasbourg, on October 7, that migrants entering Europe today are attracted to
Europe, for the reasons Europeans migrants who arrived in America a century ago
were attracted to America: to "realize a dream," presumably of
opportunity.
In all 28 countries of the
European Union, birth rates are low and the population is aging. People under
thirty account for only 16% of the population, or 80 million people. In the 22
Arab countries, plus Turkey and Iran, people under thirty account for 70% of
the population, or 350 million people.
Jews are
fleeing Europe in increasing numbers. "Native" Europeans are
starting to flee as well.
In 1972, in his book "The
Camp of the Saints," French writer Jean Raspail described flooding
Europe with Muslim migrants crossing the Mediterranean. At the time, the book
was a work of fiction. Today, it is reality.
Guy Millière, Gatestone
Institute, October 22, 2015 at 5:00 am
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