Under Fire at Home

The War at Home

“The decisive battle against Islamic extremists will not be fought in Iraq, but in Europe. It is not in Baghdad but in cities like Antwerp, Belgium, where the future of the West will be decided,” writes Paul Belien, in the Washington Times.

In his article, Belien, editor of the Brussels Journal, describes how Antwerp city politicos, pandering to Salafist groups, are helping enable the slow radicalization of the city. Apparently, this phenomenon is not unique to Antwerp. The same thing, he says, is happening in cities across Europe.

I have been standing at 'The Gates of Vienna'' pondering on the destruction of my Civilisation, and I wept as I saw all the achievements of mankind swept away, the Marxist end result, the End of History. The end of the Evolution of Humankind. Already they have started on our British Museums changing our History.

At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war.

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These kinds of battles, reflecting a dangerous preferential treatment of one group or ideology, or the lack of substantial response to actions by these groups, are not isolated to Europe. Local governments in the United States are also accommodating or overlooking the rise of Islamism in their midst. Adrian Morgan has written about the alleged indoctrination going on today in American public schools, today, with the implicit approval of local authorities.

Educating children about Islam does not appear to be the problem. Describing a court battle over one California elementary school program designed to teach pupils about Islam, Morgan writes:

Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Law Center said of the Islamic sessions at Excelsior: "No federal court would have permitted a class where public school students were taught to 'become Catholics' for three weeks, selected a saint's name, wore identification tags that displayed their new name and a Crucifix, and engaged in Catholic religious practices. Here, however, students were subjected to Islamic religious indoctrination and propaganda and the courts turned a blind eye.

While few would claim that the Excelsior students were being taught Radical Islamic theology, or that the Antwerp officials are advocating jihad, the results of these policies, and the absence of pro-active response to them, helps empower Salafist groups, and helps them promote their long-term goals of an overall Islamicization of the West.

You can read the full articles here:

http://washtimes.com/op-ed/20070313-090315-9588r.htm

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/challenges.php?id=801946

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