The View From 1776

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We have only to look at Western Europe to see the destructive effect of Muslim populations on the social and political constitutions of those nations. 

Muslims do not assimilate themselves into the local culture.  To the contrary, they use the local conceptions of civil rights to demand that they be accorded special status outside the requirements placed on other citizens.  In extreme cases, Muslim communities are demanding recognition as autonomous political jurisdictions within their host countries, somewhat as Indian nations are in the United States.

While the situation is not that severe yet in the United States, it will rapidly become so, if we persist in our lack of immigration policy and ineptness at enforcing what does exist. 

Liberals have agitated in the recent past for streamlined naturalization and citizenship procedures in order to put millions of new voters (who presumably will support Democratic party candidates) onto the voter rolls.  They have supported publishing all documents in a multitude of languages, even permitting citizenship ceremonies in foreign languages, which needless to say abets the separatist impulse.

Multi-cultural education actively discourages assimilation at the same time that it disparages our own cultural heritage and reduces our founders to minor roles, often less than those accorded recent figures whose only claim to special status is their minority racial or ethnic identity.

Most immigrant groups don’t come here with the intent to subvert the Constitution.  Liberals do that for them.  Muslims, however, are the exception.

Muslim clerics in American mosques funded by Wahabbi fanatics in Saudi Arabia preach virulent hatred for the United States and its cultural values (what pitiful vestiges remain from the founding era), particularly the individualism and belief in inalienable natural-law rights that are the foundation of the whole of the Constitution and particularly essential to the Bill of Rights.

As others have observed, Muslims have a much higher birth rate than do most Americans, in part because of abortions and unwillingness to commit to married relationships.

Overlay all of this with the liberals’ devotion to the UN and abhorrence of the United States defending itself militarily, and our nation will be subverted from within and overwhelmed from without in the next few generations.

Reader Frank Madarasz emailed the following description of what our grandchildren must be prepared to accept.  Liberals will dismiss it as scare-mongering, but that’s what was said of Churchill’s warnings about the intentions of National Socialist Germany before 1939.

Frank writes, “Only the people of  the “Book” (the Bible) are afforded the honor of becoming a dhimmis.  Hindus and the rest are not afforded this dubious honor--they are considered pagans (how ironic). They either convert or get their heads chopped off.  No middle ground here.”

From: http://jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/
Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, “protected people,” are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur’an’s command that they “feel themselves subdued” (Sura 9:29). This denial of equality of rights and dignity remains part of the Sharia, and, as such, are part of the law that global jihadists are laboring to impose everywhere, ultimately on the entire human race.

The dhimmi attitude of chastened subservience has entered into Western academic study of Islam, and from there into journalism, textbooks, and the popular discourse. One must not point out the depredations of jihad and dhimmitude; to do so would offend the multiculturalist ethos that prevails everywhere today.
But in this era of global terrorism this silence and distortion has become deadly. Therefore Dhimmi Watch seeks to bring public attention to the plight of the dhimmis, and by doing so, to bring them justice.

Cartoon rage

Diana West (Washington Times, February 10, 2006) identifies the core element of international cartoon rage: the attempt to turn Western non-Muslims into dhimmis.

We need to learn a new word: dhimmitude. I’ve written about dhimmitude periodically, lo, these many years since September 11, but it takes time to sink in. Dhimmitude is the coinage of a brilliant historian, Bat Ye’or, whose pioneering studies of the dhimmi, populations of Jews and Christians vanquished by Islamic jihad, have led her to conclude that a common culture has existed through the centuries among the varied dhimmi populations. From Egypt and Palestine to Iraq and Syria, from Morocco and Algeria to Spain, Sicily and Greece, from Armenia and the Balkans to the Caucasus: Wherever Islam conquered, surrendering dhimmi, known to Muslims as “people of the book [the Bible],” were tolerated, allowed to practice their religion, but at a dehumanizing cost.

There were literal taxes (jizya) to be paid; these bought the dhimmi the right to remain non-Muslim, the price not of religious freedom, but of religious identity. Freedom was lost, sorely circumscribed by a body of Islamic law (sharia) designed to subjugate, denigrate and humiliate the dhimmi. The resulting culture of self-abnegation, self-censorship and fear shared by far-flung dhimmi is the basis of dhimmitude. The extremely distressing but highly significant fact is, dhimmitude doesn’t only exist in lands where Islamic law rules.

This is the lesson of Cartoon Rage 2006, a cultural nuke set off by an Islamic chain reaction to those 12 cartoons of Muhammad appearing in a Danish newspaper. We have watched the Muslim meltdown with shocked attention, but there is little recognition that its poisonous fallout is fear. Fear in the State Department, which, like Islam, called the cartoons unacceptable. Fear in Whitehall, which did the same. Fear in the Vatican, which did the same. And fear in the media, which have failed, with few, few exceptions, to reprint or show the images. With only a small roll of brave journals, mainly in Europe, to salute, we have seen the proud Western tradition of a free press bow its head and submit to an Islamic law against depictions of Muhammad. That’s dhimmitude.

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