Europe's Wake-Up Call
July 28th 2007 16:06
According to this July 26, 2007 article in The Jerusalem Post, Pope Benedict's private secretary had some sobering words for Europe:
"Attempts to Islamize the west cannot be denied," Monsignor Georg Gaenswein was quoted as saying in an advance copy of the weekly Sueddeutsche Magazin to be published Friday.
"The danger for the identity of Europe that is connected with it should not be ignored out of a wrongly understood respectfulness," the magazine quoted him as saying.
Gee, I wonder how long it will take the radicals to unleash death and destruction on worldwide streets in response to this latest "affront to Islam." Let's see: Last year, after Pope Benedict's words were taken out of context in his speech regarding faith and reason, an Italian nun working in a Somali hospital was gunned down by "Religion of Peace" adherents, who also burned several churches in the West Bank. And an Iranian cleric accused Pope Benedict of trying to "resurrect the Crusades."
Irony, once again, is lost on these people. They repeatedly prove their critics' points by reacting with violence and destruction to criticisms of radical Islam being -- well, violent and destructive. The fact that an innocent nun was murdered while tending to the needs of Muslim patients only adds to the paradox.
Then again, I could make the same argument regarding the thousands of American and Allied troops who have lost their lives defending innocent Muslims in Somalia, Kuwait and Iraq.
But Europe in general seems content to allow the hijacking of their identity and culture to the Islamists. In an era where multiculturalism is king, is there any hope?
Take for example, the case of a woman named Nishal. Nishal, a German immigrant from Morocco, had a psychotic husband who'd repeatedly mistaken her for a punching bag since their wedding night. When she sought the help of police, physically wounded and scarred, they ordered her abusive husband to keep his distance. Instead, he terrorized her with death threats. So as any normal person would, Nishal took her case to the German courts. Surely a westernized country would uphold its own laws? Wife beating (not to mention honor killing and genital mutilation) might be acceptable in certain Muslim societies, but since Nishal now called Germany home, the courts would defend her rights not only as woman, but as a human being, right?
Well, not so fast. Seems Judge Christa Datz-Winter was more inclined to bow to the altar of multiculturalism than to the laws of her own country. Never mind her obligation as a German Judge to uphold German laws, Datz-Winter basically refused to grant the defendant an early divorce, stating that - despite incontravertible evidence to the contrary - there was no "unreasonable hardship" here. If visible bruises, welts and scars all over one's body, in addition to corroborating police reports don't constitute "hardship," I don't know what does.
The Judge further explained that as a Muslim woman, Nishal should have "expected" it, citing passages from the Koran supporting a husband's "right to use corporal punishment." Shame on her. But according to Richard Dawkins, Nishal's case is just one of many egregious examples.
States Dawkins:
"These German cases highlight the flaw at the core of multiculturalism. It assumes that immigrants have one homogenous culture which they should all follow - and it allows the most reactionary and revolting men in their midst to define what that culture is. Across Europe, many imams are offering advice to Muslim men on how to beat Muslim women. For example, in Spain, the popular Imam Mohammed Kamal Mustafa warns that you shouldn't use "whips that are too thick" because they leave scars that can be detected by the "infidels". That might be Mustafa's culture - but it isn't Nishal's. It isn't the culture of the women who scream and weep as they are beaten.
And yes, we should admit that this is disproportionately a problem among Muslim, Sikh and Hindu immigrants who arrive from countries which have not had women's rights movements. Listen to Jasvinder Sanghera, who founded the best British charity helping Asian women after her sister was beaten and beaten and then burned herself to death. She says: "It's a betrayal of these women to be PC about this. Look at the figures. Asian women in Britain are three times more likely to commit suicide than their white friends. That's because of all this."
Yet the brave campaigners who have tried to help these women - like the Labour MP Ann Cryer - have been smeared as racist. In fact, the real racists are the people who vehemently condemn misogyny and homophobia when it comes from white people but mysteriously fall silent when it comes from black and Asian men."
Will Europe heed the warnings and send multiculturalism to the dustbin before countless others suffer and die? For the sake of women like Nishal I certainly hope so. Most critically, if western civilization is to survive the threat of extinction by Jihadists, it needs the stalwart participation of Europe, not just America and Australia. So far, most of our friends on the Continent have turned a deaf ear; perhaps if responsible leaders and citizens keep sounding the alarm, something will finally penetrate.
"Attempts to Islamize the west cannot be denied," Monsignor Georg Gaenswein was quoted as saying in an advance copy of the weekly Sueddeutsche Magazin to be published Friday.
"The danger for the identity of Europe that is connected with it should not be ignored out of a wrongly understood respectfulness," the magazine quoted him as saying.
Gee, I wonder how long it will take the radicals to unleash death and destruction on worldwide streets in response to this latest "affront to Islam." Let's see: Last year, after Pope Benedict's words were taken out of context in his speech regarding faith and reason, an Italian nun working in a Somali hospital was gunned down by "Religion of Peace" adherents, who also burned several churches in the West Bank. And an Iranian cleric accused Pope Benedict of trying to "resurrect the Crusades."
Irony, once again, is lost on these people. They repeatedly prove their critics' points by reacting with violence and destruction to criticisms of radical Islam being -- well, violent and destructive. The fact that an innocent nun was murdered while tending to the needs of Muslim patients only adds to the paradox.
Then again, I could make the same argument regarding the thousands of American and Allied troops who have lost their lives defending innocent Muslims in Somalia, Kuwait and Iraq.
But Europe in general seems content to allow the hijacking of their identity and culture to the Islamists. In an era where multiculturalism is king, is there any hope?
Take for example, the case of a woman named Nishal. Nishal, a German immigrant from Morocco, had a psychotic husband who'd repeatedly mistaken her for a punching bag since their wedding night. When she sought the help of police, physically wounded and scarred, they ordered her abusive husband to keep his distance. Instead, he terrorized her with death threats. So as any normal person would, Nishal took her case to the German courts. Surely a westernized country would uphold its own laws? Wife beating (not to mention honor killing and genital mutilation) might be acceptable in certain Muslim societies, but since Nishal now called Germany home, the courts would defend her rights not only as woman, but as a human being, right?
Well, not so fast. Seems Judge Christa Datz-Winter was more inclined to bow to the altar of multiculturalism than to the laws of her own country. Never mind her obligation as a German Judge to uphold German laws, Datz-Winter basically refused to grant the defendant an early divorce, stating that - despite incontravertible evidence to the contrary - there was no "unreasonable hardship" here. If visible bruises, welts and scars all over one's body, in addition to corroborating police reports don't constitute "hardship," I don't know what does.
The Judge further explained that as a Muslim woman, Nishal should have "expected" it, citing passages from the Koran supporting a husband's "right to use corporal punishment." Shame on her. But according to Richard Dawkins, Nishal's case is just one of many egregious examples.
States Dawkins:
"These German cases highlight the flaw at the core of multiculturalism. It assumes that immigrants have one homogenous culture which they should all follow - and it allows the most reactionary and revolting men in their midst to define what that culture is. Across Europe, many imams are offering advice to Muslim men on how to beat Muslim women. For example, in Spain, the popular Imam Mohammed Kamal Mustafa warns that you shouldn't use "whips that are too thick" because they leave scars that can be detected by the "infidels". That might be Mustafa's culture - but it isn't Nishal's. It isn't the culture of the women who scream and weep as they are beaten.
And yes, we should admit that this is disproportionately a problem among Muslim, Sikh and Hindu immigrants who arrive from countries which have not had women's rights movements. Listen to Jasvinder Sanghera, who founded the best British charity helping Asian women after her sister was beaten and beaten and then burned herself to death. She says: "It's a betrayal of these women to be PC about this. Look at the figures. Asian women in Britain are three times more likely to commit suicide than their white friends. That's because of all this."
Yet the brave campaigners who have tried to help these women - like the Labour MP Ann Cryer - have been smeared as racist. In fact, the real racists are the people who vehemently condemn misogyny and homophobia when it comes from white people but mysteriously fall silent when it comes from black and Asian men."
Will Europe heed the warnings and send multiculturalism to the dustbin before countless others suffer and die? For the sake of women like Nishal I certainly hope so. Most critically, if western civilization is to survive the threat of extinction by Jihadists, it needs the stalwart participation of Europe, not just America and Australia. So far, most of our friends on the Continent have turned a deaf ear; perhaps if responsible leaders and citizens keep sounding the alarm, something will finally penetrate.
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