Is Europe Choosing To Self-Destruct?
Submitted by Judith Bergman via The Gatestone Institute,
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Europe has voluntarily begun the process of giving up its liberal and hard-fought-for freedoms. Free speech no longer exists, only -- straight out of totalitarian ideologies -- "responsible" free speech: "free" only if it does not "offend" anyone.
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The desire of many Europeans and other self-declared devotees of "human rights" to cover up, downplay or explain away what is happening in Europe, in fact represents the opposite of respect for others and equality before the law.
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Absolving such criminal behavior is not only the very opposite of justice, it is also a kind of "inverted racism" -- against its own native Europeans.
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In 2014 and 2015 Jews in Europe were murdered, raped, beaten and stalked -- just for being Jewish. Signs in the street read, "Sale Juif" ("dirty Jew"), "Death to the Jews," and "Jews to the gas." None of these side effects of Muslim immigration seems to concern the liberals, the media, or the purported defenders of human rights -- who so loudly claim to be against "racism." Or, once again in Europe, does "racism" not include Jews?
After the mass sexual assaults on New Year's Eve in the European cities of Cologne, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Bielefeld, Berlin, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Vienna, Salzburg, Zürich, Helsinki and Kalmar, it is clear that something profoundly disturbing has occurred in Europe. By Sunday, in Cologne alone, 516 women had filed criminal charges -- around 40% of them relating to sexual assaults.
The initial reactions to the sexual assaults from German authorities, the media, as well as feminists and others have not been less disturbing.
The German police first claimed, in a surreal statement the morning of Jan. 1, that the situation on New Year's Eve had been "relaxed." Cologne Police Chief Wolfgang Albers later admitted "this initial statement was incorrect" and, for his role in what appeared as a cover up, has since been forced into early retirement.
In the "mainstream media," Germany's public broadcaster, ZDF, made a decision not to report on the attacks until four days after they had occurred.
A former government official, Hans-Peter Friedrich, Chancellor Angela Merkel's interior minister from 2011 to 2013, accused the media of imposing a "news blackout" and operating a "code of silence" over negative news about immigrants: "It is a scandal that it took days for the media to pick up the reports," Mr. Friedrich said.
"Experts," feminists and liberals tried to downplay the attacks by explaining them away at all costs.
One such "expert," the German criminologist Christian Pfeiffer, described the men as "largely young, single men, who have arrived in this country and don't know what to do with themselves... The clarification of their asylum status took such a long time that their frustrations and anger only grew." This much-respected German criminologist concluded: "This is an alarm signal that we need to do more." According to him, immigrants commit crimes, but the Germans are at fault because they "need to do more."
Many feminists in Europe claimed that too much focus had been put on the criminals' "ethnicity," which these feminists alleged was "racism" -- while ignoring that Islam is not an ethnicity but a religion. This argument was championed especially by the once-hardcore feminists in Sweden and Denmark.
Social media were also rife with excuses for men who had assembled for the sole purpose of sexually assaulting female passersby in a public square. It turns out this pastime -- gang-rape -- hails from the Arab-Muslim world, and has a specific name: "Taharrush."
How does the fear of being accused of "racism" become more important than calling out gang-rape?
If any of these attempts at denial sound familiar, they should. For decades, European national authorities, liberals, and the media have either ignored, "relativized" or attempted to explain away whatever unpleasant facts accompanied Muslim mass-immigration into Europe.
The widespread sexual abuse of 1400 children by Muslim men, mainly of Pakistani origin, in Rotherham, England, for more than a decade, between 1999 and 2013, was known by the local British authorities but allowed to continue.
In Paris, Toulouse and Copenhagen, Jews were murdered by Muslims -- for just being Jews.
Imams are free to preach and incite hatred against Jews from European mosques. The imams call Jews the descendants of "apes and pigs."
The terrorist who murdered a young Jewish security guard last year in Copenhagen at a synagogue had been exposed to exactly such incitement in a local Copenhagen mosque the day before he committed the murder.
Jew-hunting season has also opened in France again, and 15,000 Jews have left the country in the past two years. Already in 2014, 75% of all French Jews were considering leaving the country.
In 2006, a young French Jew, Ilan Halimi, was held prisoner and tortured for 24 days by a gang of Muslims, then dumped, naked and handcuffed, in a field. In Europe, this story went practically unreported.
As The Atlantic wrote in April 2015, "France's 475,000 Jews represent less than 1 percent of the country's population. Yet last year, according to the French Interior Ministry, 51 percent of all racist attacks targeted Jews."
The statistics in other countries are similar. In 2014 and 2015, Jews in Europe were murdered, raped, beaten and stalked, only for being Jews. Signs in the street read, "Sale Juif" ("dirty Jew"), "Death to the Jews," and "Jews to the gas."
None of these side-effects of Muslim immigration seems to concern liberals, the media, or the purported defenders of human rights -- who so loudly claim to be against "racism." Or, once again in Europe, does "racism" not include the Jews?
In Sweden, there were "widespread sexual assaults" by about 90 young men, mainly from Afghanistan and Syria, at a concert in Stockholm last August. The largest Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, once it was informed of the national origin of the criminals, did not want to report the story.
Only after the Cologne attacks -- five months later -- did the Swedish newspaper show interest in what happened in Stockholm last summer.
 Left: Cologne Police Chief Wolfgang Albers (left) was forced into early retirement, over the cover-up of New Year's Eve's mass sexual assaults in his city. Right: The largest Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, waited five months to report on "widespread sexual assaults" by about 90 young men, mainly from Afghanistan and Syria, at a concert in Stockholm last August. |
In Norway, the first statistics on rapes were revealed in 2001: incidences of rape had increased by 40% from 1999 to 2000, and 65% of all rapes were committed by non-Western immigrants (mainly Muslims). At the time, professor Unna Wikan, considered an authority on Muslims in Norway, blamed the rapes on Norwegian women. She accused them of "inviting" the rapes by acting like "Norwegian women" instead of "internalising that we live in a multicultural society and accommodat[ing] that fact. ... In most Muslim countries, it is assumed that the woman is at fault for being raped, and it is only fair that Muslim immigrants bring these kinds of opinions with them when they move to Norway."
Liberals openly admit that they do not wish to talk about what they see: "So no wonder liberals would do anything to avoid fanning these flames, since we see in all this righteous indignation a blatantly racist old trope about barbarians at the gates. We bend over backwards to report it responsibly, to moderate the frothing rage," said a British self-declared liberal about her unwillingness to talk about the Cologne attacks.
Avoiding "fanning the flames," however, turns out not to be true. Many liberals seem to have no problems "fanning the flames" of racial hatred, so long as Muslims are not at the receiving end. At the very top of their hatred are Israeli Jews. Many in the media gleefully participate with skewed, selective reporting of facts, especially in the Middle East. The European media have virtually ignored the current wave of almost daily Palestinian stabbings, shootings, car-rammings and stone-throwings -- not to mention the rocket attacks into Israel from the Gaza Strip. These attacks are aimed at innocent civilians, and are whipped up by the Palestinian Authority, with Mahmoud Abbas at the helm.
The desire of many Europeans and other self-declared devotees of "human rights" to cover up, downplay or explain away what is happening in Europe, in fact represents the opposite of what people genuinely concerned with human rights care about: respect for others and equality before the law.
When a society built on the rule of law begins to cover up criminal behavior and absolve criminals of responsibility, this only weakens and corrodes the very values it claims to want to uphold.
Absolving such criminal behavior is not only the very opposite of justice, it is also a kind of "inverted racism" -- against its own native Europeans.
As it turns out, the liberal ethos seems anything but. It is actually totalitarian in its desire to adapt reality, at all costs, to its own fantasies, agendas and "narratives." Objective truth is treated as disposable.
Europe has voluntarily begun the process of giving up its liberal and hard-fought-for freedoms. Free speech no longer exists, only -- straight out of totalitarian ideologies -- "responsible" free speech: "free" only if it does not "offend" anyone. That is not free speech; that is censored speech. Speech that does not offend anyone does not need protecting.
Religious freedom no longer exists. Jews cannot wear Jewish symbols openly anymore without serious risk of assault, and they can only assemble for prayer under heavy security. Now will real freedom for girls and women also cease to exist? After that, who will be next?
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You get it. Any economic collapse takes the current batch of top level parasites out with it.
Free speech began falling apart as numerous EU countries knuckled under to the zionist lobby and outlawed historical inquiry into the historical event known as the Holocaust. We're not talking about people stirring ethnic nor religious hatred and its attendant potential for violence, but simply getting the facts straight. Narrative versus the scientific method, and narrative is winning, kinda like 9/11-Anthrax or the climate debate.
The scientific method was replaced with 'critical theory' (cultural marxism).
But they still get to call themselves scientists, their work is called 'doing a study', and the results are purportedly 'science'.
The soft sciences have been that way for a long time. You have a few people who really know their shit and their methodology, and the rest either "know" the answer and cherry pick the data, or are well meaning but don't know jack shit about their methodology. That is not new. What is more prevelant is the reliance on their results without filtering to see if you have one of the people who really knows his shit or not.
The other key is falsifiability. If a theory cannot be falsified or proven wrong then it's not science.
falsifiability has gone up the window a long time ago unfortunatly. Even in the hard science fields. It is not well known among the general population but the latest theories about the universe are unfalsifiable. I am talking specificly about the string theories and the dark matter / dark energy theory. There is just too many free parameters that can be adjusted to fit the data. This is the modern version of the copernic epicycle orbital theory.
Right, if one wants to predict the future they need not look at chicken guts or chrystal balls, but simply write a formula, and if the formula is correct it will spit out a predictable outcome.
And you are just as bad as theMuslims who attack Jews just for being Jewish. Your nonsense empowers the actually murderers.
...and.....and........ and even closer to home in Wisconsin, the students attending basketball games are being forbidden to cheer "air ball"!, when a competing team's player misses a shot.
I'm gonna go have a cookie.
So that the airballee doesn't get its feelings hurt? Fvck me, they should just have a balloon instead of a ball, and whoever catches the balloon tries to run while all the other players hug.
Or what...you're physically thrown out?
more hate the muslim is good meme from the usual source and yet, she wonders why there are people who hate the jews, as if that is forbidden and evil.
More John Bolton neocon "Gatestone" rubbish.
look and listen to all the fools they have persuaded with their campaign to convince everyone the zionazi elephant in the room is to be ignored because the muslim is the problem.
Dancing Israelis "We are not your problem. The Palestinians are* your problem"
* - more accurately "will become"
And you are just as bad as theMuslims who attack Jews just for being Jewish. Your nonsense empowers the actually murderers.
you dimwits are tiring. your admission of responsibility is more than i have claimed. thank you. confessions are cleansing. i hope you feel better for taking responsibility.
Now ZeroHedgers, us Americans have gone to great extents to assist our allies in their time of need. Is it not time to get boots on the ground permanently in Europe so that all of our efforts are not in vain?
If we do not elect President Trump the Muslims will soon take over our great homeland, America!
(They are breeding like crazy up in Canada!)
Dont assume that by any means all ZeroHedgers are American, you couldnt be more way off the mark
Americans are the only ones who's comments matter.
Thank you for confirming what a moron you are
Exceptional!
Which would you prefer to read a comment from a sophisticated member of the most advanced culture the world has ever known, or some savage bushman from the bowels of Africa?
Of course you'd want to hear from the American not the curd chewing nannygoat Europeeon.
Urgently the mad dog to "put down" to sleep.
You say that as though you are sarcastic, but there is a real chance that we could get sucked into another European land war over this shit. You don't bring in millions of people who have a tribal mentality and expect it to not have a destabilizing effect. An unstable Europe just acts like a fucking magnet for our armed forces.
Scooby is ready to fight Bitchez! Bite Club is hungry!
You wanna take my fucking lotto money and hand me some rigged tickets! FUCK YOU!
I can see nothing on the horizon that suggests this will not erupt and bring our armed forces into it. If anyone can point to anything, anywhere to show that the slowing of global economics, the clash of cultures, the refusal to address the clash, the importation of more problems, and so will have a good outcome or be stopped by X, Y, or Z please state it.
I fully expect many proxy wars if not a full on world war. It appears to be intentional. The magnet is already pulling and could be a black hole instead.
"The clash of cultures"? WTF?
You can't find anything in a banlieu around Paris that you don't find in Calcutta or Rio, it just has a different cultural and religious cast.
And the solution is clear for their minorities same as it is for our own, get the gd government out of the way, and we can all make a living. Our governmentsh ave improverished us, and this social strife is the inevitable result. Blaming it on our fellow citzens (never blameless, us neither) is a strategy that will destroy out own societies if it isi allowed to proceed.
Why are we doing that? Because MSM amplifies the voices that drive those views? Gee, they couldn't be intentionally breaking down our societies, could they? As a way of grabbing more power?
Does that work? Could it be the reason that members of the Israeli-Neocon cabal own all the media?
Perhaps your mind is not your own.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/about-the-massive-psyops/
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/propaganda-example-of-the-...
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/your-mind-is-not-your-own-2/
I know this sounds retarded, counter productive, and/or misplaced but the only way anything changes is by forcing religious and feminist groups to act on their rhetoric, if they want the immigrants then they house them personally, no excuses.
If they won't, or some completely unexpected tragedy befalls them, oh well!
When you attempt to debate the radical socialist multicultural lovers you're soon entangled in relativist flimflam. Debates quickly degenerate into the evils of white imperialism and white rape, the victimhood of women, the suffering of chocolate people and capitalist exploitation. The arguments are transparently neomarxist. Arguments deliberatly avoid referring to any sort of data and wallow in victimhood anecdotes drenched in blubbering pathos.
What's more frightening though is the near uniformity of beliefs among European political elites in support of multiculturalism and the European socialist state, even as it is in total collapse across the entire continent.
Europe is far gone. Whether the current course can be reversed remains to be seen.
Sounds like required course reading for "Feminism 101" at Berkley, Amherst or Swarthmore.
Maybe they take history courses?
You know,the ones that have all that data of civilizations that arose by combining 2 or more previous cutures with combinations of technology and thus more wealth?
Spain is a fine example, contrary to the Catholic accounts of things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs3y-jpY4eI
It is instructive to compare the archaeological and remaining historical accounts of the Moslem's conquest of Spain and its subsequent cultural trajectory with that of the Christian reconquest and the Inquisition.
There is not, and can not have been since the first isolated primate troops, a pure culture. We are hybrids of hybrids of hybrids, genetic, cultural, technological, etc. And that is why we have such a high civilization today, you do realize?
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/of-course-we-want-syrian-r...
You folks against multi-cultural world are ordering the tide to halt and against your own interests. Go ahead and be Amish, good folks, the Amish. We will buy your baskets.
is this about Europe or Jewish people? surprised at ZH for posting this 'loaded' article.
ZH runs on advertising. ZH has smart readers, selected for liking comments of the kind we write. We are thereby smart enough to install AdBlock Plus, because ZH is unusuable without it.
Friend of mine runs on a tablet, he apparently can't install AdBlock, so can't read zh.
FUCK POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. LIBTARDS AND CRAPS
soooo... julian assange just needs to convert to islam & his troubles go away?
If julian would pepper his speeches and interviews with the phrase 'alloo akhbar' every few sentences I have a feeling they would consider him too 'sensitve' and too much a political hot potato to persecute him.
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Where I'm from the jews have been fanatically propagating multiculturalism (except for judaism), mass immigration from the turd world (except for Israel) and racial intermarriage (except for jews) for many years. So I find it hard to sympathize now that their semitic brethren turn against them.
And you are just as bad as theMuslims who attack Jews just for being Jewish. Your nonsense empowers the actually murderers.
Except he has a very solid point - your 'no criticism of anything to do with Jews' worldview notwithstanding
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.675475
No, not true. Israel, political zionism, has been the font of the anti-Muslim propaganda. Leon Uris is one of the great example, read "The Haj". Propaganda techniques cribbed from some anti-Jewish tract written by Hungarian Intelligence, probably.
"The Jews have been ...".
Can you provide links or quantification of the %age of Jews with those views vs other ethnic and religious groups? And Mass Migrations ...
'Turd world' was a clever way of telling us your biases.
Here in the part of the world I am from, I see no preaching about what religion marries what religion, nor skin color or ethnic background having much to do with it either. Indians are still marrying Indians, mostly, but now it is any caste to any caste, and Hindus marrying Christians and Moslems. So that isn't right for the entire world.
Also, Israel took in quite a few jews from the third world, and wanted those in Iran, but they wouldn't leave. It was home, and they are treated well in that Muslim community, as our ISIS and other terrorist groups have not had much luck in breaking up that society yet.
So, on the whole, I find no validity in your statements.
Which isn't to say that I think many of our government and other people who want us to consider them our leaders have any honesty in anything.
Gatestone is an Imperial neocon organization, headed by John Bolton. ZH shouldn't be spreading this agitprop fear-mongering.
In other words, its Zionism for Christians... But with a teaspoon of sugar, to make it go down easier?
They are choosing to attempt to self-destruct with the willing support of sell-outs and traitors. Not any different from other parts of the world. Will they be stopped in time is the question.
Muslims are running Caveman Game and the libtards and feminists don't know what to do about it.
When the laws become too onerous to follow, acting like you don't know what they are gives you power.
Caucasian's will destroy their nation, culture, religion and race just to prove how diverse, tolerant, and politically correct they are. As I write Europeons are removing crosses, and other symbols of Christianity, Jews are removing their kipa's, women are requested to keep their dress lengths below their knees, and even the feminazi's are not complaining thus the offering of their females by implication by covering up rape and assaults. Even worse, more diverse folk are being allowed in,,, guaranteeing more rapes, assaults, and robberies to prove without a doubt they are the most tolerant and diverse society on the planet.
Our strength is our weakness. In this case, altruism...
Caucasians/Europeans/Christians (aka 'white people') are known as being altruistic, and thats been played upon, to get them to be 'too altruistic', to the point of destroying their culture and society.
Caucasians are not doing this of their own will. At least not consciously.
In nature there is a parasite that will attack the host's brain and direct it to an area that is more comfortable for the parasite to thrive in or reproduce - it often means the host's death. The West is infected with a similar parasite which is directing it to cultural and racial suicide, so that the parasite may feed off the consumer gains to be had.
In a world where the material (money and items) means more than blood and culture, there is no need for a homogenous society. The Caucasian race must die in the name of more profits.
ZH loves to post the neo con "freedom fries" looney tunes diatribes as Pax Americana unwinds.
For this lady to talk about the fall out of the refugee trail in Europe, as a result of neo-con oil wars in Syrac, is ghoulishly amusing.
As she lives in the country of PRison Inc. owned 62% by Private enterprise. And her government has contributed to the refugee trail's local mayhem. Talk about freedom's loss world wide...and causality
On the same lines as this post here is Don Quichotte from France on his freedom march :
Sarko went to Abu Dhabi and said in the name of "his friends" the beginning of WW3 had NOW occurred; with the Jihadi "terrorists" as the global enemy.
He exhorted the petromonarchies to "play their part, as winning the war against Jihad is a question of SOLELY Arab boots on ground."... That must have pleased those Sheikhs who love to rattle in their harems, not on the battlefields.
Now for a neo-con 'runaround' on a paid conference circuit, the man who went to Libyaaa... is now saying "what I did in Libya created WW3! But I'll not fight it on the ground YOU WILL ! We will come and clean up."
The spiel is clear : NWO Oligarchy wants the world wide commodity cake and also to eat it!...with a divide and rule "bully boy" strategy.
The only way to achieve that is for the "ethnic cleansing" of the "other lot" to continue...massively; and for the west to position itself to "recolonise"-- or more appropriately in compassionate neo-con jargonese, to "recivilize" the Arab desert and Maghreb/ sub saharan Africa, once WW3 is over. It worked well in Nam and Afghan... or in Salvador.
The sham game of creating the problem and then saying "there is no ALternative"...TINA !
As a follow up to past Libya/Iraq/Syria NWO games.
What a wonderful world. WW3 and let the arabs kill the africans and/or whoever else is a rebel with a cause (that of country takeover)! It will of course be branded as "clash of civilization"...
Huntington has played his part as new Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in the neo-con's take over of planet.
Soldier Monks here we come!
Freedom, freedom when all YOUR oil is ours and trickledown goes back to 1200 AD.
We are in the looney tunes logic of Manifest Destiny, aka "God wills it". And that is more awesome than any fall out from the unwashed refugee. Reliving the past in the age of Nuclear...
7 billion Geronimo skulls in perspective...