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Europeans Warn America of Civilizational Jihad

Posted on March 28, 2016 byLeslie Burt

Religious Freedom

Coalition, by Andrew Harrod, PhD. March 25, 2016:

“Do not let what has happened in Europe and Britain happen to America,” statedPaul

Weston, leader of the small British rightwing partyLiberty GB, on March 3 at the

Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Weston along with the Danish writer

Lars Hedegaard warned in apocalyptic terms against an influx of Islamic immigration

during a Center for Security Policy (CSP)panel before a standing room only audience of

about 60.

After Center for Security Policy PresidentFrank Gaffney’s introduction described a “not

so much nonviolent as pre-violent” Islamic “civilization jihad,” Hedegaard stated that

“Europe as we knew it is just a few years away from a complete breakdown.” He

discussed an ongoing influx that would last several years of millions of economic

immigrants to Europe, people who on the basis of past experience with Muslimimmigrant communities “have proven to be impossible to integrate.” According to the

European Union’s (EU) Eurostat, Weston noted,80 percent of these migrants come from

outside Syria; among them there is “only a small minority who can claim to be fleeing

from war,” Hedegaard concluded.

Hedegaard discussed these migrants crossing the EU’s southern member state borders

and then traveling towards the EU’s northern members like Denmark and Germany with

their generous welfare systems. “You cannot maintain a welfare system under these

circumstances,” he stated, as immigrants “rip off the native population whose parentsand grandparents toiled to create this kind of society.” He termed the EU a “master con

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artist” for having violated a promise to guard the EU’s outer borders given in exchange

for the abolition of EU-member state border controls under theSchengen agreement.

Hedegaard foresaw such Islamic immigration creating a “checkerboard of various

enclaves” that “will not have much to do with each other except for intermittent lowintensity warfare.” The “writ of the law will not run throughout the national territory” as

so-called “no-go” areas develop where state authorities such as police and first

responders will enter only with great caution. Europe has not seen something like this

coming “international war between one culture and another culture” since the 16-17th

century wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants.

Weston likewise recalled discussing with British intellectualRoger Scruton how the

growth of Islamic communities in the United Kingdom would end in civil conflict involving

improvised weapons like bricks. “It is going to be cataclysmic,” Weston stated. In the

end, Scruton predicted that non-Muslim Britons “are going to win but we will not be the

same good, moral, decent, just people that we were because of what we will have to do.”

Weston already worried about the United Kingdom’s fertile Muslim population that

currently numbered 3.2 million after having increased from 200,000 in the 1970s. “As

they grow they start demanding more,” he said, “they back this up with terrorism and with

jihad…Islam pushes and our government buckles” according to the meaning of Islam as

“submission.” Meanwhile, after heavy Muslim migration in recent decades, “Sweden is

literally a lost country” and the “rape capital of the European continent,” only exceeded

globally in rape rates by Lesotho in southern Africa.

Europol, the EU police agency, gave Weston further concern withestimates that 5,000

jihadists were among the million migrants recently entering Europe. He stated that two

of the November 13, 2015Paris attacks were migrants (actually, all were European

citizens, although some had trained in Syria andpretended to be refugees when

returning to Europe). Accordingly, when the next “inevitable attack happens,” European

politicians “will have the blood of the murdered and the blood of the maimed on theirhands.”

Both Hedegaard and Weston expressed frustration with European political leadership.

“From country to country, it doesn’t make any difference what party you vote for” in terms

of changing policy direction, Hedegaard said. Weston discussed how British Muslims

can claim welfare benefits for four wives although polygamy is illegal, meaning “our own

government is paying to colonize Britain.”

Hedegaard discerned Leftist designs in liberal immigration policies. After losing the ColdWar, the Left wants

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to break down our democracy and national cohesion by other means. They couldn’t do it

by means of the working class, because the working class left them. Now they want to

import the so-called new proletariat that will never become integrated in bourgeois

society and on the basis of which they hope to be able to gain the power that they could

not get as hardline socialists.

By contrast, “Donald Trump would absolutely love it in Europe at the moment, because

there are walls and fences being built all over the place,” Weston noted with respect to

renewed national immigration controls. Mention of Trump caused Gaffney to express

approval of a moratorium on Islamic immigration into the United States until various

security questions found a solution. “It causes offense to some, I grant you, but it’s an

eminently sensible approach,” he said. “We have enough jihadists here already. We

actually don’t need to increase their numbers.”

Yet Center for Security Policy Executive Vice President Jim Hanson, who had built

schools, dug wells, and conducted immunization programs for Muslims as a Green

Beret, differentiated between the panelists’ concerns and prejudice. “You will first be

called a hater and an Islamophobe,” he stated for anyone concurring with the panel.

“Islam is accepted as a religion in the United States,” he distinguished, but Islamic

“sharia is not a religion; it is a totalitarian ideology that includes religion” to which not all

Muslims adhered.

Hedegaard and Weston’s dire description of valid European problems mimic French

dystopian fiction, but the pair’s personal encounters with European hate speech laws are

real (seehere andhere). Yet for the hard-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the

pair’s opposition to these laws simply gave one more reasonto condemn CSP for giving

a CPAC venue to these two “racists.” Americans who wish to discuss Islam without

inhibitions often presented by prosecutorial dangers in Europe should heed Weston’s

warning: “Make sure that you retain your First Amendment rights.”

Andrew E. Harrod is a researcher and writer who holds a PhD from the Fletcher Schoolof Law and Diplomacy and a JD from George Washington University Law School. He is

a fellow with the Lawfare Project, an organization combating the misuse of human rights

law against Western societies. He can be followed on twitter at @AEHarrod.
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