The September 11 attacks were indeed plotted in Europe(Hamburg), yet one in five Germans belief that the September 11 attacks were staged by the Pentagon, a common belief throughout the whole of Europe particularly also in France. Thus where some Europeans are serious, rational and sober critics of American foreign policy, a large number, are responding to something that has nothing to do with America. But during the disintegration of Yugoslavia Europe was indifferent. Genocide in Europe—once again—was halted by American intervention. And a decade later, no one even talks about it. Washington warning, today deserves a more defined assessment.Europe‘s postwar welfare states have given rise to utterly unrealistic popular expectations—an example is the pointless labor unrest in France.
On the other hand, the failure of European experiments in Utopianism— that instead gave rise to criminal regimes like Nazism and Stalinism— Initially left Europeans paralyzed. Today’s governing class of Europeans now, is produced by competitive examinations, is bureaucratic, anti-entrepreneurial, and risk-averse. It would be almost unimaginable, for example, for a European politician to say of Islamic radicalism, “this is a wicked belief system and we must fight it to our last breath.”Ad to this that birthrates of native Europeans have plummeted, a mix of unassimilated immigrants, anti-Semitism, plus the rise of Islamic radicalism calls for a more defined assessment.
But while as we have seen in our case study, it is Muslims who are carrying out the wave of anti-Semitic attacks, many European, by embracing and propagating a loosely-disguised anti-Semitism usually in the form of animus toward Israel, have encouraged and emboldened them. Funded by foreign powers ( for example Saudi Arabia provides 80 percent of the funding for the 1200 mosques and Islamic centers in France),on the other hand, mosques in Europe teach the rejection of assimilation, the complete subjugation of women, and jihad.
There also has been a proliferation, of radicalizing Islamicist media, Hezbollah’s propaganda station, for example, al-Manar, is widely pumped into Europe via satellite. Plus for example some forty percent of Muslims in Britain, when polled, say they would favor the imposition of sharia. And where the number of Moslems in Europe has doubled in the past decade, the birthrate among non-Muslims is sinking. There are more worshippers in Britain’s mosques now than in the Church of England, and there are more practicing Moslems in France than there are baptized Catholics. Yet most Europeans, when asked, will declare themselves more alarmed by American imperialism than by Islamic radicalism.
The root cause, however is not poverty—it is the global rise of a, radicalizing ideology, the ideology is the cause. Not underdevelopment, not the existence of Israel, not the American presence in Iraq, not the sight of Britney Spears in her undergarments.
Where today economic initiative throughout Europe is crippled by excessive taxation, rigid labor laws, labyrinthine bureaucratic regulation, immigrants are in Europe to stay and what cane be done? We suggest that immigrants must learn to speak the language of their new countries. Not another penny to fund extremist mosques and Islamic clubs. Deport the fire-breathing imams. Most urgently, Europe’s economies must be liberalized to give those at the bottom of the latter a point of entry. No more job protection for pampered Sorbonne students. No more lavish social payouts.