Europe continues to decline

From The Brussels Journal:

Yesterday, the French press agency AFP ran a report about Ayaan Hirsi Ali under the above title. Ms. Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born former member of the Dutch Parliament, was in the European Parliament in Brussels trying to raise funds to protect her from Islamist death threats. “I don’t want to die, I want to live and I love life. I find myself in a very desperate position,” she said at a press conference in the parliament building.

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Ms. Hirsi Ali proposes the establishment of a European fund to protect people threatened by assassins. The journalists tried to corner her into distancing herself from Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch Parliament, who is also under an Islamist death sentence. The press wanted to know whether the fund should also be used to protect members of the “far-right.” She answered that the only criterion should be whether people’s lives are effectively threatened.

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Yesterday’s press conference must have been a humiliating experience for Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The European politicians do not seem to realize that it is a humiliating experience for Europe as well. It proves that Islamist terrorists, who threaten to kill citizens who speak out against them, have won. There is no freedom of speech in Europe, where the state authorities are unable and unwilling to protect their citizens, although the latter have to pay taxes. Would it not be appropriate then to give these citizens the right to bear arms and protect themselves? Or is this an obnoxious, undemocratic question?

The European Union will not protect freedom of speech because it does not respect freedom of speech. As you can read here the EU is right now attempting to silence journalist who are critical of EU politicians, bureaucrats or institutions. They will not protect their citizens from Islamic extremists because they can read the demographic handwriting on the wall and know that within the lifetime of many EU officials the Union will become an Islamic republic.

And finally they will absolutely not grant their citizenry the right to own weapons for personal defense because the average European citizen does not like the direction in which Europe is going and just might feel empowered to make some changes if he were armed.