Whether Europe Withers . . .

From The Brussels Journal: For Whom the Bell Tolls

On a tour of the town the daughter of our Turkish host showed me a banner by the gate of a local school, which bore a quote of Atatürk: “Nations who do not know their national identity will become the prey of other nations.” West Europeans would do well to bear this in mind. A young Turkish woman said that she is opposed to Turkey joining the EU because she fears that the Eurocrats will force her country to be “tolerant” towards Islamist fanatics, allowing them “rights” which in contemporary Turkey they do not have.
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Last year Hirsi Ali was elected “European of the Year.” It is a bad omen for Europe when the “European of the Year” leaves for America. Let us hope and pray that history does not repeat itself and that Europe will not fall like Constantinople fell 553 years ago. Let us hope that Europe will save its honour and rediscover the will to defend the city, the way Constantine XI did. Many Dutch, however, do not seem to have much confidence in their country’s chances of survival. Last year a record number of 121,000 people emigrated from the Netherlands, the largest number ever, while only 92,000 immigrated in. This emigration figure is the highest figure in the entire history of the country so far. The Netherlands is today also the European nation with the highest proportion of emigrants. Since 2003 more people have been leaving the country than entering it. The numbers are rising. In the first quarter of this year 29,000 people left the Netherlands – 5,000 more than in the same period last year. Now Ayaan Hirsi Ali is leaving too. The bell tolls for the Dutch, and those who do not hear it must be deaf.

Read the article for links and more. One other line in the article is of special interest:

Her Dutch passport has been taken from her, with the bureaucratic consequence that she currently cannot get an American visa. The Dutch seem set on making life hard for her, but I am sure the Americans will find a way to solve the problem.

She should go to Mexico and just walk across the border like everybody else.

Just In Case You Missed This Headline In Your Newspaper

Reunited: boys saved from slavers

A SENIOR member of an Islamic organisation linked to Al-Qaeda is funding his activities through the kidnapping of Christian children who are sold into slavery in Pakistan.

The Sunday Times has established that Gul Khan, a wealthy militant who uses the base of Jamaat-ud Daawa (JUD) near Lahore, is behind a cruel trade in boys aged six to 12.

They are abducted from remote Christian villages in the Punjab and fetch nearly £1,000 each from buyers who consign them to a life of misery in domestic servitude or in the sex trade.

Khan was exposed in a sting organised by American and Pakistani missionaries who decided to save 20 such boys and return them to their homes.(emphasis added -ed.) Using a secret camera, they filmed him accepting $28,500 (£15,000) from a Pakistani missionary posing as a businessman who said he wanted to set up an operation in which the boys would beg for cash on the streets.
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Last week I accompanied six of the boys on journeys of up to 15 hours to their homes, where they were greeted with astonishment and jubilation by families who had given them up for dead.
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The undercover missionaries have demanded the prosecution of Khan and an investigation into his work for the JUD, which claims to have created a “pure Islamic environment” at Muridke.

(Evil Christian missionaries destroy another indigenous cultural practice.) (Hat tip to The Cabarfeidh Pages.)

Is Humor The Best Antidote . . . .

for anti-Semitism? A friend emailed me this joke:

A man arrived from Europe at Ben Gurion International Airport with 2 large bags. The customs agent opens the first bag to discover it is full with money in different currencies. The agent asks the passenger, "How did you get this money?"

The man says, "You will not believe it, but I traveled all over Europe, and went into public restrooms. Each time I saw a man peeing, I grabbed his organ and told him: "Donate money to Israel or I'll cut off your [kibbles and bits] off."

The customs agent is stunned and mumbles:" Well...that's a unique and very interesting story...and what do you have in the other bag?"

The man says, "You wouldn't believe how many people in Europe do not support Israel."

I wonder if they laugh at this in Holland.

A Neo-Darwinian Analysis of the Ethno-Religious Context: Deconstuction and Development

as found in Saudi textbooks.

Red Ensign Standard 42

(Hat tip to Dust My Broom.)

Venezuela Watch 6/19/06

From Dust My Broom: The long arm of Hugo

It never hurts to have friends in high places.

Curiouser And Curiouser

From Gateway Pundit via The Cabarfeidh Pages:

Italian media is reporting that Italian communist groups helped kill the three Italian soldiers in Nassirya last week
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The Italian intelligence heard phone conversations in which the red fundamentalists instructed the Islamists about how and when to kill our soldiers. It seems that the attack was organized in order to pressure Mr. Prodi to speed the pullout from Iraq.
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Iranian agents were accused yesterday of masterminding a bomb attack that killed three Italian soldiers in Iraq last week and intensified political pressure for the incoming government to speed up its withdrawal of troops from that country.
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A spy in a local police station evidently provided the Iranians with the route to be taken by the soldiers' convoy. Iraqi officers at the Nasariyah police station were trained by the Italian contingent, but many are considered unreliable.

Making A Difference In Rwanda

If you have read through 100 Days of Rwanda and become disgusted with the UN and world leaders, you will find encouragement in that some people from The High Places are Helping The Children of Rwanda.

Red Ensign Standards 40 & 41

The Raging Kraut raises the Red Ensign Standard 41. RES #40 was raised by Taylor & Company. (Hat tip to Dust My Broom.)

Jean-Francois Revel (1924-2006)

Jean-Francois Revel has died, a loss to all mankind.

• Relapsed Catholic point us to a comprehensive obituary in The Telegraph

  Jean-Francois Revel, who died on Saturday aged 82, was almost unique among French philosophers in being a champion of economic liberalism and an outspoken critic of the anti-Americanism of European intellectuals - particularly French ones.

• Barcepundit

  One of the last few good men in the European intelligentsia has left us. Rest in peace, master.

• The Brussels Journal

On Wikipedia

Interesting POV from br23 blog: English Wikipedia && Belarus

have discovered Wikipedia more than two and a half years ago. Since then I’ve used it regularly as a quick reference, and I also used to contribute to it a little bit, mostly to the articles about Belarus. Since then several Russian contributors (who openly express pro-imperial, pro-Soviet, anti-Western, anti-Belarusian and anti-Ukrainian political views) removed a lot of important factual information from Belarus-related articles that showed Russia and USSR in a bad light and inserted information with a pro-Russian and pro-Soviet spin (”POV” as it’s called in Wiki-jargon).

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Will Sweden Adopt Sharia Before Iraq Adopts Democracy

From The Brussels Journal: People Worry About Islam, Its Leaders About Islamophobia

A high school teacher in Malmö discovered that about a dozen Arab students were laughing and shouting “Allahu Akbar!” while watching a DVD of infidel hostages being beheaded in Iraq. The headmaster didn’t think the incident was such a big deal.

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