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Subject: will this happen here?

Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:31:36 -0400
 

Subject: Important read...Our problem is mirrored...
 

Salute the Danish Flag - it's a Symbol of Western Freedom

By Susan MacAllen

In 1978-9 I was living and studying in Denmark.
 But in 1978 - even in Copenhagen, one didn't see Muslim immigrants.
The Danish population embraced visitors, celebrated the exotic, went out of its way to protect each of its citizens. It was proud  of its new brand of socialist liberalism - one in development since the conservatives had lost power in 1929 - a system where no worker had to struggle to survive, where one ultimately could count upon  the state as in, perhaps, no other western nation at the time. The rest of Europe saw the Scandinavians as free-thinking, progressive and infinitely generous in their welfare policies. Denmark boasted low crime rates, devotion to the environment, a superior educational system and a history of humanitarianism.

Denmark was also most generous in its immigration policies - it   offered the best welcome in Europe to the new immigrant: generous welfare payments from first arrival plus additional perks in transportation, housing and education. It was determined to set a world example for inclusiveness and multiculturalism. How could it have predicted that one day in 2005 a series of political cartoons in a newspaper would spark violence that would leave dozens dead in  the streets - all because its commitment to multiculturalism would come back to bite?

By the 1990's the growing urban Muslim population was obvious - and its unwillingness to integrate into Danish society was obvious.
 Years of immigrants had settled into Muslim-exclusive enclaves. As the Muslim leadership became more vocal about what they considered the decadence of Denmark's liberal way of life, the Danes - once so   welcoming - began to feel slighted. Many Danes had begun to see Islam as incompatible with their long-standing values: belief in personal liberty and free speech, in equality for women, in tolerance for other ethnic groups, and a deep pride in Danish heritage and history.

The New York Post in 2002 ran an article by Daniel Pipes and Lars
Hedegaard, in which they forecasted accurately that the growing  immigrant problem in Denmark would explode. In the article they reported:

"Muslim immigrants.constitute 5 percent of the population but consume upwards of 40 percent of the welfare spending."   "Muslims are only 4 percent of Denmark's 5.4 million people but make up a majority of the country's convicted rapists, an especially combustible issue given that practically all the female victims are non-Muslim. Similar, if lesser, disproportions are found in other crimes."

"Over time, as Muslim immigrants increase in numbers, they wish less to mix with the indigenous population. A recent survey finds that only 5 percent of young Muslim immigrants would readily marry a Dane."

"Forced marriages - promising a newborn daughter in Denmark to a   male cousin in the home country, then compelling her to marry him, sometimes on pain of death - are one problem"

"Muslim leaders openly declare their goal of introducing Islamic  law once Denmark's Muslim population grows large enough - a not- that-remote prospect. If present trends persist, one sociologist estimates, every third inhabitant of Denmark in 40 years will be  Muslim."

It is easy to understand why a growing number of Danes would feel that Muslim immigrants show little respect for Danish values and laws. An example is the phenomenon common to other European  countries and the U.S.: some Muslims in Denmark who opted to leave the Muslim faith have been murdered in the name of Islam, while others hide in fear for their lives. Jews are also threatened and  harassed openly by Muslim leaders in Denmark, a country where once Christian citizens worked to smuggle out nearly all of their 7,000 Jews by night to Sweden - before the Nazis could invade. I think of   my Danish friend Elsa - who as a teenager had dreaded crossing the street to the bakery every morning under the eyes of occupying Nazi soldiers - and I wonder what she would say today.
 
In 2001, Denmark elected the most conservative government in some 70 years - one that had some decidedly non-generous ideas about liberal unfettered immigration. Today Denmark has the strictest immigration policies in Europe. ( Its effort to protect itself has been met with accusations of "racism" by liberal media across Europe - even as other governments struggle to right the social  problems wrought by years of too-lax immigration.) If you wish to become Danish, you must attend three years of language classes. You must pass a test on Denmark's history, culture, and a Danish  language test. You must live in Denmark for 7 years before applying for citizenship. You must demonstrate an intent to work, and have a job waiting. If you wish to bring a spouse into Denmark, you must  both be over 24 years of age, and you won't find it so easy anymore to move your friends and family to Denmark with you. You will not be allowed to build a mosque in Copenhagen. Although your children   have a choice of some 30 Arabic culture and language schools in Denmark, they will be strongly encouraged to assimilate to Danish society in ways that past immigrants weren't.
 
In 2006, the Danish minister for employment, Claus Hjort
Frederiksen, spoke publicly of the burden of Muslim immigrants on the Danish welfare system, and it was horrifying: the government's   welfare committee had calculated that if immigration from Third World countries were blocked, 75 percent of the cuts needed to sustain the huge welfare system in coming decades would be unnecessary. In other words, the welfare system as it existed was being exploited by immigrants to the point of eventually bankrupting the government. "We are simply forced to adopt a new  policy on immigration. Thecalculations of the welfare committee are terrifying and show how unsuccessful the integration of immigrants has been up to now," he said.

A large thorn in the side of Denmark's imams is the Minister of Immigration and Integration, Rikke Hvilshoj. She makes no bones > about the new policy toward immigration, "The number of foreigners  coming to the country makes a difference," Hvilsh ??j says, "There is an inverse correlation between how many come here and how well we can receive the foreigners that come." And on Muslim immigrants needing to demonstrate a willingness to blend in, "In my view, Denmark should be a country with room for different cultures and religions. Some values, however, are more important than others. We refuse to question democracy, equal rights, and freedom of speech."

Hvilshoj has paid a price for her show of backbone. Perhaps to test her resolve, the leading radical imam in Denmark, Ahmed Abdel
 Rahman Abu Laban, demanded that the government pay blood money to the family of a Muslim who was murdered in a suburb of Copenhagen, stating that the family's thirst for revenge could be thwarted for money. When Hvilshoj dismissed his demand, he argued that in Muslim culture the payment of retribution money was common, to which Hvilshoj replied that what is done in a Muslim country is not  necessarily what is done in Denmark. The Muslim reply came soon after: her house was torched while she, her husband and children slept. All managed to escape unharmed, but she and her family were  moved to a secret location and she and other ministers were assigned bodyguards for the first time - in a country where such murderous violence was once so scarce.

Her government has slid to the right, and her borders have tightened. Many believe that what happens in the next decade will determine whether Denmark survives as a bastion of good living,   humane thinking and social responsibility, or whether it becomes a nation at civil war with supporters of Sharia law. And meanwhile, Americans clamor for stricter immigration policies, and demand an   end to state welfare programs that allow many immigrants to live on the public dole. As we in America look at the enclaves of Muslims amongst us, and see those who enter our shores too easily, dare live on our taxes, yet refuse to embrace our culture, respect our traditions, participate in our legal system, obey our laws, speak our language, appreciate our history . . we would do well to look  to Denmark, and say a prayer for her future and for our own.


 

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New York: Doubleday, 2006. 248 pp. $23.95.

While international government, law enforcement, and media attention has been focused exclusively on the violent manifestations of today's global Islamic jihad, Bawer contends in While Europe Slept that the Islamization of Europe is being carried off largely without violence and without any effective response from European leaders blind to the goals and nature of Shari?a supremacism. Bawer, a gay American writer who lives in Norway and also spent several years in The Netherlands, provides numerous chilling examples of this creeping Islamization and how it challenges core European values of pluralism, individual freedom, and more.

Massive immigration into Europe from Muslim countries has been unaccompanied?at the insistence of the Arab League and with the acquiescence of the European Union, as Bawer notes?by any large-scale organized attempts to assimilate these populations. Bawer demonstrates that this failure even to attempt to inculcate European values in these new Europeans has negative consequences not only for the immigrants but also for the native populations. Their lives have become more difficult, more precarious, and more expensive because of both the necessity to institute antiterror measures and because of the comprehensive challenge to European mores that the immigrants are posing. Homosexuals, Bawer recounts, are physically threatened as never before; even non-Muslim women in some areas of France and Sweden are compelled to don the hijab (headscarf) so as to avoid being raped; politicians and public figures who have dared to speak out against the advance of Islamic Shari?a norms?Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn and filmmaker Theo van Gogh, in particular, have been murdered.

In response to all this, Bawer chronicles how Europe's elites remain wedded to a "mindless, self-destructive multiculturalism" that has even led them more than once to shortsighted alliances with the most intransigent of Islamic hard-liners. Meanwhile, the political mainstream has abdicated its responsibility on this issue, leaving the field open for resurgent neofascists. The suicide of Europe that Bawer so ably recounts is yet in the process of playing itself out.

Robert Spencer

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