Danish journalist Jacob Holdt found the following:
"There was another salient factor. Holdt found Hizb ut-Tahiri's young members "well educated and surprisingly well integrated," and Mikkelsen agreed. It seems counterintuitive, but many of European's most radical Muslims do indeed turn out to be among the best educated, highly fluent in the language of their country of residence as well as in English. Many have impressive technical, scientific, or computer skills; they enjoy much of what the West has to offer and are intelligent and gifted enough to make a real contribution to Western society. Perversely, however, they've embraced an ideology that's violently antagonistic to the modern world and dedicated to the establishment of a caliphate modeled after the medieval Arab empire."
Hedegaard continues by saying the following:
"He mentioned a Danish firm with which he was familiar. It had recently taken on some new Muslim employees, and one of the longtime workers there had asked, in all seriousness: "When the Muslims start working here, can we still wear shorts in the summer?" Such readiness to adjust to Islamic norms-an attribute rooted in the fact that the reigning social ideal was not liberty but compromise-did not bode well for Denmark's future. "If there's any hope," Hedegaard suggested dryly, borrowing a line he knew I'd recognize from 1984, "it lies in the proles." Yet we both knew that the "proles"-if they did take over the reins from the elite-might well lead Europe back down the road to fascism.
He did admit that he was glad to be living in Denmark and not elsewhere in Western Europe: "If there's any place where there's hope, it's got to be this country." But Hedegaard didn't hold out much hope even for Denmark. "Unless they build up a cadre of intellectuals in Europe who can think," he said, AMERICA "CAN KISS EUROPE GOOD-BYE."
The continent's future, he predicted, "is going to be vastly different than we imagine....It's going to be war. Like Lebanon," with some enclaves dominated by Christians and others by Muslims. There will be "permanent strife," and no one will have the "power to mollify or mediate....It will be more gruesome than we can imagine." When the horror comes, he warned, the journalists who helped to bring it about will "wag their heads and flee - and leave it to those who can't flee to fight it out."
Excerpted from "While Europe Slept, How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within" by Bruce Bawer...
(Pages 188 & 189)
Friday, March 24, 2006
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