Impeding the Free Flow of Immigration
"With the rise of a puritan interpretation of Islam, a movement is afoot towards insularity and rejection of all things 'Western', such as celebrating local holidays [and] participating in non-Muslim children's birthday parties... This deliberate 'opting out' or separation can only lead to distrust and further alienation of Muslim women and children from the rest, which in turn propagates stereotypes and misunderstandings and exacerbates the view of Muslims as the 'other'."
Canadian Council for Muslim Women
Saudi Arabia's oil wealth has enabled it to invest huge sums in further advancing the fortunes of Islam well beyond its traditional camping grounds in the Middle East, North Africa and the Near East. Saudi money has funded Islamic community centres, mosques and above all, teaching centres, madrasas, where pupils, even those knowing nothing of Arabic are taught the Wahhabi version of Islam. Out of those versions and institutions have graduated the young susceptible to recruitment into violent jihad.
The entire world is becoming colonized gradually with the migrating tentacles of the Islamic Ummah, the world community of Muslims, representing well over a billion people who have agreed between themselves and their faith that there is only one true god and Allah is his name.
Puritanical Islam, the kind of Islamic values and reflection that date back to its birth in the seventh Century has steam-rollered over the type of Islam that, while requiring the faithful to surrender their lives completely to their faith, represented a more casual, livable, moderate faith than what is now being practised world-wide. As more moderate or secular-based Muslim governments fall in the onslaught of rigid Islamism of a truly fanatic order, Islam has transformed itself back to what it once was, a religion of pure conquest and domination.
With the rise of a dominant Islamism that holds moderation in contempt as a betrayal of the purity of Islam, jihad is back in vogue. Not the gentle jihad that intellectually tickles the depth of faith, but the violent jihad that compels the faithful to demonstrate the extent of their faith by abnegating personal aspirations and accepting with vigour and determination the need to sacrifice in Islam's name, to become a martyr to the cause of Islamic domination. What the west names as terrorism Islam holds as noble jihad.
Instilling terror in those whose rejection of Islam represents an insult to Islam is simply a very effective type of advocating for new adherents, a type of proselytizing that no other religion depends upon to grow its ranks. And all done in the name of all that is holy, benign and compassionate since, as its faithful hordes declare, Islam is a religion of peace. Infiltration is the key. The greater the number of emigrants from Muslim-majority countries toward non-Muslim countries the greater the influence.
Even those Muslims who in all innocence seek merely to find a more amenable geography as a stable haven from conflict or repression and oppression that will offer opportunities for personal and familial advancement are caught in the juggernaut of all-encompassing Islam. The rigidity of five-time-daily prayers, of Islam first and forefront in thought and action, of justice through Sharia, of female entrapment, has worked its way into all the countries where Muslim immigration has accelerated through the last few decades.
As a result, exclusive Muslim enclaves appear in countries where Muslims have congregated, and where the culture and social customs deriving from Islam dominate, including a demandingly entitled drive to have the host country recognize, respect and give currency to Sharia as a divergence from local and indigenous cultural values, custom and enshrined laws. A dual-track society emerges, the introduced one demanding equality with the host society, expressing values that run counter to that of the host.
The result has been that Anti-Muslim feelings have erupted in countries that have formerly gone out of their way to help Muslims feel welcomed and appreciated. A 2006 Pew poll led to conclusions that 63% of Germans, 60% of Spaniards, 56% of French and 40% of Britons felt hostile to Muslims. Liberal Scandinavian countries express similar sentiments, with Denmark adopting anti-immigrant policies and Sweden considering limiting Muslim immigrants and Norway as well evincing discontent.
Complaints about immigrants in all the Scandinavian countries have become universal. The observation prevails that once Muslim populations reach a certain mass in the population they self-isolate and tend to create a state of their own within the larger state, dependent on Sharia laws. Crime rates among these populations are also higher than among other demographics. Another telling item is the burden placed on traditional welfare societies by the number of Muslim families that live off welfare. And the additional irritation of multiple wives of one man requiring their own state-supported homes.
In Canada a very recent Forum poll showed 49% of Canadians of the opinion that the country should limit immigration to people from countries whose values are shared by Canada. This new and burgeoning discrimination against people from Muslim backgrounds is reflected by both native- and foreign-born Canadians; 73% of native Canadians and 58% of foreign-born Canadians prefer to limit immigration. And it is not only non-Muslims that feel uneasy about the growing social and political strength in numbers of Muslim blocs feeling entitled to special privileges.
The Canadian Council for Muslim Women formed in 1982, a period before the advent of Muslim terrorism and extreme religiosity, has expressed the opinion that it is "concerned about a movement within Muslim communities to segregate women. Muslim women [went] from being a part of Canadian society in the 1960s and earlier, to being disinterested and disengaged from mainstream society", a phenomenon that they blame on the Wahhabi-type Arabization of Islam that Saudi money has financed to the detriment of all Muslims.
Labels: Conflict, Controversy, Europe, Human Relations, Human Rights, Immigration, Islamism, North America
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, May 18, 2013
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