onsdag, maj 27, 2020

Förbjud Hizballahs verksamhet i Sverige !

      


Ledarsidorna uppmanar svenska regeringen att göra som alltflera utländska regeringar (nu senast den tyska):
Förbjuda den islamistiska terrororganisationen Hizballahs ("Guds parti") subversiva verksamhet i Sverige.
Men förklarar också varför det är mycket otroligt att 
socialdemokraterna, med intima relationer med flera islamistorganisationer, skulle våga göra så...

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Israel ställer krav på att även Sverige agerar mot den terroklassade organisationen Hezbollah. Men sannolikheten för att regeringen Löfven skall över huvud taget agera på den israeliska propån bör betecknas som minimala. Hezbollah har i flera fall ännu godare relationer med socialdemokraterna än det Muslimska brödraskapet.

Efrat Hochstetler, vice beskickningschef på israeliska ambassaden menar att Sverige bör följa Tysklands exempel och inskränka eller förbjuda organisationen Hezbollah i Sverige i en debattartikel i Expressen.
Hezbollah är en islamistisk shiamuslimsk organisation som uppvisar både stora likheter men samtidigt stora skillnader med det sunnimuslimska Muslimska brödraskapet.

Inledningsvis är Hezbollah av ett betydligt yngre datum. Grundat 1982 som en konsekvens av det libanesiska inbördeskriget och på initiativ från Teheran. Hezbollah var inledningsvis en social rörelse, precis som det nästan 100 år gamla sunnimuslimska Brödraskapet, men som sedan kom att utveckla en stridande del. Fram tills idag har flera länder valt att terrorklassa den stridande, eller väpnade delen av Hezbollah, men Tyskland har valt att förbjuda hela organisationen då Hezbollah själva menar att den agerar som en enad front.

Ur ett ideologiskt och ekumeniskt perspektiv finns stora skillnader mellan Hezbollah och Brödraskapet. Hezbollah vilar dels på en shiamuslimsk islamism som tar sitt avstamp i iraniern Ali Shariatis av postmarxismen influerade tolkningar av koranen. Ali Shariatis shiitiska islamism, som av vissa även kallas för shiism, låg till grund för den iranska revolutionen 1979.

Där Brödraskapet har tagit sina influenser från nazismen har Hezbollah tagit sina från Sovjetkommunismen.


Hezbollah har inte heller Brödraskapets ambition med ett värlsdomspännande kalifat som primärt huvudmål. Hezbollah är en utbräglad enfrågerörelse som domineras av sitt hat mot judar och sin ambition att radera staten Israel för gott.

Som en öppet radikal och våldsbejakande minoritet i en minoritet, en islamism i den shiamuslimska minoriteten, har Hezbollah haft det svårt att etablera sig i Västeuropa. Men även om det har varit svårt att få fäste för organisationen innebär det inte att den inte har etablerat sig och inte heller att den inte utgör ett reellt hot. Och i likhet med Brödraskapets nätverksorganisationer och företrädare har Hezbollah goda kontakter med främst Socialdemokraterna. Hezbollahs företrädare har kunnat uppträda både avslappnat och öppet på arrangemang och manifestationer där socialdemokratiska företrädare engagerats.

Ur Hezbollahs program från 1985 går att läsa bland annat

“vår kamp tar slut först när denna entitet [Israel] är förintad”.
Historiska exempel på detta är när dagens kommunalråd i Norrköping, Lars Stjernkvist under sin tid som partisekreterare för Socialdemokraterna höll tal om Israel-Palestina — konflikten. I publikhavet kunde då Hezbollahs fana vaja obehindrat. Stjernkvist menade på en direkt fråga att han inte såg något olämpligt i detta. Andra som uppträtt obehindrat när dess symboler varit närvarande är bland annat den tidigare partiledaren Mona Sahlin, förre vice generalsekreteraren och utrikesministern Jan Eliasson samt regeringen Löfvens socialförsäkringsminister Ardalan Shekarabi.

2009 kunde Mona Sahlin och Jan Eliasson uppträda tillsammans i en demonstration där fanor för Hamas och Hizbollah vajade för vinden. Stora flaggor, fullt synliga. I demonstrationen sågs också hakkors. Senare under protestmötet stacks den israeliska flaggan i brand. Utan reaktioner från vare sig Sahlin eller Eliasson.

2009  kunde även Ardalan Shekarabi ses på Sergels Torg i Stockholm sida vid sida med Omar Mustafa, senare ordförande för en av Brödraskapets nätverksorganisationer i Sverige — IFiS. I publikhavet samsades Hezbollahs baner med symboler för Brödraskapet.

Detta trots kunskapen om att Hezbollah idag beräknas ha en omfattande arsenal av avancerade stridsspetsar riktade mot Israel stationerade i södra Libanon. Inte sällan har även Muslimska brödraskapets olika symboler samt hakkorset lyfts fram vid dessa manifestationer i socialdemokraters närvaro. Utan reaktioner från regeringspartiet.

I riksdagen finns även andra företrädare som till exempel riksdagsledamoten från Malmö Jamal el Haj, S. Även han har uppträtt på manifestationer där både Hamas symboler samt Hezbollahs flagga varit placerade i hans direkta närhet. El Haj menade att han inte kände till flaggans betydelse vilket gör honom unik. Uppvuxen i Libanon och samtida med rörelsen torde el Haj vara den enda exil-palestinier med libanesiskt ursprung som inte känner till rörelsens symboler. El Haj är idag suppleant för socialdemokraterna i utrikesutskottet.

På ett internationellt plan närmar sig nu de olika islamistiska rörelserna varandra. Vinsterna för dem av ett samarbete är uppenbara. Hezbollah kan uppvisa en helt annan ekonomi än Brödraskapet då Hezbollah dels kontrollerar eller har kontrollerat oljekällor i bland annat Sudan samt har IRGC, det iranska revolutionsgardet och den iranska regimen som sponsorer. Vad Brödraskapet har å sin sida är ett starkt varumärke som inte är lika förknippat med öppet användande av våld samt en unikt god organisationsförmåga att använda sig av i etableringen i väst.

Efrat Hochstetler aktualiserar frågan om hur Sverige hanterar våldsbejakande islamistiska rörelser. Sverige har så här långt inte i nämnvärd omfattning bidragit till den internationella koordineringen av arbetet mot våldsbejakande islamism. 
Sverige är bekräftat den största nettoexportören av våldsbejakande och våldstillämpande islamism i EU vid sidan av Belgien. Sverige är en av de största nettoexportörerna per capita av IS-terrorister och utgör en ”safe haven” för radikaliserande organisationer som Brödraskapet. Inte sällan med statsbidrag eller andra offentligt finansierade bidrag förklädda till kulturbidrag, folkbildningsanslag eller annan utbildning.
Och även om Hezbollah är att betrakta som en extrem enfrågerörelse i minoritet innebär det inte att organisationen inte utgör ett hot. 
Det allt mer aktiva samarbetet, internationellt och i Sverige med Brödraskapet, samt avslappnade förhållningssättet från ledande socialdemokrater som Mona Sahlin, Lars Stjernkvist samt Ardalan Shekarabi är ett av flera tecken som styrker att även Hezbollah kunnat flytta fram sina positioner och bygga upp en plattform att agera utifrån.
Ingen av dessa partiföreträdare, allt från Mona Sahlin och Jan Eliasson över till Lars Stjernkvist och Ardalan Shekarabi bör heller anses vara omedvetna om organisationens mål, syften och antisemitiska grundvärderingar.


måndag, maj 25, 2020

Facit 2020: Ramadan kostade 718 människoliv...



Så kan The Religion of Peace ge oss facit för
i år: Ramadan kostade 718 människors liv.
 

Jämför det med vad övriga religioners högtider
brukar kosta. Brukar den kristna Julen eller 
judiska Pesach resultera i massmord...? 
Varför är det just islam som förmår locka 
fram det sämsta i människan: Hat och blodtörst ? 





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fredag, maj 22, 2020

Antisemitisk hatdag inställd



Ayatollah Khomeini utropade 1979 sista fredagen i Ramadan till en internationell antisemitisk hatdag, Al-Qudsdagen. 
Sedan dess har Irankontrollerade shiamuslimska 
organisationer, framförallt det världsomspännande Hizballah, varje år ordnat stora antisemitiska demonstrationer, ofta med våldsinslag.

På senare år har de största utanför Iran och Libanon  hållits i Berlin och London. I Sverige har iranska ambassaden och Hizballah några gånger anordnat demonstrationer i Malmö och Stockholm. 
En kort period anslöt sig olika nazistgrupper till upptågen, men intresset tycks ha ebbat ut...

Några scener från Berlin 2014. Parollen var då
"JUDARNA I GASKAMMAREN". Tusen kravallpoliser
stod bredvid och tycktes vara döva...
(Iran är en av Tysklands största handelspartners...)

 



Lagom till årets demonstration beslöt äntligen tyska regeringen att olagligförklara Hizballah. Och då gick ju all luft ur planeringen i Berlin. Sedan har ju pandemin lett till att brittiska regeringen förbjudit alla demonstrationer. Så i år blir det tydligen bara i Iran och Libanon som shiamuslimerna  får tjuta sina antisemitiska paroller...
Låt oss hoppas att det blir total tystnad därefter...



torsdag, maj 14, 2020

Islamistisk massaker på BB i Kabul





Terrorister från Kalifatet ISIS genomförde en blodig
massaker på en födelseklinik i Kabul, Afghanistan.
Minst ett tjugotal nyfödda, mödrar och barnmorskor dödades och ett okänt antal skadades enligt nyhetsbyråerna.
Det är inte första gången sjukhus angrips av islamister då all västerländsk sjukvård betraktas som
"haram" (synd).
Lyckligtvis kunde afghanska polisen rädda nitton nyfödda, som fördes i säkerhet.
Läs mera i BBC:s reportage om tisdagens terrordåd i Afghanistan:



Two babies and 12 mothers and nurses were killed in a militant attack on a hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday morning.
Another 15 people, including a number of children, were injured in the attack by several gunmen, officials said.

Meanwhile, in the east, a bombing at a funeral killed at least 24 people.
In the wake of the attacks, President Ashraf Ghani said he was ordering the resumption of offensive operations against the Taliban and other groups.
He accused the militants of ignoring repeated calls for a reduction in violence.
The Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attack on a police commander's funeral in Nangarhar, in the east of the country. It is still not clear who carried out the attack on the hospital, and the Taliban have denied any involvement.

A maternity ward in the hospital is run by the international medical charity Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) and some of those working there are foreigners.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the attack on the hospital "sheer evil" and an "unconscionable assault". In a statement he urged the Afghan government and the Taliban to co-operate to "bring the perpetrators to justice".

What happened at the hospital?

The attack began at about 10:00 (05:30 GMT), and locals described hearing two blasts then gunfire. One doctor who fled during the assault told the BBC about 140 people were in the hospital when the gunmen attacked.

Another doctor told AFP news agency that "total panic" took hold as the assault unfolded.
Ramazan Ali, a vendor who saw the attack begin, told Reuters news agency: "The attackers were shooting at anyone in this hospital without any reason... It's a government hospital, and a lot of people bring in their women and children for treatment."

 Afghan special forces rescued 100 women and children, including three foreigners, an official told the BBC. The attackers, who reportedly had gained access dressed as police officers, were all killed by security personnel after a battle lasting hours.




 

Images from the scene showed soldiers carrying one newborn baby to safety, swaddled in a blood-stained blanket.

Many foreign staff live in a guesthouse behind the Dasht-e-Barchi Hospital and a doctor who fled the building told the BBC he saw an explosion there too.




The clinic has 100 beds and a number of foreign staff
In the past, similar attacks in this mostly Shia area of the capital have been attributed to IS. The group's leader in South Asia and the Far East was arrested in Kabul on Tuesday, with two other high profile members, Afghan intelligence said. 
In 2017, IS gunmen disguised as medical staff attacked Kabul's main military hospital, prompting widespread shock and anger and raising questions about security. The authorities later confirmed about 50 people had been killed.
But the Taliban also attack hospitals. Last September, 20 people died after a truck packed with explosives was detonated by militants from the group outside a hospital in southern Zabul province.
On TV, Mr Ghani said: "In order to provide security for public places and to thwart attacks and threats from the Taliban and other terrorist groups, I'm ordering Afghan security forces to switch from an active defence mode to an offensive one and to resume their operations against the enemies."

Fragile hope shaken





Analysis box by Lyse Doucet, chief international correspondent
Even in a country which has seen the worst of the worst, this savage attack on newborn babies and their mothers has shocked, and shaken fragile hope this would be the year Afghanistan would finally start to turn towards peace.
Images of special forces in bulky body armour, carrying infants to safety, will remain long in the memory of those who have repeatedly called for a ceasefire - especially when Afghans are battling another deadly enemy in Covid-19.
Despite Taliban denials that this ghastly attack was their work, President Ghani's denunciation reflects the anger and frustration of many. Some worry that groups like Islamic State, trying to drive an even greater wedge between Taliban and the government, have also killed for now what were slow uncertain steps toward peace talks.
And for those who have never trusted the Taliban's commitment, this latest attack solidifies their resolve to keep fighting.

What happened at the funeral?

According to survivors, thousands of people had gathered for the local police commander's funeral, and the bomb detonated about half-way through. Ataullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the governor, said 68 people were injured.
A member of the provincial council was among the at least 24 killed.
Tuesday's attacks were widely condemned by countries around the world and human rights groups, with Amnesty International saying: "The unconscionable war crimes in Afghanistan today... must awaken the world to the horrors civilians continue to face."
On Twitter, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: "I'm horrified by the appalling terrorist attacks in Afghanistan today - including on a maternity hospital. Targeting mothers, their newborns and medical staff is despicable."



 

tisdag, maj 12, 2020

No-go-zonerna exploderar snart i Frankrike


Islamiseringen av Frankrike ökar för varje vecka.
Nu finns det över 750 zoner dit polisen inte längre kan ta sig in utan full stridsutrustning och där det franska samhället inte längre fungerar.
Ett alternativt islamistiskt samhälle, baserat på narkotikahandel och annan brottslighet och där salafistiska imamer styr, har tagit över.
Läget är ännu värre än i Sverige...
Professor Millière varnar för en explosion av islamism och annan brottslighet när utegångsförbudet p g a pandemin hävs. Och det franska samhället är lika dåligt rustat som det svenska...

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  • A few months ago, a police officer, Noam Anouar, who infiltrated Islamist circles... stated that no-go zones in France are now foreign enclaves on French territory. "The gangs operating there," he wrote, "have formed a parallel economy based on drug trafficking. They consider themselves at war with France and with Western civilization. They act in cooperation with Islamist organizations, and define acts of predation and rampage as raids against infidels". He noted that reclaiming these areas today would be complicated, costly, and involve calling in the army.
  • For years, successive French governments have chosen a policy of "willful blindness": they simply behave as if they do not see what is going on. They do not even try to find solutions.



Saturday, April 18, 11 pm. Villeneuve-la-Garenne, a small town in the northern suburbs of Paris. A young man rides a motorcycle at high speed and hits the door of a police car. He breaks his leg. He is sent to the hospital. He does not have a driver's license but does have a long criminal history. He was sentenced several times by the courts for drug trafficking, robbery with violence and sexual assault.

As soon as news of the accident is released, hostile messages about the police circulate on social media; and in a dozen cities in France, riots break out. The riots are continue for five days in a row. A police station in Strasbourg is attacked and set on fire. A school is nearly destroyed a few miles from Villeneuve-la-Garenne.

Rather than responding with firm language, the French government is saying that an investigation into the behavior of the police has been opened and that the officers will most likely be punished.
The coronavirus pandemic, which struck France hard, has been aggravating the serious problems already plaguing the country.

France's general population remains under extremely strict lockdown; the police have been ordered to enforce the rules ruthlessly. Permits to leave one's home were limited to 60 minutes, once a day, and no farther than half a mile. On Aril 23, Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner said, "Since the start of the lockdown, more than 915,000 citations have been handed out; 15.5 million persons have been stopped and checked". The citations, according to newspapers, were given to people who stayed outside for more than an hour, or who went beyond the authorized limits.

People living in no-go zones [zones-urbaines-sensibles "sensitive urban zones"] are treated differently. Police officers have been told by the government not to stop them at all and to avoid as much as possible going near where they live.
Yves Lefebvre, president of a police union, remarked:

"The government knows that a large-scale uprising could happen, and that a minor incident might be enough to set the powder keg ablaze. Therefore, police officers have unwritten instructions: they must avoid incidents at all costs. If an incident occurs, they know that the government will blame the police, and no one else".
"The choice of the government is easy to explain," he said. "The police would not have the materiel or the manpower to calm a large uprising". He compared the current condition to riots in October 2005, and added that the situation in France today is quite different.
The situation in France today is quite different. It is worse.

In 2005, no-go zones existed, but they were not numerous -- fewer than a hundred -- and were located in the suburbs of the largest cities in the country. The police could still enter them; gangs and radical Islamist imams did not yet control them. Today, there are more than 750 no-go zones in France, and police enter them only by carefully preparing commando-like operations beforehand. Gangs and radical imams seem totally in control.
In 2005, the riots had begun with the death of two young men. They had been trying to escape from the police and taken refuge in an electric-power substation where unfortunately they were electrocuted. Today, a simple traffic accident involving the police can lead to nights of destruction and looting.

In 2005, the police tried to quell the riots, unsuccessfully. For three weeks, the country seemed on the verge of a civil war. Today, because members of the government seem to believe that if riots occur, a civil war really could happen, the police are asked not to intervene and to stand aside until the destruction stops. In July 2018, riots lasting almost a week broke out in Nantes. While the public library and other buildings burned down, the police remained invisible. Eight months later, in March 2019, when riots lasting three days broke out in Grenoble and hundreds of shops and cars were totally destroyed, the police again remained invisible.
In 2005, the people living in no-go zones were hostile to France. Today, their hostility has increased.

A few months ago, a police officer, Noam Anouar, who infiltrated Islamist circles, published a book, France Must Know. No-go zones in France, he wrote, are now foreign enclaves on French territory. "The gangs operating there," he noted, "have formed a parallel economy based on drug trafficking."

"They consider themselves at war with France and with Western civilization. They act in cooperation with Islamist organizations, and define acts of predation and rampage as raids against infidels".
Anouar concluded that reclaiming these areas today would be complicated, costly, and involve calling in the army.

For years, successive French governments have chosen a policy of "willful blindness": they simply behave as if they do not see what is going on. They do not even try to find solutions.
The jihadist attacks of 2015 seemed to be a wake-up call, indicating that maybe an emergency response could be required. A massacre at the headquarters of the satiric magazine Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015 was a huge shock. The incident led to a demonstration of more than a million people in Paris. Ten months later, on November 13, a mass shooting at the Bataclan Theater , where 89 people were murdered and dozens injured -- and 86 people murdered by a truck-ramming in Nice on July 14, 2016 -- were equally huge shocks, but did not lead to any responses. Soldiers were simply dispatched to patrol the streets and stand guard in front of public buildings, churches and synagogues.

Since then, there seems to have been a choice by the government to define terrorist attacks as "inexplicable" and committed by people who were "depressed". The no-go zones were treated as time bombs that would eventually explode, but with the explosion delayed a few years.

Currently, exempting the no-go zones from a lockdown appears to be one way the government implicitly admits that they are no longer a part of French territory, but tries to maintain a precarious coexistence with them.
The riots of April 18 were not supposed to happen. They happened anyhow.
The government seems to hope that calm will return, but appears afraid of any more riots. When Ramadan began April 24, the police were ordered, despite the lockdown, to let Muslims gather to celebrate every evening wherever they wished.

Linda Kebbab, a Muslim police officer, strongly expressed her disagreement. This decision, she said, "causes a feeling of discrimination towards Christians and Jews who celebrated Lent and then Easter or Passover according to the rules of lockdown".

"In addition to dangerously encouraging breaking the French pact of equality before the law, this decision asks the police to bow down to those for whom Ramadan is an excuse to disturb public tranquility. It is a very bad service to law-abiding Muslims"
On April 13, French President Emmanuel Macron promised that the country's lockdown would at least partially end on May 11, even though he is aware that the end of the lockdown means going back to problems. A public transport strike, for instance, had lasted until the pandemic broke out. Unions have been calling for strikes as soon as possible. The polls already in January had indicated that the French were furious with the government. The lockdown, however, had to end at some point. The risk of riots is simply one more problem.
The fear of death from the Wuhan coronavirus had prompted the general population to accept the lockdown, the inspections and the citations.
Every evening since March 18, France's director general of health, Jerome Salomon, has been announcing on television in a dismal tone the number of each day's Covid-19 deaths. He never forgets to say that "the United States is the country most affected by the pandemic", and then gives the number of deaths in America, while "forgetting" to add that the population of France is five times less than that of the U.S. As of May 10, France has suffered 403 Covid-19 deaths per million inhabitants. Only four countries have records that are sadder: Belgium, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom.
The French government could be expecting criticism for its appalling management of the pandemic. As of late April, most doctors still did not have protective face-masks, and screening tests were still virtually absent. Doctors have lost the right to decide what medicine to prescribe and are forbidden to see patients in person. They can only recommend using acetaminophen or aspirin to whoever calls on the phone.
People who have the symptoms for Covid-19 are asked to remain at home without medication; if their condition worsens, they may call an ambulance. If they are over 70 years old, however, an ambulance will not come. A decree from March 19 asked hospitals strictly to limit access to people defined as "too old". The number of deaths in retirement homes is horrendously high.
More than half of those working in the private sector are now unemployed. Thousands of small businesses in multiple sectors are now bankrupt and not able to reopen.

"The feeling of decay that permeates the minds of many French today comes from a truth that few wanted to admit," wrote a historian, Pierre Vermeren, in Le Figaro. "France is a fallen country..."
Laurent "Riss" Sourisseau, a survivor of the 2015 jihadist attack on Charlie Hebdo, and now its editor-in-chief, noted:

"France is living hours of disillusionment as deep as those it had known in May 1940... Before our eyes, everything collapsed at an unimaginable speed... We will have to ask a question: why such a disaster... how was this possible. And the present catastrophe inevitably brings us to the same conclusions: incompetence, disorganization, lack of long-term vision, improvisation. In summary: the nullity of our leaders."
"Two months of lockdown," the author Éric Zemmour said on CNews TV, "will lead to an unprecedented economic crisis and probably to a very serious explosion of violence: it is high time to face reality: France is on the brink of chaos".

Dr. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, is the author of 27 books on France and Europe.
 

söndag, maj 10, 2020

Lägesrapport från RAMADAN




Månaden Ramadan pågår för fullt.


Polisen konstaterar som vanligt att fastandet
leder till lågt blodsocker hos muhammedanerna,

vilket leder till ökad retlighet och våldsbenägenhet.
Samtidigt hetsar salafistiska imamer upp sina anhängare ( t ex shariagängen) till mera våld...

Antalet knivhuggningar, skjutningar och grupp-
våldtäkter brukar öka även i Sverige
under denna månad...
 

 Sedan många år för den eminenta bloggen The Religion of Peace statistik över terrordåd dag för dag.


Igår var läget så här:


 
  Nu pågår "den heliga fastemånaden" ramadan.
Den ska hjälpa muslimerna att leva rättfärdigt
och göra goda gärningar. Alla förväntas uppträda väl, ge allmosor, högakta sin  
familj och undvika våld.
  
Ramadan ger också muslimerna tid 
att tänka över varför
de är inblandade i 90 % av de 
väpnade konflikterna på vår jord.
De får möjlighet att fundera varför 
muslimer är osams med judar,
kristna, hinduer, buddister, 
ateister samt inte minst andra 
sorters muslimer.

Muslimerna kan också fundera på varför 
de slåss i Mellanöstern, Asien, Afrika och på mängder av andra platser
ända bortifrån Filippinerna och till Gibraltar.
Det ger muslimer möjlighet att tänka på 
sina miljoner bröder
som svälter eftersom islamister förstör 
odlingar och kidnappar hjälparbetare.  
Varför islamister spränger moskéer 
  i luften med oskyldiga människor 
i Afghanistan, Irak och Afrika.

Och varför de förstör kristna kyrkor 
och mördar präster i Europa ?

De kan fundera på om det var 
meningen att de länder islam  
erövrat skulle vara världens 
sämsta att bo i.
När de funderat på det, 
kan tänka på om den ideologi 
som kallas islam är bra eller....?






TERROR I MÅNADEN RAMADAN.

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fredag, maj 01, 2020

Europas dolda konservativa



Såhär på Första Maj....

Daniel Pipes intressanta artikel på Gatestone ligger lite utanför bloggens vanliga ämnesområden. Men då den behandlar en  av Europas ödesfrågor: EU:s destruktiva arbete mot Europas folk och det motstånd som trots allt växer fram, väljer jag att publicera den.

Tyvärr gör Pipes i sin definition av konservatism det vanliga amerikanska misstaget att blanda ihop den med dess motpol liberalismen. Men trots det är dess slutsatser tänkvärda. 

Att Europas framtid ligger i Centraleuropa (Visegrad, Österrike, östra Balkan), snarare än i Bryssel och Frankfurt, kan väl få tänkande europeer förneka...

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  • Civilizationists' top concern is not battling climate change, building the European Union, or staving off Russian and Chinese aggression; rather, they focus on preserving Europe's historic civilization of the past two millennia. They worry about Europe becoming an extension of the Middle East or Africa.
  • That anxiety contains four elements: demography, immigration, multiculturalism, and Islamization (or DIMI, recalling the Arabic word dhimmi, the status of Jews and Christians who submit to the rule of Muslims).
  • Civilizationists... are already a powerful force, having advanced from a marginal position twenty years ago to a central role in many countries. They are the key opposition force in Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden. They have been or are part of the government in Austria, Estonia, Italy, Norway, and Switzerland. They govern in a coalition in Poland and on their own in Hungary.

On issues such as demography, immigration, multiculturalism and Islamization, the former Warsaw Pact countries, including the Visegrád Four (Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary), have watched the mistakes of western Europe and resolved not to repeat them. Pictured: (From left) Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini before the meeting the Visegrád Group + Austria summit on January 16, 2020 in Prague, Czech Republic. (Photo by Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Images)

Does Europe have any conservatives? That is, believers in individual responsibility, national independence, free markets, a single law for all, the traditional family, and maximum freedom of speech and religion.

Seemingly not. Politicians called conservative -- such as Angela Merkel of Germany, Jacques Chirac of France, and Fredrik Reinfeldt of Sweden -- are often in reality mild leftists, as are their parties. One might conclude that conservatism is defunct in its homeland.

One would be wrong. A substantial conservative movement exists and is growing in Europe. It is hiding in plain sight, obscured by being tarred as populists, nationalists, extreme-right, or even neo-Nazis. I call this group by another name: civilizationists, acknowledging that (1) they focus on preserving Western civilization and (2) they forward some distinctly un-conservative policies (such as increased welfare and pension payments).

Civilizationists' top concern is not battling climate change, building the European Union, or staving off Russian and Chinese aggression; rather, they focus on preserving Europe's historic civilization of the past two millennia. They worry about Europe becoming an extension of the Middle East or Africa. Already, indigenous Europeans complain of feeling like strangers in their hometowns, of pensioners too scared to leave their houses, and of a school's few Christian and Jewish students beat up by immigrant bullies. Imagine how things will look as the proportions change.

The civilizationists' anxiety contains four main elements: demography, immigration, multiculturalism and Islamization (or DIMI, recalling the Arabic word dhimmi, the status of Jews and Christians who submit to the rule of Muslims).
DIMI's quartet are closely related: Demographic failure creates a need for Immigration which encourages a Multiculturalism that prominently features Islamization.
Start with demographics: Each year, because of its low birth rate of about 1.5 children per woman, the indigenous population of Europe declines by more than one million persons, a number that steadily increases over time. To maintain the population requires an annual immigration of more than that number (few immigrants arrive in Europe as newborns).
The potential pool of immigrants vastly exceeds that number. To cite just two figures: A former Iranian minister of agriculture predicts that, due to water shortages, up to 70% of the country's population, or 57 million Iranians, will emigrate. The population of Africa is expected to triple by the year 2100, leading to hundreds of millions seeking homes in Europe. One-quarter of the European Union's population in thirty years will be of African origin, according to Stephen Smith.
Non-Western immigration brings a variety of practical difficulties: new diseases, linguistic incomprehension, a lack of necessary work skills, and high unemployment.
Multiculturalism results from a mix of immigrant assertiveness and European guilt and self-doubts. Multiculturalism assumes cultures to be morally equivalent and sees no reason to prefer European civilization over any other. Burqas are as valid ball gowns, burkinis as bikinis.
Finally, Islamization brings a number of hostile actions and superior attitudes incompatible with existing Western ways: compulsory headscarves, partial no-go zones, taharrush (sexual predation), förnedringsrån (humiliation robberies), rape gangs, slavery, first-cousin marriages, polygyny, honor killings, female genital mutilation, the Rushdie Rules, jihadi violence, imposing Islamic law on all, and a deep nihilism.

The Establishment, or what I call the "Six Ps" (police, politicians, press, priests, professors, and prosecutors) tends to respond smugly to the DIMI quartet. Focused on the negatives in Europe's history, especially imperialism, fascism, and racism, the elite expresses a pervasive guilt and generally acquiesces to, or even encourages, a transformation of Europe away from its historic culture.

Civilizationists respond to this trend with conservative alarm and work to resist that transformation. They do not feel guilty; on the contrary, they appreciate national traditions, and they see Europe becoming an extension of the Middle East or Africa as a collapse of values and an as existential cultural threat.
The Establishment dismisses them as old-fashioned, weak, elderly, ignorant losers. Even analysts sympathetic to civilizationists, including distinguished writers such as Bat Ye'or, Oriana Fallaci and Mark Steyn, see the cause as lost, and see "Londonistan" and the Islamic Republic of France as inevitable.

But it is not. Civilizationists are already a powerful force, having advanced from a marginal position twenty years ago to a central role in many countries. They have been or are the main parliamentary opposition in Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden. They have been or are part of the government in Austria, Estonia, Italy, Norway, and Switzerland. They govern in a coalition in Poland and on their own in Hungary. Their failure is far from inevitable.

In this light, some predictions:
First, because no one says, "I used to worry about DIMI but no longer," the number of civilizationists will continue to grow. Within 15 or at most 20 years they are likely to dominate Europe's politics, with the possible major exception of the United Kingdom, where they are stalled. After a long and bitter struggle, this countermovement to restore traditional ways will ultimately prevail.
Second, the civilizationists have three paths to power: control of the government, as in Hungary and Poland; joining with nominal conservatives, as in Austria; or joining with the Left, as in Italy. Also, in limited ways, the Left itself can bring some conservative ideas to power, as in Denmark. Further new paths may yet appear.
Third, the former Warsaw Pact countries will lead the way toward this future. Watching the mistakes of NATO Europe, they resolve not to repeat them. This includes the Visegrád Four (Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary) as well as eastern Germany, Romania, and Bulgaria. The eastern part of Europe has for a millennium lagged behind the western part, so this is a remarkable turnaround.
Fourth, civilizationists are hardly known for their intellectualism or principles, so seeing them as conservatives may come as a surprise. But they are moving erratically in that direction. What begins with instinct, raw populism, and crude majoritarianism is evolving into something more refined, as civilizationists move to the political center to win support. Experience modulates self-indulgence. 
Intellectuals are emerging; these include Douglas Murray (UK), Alejandro Macarón (Spain), Renaud Camus (France). Bat Ye'or (Switzerland), Thilo Sarrazin (Germany), Christian Zeitz (Austria), Viktor Orbán (Hungary), and Lars Hedegaard (Denmark).

Staving off the crisis created by demographics, immigration, multiculturalism and Islamization means preserving the continent's best features. Civilizationists represent the hope for conservatism and for the future of Europe.

Mr. Pipes (DanielPipes.org, @DanielPipes) is president of the Middle East Forum. This article is based on a talk presented at a conference on National Conservatism. © 2020. All rights reserved.