The European Infitada - Part 2

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And you wonder why many voices have been warning of the consequences now seen in the flames all over France , the terrors of England ’s bus and subway systems, and the streets of the Netherlands where at least one prominent infidel, deemed an enemy of Islam, was shot to death and then had a knife plunged into his heart.  

The Jihad has come to Europe . It is the same Europe in which some nations decried the American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq as the first step to transform the Middle East sufficiently to join it to the rest of the global community; to impose a measure of freedom unknown in that backwater of history, and to permit its people to connect at last to the rest of the world.  

The problems endemic to the Middle East and exported to Europe can be summed up in a single word, Islam. It is not a religion of peace. It is a warrior cult based on life in seventh century Arabia . A billion people around the world subscribe to Islam and it clearly provides spiritual comfort, but it also imposes the requirement to conquer and subordinate all other people of faith to their control. 

While Christians have evangelized the word of Christ, Muslims have spread Islam by the sword. These days an element of Muslims is using terror as their instrument of war. This is hardly an encouragement for anyone, anywhere, to convert except as an alternative to death or the slavery that comes with dhimmitude, a second-class citizenship in nations ruled by Muslims. 

The tolerance, the appeasement, shown by modern Europe has not worked. It was seen as weakness and it is now being tested with a view to transforming Europe . It will not go away or diminish peacefully. One need only look at the wars waged against Israel for proof of that. 

Even President Bush has been forced to change the rhetoric of “a war on terrorism” to a war on fundamentalist Islam. September 11, 2001 forced America to use its military power to join the battle. It was then joined by the Great Britain and a number of nations that had lived under Soviet domination. Now one can only hope that the rest of Europe will, at last, join it as well. 

Alan Caruba writes a weekly column, “Warning Signs”, posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center, www.anxietycenter.com. 

© Alan Caruba, 2005 

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