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Winning Through Intimidation: Immigrant Threats Cow Europe—And America

By Brenda Walker

"A small skirmish was won recently in the long war between Western Civilization and alien totalitarian religion—but the associated agitation shows that even a win can be costly.

Geert Wilders, a Member of the Dutch Parliament who has been outspoken
about the dangers of Islamic immigration, was permitted entry to
Britain after being blocked for months. But his appearance inspired
ugly demonstrations on London streets by local Sons of Allah, who
openly announced their intention to kill him.

Last February, Wilders was sent back to the Netherlands after trying
to appear in Britain and screen his short documentary film Fitna
[Watch]. At that time, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith refused Mr. Wilders
entry to the UK because his opinions "would threaten community
security and therefore public security."

A little backstory is in order. After the 2004 murder of Dutch
filmmaker Theo van Gogh on an Amsterdam street by Muslim Mohammed
Bouyeri for producing the Islam-critical film Submission, Wilders came
to prominence because of his frank talk about Islam. He characterized
Islam as "fascist ideology" and condemned the religion for its
barbarity to women, calling for a ban on the misogynous burqa. He has
lived with 24/7 security protection ever since.

Britain's current change in policy was not because the Labor
government had discovered any new enthusiasm for free speech. Instead,
a judge overturned the ban on Wilders entering the country.

Muslim fury against Wilders is evident in a video making the rounds:
Muslim protestors insult Geert Wilders. Young Islamic men with British
accents professed their loyalty to principles of sharia law, which
they say requires his execution:

"We're here to protest against this man, Geert Wilders, who insulted
the message of Mohamed, [blah blah aleikum Islam]. We're here to give
him a message that, like he's doing his interview today holed up,
he'll remain holed up, because he obviously knows that in Islam, the
punishment for the one who insults the prophet is capital punishment.
And he should take lessons from people like Theo Van Gogh and others
who faced the punishment. So obviously we're here to warn him and
remind him that he's going to remain holed up as long as he insults
Islam and Muslims.”

Interviewer: Is that going to be construed a threat, what you just
said?

“Well, obviously I'm saying, I'm not saying that I'm personally am
going to carry out, but, he needs to know that there are Muslims in
every corner of the earth, and these people they all have the love for
the message of Mohamed [blah blah aleikum Islam]. And in the message
of Mohamed he said, 'the one who insults any of the prophets, kill
him.' That is a capital punishment. Not necessarily that personally
I'm going to carry it out, but he should be warned that, you know, of
the consequences of it.” [VDARE.COM note: Transcript here, the "blah
blah" being the transcriber's substitute for whatever the fellow is
saying when he's not speaking English.]

It's interesting how Wilders is seen as a threat to public order
because of telling an unpleasant truth. But the truly dangerous Muslim
mobs who crowd British streets with death threats are apparently
regarded by British officials as incidental.

The case of Geert Wilders reveals how the strategy of intimidation
works. The Muslim interlopers of Europe have been effective in using
it against free speech and the normal bonds of society, backing up
their threats with actual terrorism and street crime.

One group of Muslims, Islam4UK, plans a London rally for October 31 to
demand Britain accept Islamic law, a March for Sharia:

"Undoubtedly, Islam and the Shariah have reached new heights in the
United Kingdom, Muslim communities up and down the country have
brought forth a culture and system that is not only superior to the
British way of life but also a shining example of what true
subservience to Almighty God can bring to a society drowning in
disbelief and oppression. "

The Daily Express of October 15 apparently didn't appreciate the
opportunity for celebrating diversity at the event: Now Muslims Demand
Full Sharia Law. TK

“The fanatical group Islam4UK has announced plans to hold a
potentially incendiary rally in London later this month.

“And it is calling for a complete upheaval of the British legal
system, its officials and legislation.

“Members have urged Muslims from all over Britain to converge on the
capital on October 31 for a procession to demand the full
implementation of sharia law.”

There's no precise measurement for increased intimidation among the
enemies of the West, but it does appear to be building in correlation
to their enlarged demographic footprint resulting from immigration.

Of course, Europe has been awash in Islamic violence for years,
including terror attacks in London and Madrid, plus spates of nightly
car-burnings in France. The worldwide riots caused by Muslims because
of their fury over a dozen Danish cartoons resulted in the deaths of
over a hundred people.

No-go neighborhoods, where visits by non-Muslims are not considered
safe, exist in many European countries. Police and firemen may also
choose to stay out of Allahville because the ferocity of violence is
on the uptick. Scholar Daniel Pipes has noted The 751 No-Go Zones of
France:

"What are they? Those places in France that the French state does not
control. They range from two zones in the medieval town of Carcassone
to twelve in the heavily Muslim town of Marseilles, with hardly a town
in France lacking in its ZUS. The ZUS came into existence in late 1996
and according to a 2004 estimate, nearly 5 million people live in
them.

Comment: A more precise name for these zones would be Dar al-Islam,
the place where Muslims rule. "

A recent German news report showed what police face in immigrant
neighborhoods: YouTube: Berlin police under siege. One remark: "The
police union say they are seeing higher and higher levels of ruthless
violence." Attempted murder against police is part of the new normal,
including Molotov cocktails.

Officer Andre Baudach (a sizable and robust-looking fellow) described
surviving an attack where an iron bar was smashed against his head,
plus his future plans in light of Germany's diversity: "I have applied
for a training mission in Afghanistan. Because the risk of getting
injured or killed over there is just the same as here, and the pay is
considerably better."

That remark reflects a policeman's view of his own country after
several decades of Muslim immigration. With a little bad luck, making
an arrest or writing a traffic ticket in a hostile immigrant
neighborhood can turn into a riot where the intent of some is to kill
police.

Islam is on the march in America also. On September 25, several
thousand Muslims gathered near the Capitol for a peaceful pray in.
(See Pamela Geller's photos of the occasion: Islam in the Capital, the
Culture, Colonization.) It's hard not to suspect that their prayers
were for the eradication of the Constitution and its replacement with
Islamic law.

The sponsoring group, Islam on Capitol Hill asserts, "Our time has
come" A possible reference to America's Islam-friendly President? Or
perhaps they are merely thrilled with the rapid growth of the Muslim
population in the West through immigration and high fertility?

Muslims have been clever in using American freedoms to destroy
America. A settlement in the Flying Imams case was announced October
20, albeit with no mention of a dollar amount that the clerics would
receive. In a situation that looked suspiciously like a set-up, the
six imams were removed from a US Airways plane for what both crew
members and passengers reported was very alarming behavior.

The imams went straight to media and lawyer mode. They initially
sought to sue the John Does on the plane who complained, but later
dropped that idea. (It helped that Congress passed legal protections
for citizens who report suspicious behavior to authorities.)

Had the imams been successful in painting vigilant citizens as racist
profilers, everyone's safety from terrorists would have been severely
diminished because of the fear of lawsuit on the part of honest
people.

Instilling reluctance among airline passengers and ordinary people
about speaking out when they see something wrong would have been a big
win for the terrorist side. The safety motto "When you see something,
say something" would have become a bitter joke.

Muslims are big on marking territory. But they are not the only ones
by any means. The 2006 May Day parades across America were filled with
hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and others displaying their various
foreign flags. The visuals woke up many Americans, who at that time
may have considered the possibility of civil disorder among so many
illegal aliens expressing loyalty to foreign powers. The parades were
mostly peaceful, but a seed of alarm was planted.

An interesting example of the effectiveness of threatened violence in
combination with large and growing numbers is the huge encampment of
illegal aliens living in McGonigle Canyon near San Diego, a problem
that has gone on for years.

"One home owner voiced specific concerns that [seemed] to be quite
alarming.’A long-time resident stated Border Patrol will not go in the
canyon due to the belief that if they do roundups of the illegal
aliens, the migrants will torch the canyon in retaliation,' [Minuteman
Jeff] Schwilk said.'"[Migrant camps draw ire from residents result in
cool response from police, By Kimberly Dvorak, San Francisco Examiner,
October 12, 2009]

In other words, the menace of violence, up to and including civil
insurrection, has made some authorities and police pull back in order
not to inflame the touchy foreigners.

That strategy may make sense in the short term—more so if one's own
neighborhood might get torched or be trashed. But in the long term,
society becomes a pattern of anarchies, where parts are literally is
not your own country anymore, because they been captured and held by
unfriendlies.

You have to look on the internet to find a map of no-go zones since
they are not printed by officials. But they are quite real. (For
example, see a map of France's "sensitive urban zones" for a view of
the successful conquest of territory through violence, crime and
intimidation.)

We may be at the beginning of a new sort of 21st century warfare where
hostile immigrants occupy and expand territory through intimidation
and localized violence. It is happening now in Europe. And it’s coming
to America—unless public policy changes soon."

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