Monday, September 01, 2014

Europe may not be interested in Jihad, but Jihad is interested in Europe

In his must-read article "Jihad Comes to Europe", Guy Millière lays out the dire mathematical equation that points to an imminent European crisis, one that pits Islamists and Marxists against Christians and secular liberals.

Government leaders in all major European countries know that hundreds of well-trained European jihadists are in Syria and that some of them will return. They do not ignore that some are already back in Europe and that attacks are likely. They do not ignore that if European jihadists are in the hundreds, those who support jihadism in Europe are probably in the tens of thousands. In recent demonstrations in support of the "Palestinian cause" all over Europe, flags of Hamas, Hizbullah and the Islamic State were abundant, and slogans explicit.

Governments in all major European countries do not ignore that many of the countries they lead are in financial dire straits, faced with sclerosis, stagnation, wretchedly controlled immigration, policies that retard economic growth, and the results of multiculturalism.

They do not ignore that many prisons in Europe are jihadi hotbeds, and that (mostly Muslim) no-go zones are proliferating.

They do not ignore that risks of riots are very real, and that judges under the influence of ideas that for a hundred years have been proven not to work -- in Russia, Cuba and everywhere -- nevertheless still serve everywhere in Europe.

They cannot ignore the existence in every European country of "anti-racist" organizations and Islamic lobbies, imams and journalists, almost exactly similar to those which exist in France and Belgium.

They cannot ignore the growing weight of Muslim votes in many parts of Europe.

They can break up some networks, thwart some attacks, symbolically strip some jihadists of their citizenship.

They know they are largely hostage to a situation they no longer control.

Their attitude is dictated by the fear of being confronted with more serious problems than murders: some European counter-terrorism services say that a Mumbai-style armed attack in Europe is possible, even probable.

The attitude of governments can be defined by a word often used to describe the attitude of Daladier and Chamberlain in 1938: appeasement.

And appeasement will work just as well as it did prior to 1 September 1939, which is to say not at all.

Europe will be faced with a stark choice that it is likely to confront only after the growing piles of dead bodies outweigh political correctness on the scale of public opinion.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

2 comments:

JeffersonOh said...

People can bury their head in sand, as deep as they want. War with Islam is coming.

It will be a matter of survival.

Fortunately America is smart enough to have a second amendment to accommodate and overcome.

Perhaps it will require a similar action as to what happened to the Japanese citizenry after Pearl Harbor.Japanese-American Internment style camps converted for jihadi's and their sympathizers.

Anonymous said...

Like Spain did in the early 1600s, if Europe wants to survive, they're going have to expel every last stinking muslim back to their shitholes in the ME.

But guess what, that will never happen-it means war in Europe with the moslems.

Too bad the citizens aren't armed. They're effed, no way the police can handle this and their armies have been gutted.
MM