Islam, Migration, and the Fate of the West

What we must know about the Islamic invasion of the West:

With mass migration, porous borders, and rampant multiculturalism in full swing in most Western nations, one needs to ask hard questions about how all this will pan out – especially in terms of millions of Muslims coming in and not really integrating but seeking to set up separate and unequal subcultures.

Indeed, we already know how this is panning out, be it with the UK Muslim grooming gangs, or Muslims being elected in major cities, including New York. Many important books have been written on this. I just looked through my bookcase of over 200 volumes on Islam, and grabbed a handful of books on this topic.

Here I simply want to alert you to these six important volumes and quote a bit from each. And note that I have already written full or partial reviews of each of these books.

Bawer, Bruce, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within. Doubleday, 2006.

So it stood. Western Europe was a runaway train, racing at an ever-increasing speed toward a harrowing precipice. Its engineer was irrationally oblivious, refusing to acknowledge that anything was wrong; of its passengers, long accustomed to passivity, only some were aware of the problem, and among them, only a handful were up out of their seats, shouting, attempting to alert others to their impending doom. Would the passengers listen, and act wisely, in time to avert catastrophe? Would they take over the controls only to send the cars hurtling down another track, toward a different disaster? Or would they do nothing, and race to their calamitous end with docile fatalism?…

 

[If] Islamists are out to destroy America, they’re equally determined to subdue and colonize Europe. For them, it’s no mere historical fact that most of Iberia and large swaths of Eastern Europe were once integral parts of the Islamic empire. Now, nearly the whole of Western Europe is practically within their grasp. Western Europeans, having already abandoned their religion and scorned their national identities, have little that matters to rally around. The backbone of America is its people’s determination to honor and build upon their heritage of freedom; by contrast, Western Europeans—whose ‘68-er elites have sought to make them feel ashamed of their heritage, contemptuous of their freedom, and willing and eager to settle for any kind of “peace” at any cost—have been encouraged, and permitted, to take pride only in the supreme achievements of their social-democratic systems: multiculturalism, the welfare state, and the “European project.” It’s as if Europe, after all the horrors it inflicted on itself in the twentieth century in the name of God and country and Volk, were determined to yank up all its roots, pull down all its flags, and base its sense of identity on safely superficial things. Yet as current events are proving, a civilization with so prosaic a self-understanding is a house of cards, easily toppled by a foreign people possessed of a fierce, all-subsuming sense of who they are and what they believe. (pp. 230-231)

https://billmuehlenberg.com/2007/03/27/a-review-of-while-europe-slept-by-bruce-bawer/

Caldwell, Christopher, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West. Doubleday, 2009.

For decades, European authorities pursued utility for themselves over utility of their society. Indeed, even to raise the question of whether immigration will promote or endanger European survival is considered vulgar and un-European at best, extremist at worst. Immigrant communities have felt under no such constraint.

 

Europe’s basic problem with Islam, and with immigration more generally, is that the strongest communities in Europe are, culturally speaking, not European communities at all. This problem exists in all European countries, despite a broad variety of measures taken to solve it—multiculturalism in Holland, lafcite in France, benign neglect in Britain, constitutional punctiliousness in Germany. Clearly Europe’s problem is with Islam and with immigration, and not with specific misapplications of specific means set up to manage them. Islam is a magnificent religion that has also been, at times over the centuries, a glorious and generous culture. But, all cant to the contrary, it is in no sense Europe’s religion and it is in no sense Europe’s culture.

 

It is certain that Europe will emerge changed from its confrontation with Islam. It is far less certain that Islam will prove assimilable. Europe finds itself in a contest with Islam for the allegiance of its newcomers. For now, Islam is the stronger party in that contest, in an obvious demographic way and in a less obvious philosophical way. In such circumstances, words like “majority” and “minority” mean little. When an insecure, malleable, relativistic culture meets a culture that is anchored, confident, and strengthened by common doctrines, it is generally the former that changes to suit the latter. (pp. 348-349)

https://billmuehlenberg.com/2009/09/24/a-review-of-reflections-on-the-revolution-in-europe-by-christopher-caldwell/

Geller, Pamela, Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. WND Books, 2011.

Make no mistake. We are at war. Our mortal enemy has made no secret of its goal and stated aim: “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house,” and installing a universal caliphate. Pretending that fourteen-hundred years of Islamic imperialism and expansionism didn’t happen doesn’t change reality either.

 

Ayn Rand said that you can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. If you refuse to fight, you forfeit. If you forfeit, you lose. And I mean, lose everything. The stakes couldn’t be higher.

 

Saul Alinsky had Rules for Radicals. I’m giving you “Rules for Infidels.” Consider this your handbook to win the war. Keep it with you at all times. There is more than one way to be armed and dangerous….

 

Stop Islamization of America is dedicated to stopping that stealth jihad, exposing the Islamic supremacists, and preserving the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the equality of rights of all people before the law. We are not against Islam or Muslims as such, but against the political and supremacist character of Islam as enunciated by Muhammad, the Muslim prophet who declared, “Islam must dominate, and not be dominated.” Separation of mosque and state is the mandate, and should be the rallying cry for all Americans. In stark contrast to the Islamic drive to control all facets of our society through imposition of Sharia, the separation of religion and state is the mandate of our constitutional law, and the continued primacy of our law should be the rallying cry, the continued legal standard, for all Americans.

 

Muslims are working in the United States now to make sure that Islam dominates by destroying our Constitutional freedoms. How do I know that? Because they’ve told us. (i, iii-iv)

https://billmuehlenberg.com/2011/10/18/islam-and-the-left/

Murray, Douglas, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2017.

Europeans are left in the position of not believing sufficiently in their own story and being distrustful of their past whilst knowing that there are other stories moving in that they do not want. Everywhere a feeling is growing of all options being closed off….

 

Day by day the continent of Europe is not only changing but is losing any possibility of a soft landing in response to such change. An entire political class have failed to appreciate that many of us who live in Europe love the Europe that was ours. We do not want our politicians, through weakness, self-hatred, malice, tiredness, or abandonment to change our home into an utterly different place. And while Europeans may be almost endlessly compassionate, we may not be boundlessly so. The public may want many contradictory things, but they will not forgive politicians if—whether by accident or design—they change our continent completely. If they do so change it then many of us will regret this quietly. Others will regret it less quietly. Prisoners of the past and of the present, for Europeans there seem finally to be no decent answers to the future. Which is how the fatal blow will finally land. (pp. 319-320)

https://billmuehlenberg.com/2017/12/03/islam-immigration-death-sweden/

Phillips, Melanie, Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within. Encounter Books, 2006.

Britain is the global leader of English-speaking culture. It was Britain that first developed” the Western ideas of the rule of law, democracy and liberal ideals, and exported them to other countries. Now Britain is leading the rout of those values, allowing its culture to become vulnerable to the predations of militant Islam. If British society goes down under this twin assault, the impact will be incalculable – not just for the military defence of the West against radical Islamism, but for the very continuation of Western civilization itself.

The West is under threat from an enemy that has shrewdly observed the decadence and disarray in Europe, where Western civilization first began. And the greatest of all is in Britain, the very cradle of Western liberty and democracy, but whose cultural confusion is now plain for all to see in Londonistan. The Islamists chose well. Britain is not what it once was. Whether it will finally pull itself together and stop sleepwalking into cultural oblivion is a question on which the future of the West may now depend. (pp. 284-285)

https://billmuehlenberg.com/2006/08/31/a-review-of-londonistan-how-britain-is-creating-a-terror-state-within-by-melanie-philips/

Solomon, Sam and E Al Maqdisi, Modern Day Trojan Horse: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration. ANM, 2009.

The primary goal of the Hijra (Islamic immigration) is the establishment of an Islamic state. This is achieved through da’wa. Da’wa means ‘to call’, and in Islamic terms it means ‘a call to Islam’ and so it is a missionary call to embrace Islam. It is unlike a personal conversion call, though at the outset it may look like that. Da’wa is both religious and political as there is no separation between sacred and secular, between state and religion in Islam. The da’wa is to spread the message of Islam and the establishment of an Islamic state. The spreading of Islam is not simply a missionary activity like that of a church but it is the establishment of a community that would rise up as the soldiers of Allah to establish an Islamic State. The Islamic confession and its declaration ultimately state that the suzerainty of this world and all its governments belong to Allah and his messenger Muhammad. Therefore, it is Allah and his apostle who are the only rightful legislators. All other legislations are manmade, and as such they are to be disregarded as kufr, or unbelief and apostasy. Because of this, the primary goal of the Islamic migration or Hijra is considered to be, by Muslim scholars from a religious and jurisprudence point of view as the vanguard, a preamble and prelude to jihad, or the establishment of an Islamic State. (p. 33)

https://billmuehlenberg.com/2009/08/27/western-immigration-and-global-jihad/

In sum, it should be pointed out that not every Muslim that migrates to the West has in mind this obligation to help see established an Islamic state. But whether or not they are aware of this obligation and/or intend to see it carried out, that is the clear teaching of official Islamic doctrine and jurisprudence for over 1400 years now.

So what we see happening all throughout the West should not be surprising. We have been warned about this – and for one and a half millennia now.

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