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By Phyllis Chesler

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The other day, a twenty-year-old woman was sold at an open auction in Badani Bhutto, Pakistan. Her brothers divided up the money. No one condemned this shameless and abominable act.

It is an act that haunts me.

For a long time now, similar kinds of people (yes, mainly Muslims) have invaded—no, immigrated to—Europe, where they have continued to engage in polygamy, arranged child marriage, forced veiling of women, honor-related violence, including honor murders (17,000 honor-related crimes of violence have been estimated to occur annually in the UK alone), and female genital mutilation. According to my new (and about to be published) study, honor murders in Europe are especially savage—even more so than in developing Muslim countries.

According to the Telegraf,

“Dutch and foreign intelligence services are at high alert due to a five-day international Islamic conference in Eindhoven, starting today. The intelligence services fear that the congress participants will secretly collect funds for armed Islamic battle. It’s also feared that the speakers in the conference will reverse the integration of Muslims in the Netherlands.” (Thanks to Esther’s Islam in Europe blog for this information).

In addition, just the other day, perhaps in response to the defacing of a mosque, a British war memorial was defaced with the slogan “Islam Will Dominate the World.”

But some of us–Christians, Jews, Muslims, ex-Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs–are fighting back.

Yesterday, for the first time ever, the American criminal justice system indicted a father for the “honor murder” of his daughter in Arizona. According to the Arizona Republic,

“An Iraqi immigrant accused of slaying his daughter in an “honor killing” has been charged with first-degree murder and could face the death penalty, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas said Monday…Prosecutors have labeled Noor Almaleki’s death an “honor killing,” saying the elder Almaleki killed his daughter because she dishonored the family by not following traditional Iraqi or Muslim values.”

In Texas, Sarah and Amina Said were also honor-murdered; however, the climate of political correctness had a chilling effect on how this murder was portrayed both in the media and on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.

Rather late in the day, perhaps too late, Europe has begun to fight back against its inevitable Islamification.

Bat Ye’or, Bruce Bawer, Christopher Caldwell, Oriana Fallaci, Carol Gould, Melanie Phillips, Jean Raspail, Ibn Warraq, Geert Wilders, and I, among others, have all suggested that this is indeed the case.

But prithee pause: There are stirrings of resistance yet in the Old World.

In addition to the highly significant convictions of honor murderers in England, Holland, and Denmark, which I wrote about last week, did you know:

That a man in Holland has just been refused welfare benefits because he refused to shorten his beard or to shake hands with women on the jobs that the government found for him?

That a refugee from Afghanistan was about to get married in Denmark when the police broke up the wedding and arrested him? Apparently, his visa had been denied and the police did not want to allow him to gain Danish citizenship in this underhanded way. Indeed, Denmark may consider deporting immigrants who interfere with police work in the so-called “no go” zones. Apparently, the one thing that Muslim immigrants fear is being deported.

That Denmark is offering to pay Muslim immigrants who do not really want to integrate to leave the country?

That calls for the banning of either headscarves or burqas or both have rung out (like church bells, dare I say) all across France, Belgium, and Germany?

I love Europe. I want it to remain European. It was the land of my bohemian dreams when I was young. I grew up reading poetry, novels, plays, and philosophical treatises by British, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Greek authors. I listened—I still do—to music most divine written by composers from all these countries and by Austrian, Polish, Norwegian, Hungarian, and Russian composers too. I have spent many happy hours viewing French, Dutch, Spanish, British, and Italian paintings.

I used to love the Islamic world as well. I once traveled and lived within it. It called to me. The light, heat, color, sounds, smells, foods, history, music, stories, poetry, exotic charm, and human as well as geographic beauty held me in thrall. That world is now gone. I will probably never again travel to a Muslim country in this lifetime. It, too, has been fundamentalized, Islamified in the worst way. Whatever tolerance may have once existed (and granted, it was not much) is either long gone or is now under siege.

Today, many Muslims are also fighting over who controls their countries and their religion. In Iran, the bravest of pro-democracy and anti-regime activists are marching, marching, to their deaths. All over the Islamic world, in groups and as individuals, Muslims are also marching against tyranny and for women’s rights, secular rights, and homosexual rights. Of course, many Muslim dissidents and feminists have also fled to Europe and America where they now live, write, and teach.

I am glad they are here. I hope the “Europe” and the “America” where they sought asylum does not betray them and end up looking and acting like the countries they left behind—the kind of country that would sell a young woman at an open auction.

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18 Comments, 18 Threads, 3 Trackbacks

  1. 1. David W. Lincoln

    As long as the list is long of the barbarities
    meted out by the Sons of Allah, for instance the Muslim countries mentioned here: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=2368788 They will continue to get away with it, as long as those in the West who
    lead are paralyzed by political correctness.

  2. 2. Judy, NYC

    just as nazism was a real threat so is islam. the danger is real and here and now. it has been helped by the ignoramus in the white house who managed to ratchet it up with his bizarre pronouncements right from inauguration day declaring this a “christian and muslim” nation and his moronic bowing. we did beat the crap out of the fascists, but we almost didn’t – that’s how long we waited to goto war. too bad we can’t turn to the last page to find out how this war ends.

  3. 3. logdon

    An excellent and uplifting piece.

    As an indigenous British citizen, I look in horror at the appalling way our customs and way of life is being traduced and trampled by the demands of shariah obsessed Muslims and their oh, so willing accomplices in Councils and NGO’s.

    The tsunami of destruction seemed unstoppable but at last as an election nears, the worm is turning.

    We’ve had enough and our blogs reflect the anger, once impotent but now growing in strength.

    My late Father fought in North Africa and the Middle East. He was an artillery gunner at the Battle of El-Alamain, the turning point of the war. We saved these people from the Nazis. This is the gratitude?

    The same applies to our troops in Burma. Without that huge sacrifice, India including the yet to emerge Pakistan would be part of a Japanese Empire.

    These ingrates do not give a damn. It’s all me, me like some petulant child throwing toys from the pram. Think Motoons and you get the picture.

    None of this is lost on our populace and voters.

    The rumbling is carrying on apace with the rumbled aims of expansionist Islam.

    The year 2010 will auger yet more as people realise that racist guilt is misplaced and the real racists are, in fact separatist Muslims who refuse to integrate.

    On that note, Seasons Greetings to Phyllis, the Pajamas contributors and readers who unfailingly keep the resistance alive.

  4. 4. Éamonn

    Thank you, Ms. Chesler, for yet another excellent piece. With regard to the Islamification of Europe, I consider that the natives are indeed turning and that Islam will discover with increasing frequency that it will NOT be allowed to continue with its aggressive moves to conquer Western civilization. The native Europeans are beginning to awaken from their slumbers and, when they fully understand the malicious intent of militant Islam – combined with the silent and tacit agreement of so-called “moderate” Islam – they will ensure that Islam will not realise its aims. They will do so by whatever means are necessary, and by whatever level of violence might be necessary. Europe has conquered evil before – and it will do so again, never fear! A Very Happy Christmas to you and yours, and to all your readers. Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

  5. 5. kuru

    In my childhood I saw ISLAM in its true colours. The DJINN of ISLAM appeared from nowhere when the British rule in India came to end. It suddenly struck Western and Eastern India. MILLIONS of innocent citizens, including girls, women, children, infants and the old, were massacred, tens of millions were forced out of their homes and made to flee for life. Thousands of girls were abducted and raped all over after their menfolk were killed in front of their eyes. It was called “PARTITION OF INDIA” when India was forced to unconditionally surrender FIVE provinces to Islam in order to “buy” peace.
    For decades thereafter I suffered from nightmares. I heard mobs yelling “Allah Hu Akbar” and shouting abuse at us, the “INFIDELS” while torching non Muslim homes in every street. I heard agonised cries and shrieks of the people being burnt alive to their deaths in their own homes or being hacked to death in the most brutal manner. I compared my own nightmares to what the German civilians went through during “carpet bombing” of DRESDEN, HAMBURG and FRANKFURT. Hence I would urge Europe, “Please, NO ISLAM. It is nothing but Deception, Fraud and SURPRISE ATTACK. There is no mercy or hope for anyone caught in the midst of an Islamic JEHAD.

  6. 6. Brotha

    Allah. Sounds like A Law. A law is good if it is a sound, just law, which protects everyone but if not, it is detrimental to its society, creating more harm than good. The problem with Mr.A Law is that he makes too many ridiculous laws and standards to live by, causing too much insanity in the lives of those who live by it.The result is what the world witnesses every day in the newspapers, T.V, internet and so on. When you take these laws and apply them to your life (stoning, beating your wife, killing your neighbour, sex with goats, decieving… the list is tooooooo long) the result is inhuman behavior, causing pain and suffering to everyone. This is not good. This is not God. This is the reason why there is so much craziness in Europe/Mid East/Asia/Africa/North America…wait..I guess the whole freekin world, with the islombies(islamic zombies).They believe that they are living by a “higher” law, Gods law, than that crappy inferior,infidel European law (Christian foundation). They honestly believe that commiting these wicked acts will get them closer to God. Just the same way as a Christian believes that by doing acts of kindness will get him closer to God. It all comes down to the God/good conscience. When you were a kid, and your parents told you about God, it filled your heart with joy to find out about these laws through all the stories and to try and fulfill them, bringing joy to your heart. Being respectfull, no stealing, no lying, to give, love one another…But just imagine if A LAW/allah is evil and you think that its good/God and you do it, thinking it will bring Joy to your heart. But for some reason, it never does. It always brings pain and suffering. “But im only trying to do what A LAW/allah told me to do”. So you do it more and more thinking maybe that good/God feeling will come into my heart. But it keeps getting worse. And then its on the news.Again.Its your interpretation of good versus my interpretation of good. Mr.mohammerhead (the beast be upon him) was an uneducated simple man with alot more issues than the average guy (screwing a nine year old?WTF!). When he met Christians and Jews he couldnt care less about their interpretation of what is right or wrong. So he made up his own interpretation(and stole a few characters from the bible) then off he went telling everyone that A LAW/allah says this and A LAW/allah says that. God is good. By doing good, one leads a good life, You walk with God. His Spirit is with you. If you dont do whats good, then his spirit is not with you. So you feel like a muslim not knowing why because you are always following A LAW/allah. Never happy,never satisfied with life, always scheming up plans to bring A LAW/allah to someones neighbourhood so that they too can feel his “good/God” if they would just listen to his A LAW/allah.

  7. 7. Mo-Suck

    I have this youtube site that everyone ought to see that loves freedom.
    It is a tear jerker ,showing what we/ve (the western world) to stay free.
    Keep up the fight…we’ll win this one easily when everyone gets on the same page :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc56moy0poA

    thanks and Merry Christmas

  8. 8. RRWest

    People will have to realize that Islam is a world-wide political organization covered by a thin layer of religion.

    Once that becomes the major way people look at Islam, then the free world will begin to take real action against the hajri, jihad and all the terrorist actions which “moderate” Muslims seem to be quiet about.

    Islam, like the Communist groups that have largely fallen from the world stage since the end of the Cold War, seeks world domination by any means necessary.

    And they seem to be succeeding where Communists didn’t by using western freedoms and multicultural policies against the west.

    Time to stop the hajri and jihad once and for all.

    The freedoms of the modern world depend upon it.

  9. 9. Brotha

    Hey Mo-Suck you just made my holidays the best ever! Been feeling kind of down, watching Europe slowly die, waitin for someone to wake up Her up out of this f—– islamic coma. Its on . Shes got a pulse! YEAH!I love ya Brotha. YEAH! up you and your camels ass mohamahead! (the beast be upon him)hahahahahahaha yeah whaoooooyeah haha WERE BaaaaAAAACK! Pack yo bags bitches, cause its time to run! Hahahahahahahahahahaha I hope they didnt plan on staying too long, cause when its time to go , its TIME TO GO!

  10. 10. HellenoChristian

    About Selling: they sell their daughters in private manner, too (arranged marriage). “WOMEN ARE SOLD”: how does it sound to European/Western “Feminists’” ears?

    In order to become “wives” or (if she is 30+) “Domestic workers”. [In both cases: Slaves]. How does it sound to European/Western “human Rights Activists’” ears?

    About Funding: PLEASE CHECK INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS like Amnesty International; some of their “human Rights Activists” produce Comments totally aligned with Islamist Propaganda.

    7.: thank you for the Song and merry Christmas to you, too!

  11. 11. Proud_Kafir7908

    On Judy’s point, just as nazism was a real threat so is islam, to quote an analogy made recently by Jihadwatch reader Stephen A55, Hitler’s biggest mistake in charging forward with the tyranny of National Socialism was that he, unlike mahound (the Arabian mass-murderer and pedophile that created allah as his psychopathic imaginary alter-ego), didn’t claim any prophethood to justify his genocidal acts, or try to peddle Mein Kampf as a “divine” revelation of the like of its inbred bedouin savage version, Mein Qurampf. Had Hitler emulated Mahound in that sense, perhaps we’d all be getting lectured on our “National-Socialism-phobia” today if we dared to voice our concerns over its incompatibility with democracy, secular laws and human rights like we voice our concern over mohammedanism’s.

  12. 12. Gary

    Never forget – The main goal of the Islamic invasion is the conversion or destruction of the USA, so that the USA will not be able to help the Israelis when the Arab countries invade Israel and murder the jews. There’s a war a’comin folks and it will be nasty. May God bless us all.

  13. 13. Don

    We in the US and throughout Western democracies need to elect leaders who will take this threat to our culture and traditions seriously. I’m glad to read that a few countries are starting to wake up, but there needs to be a push for action to remove the cancer from our societies. No more mosques, stop immigration, deport Muslim criminals, don’t allow brides to come in from outside the country, no student visas from Islamic countries, survailance of existing mosques, aggressive law eenforcemeent in the “no-go” zones and Muslim enclaves, etc, etc. We can stop these people from destroying our culture.

  14. 14. Mohammed Bare

    It’s great to see sites like this and Jihad Watch who realise that Islam is a political movement disguised as a religion. I can’t understand how Britain and Europe can allow them in. There are no moderate muslims. Every muslim is first a muslim and only secondary is he a citizen of a country.

  15. It’s too bad that as Western govts. blithely permit mass Muslim immigration, most people are still history ignoramuses when it comes to the horrible history of the mental AIDS of Islam. Yes, history does matter. Take time to study Islam’s hairy history free online with the Historyscoper and arm your mind. Get started by clicking the url.

  16. 16. robert a

    It’s infuriating reading the comments on this site and others like it such as Jihad Watch. We avert our eyes when we are faced with the fact we are subsidizing our own destruction every time we fill up the tank. As long as the main supply of world oil exists in the Middle East, we and our leaders will sell the Bill or Rights,the Constitution, and the lady with the legal scales, for a tank of gas. 14 trillion since 1970 dollars sent into Muslim hands that has come back to the West with cultural and physical destruction. I could puke at such misplaced righteousness on the part of so many commentators.
    We should be marching in the streets for 250 mile per gallon cars! Yes. they have been proven possible! It’s much more comfortable to complain about Sharia than to discuss the source of the problem. Every time I make a comment like this on one of these anti-jihad sites, the whole thrust of issue disappears like a dog in quicksand–and the false and ineffective righteousness flows on and on. Watch.

  17. 17. martha

    Robert a at #16.
    250mpg cars great idea however I have another one that would solve our unemployment problems big time:
    DRILL HERE! DRILL NOW!
    Tell the tree huggers to F**K off!

  18. 18. Gisele Kildaire

    I have been reading for a long while and with horror all of this about islamification of the world. I am a Portugese Catholic woman with children. I have never interfered with or lost respect for any other religion . But always offered all peoples regardless of culture , race or religion my respect and tollerance . These muslims do not offer us the same respect /fairness in responce . I fear that one day I and my children will live under Sharia law . It seems as if no one in the world cares about this impending threat to the world and life as we know it . Does no one out there care? Is it so important to be “politically correct ” to the point that it overtakes us and we become just a door mat for them ? Believe me in the islamic countries they doin’t have the concept of freedom for all , politically crrectness and rights for the immigrants who come to their countries from the West . They make laws , live by them and never worry about what the Western world or non islamic nations think . I believe that European, Canadian and American countries (The Western world ) should deport all muslim immigrants right back to where they came from . I am happy that France has taken a stand against the buhrka and is planing to send away the gypsies too . We have gone too far with this so called tolerance …to the point of our own destruction .Next time your country has elections vote for which ever party is offering you a future with a life free from Islamification, mosques in your neighbourhood and sharia law instead of better interrest rates or medical care!

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