Friday - February 11, 2011

Post Mubarak: A Reminder For Them And Us

[ Islam is ] “An ideology that has sprung from the desert and that can produce only deserts because it does not give people freedom. The Islamic Mozart, the Islamic Gerard Reve [a Dutch author], the Islamic Bill Gates; they do not exist because without freedom there is no creativity. The ideology of Islam is especially noted for killing and oppression and can only produce societies that are backward and impoverished.”

- Geert Wilders

Outside of Egypt:

From 2007 ... It is easy to understand why a growing number of Danes would feel that Muslim immigrants show little respect for Danish values and laws. An example is the phenomenon common to other European countries and the U.S.: some Muslims in Denmark who opted to leave the Muslim faith have been murdered in the name of Islam, while others hide in fear for their lives. Jews are also threatened and harassed openly by Muslim leaders in Denmark, a country where once Christian citizens worked to smuggle out nearly all of their 7,000 Jews by night to Sweden - before the Nazis could invade. I think of my Danish friend Elsa - who as a teenager had dreaded crossing the street to the bakery every morning under the eyes of occupying Nazi soldiers - and I wonder what she would say today.

In 2001, Denmark elected the most conservative government in some 70 years - one that had some decidedly non-generous ideas about liberal unfettered immigration. Today Denmark has the strictest immigration policies in Europe. ( Its effort to protect itself has been met with accusations of “racism” by liberal media across Europe - even as other governments struggle to right the social problems wrought by years of too-lax immigration.) If you wish to become Danish, you must attend three years of language classes. You must pass a test on Denmark’s history, culture, and a Danish language test. You must live in Denmark for 7 years before applying for citizenship. You must demonstrate an intent to work, and have a job waiting. If you wish to bring a spouse into Denmark, you must both be over 24 years of age, and you won’t find it so easy anymore to move your friends and family to Denmark with you. You will not be allowed to build a mosque in Copenhagen. Although your children have a choice of some 30 Arabic culture and language schools in Denmark, they will be strongly encouraged to assimilate to Danish society in ways that past immigrants weren’t.

In 2006, the Danish minister for employment, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, spoke publicly of the burden of Muslim immigrants on the Danish welfare system, and it was horrifying: the government’s welfare committee had calculated that if immigration from Third World countries were blocked, 75 percent of the cuts needed to sustain the huge welfare system in coming decades would be unnecessary. In other words, the welfare system as it existed was being exploited by immigrants to the point of eventually bankrupting the government. “We are simply forced to adopt a new policy on immigration. The calculations of the welfare committee are terrifying and show how unsuccessful the integration of immigrants has been up to now,” he said.

How much has this changed in the past 4 years?  Well, some miles to the North across the Denmark Straight Geert Wilders seems to be on trial for heresy, because he speaks out against jizzlam. And across the North Sea this week over in the UK ...

Sure doesn’t sound like a win for our side, does it?



Inside Egypt:

The Muslim Brotherhood Would Win the First Election
by Alfred Hackensberger
February 3, 2011

Islam expert Alaya Allani sees the extremist movement on the march — but only for a short time. Tunisia and Algeria are in turmoil trending toward democracy. In both countries, there are Islamist movements, and no one knows what influence they will have. Historian Alaya Allani of the University of Tunis is known as an expert on Islamism in North Africa and offers some insights into what goals the Muslim Brotherhood pursues, for instance, and what are the odds in the coming elections.

Welt: Who is the Muslim Brotherhood?
Allani: The Muslim Brotherhood understand Islam as a single entity made up of politics, religion and Islamic law as a political and social organizing principle.

Welt: How strongly is the Muslim Brotherhood rooted in today’s Egyptian society?
Allani: The actual strength of the Muslim Brotherhood is unknown. It can only be estimated. It grew stronger and stronger during Mubarak’s dictatorship. Several observers feared there could be a scenario like the one in Algeria with the Islamic Salvation Front. They won the elections there in 1991, because the voters wanted to send the corrupt authorities a message.

Welt: And today?
Allani: I believe the Muslim Brotherhood will become the strongest party in a new parliament. They can count on a third of the votes in the next elections. That will work only right after the changeover. Then there will be a phase when they will weaken. In the end, they have don’t have a convincing program for the young people. Besides economic and social benefits, the young people want modernity.

Welt: Where do the members of the Muslim Brotherhood come from? Are they from particular levels of society? Who are the most fanatic followers?
Allani: They come from the traditional bourgeoisie, the classic middle class. Teachers, lawyers and doctors. A small number of them are socially disadvantaged. That is because the Muslim Brotherhood believes that their sacred message should be spread to all social classes. I have already mentioned their strongest adherents: teachers, doctors and lawyers.

Gosh Drew, what’s the point of this? Aside from a few thousand Christians in Egypt - and less of them every day it seems - everybody there already is muslim. They hate the West and they want Sharia law. Why bother?

Because it is never too late to learn. And that statement could be just one more of the blanket stereotypes the media has thrown over us. Pundits right now are shaking their heads, wondering how this amazing event happened, from beginning to end, in well under a month. They’re starting to call it The Digital Revolution, while scratching their heads and saying how little internet access Egypt actually has. But they forget that 10 people can look at one PC screen. And each of them can tell 100 others what they saw. And while they may not have so much net access, they have an awful lot of cell phones that can send text messages, pictures, and videos. [ No, I don’t want to segue to considering whether that Google guy Wael Ghonim was behind this whole thing, even if he was. That way would lead to an examination of corporate power, enough to topple a government. Too scary for me. I’ll stick with something simple, like the jihadi takeover of the whole world. ]

My point is that I agree with Allani. I think the young people in Egypt want to be part of the modern world that they’ve caught a glimpse or two of. If they have any ability to see the world from a perspective outside that of fundamentalism, then each and every one of them has run into a brick wall inside their own heads. They can see the riches in the OPEC nations and they can see the stagnation there as well. And they can’t ignore the miasma of fundamentalism that hovers over every one of those wealthy eastern countries while the people eat sand and dogma. So my hope is that they have the good sense to see past the smoke and mirrors, realize it’s all a con, and have the ephiphany that You Can’t Get There From Here, and that their nation is only going to have one chance. Just one. The Egyptian Army can only keep a lid on things for so long. They are not going to able to keep a long term junta running. There will be elections and choices will be made. 22 months before that End Times prediction, and exactly on the 32nd anniversary of the fall of Iran, lowly Egypt stands on the cusp of history and commands the compass needle of the world. Where will they point it?

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