A Protest of Muslim Expansionism

Common sense, articulated courageously. "J'accuse," by Hani Shukrallah in AhramOnline:

[...] I accuse a government that seems to think that by outbidding the Islamists it will also outflank them.

I accuse the host of MPs and government officials who cannot help but take their own personal bigotries along to the parliament, or to the multitude of government bodies, national and local, from which they exercise unchecked, brutal yet at the same time hopelessly inept authority.

I accuse those state bodies who believe that by bolstering the Salafi trend they are undermining the Muslim Brotherhood, and who like to occasionally play to bigoted anti-Coptic sentiments, presumably as an excellent distraction from other more serious issues of government.

But most of all, I accuse the millions of supposedly moderate Muslims among us; those who've been growing more and more prejudiced, inclusive and narrow minded with every passing year.

I accuse those among us who would rise up in fury over a decision to halt construction of a Muslim Center near ground zero in New York, but applaud the Egyptian police when they halt the construction of a staircase in a Coptic church in the Omranya district of Greater Cairo.

I've been around, and I have heard you speak, in your offices, in your clubs, at your dinner parties: "The Copts must be taught a lesson," "the Copts are growing more arrogant," "the Copts are holding secret conversions of Muslims", and in the same breath, "the Copts are preventing Christian women from converting to Islam, kidnapping them, and locking them up in monasteries."

I accuse you all, because in your bigoted blindness you cannot even see the violence to logic and sheer common sense that you commit; that you dare accuse the whole world of using a double standard against us, and are, at the same time, wholly incapable of showing a minimum awareness of your own blatant double standard....

Comment: We see the EU crippled by the belief they can regain control of North Africa. It reminds of the European industrialists who coddled Hitler confident they could rein him in when the time came.

Radical State: The Death of Europe

Excerpt from the book review by Pamela Geller
"Radical State" shows what has been the impact on daily life in Europe of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, formerly known as the Barcelona Process.

The goal of the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation is to create a new Greater European Union encompassing both Europe and North Africa, with the Mediterranean Sea becoming a domestic Eurabian sea. The goal is to establish a "comprehensive political partnership," including a "free trade area and economic integration"; "considerably more money for the partners" (that is, more European money flowing into North Africa); and "cultural partnership" -- that is, importation of Islamic culture into post-Christian Europe.

Skeptical? It’s already happening. Just read "Radical State" and you’ll see.

As Esman shows on every page, Muslims have already begun demanding special privileges and accommodations, and getting them. And the truth tellers and people wanting to be free are punished. The government of the Netherlands ought to be hanging its head in shame.

We cannot, and we must not, let the Islamic supremacists take control of Europe's destiny. We must take a strong stand. If the West is going to achieve any victory over the jihad, it will be because of the inestimable contributions of the people who are the heroes of "Radical State": Hirsi Ali, van Gogh, Pim Fortuyn, Geert Wilders, and other courageous truth tellers who have spoken out at great personal risk, and sometimes at the cost of their lives. They are the heroes not just of this book, but of this age, and we owe Abigail Esman a debt of gratitude for showing why that is so.
'Radical State': The Death of Europe
by Pamela Geller

In her powerful and sobering book "Radical State," Abigail R. Esman writes about "the larger question not even Americans have asked since the World Trade Towers fell: as we fight on to spread democracy, preserve democracy, defend democracy, no one yet, it seems, has actually defined, for all of us, what democracy actually is."