Very Interesting Op Ed In the Washington Times
my comments are in blue
Paul Belien in The Washington Times
Today’s Washington Times features the editor of Brussels Journal, Paul Belien:Europe is in the middle of a three-way culture war, between the defenders of traditional Judeo-Christian morality, the proponents of secular hedonism and the forces of Islamic Jihadism. In Western Europe, the fight between Christians and secularists is all but over. The secularists have won. Now, the religious vacuum left by the demise of Christianity is being filled by the Muslims. Since one cannot fight something with nothing, the European secularists are no match for Islam.
Notice Mr. Belien’s emphasis on Western Europe. He points out the difference in Eastern Europe, where Poland has locked horns with the EU on a number of issues:
On April 25, the European Parliament (EP), the EU’s legislature, adopted a resolution condemning “homophobia.” With 325 votes against 124 and 150 abstentions, the EP warned Poland that it will face sanctions if it adopts a law barring the promotion of homosexuality in schools. Churches, too, were reprimanded for “fermenting hatred and violence [against homosexuals].” Poland’s prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, commented on the resolution: “Nobody is limiting gay rights in Poland. However, if we’re talking about not having homosexual propaganda in Polish schools… such propaganda should not be in schools.” Cardinal Angelo Scola of Venice retorted: “There is no homophobia in the Catholic Church and it is time that all this [recrimination of Christians in the European Parliament] ended.”
Secularists in Europe think their 'religion' of abstract ideals and Reason can be a light bright enough to shed light on 'dark' religion, in reality what is has brought to Europe is near Wiemer Republic like chaos and libertinism -- which will create a vaccum for structure.. as Peter Hitchens wisely states:
Will Britain convert to Islam?
The idea is not as impossible, as bizarre or distant as you might think. An astonishing Channel 4 programme last week - The Last White Kids — showed two English children who live in an entirely Muslim district becoming enthusiastic attenders at the local mosque, wrapping themselves in Islamic draperies and learning the Koran.
But this strange little story contains a warning for Britain as a whole, as it careers ever more rapidly down the path of permissiveness which began so gently in the Sixties and now slopes ever more steeply downwards towards sexual chaos, drunkenness, family breakdown and the epidemic use of stupefying drugs.
Sooner or later, as in every other era of human history, there will be a revulsion against this licence, a desire to stop the waste, cruelty and misery which these things bring, especially to children.
Further evidence is not hard to find:
Why European women are turning to Islam
| Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
PARIS – Mary Fallot looks as unlike a terrorist suspect as one could possibly imagine: a petite and demure white Frenchwoman chatting with friends on a cell-phone, indistinguishable from any other young woman in the café where she sits sipping coffee. And that is exactly why European antiterrorist authorities have their eyes on thousands like her across the continent.
Islam converts change face of Europe
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS
As many as 100,000 French and British citizens have converted to Islam over the last decade, according to a new book by an Israeli historian.
The figures cited by Hebrew University Prof. Raphael Israeli in his upcoming book The Third Islamic Invasion of Europe are representative of the fast-changing face of Europe, which the Islamic history professor says is in danger of becoming "Eurabia" within half a century.
Since they (EU secularists) loath both nationalism and religion and do EVERYTHING to stomp it out - and make the idea of anything remotely 'European' as evil......Islam is filling the void and basic human need.
Muslims are not afraid of 'political correctness' as most Europeans are (often with good reason, because, literally jail terms often are the punishment for un-PC behavior) European secularists are as foolish and blinded as the most foolish religious 'fanatic' that they loath, and in being so blind they have no idea what's about to hit them.
Additional Note on the Brussels Journal and "Free" Secular Europe:
The Brussels Journal is a Belgian conservative blog, founded and edited by Paul Belien. It was founded in 2005, and has both an English language section with various international contributions, and a Dutch section.
The Brussels Journal has articles on the politics of Belgium and the European Union.
In April 2006 the Belgian government accused the blog of racism and forced the removal of a Dutch language article on the site, "Geef ons Wapens!" (Give us Weapons!).[1] The incident caused the site to shift to English-centric in order to be able to present future such cases to the international media. The Washington Times carried an editorial deploring the stance of the Belgian authorities on August 17, 2006 concluding 'From what we've seen of the English version of the Brussels Journal, the accusations of racism are utterly baseless. Mr. Belien is guilty only of vigorously expressing his opinion, and in many cases it would benefit Belgium -- and Europe as a whole -- to heed the advice from the Brussels Journal rather than to criminalize it.'[2]
Belien summed up the raison d'être of the European journalists and writers behind The Brussels Journal as restoring the values of freedom, the quest for Knowledge and Truth to the “consensus-culture” of contemporary Europe. He stated that the journalists 'defended freedom' and noted that the Journal was a 'coalition of individuals' who 'write with an earnest desire for the truth.' He noted that 'what binds us is our defence of liberty and the conviction that the state exists to serve man and never the other way round.'
Writing for the National Review, Stanley Kurtz wrote "A number of us here in the United States have witnessed, with growing concern, reports of the government of Belgium's harassment of the weblog, "The Brussels Journal." We consider The Brussels Journal to be an invaluable source of information and opinion on matters European. By no means are all of us necessarily in agreement with everything that appears on The Brussels Journal. Nor are all of us by any means traditional Christians. Nonetheless, Americans recognize The Brussels Journal as one of the few web-based sources of European news and opinion from a conservative and Christian point of view, and we consider it essential that all sides of political and cultural questions be permitted a place in public debate."[5]
"Free" EU particularly in Belgium have been actively trying to stomp out any conservative/nationalist/anti-EU sentiment, including declaring one political party illegal after it started to show strength in the polls (it ran on a platform of reducing immigration). This is a very convenient form of democracy - anything that is opposition you declare 'hate' and therefore make it illegal.
I would also add that this problem will accelerate in America as well. Not only do we have a well established black nationalist Muslim movement but thanks to the Iraq war we should see a steady stream of converts and 'refugees' that will increase Muslim numbers in the US, who, incidently have already surpassed Jews, Episcopalians and Presbyterians in number.
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