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Western Civilization is on Life Support and Europe is Trying to Pull the Plug
Western Civilization, whether the world chooses to admit it or not, is dying.
All the signs point to an inevitable pending disaster: Our liberties are eroding, the culture has fundamentally transformed (in both good and bad ways), the religious underpinnings of our society have been removed, and life as we know it is about to radically change forever.
In short, Western Civilization is on life support, and in light of the ongoing immigration crisis in Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, and Italy, it appears the European Union is attempting to pull the plug.
The European Commission (EC), the executive body of the European Union, recently announced its plan, formally presented by EC President Jean-Claude Juncker, to deal with the thousands of mostly Syrian refugees flooding into Europe to escape Middle Eastern chaos. Juncker’s plan would distribute roughly 160,000 refugees across numerous European Union nations. EU interior ministers recently met in Brussels and agreed in principle to share the 160,000 refugees, but an official plan isn’t expected until October.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Juncker’s plan may not be enough, as she expects millions more to enter her nation alone over the next several years. More than 120,000 Middle Eastern refugees arrived in Munich in August alone.
The millions of Middle Eastern men, women, and children that have and will enter Europe are predominantly Muslim. This, in and of itself, is not problematic. The overwhelming majority of Muslims in the world are spectacular people, and I’ve had the privilege of knowing many Muslim immigrants and children of Muslim immigrants. Many are some of the best people I’ve met.
The West has nothing to fear from Islam in general, but rather from a particular, fundamentalist brand of the faith. Of course, there are radical Christians, radical Hindus, and radical Jews, but radical Islam presents an especially dangerous threat to the Western world. Why? Because fanatical Islam—the kind practiced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and Iran’s theocratic leadership—rejects Western ideas, such as the importance of self-governance, individual liberty, and democratic principles.
In radical Islam, the religion must be merged with the government, and anything less is considered to fall short of the mandates of their faith. Yes, some religious tolerance is permitted (even amongst the extremists), but their version of “tolerance” relegates Christians, Jews, and others to second-class-citizenship status, and those who step out of line and demand more rights are required to be silenced, and in some cases murdered.
Women, homosexuals, and other minority groups have restricted rights. Notions like “freedom of speech” and “due process” are shaped by the tenants of radical Islam, not a constitution, which for radical Muslims is a laughable and abhorrent way of governing that’s contrary to God’s will.
This isn’t some vast right-wing conspiracy cooked up by fanatical Christians to inspire fear, as many far-left individuals would have you believe, this comes straight from many Muslims’ own stated religious beliefs and from their very own comments. How many times must we watch Iran pledge to wipe Israel off the face of the planet or watch the Islamic State slaughter innocent people and then pledge to destroy the West before we take them seriously?
No, it’s not politically correct to say, but the fact is radical Islam wants to destroy Western Civilization, and countless Muslims living in Europe today support that cause and are working, either openly or subversively, to make that happen.
To blindly welcome in millions of people, including an untold multitude with radically different ideas about freedom and religion than we have in the West, without any sort of a screening process, is absolute madness. And yet, that’s precisely what Europe is planning to do.
“What’s the big deal?” you may be wondering. “Even a million radical Muslims couldn’t destroy Western Civilization on their own.”
Very true, but there is more to the story than several million Muslim immigrants. Europe’s native population is dramatically shrinking, and research by the Pew Research Center in America indicates the number of Muslims in the world will increase at more than double the rate of the world’s population over the next 40 years, which means there will be more Muslims than Christians in the world in about 60 years.
Further, leftist ideology and secularism has run rampant. There are more atheists in the West today than there have ever been, and in many European countries, the population of traditional Christians could go extinct much faster than most realize.
For instance, projections show Christians could make up less than half of Great Britain’s population in just one decade, something that hasn’t occurred in over 1,000 years. Nearly 25 percent of all British Christians are 65 or older, and the Christian population continues to decline. Meanwhile, about 50 percent of British Muslims are under 25 and there’s no sign that population growth is slowing.
I’m not a xenophobe. I believe responsible immigration is a wonderful thing and that all honest, freedom-loving people should be welcomed. However, we have no way of knowing how many of the millions of Muslims being offered a new European home support Western values and how many want to subjugate Christians and other groups, especially minority groups, to their religious views. We don’t even know if any of these people have close ties to terrorism. In most cases, they’re just being thrown on a train and away they go.
In 100 years, these policy decisions could prove to be especially damning for Western Civilization, as it appears as though Europe could become a Muslim-dominated region, and although many of those people would be happy to live peacefully with Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists, countless others would demand conformity as millions of Muslims do now in many Middle Eastern countries.
Tolerance only makes sense if those we’re tolerating believe in liberty as well. Unfortunately, today we have no way of knowing who those people are, and we’re not even taking the time to attempt to figure it out.
The ability to reverse course in Europe may very well end with these newly proposed immigration policies. I hope I’m wrong.
22 Comments on "Western Civilization is on Life Support and Europe is Trying to Pull the Plug"
J-Gav on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 4:38 pm
“The Blaze”? “Page not found …”
“Notions like “freedom of speech” and “due process” are shaped by the tenants of radical islam, not a constitution …”
Very thin gruel when you consider Guantanamo, drone strikes and the number of dissenters unceremoniously hauled away to jail in the West for expressing their “freedom of speech.”
J-Gav on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 4:45 pm
By the way, I believe this semi-literate author meant “tenets,” not “tenants,” otherwise that sentence is meaningless.
It isn’t that the “West” and “Islam” don’t both have major problems facing them, it’s just that this sort of ‘pretending-to-be-profound’ drivel will not advance any cause worth defending.
Rodster on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 4:52 pm
TheBlaze aka Glenn Beck are Zionist lovers. The West was a dead man walking many decades ago, it’s just now becoming obvious.
Davy on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 5:20 pm
J-Gav, how is the monkey research going? You were gone from the board for months. If I remember right it was a behavioral study of some kind?
apneaman on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 5:59 pm
TheBlaze is an independent news and entertainment television network and website founded by conservative talk radio personality Glenn Beck – wiki
I love Glenn Beck. Very intelligent and articulate and crazier than a shit house rat. I use to listen to all those conservative talk radio guys when I was in Atlanta, where you spend half your life commuting their fucked up road system. My ex was a hardcore Dem and would get furious at them and always change the radio station – which made the whole thing even funnier. I use to set the radio on the station whenever I used her car just so it would come on when she got in it. They have a local guy, Neil Boortz. Funny and he doesn’t even believe in half the shit he’s saying but it’s a good gig I guess.
Makati1 on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 8:07 pm
This article is proof in so many ways that the headline is correct. Nuff said.
ghung on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 10:09 pm
@ apneaman- Neil Boortz retired from radio a couple of years ago; moved to his place in FL. I did some bonded courier work for his firm many years ago. He’s kind of a doofus in person, but a nice guy. I was a regular caller on his show back in the days before he went national; used to counter his libertarian bullshit as being unworkable,, like every other industrial-age scheme. He thought we could fix this shit if only we did this or that, all-the-while declaring that most people are idiots. Sure…..
apneaman on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 10:20 pm
Thanks for the info, ghung. I remember him really pushing the fair/flat tax. Sure Neil that’s exactly what TPTB and a few million tax professionals and bureaucratic profiteers want. Another funny weird SOB, but helpful to me as a frugal foreigner, is Clark Howard. I even named one of my dogs after him – Clarky
ghung on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 10:38 pm
Yeah, ap, Clark is perhaps the most frugal cornie you’ll ever meet. Limits to growth never cloud his thinking. If you want to maximise your frequent flyer miles, he’s the goto guy.
Newfie on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 11:43 pm
Islam is the Zombie Apocalypse.
apneaman on Wed, 16th Sep 2015 12:40 am
Newfie
http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m702fvWkut1rvzo6mo1_500.jpg
J-Gav on Wed, 16th Sep 2015 4:38 am
Davy – I was without an internet connection for over a month. I missed it but also enjoyed it as a rest period.
As for the monkey (and other animal) research, my stepson has turned it into documentary film projects, has sold two to a major EU TV station and is now preparing to go to Thailand to do the location scouting for a third.
sidzepp on Wed, 16th Sep 2015 3:03 pm
Why worry about radical Islam. We have more attacks on our liberty here from a paranoid and fearful society that is willing to sacrifice many liberties in the name of security.
Listen to the rhetoric of the present group of Republican candidates and that leaves me more fearful than a movement happening six thousand miles away.
FriedrcihKling on Wed, 16th Sep 2015 6:23 pm
J-Gav, et al involved in animal experimentation? So foul and cruel and in many instances not necessary except to maintain funding that I am shocked someone wold publicize their actions. The torturers should donate themselves and family members for “research” first.
Davy on Wed, 16th Sep 2015 6:34 pm
Sorry fried. He is not experimenting on Monkeys. He is observing behavior. This is an anthropology behavioral study. I have the highest respect for J-Gav and you should too.
theedrich on Thu, 17th Sep 2015 3:07 am
Whatever the personal flaws of the editors of The Blaze may be, the article itself is correct. The fact that no leftists (“progressives”), except for a few Commie professors, will admit openly is that the White race, as a race, has decided to commit genosuicide. The insouciant crowd includes the libertarians and more than a few “conservatives,” especially the craven ones. They all expect life to go on without a hitch after Whitey has been submerged in a sea of brown, and vociferously deny that any severe effects will follow. Yup, just keep on turning the West into an ever worse ThirdWorld hellhole with an expanding population of low-IQs demanding freebies, and everything will turn out just fine by magic. Ain’t socialism wunnerful?
joe on Thu, 17th Sep 2015 3:59 am
This process began when the first sailors rounded the Horn of Africa, imperialism and money and impoverish in and controlling nations. Western Politicans face one simple choice as Noam Chomsky titled his book. Hegemony or Survival. The west can take in this young new workforce, knowing the demographic trends and go extinct leaving Europe to Islam and Asians. Or it can stop it’s participation in Globalisation, something the US will not allow. If Europe tries, America will withdraw NATO and leave Europe to defend itself from Russia.
makati1 on Thu, 17th Sep 2015 4:11 am
joe, the US cannot ‘withdraw’ NATO. NATO is 28 countries. 2/3 of the NATO military are non-Americans. And almost half of the NATO budget comes from those other 27 countries.
Not to mention that Europe would not have half of the problems it does, if NATO dissolved. The ME problems would go away along with most of the refugees. And the “Russian problem” would disappear.
There is no way to measure cost if the US pushes Europe into a war with Russia and then it spills over into North America. Imagine mushrooms clouds over every US city at the same time. Game over.
Robert Stroud on Thu, 17th Sep 2015 3:11 pm
Of course the one advantage to nuclear war would be nuclear winter and then we wouldn’t have to worry about GW.
Davy on Thu, 17th Sep 2015 4:08 pm
Robert, NUK winter is a short term event compared to AGW but I get your point. A couple of years of NUK winter would sure give us some leverage on the over population and consumption problems we have.
We don’t even need to bomb each other. Let’s take a remote area in both hemispheres where we could stir up allot of NUK winter material up and let the chips fall where they will. This way the die off will be fair and balanced. It would be similar to an asteroid event but self induced.
This can be agreed upon at the UN. All major NUK powers can contribute NUK weapons evenly. We could even ask North Korea to chip in. Tickets could be sold to witness the blasts. We could even have a grand finale like most fireworks displays do.
Ian on Sat, 19th Sep 2015 12:56 pm
The white race isn’t commiting suicide, but it is a certain group we all know that controls hollywood and the mass media and politics that is dead set on ethnic cleansing it.
Davy on Sat, 19th Sep 2015 1:04 pm
Ian, who cares about race at this point. We are all going to have our short and curlies yanked. We all are going to be poor and oppressed except for a few elites and lucky ones. The sooner you remove race from your mind the better. The 4 horsemen of the shit storm posse are color blind.