Europe's Politics of Victimology

Real Clear Politics ^ | May 27, 2006 | Flemming Rose

[GipperCT]

The worldwide furor unleashed by the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that I published last September in Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper where I work, was both a surprise and a tragedy, especially for those directly affected by it. Lives were lost, buildings were torched, and people were driven into hiding.

And yet the unbalanced reactions to the not-so-provocative caricatures -- loud denunciations and even death threats toward us, but very little outrage toward the people who attacked two Danish Embassies -- unmasked unpleasant realities about Europe's failed experiment with multiculturalism. It's time for the Old Continent to face facts and make some profound changes in its outlook on immigration, integration, and the coming Muslim demographic surge. After decades of appeasement and political correctness, combined with growing fear of a radical minority prepared to commit serious violence, Europe's moment of truth is here.

Europe today finds itself trapped in a posture of moral relativism that is undermining its liberal values. An unholy three-cornered alliance between Middle East dictators, radical imams who live in Europe, and Europe's traditional left wing is enabling a politics of victimology. This politics drives a culture that resists integration and adaptation, perpetuates national and religious differences, and aggravates such debilitating social ills as high immigrant crime rates and entrenched unemployment.

[GipperCT]

This is a fantastic article on Old Europe and creeping Muslimification due to politically correct failed thought that should be on "the trash heap of history" to quote Ronaldus Magnus.

[calex59]

Coming to a state near you, SOON! if we don't stop this amnesty insanity.

[GipperCT]

Believe me, I am praying for strength for the House during the "negotiations" with the Senate on the Shamnesty bill.....

[Unam Sanctam]

The Left, here and in this country, is morally bankrupt in its unwillingness to condemn or fight against Islamist fanaticism.

[Unam Sanctam]

here=Europe

[GipperCT]

Yes and unfortunately many may not wake up from their "Get Bush/Get Blair" attitude until another major terrorist attack. Even then, not many will wake up anyway.

</sigh>

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

For the immigrants, the expectation that they not only learn the host language but also respect their new countries' political and cultural traditions is not too much to demand, and some stringent (maybe too stringent) new laws are being passed to force that. At the same time, Europeans must show a willingness to jettison entrenched notions of blood and soil and accept people from foreign countries and cultures as just what they are, the new Europeans.

Another leftist mugged by reality. But is clueless as what to do about it.

He comes across as weak and befuddled. The Imans will clean his clock.

..pleeeze respect our traditions mr. Imam. Pleeeze.

[Question_Assumptions]

I think the left imagines being embraced by radical Muslims when they take over for supporting them (which is ironic given how much they laugh at the idea that US troops would be welcomed into Iraq for freeing them from Saddam). What they don't seem to grasp is that as decadent and godless people, they'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

What to do? Obviously, we can never return to the comfortable monocultures of old. A demographic revolution is changing the face, and look, of Europe. In an age of mass migration and the Internet, cheap air fares and cell phones everywhere, cultural pluralism is an irreversible fact, like it or not. A nostalgic longing for cultural purity -- racial purity, religious purity -- easily descends into ethnic cleansing.

You cannot live with these people and their culture and remain multicultural and secular. Assimilate or you will be deported.

Flemming Rose has yet to come to grips with the fact that we are in a civilizational war. He's still yearning for diversity and pluralism. It's the "Rodney King" school of diplomacy (can't...can't.... we all just get along) with a few more "not to stringent" laws to enforce "proper" behavior thrown into the mix.

Pathetic.

..."can't....can't....we all just get along?"

[GipperCT]

I think you're right on spot.

The old "Hope the alligator eats you last" appeasment disease of the mind.