Some things never change.
May 4, 2006 -- According to news reports, officials in Brussels have been working on producing new politically correct terminology in order to ban words and phrases that could cause offense. The Saudi based Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC) and its 56 member states, for their part, are pressing ahead and requesting from the United Nations and European Union to take steps, including legal ones to ensure that the freedom of speech and expression does not interfere with the "respect for cultural diversity, religious beliefs and religious symbols." The aim is to " defend the interests of the Muslim world, present the true image of Islam and combat the stereotype perceptions about Islam and Muslims." [1]
With the new politically correct vocabulary we will not be hearing EU officials talk any more about "Islamic terrorism", "fundamentalism", "radical Islam", “jihad” etc.
For instance, it is going to be wrong and punishable by law to say that "Radical Islamists" or "Islamic terrorists" were the ones who, by calling Allah-Akbar, blow themselves up together with 300 children in a Beslan school in North Ossetia, Russia.
In respect for cultural diversity and religious beliefs it will be punishable by law to talk or write about the Islamization of Christian lands of Kosovo and Metohija by force, about the destruction of Serbian Christian monasteries and churches and about the terror that Christian Serbs have endured under mostly Muslim Albanian authorities. We should also be silent about the ever-growing Muslim population in Europe and North America who harbor Jihad fighters ready to blow themselves up for the “Islamic cause” anywhere in the world.
When did it start? Oriana Fallaci's book "The Force of Reason" is revealing. She quotes Bat Ye’or’s article "Eurabia”: "After the Yom Kippur War and the Arab oil blackmail in 1973, the then-European Community (EC) created a structure of Cooperation and Dialogue with the Arab League. The Euro-Arab Dialogue (EAD) began as a French initiative composed of representatives from the EC and Arab League countries. From the outset the EAD was considered as a vast transaction: The EC agreed to support the Arab anti-Israeli policy in exchange for wide commercial agreements. The EAD had a supplementary function: the shifting of Europe into the Arab-Islamic sphere of influence. Over the years, Euro-Arab collaboration developed at all levels: political, economic, religious and in the transfer of technologies, education, universities, radio, television, press, publishers, and writers unions. This structure became the channel for Arab immigration into Europe, of anti Americanism, and of Judeophobia, which — linked with a general hatred of the West and its denigration — constituted a pseudo culture imported from Arab countries. Europe's economic greed was instrumentalized by Arab League policy in a long-term political strategy targeting Israel, Europe, and America." [2]
How did we come to this point? To understand the events in Europe today, we must go back to 1975. Fallaci points out that in June of 1975, 200 parliamentarians from Western European countries convened in Strasbourg, where they unanimously adopted the Resolution of Strasbourg. "The text stated that Arab [instead of the words Muslim -- Islam, Islamic, Allah] immigrants settling in Europe were entitled to bring their culture and religion to Europe, to promote it and spread it. The resolution stressed, “The contribution that the European countries can still expect from Arab culture, notably in the area of human values” and asked the European governments “to accord the greatest priority to spreading Arab culture in Europe.” The politicians also called upon the press “to create a favorable climate for the immigrants and their families” and on the press and academia “to emphasize the positive contribution of Arab culture to European development.”
Dutch Disease Report in its article "The Battle for France" says that: "Throughout the following three decades, as millions of Muslim immigrants settled in Europe, the various European countries did everything they could to allow them to keep their culture, customs, traditions, and way of life rather than asking them to assimilate or integrate in Western society. On the contrary, the chattering classes decried European “natives” who requested the latter as “Islamophobe.” In some countries Islamophobia was even made a criminal offense." [3]
You might ask, if Islamic governments are concerned about the interests of Muslims and want to present, spread and preserve the true image of Islam in Europe and Americas, mustn't our Western governments (in Europe and North America) work on preserving our own laws, values and interests? The one based on the Christian values of our forefathers. While liberal Western leaders and elite speak of Islamic tolerance and co-existence in a multicultural society, the realities of history point in the opposite direction. For nearly 1,400 years the relationship between Islam and "Christendom" has been stormy and bloody with conquests and re-conquests, massacres and reprisals. When talking to CKCU 93.1FM about his new book “Defeating Jihad”, Srdja Trifkovic said, “Kosovo would not be the first Christian land to be completely Islamized by force. Let us not forget that practically the entire Islamic world, its heartland in the Middle East, southern Mediterranean, North Africa, today's Libya, today's Egypt, today's Algeria, not to mention Syria, Palestine and Turkey… had all been Christian lands. They have all been conquered by force. Christian communities there have all been eradicated through institutionalized discrimination, violence, or pressure.”
Judging by the speech by Libyan leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi given on April 10, 2006, Europe is soon to become Islamic: “We have fifty million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The fifty million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades… Europe is in a predicament, and so is America. They should agree to become Islamic in the course of time, or else declare war on the Muslims,” Qadhafi had said. [4]
"For the time being, America is in far better shape than Europe. It would be dangerous to assume that this is so because Muslims have better assimilated into American culture", writes Trifkovic. "There is ample evidence that Muslims in America share the attitudes and aspirations of their European coreligionists. [T]he ruling post-Christian elite", Trifkovic says, "having no faith themselves.., do not take Islam's faith seriously. Smugly observing the demise of Christian belief and culture on both sides of the Atlantic, they trust the combined efforts of television, the Big Mac, and the public education system to make little Muhammad and Azra into carbon copies of Johnny and Chelsea. It may not work." [5]
Europe has undermined itself by weakening those forces that nurture patriotism, national identities, and Christian culture. It instead opted for multiculturalism, globalism and an Orwallian type of humanitarianism. We must talk about and address the ideology of Islam and how it affects our societies. New rules and the vocabulary of political correctness will only deepen the Western denial about the threat that the growing Islamic demands and aspirations pose to the Christian civilization.
Footnotes
[1] Goodenough, Patrick. Islamic States Press for Limits on Free Expression
[2] Yeor, Bat. Eurabia: The road to Munich
[3] Dutch Disease Report, The Battle for France
[4] Speech by Libyan leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi, aired on Al-Jazeera TV on April 10, 2006. [jihadwatch.or . . .] May 2, 2006
[5] S. Trifkovic, Multiculturalism and Islam: Liberal Fiction and Historical Truth
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