David Pryce-Jones, in his article for Commentary, presents a compelling argument for Europe being in very deep yogurt as it faces its upcoming dilemma: Either Muslims in Europe will have to become Europeanized, or Europe will become Muslim. Think not? Consider these short quotes from the piece.

… The institutions that have been affected by Islamophile correctness run the gamut. In Britain, a judge has agreed to prohibit Hindus and Jews from sitting on a jury in the trial of a Muslim. The British Commission for Racial Equality has ordained that businesses must provide prayer rooms for Muslims and pay them for their absences on religious holidays. In a town in the Midlands, a proposal to renovate a hundred-year-old statue of a pig was rejected for fear of giving offense to Muslims. The British Council, an international organization for cultural relations, fired a staff member who published articles in the Sunday Telegraph arguing that the roots of terror and jihad were nourished in the soil of Islam, while the BBC canceled the contract of a popular television journalist for allegedly using negative language to describe the Muslim Arab contribution to mankind.

Commercial society has likewise rushed to accommodate real or imagined Muslim sensibilities: a British bank boasts that it will comply with shari’a prohibitions on the uses of money, and the German state of Saxony-Anhalt has become the first European body to issue a sukuk, or Islamic bond. Religious society is not far behind: even as bin Laden speaks of wresting Spain (“al-Andalus”) from the infidels by violence, the cathedral of Santiago has considered removing a statue of St. James Matamoros (“the Moor slayer”), lest it give offense to Muslims. For the same reason, the municipality of Seville has removed King Ferdinand III, hitherto the city’s patron saint, from fiesta celebrations because he fought the Moors for 27 years. In Italy, where Islamists have threatened to destroy the cathedral of Bologna because of a fresco illustrating the Prophet Muhammad in the inferno (where Dante placed him), thought has been given to deleting the art-work from the walls. Even the Pope has apologized for the Crusades. In secular Denmark, the Qur’an (but not the Bible) is now required reading for high-school students. And so forth. …

Summing up the collective achievement so far, Bat Ye’or, the historian of “dhimmitude,” has written that “Europe has evolved from a Judeo-Christian civilization with important post-Enlightenment/secular elements to . . . a secular Muslim transitional society with its traditional Judeo-Christian mores rapidly disappearing.” She calls this evolving entity “Eurabia.” … “

Relating the rising influence of Islam in the West to the manner in which Communism was promoted in the last century, Pryce-Jones brings to light the political techniques now being used, and the “fellow travelers”, non-Muslim pro-Islam members of the elite and the press, that are helping it along.

The U.S. is the only society left that can stem this tide, but we are also under attack. Take a look at your local newspaper, watch the national evening news on any of the big three networks and review their stories in regards to the information in the Pryce-Jones commentary, and you will see that we have been infiltrated by the enemy and they are determined to bring down our distinctly American society and substitute a barbaric, radical-Islamic one! . . . db

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