Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Depressing, or what?
Back in 2004, Bernard Lewis had this to say about the Islamization of Europe:

SELDOM HAS THE COURSE of European history been changed by a non-politician's throwaway remark in a German-language newspaper on a Wednesday in the dead of the summer doldrums. But on July 28, Princeton historian Bernard Lewis told the conservative Hamburg-based daily Die Welt that Europe would be Islamic by the end of this century "at the very latest," and continental politics has not been the same since.

Days before the third anniversary of 9/11, Frits Bolkestein of the Netherlands, the outgoing European Union competition commissioner, caused an uproar when he mentioned Lewis's remark in the course of an address at the opening of courses at the University of Leiden. Bolkestein warned that the E.U. will "implode" if it expands too quickly. It was a timely topic. Islamic Europe?


In today's Die Welt, this:

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Die Christen werden zur Minderheit in Europa. Ggen [sic] den Iran braucht es Härte. Amerika ist bedroht. Ein Gespräch mit dem renommierten Islamwissenschaftler Bernard Lewis

Die WELT: Das Zwölfer-Manifest, unterzeichnet Mitte März auch von Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Irschad Manji, Salman Rushdie und Ibn Warraq, bezeichnet den Islamismus als neue globale totalitäre Bewegung wie einst Nationalsozialismus und Stalinismus. Folgt jetzt eine Epoche heftiger ideologischer Zwiste, die über islamische Minderheiten Europas nicht nur außen-, sondern gleichwohl innenpolitisch ausgetragen werden? Alles hier lesen: Europa wird islamisch

I apologize that the latter article is available only in German. Unfortunately, I do not have the time to translate it for you at this time.
Mark Alexander

2 comments:

Mark said...

Bld:

The question is, will we read the message in time to take heed and defend our Democracies, for they will surely perish under sharia-facistic law, if we stand idly by.

I'm sorry to say it, but is looking increasingly doubtful.

Mark said...

Bld:

Even if the view of the Euro-politic is to bring about an expansive and encompassing United States of Europe, it will not naturally lend itself to unty to the extent of a European Army for instance.

No, and imagine how diffiicult it would be to wage a war collectively, with all those different world-views and opinions!

They'd be crippled by indecision!