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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsEurabia Defined — Andrew Bostom, American Thinker
This summary/review by Andrew Bostom from 2005 and read again in 2017 brings into even sharper focus why Europe (and the West more generally) finds itself as the boiling frog of our time.The dilemma Europe is now dealing with, is all their own work. It’s hard to work up any sympathy for them. Will we make the same mistake? That was my question in 2005: Will we make the same mistake? Given recent developments with incremental, creeping Sharia combined with the turbo charged, Angela Merkel inspired, influx into Europe of an incompatible culture, the answer seems pretty apparent.
We have, we are and we will continue to make the same mistake because Christianity, with its principle of blind faith and unlimited tolerance contains within it, the seeds of it’s own destruction.
McGeough’s Curious Lack of Curiosity — Roger Franklin, Quadrant Online
With the development and intrusion of 24/7 digital disruption and social media into all aspects of life, their jobs as gatekeepers are gone, as is the influence of so many others who once saw themselves as movers and shakers in the media.
Farewell to Europe — Frank Gaffney, Jewish World Review
From November 2005 — It is now unmistakable that Europe faces a “perfect storm” of socio-economic, demographic, military and Islamist challenges. As a result, the European Union is poised in the coming decades to become, at best, a strife-ridden, second-rate power, unwilling or unable to help defend the Free World….Today, however, the European project is in shambles.
What Thinking Australian Are Thinking
Imagine the uproar if anyone publicly refused to shake hands with a Muslim.
Brian Whybrow, Waniassa, ACT
Politicians, education officials shie from handshake protocol issue — The Australian
It is such a situation and over such a fundamental and basic gesture of decency as shaking hands, that flushes out the pusillanimous, soft cock, milk toast, deferential, appeasing weasels of the political class. This kind of thing is what you would expect from the Marxist Andrews, Labor government of Victoria not a supposed Liberal conservative government of NSW.
So, the untouchables must be tolerant –Kevin Donnelly, The Australian
So much for the Christian admonition “When in Rome, do as the Romans do”. And so much for the fact that Australian society only prospers and grows when there is a shared understanding of what constitutes civility and good manners. And Muslim students not shaking hands is not an isolated example. In 2015, a Victorian primary school allowed Muslim students to absent themselves during the singing of the national anthem. At the University of Melbourne, Islamic groups have been given permission to segregate meetings involving males and females. So much for the claim made on the ABC’s Q&A by the Islamic activist Yassin Abdel-Magied that her religion grants women the same rights and freedoms as men and that Islam does not unfairly discriminate because of one’s sexuality.
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
Got to be the letter of the day. “…Monty Python couldn’t make this up. Governments subsidise unreliable renewable power to the point where fossil fuelled baseload generators are forced to close. Then when lights go out as predicted, they propose to “incentivise” — in other words subsidise — fossil fuelled generators to operate continuously. Meanwhile, this foolhardy exercise has made our power prices among the highest in the world, drives our heavy i…ndustry and smelting offshore and effectively transfers wealth from the poorer segments of society to the better off. To what end? This destructive policy has not made one iota of difference to the planet..”
David Meredith, Singleton, NSW
Muslim public schoolboys ‘excused’ from shaking hands with women — Rebecca Urban, The Australian
This is exactly what is meant by the term “creeping sharia” or sharia by stealth. Or if you like death by a thousand cuts. These things tend to present themselves in single file, one at a time so you don’t notice. But combine this single instance with other “single instances” like the defiance and belligerence of not standing in court for the judge or the proliferation of halal branding in your suburban supermarket or the segregation of men and women and you start to get an understanding of how creeping sharia operates. It’s a clash of cultures, nothing less. Creeping sharia is as insidious as it is incremental and builds the edifice of sharia law one little brick at a time, even over something as seemingly innocuous as shaking hands with the opposite sex.
Sharia, a dark ages death sentence — Jennifer Oriel, The Australian
How much anti-Australian propaganda will we be forced to endure during SBS’s #FU2Racism programming next week? Perhaps SBS will surprise us by using taxpayer funds to discuss the benefits of Enlightenment thought and the constitutional values that helped Australia resist 20th-century totalitarianism.
How do you solve a problem like sharia? — Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Australian
Finally, at last, someone is asking Ayaan Hirsi Ali, someone who actually knows what she’s talking about, for her opinion. As a matter of interest Ayaan Hirsi Ali will be in Australia in April to discuss reforming Islam. It’ll be interesting to see if she’s invited on to the desk of Q&A with the ABC’s pet in house go to Muslim Abdel Magied, but it won’t be surprising if she’s not. After all the ABC has invested a lot in the “credibility” of the uppity, loud, brash and illinformed, Abdel-Magied and that “credibility” would be totally shredded for good if she were to square off against Hirsi Ali.