RACHEL EHRENFELD: EUROPE- HOW MANY MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT?
Decades of efforts to avoid stigmatizing Muslims and to understand and address ‘root causes’ of Islamist terrorism have yielded horrific dividends in Europe. Belgium’s 2003 Terrorist Offenses Act criminalizes terrorism and participation in terrorist groups, but gets out its way to exclude Muslim “organization whose real purpose is solely of a political, trade union or philanthropic, philosophical or religious nature, or which solely pursues any other legitimate aim, cannot, as such, be considered a terrorist group.”
Belgium, France, and other European nations are blamed for failing to integrate their Muslim population. While this may be true, it is important to note that Muslim immigrants, increasingly radicalized, refuse to integrate. Instead, the larger the Muslim population got, it demanded, often violently, that their adoptive countries adhere to Islamic law. Imams everywhere preached that Muslim women set themselves apart from non-Muslim and advocate Islamic values of modesty by wearing hijab (head scarfs), although “there is no provision in the Quran that requires Muslim women to wear a headscarf when they are outside of their homes.”
The growing Muslim communities’ efforts to enforce sharia in Europe and elsewhere have been accompanied by Saudi and Gulf funding and very large donations to academic and cultural institutions. Money talks. And when receiving billions of dollars is conditioned on covering cultural monuments symbols of Western civilization, or giving up wine for just a dinner or two as the Italians have last January to please the Iranian president, gets Europeans to toss hastily aside their national identity, independence, and pride.
Such greed of secular, Left-leaning members of the European Parliament helped advancing the Islamic agenda by codifying the Islamic narrative, imposing political correctness with new draconian hate- speech laws that furthered the silencing any opposition.
As for handling Muslims suspected of terrorism, a Belgian police expert was quoted in February 2014, Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Terrorism report, saying that the critical elements of a successful counter-Islamic terrorism strategy include “the empathy one has to entertain with the subject at hand…This empathy has to start with real knowledge of the ‘other’, first empirically, then scientifically, and has to be build upon the units’ contacts in the field. The approach has to be based on neurons, not hormones. Herein probably resides the real Belgian specificity when dealing with jihadi terrorism.”
Similar Stockholm Syndrome-like attitudes are prevalent in European law enforcement and security agencies, not to mention politicians, academicians and the media.
Decades of supporting politically and financially Palestinian terrorist groups, which began by submission to their blackmail, distorted Europeans views and impaired their ability to identify the rise of radical Islam.
Keffiyeh-clad Middle Easterns were automatically viewed as freedom- fighters against the Israeli occupation. Attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets helped sustain the illusion that Muslim terrorists will not attack Europe. Now, similar looking Middle Easterns, are terrorizing Europe to advance the Islamic caliphate.
The European submission to sharia dictates, failure to understand the danger of genocidal Sunni and Shiite ideologies alike, and eagerness to compromise should worry all freedom-loving, self-respecting nations. Allowing millions of real and pretending Muslim refugees to European cities already compromised by radical Islam, overwhelms all European institutions and seriously threatens Europe, the U.S., and the rest of world.
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