by Enza Ferreri
Raymond Ibrahim,
a scholar of Arab and Islam history born in the USA of Egyptian Coptic
parents, often writes about the condition of Christians in
Muslim-majority countries, where they are subjugated and oppressed,
even when they are a sizeable minority in places like Egypt, Syria and,
before the “ethnic cleansing”, Iraq.
This is the complementary view, the one from historically
Christian Western Europe, where Muslims are still (although not for
long) a small minority, smaller than the Christians in the
aforementioned countries. Even in these entirely different situations
Muslims, aided by the Left and coward governments, are still acting
like masters, thinking that everything is due to them and trying to
impose their ideology on everybody else.
I came to live in London from Italy in 1984, and the changes I witnessed since are earth-shattering.
When I first arrived here, the word “halal” was unknown to
everybody except the people involved in animal welfare, who knew that
the Islamic method of slaughter was bad news indeed for the animals.
Now you only have to take a 30-minute drive around London (any part)
and you’ll see dozens of Halal signs in shops and restaurants. In the
area where I live in West London, which is by no means a Muslim ghetto
because many non-Muslim whites and blacks reside here, in the street
you see women whose attire would make the strictest Taliban happy; or
at least you think they are women, since all you can see is a walking
robe with no eyes.
The following are some among the myriad examples of Muslim
intolerance and lack of integration, stealth jihad and creeping sharia
in the United Kingdom.
A few years ago a Muslim policeman refused to wear his uniform due to the presence of a cross on it.
The typical phenomenon of Muslim men grooming white young girls,
for years denounced only by right-wing groups who as a result were
accused of racism and Islamophobia, turned out to be real and now the
mainstream media have started covering it.
There have been
instances of Muslim girls rejecting their school uniform
and demanding to wear Muslim clothing, sometimes even suing the school
using the European Convention on Human Rights and winning the case.
Muslim bus and taxi drivers have not allowed on their vehicle blind people with their “unclean” guide dogs and Muslim passengers have objected to them.
British legislation, bending over backwards to accommodate
Sharia,
has permitted conflicts and contradictions with long-established
jurisprudence. Polygamy, despite being forbidden by British law, is now
de facto part of it due to a change in the inheritance law which now lets multiple wives inherit from their husband.
Similarly, a
loophole
created by the previous Labour government allows Muslims to take a
property mortgage without paying interest, which also makes it cheaper
for them and has now been exploited by non-Muslims who discovered it,
causing a minor uproar.
In the UK the police are afraid of Muslims. There have been cases caught on
video
of Muslim demonstrators pelting with sticks and traffic cones and
taunting with shouts of "kuffar" (Islamic epithet for infidels) the
police, who retreated in front of them.
And then there is the classical problem of
halal meat,
which is being served in British schools, hospitals and other
institutions to both followers and non followers of Islam, and now
brought to international attention by Sarkozy’s declared intention to
change this situation in France, which is in the same predicament as
the UK but a bit less dhimmi. In addition, meat of animals slaughtered
with the halal method but still discarded for Muslim consumption
because considered “haram” (forbidden) in some other way is being sold
to unaware non-Muslims. To their credit British ministers, though,
following Sarkozy’s example, have now said that they will soon
change the law.
Practically, according to a familiar pattern of progression,
Muslim populations in countries where they are a tiny minority or in a
weak position act differently from their counterparts in countries
where they are stronger or more numerous. Therefore Europe, with its
policy of appeasement and its Muslim communities’ exponential growth,
can expect in a few decades’ time to see the imposition of Sharia law
and other effects of Islamic supremacy, unless something (hopefully,
Europeans waking up from their sleep) intervenes to alter the current
demographic, social and political trend.
Western Europe’s general readiness, in recent years, to discard
Christianity may reveal itself a very dangerous experiment indeed for
many different reasons, one of which is the fact of depriving itself of a
solid bulwark against Islam, stronger than atheism, secularism or
liberalism both in the American and traditional European sense.
It is no coincidence that perhaps the country that most has
conceded to Muslims and most has renounced for the sake of Islam, the
United Kingdom, possibly the only country in the free world where the
media, with the exception of a Welsh student rag and a Welsh-language
church newspaper,
did not reprint the notorious Mohammed cartoons
for fear of offending Muslim sensitivities, is also the country which
is proudest of its secularism, the only country I know of where before
his visit the
Pope was threatened with arrest by various fanatical atheists, homosexual activists and assorted militant hotheads.
Enza Ferreri is an Italian web author living in London, and former journalist.
