Will America wake up in time
By Ted belman
Last week in Austria, a neo-Nazi party won over 30% of the vote. Melanie Phillips comments The distant sound of breaking glass
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We should all be shuddering at the news from Austria where neo-Nazi parties, including the Freedom Party led by Hans-Christian Strache (pictured) have emerged as the biggest parliamentary block. It’s awful not just because it’s Austria, that cradle of Nazism which shows yet again that its terrible past remains its present. It’s because the implications are much wider for the whole of Europe – and are unlikely to be recognised before the danger spirals into the unspeakable.
These parties campaigned on an anti EU integration and anti-Muslim platform. Their success is due to the enormous feeling among the people of Europe against, on the one hand, the destruction of their powers of self-government and their assimilation into the undemocratic Euro superstate, and on the other the threat to western culture from Islamist conquest. On both of these seismic issues, the leaders of the democracies are either burying their heads in the sand or are actively bringing them into being. With no democratic party addressing these concerns and instead demonising legitimate nationalist feeling as ‘racist’, xenophobic’ or ‘Islamophobic’, people are turning to parties which truly are racist, anti-foreigner, anti-Muslim, anti-Jew and sometimes, indeed, neo-Nazi, but which are exploiting this political vacuum just as all such parties have always exploited other vacuums in leadership.
This presents a nightmarish prospect in which, if the democratic parties of Europe continue to demonise legitimate aspirations to maintain national cultures against undemocratic and anti-democratic forces, more and more people will be drawn to these parties – see the sophisticated pitch by and increasing support for the BNP in Britain, and social disorder will rise. The rise of these noxious groups is entirely due to the abandonment by social democratic parties of the defence of the nation and the right of individual peoples to their own cultures and self-government. The continuing rise of the BNP in Britain is overwhelmingly the outcome both of the fanatical Europhilia which masquerades as the centre ground while engaged on its project to destroy Britain as an independent nation, and the systematic destruction of British national identity and the demonisation of those Britons who object by the dominant left-wing elites.
The awful thing is that, as the far-right advances and social disorder increases – as it will — muddled liberals and malign leftists will blame these political and social calamities on ‘the far right’. As a result, the steady encroachment of Islamism will proceed apace — and anyone who objects will also be demonised as ‘the far right’. The rise of the neo-Nazis will thus turn the defence of democracy toxic. There is therefore a danger that the only people who will be fighting the Islamic fascists and in defence of the nation against the supranational supremacists will be the fascists.
Meanwhile Gary Bawer, author of While Europe Slept, writes Who’s Sleeping More Deeply — Europe or America? observes,
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[..] ..there’s consequently an incredible level of ignorance in America both about what’s really going on in Europe and about the very nature of Islam. In the current presidential campaign, only a small portion of the electorate seems to think that the war with jihadist Islam is a major issue. The one candidate who understood best what we’re up against, and who took it most seriously, Rudy Giuliani, was ridiculed across the political spectrum for being obsessed with 9/11 — as if the events of that day had been some kind of fluke or accident that has virtually no meaning for us today.
In depressing numbers, in short, Americans seem not to grasp the lessons of 9/11 — which should hardly be a surprise, considering how many journalists and politicians keep repeating that the terrorists are betraying a great and peaceful religion, that jihad means doing good works, and so on. A while back, in response to rumors that Barack Obama is a closet Muslim, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof argued that it would be a matter of utter indifference if the president of the United States were a Muslim. Of the hundreds of people who commented on this article on the Times website, the overwhelming majority applauded Kristof for his extraordinary courage in standing up to Islamophobia. Only a tiny handful of readers noted that there are, in fact, good reasons for free people to be concerned about the possibility of a U.S. president with a devout commitment to Islamic theology and law. The American media that do report honestly on the less attractive truths about Islam, moreover, tend to be media that people are encouraged to look down upon.
He ends on an ominous note.
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What happens to the West will depend, in large part, on what happens to this pervasive self-denial and to those men and women of power and influence who cling to it as if to a life raft in a raging sea. Will Europeans who have faced the facts manage to gain power and turn things around before Europe passes the point of no return in its gradual surrender to Sharia? Will the European elites collaborate to realize Nicolas Sarkozy’s dark dream of a Mediterranean Union and develop it in the same ominous way in which the EU itself was developed, steadily compromising individual freedom and representative democracy — and leaving America increasingly out in the cold? Or will the next president of the U.S. be someone who is every bit as eager to appease Islam as the archbishop of Canterbury, resulting in a strong transatlantic alliance devoted not to the joint preservation of freedom but to the joint pursuit of dhimmitude? I’m sorry to say that a year or so ago, when it looked as if the major-party presidential candidates would be Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton — the former of whom obviously gets it, and the latter of whom, I suspect, does so as well — I was considerably more hopeful on this score than I am now.
Typical example of bad things happening when good people do nothing.
If fascism rises in Europe, democratic politicians have themselves to blame, for they have been ignoring people’s concerns for decades.
Also strong parallels with what Evelyn Gordon described in her piece earlier.
Good choice of articles, Ted.
Communists Riot so German Police Stop Anti-Islamification Rally in Cologne
Why is the left defending Islamification.
Why are the police not defending the right of the anti Islamification people to assemble.
More parallels with 1938? Jews better start making long term plans. Connect all of the dots and it isn’t pretty.
Western elites will not acknowledge that Islam is not merely a personal religious faith, but an expansionist political ideology. Either they are completely clueless or malicious in concealing the truth from Americans about the threat we face. It certainly does matter if someone running or holding public office is a devout muslim, since they could not be trusted to uphold their oath to protect the constituion of the United States of America, being that it is incompatible with sharia. Useful idiots like Kristof are indeed allowing the vacuum to be filled by neo-nazis since mainstream parties and the media refuse to address this issue and dismiss as bigots anyone who sounds the alarm regarding the islamization of the west.
Laura: Why is it when You mention useful idiots, I immediately think of you. You are continually harping on a familiar theme-Islam is the root of all of America’s ills. What in heaven’s name does Islam have to do with this most horrendous crises facing America today-the economic meltdown? The U. S. public has enough on its plate dealing with this situation. The Austrian Right wing developments parallel the rise of the loonie right wing nuts found in North America. I am sure you understand where I am going with this comparison. If the shoe fits………..
Let’s take Peskin’s words, above, and alter them for a place and time in the still-not-too-distant past:
“Why is it when You mention useful idiots, I immediately think of you. You are continually harping on a familiar theme-Nazism is the root of all of Germany’s ills. What in heaven’s name does Nazism have to do with this most horrendous crises facing Germany today-the economic meltdown?
Well, whaddaya know?! It does!
Hey, Peskin! Are you the homemaker?
Peskin;
many if not most of German Jews got the message early enough and skedaddled out of Germany in time. Unfortunately most moved to other European countries , some few to America and some very few to Palestine. Those that moved to other European countries were for the most part caught there by the Germans invaders later. Lesson, if most had come to Palestine most and their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren would be alive today and by sheer numbers would have altered the Character of the state to what it has become, I think for the better. You are the type that would never have left Germany when the Jews could. Economies tend to move cyclically every 10-20 or 30 years up and down but Islam is a constant and the weakening Of America and the West with severe economic troubles only increases their incentive and will to bring the West (America) down by any means. If in your myopic way of seeing the world you can’t see a single tree in the forest it is your problem, some people are and remain prescient
Hey peskin, you degenerate, I was responding to this article which was about the islamization of the west and how the west is dealing with it. You are indeed among those useful idiots.
Why would I talk about a subject which has nothing to do with this post?
Shy guy: post 7, you sold me, I’m voting Republican.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQJ9Xp0xxU
laura:
Peskin’s favorite TV show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C0i9SZqMgc&feature=related
This is Peskins’s favorite
What a bigot and racist. He loves blacks and hates blonds which he like all racists duly stereotypes in the negative.. SHAME!!!!!
Peskin all about you. You are the ans. to the riddle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyDmAykJSgA&feature=related
Are you by any chance bald and fat? Thats how I picture you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezBjANOCwwU&feature=user
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQbsk4mcWwg&feature=user
And a messy eater.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfmvkO5x6Ng&feature=related for fun only
Yamit-ShyGuy-denton-Laura- and all those other showstoppers out there in cyberspace.
I have an infinite amount of respect for Americans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ofg6v8JRQM&feature=rec-fresh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOzG7bBylRo
I am a brunette.
Makes no difference. (Includes free relevant economics lesson).
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Peskin: Your p18 is sure to get your name inscribed in U.S. homeland security-do not fly, terror list- Forget Miami forget Fort Lauderdale. You can spend your winters in sunny WAWA Ontario.Enjoy.
We need “right wing” parties to keep the left in check. It’s all cause and effect. If the treacherous liberals and worthless “conservatives” (“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”) have enabled Muslims to occupy the continent at the expense of any biblical – Judeo-Christian – heritage, they should expect what is happening today as the result of their failed policies of appeasement.
If any Jews in those countries are truly concerned for their safety (since liberal and globalist Jews endanger Jews everywhere – guilt by association), let them stop their whining and start packing their bags and make the move to Israel where Judaism teaches they belong. It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness.