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November 19, 2004

Even the Europeans Are Starting to Get Wise

I don't want a war of civilizations, although I fear we're on our way if not engaged in one already. And I don't want to quarantine the whole of the Islamic world and let it stew in its own hatred and backwardness until it produces a decent civil society-- which, historically speaking, could take 200 or more years.

But Muslims cannot allow large numbers of their faith to support psychopathic race-murder and then expect that our patience for this savagery will continue forever.

One of Holland's most popular political figures is calling for a five-year ban on non-Western-- i.e., Muslim -- immigration into his country. And I for one can't say I blame him.

It's a mistake to confuse a naive faith in the talismanic power of "tolerance" and an extreme PC attitude for actual weakness. It is weakness, yes, and it does allow those who would exploit PC nonsense to get away with literal murder. But only for a time. American timidity was a temporary condition, not an enduring one, and perhaps so too is European timidity and appeasement.

The Europeans have been virulently xenophobic and savage themselves in their past. Islamofascist provocateurs should bear that in mind.

And goodwilled Muslims should keep that in mind too, and more actively cooperate in purging our societies of these monsters. The American Constitution is not a suicide pact, it has been said, and neither, ultimately, is the European PC-weenie fetish for tolerance. At some point even the Dutch -- hell, even the Belgians -- will no longer be willing to accept terrorism and murder simply in order to pretend that a cherished ideal is actually working.

Humorous Update-- the Ace of Spades Effect: If Andrew Sullivan can suggest he's the most important force in American politics after George Bush, why can't I similarly claim to be similarly important in Europe?

At least I have evidence:

Wilders said that without swift, bold action, Islamic fundamentalism will topple the country's democratic system.
"The Netherlands has been too tolerant to intolerant people for too long," he said. "We should not import a retarded political Islamic society to our country. There is nothing to be ashamed of to say this. It's not Islam. I speak out against the facts."

You know he got that from me. You know it.

posted by Ace at 10:23 PM

Comments

I can't see any good reason why it'd be improper for them or any nation to effectively stop immigration from those countries. Perhaps cordoning off those Muslim nations would provide enough of a shoch ot the system for them to actually reform themselves so they can be part of the world again.

Posted by: Jimmie on November 19, 2004 10:42 PM

Pardon me Ace, but we already have a war of civilizations. Western freedom is anethema to the Islam-as-politics practices in Iran and Saudi Arabia. The globalized world means that our culture is in their face every day, threatening the Islamic powers-that-be with losing control. OBL's desire to cut off the Middle East from the rest of the world is his desperate attempt to preserve the world of the 13th Century that cannot withstand the modern one.

We are at war, even if the Dutch have taken a bit longer to realize that 51% of us on this side of the Atlantic.

Your warning is well intended and apt, however. The Muslims would not like the Germans when they're angry. Americans at least have a conscience.

Posted by: Brock on November 20, 2004 12:03 AM

That and "swift-boat" action might have spared the West the worst of all scenarios.

Posted by: m a r t i n @ b l o g b a t on November 20, 2004 01:11 AM

I don't know, maybe it is just frustration talking, but I half wish that we were fighting the kind of war the Left and our enemies say we are. That we are laying waste to the whole mofo' in a manner reminiscent of Jenjis Khan. That every suspected insurgent gets a three day session with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch before we are satisfied with their innocence. That the 1st Infantry Division's Iraq headquarters looks like Colonel Kurtz's base from "Apocalypse Now".

If we are going to get scourged by the press for getting Biblical in this war with Islamifascism we might as well do it.

Posted by: Alex on November 20, 2004 01:23 AM

This will be interesting to watch. The only thing that's kept the Western European welfare states from collapsing completely has been the influx of an Eastern-immigrant work force.

Can you say "crash"?

Posted by: ccwbass on November 20, 2004 02:45 AM

Even after all of the just plain wrong headed trash talk from the cowardly Europeans, it pains me greatly to see the scourge of Islamifascism striking at them. One wonders for just how much longer the Europeans can dishonor their dead. It is well past time for our little brothers and sisters to grow up and face reality. Even if they move very fast, they can count on more of the same - they are so very far behind.

Posted by: Philip on November 20, 2004 03:37 AM

Wilder is no Jorg Haider, and obviously Holland hasn't expressed the xenophobia Austria has.

Actually I give him a lot of credit for reading Ace of Spades.

Posted by: Dave in Texas on November 20, 2004 12:03 PM

So when is the US going to implement such a reasonable policy? And start putting on airplanes back to the ME those people who make threats to Americans such as at SFSU?

Posted by: Elisa on November 20, 2004 02:59 PM

Ace,

LOL!

I read the quote re: retarded via Drudge last night, and I thought AoS!

No joke.

Posted by: MeTooThen on November 20, 2004 03:59 PM

OT,
But just the fact that it remembered my info.....That's so sweet.

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