Robert Tracinski:
A specter is haunting Europe. The specter of Islam.
George W. Bush used to say that we had to fight the terrorists over there, in the Middle East, so we wouldn’t have to fight them here at home. A long period of relative security made that claim seem overblown, like a lame justification for interventionism. But it just might turn out that he was right, and that it is even more true for Europe than it is for us.
I was reminded of this reading about the curtailed New Year’s Eve celebrations in Paris.
About 60,000 police officers and troops were deployed across the country, and revelers said that made them feel safer. “The same troops who used to be in Mali, Chad, French Guyana or the Central African Republic are now ensuring the protection of French people,” said Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.
In Belgium, the New Year’s Eve festivities were canceled entirely.
In Brussels, 2016 was rung in without the customary fireworks display and downtown street party…. Earlier this week, Belgian authorities announced they had arrested two men suspected of planning to stage attacks in Brussels over the holidays…. On Thursday morning, forklifts and trucks removed generators and other equipment from the Place de Brouckere, the broad square in central Brussels where the fireworks show was supposed to happen.
In Paris, they were significantly scaled down.
Paris canceled its usual fireworks display in favor of a five-minute video performance at the Arc de Triomphe just before midnight, relayed on screens along the Champs Elysee, where people chanted. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said the show was aimed at “sending the world the message that Paris is standing, proud of its lifestyle and living together.”
Well, no, if Paris were standing tall, it would have had its usual celebrations. Fireworks have an interesting symbolism, recalling the sights and sounds of war. Presumably that’s the problem this year: fireworks would be good cover for another shooting rampage. In the United States, legend has it that the reason we have fireworks on the Fourth of July is to remember the wars we fought to gain and keep our independence — the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air. But you only want to remember that if you won the war. If you’re losing, I can see why you wouldn’t be so excited about the fireworks.
The most dispiriting thing said about Paris was from a Parisienne on the street: “It was a very strange year, and we just want 2016 to be different, simply a normal one. It does not need to be an excellent one, but just a normal one.” Way to aim high.
But I doubt 2016 is going to be a normal year for Europeans. German officials just admitted that a little more than half of a wave of attacks during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Cologne were by North African and Middle Eastern asylum seekers who have flooded into the country during the Syrian civil war and have been welcomed under a foolishly, sanctimoniously overgenerous refugee policy.
The most disturbing thing about the Cologne attacks was the prevalence of sexual assault as a weapon, complete with gangs of Muslim men stalking German women through the streets, yelling obscenities at them and threatening them with sexual violence. Note to Western feminists: we finally found real “rape culture” for you. Unfortunately, it is not found primarily among middle-class American college boys, which is what you were hoping for.
This is “normal” — if that word can be applied here — in the Arab and Muslim world. Wherever large crowds gather, unaccompanied women are in danger. (Remember the brutal attack on CBS reporter Lara Logan during the Egyptian revolution.) This is a measure of the extent to which the culture of Islam, as it is practiced in much of the world, deranges and brutalizes its believers, particularly when it comes to their attitudes toward women and sex. This is what has now arrived in the heart of a free, civilized, enlightened Europe.
But take heart, some people in Europe are really thinking ahead. The famed Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana in now offering high-end hijabs. So yes, it turns out that burqas do come in sizes.
This is an inauspicious start to 2016 — but it is exactly what we should expect after 2015, which was the year the Specter of Islam rose to loom high over the capitals of Europe.
Or, as Muslims call this act, Taharrush.
Remember how American blacks play a game that sometimes kills its victim?
The ”knockout game,” the media calls it.
Well, Muslims have a ”rape game.”
They surround the victim in circles.
The men in the inner circle are the ones who physically abuse the woman, the next circle are the spectators, while the mission of the third circle is to distract and divert attention to what’s going on.
So, learn the new Arabic word, it is proof that Islam institutionalizes this treatment that shocks us in the West.
Taharrush.
People will misbehave as much as they are allowed to get away with. You will speed on the highway, as long as there isn’t a cop around… or you get caught.
Over in liberal Europe, they have been making every excuse possible for the misbehavior of their Muslim “guests”. My favorite is “they have not been taught not to rape yet”. Has this made these degenerates consider the fact that they have been given a second chance and they had best change their behavior? Uh… no. It has caused them to keep pushing the limits to see just how far they can go. Perhaps they can go TOO far… so far that no one can make them pull back, like the left has done with illegal immigration here (“you can’t deport 14 million people. Just get used to it”).
Over here, there are enough conservatives to create a firewall. Though any intolerance to this animalism is deemed “xenophobic” or “Islamophobic”, it still acts as a damper on the urge to go full-Sharia on us, though in certain neighborhoods, this is allowed, somewhat.
Unless someone with the ability to see what is coming (liberals NEVER see the impact of their actions; they don’t HAVE to… they can always just blame someone else and the media will support it) takes office, we will have the opportunity to be telling the left, “You wanted a war on women? Well, you have brought one down upon us.”
I would rather not.
Sounds like Europe wants to try to innocculate the animals that already have rabies.
You cant cure the insanity that is progressive liberalism, Governors are filing suit against Obama gun regulations already, but we can no longer count on the SCOTUS to rein him in.