- The German author Henryk M. Broder recently told the
Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant (12 October) that young Europeans who love
freedom, better emigrate. Europe as we know it will no longer exist 20
years from now. Whilst sitting on a terrace in Berlin, Broder pointed to
the other customers and the passers-by and said melancholically: "We
are watching the world of yesterday."
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- Europe is turning Muslim. As Broder is sixty years old
he is not going to emigrate himself. "I am too old," he said.
However, he urged young people to get out and "move to Australia or
New Zealand. That is the only option they have if they want to avoid the
plagues that will turn the old continent uninhabitable."
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- Many Germans and Dutch, apparently, did not wait for
Broder's advice. The number of emigrants leaving the Netherlands and Germany
has already surpassed the number of immigrants moving in. One does not
have to be prophetic to predict, like Henryk Broder, that Europe is becoming
Islamic. Just consider the demographics. The number of Muslims in contemporary
Europe is estimated to be 50 million. It is expected to double in twenty
years. By 2025, one third of all European children will be born to Muslim
families. Today Mohammed is already the most popular name for new-born
boys in Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and other major European cities.
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- Broder is convinced that the Europeans are not willing
to oppose islamization. "The dominant ethos," he toldDe Volkskrant,
"is perfectly voiced by the stupid blonde woman author with whom I
recently debated. She said that it is sometimes better to let yourself
be raped than to risk serious injuries while resisting. She said it is
sometimes better to avoid fighting than run the risk of death."
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- In a recent op-ed piece in the Brussels newspaper De
Standaard (23 October) the Dutch (gay and self-declared "humanist")
author Oscar Van den Boogaard refers to Broder's interview. Van den Boogaard
says that to him coping with the islamization of Europe is like "a
process of mourning." He is overwhelmed by a "feeling of sadness."
"I am not a warrior," he says, "but who is? I have never
learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it."
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- As Tom Bethell wrote in this month's American Spectator:
"Just at the most basic level of demography the secular-humanist option
is not working." But there is more to it than the fact that non-religious
people tend not to have as many children as religious people, because many
of them prefer to "enjoy" freedom rather than renounce it for
the sake of children. Secularists, it seems to me, are also less keen on
fighting. Since they do not believe in an afterlife, this life is the only
thing they have to lose. Hence they will rather accept submission than
fight. Like the German feminist Broder referred to, they prefer to be raped
than to resist.
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- "If faith collapses, civilization goes with it,"
says Bethell. That is the real cause of the closing of civilization in
Europe. Islamization is simply the consequence. The very word Islam means
"submission" and the secularists have submitted already. Many
Europeans have already become Muslims, though they do not realize it or
do not want to admit it.
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- Some of the people I meet in the U.S. are particularly
worried about the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. They are correct when
they fear that anti-Semitism is also on the rise among non-immigrant Europeans.
The latter hate people with a fighting spirit. Contemporary anti-Semitism
in Europe (at least when coming from native Europeans) is related to anti-Americanism.
People who are not prepared to resist and are eager to submit, hate others
who do not want to submit and are prepared to fight. They hate them because
they are afraid that the latter will endanger their lives as well. In their
view everyone must submit.
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- This is why they have come to hate Israel and America
so much, and the small band of European "islamophobes" who dare
to talk about what they see happening around them. West Europeans have
to choose between submission (islam) or death. I fear, like Broder, that
they have chosen submission just like in former days when they preferred
to be red rather than dead.
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http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1609
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