Islamization of the West, Further Thoughts

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the complete islamization of the West without any jihad. Here are some after thoughts on the subject.

When two cultures, one rather ‘primitive’ in the view of the more ‘advanced’ one, are allowed to co-exist, frictions and fears naturally arise in the minds of people belonging to the majority culture. The white people in the West have, over half a century, welcomed fugitives, job seekers, students, and scholars from the third-world countries in Africa and Asia. A good percentage of this great demographic flow belonged to the Islamic faith. Not only because their culture was totally different from that of the host country, but also because the immigrants identified many of their cultural peculiarities with their religion, most Muslims steadfastly refused to be assimilated into the mainstream of social life.

In a democracy votes matter much. No politician can afford to ignore a minority. Therefore, even when the social behaviour of Muslims collided with the accepted norms of social conduct, politicians tried to ignore it. Islets of alien culture, with virtually nothing in common with the mainstream social behaviour, came into existence in different parts of Europe. Into this secluded areas, law enforcement agencies are very often denied access.

The major area of conflict is the treatment of women by Islamic communities. A white woman has complete freedom in her sexual or married life. But among Muslims, the sexual behaviour of a woman is always dictated by the community, that is, by men. This varies from coercion in the choice of husbands, to honour killings. Displaying body parts including the face is taboo and as a result, self esteem among Muslim girls is very low.

As Muslim power and influence in Europe grow and liberal Muslims are browbeaten or suppressed, the reaction of the majority culture is likely to assume harsher tones. Europeans, despite their apparent tolerance to alien models of social behaviour, are capable of extreme cruelty and bloodshed. We have any number of examples before us. Recent Christian- Muslim conflicts in Serbia, assumed the proportion of genocide. What Germany under Hitler did is another example. Six million Jews are believed to have been sent to the gas chamber simply because they were Jews.

Democracy is the only dispensation which will protect minorities anywhere in the world. Though conservative Muslims shun democracy as an unscientific western invention, as long as the West is democratic, minorities, especially Muslims do not have to fear anything.

If islamophobia is used as a clever political plank to grab power by a person or movement, and if democracy is substituted by dictatorship in a major European country, the fate of Muslims in that country will be sealed. The world will discover that all the talk about human rights, freedom of expression, freedom profess and propagate any religion etc are letters written on water. The cultural credentials of Germans have never been suspect for centuries. But they witnessed the massacre of a multitude without a whimper of protest.

It is therefore, in the interest of Muslims in the West to strengthen democracy. The elite and liberals among Muslims have a duty to transform Islam to a modern, peace loving religion, compatible with the mainstream social order. It is the duty of Muslims to free the community from the clutches of bearded and chauvinistic religious teachers with medieval mindsets.

The end time prophesy of Jesus Christ warns of widespread unrest and clashes among religious and ethnic groups towards the close of the prevailing phase of human history. Such bloody conflicts, ruled out as peculiar only to less civilized African countries and communities, can happen in Europe unless the policymakers and Islamic leaders are careful.
(Please also see my posts titled Islamization of the West, Religion and Culture, religion and Conflict and Islam and Terrorism)