The coming fall of Europe, part II

Fjordman writes in The Brussels Journal:

In a true, totalitarian society such as the old Soviet Union, crime rates are usually low because of the crushing state control of all its citizens. Supposedly, street crime in Moscow in the USSR was rare, probably because the state itself was the biggest criminal. In contrast, in the European Union of today, which is not a totalitarian society, at least not yet, crime rates are booming in major cities. At the same time, authorities are stepping up censorship efforts, openly talking about media “speech codes” and aggressively slapping labels such as “racism” or “xenophobia” on anybody daring to criticize the immigration policies or pointing out the inadequate response to Muslim gang violence.

There is obviously a connection here: The less control the authorities have with Muslims, the more control they want to exercise over non-Muslims. As problems in Europe get worse, which they will, the EU will move in an increasingly repressive direction until it either becomes a true, totalitarian entity or falls apart. This strange mix of powerful censorship of public debate, yet little control over public law and order, has by some been labelled anarcho-tyranny.

He goes on to list some specific incidents:

While Islamic groups in Britain openly brag about how they are going to subdue the country by violent means or call for beheading those insulting Islam, Bryan
Cork, 49, of Carlisle, Cumbria, in the Lake District, was sentenced to six months in jail for standing outside a mosque shouting, “Proud to be British,” and “Go back to where you came from.” One British court ruled that even use of the word "immigrant” as an insult could amount to proof of racial hostility.

In Belgium, a Turkish-born Catholic priest, Père Samuel, has been prosecuted for “incitement to racist hatred” by the Belgian Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (CEOOR), because of a remark he made in a 2002 television interview when he said: “Every thoroughly islamized Muslim child that is born in Europe is a time bomb for Western children in the future. The latter will be persecuted when they have become a minority.” He claims Muslims are invading Europe and warns for an impending civil war.

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Writer Oriana Fallaci has been indicted by a judge in her native Italy for vilification” of Islam, because of a book she wrote called The Force of Reason.

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In Australia, a Christian pastor who was ordered to apologize for vilifying Muslims said he would go to jail rather than say sorry for his comments. Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) deputy president Michael Higgins ordered two pastors to apologize for comments they made in a speech, on a website and in a newsletter. The tribunal found Muslims were vilified by claims that Muslims were training to take over Australia, encouraging domestic violence and that Islam was an inherently violent religion.

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Koenraad Elst describes how, in Amsterdam in 1992, Mohamed Rasoel, a Pakistani immigrant, was charged with racism for his book The Downfall of the etherlands, Land of the Naive Fools. The judge decided that Rasoel had made “unjustified generalizations” by contrasting “soft Dutchmen” with “crude, cruel, corrupt and bloodthirsty Muslims” and that it was a racist pamphlet written with the sole purpose of inciting hatred.

He concludes with this:

The reason why European authorities are becoming increasingly totalitarian in their censorship efforts is to conceal the fact that they are no longer willing or able to uphold even the most basic security of their citizenry. If their governments are no longer capable of protecting them and their freedom of speech, Europeans may have to arm themselves to do this on their own. Michael Moore’s books, ridiculing American “gun nuts,” are bestsellers in Europe. Sadly, The Bill of Rights is less popular reading. Perhaps the time has come for Europeans to also take a second look at the Second Amendment – The right for the people to keep and bear arms.

I have said this myself.

The fact is that Europe is probably already lost. This is not good for the United States, but at least we can salvage something from the situation if we manage to learn something from it.

The lessons which I would take from this:

1. Control your borders. A nation which does not maintain sovereign control over who and what crosses its frontiers cannot survive.

2. Make them literally pry your gun out of your cold dead hand. A people who give up the right to defend themselves (and that includes the right to own the effective tools of self defense) are doomed.

3. Defend freedom of speech and the free flow of information to the death. In Europe many press outlets are either owned outright by the government (like the BBC) or they are heavily subsidized. Independent outlets (like Brussels Journal) are subjected to harassment with the goal of shutting them down.

4. Realize that Islam is the enemy. The so-called “moderate Muslim” (if they truly exist at all) is useless until he stands up in numbers and condemns terrorists and terrorism. The fact that there hasn’t been an abortion clinic bombing in the US for years is due in no small part to the almost universal condemnation of such by Christian leaders and rank-and-file Christians.

There are more, but this is a good start.