Is radical Islam horrifying the West into paralysis?

July 5, 2017



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With policies dictated by fear of negative media images spread across the globe, the West’s decision-making is susceptible to appeasement, censorship and retreat to avoid facing the horrible reality and fighting it head on. 

By: Giulio Meotti/ Gatestone Institute

September 2015. Thousands of Syrian migrants crossing the Balkan route were heading toward Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel was on the phone with Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, talking about a number of measures to protect the borders, where thousands of policemen were secretly located along with buses and helicopters. De Maizière turned for advice to Dieter Romann, then head of the police. “Can we live with the images that will come out?” de Mazière asked. “What happens if 500 refugees with children in their arms run toward the border guards?”

De Maiziére was told that the appropriate use of the measures to be taken would have be decided by the police on the field. When de Maizière relayed Romann’s response to the Chancellor, Merkel reversed her original commitment. And the borders were opened for 180 days.

Governing Through the Polls

“For historical reasons, the Chancellor feared images of armed German police confronting civilians on our borders,” writes Robin Alexander, Die Welt‘s leading journalist, who revealed these details in a new book, Die Getriebenen (“The Driven Ones”). Alexander reveals the real reason that pushed Merkel to open the door to a million and a half migrants in a few weeks: “In the end, Merkel refused to take responsibility, governing through the polls.” This is how the famous Merkel’s motto “Wir schaffen das” was born: “We can do it.”

According to Die Zeit, “Merkel and her people are convinced that the marchers could only be stopped with the help of violence: with water cannons, truncheons and pepper spray. It would be chaotic and the images would be horrific. Merkel is extremely wary of such images and of their political impact, and she is convinced that Germany wouldn’t tolerate them. Merkel once said that Germany wouldn’t be able to stand the images from the dismal conditions in the refugee camp at Calais for more than three days. But how much more devastating would images be of refugees being beaten as they try to get to Austria or Germany?”

Policy Through Fear of the Press

Merkel’s refugee policy was not a masterpiece of humanitarian politics; it was dictated by the fear of television images spread all over the world. In so many key moments, it is the photograph that dictates our behavior: the image that dishonors us, that makes us cringe in horror.

Now, the main German sentiment that seems to be driving public opinion and politics is a dramatic sense of guilt. It is a “secular sin”, according to a new book by German sociologist Rolf Peter Sieferle that is topping the German bestseller list, Finis Germania.



The behavior of Germans during the current migrant crisis, however, is symbolic of a more general Western condition. On April 30, 1975, the fall of Saigon was part of a war fought and lost by the United States as much on television as in the Vietnamese forests and rice paddies. It ended with the the escape of helicopters from the rooftop of the US embassy.

In 1991, the imagery of the “highway of death” of Saddam Hussein’s bombed army of thugs fleeing a plundered Kuwait also shocked the public in the West, and led to calls for an immediate cessation of the fighting in Iraq and Kuwait. The result was that Saddam Hussein’s air force and Republican Guard divisions were spared; during the “peace” that followed, it was these troops who butchered Kurds and Shiites.

The photograph of a dead American soldier dragged through the streets of Mogadishu after the “Black Hawk Down” incident pushed President Bill Clinton to order a shameful retreat from Somalia. That photograph also led the US Administration to rethink and cancel plans to use US troops for United Nations peace operations in Bosnia, Haiti and other strategic points. General David Petraeus would describe America’s engagement in Afghanistan as a “war of perception”.

Even the suffering of our enemies disturbs us, in the humanitarian culture of the West. We are therefore increasingly amenable to policies of appeasement, censorship and retreat, in order not to have to face the possibility of such horribleness and actually having to fight it.

West Paralyzed by Fear

That is why radical Islam has been able to horrify the West into submission. We have paralyzed ourselves. We censor the cartoons, the graphic photos of the terrorists’ victims and even the faces and names of the jihadists. The Islamic terrorists, on the other hand, are not publicity-seekers; they are soldiers ready to die and kill in the name of what they care about.

This week, the German media was shocked by the revelation that the German air force will probably come under fire during its Syrian mission. “Endangering German soldiers!” — with an exclamation point — wrote Bild, the largest-selling newspaper in Germany. The statement exposed the anxiety of what John Vinocur of the Wall Street Journal called a “country where the army and air force basically do not fight”. A pacifist Germany is now a source of trouble also for its own neighbors, such as Poland. “For centuries, our main worry in Poland was a very strong German army”, said former Polish Defense Minister Janusz Onyszkiewicz. “Today, we’re seriously worried about German armed forces that are too weak.”

The Western establishment censors images of our enemies’ crimes while giving prominence to our “guilt”. The French government censored the “gruesome torture” of the victims at the Bataclan Theater, who were castrated, disemboweled and had their eyes gouged out by the Islamist terrorists. It was a mistake: it was in the public interest to know exactly what enemy we are facing.

The FBI and Department of Justice released a transcript of the Orlando jihadist’s 911 call, but omitted all reference to the terror group ISIS and to Islam. These authorities did not want the public to know that Omar Mateen identified himself as an “Islamic soldier”.



The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance then told the British press it should not report when terrorists are Muslim.

Photos to Amplify the West’s Sense of Guilt

The CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo, suspended accounts that showed photographs of the beheading of John Foley, along with other Islamist beheadings and savagery. But Twitter did not mind being flooded by images of a little dead boy, Alan (Aylan) Kurdi on a beach.

The mainstream media in the US fought hard to lift the photo ban on military coffins during the war in Iraq. Its goal, apparently, was to humiliate and intimidate the public, to lower the support for the war.

Images, as in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, are published only if they amplify the West’s sense of guilt and turn the “war on terror” into something even more dangerous than the jihad causing the war.



Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Irene Khan — referring to concentration camps in the Soviet Union, where millions of people perished — infamously called Guantanamo “the Gulag of our time”. The result is to erase our enemy from our imagination. This is how the “war on terror” has become synonymous with lawlessness throughout the West.

Ten years ago, after the brave surge in Iraq, US soldiers discovered Al Qaeda’s torture chambers. No one — not ABC, not CBS, not the New York Times — published one photo of them; they just filled our eyes with naked bodies at Abu Ghraib.

We are utopian technophiles and, contrary to the traditional Western view that we are flawed human beings in a tragic world, we now believe in Mark Zuckerberg’s brave new world where no one should ever suffer and everyone should be happy and peaceful all the time. That is an exorbitant dream. For a short time we can afford it, as with Angela Merkel and Europe’s migrant crisis. Unfortunately, that fantasy will not last. The conflicts at our gates, together with our aversion to making hard choices, will exact a far higher price.

Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author.







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u prosjeku,prosjecni Europljanin je plasljiva jajara..

Islam’s “Quiet Conquest” of Europe
Posted By: IIandET Staffon: August 16, 2016In: Europe, France, Islam, Italy, Jihad, Middle East, Sharia Law, UK
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In France, the quiet conquest has the face of the Union of the Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF), which a Simon Wiesenthal Center report charged with “anti-Semitism, advocacy and financing of terrorism and call to Jihad… ”

• “Islam is a French religion and the French language is a language of Islam.” — Tariq Ramadan.
  
• In 1989, Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, justified the persecution of Salman Rushdie by Ayatollah Khomeini. Last year, Boubakeur called for the conversion of churches into mosques.
  
• In Britain, mainstream Muslim organizations are dispensing “Islamic justice” through more than 85 sharia courts attached to mosques.
  
• Civil war in France is what the Islamic State is looking for: unleashing a blind repression so that the Muslim population will show solidarity with the revolutionary minority. Yet, there is still worse possible outcome: that nothing happens and we continue as is.
  
• Real “moderate Muslims” are silenced or murdered.
  

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Last month, the Wall Street Journal published an interview with France’s director of domestic intelligence, Patrick Calvar. “The confrontation is inevitable,” Mr. Calvar said. There are an estimated 15,000 Salafists among France’s seven million Muslims, “whose radical-fundamentalist creed dominates many of the predominantly Muslim housing projects at the edges of cities such as Paris, Nice or Lyon. Their preachers call for a civil war, with all Muslims tasked to wipe out the miscreants down the street.”
These Salafists openly challenge France’s way of life and do not make a secret of their willingness to overthrow the existing order in Europe through violent means, terror attacks and physical intimidation. But paradoxically, if the Islamists’ threat to Europe were confined to the Salafists, it would be easier to defeat it.

There is in fact another threat, even more dangerous because it is more difficult to decipher. It has just been dubbed by the magazine Valeurs Actuelles, “the quiet conquest“. It is “moderate” Islam’s sinuous project of producing submission. “Its ambition is clear: changing French society. Slowly but surely”.
That threat is personified in the main character of Michel Houellebecq’s novel, Submission:Mohammed Ben Abbes, the “moderate” Muslim who becomes France’s president and converts the state to Islam. And from where does President Ben Abbes start his Islamization? The Sorbonne University. It is already happening: Qatar recently made a significant donation to this famous university, to sponsor the education of migrants.
In France, the quiet conquest has the face of the Union of the Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF), which a Simon Wiesenthal Center report charged with “anti-Semitism, advocacy and financing of terrorism and call to Jihad… ”
Not only does UOIF not encourage the integration of Moslems in France,” the report states, “it actually provides a nursery for the most radical Islamist positions.”
In Italy we have just witnessed the strategy of this “moderate Islam.” The largest and most influential Islamic organization, l’Unione delle comunità ed organizzazione islamiche in Italia (Ucoii), sponsored Milan’s first Muslim councilwoman, Sumaya Abdel Qader, a veiled candidate of the center-left coalition. Qader’s husband, Abdallah Kabakebbji, openly called for the destruction of the State of Israel: “It is a historical mistake, a scam”, he wrote on Facebook. His solution? “Ctrl + Alt + Delete”.
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Qader won the race over a real moderate Muslim, the unveiled Somali activist, Maryan Ismail. I met Mrs. Ismail at a pro-Israel forum in Milan. After losing the election, she broke with Italy’s Democratic Party in an open letter: “The Democratic Party has chosen to dialogue with obscurantist Islam. Once again, the souls of modern, plural and inclusive Islam were not heard”.
Take two “stars” of this French “moderate Islam.” The first one is Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, the motto of which is: “Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”
Ramadan does not hide in Raqqa or shoot at French citizens. By applying for French citizenship, he would like to become one of them. His office is in the Parisian suburb of Saint Denis; he has written 30 books and he has two million Facebook followers. Ramadan has academic chairs all over the world, he is the director of the Research Center for Islamic Law in Doha (Qatar) and the president of the European Muslim Network. He publicly campaigns for Islam along with Italy’s former prime minister, Massimo D’Alema. Ramadan recently explainedhis vision for Europe and France: “Islam is a French religion and the French language is a language of Islam”.
Ramadan’s project is not the hoped-for Europeanization of Islam, but the not-hoped-for frightful Islamization of Europe. He opposes the assimilation of Muslims into French culture and society. A few days before the election in Milan, Ramadan was in Italy to endorse the candidacy of Sumaya Abdel Qader.

The second French “star” is Dalil Boubakeur, the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris. In 1989, Boubakeur justified the persecution of Salman Rushdie by Ayatollah Khomeini. In 2002, he testified for the prosecution against the writer Michel Houellebecq. In 2006, he sued Charlie Hebdo in court, after the publication of the Danish Mohammed cartoons. Last year, Boubakeur called for the conversion of churches into mosques and asked to “double” the number of mosques in France.
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Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, last year called for the conversion of churches into mosques and asked to “double” the number of mosques in France. (Image source: TV5 Monde)

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In the United Kingdom, mainstream Muslim organizations are dispensing “Islamic justice” through more than 85 sharia courts attached to mosques. Divorce, polygamy, adultery and wife-beating are only some of these courts’ matters of jurisprudence. In Germany, vice-chancellor Sigmar Gabriel criticized Saudi Arabia for financing Islamic extremism in Europe. It is the same kingdom which last year offered to build 200 new mosques in Germany.
Qatar, with its Al Jazeera television megaphone, is also very active in sponsoring Muslim Brotherhood Islamic radicalism all over Europe. The Qatari royal family, for example, in 2015 donated £11 million to Oxford’s St. Anthony’s College, where Tariq Ramadan teaches. Qatar also announced that it was willing to spend $65 million in the French suburbs, home to the vast majority of the six million Muslims in France.
Today in Europe, several scenarios are possible, including the worst. Among them, there is a civil war, which many are beginning to talk about, including Patrick Calvar, the director of domestic intelligence. This is what the Islamic State is looking for: unleashing a blind repression so that the Muslim population will show solidarity with the revolutionary minority. Yet, there is still worse possible outcome: that nothing happens and we continue as is.
The end is more important than the means. The Islamic State has the same goal as most of the members of so-called “moderate Islam”: domination under the sharia. Many supposedly “moderate Muslims”, even if they do not commit violent acts themselves, support them quietly. They support them by not speaking out against them. If they do speak out against them, they usually do so in coded terms, such as that they are “against terrorism,” or that what concerns them about violent acts by Muslims is the possibility of a “backlash” against them.
Violent jihadis, however, are not the only means of transforming Europe, and perhaps are even counterproductive: they could awaken the nations they attack. Soft and more discreet means, such as social pressure and propaganda, are even more dangerous, and possibly even more effective: they are harder to see, such as the West’s acceptance of dual judiciary and legal systems; sharia finance (if there had been a “Nazi finance” system, in which all financial transactions went to strengthening the Third Reich, what effect might that have had on World War II?), and the proliferation in the West of mosques and extremist Islamic websites. Although there are indeed many real “moderate Muslims”, there are also still many who are not.
To conservative Muslims, however, any Muslim who does not accept every word of Allah — the entire Koran — is not a true Muslim, and is open to charges of “apostasy”, the punishment for which is death. According to a leading Sunni theologian, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, based in Qatar, “If they [Muslims] had gotten rid of the punishment for apostasy, Islam would not exist today.”
That is why the late writer Oriana Fallaci once said to The New Yorker: “I do not accept the mendacity of the so-called Moderate Islam”. That is why real “moderate Muslims” are silenced or murdered.

This might summarize the current Islamic mainstream mentality: “Dear Europeans, continue to think about a shorter working week, early retirement, abortion on demand and adultery in the afternoon. With your laws, we will conquer you. With our laws, we will convert you[/size]

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With policies dictated by fear of negative media images spread across the globe, the West’s decision-making is susceptible to appeasement, censorship and retreat to avoid facing the horrible reality and fighting it head on. 

Laž. Zapad nije paraliziran od straha već duboko korumpiran, beskarakteran i zaglupljen.

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With policies dictated by fear of negative media images spread across the globe, the West’s decision-making is susceptible to appeasement, censorship and retreat to avoid facing the horrible reality and fighting it head on. 

Laž. Zapad nije paraliziran od straha već duboko korumpiran, beskarakteran i zaglupljen.

Uostalom, političke elite teroriziraju vlastite građane.

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With policies dictated by fear of negative media images spread across the globe, the West’s decision-making is susceptible to appeasement, censorship and retreat to avoid facing the horrible reality and fighting it head on. 

Laž. Zapad nije paraliziran od straha već duboko korumpiran, beskarakteran i zaglupljen.

Relativan pojam Melk...Naslov je retoričko pitanje...Nakon sranja u Svabiji,mogu reci slobodno da IMA STRAHA u SVABIJA i MOGU SLOBODNO RECI,NA GRANICI SA PARALIZIRANOSCU...naime POLICIJA JE PRIZNALA DA SE NIJE BILA SPOSOBNA NOSITI SA PROBLEMOM  "NOĆI 1000 KOZOJEBA",a to je otreznjenje,samo takvo i fgubitak samopouzdanja...


Mene brine OVO...


This might summarize the current Islamic mainstream mentality: “Dear Europeans, continue to think about a shorter working week, early retirement, abortion on demand and adultery in the afternoon. With your laws, we will conquer you. With our laws, we will convert you[/size]

teroriziraju,jer se boje reakcije Kozojeba..svabi se ko vraga boje Turaka,kad je sranje u negdje,kolikog ih malo bilo...4-5 Turaka napravi sranje,no nitko nije mrtav,silovan,nego samo fajt...Svabi salju 4-5 MARICA sa kompletnom suitom--.dakle mindenštens 20 specijalaca...
Svabima je jasan taj odnos,i taj odnos nije bez vraga..covjek da se zamisli..

kuku

http://madworldnews.com/muslims-one-thing-in-common/?utm_campaign=vmp&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=exchange&utm_term=vmp

neovisno o politickom stavu,Europa je dugorocno jebala jeza u Bodlju.Islamisti si daju vremena.,oni ce bez ispaljena metka ako treba baciti Europu na koljena,samo sthantzajuci nakot,kao insekti i glodavci sto se mnoze..
AKako su rekli, u onom boldanom,a ja to najavio jako davno,iskoristiti ce postojece liberalne europske zakone za pokoravanje europljana,a kad postave svoje ili uglave kao jednakima europskim,tek tada pocinje sranje..
Dobar opis situacije je u Britaniji,Londonu,cityju...islamisti rulaju i doslovno donose zakone..kome ne pase...tjeraj u provinciju..

boli me kuruz za zapadnu europu,sami su si tu chorbu zapaprili,sad neka kusaju 

Nijemci se ne sikiraju ali se Hrvat, Srbin i Bosnjo sikiraju....svasta..

govinda wrote:Nijemci se ne sikiraju ali se Hrvat, Srbin i Bosnjo sikiraju....svasta..

Pa u sustini jako dobar komentar..No da ti odgovorim..Svabi su od kraja ww2 non stop bombardirani kroz odgoj i edukaciju,od malih nogu u vrticima,prošagandom koja im brutalno namece osjecaj krivice radi ww1 i ww2 i svega sto su u tim ratovima ucinili..Zasluzeno ili nezasluzeno u to ne ulazim..Poanta jest,da im je vec u genima osjecaj krivice,koji reagira i kad ih samo posprdno pogledas i kazes nazzi..
Jednom prilikom sam svjedocio ponizavanja jednog svabe,koji je trpio uvrede,prijetnje,od jednogh pijanog Kozojeba,skoro lakat nizeg,zgoljavog i opcenito nedoprcanog,radi toga jer nije imao upaljac da ovom Kozojebu pripali cigaretu...Jos ga je( svabu) uz to sve,ramenom onako gurkao i kocoperio se...

Inace,da je svabo samo sa 3recinom snage opalio onako rukom ovog kozojeba,ovaj se ne bi dozvao svijesti malo duze..
no..nista.,.Svabo uzeo mobitel,i zove policiju..kad je Kozojeb skuzio sto ovaj radi,odmah se udaljio..

E da...rekao je svabi da ako ubuduce ne bude imao vatru njemu za cigaretu,napravio je pokret rukom,kao da mu sjece vrat...

Kozojeb otperjao,a Svabo prrolazi i nekako nam se pogledi susretose,bio je to neki kiseo osmjeh u kojem se kao ispricavao...zao mi ga bilo..



eto,zato svabi "ne prave buku"  oko toga,uz to sto su im mediji i sve ostalo pod strogom kontrolom da ne bi doslo do panike...

Zasto srbin,Bosanac i Hrvat prave buku..?'

Jer poznaju ghovnjivi Kozojebski karakter i njihov nacin razmisljanja...

Svabi? Uglavnom arapske i turske Šlampe koje ce rad ikurca i drzavu prodati...

Švabi (MAN)....suosjecanje i zaljenje naspram njih

da mi je neko rekao da cu osjecati simpatije naspram svaba prije 10 godina nebi mu vjerovao

vlasti u europskim državama definitivno jesu paralizirane radikalnim islamom u svojim granicama, koji nije samo uvezen preko valova imigranata nego postoji i među domaćim muslimanima i Europljanima koji im prilaze

bezbroj puta te vlasti demonstrirale su da neće zaštititi žrtve čestih uličarskih napada, niti će primjereno kazniti počinitelje ukoliko su imigranti... zapravo će učiniti sve suprotno od toga, tj. pokušat će zataškati događaj i zaštititi počinitelje, što je suludo i opravdano izaziva sve veći bijes građana

no, mislim da problem u svemu tome nisu toliko huliganski i kriminalni pohodi islamskih bandi na ulicama, nije to ono što paralizira državu i njezin pravosudno-represivni aparat, a također i građane, nego ih primarno paralizira ono što se naziva 'liberalna demokracija' i njezine civilizacijske stečevine

i zato u europskim imigracijskim zemljama trenutno nema vlasti koja će prva jače pokrenuti represivni aparat i primijeniti bilo kakav konkretniji nadzor ili uvođenje reda, jer glasniji dio javnosti, političkih stranaka, civilnih udruga i javnih medija na divljaštvo još uvijek reagira pomirljivo, držeći se liberalno-demokratskih načela, što praktički znači nikako i 'okretanjem i drugog obraza'

a vlasti, već sam negdje prije napisala, izgleda čekaju da se čaša prepuni i da se sve više počnu događati ovakve stvari: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/cologne-sexual-assaults-vigilante-gangs-attack-asylum-seekers-after-vowing-to-clean-up-german-city-a6807021.html, kako bi uredno oprali ruke i skinuli sa sebe odgovornost za nastali kaos i neminovnu primjenu sile i represije