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   The *war on terrorism* has become the war against Islam: *While Christians   
   have evangelized the word of Christ, Muslims have spread Islam by the   
   sword....The tolerance, the appeasement, shown by modern Europe has not   
   worked. It was seen as weakness and it is now being tested with a view to   
   transforming Europe . It will not go away or diminish peacefully. One need   
   only look at the wars waged against Israel for proof of that.*   
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   The European Infitada   
      
   By Alan Caruba   
   2005/11/10   
      
   There is a certain schadenfreude in the scenes of the rioting in France , a   
   gleeful, malicious pleasure that comes from knowing that there is always   
   payback for bad behavior, whether in this world or the next.   
      
   Ironically, France is where the Islamic march up the Iberian Peninsula to   
   conquer Europe ended in 732 AD. Had not Charles Martel stopped the Moorish   
   general, Abd al-Rahman and his Muslim army between Tours and Poitier, Europe   
   and the whole of Western history would have been very different. Later, in   
   1492, a Christian army would recapture Grenada and put an end to the last   
   Muslim stronghold in Spain . In 1683, Ottoman armies were defeated outside   
   of Vienna , thus ending the efforts to conquer Europe   
      
   One would think, if life in Muslim North Africa "the Maghreb" was so grand,   
   why would literally millions of immigrants have sought to gain access to   
   Europe ? The former European colonies have been independent for more than a   
   half-century. Surely they represent a far more homogeneous environment that   
   the cold climes of Europe, but the reality is that Muslim enclaves have been   
   growing in places like England , the Netherlands , Norway , Germany , for   
   decades.   
      
   The difference between the Muslims who made new lives in new places and   
   others is that they choose not to integrate into their new societies. They   
   remained Muslims first and last, no matter what nation they called home.   
   Their loyalty was to the "Uumma", the great body of Islam, not a particular   
      
      
   nation. They choose not to be English, French, or Dutch. They defined   
   themselves in ways that insured they remained "the other" among those who   
   took pride in their particular nation.   
      
   As Tony Blankely, a Washington Times editor and author of a new book, "The   
   West's Last Chance", noted in a November 9 commentary, "This is not about   
   Muslim poverty. It is about radical Islamist self-confidence and contempt   
   for the West. And, it is about Western weakness."   
      
   Muslim anger goes back to the Crusades, which lasted from 1095 to 1291. To   
   this day, Christians are still regarded as "crusaders", a common term among   
   Middle Eastern Muslims, still smarting over the efforts to regain control of   
   Jerusalem and other holy sites. Christians and Jews who live in the Middle   
   East are still subject to attacks. The riots throughout France and elsewhere   
   in Europe, along with those that occurred in the United Kingdom in July, in   
   the Netherlands , in Madrid , bespeak an ugly future if modern Muslims have   
   their way.   
      
   France , however, has been experiencing at least half a decade of a slowly   
   escalating Intifada waged against synagogues, kosher butchers and Jewish   
   schools. Like the canary in the coal mine, where Jews are attacked, soon all   
   others will be as well.   
      
   Europe , as a whole, however, has either failed or refused to read the   
   writing on the wall. Almost universally, it expressed hostility to the   
   nation of Israel and solidarity with Muslim nations. As its own native-born   
   populations decreased, it welcomed Muslims to the continent and the European   
   Commission fostered a project found in the "Report of the High Advisory   
   Group on Dialogue between Peoples and Cultures in the Euro-Mediterranean   
   Area" that created a new "ethnic group" immigrants. Even if they have lived   
   in Europe for several generations, they retain this identification and gain   
   a special status.   
      
   The Muslims of Europe apparently wouldn't have it any other way. Living as   
   they do among the "crusaders", it was, they knew, only a matter of time   
   before they finished the job that Abd al-Rahman and the Ottoman army could   
   not. Too many Muslims do not want to integrate with a larger society. As   
   soon as they gain in numbers, they insist that the host nation change to   
   become Muslim, i.e., to abandon the rules of constitutional government and   
   adopt sharia law.   
      
   And you wonder why many voices have been warning of the consequences now   
   seen in the flames all over France , the terrors of England 's bus and   
   subway systems, and the streets of the Netherlands where at least one   
   prominent infidel, deemed an enemy of Islam, was shot to death and then had   
   a knife plunged into his heart.   
      
   The Jihad has come to Europe . It is the same Europe in which some nations   
   decried the American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq as the first step to   
   transform the Middle East sufficiently to join it to the rest of the global   
   community; to impose a measure of freedom unknown in that backwater of   
   history, and to permit its people to connect at last to the rest of the   
   world.   
      
   The problems endemic to the Middle East and exported to Europe can be summed   
   up in a single word, Islam. It is not a religion of peace. It is a warrior   
   cult based on life in seventh century Arabia . A billion people around the   
   world subscribe to Islam and it clearly provides spiritual comfort, but it   
   also imposes the requirement to conquer and subordinate all other people of   
   faith to their control.   
      
   While Christians have evangelized the word of Christ, Muslims have spread   
   Islam by the sword. These days an element of Muslims is using terror as   
   their instrument of war. This is hardly an encouragement for anyone,   
   anywhere, to convert except as an alternative to death or the slavery that   
   comes with dhimmitude, a second-class citizenship in nations ruled by   
   Muslims.   
      
   The tolerance, the appeasement, shown by modern Europe has not worked. It   
   was seen as weakness and it is now being tested with a view to transforming   
   Europe . It will not go away or diminish peacefully. One need only look at   
   the wars waged against Israel for proof of that.   
      
   Even President Bush has been forced to change the rhetoric of "a war on   
   terrorism" to a war on fundamentalist Islam. September 11, 2001 forced   
   America to use its military power to join the battle. It was then joined by   
   the Great Britain and a number of nations that had lived under Soviet   
   domination. Now one can only hope that the rest of Europe will, at last,   
   join it as well.   
      
      
      
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